The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-09
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Defending the Foreign
Quarter"
By JORGE

A headline in the capitalist press the other
day, saying that "All Troops in Foreign Quar-
ter Modified" was, of course, referring to
Shanghai. But Shanghais foreign quarter"
taken by Violent seizure of the imperialsts from
the Chinese, reminds us that there is a foreign
quarter" in every American city also
True, it has not been taken by such an OBJ
viously bloody game as war and conquest but
the bloodshed and violence and war are there
all right, under the surface. We refer to the
''ritzy" parts of town where live the rich IN
practically every sizeable city Of America, @
place apart from the working class districts
Walk along the little park on the north end
of the Shanghai "bund" and you will see tbs
sign on the park gate: Chinese and dogs
prohibited" And the whole foreign quarter"
is established and administered so as to keep
out the Chinese except for those who may play
servant to the resident imperialistS, to exclude
the toiling masses, doomed to hunger, misery
and disease because they are exploited by these
imperialiStS
How like to the exclusive districts" Of AM
erican cities! Here live the rich, and they permit
the nursemaids, the servants, the butcher, baker
and candle-stick maker who are necessary to
the existence in idleness of these rich, to enter
and remain in the sacred precincts. There isn't
any sign visible, but the rule is enforced all
right;-"Workers and stray dogs, prohibited"
Indeed, not many blocks from the Daily Worker
there is Grammercy Park, where the gates are
locked and only the rich people of the neigh
borhood have keys!
1t is not surprising, therefore, that when
workers get out of bounds and invade the 'for-
eign quarter American capitalist mobizes its
defense forces to compel the exploited masses
to get back to their kennels" in the sluns.
For this reason, Walter Carpenter a 20-year-
old boy was sentenced by Judge We'll here in
New York City, to six months in jail for the
crime of hanging around the "ritzy" theatre
district, trying to make dime or two in tips by
by opening taxi-doors for the grand danes of
society," he being young worker out of a job.
1t is not surprising, therefore, to learn that
another young worker, who got into the 'foF-
eign quarter on Park Avenue, New York, and
being jobless and starving, entered a rich
woman's flat and took just one apple, got
jolt of fifteen years in the penitentiary. Some
body protested. So the capitalist Judge to
show he was "big-heartcd" cut the sentence to
five years At this rate, the apples core alone
was worth about 1S months at hard labor
Workers should learn to see such things.
They should learn to see, right under their
noses, the imperialist invaders and looters; the
capitalist foreigners" who certainly look down
upon the workers as a different race and nation
than themselves, as servants when they are
needed. and as trespassers, Migrants and dis
orderly elements when they are not included.
When you savvy that, you'll do nothing but
cheer when the Chinese workers Invade the
foreign quarter" at Shanghai or Hankow; and
you'll be getting. ready for the day when AM
erican workers will seize the foreign quarter
and make Fairgrounds for their kids out of t6s
mansions of the rich