Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-27
Deport the Reds

The nation is up in arms over the failure OIL ue
1rn,tea States Department of Labor to deport The most
of alien revolutionists who have been violently aceise
RECENTLY. The reply to demands that all aiien COM
m,nists in the United States be deported IS usually ne
explanatory statement that the government OF hussiA'
q the Governments of countries from which these reus
originally hailed refuse to accept them and that 'heie
Is no place to which they may be depTted.
Recently a statement appeared in an official com
m,nist publication, addressed to comrades Ylsiins
Russia. 1t said in part. we do not ask TOT any pais
roa,harshtn cards. We are not interested III your
nossnorts. here. all over the whole Soviet Union, your
passport is the fact that you are workers VINO lousn'
weapons In hand, against facism.' rms Is an open :
come to all communist reyolutlonlsts fom oio.el
countries. The United States Department VI hapi
ahonld make Russia swallow" these words, OF sNa0
low the shiploads Of these revolutionary agents :.
have heen thrust on America against our citizens
wishes.
America in the past may have been considered the
.aso,+,ro pots of the world. the nation in which all ma
4tona1;tias and all people could join in friendly Efforts
torord the maintenance Of a free government. hut y
was not intended that America should become q pr
ittcal mad house, or a haven't r all OF the oo Noiiu
miachlef makers. We have statutes when are ihteha-
al 10 protect the law-abiding citizens OF TINS haeion'
These laws are not intended to protect ahehs WV
-4.tra - destroy our government There are other
Lowe which forbid the eHltdHIS lhto NS
~ nAonle who advocate the overthrow Of the govern
rnon+ vet scores of such revolutionists have been al
,owad entrance freely into the country for the past IVY
There are statutes which compel the aeporsa-
tton Of all aliens who come into the country VIII iss-
olutionarv purposes in mind. Yet very lew nave =
deported during the past two years. me oflciais :
onr government are sworn to defend the CONSTITUTION
oe the United States and to enforce the laws VI oi
country Some are being accused of not enforcing the
4# ~ ~avo1p+1onnrinr TT Is. therefore
about time for the people OF America TO demand 40
ton.
= q understand that Congress will shortly be ask
oh n change the present laws governing aliens. Ac
cording to one report all alien radical cases are Dems
catalogued in the Department Of Labor by states eV
IDENTIFY for the purpose OF having pressure Drought hon
each state on members of Congress TO hpefahze ~
laws regarding aliens. It Is understood, however, 40
Tho ganda behind the movement will endeavor .
make 1t appear that the laws are to pc strengthens
instead Of liberalized. Our laws are satisfactory nov
although thew might be strengthened by an amendmen
nronosad bv Congressman Dies Of Texas, which ha
heen continuously side-tracked.. 1t is feared by man
that other changes made In our present laws COVER
Ing aliens will tend to weaken them. Placing the so
authority over the alien question with the secretary
Labor will not help. for the Department Is apparent
making few deportations~ unde the existins 10"
what we need Is not more law, but the enforcemel
Of present laws.
During the recent red upheavals throughout y
nation. newspaper editors from Florida to Caiiforn'
and from Oregon to New York, have unanimously .
manded deportation Of aliens, but these reds are y
with us preparing other u%prisings. Congress I'LL
take this question In hand. The South IS IN the saae
and that section Is the new battle GROUND OF coMn'
ism The South in Congress can help save the ent
nation from these allen red %intriguers. In the NOT
where the voting strength of aliens apparently mea
more to4many politicians than does the welfare OF
nation, political sentiment on ne question Ia mixed.
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