The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29
XII KL-UX WAR ON
FORE:IGN-BORN is
BEING CONTINUED
Protective C0uncilBares
Khan Program

-AlLUOuBn uylng out III JnOSS sec
tions of the country where it orig
mated, the Ku Klux Khan is still
carrying on it's cowardly, sinister,
underhanded work in certain indus
trial sections, according to the reports
of field organizers for the Council
for the Protection of Foreign Born
Workers.
The Councils for the Protection of
the Foreign Born Workers have been
organized throughout the country for
the purpose of combating legislation
designed to register and finger print
these workers who furnish more than
half of the man power in the heavy
industries of the country. Such.
measures, according to the organiza-
ton, are advocated by the big en-
ployers of industrial labor in order
to regimentalize and intimidate the
worker who resents the treatment ac-
corded him.
Keep Khan Alive.
Unable to reply to the arguments
of \ the Council organizers against
these methods of tzarist Russia being
implanted in the United States, the
big industrialists and some of the
smaller fry are artificially keeping
| alive the Ku Klux Khan in order to
illegally and by violence and intimi-
dation to fight the battles they can
not fight in the openA
In the state of Pennsylvania the
Khan is particularly active against
the Councils for the Protection of
Foreign Born Workers and has tried
to institute boycotts against business
men who support the movement, and
has also passed resolutions to Gin
vestigate" the organizers - probably
in its accustomed cowardly way by
parading in night shirts and pillow
cases and INDUCING in terroristic at
tacks
The employers of foreign-born
workers try hard to prevent them
coming in contact with the American
workers and they even succeed in in,
| ducing some American workers to
join the Klan by creating in their
minds the idea that their low pay
and bad conditions of labor are due
to the greed of the owners of indus
try but to the fact that there are
foreign-born workers employed there.
! One of the greatest tasks of the
| Councils for the Protection of Foreign
Born Workers is its naturalization
work, which entails encouragement to
learn the English language and eff
forts to familiarise these workers
with American institutions.
Expose Real Purpose.
1t is pointed out by the organizers
that the best antidote to the nefari-
Gus work Of the Khan is to expose the
real purpose of their unlawful at
tacks and at the same time impress
upon the native. American workers
that it is to their interest to strive to
defend the forein-born workers
against the beating down of their
standard of living and the regimen
talism of labor, because if such at
tacks against foreign-born workers
are permitted to succeed the system
will eventually be widened to include
all workers.
Those who oppose the fight to pro-
tect the foreign-born workers are
/ enemies of all labor because it is i'm
possible to continue a state of af-
fairs where some workers in given
industry are better treated than
others who do the same work.
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SteeltOn Mass Meeting.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. 26.-The
Council for the Protection of Foreign
Born Workers viii hold a mass meet
ing in Steelton, Sunday 2:30 p. m. in
Creation Hall. The speakers will be
Rev. L. Gladek, st. Peters Church;
Rev. John w. Weber, st. Johns
Church; DR.. r. w. Hogue, Inter-racial
Committee and Jeanette Pearl, field
organizer of the council. X. A.
Palega will preside,
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