The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-30

leave the country upon her recoV-
cry. But the only reason the au-
thoritieS demand her deportation is
her active leadership of the textile
workers in the Lawrence strike.
The right to remain in this coun-
try must be won for Edith Berkman.
Her case is part of a fundamental
issue facing the American workers,
the issue of the defense of the for
eign- born workers.
ATTACKS ARE
INTENSIFIED.
The attacks upon foreign born
workers by the federal authorities
are growing sharper and more vici-
Gus each day. The Department of
Labor has become an open strike
breaking agency which directs its
activities against the foreign-born
workers at the same time that the
police-and sometimes troops-at-
tack striking workers. Each time
strike, or struggle of the unem-
ployed developes, the immigration
officials snatch militant foreign
born workers and leaders for de-
portation. The strike-breaking role
of the Department of Labor was
force3ully demonstrated in the
strike OF the textile workers in
Lawrence, Mass. The leaders of
the militant National Textile Union,
Devine and Murdoch, were de-
ported, while Edith Berkman was
imprisoned.
WHILE ouCwardly directed against
W the foreign-born, these Attacks
are actually directed against all the
workers They are a vital part of
the employers campaign to reduce
wages, to spread the Stagger sys-
tenn, speed up the workers on the
job and to break the resistance of
the employed and unemployed
workers and their struggles for
better conditions and adequate re-
lief A brief review Of some of the
deportation cases will demonstrate
this point. The Berkman, Devine
and Murdoch cases developed thru
the strike in Lawrence. Now num-
Der of miners leaders are threat
ened with deportation. Frank
Borich Vincent Kamenoyich. lead
ers of the National Miners Union.
and a number of others face de-
portation for leading the miners
struggles lagainst starvation and
slave conditions. Nels Kjar, for
many years member Of the Car
penters' Union in Chicago, and a
militant, active leader among the
workers OF Illinois, has Just been
deported.
WHOLESALE ATTACKS.
But it is not the leaders alone
who are being attacked and de-
ported. Just tho other day, on tho
eve of the National Hunger March,
433 Mexican workers were spirited
away TO Mexico, many, being torn
away from their families. Nine
Japanese workers were arrested in
Long Beach, Calf, and are about
to be deported, for no other reason
but that they attended a meeting
called by the Communist Party,
and were active in the organiza-
ton of japanese agricultural work
erS.
THE DIES BILL.
The attacks of the immigration
authorities in the past have been
directed chiefly against workers in
specific struggles. These attacks
are about to be co-ordinated into
general, centralized offensive
against the foreign-born, by means
of the Dies Bill. This bill has al
ready been passed by the House
of Representatives. 1t will come up
in the Senate when the next session
opens. II passed it will constitute
one Of the heaviest blows yet dealt
the entire working class of this
country by the capitalist class. All
workers. native and foreign born,
white and black, must combine in
militant struggle TO defeat this vici-
Gus measure.
HINDER this bill, any foreign-born
u workers who so much believes
In Communism, or, "a system based