The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11
By KARL REEVE
editor, Labor Defender.l


the present time, is conducting a
widespread campaign for further
restriction of immigration. The 10th
session of congress has now adj
journed, and one of its last acts
was to refuse a senate vote on a
resolution to postpone from July /,
1929 to July 1, 1880, the day when
the National Origins" method of
determining immigration quotas
would go into effect. In refusing to
postpone this method whereby the
quotas are based on the population
as it was in 1870, the senate was
edited by speech of Senator Reed,
who said that the basis which has
now been changed, that it, the 1890
census basis, ignored the sentiment
Of revolutionary days and is wholly
unfair to US born in America" and
out of this need had come the Ma
tional Origins clause of 1870.
In its propaganda for further re-
striction of immigration and for a
Tightening up of the deportation
laws; propaganda accompanying the
bills now before congress which have
either been passed or are being ia
vorably discussed by government Of
ficials, the real purpose of the fur
Their restriction of immigration is
revealed. Of course the intentions
of the government are not openly
revealed in the newspapers, but the
admission is made in speeches before
capitalists as to the real reason for
the attack on the foreign-born
workers.
More Restriction.
This is clearly seen in a speech by
the Honorable Rose Carl White,
assistant secretary of labor, at Yale
University last month in stating the
official position of the government.
She makes a plea for a far greater
restriction of immigration, for the
registration and finger-printing of
foreign-born workers and for other
measures against the foreign-born.
Why does she make this plea? Let
us hear her own words. eve have
the ever present problem of Kidding
the country of the undesirable alien.
Many of our people forget that
this. country was settled, the land
reclaimed, and that our form of gov
eminent, educational system and So
cial laws were established while our
people remained homogeneous peo-
pie. Granted they were immigrants,
but keep in mind they were immi-
grants with the same racial back
ground. The attacks upon our es-
tablished customs, ideals and ethics,
came in the main after the influx of
different races. By this / do not
mean that our forefathers did not
disagree-they did. and at times vio-
lently-but not for the destruction
of government because it is govern
ment, but for the sake of safeguard
ing liberties and for better govern
ment. The parlor pink, the ultra
radical, the Bolshevik, the Commu-
mist, were products of foreign soil
and for years were confined to for
eign SOIL"
Attack on Rebels.
The essence of this speech, which
is the statement of the official pol
icy of the United States government,
is that the foreign-born is undesir-
able because he is in favor of new
system of society and that the gov
eminent must restrict immigration
further and attack the foreign-born
workers because this is necessary to
protect and perpetuate the capital
list system.
That there may be no niisunder-
standing of the position of the
United States government, let us
quote further: Natural though
these theories may be in the coun-
tries whence these immigrants come,
they have no reason for being in
America. On the contrary, because
they are hostile to our principles
and national philosophy, we owe it
as a duty to our country to keep
them out. We are too prosperous
and contented to listen to the wild
social theories Of other lands. Let