The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-11
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nAY after day millions upon millions
- of printed pages are carrying their
lying, poisonous propaganda to all
parts of the country The daily press,
this instrument of American imperial
ism for the shaping of public opinions,
is repeating with different variations
the same story.
Hundreds of thousands Of aliens
have struggled themselves into our
country These foreigners are
menace to public morality, peace and
order. They are the source Of boot
logging, the source of unceasing
crimes and murders. They debauch
the innocent soHlsSof the hundred per
cent American public officials and
politicians. 1t is necessary to purge
our country of them. They must DO
deported!
This agitation is being reinforced
by truly remarkable statistics. 1t is
being said, for instance, that forty
! percent of all. the aliens in Chicago
rave penetrated illegally into the
country and that the majority Of
these forty percent are undesirable,
criminal elements
The newspapers also report that
the department of labor has requested.
all the prisons, insane asylums, char
table institutions, etc, to furnish data
as to the percentage of criminal sick,
disabled, and degenerate aliens among
their inmates, All this for the purpos
Of creating a prejudiced, hostile atti-
tude toward the foreign born among
the masses of the native petty bour
geoisie and in the ranks of the hun
dred percent American labor aristo-
cracy.
The government of the Morgans and
Rockefellers, the government of i'm
perialist oligarchy, is apparently de
termined this year to carry the man
date of its masters and to pass the
brutal laws against the foreign born.
j American Imperialism is in need of
these laws:
First, to maintain the division In
the ranks of the American working
class by bribing, on one hand, the
aristocratic upper layers of the work
ers with few crumbs from its table,
and by reducing, on the other hand
the lower strata of the workers to
the condition of virtual slavery.
Second, to prevent at all costs the
organization of the unskilled workers
in the basic industries where the for
eign born predominant. Third, to
create conditions for the intensified
ton of exploitation and the means of
crushing every resistance on the part
Of the workers. There must be no
repetition of the steel strike. There
must be no more strikes of the min
ers.a The workers of the stock yards
must be .muzzled The textile work
ers should receive no quarter. Wages
must go down. In the struggle for
the conquest Of the world market i'm
perialism sees no restraint to its ty-
ranny, no bounds against its exploita-
ton!
In order to pass the necessary laws,
public opinion is being energetically
moulded This is the reason for the
organized attack against the "alien,"
as against the criminal" the "un-
desirable" the degenerate" the wi
cious" element of the population.
THIS agitation is of two-fold service
4 to American Imperialism. Firstly,
it mobilizes to the support of the rul-
ing clique the masses of the petty
bourgeoisie Especially those in the
ranks of the ku klu klan) and, also
draws in Tor neutralizes) the many
thousands of native workers who are
backward politically and who are
reared in prejudice and hostility
against the foreign born. Secondly,
the noisy agitation against the dan
GER threatening from the vicious .
degenerate" criminal aliens serves
% divert the attention of the working
masses andaof the petty bourgeoisie
rom some Of the sad facts of reality.
Fact number one: the last remnants