The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27

reading in part as follows:
Dear Mr.. Editorials a matter of
general information will you kindly
inform us why it is that people do
do not seem to like the sway things
are done in this country persist in
sticking around. Uncle Sam is a
kindly old gent, but he is perfectly
able to run his affairs without
European advice
Gust as soon as foreigners UNI
derstand that Americans respect
the voice of the courts, just that
soon will foreigners either fall into
line or go home. 1t is the duty of
the press to make this fact very
clear and very emphatic for the
education and safety of their
readers"
The letter is typewriter and
signed by "Thomas X. Bender, New
York City"
The content of this letter is just
another prejudiced sentimen t
thrown up out of the ocean of
poison spread by the daily press
against Nicola Sacco and Bartolo-
meo Vanzetti.
1t is not now directed against
Sacco and Vanzetti. They have
been murdered by the social sys-
tenn that the writer sponsors.
They are dead.
1t is aimed instead at the many
millions of foreign-born workers
who writhe upon the wrack of
modern industry, multitudes dream
ing of a better day, when their
tortures may come to an end.
This "Thomas X. Bender" is not
alone. He is typical of the 100 per
cent American" who furnishes sup
port for the fascist activities of the
American Legion, who puts on a
night shirt, hides his face behind
a mask and parades in the darkness
as a member of the Ku Klux Khan;
who is anxious to tell all the world
that, "if you don't ike this coun-
try, why don't you go back where
you came FROM"
This Bender type of mind DONNA
ted the jury in the court of the
black-gowned Thayer, getting the
verdict of GUILTY." and the SEN
tence of "Deathw against Sacco and
Vanzetti.
1t is the type of mind that the
enemies of labor hope to exploit to
put thru the next session of con-
gress legislation for the register
ing, the finger-printing and the
photographing of all foreign-born
workers, preliminary to inflicting
the same regulations upon all
workers.
This brand of capitalist legisla-
ton is not new. 1t has been before
congress in various forms ever
since the "red raids" of 1920, ever
since Sacco and Vanzetti, two
Italian workmen, We're torn from
friends and family and thrown into
prison, to be forced for seven years
along the tortuous road that led to
the human slaughter house of the
capitalist class in Charlestown
Penitentiary, in Boston.
It is legislation that the workers
have fought year in and year out,
under the leadership of the Com
mittee for the Prote ION of
Foreign-Born workers. Greater
energy than ever is needed today,
however, to combat this slavering
capitalist beast that stands forefeet
upon the PROSTATE forms of Sacco
and VanZetti.,
From the earliest times the
wretched of Europe fled across the
Atlantic seeking better times in
this country. No human being
walks soil in America who has not
had some foreign ancestor. There
has been no greater tide of migra-
ton, in all the worlds history, than
the flood of human beings, es-
pecially during the last century,
that has poured into the United
States.
By 1880, the arriving immigrants
reached a total for the year of
Asst ,257 and the next year far sur
passed the half million mark.
The year of greatest migration
was 1907 when 1,2S5,000 arrived in
spite of the money panic that set
in during this period. If the war
had not broken out in 1914, this
year would have established new
record. At that the total reached
was 1,218,480. The year of the
American entry into the war, 1917,
found only 296,403 new arrivals in
this country.
But that was also the year that
world capitalism cracked. Up thru
the bloodsoaked soil of czarist Rus
STA came the gnarled fist of Work
er-Peasant Power. The Proletarian
Dictatorship not only swept aside
czarism. 1t shook and cracked the