The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-27

that she was American born. The mass protest
Of indignant workers made this palpable frame
up fall through.
The merest suspicion Of militant working class
activity is enough to set DoakS hounds on Red
Hunt No sooner had news been received of the
recent action of IS rank-and-fle members Of a
Sheet Metal Workers Union local. who sought
to depose the bureaucratic cars of the union,
than Doak ordered his men to investigate these
''rebellious workers" Immediately. After ques-
tioning the workers, the immigration inspectors
reported that they were safe, 100 per cent
Americans"
The faVorite questions of the inquistors are:
Have you participated in any strikes?" Were
you on the picket lineS?" Have you attended
any mass meetings of workers?" ETC., questions
which are infalhble indications of the real pur-
pose behind the deportation terror.
Still another aspect of the intricate and far
flung network of the governments anti-labor
activities is revealed in the case of August Yoki-
men, foreign-born worker, who faces deporta-
ton to fascist Finland for the "crime" of re-
nouncing white chauvinism, and dedicatng him
self to the fostering of unity between Negro and
white workers in this country. Thus we see that
the Department of Labor, besides being intended
as a wedge to split native and foreign-born
workers. is used also to try and split the work
ing class along color lines 4
The venomous vindictiveness with which the
immigration inspectors pursue militant workers
is instanced in the case of Martin j. Forkn who
is held for deportation to Canada. Forkin, an
English citizen and organizer of the National
Miners Union of Canada, was arrested at Penn
bina charged with crossing the border without
inspection" The Canadian authorities are eager
to get hands on him, and to railroad him to a
long prison term for his activities in the Sas-
katcheWan mine strike last fall. The "co-opera-
tive" role which the United States and Cana
dian immigration authorities are playing is too
obvious to require explanation.
The deportation mania which is sweeping the
United States has extended to Canada, where
it is spreading rapidly. The despotic Bennett
government has apparently found that even it's
Section SO, which outlaws the Communist Party
and other working class organizations, has failed
to stem the rising tide of the starving Canadian
masses. 1t had, therefore, seized the deporta-
ton terror as a new weapon in its offensive
against the workers. Within the past month,
militant foreign-born workers have been kid
mapped from their homes at night, shanghaied
to deportation centers, subjected to inquisitions
by a secret tribunal and held incommunicado
while awaiting deportation Canada also has, in
the case of Sophie Sheinen, young union organ
izer OF Calvery, a case bearing striking resem-
blance to that OF Edith Berkman. Shenien has
contracted serious illness in prison. and her
condition is reported to be critical; she has lost
Is pounds in prison. Bail has been refused her.
The Canadian Labor Defense League is carrying
on fight for her release.
The International Labor Defense and the
Canadian Labor Defense League calls upon all
workers to protest against the deportation terror
Mass protest meetings must be held. Letters
and kilograms of protest must be sent to Sec
rotary of Labor Doak in this country CWash-
ington, DO and to Premier Richard B. Ben
nett Of Ottawa, Canada. Demonstrations before
Canadian consulates throughout the country
must be planned at once. The growing organ
ization and unity of the international working
class must be maintained! The boss offensive
against workers unity must be frustrated!