The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
By LOUIS KOVESS.

THE American government, the gentlemenly
lynchers of the South and North repre-
scented by the Fish Committee of the Con-
gress, the fat boys of the American Fedora
ton of Labor machinery the Oil Press, the
Steel Press, the Lumber Press are all howl
ing in chorus, "Deport the damn foreigners
and radicals!'
The number of deportation bills increase, as
the number of lynchings of Negroes grows.
The proposals to register the foreign born
workers swells in numbers, as the imprisoning
of American and foreign born grows in num-
Der. Measures to fingerprint the foreign born
are urged, as the police clubs more and more
attack the demonstrating unemployed. The
workers demonstrate for "Work or Wages"
The republican and democratic and socialist
administrations reply, ats riot" The work
ers demand seven-hour day, fiveday week.
The bosses government answers that it is
criminal syndcalism. The workers say, "Or-
ganze and strike" The ruling class answers
that it is instruction.
Declining Capitalism.
The declining system of capitalism, shaken
by severe crisis, takes the slightest moves of
the workers, be it against wage cuts or ra-
tionalizaton, for social insurance, or penny
wage increase-as a direct threat against the
system of exploitation and oppression.
Deportation is only one weapon in the same
hand that holds police clubs, Jail sentences,
electric chairs. The campaign of terror against
the working class takes the most vicious form
against the Communist Party, since this is the
lea Ter of the working class. By discriminate
ing against and terrorizing the foreign born
workers, the ruling class wants to create
division in the ranks of the working classic
set native and foreign born against each other,
IL a.
skilled against unskied workers, industrial
and poor farmers against each other, to be
easier to exploit them and Cypress them.
Plan of Action of the Ruling Class Against
the Foreign Born.
Different bills, proposals. statements. news
paper editorials clearly indicate what the rul-
ing class prepares to do against the millions
of foreign born workers, part of their ter
ror against the working class.
This year, three bills have already been in
PRODUCED in Congress aimed against the for
egn born workers.
l. The Blease Bill (S.127S) which provides
that all aliens should be furnished with GER
tificates, containing name, country of birth,
date of birth, nationality, and includes his
signature, address and photograph.
g The Cable Bill (H.R10207) which re-
quires that the alien shall report annually to
the authorities and receive new certificate
g. Aswell Bill (H.R.910D provides for the
registration of all aliens within 80 days after
the Enactment of the law They must register
every year. Certificates of registry would be
given to "aliens" These would include a
photograph of the registrant, his full name
and other names by which he has been known
at any time, his signature mark, data about
his arrests or convictions with. the charges
and final dispositions of each case, AMI other
information the regulation might prescribe,
An alien would be required to report imme-
diately any change of name, or change of
physical appearance. If the president
sidered it desirable for national defense, he
could require "all or any part of the aliens"
to report "at such places and times" as he
might designate. Aliens would be on the de-
mand of any agent of the Department of
Labor or any police or peace officer. Viola
lions of the provisions an regulations would
be punishable by a fine of not more than
$4,000, Imprisonment Of not more than two
years, or both. An alien who failed to register
for two years might be denorted.
More Bills.
Other bills are prepared, providing for the