The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-14
WORKERS FIGHT
The PASSAGE OF
ANTI-LABOR LAW
Form Councils Against
Fingerprinting Bill
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the registration and deportation Of
foreign-born workers." Ruthenberg
pointed out, sis the one introduced by
Congressman Aswell of Louisiana.
This bill proposes to register annual
ly every unnaturalized worker. The
bill, if it becomes law, will enable
any police officer to stop any worker,
whether native or foreign-born, at any
time, and question and hold him to
see whether this worker should regis
ter or has registered. The bill gives
the president full power 90 order
foreign-born workers to move away
from one place to any other place he
wants-in the case of a strike by
these workers.
He also pointed out that the slight
est charge of violation of any of the
provisions of the notorious Aswell bill
will mean that government agents will
Immediately throw the accused work
ers into Jail and hold them for depor-
tation. In many instances, such de-
portation will bring the workers jail,
horrible torture, and even death at
the hands of fascist and white terror
list governments like the Italian, Hun
garian and Polish.
"The Aswell bill and the other bills,
if made law, will bring into the
United States the blacklist practices
of Russian czarism and Prussian mil
itarism which the Russian and Ger
man workers have, years ago, over
thrown" emphatically declared the
secretary of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party. These bills against for
eign-born workers are strike-breaking
bills of most dangerous character.
The foreign-born workers in the min.
ing, steel, textile, clothing and other
industries have shown that they can
fight and fight hard against the
bosses, for the trade unions and for
better conditions. BY means OF these
bills, the bosses are trying to destroy
the effectiveness of the foreign-born
workers as strikers, as union men,
as fighters for the interests of the
whole working class.
THE strike-breaking government of
Washington is always fully prepared
to use the army and navy to force
weaker countries" went on Ruthen-
berg, like Mexico, China and the La.
tin-American republics to give special
privileges to the wealthy foreigners,
the American bankers and manufac-
turers, exploiting these working
masses and plundering the national
wealth Of these peoples. At the same
time, this scab government of, by and
for the capitalist class is preparing to
use all of its resources to Cypress and
crush the millions of foreign-born
workers.
"You ask why is the capitalist Coo
lidge administration so anxious to op-
press and degrade the wealth-pro-
ducing American foreign-born workers
at home, and to protect and subsidize
the wealth plundering American for
eign-born bankers and manufacturers
abroad, in Central America, Mexico
and Gilman" he went on. "The answer
is plain. The American government
today is a bankers and bosses govern
ment and not workers and farmers
government. 1t is high time that the
American workers and farmers should
force-the government to give the same
treatment to the American foreign
born workers that It is now giving to
the American foreign-born fnanciers
in Mexico, Germany, China, and in
other countries We demand protec-
ton for the foreign-born workers, in
stead Of degradation and persecution. T"
In order to effectively combat this
attack Of the latOr-hating Coolidge ad-
ministration he pointed out that It
was necessary for every trade union
to answer this open-shoppers' attack
by launching campaign to bring into
the unions all unorganized workers,
particularly the unorganized foreign
born workers in the basic Industries.
and that every labor union, workers
education society, fraternal and pol
1865 ~ 6"iANoeAOh JUN III llS IOTuld-
ton Of councils for the protection Of
the foreign-born workers.
only in this way" he explain-
ed, will the native as well as the
foreign-born workers be able to throw
back the labor-haters, the scab-herd-
ers, the strike-breakers, and their gov.
eminent agents now trying to divide
and defeat the whole working class.
Let us answer the suspicious and pre-
JUDGES spread in our ranks by the
bosses, by united front Of the Am.
erican working class on every field.
Let us get together and unite pol.
iticaDy In a party of our own" he
went ON, "a Labor Party, as a step
towards taking away from the capital.
lists the political power, their control
OF the government which they have
been using to help them in their OK
ploitation and oppression OF the native
and foreign-born workers.