The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

LIE uuShuIeu NEGRO WOIhSI dis Ato
equal. He has found the treacEcry of
the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L.
which refuses to organize the Negroes
into trade unions. The lynchings of
the South are replaced by the race
riots of the East. The employing class
tries to arouse the racial hatred and
prejudice of the white workers against
the Negro workers with the sinister
aim to split and divide the ranks of
the working class.
The Communist Party considers it
as it's historic duty to unite all work
ers regardless of their color against
the common enemy, against the
master class. The Negro race must
understand that capitalism means
racial oppression and Communism
means social and racial equality.
Demands.
1. Abolition of the whole system
of race discrimination. Full racial
equality.
g. Abolition of all laws which re-
suit in segregation of Negroes. Adolf
ton of all Jim Crow laws. The law
shall forbid all discrimination against
Negroes in selling or renting houses.
8. Abolition of all laws which dis
enfranchise the Negroes on the
ground of color.
a. Abolition of laws forbidding
inter-marriag of persons of different
races.
5. Abolition of all laws and public
administration measures which pro-
hibit, or in practice prevent, Negro
children or youth from attending gen
eral public schools or universities.
6. Full and equal admittance of
Negroes to all railway station waiting
r s, restaurants, hotels, and
theatres.
7. The War and Navy Depart
ments of the United States Govern
ment should abolish all Jim Grow dis
tinctions in the army and navy.
8. Immediate removal of all re-
strictions in all trade unions against
the membership of Negro workers.
9. Equal opportunity for employ
ment, wages, hours, and working con-
ditions for Negro and white workers.
The Foreign Born Workers
Next to the Negroes the foreign
born workers in the basic industries
are the most exploited, most perse-
cuted stratum of the toiling masses
of this country. There are almost ID
million foreign-born in the United
States. The overwhelming majority
belong to the working class. Nearly
half of all the foreign-born is tOiling
in the manufacturing and mechanical
industries. The majority of all in
dustriai workers of America, not less
than IS per cent of the total employed
in American industries, is foreign
born. Steel, coal, textile automobile
all these industries are based on
the sweat of the foreign-born work
ers. Cut off by differences in
language and customs, the foreign
born workers are an easy prey of the
employing class. Their fate is the
longest hours, the lowest wages, the
worst housing, the poorest schooling.
Scores of state and federal laws dis
criminate against the foreign born
workers. There is hardly a state in
the United States which has no
special laws discriminating against
the foreign-born workers. According
to the law of some states, the foreign
born has no right to read newspapers
or books not printed in English. He
has no right to keep dogs or a gun
or a rifle. He can not teach in public
schools. According to the laws of
nine States, a foreign-born worker
cannot be employed on public works.
Some states do not allow public meet
ings to be conducted except in the
English language.
But all this discrimination is not
enough for 100 per cent Americanism.
The Coolidge administration is carry
ing out an offensive against the
fOreign-born workers as part of the
Open-shop drive of the bosses, is plan
ming whole series of vicious meas
ures against them. The foreign-b born
workers are to be registered. They
are to be finger printed and photo
graphed like criminals. If naturalized,
they are to have their citizenship
papers taken from them, if their
conduct does not suit the bosses. They
are to be deported, if they participate
in strikes or make speeches in strike
meetings. The Chairman of the
House immigration Committee, Albert
johnson, during the powerful demon
strations demanding freedom for
Sacco and Vanzetti, uttered the
threat: "Aliens domiciled in America
should remember that if they par
take in anti-government demonstra-
tons here they are liable to deporta-
ton under the 1919 Act"
These is a whole series Of bills be-
fore Congress which are aimed
against the foreign-born workers. The
Brand Bill, the Halves Bill, the Ash
well Bill, and other products of
American Fascism try to reduce the
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