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against the foreign-born workers. The
preparation are in full blast. Here
we have them.
The High Crime of Workers Thinking
4 Congressman Albert Johnson of
A' Washington, Chairman of the
House immigration Committee, has
issued stern warning to all foreign
born workers that if they will par
ticipate in any meetings or demon
strations in behalf of Sacco and Van
zetti, they will thus "end their chance
of becoming American citizens" and
become liable to deportation"
Mr.. Johnson goes on TO say, "Aliens
domiciled in this country should re-
member that if they partake in anti
government demonstrations here they
are liable to. deportation under the
1919 act" Here we have it: the gov
eminent is planning to murder two
workers; other workers protest. In
this case, it happens to be that the
workers to be murdered by the gov
eminent are foreign-born 1t also
who protest against this murder are
foreign-born. Millions of n tive
workers are likewise protesting, but
the first onslaught is to be made
against the foreign-born workers,
because they are in weaker position
to resist the attack. Once the weaker
sector of the working class front is
broken or even pierced then the next
line will be stormed-the line of the
native workers. These elementary
points of rategy-dividing the en-
emy-hold good in class war as we'll
as in other forms of war Already
we see "red" raids in Los Angeles
and native workers being jailed and
held incommunicado.
2 The murderers of Sacco and Van
zetti, the enemies of the working
class, never stop at mere warnings no
matter how stern and severe these
warnings be to the workers. 1t is
not enough for them to attack the
workers for holding certain opinions.
Actual steps must be taken to cripple
the workers who hold these opinions.
Therefore, Commissioner of Immigra-
ton Hull has come forward with the
declaration that he will call on Con-
gress to appropriate funds to enable
the immigration Service to make a
thoro roundup of foreign-born work
ers and that 'twhen the undesirables
have been hunted down they will be
deported." immigration Service in
spectors, Department of Justice
agents, and secret service agents of
the treasury and post office are now
watching the Sacco-Vanzetti demon
STATIONS. Obviously, hunting down
workers is a great sport of the
American capitalists, The deporta-
ton machinery is being oiled and its
swift workings are already visible.
Trying to Starve the Workers Out
OF Militancy.
2 1t takes time, however, to ferret
70 out workers holding certain
opinions. 1t takes even a little more
time to hunt down and deport these
workers. Our capitalists are eff
Gent. They do not believe in losing
tiue. Particularly when it is neces-
sary to persecute the working class
do they keep in mind their old maxim
that time is money" Therefore,
Secretary Of Labor Davis has taken
the great American public" into
confidence and has declared that in
the meanwhile steps are being pro-
posed to starve those foreign-born
workers who refuse to be docile in
dustrial selfs, who refuse to applaud
The hangmen of the American prole-
tariat us the heroes of the dav.
Secretary Davis openly declares that
letters have been sent to employers,
asking them 70 aid in the enforcement
of the immigration laws by refusing
employment to all foreign-born
workers who cannot show that they
entered this country by illegal
methods" This is nonsense. It is
plain camouflage. Our multi-million-
aire and open-shop Secretary of Labor
Davis will fool nobody when he
speaks If legal methods. He is simply
attempting to starve those workers
who have opinions which in the eyes
Of our ruling class are dangerous to
the maintenance Of capitalist ex-
plcitation and tyranny.
The Saceo-Varzctti case should
prove great antitoxin to the bacilli,
to the devastating germs which have
been spread in the ranks of the
American workers for generations re-
garding the purity, the integrity and
the blessings Of American democracy.
The sharp offensive launched against
millions of our best workers in the
United States scarcely before Sacco
and Vanzetti have been strapped to
pauI Crouch n Cno,l,