The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-26
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By HARVEY O'CONNOR, Federated Pres.

Washington = (FP)- Cooperation
eOf employers with the departments of
Labor and justice is asked by secre-
tary of labor Davis in a new man
hunt ne is starting for foreignborn
radicals. Hoping to take advantage
of the Sacco-Vanzetti case to stir up
hatred for unnaturalized workers,
Davis is appealing to employers to
follow Ford's example and refuse to
hire men suspected of foreign birth
who are unable to show proof of citi-
zenship or legal entry into the coun-
try.
Bootlegging of workers into the
cuntry is very heavy, according to
Davis, who is certain that a large
percentage of them are radicals. Thru
factory espionage, they could be
readily detected, he declares. This
would serve the same purpose as the
alien registration and finger printing
bill which Davis dropped because Of
opposition in congress.
The first victim will be radical
workers who are not formally enrolled
as United States citizens. Chairman
Albert johnson Of the house immi-
grafton committee warns that their
mere participation in Sacco-V anzetti
meetings may end their chances for
citizenship and result in their depor-
tation.
Johnson is well known in Seattle
and along the Pacific Coast as a blat-
ant enemy of foreignborn workers. At
the labor department, officials declar-
ed that participation in Sacco-Van-
zetti protest meetings was not suf-
ficient ground for deportation. AS
sistant secretary of labor Husband
told Federated Press that the only
ground for deportation was advocacy
of violent overthrow of the govern
ment, or membership in a society adj
vOcating such overthrow.
Insistent demand that Gov. Fuller
extend the Sacco-Vanzetti reprieves
until the senate can investigate the
relationship between the department
of justice and the z year persecution
of the two workers is voiced again by
the Peoples Reconstruction League
through Benjamin c. Marsh, its sec
rotary.
''Phe 11-day postponement of the
execution of aSccO and Vanzetti," de-
clares the league, "is only a little
more than 9-day wonderful exhibit
ton of the money-band's control of
executives and courts, and doubtless
intended to lull the people into action
less optimism.
The Sacco-Vanzetti case symbol
ICES the injustice of our courts and
department of justice. The federal ,
department of justice has used illegal ]
methods of barbarism which would !
shame the car and his secret police. !
The execution of these two men with
out a new trial under fair auspices.
or even with such a trial before the
senate can investigate the relation of
the department of justice to the case
OF these two men, would rankle for
decades"
From Latin American labor move
ments the cry for clemency is renew
ed. The Pan-American Federation of
Labor makes public three cables. one
from Ricardo Trevino, secretary of
the powerful Mexican Federation of
Labor, another from the Railroad
Brotherhood OF Cuba and third
from the Peru Labor Federation in
protest.
On the eve of the scheduled cleo
trocution of Sacco and Vanzetti, band |
concerts were called off in the ma
tlonal capital, not from a sense of
decency but to prevent the congrega-
ton of any crowds.