The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
The Attack on the Foreign-Born

exemption under the draft, because
of their alienage. Yet, should we
continue to base our quotas upon the
foreign-born population, the coun-
tries of which these slackers are ma
tives, would be allowed to send adj
ditional immigrants to America, al
though no account would be taken
in immigration quotas of the native
born Americans who responded so
admirably to the call of their coun-
try. The issue can be brought
squarely between patriotism and
slackerism-shall slackerism be rep
resented in selecting our immigrants,
or patriotism
Workers Must Mobilize.
The working class organizations
must Immediately mobilize to fight
against all of the attacks of the gov
eminent on the foreign-born work
ers. The Civil Liberties Union, and
such middle-class organizations are
not to be relied upon in the defense
of the foreign-born workers. An of
fetal statement of the Civil Liber-
ties Union, released February 18th,
makes the statement that further
changes should not be made until
need for them is plainly evident"
The Civil Liberties Union further
charges that the house committee
"is controlled by an anti-alien
group" and states "there is no need
for this legislation. Even Secretary
of Labor Davis himself has made no
such recommendation" Such phrases
as "that the bill is contrary to hui
man nature" are contained in the
Civil Liberties statement.
The Civil Liberties Union main
tains silence on the fact that the
new bills, etc., against the foreign
born, are the attacks of the capt.
talist class against the working
class, and part of the conscious
effort of the United States govern
ment to prepare to crush all work
ing class activity and to prepare to
resist working class protest when
the government plunges the workers
into new imperialist war. The So
cialist party, the servant of the
capitalist class, the third party of
the bourgeoisie, of course will not
make any fight upon this attack on
the foreign-born workers.
Communists Will Act.
The Workers (Communist) Party,
and such working class organizations
as the International Labor Defense,
must mobilize broad mass protest
against this vicious attack on the
foreign-born workers. The foreign
born workers are being attacked,
because they are politically devel-
oped, because they are more class
conscious, because they are to be
found in great numbers in the basic,
important industries. The attack on
the foreign-born workers is an at
tack on the working class by the
Hoover imperialist government. The
attack on the foreign-born workers
/ is part of the process leading toward
assassination. 1t is an imperialist
attack on a large and militant sec
ton of the working class. Only by
the unified action of the entire work.
| irg class can this attack on the for
eign-born workers be repulsed. The
meaning of the new bills before con-
gress, the decisions of the United
States supreme court, etc., is an at
tack on all militant working class
action. The socialist party, the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor bureaus
cracy, will support the government
in this attack on the foreign-born
workers, because they are agents of
the capitalist government. The
Workers (Communist) Party leads
the fight for the protection of the
foreign-born workers, leads the fight
against such manifestations of fas-
cism.
The modern bourgeois society
that hrs spr0utcd from IT.. ruins
OF feudal society, has not done
away with class antngOnisms. 1t
has hut established new clauses,
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