The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-11

Workers, native and foreign born, white and
Negro employed and unemployed:
HUNDREDS of workers are being deported from
III the United states every month, and thou
sands more are facing deportation. Some OF
them face certain death in the countries to
which they are being deported, the countries OF
fascist terror The government is especially seiz-
ing the workers who appear in any form as lead
ers of the struggle against unemployment,
against wage cuts, against persecution of the
Negroes and foreign born
Among those now held for deportation are
Yokinen a Finnish worker, arrested because,
after workers trial in which he was found
guilty of discrimination against the Negroes, he
promised to prove himself worthy OF readmis-
sion into the Communist Party by fighting for
the equality Of Negro and white workers; Pat
DeTine Edith Berknan. and William Murdoch,
Jailed because they dared to lead the great strike
of ten thousand textile workers in Lawrence;
Bebrits. editor of the Hungarian workers daily,
vi EIore, seized because he defended before the
infamous Fish Committee the workers struggle
against starvation; Serio, an italian worker ar
rested because he exposed the fascist dictator
ship of Mussolini and denounced the support eX-
tended to it by Wall Street; KenmotSu Jap
anese worker who dared to help organize the
agricultural workers of Imperial Valley, Califor-
mia; hundreds of others seized in raids such
those on the Seamen's Institute, on the Finnish
Club in New York, and in every large city in
the United States.
The new laws proposed by the Fish Commit
tee against the foreign born workers are already
being carried out even before they have been
adopted by Congress. Without waiting for any
new laws. the recently appointed Secretary of
Labor, william N, Doak, has "resurrected"
long forgotten statute which he claims gives him
all the powers proposed by the Fish Commission.
Doak. expressing the policy of the Hoover gov
crnment and the capitalist class is already Or
ganizing mass arrests and deportation OF foreign
born workers. The government made clear Its
policy on this question when it met the delega-
ton sent to the capital by the National Confer
ence for the Protection of the Foreign Born at
Washington on November 3Oth with police clubs
and gas bombs The United States courts in the
Ease Of the Italian worker. Serio have even de-
hied him the right to voluntary departure to
some other country than Italy and demand that
he shall be delivered over directly into the hands
OF Mussolini's executioners. The Post Office De-
partnent is beginning to carry out this policy by
excluding from the mails one by one the publ
cations of militant labor organizations. The en-
tire third session of the SeYenty-First Congress
which has just closed was carried on under the
sign of the Fish Committee, and its program of
suppression OF the entire militant working class
The entire situation raises the question of the
immediate necessity of mobilizing the masses of
oppressed workers, native and foreign born, white
and Negro employed and unemployed, to pro-
test against this new wave of prosecutions and
to organize the masses to protect their rights.
Workers! What is the cause of this terroris-
tic attack against the foreign born workers? Why
all these raids, prosecutions and deportatons?
Why the increased wave of lynchings against
Negroes? Why the suppression of the workers
press? Why this organized government strike
breaking? The reason is that the capitalist sys-
ten is in tremendous crisis. More than ten
million of workers are without work. Millions
of farmers and their families, producers of food,
are starving. No relief is being given, except
the miserable crumbs of charity which only
to make more clear the sentence of starvation
that has been passed by the capitalist class
upon the workers. Under these conditions of
misery and starvation. the discomfort of the
masses is growing The protest of the workers
is becoming louder and more emphatic every
day. The workers are beginning to organize to