The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-28
TASKSOFNATLC CONFERENCE
PROTECTION FOREIGN-BORN

where foreign born do not receive the same &C.
cident insurance as the native born. In many
states foreign born cannot be employed at public
works. There are many Determinations state
laws The organizations un1tedly must struggle
for the abolition of these laws Mass delegations
representing tens of thousands of workers who
are determined to struggle for these demands
must present them to the state legislatures
On local scale-There are many municipal or
dlnances discriminating against tie foreign born
and Negroes. Foreign born or Negroes cannot be
employed on city jobs, etc. But it is not suff-
Gent to present the demands to the municipal
administration. The demands presented inside
the municipal buildings must be backed by mill
tant demonstrations outside
In mines, mills, factories-In the Mines mills
factories, the foreign born, native white and
Negro workers must organize joint committees
of action against discrimination For example:
In many factories only those foreign born can
get work, who have their first papers. Even
more cases only citizens. What is still worse
thousands of foreign born workers are layed off
to make the native workers believe that they
will be replaced by native born workers But
this is not the This is the usual lay off of
workers but in this case with the aim of creating
competition and struggle amongst the native and
foreign born workers for jobs This leads to
antagonism and the boss is the only winner
When the workers are divided, the next step is
wage cut and further speed-up. Can then the
native born workers alone fight successfully
against these wage cuts? The situation is the
same with the Negroes. The foreign born work
not work, who have their first papers Even
missal of Negroes also together with the native
white workers. They must unite against foreign
born or Negroes getting lower wages than the
native white They must all get the same wages.
And more than the miserable wages they re-
ceive today But for all these demands thev
must organize and struggle
Against the Gable, AshWell and BIease Bills
and the proposals of the Fish committee all
aimed for the registration, photographing, finger
printing and deportation of foreign born, foreign
born workers must struggle, untedly with the
rest of the working class. Also for ASYLUM for
political emigres and for the release of the DO
htical prisoners against the deportation of Serio
and the other foreign born workers
Just as the conference takes definite stand
against the domestic policy of the government
based on persecution and terror so this confer
ence must take stand against the foreign policy
of the government, the sharpest expression of
which is the provocation for war against the
Soviet Union, together with France England
Poland and the Russian monarchists Defend
the Workers Republic, must be a slogan of
action of the conference
1t Will be the task of this conference to con-
sol1date the forces represented at the conference
and go forward, to win over other hundreds of
thousands of workers, for the above and similar
demands which must be worked out and clearly
formulated at the national conference with the
actual participation of all the delegates in for
mulating these demands