The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

ICAGO, April 24.-The follow
letter, which needs no explanation,
IS been sent to the International
rade Unions, trade union congresses,
nd trade union committees of Great
iritain and Europe, to the British
.abor party and the Socialist and
communist Internationals. The fight
,gainst the bills which discriminate
ggainst the foreign born workers of
his coantry must be brought to the
attention of the workers of Europe,
H9Ih for the fact thot s. calls to the
.1ention Of all potential eynigrants
hA sort of schemes that are being laid
or them and to the fact that all pub
icitS- that the labor press Of Europe
will give to this struggle of the Amer
can workers will bring pressure and
influence to bear upon the opinion in
5his country. The Scandinavian coun-
I'll for the Protection of Foreign Born
Workers 81 Chicago was the initiator
Of this plan of publicity and propa-
ganda and sone time ago forwarded
similar letters tn the three Scandinav-
ian countries, which have appeared in
the labor and radical press of Norway
Sweden and Denmark.
Comrades:
Formerly it was customary for the
American capitalists in times of
strikes and other labor disputes to
send their private agents to Europe
TO recruit strikebreakers and cheap
labor power. Each corporation and
each individual manufacturer had then
only its own private resources to rely
on in this work of gathering strike
breakers for the American industries.
Method Too Obsolete
But in recent times on account of
the concentration and combination of
industry in America and because of
the restrictive immigration policy this
method has proven to be too obsolete,
costly and ineffective, it is therefore
necessary for the employing class in
his country to change its former GUS
an and get something more in har-
nlony with its present policies and
yet affecting better and quicker re-
suits. It is only natural that at this
time the finance and industrial CAPT
talists now turn to its Congress in
obtaining aid for recruiting the neces-
sary strikebreakers and cheap labor
power from abroad.
In the proposed anti-alien laws now
pending before the American Congress
there is one bill that seeks to make it
possible for the American employing
class to get all the workers from
abroad that they need. This bill pro-
poses to utilize the American consular
offices abroad for this purpose, the
consequence Of which would be
nothing more or less than a lowering
Of the present standard of living for
the workers in America.
We cite here this provision con-
tanned ia the Aswell Bill which can
be Interpreted only as vicious blow
against Americas working class:
Section 10; The Secretary of State
shall request the Governor Of each
State to submit concise synopsis of
opportunities open to immigrants in
such State and shall further request
the governor to submit monthly esti-
mates of the number and type of i'm
migrants that are deemed desirable as
residents of such State, The Secretary
Of State shall upon the basis of such
information and official reports and
statistics, prepare statements from
time to time lin such languages as the
Secretay Of State shall deem expedi-
ent) setting out conditions and oppor-
tunities in the several states, which
statements shall be furnished TO