The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
BY BEATRICE SISKIND.

THE National Convention for the Protection of
the Foreign Born Workers, to meet in Wash
ington on the opening session of the U. S.
Congress, will be elimination of the bitterest
resentment and the beginning of a relentless
struggle against the growing fascism in the
U. S. The U. S. imperialist congress will meet
this year in the midst of severe crisis, tremen-
dous unemployment, at home, and revolt in the
colonies. Congress will be instructed to pass
bills calling for the finger printing registration
and deportation of foreign-born workers who
dare to resist the further lowering of their al
ready miserable standard of living
Already before the passage of these infamous
"anti-alen" bills in reality anti-labor bills the
capitalist persecution machine is in full swing
Two hundred workers are awaiting deportation
on Ellis Island, the steel trust spy system is
Systematically ptting the native against the for
eign-born workers. The city officials of Du-
luth, Mimi, when forced, through the militant
demands and demonstrations of the Unemployed
Councils, to "talk" about beginning city works,
declared that only citizens will be permitted to
work on the city construction The same state
ment was made by the city council in Minneap-
oils, where the A. F. of L. racketeers the city.
In the lumber camps of Northern Michigan and
Minnesota, which are only working 10 per cent
jobs, as a small boss, etc. Thousands of foreign
born miners have been blacklisted in Northern
Minnesota, and are now living on mortgaged
farms. When the city officials get real gen.
erous with their jobs and allow the foreign
born worker to continue building for capitalist
profits, they are given the worst jobs and are
exploited the most. One worker, delegate to the
Minnesota District Conference for the Protc-
ton of the Foreign Born. held in Duluth, Oct.
26, reported: In Duluth the foreign-born work.
ers are forced to work three to four hours under
the rollers under conditions most filthy and
dangerous to the health. The delicate city Of
ficials would never think of taking the place Of
these workers without gas mask
The steel and copper turst in the Iron Range
and the copper countries of Michigan have long
used the method of pitting one nationality
against another. They follow the policy of keep
ing the different natonalities in segregated
groups. Hundreds of the workers have been in
this country since 1900 and have not been per-
n1itted by the company to learn English We
have in this integral union of the Copper
Trust Finn towns" italian towns" Pole
towns" etc, with almost no contact with each
other. In the copper mines in Northern Michi-
gan, even in the days of prosperity" foreign
born worker could not get job as hosting en-
gineer small boss These jobs are easier
with better pay and are reserved for the yam
kee' to make him feel superior to the foreign
born worker
This is the system by which American CAPT.
talism built up its huge profits. Now, that the
foreign-born workers, who are in great ma jority
in the heavy industry, have produced more than
can be sold, now that the bosses are able to
export capital to exploit the foreign-born abroad,
they say that the foreign-born worker is re-
sponsible for the crisis The bosses and their
government say our trouble is that we have too
many foreign-born workers. We must have
stricter laws to keep them out and more effec-
tive deportation system. 1t is not possible to
recognize a foreign born worker in the street.
hence finger printing, registration, etc, be pro-
vided to spot him.
This vicious attack on the foreign-born work.
ers has the support of the entire social fascist
machine of the Farmer-Labor party. The con-
vention of the American Federation of Labor,
which is the backbone of the Farmer-Labor
party in the state of Minnesota, passed reso-
luton last August to drive out the Mexican
workers Shaving in the beet fields in the south
ern part Of the state. These workers we're i'm
ported to use as cheap labor, and now, that they
are not needed, the A. F. Of L. officialdom and
their social fascist Farmer-Labor party de-
mand that they be sent back. This policy of
the Minnesota social fascists is not an isolated
policy. MIR. Green, president of the A. F. of L..
the arch agent Of the American capitalists, has
set the keynote when he declared on january
Is, 1880. The immigration laws should be
amended so as to require the registration of all
immigrants and the issuance of certificates to
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