The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-23
FOREIGN BORN TO
REGISTER; DAVIS
DRIVES ON LABOR
Registration Will Mean
Czarism for us. Labor

Secretary of Labor James j. Davis,
Congressman Albert Johnson, chair
man of the Immigration and Natur-
alization Committee of the lower
house Of congress, and other public
officials who have long been active in
favor of a system of registration and
finger-printing that would classify az
semi-criminals all foreign-born work
ers are using the publicity attendant
upon the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation to
try to force through congress their
schemes.
Workers Registration Tzarist.
The Council for the Protection, Of
Foreign Born Workers, organized for
the purpose of combating such legis-
lation which they charge is in VIOLA
ton of all the traditions of this coun-
try, points out the menace to foreign
born workers and to workers in gem
eraE involved in such proposed legis-
lation.
The system of registration of aliens
as proposed by Davis and Johnson
would compel all aliens to register and
Epay fee and to renew their identifi-
cation cards every year. When they
move from one part of the country
to another they will have to register
with the postmaster in the vicinity in
which they stop. This is system of
! tyranny that has been abolished in
the most reactionary countries Of
Europe, 1t contains all the worse ele-
ments of the old tzarist-system of
Russia.
Davis Calls On Factory Bosses.
Secretary of Labor Davis reveals
the real purpose behind his demand
for registration of aliens when he
urges the management of industrial
plants to aid in such work. AS it is
we'll known the great basic industries
of the country are manned for the
most part by foreign-born workers
who are forced in many instances to
live under the most oppressive con-
ditions. Most of these industries are
violently anti-union. A system of reg
istration of foreign-born workers
would enable them, to maintain effec-
tive black-lists of workers who would
not submit to any cruel impositions on
the part of the employers.
Furthermore, the Council for the
Protection of ForeignBorn Workers
points out that in case workers gained
influence among their fellows the gov
eminent would be able to come to the
aid of the industrialists by charging
them with illegal entry or bringing
some other technical charge against
them that would force them out of the
industry and entail great hardship for
them and their families. Since the
war there has not been such volume
of immigration as before the war,
hence many of the poor, half-literate
alien workers who are now in the
country would be easy prey to such
legislation. Many of them who have
been here for years and acquired
families in this country have long
ago forgotten the name of the ships
they came over on and others have
even forgotten the date
L. S. to Be Vast Prison.
The system of importation of great
numbers of foreign-born workers. was
practiced by many steamship lines
working hand in hand with the indus
\ trialists of the country. After arriv-
! ing in this country these bewildered
workers were taken to their places
of employment where they were
quartered with other workers who
speak their language. They were iso-
lated into national groups in certain
industries and never had opportuni-
ties to come in contact with American
life outside the narrow confines of
their localities. Instead of encourag-
! ing naturalization and endeavoring to
bring these workers into active par
ticipation in American political life,
the labor policy of many corporations
has been positively to discourage such
naturalization. Speaking different
languages the workers are not so
likely to organize to improve their
conditions.
The proposals of Secretary of La
Dor Davis and Representative john
son would turn the nation into vast
penitentiary, with the employers as
self appointed keepers.
Pennsylvania Council.
/ HARRISBURG, Pa, August %. -
Plans for the conference to organize
q local branch of the National Coun-
Gil for the Protection Of Foreign Born
Workers are going forward. 1t will
be held Wednesday, August 81 at Carr
penters Hall, % So. Second st The
state conference will be held Septem-
her as.
The conference call reads in part
as follows:
i can attempt IS made TO register
aliens living in the United States, to
keep them on parole as if they were
criminals. Measures introduced in
Congress propose that aliens De fin
ger-printed, photographed, registered