The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11
Purpose of Restrictive Immigration
By Fred Ellis

market, when a new world war is
the prospect for the immediate fu-
tCre, that the government is inten-
styling its attack on the working
class of this country. The govern
ment fears that the foreign born
workers, who have behind them a
history of revolutionary struggle,
who are class conscious and who
are opposed to the capitalist sys-
tenn of exploitation, will play an in
creasing role in the American class
struggle.
The government is attacking the
Negro workers and the workers of
other races than the white for the
same reason that it attacks the for
eign born. The II million Negro
workers of this country are the most
exploited of any section of the work
ing class, and are Disseminated
against socially, politically and
economically. The fmperialist gov
eminent uses this discrimination
against the Negro as one means of
exploitation of the entire American
working class. The government
spreads fake stories of the Clover
standards" of other races than the
white and attempts in all ways to
divide the Negro, the foreign born
and the white worker. This vicious
lying propaganda against the Negro
worker must be fought. The Work
ers (Communist) Party demands
political, social and economic equal
ity for the Negroes, and exposes
such vicious falsehoods and such
imperialist attacks.
Would Split Workers.
The government is at the present
time attacking the entire working
class by attempting to split and d.
vide its ranks. The Negro is set
off against the white worker. The
foreign born worker is degraded
and placed in a separate category
apart from the native born worker,
The government is Tightening its
lines and preparing in case of war
to attempt to split up the working
class, and to get rid of one of its
most militant and class conscious
and experienced sections, the foreign
born workers, by the methods of
restriction and deportation.
This is blow aimed at the en-
tire working class. This attack on
the foreign born worker, which is
directly connected up with the in
creased war preparations which can
be observed in many phases of gov
eminent activity, must be answered
not only by the foreign born work
ers, but by the entire working class.
We must not allow one of the most
oppressed and one of the most i'm
portant sections of the working
class to be attacked without strong
and militant answer on the part of
the entire working class. The for
eign born workers are experienced
in revolutionary struggles. The for
eign born workers are found in the
basic industries in large numbers.
The foreign born workers are dis
eliminated against by the employ
ers and by the government. They
receive lower wages for the same
work, and are given the hardest and
dirtiest work to perform.
We see from the above quotations
that the Negroes and the foreign
born workers are two sections of
the working class which are most
exploited in the United States. We
must present united working
class front against these attacks on
the most oppressed sections of the
American working class. We must
answer this attack not only by or
ganized protest but by uniting the
entire working class under the ban
ner of the Workers (Communist)
Party in the struggle for the over
throw of the entire system and for
the establishment of socialist
state. The exploitation of the
working class and the discrimina-
ton against the foreign born and
Negro workers in this country will
not cease until imperialism is over
thrown by the workers under the
leadership of the Workers (Commu-
rist) l,arty, and until Workers
and Farmers Government is created
in this country.