The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
BY ROBERT MINOR,

"a bill defining legal resident OF this
ttate prohibiting employment of persons
Illegally resident in this state prohibiting
domiciling within the state of persons dis
qualified from becoming legal residents e"
sec :. No person, firm corporation or
association shall have in his or its en-
nIov any person of foreign birth who as In
this act provided is disqualified from estab-
fishing or maintaining legal residence in the
state ...
"Sec, 8. The Commissioner of Public Safety
is authorized and directed to issue to all aliens
legally resident in Michigan after they have
established proof of legality of their entrance
to the United States from the records of the
office of the United States Bureau of In1ni-
grafton at the port of entry of such aliens,
a certificate of legal residence
"sec. II. E. Photographs, finger prints or
such other evidence of Identification as the
discretion of the Commissioner shall demand,
may be required of all applicants for such
certificates,
"SeC. IL. Every person, firm, corporation
or association employing directly or In
directly persons of foreign birth. who are
not naturalized citizens shall require that such
persons as a condition precedent to securing
or continuing employment shall procure GER
tificate of legal residence - and such en-
pIoyers shall, whenever application for en-
pIoyment is made by any person of foreign
birth, who is not in possession OF such Ger
tificate of legal residence promptly report
the circumstances to the Commissioner of Pub
lie Safety, giving the name used and the adj
dress furnished by said applicant e.
Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of all peace
officers of the state, counties. cities and towns
to take into custody any person of foreign
birth, who is not a naturalized citizen, and
who does not possess certificate of legal resi-
dence in the state in this act provided
holding as provided in the misdemeanor cases
such person until his right of residence shall
be established or until the issue IN such case
is disposed of in accordance with the provisions
of this act
"Sec. Ia. e. shall be punished by fine
of not less than $50 or more than 500, and
the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment
for not more than 80 days in county jail or
both such fine and imprisonment in the dis
erection of the court. The peace officers
on payment of the fine or serving of sentence
shall at once deliver the person or such alien
to the officers of the United States Bureau
of immigration, together with an abstract of
evidence of the proceedings.
The foregoing quotations are from the newest
anti-labor law of Michigan This is one Of the
most transparent Of the hundreds Of measures
that are being adopted throughout the United
States in a systematic campaign further to chain
down the American working class and to break
UP all possibility for the working class to resist
the rising tide of wage-cuts and speed-up.
"The operation of economic laws requires
certain adjustments (of wages)"-Employers'
Association Journal
Workers viii Fight It
But the operation of certain other laws re-
nllires that the whole American working class
must fight for its life against the attempt to
force the working class to pay the price IN
starvation and slavery of the present greatest
economic crisis that the capitalist system has
ever seen. And the slave laws which are now
being worked out and more or less silently put
through all over the country on the initiative
of such fascists as Matthew Vol and the A F.
of L. bureaucracy which he leads in this re-
spect together with Hamilton Fish, etc. are in
tended to hamstring the working class to pre-
vent any successful resistance to the capitalist
offensive.
The social-fascist cliques Of the Socialist Party
and the Music group are fully assisting, but
their own peculiar methods Of work have to be
adjusted to the need of deceiving the working
class elements, for instance the necessity to re-
tain foothold among the foreign-born work
ers who would not follow the openly fascist pro-
posals, while the Socialist Party and Music are
really assisting Vol and Fish twho openly COM
plimented them for iD in every fascist move
Not "Only" Foreign Born.
The new Michigan slave bill is the prototype
of measures which are directly proposed BY
such men as VOL and Fish. These scoundrek
in the style of Adolph Hitler-attempt to worl
on the narrowest national prejudice of Ameri
can workers, who are expected to believe tha
such bill as this one will strike down "only'
the foreign born workers, or even "only" thu
mnaturalized foreign workers, and thus sup
posedy to save the jobs for native American
workers.
But this Is, of course, a lie.
The bill is aimed unreservedly against thu
whole American working class, native and for
eign-born. 1t is intended as means OF wipinl
out all strike activity and all union membership
Except fascist and company union member
ship, and to place the entire working class, be
ginning with the basic sections Of workers il
heavy industry directly under daily police super
vision of every movement
To Chain Labor In Basic Industries.
First, let the American worker realize tina
when the capitalist class speaks of "foregl