The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
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Organizers for
Alien Custer Law
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ton authorities as aliens subject TO
deportation. This unprecedented &C
ton gives new, sinister note to the
Doak policy.
Dunno and BALKAN are native born.
William Murdoch and Edith Berk-
man, organizers of the National Tex
tile Workers Union and, leaders of
the strike when it began six weeks
ago, were arrested and removed from
Lawrance early in the strike, at the
request of the mill owners, and, with
the consent Of the federal depart
ment Of labor and immigration, have
been held in the alien detention
sheds in Boston ever since.
EAfter arrests on nominal charges,
such as violations of city ordinances,
vagrancy, ETC., the hearings are post
poned, at the request Of Chase, and
In the meantime new sets Of charges
are preferred. In the case of BALKAN,
the charge of "inciting to riot and In
timidation" was added to the original
charge of 'loitering."
The entry of the department of
labor and immigration into strikes to
remove not only foreign born, but
native born organizers, marks new
departure in the strike-breaking &C
ttvities Of this appendage of the big
corporations. Undoubtedly it is a
prelude to the attempt at extension
of the already dictatorial powers Of
this department of the government
and indicates preparation for legisla-
ton broadening its suppressive func-
tons.
The Fish Committee report Is the
Chase gospel. Judging from his fire.
quent references to it, and the fact
that Judge Chandler accepts it as
evidence, the department of labor and
immigration is proceeding in Law
renee as if this report were part of
the law Of the land.
The atmosphere of the Lawrence
district court is a frame-up atmos-
phere. 1t goes far beyond the hos
tility which could be expected as a
result OF a strike against 10 per
cent wage-cut which has closed the
Lawrence mills. The same police de-
partment witnesses appear day after
day, not only as witnesses but as
prosecutors with powers far exceed
ing that of any district attorney.
They testify not only as to specific
acts, but as to the political beliefs
and morals Of the accused.
The mill owners of Lawrence and
their lackeys are looking for another
Sacco-Vanzetti case. AS long as or
ganizers of the Trade Union Unity
League, the National Textile Work
ers' Union and members Of the Com
munist Party, although prohibited
from speaking on the Common, could
work with some freedom among the
workers, the strike ranks remained
solid, in spite Of the treachery of the
A. F. of l.. and United Textile off,
Gals.
The wholesale arrests of T.U.UL.
and N.T.W. organizers and strikers
every organizer has been arrested at
least once and some two or three
times-heavy fines and jail SEN
fences, the breaking up of the picket
lines by foot and mounted police, the
systematic encouragement of the
strikers by the U.TW., working
through groups of skilled workers and
bosses, has weakened the strike.
In all these strike-breaking moves
the department of labor and immi-
grafton has taken an active part, not
only In court when strike cases come
up, but in carrying through a sys-
tematic intimidation of foreign born
strikers in their homes and clubs.
The activities of the department OF
labor and immigration in Lawrence,
on behalf of the wage-cutting mill
owners, headed by the American
Wooden Co., shows that the Wicker
sham report, although revealing the
extra-legal character of many OF the
acts of this bosses instrument,
merely skinned the surface. The
extension Of the espionage work Of
this department to include American
citizens will make It easier to ex-
pose strike breaker Doak, Hoover, his
chief, and the army of subordinate
strikebreakers, such as Chase, who
are now on the payroll and always
assigned to strike areas.