The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-15
ORGANIZE THE STRUGGLE
AGAINST DECORATIONS
LYNCEIINGS

I The persecution of the foreign born goes hand
! in hand with lynching Of Negroes and falling
| of native born workers. The flogging Of Hurst
! and Coder, militant workers in Dallas, Texas;
| the sentence of ~ years imprisonment of the
| leaders of the Imperial Valley agricultural
strike; the murder charge against S New Jer-
sey textile workers; the lynching of 10 Negroes
already this year, the legal lynching of Negro
youths at Scottsboro Ala- the revival of the
Michigan case against the leadership of the
Communist Party; the clubbing and failing of
the masses of unemployed workers, picketers,
strikers, etc, shows the way to fascination in
this country.
In this situation we must also have our plan
of action against the plan of action of the ruI-
ing class and supported by millions of foreign
born, Negro and native white workers. In the
month of April we must have in every city of
the country, conferences attended by delegates
from societies of the foreign born workers, local
unions, groups of shop workers, cultural organi-
cations, unemployed councils, Negro mass or
CARNATIONS, etc.
At these conferences a definite stand shall be
taken not only against the persecution of the
foreign born workers and Negroes, going on all
through the country, but especially against those
forms of persecution going on in these cities.
In those cities where the city conferences for
the protection of foreign born were already held,
the next task is to affiliate all organizations and
to initiate such conferences in nearby cities and
towns.
The holding of the city conferences shall be
the real start for more organized and much
broader struggle against deportation, against all
forms of discrimination and against lynchings.
Our struggle must reach the masses in the fac
tories shops, mills, mines where discrimination
against the foreign born and Negroes dow
and where there is special discriminatory lay
off of foreign born workers. Joint committees
of action of foreign born native white and
Negro workers in the shops shall be created to
lead unified struggle against discrimination in
'nese shops and for affilation to the city COM
Elittees for the protection of foreign born
In every organization represented at the City
Conferences or affiliated to the city committees
for the protection of foreign-born, large group
of members should be selected for active par
tic;pation in the day to day work of the COM
mittee for the protection of foreign born
On every occasion, when the persecution Of
TIE foreign born workers demands denonstra-
ticns and mass meetings, such demonstrations
and mass meetings shall be held with the full
cooperation of every organization affiliated to
the City Committees or supporting the City
Committees Protest resolutions and kilograms
shall be proposed at such mass meetings to be
sent to different Legislative bodies State COVER
nors U. S. Department of Labor, etc. according
to the case.
Against local discrimination 0ike refusal to
hire non-citizens for public works, etc. mass
delegations shall be elected to present the de-
mands of the organizations, affiliated or sup
porting the city committee for the protection of
foreign born to the municipal government, back
ed up by mass demonstrations of the workers
All these organizations of workers who sup
port the committees for the protection of foreign
born are called upon to also support the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, the organization
fighting against lynching, Jim CrowiSm, segreg-
alton, ETC., and supporting the struggle against
deportation and also the International Labor
Defense the defense organization of the workers
The City conferences, mass meetings the pub
location of leaflets and other agtationaI material
protest demonstrations, the whole movement all
through the month of April, shall be directed
in such a way that the masses aroused for
struggle against deportations, lynchngs and dis
elimination, shall participate in the great May
1st demonstrations, which will take a stand
against the persecution of the foreign born,
against the deportations and 1ynchings
On to the struggles for the protection of for
eign born!
National Committee for Deportation Of
Foreign Born