The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-27
HOOVER, DOAK, BENNETT AND
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Doak is using deportation as a weapon Of at
tack against the working class with the same
alacrity he displayed in selling out the great
railroad strike in 1922, when he was racketeer
par excellence in the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen.
Today, as head of the ironically named De-
partnent of Labor, this boothcking betrayer
plays his old, familiar strike-breaking role.
The Department of Labor can no longer dis
guse the fact that it is little else than the Off
Cial strike-breaking machine of the federal gov
eminent. 1t serves as a focal point for the COM
plete collaboration" of the bosses, their polit-
icaI hirelings and the labor takers, in their
united efforts to stifle the militant struggles of
an awakening working class.
The present strike of the 1900 beet workers
il Colorado, who are fighting against Starva-
ton wages and intoerable working conditions,
offers typical example Of the vicious anti
labor role of the government Hard upon the
announcement of the strike, immigration Off
Gals were rushed to the beet-growing area, and
Immediately commenced their contemplate ac-
tiyities. The deportation threat is intended to
break the back of the strike, since most of the
workers in the beet-fie1ds are foreign born.
Militant workers have been seized by the I'M
migration men and are facing deportation.
Among these are the Herreras, man and wife.
The officials are trying to deport Herrera to
Spain, and his wife to Mexico Thus the gov
eminent shows its loudly -trumpeted concern for
"the sanctity and inviolability of the family by
brutaIy tearing apart husbands and wives,
fathers, mothers and children.
From coast to coast, from Gulf to Great Lakes,
the Department of Labor carries on its dirty
work In Jackson, California, immigration au-
thoriJies have arrested four workers who were
active in organizing gold miners and are hold
mo Of Amor for otio IN,
this same state, which keeps Mooney and Bill
ings and the Imperial Valley workers entombed
behind prison walls, thousands of Mexican,
Japanese and other foreign-born workers who
we're ajoIed into coming to this country by the
bosses as very desirable cheap help and are
now being ruthlesSly rounded up and rushed
out as ''undesirables" Likewise, 1000 Mexicans
who were imported into the Chicago and Gary
districts by the steel barons as a move to force
wages down, have been deported back to their
native handicapped by benevolent Uncle Sam,
Down in Tampa, Florida, the underpaid, over
worked tobacco workers are carrying on a de-
termined fight for the right to organize and to
demand livable conditions. Fourteen of their
leaders are serving long terms on atrocious
frame-up charges, and their militant union-the
Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union
has been illegaIzed by the boss court. And
now, small army of immigration officials have
swooped down on Tampa, boasting that they
will clean out all the reds" in that city.
number of workers are already being held for
deportation to fascist-governed Cuba and other
countries. But the workers are defiant in the
fact of this terror, and organization goes stead
lily onward.
Doak's deportation terrorists have invaded the
mining regions, where they also hope to halt the
development of the fighting National Miners
Union, and the textile industrial centers of the
eastern cities The cases of Frank Borieh, Vim
cent Kemenovich and Edith Berkman are well
known. The cold-blooded cruelty of the Doak
machine is further illustrated in the seizure,
imprisonment and efforts to deport Ann Bur-
lax, also a textile union organizer, despite the
fact that the authorities knew from the first