The daily worker., 1933-01-18
TRY TO DEPORT
-FOUR WORKERS
Must Act to Smash
Anti-Alien Drive

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 17.-Homer
Barton, active in the struggles of
the tobacco workers, has been ar
rested by federal agents and is be-
ing held incOmmunicadO. The
charges against him are not known.
The International Labor Defense is
trying to secure his release on
writ of habeas corpus.
-Four workers, active in the strug-
giles of the unemployed, are now
facing deportation in the govern
ment's campaign against the for
eign-born. This Friday, Jan. 20, the
case of Joe Rosich, 63-year -old mil
liant jobless worker of Duluth, Mimi.
who is being held for deportation to
fascist Jugo-Slavia, will come up be-
fore Judge Gunnar H. Nordby, in
Duluth. Last Friday Oscar Larsen
leader of the Utah state hunger
march, who is being threatened with
deportation to Sweden, was released
from Jail on a $1,000 bond. The
cases Of A. w. Mills and Anna Block
leaders in the National Hunger
March, are still pending.
In Florida, Secretary of Labor
Doak is continuing his persecution
of the Latin-American workers ar
rested in connection with the Tampa
cigar strike last year. Only a few
days ago ISmael Cruz, a leading fig
ure in the strike, and Jose Campos,
were taken from Raiford jail and
deported to Cuba, ruled by the not
orious tool Of American imperialism,
Butcher Machado, who has murdered
thousands of militant workers and
peasants. This makes a total of ten
of the Tampa prisoners deported
within the last few months.
Berkman Still Faces Deportation
Before he bids farewell to Office,
Doak is also expected to make last
effort to deport to fascist Poland
Edith Berkman, one of the leaders
of the Lawrence, Mass textile strike
of $780, who is now in sanitarium
suffering from tuberculosis contract
ed as result of Imprisonment and
persecution by the immigration au-
thorities. Berkman's deportation was
temporarily halted and her release
on bail secured as result of the
mighty protest movement organized
by the International Labor Defense
These are only few of the out
standing cases. During the past year
no less than $4,000 workers we're de-
ported, large proportion of them
unemployed. These deportees are,
. according to law, supposed to be
guests of the U. S. government" un-
til they are landed in their native
countries, but actually they are in
most cases treated like criminals
The Daily Worker has received a
letter from worker who was de-
ported with several others on the
SIS. Dresden. He writes that all
the deporteeS were held under guard
in the dining room, where many oi
them became i'll from the suffocating
air.
Foreign-born workers who are
arrested in connection with de-
monstrations, strikes, ETC., should
refuse to answer all questions and
to sign any papers, urges the Inter
national Labor Defense. They
should write or ask friends to noti-
fly the local LID. Office and ask
for lawyer.
While deportation Doak's dragnet
sweeps the country, the infamous
Dies bill, which was passed by the
last session of the House and re-
ported on favorably by the Senate
immigration Committee, may come
up in the Senate at any time. This
is one of the worst attacks on the
foreign-born ever launched in this
country. 1t provides for the deport-
alton of all "alien Communists" and
makes the Interpretation of the
word, Communist" so broad that
any foreign born worker who merely
believes in collective ownership can
be grabbed and deported. This bill
one of whose chief sponsors is Con-
gresham Fish. is intended to smash
all revolutionary and militant organ
izations and to terrorize the foreign
born into tamely accepting starva-
ton, wage-cuts and every blow al
their living standards.
The attack on the foreign-b born is
part of the general offensive of the
bosses and their government against
the toilers of this country. Only a
powerful mass movement of native
and foreign-born, built up behind
the campaign of the International
Labor Defense, can halt the attempts
to deport Joe Rosich, Larsen, Mills
Bloch, Berkman and thousands OF
other workers, and force the defeat
of the criminal Dies Bill