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

Edith Berkman: Il PLEAD GUILTY TO
ONE CRIME, AND THAT is OF HELPING
The TEXTILE WORKERS AND ALL OTHER
WORKERS TO BETTER THEIR CONDI-
TIONS. FOR THIS CRIME THEY WANT
TO DEPORT ME-"
Secretary of Labor Doak: Il NEVER DE-
PORT ANYONE JUST BECAUSE HE IS A
RED, OR HAS REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS,
OR BECAUSE OF HIS WORKING GLASS
ACTIVITIES"
Ann Bulak; YOU'RE LIAR, MIR.
DOAKl'
Mr. Bill Doak wants to have it known that he
is Just a tender-hearted, kindly gentleman who
is ever so deeply soIctious for the welfare of
his ever-increasing brood" of deportees, Loudly
and frequently does he protest that the boys"
i'll the immigration Bureau carry out deporta-
tons with maximum Of courtesy, conSidera-
ton and gentlenesS-deportees are treated
Humanity as possible" Yes! And the Inquisi-
ton used to carry out its death sentences in
the most merciful manner possible, without the
shedding Of bood"-that is to say by burning
at the stake, boiling in OIL slow roasting and
cher methods similarly refined.
Workers are seized and torn away from their
families held incommunicado for weeks and
months, grilled and terrorized by immigration
inquisitors frequently transported over long dis
tances to deportation points under conditions
Ill. Tor humans, then thrown into filthy pens
crowded to bursting, and finally deported to
countries where militant workers face certain
death or Imprisonment. Such are the humane
methods" used by the modern Torquemadas of
the immigration Bureau, methods which even
t. q pussy footing Wickersham Commission was
forced to condemn as "despotic, tryannic and
oppressive, comparable to the ruthless cruelty
OF the Dark Ages
VINO are the people that Mr., Doak deports?
Undesirable Aliens he tells us. But what are
undesirable aIens?" Does he mean crooks,
rnurderers, racketeers? What naive idea! The
records show that of the more than 1900 per-
sons deported in 1881 only Sill were criminals
less than per cent of the total. The over
whelnng majority were depOrted because they
were foreign-born militant workers, workers
made destitute by the HooverDOak starvation
government Thus we see that workers who are
considered undesirable" by the capitalist poll
ticians are precisely those who are considered
undesirable by the boss-class which they rep
resent.
The deportation activities of the United States
Department of Labor, under Doak, by far eclipses
all the other combined work of this department..
It's tremendous scope is indicated by the fact
that it has already expended S2000,000 appro-
priated by the government exclusively for de-
portation work for the fiscal year ending in
June President Hoover recently recommended
that Congress Immediately appropriate 100000
more for continuation Of the very large pro-
gram of undesirable and destitute aliens, while
an additional sum Of $4,000 is to be diverted
from other sources for the same purpose. Mil
lions for the continuation of the deportation
terror, but not one cent for unemployment re-
nef! This is the dictum Of the ruling class.
Last year, over $4,000 foreign-born workers
we're deported. At the beginning Of the present
year, Doak boosted that he would deport 10000.
Indications thus far point to his boast being
more than fulfilled. Ever ready to do the bid
ding of the masters he serves, the despicable,