The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27

icame the stardaId-hearer in the so
c.alist stronghold Of those d. S.
The s. p. ior Race Discriminating
Qaosa System.
1t was that great rebel, Eugene
| V De5s, who in 1910 attacked the
socialist party for its stanu againai
free immigration
The socialist convention Of that
year, in order to win the favors OF
the American Federation of Labor,
had adopted a compromise resolu-
ton for the restriction of "arti-
ficially stimulated immigration. y
When Debs learned about that he
wrote a letter, in July, 1910, to
George D. Brewer eli the appeal
to Reason" In that letter Debs, in
part, states:
Il have just read the majority
report of the Committee on Immi-
grafton. 1t is utterly unsocialistic,
reactionary, and, in truth, outrage
Gus, and l hope you will oppose it
with all your power. The plea that
certain races are to be excluded be-
cause of tactical expediency would
be entirely consistent in a bourgeois
convention of self-seekers, but
should have no place in a proletarian
gathering under the auspices of an
international r'ovement that is call
ing on the oppressed and exploited
workers of ali the world to unite for
their emancipation. :"
g. Upon this vital proposition
l would take my stand against the
world and no specious argument Of
the subtle and the sophistical Civic
Federation Unionism, who do not
hesitate to sacrifice principle for
numbers and jeopardize ultimate
success for immediate gain, could
move me- to turn my back upon the
oppressed, brutalized and despair
ing victims of the old worlr, VIC
are lured to these shores BY some
faint gilmmer of hope til 45ce
their crushing burdens may be light
oned ana some star CT promise rise
In their darkened skies"
g. If Socialism. international
revolutionary Socialism, does not
stand staunehly, unflinchingly and
uncomprorisingly for the working
class and for the exploited masses
of all lands, then it stands for none
and its claim is false pretense and
its profession a delusion and
snare" Voices of Revolt, Eugene
'. Debs, International Publishers.l
ClNCE that time the socialist party
" has lost its congress seat from
the East Side, has lost the masses
and has lost the revolutionism of
Debs. But it has gained something
which by far SURPRISES Hillquit's
Notwithstanding program Of 1867
and the restriction o. 1910. The So
clalist party now stands pledged
against any kind of immigration
The socialist party stands for the
Jingoistic race discriminating quota
system, based on the census Of 1920,
a quota system which is an open in
suit 70 the immigrants coming from
eastern and southern Europe, a sys-
ten which is based on the Ku Klux
philosophy of nordic supremacy.
Here is everything the socialist
party platform has to say on the
immigration issue:
"Modification Of the immigra-
ton laws to permit the reuniting
OF families and TO offer refuge
for those fleeing fror, political
or rel 1ious persecItion
A Symbol c. Hypocrisy.
The sociali; ra1ty war.. Amer
lea to offer huge T. prosecuted
INN grants ard it ccny lier+Tv s-
gets caaC a country WI IN hos s.e.
raactioIarv md race-d.scrl. al
inH igr-tior lav rs Az ar 4 now
has, car Only olf r-fuge 70 -e's
tivas of the dead ozaraai rlussoJiri
The U. s. was fuge Tor perse-
cuted am'grants n =. it I'd mt
know OF the present reactic sc-y r.
strfctions md discri,nina tiors.
a pla tfctr nat axis fer refuge
without sas -ng q vord about The
present in'.aigratio1 lsvss is syn.
Dol Of hypocrisy. IL the soc list
party asks IS for L z.u.ia1 of fam
l-ies. Nothing about ire present
quotas. Ire socicii,t party IS sal.
isfied with The uord,a conception Of
the immigration question. The d.
rect ins III against the Russians.
Poles Italians, Portuguese. Finns,
Rumanians. Greeks, Fungar,ans arr
other nationals means nothing to the
socialist party.
Tho Hillqtr;te Cahans and Ber-
gers might have begun thair plat
form N the following styla-WH
S.
Tie Workers lComnunis) Party
for Letting Down An Immicra
ton Ears
OF course. The republican and
democratic parties. the parties Of
capitalist reaction. are for the pres
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