The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30


fight for a labor party in America
must not neglect to mobilize the for
eiga-born workers. They are strong
force in the trade union movement, a
strong force in the industries and a
strong force politically. (This is said
with full consideration of the fact
that our first duty is to mobilize the
American workers for our American
labor partly. These foreign-born
workers are more radical, and in
many cases revolutionary, because of
their conditions Clover wages, etc.
and because of their traditions from
the old country.
Fight for Easier Naturalization.
One thing should be stressed in this
connection, that is the fact that after
the curtailment Of immigration the
percentage of citizens among the for
eign-born has grown immensely. This
development we should further in
every way, not at least through MAX
ing use of it in our campaigns for
Labor Party. Our agitation for an
easier naturalization of foreign-born
workers should be linked up with our
main campaign for a labor party
among the foreign-born workers.
Fight Against Anti-Alien Bills.
The many anti-alien bills in Con-
gress should be used as an illustra-
ton of American democracy and they
no doubt will further strongly the
tendency for labor party. Every
foreign-born worker will at once grasp
the value of labor party in the fight
against such anti-labor schemes as
those of Brand, Halves, ETC., which
provide for the registration, militari-
cation and enslavement of the foreign
born workers. In fact, the foreign
born workers of Chicago, through their
council for protection, have already
decided in favor of labor party as
the best means to combat this legisla-
ton.
| Work in Language Organization.
The sick and death benefit organi-
cations in every language group in
America, as well as other fraternal
organizations, consist of an over
whelming majority of workers; often
the workers make up IS to 95 per cent
of the membership. These organiza-
tons are supposed to be neutral
i. e., every sort of labor policy is
| banned, but every sort of national
istic, patriotic and militaristic pro-
paganda not only tolerated but sys-
tematized to the utmost
The foreign-born worker, torn from
his former environment, isolated in
America, not knowing the language,
is an easy prey for the meanest tricks
of these organizations. Through their
welfare work, the worker comes to
look on them as the only sort of or
ganization to which he can turn in
time of trouble. Here, Republican or
Democratic propaganda is obligatory
in times Of election-campaigns, etc.
Bourgeois politicians join such organ
izations to secure votes.
Here the Communists have a large
and fertile field for fraction activity.
The slogan of labor party can be
used sere; not at once, but after pre-
paratory slogans such as workers
organizations for labor interests,
mo clique policy, sef-rule by the
members for the MEMBERS" etc. When
such organizations are misused for di-
rect republican or democratic propa-
ganda, the Communist fractions
should see to it that attempts are
frustrated, and not only the Commun-
lists, but the whole opposition that
they have been able to gather around
them, should at once take up an en-
ergetic campaign for the labor party
The foreign-born bourgeoisie is
very weak numerically. In almost
every language group in this country,