The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
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enter the country on the basis of
this standard would be reduced SO
per cent.
The fact that the fascist organi-
cations are advocating this change
is another indication of the inten-
ton of the government to take all
possible measures against. the for
eign-born workers. The American
Legion has gone on record in it's
conventions as favoring the National
Origins Law. Senator Reed declared
that this origins law is favored "be-
cause during the world war, So per
cent of the foreign-born population
claimed exemption from military
services because of alienage."
Such reactionaries as J. E. Cas-
sidy, speaking for the United States
Air Forces Association, demand the
application of the 1890 quota stand
ard Immediately. Cassidy declared:
"Anglo-Saxon stock is the essential
root of the builders of the u. S.,
while the other aliens sprang from
an abnormal influx of those deciding
to participate in national prosperity
and avoid unsettled European condi-
tions." Other fascist-like persons,
such as Major G. Blair, of the Mill
tary Order of the World War, an or
ganization of army officers, and F.
K. Kinnicutt of the American I'M
migration Restriction League, are
also demanding the immediate APP
plication of this quota basis.
General Reaction.
The U. S. government in all its
branches, is Tightening the screws
against the foreign-born workers.
On February 10Th, the department of
state of the U. S. government issued
a statement which said, in part, "a
conference of American consular Of
ficers in Mexico City called by the
department of state and by Ambas-
sador Morrow, met the morning of
February 18th, 1929, at the embassy
of Mexico City. This is the first
general conference of the consular
officers in Mexico held in many
years.
"One of the principle objects of
this phase of the conference in the
consulate general is to take meas
ures which will insure that the stand
ards of admissibility,, observed by
the American consular officers in
Mexico in discharging their respon-
sibilities under the immigration law
of the U. S., are equal to the stand
ards observed in Europe and else
where. 1t is anticipated that this
will result in certain reduction of
the volume of Mexican immigration
to the United States"
The courts have also been active
in the attacks on the foreign-born
workers. Numerous interpretations
of the immigration Act of 1924
have been made, such as the recent
ruling of the U. S. supreme court
in the case Of John M. Ulrich, which
approved the law that any woman
who marries citizen. of the United
States does not thereby become a
citizen, and that any foreign-born
worker convicted of crime, even
though married to U. s. citizen,
cannot secure citizenship. This de-
cision further states: 1--WE are rot
able to find any provision of the i'm
migration laws which provides for
an official review of the action OF
the consular officers in such cases
by a cabinet officer or other au-
thority." In other words, there is
no appeal from the decision of the
immigration authorities.
Against Temporary Entrance.
The house committee on February
9Th made public it's report on the
Box Bill, House Bill No. 1927, which
relates to the temporary entrance of
aliens to the United States. This re-