The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
FIGHTING THE NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST
THE FOREIGN BORN

1t was, made clear, two years ago, that the
aim of the capitalist class and of the u. S.
Government was to check the growing unity of
the workingclaSs and continue the division of
the American workingclass, to terrorize at the
same time the foreign born workers and the Ne
gro workers in this country and on this basis
make free road for lowering the living stand
ard of the workingclass a whole.
AT present under the pressure of the develop
ment OF daily struggles, of the development of
the struggle for unemployed insurance with the
perspective of still lowering the standard of liy-
ing) the capitalist class in the United States
and the Federal Government, inside the frame
of widening the reaction against the American
workngclass as whole, are launching new
wave Of terror against the foreign born workers
This can be seen by the Labor Secretarys re-
port and especially in the Hoover message, and
simultaneously from the new wave of terror
against the Negroes in the South, as expressed
in the lynchings that took place In the last few
weeks.
How was the campaign for the Protection of
the Foreign Born conducted in the last two
years? At the time of the first offensive
launched by the Fish Committee, real move
ment was bu;- that eliminated in the success
full Washington demonstration which succeeded
in drawing the attention OF large masses of for
eign born to the campaign for their protection.
But cur weakness at that time consisted in the
TACT that we were unable to use the influence
our movement had created, and transform this
influence in organizational form, namely into
real mass movement of the millions of foreign
born workers in this country, also using this in
fluence for deepening our roots in the basic in
dustries which still employ 500 foreign born
workers.
Mr.. Doak, Secretary of the Labor Department
aSt rom knd tI1ot
$4,000 foreign born workers were deported. But
must not forget that in his statement of last
year, he announced that 1881 were deported.
Through Ell Paso and other cities on the bor-
der, 10000 Mexicans passed on their way back
to Mexico
Inside the frame of the general deportations
we find that the line Of the Federal Govern
ment is to hit the most class conscious of the
foreign born workers. These methods are used
especially in the case of strikes, as may be seen
in Western Pennsylvania, Paterson and Law
renee in order to terrorize the masses of foreign
born workers During the last two years dozens
of Party members, leaders in our language mass
organizations and the revolutionary unions were
deported, and others are still in Jail waiting for
deportation. Thru the development of a real
struggle by the LID. by the Council for the
Protection of the Foreign Born, we succeeded
in saving these comrades who were to be turned
over to the hangmen of their original countries
Deportations to China, to countries of Latin
America and to the fascist countries of Europe
were prevented
Under the pressure of our mass struggle, Sec
rotary Doak of the Labor Department seeing
that some OF the Courts were finding the de-
portations unconstitutional months ago, adj
vanced the proposal that if the different organ
iEati0ns would discontinue their cases in court
the Labor Department was in favor of granting
free departure of the undesirable elements In
der the pressure of our movement, the Wicker
port, bourgeois, liberal tinge.
Nevertheless, our movement (Protection of the
Foreign Born is organizatonally very weak
Only in Michigan have we succeeded in building
a real movement around the struggle against
the Alien Registration Bill An organized move
ment exists in New York where some hundreds
of organizations with thousands of members are
affiliated to the Council also to some extent in
Philadelphia and Boston. But in other districts
i'll Chicago, Cleveland Pittsburgh, etc., in spite
of the instructions, in spite Of the fact that or
ganizers were sent to the spot, the movement
does not exist at all, or only now beginning
Besides, the movement is still composed Of pure
ly language mass organizations, while our un-
ions and locals of the A. F. of L. are still not
involved. Also in those places where the move
ment is organized we succeeded only in q small
mcacure TO penetrate into organizations outside
of our Influence. Still the Party does not realize
that beside the fact that mass movement of
the foreign born will strengthen the Party's in
fluence and organizations this campaign rs at