The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-17
Friday, May IL, 1885
Fight for the Right of Asylum

It is up to Francis Perkins, secretary of labor decide
whether Alfred Miller editor of the Producers News shall
largely the basis of the record OF the hearing that took
place in Pentywood last week.
The hearing was of the "star chamber variety where
the accused rights whatsoever and where his
is prosecutor Judge AMI jury in Under these
conditions the editor and his attorney LOUIS Donovan
did not stand much Of show They fought what was in
roduced evidence by the government they put forward
their own evidence and offered to present more This
portunity flaty denied the and Donovan even
refused the necessary time to prepare his brief
From this attitude logical to conclude that the hear
ing was mere preense and that the is set to
deport Miller matter how good how fimsy the evil
dence.
What deportation to fascist Germany would mean
like Miller is made clear by statements of Dr. Kurt
Rosenfeld and Kara Deppe both German refugees from
Hitler which printed elsewhere in this issue
What happened to Kst must not happen to Alfred Mill
He must not fall into the bloody hands of Hitler.
Farmers and workers and their organizations must write
to Francis Perkins at protesting the deportation of
foreign born workers that is taking place and demand
ing that Miller be granted the right of asylum political
refugee
The literature of America is replete with the story of
America haven of refuge for the oppressed This
try settled and built by the thousands of refugees of
old Europe who fled from political and religious oppression
In 1901 Thomas Jefferson in his message to congress
urging the repeal of the Alien and Sedon Act of 1798 said
"Shan we refuse the unhappy fugitves from dis
tress that hospitality which the of the wilder
extended to forefathers arriving this land?
Shall oppressed humanity find asylum this globe?"
The platform of the Democratic party from 1900 on
contained plank Right of Asylum The one of 1910
reads as follows:
'The liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence and sanctioned in the Co
sttution, which makes land of liberty and the
asylum of the oppressed of nation have been
cardinal principles of the Democratic faith.
President Wilson, in vetong an immigration bill pre-
sented to him January %, 1915, said:
"This bill embodies radical departure from the
traditional Ong-estabished policy of this country
policy in which people have conceived the very char
acter of their government to be expressed the very
mission and spirit of the nation in respect of it's relations
to the peoples of the world outside their borders
And the immigration Act itself provides as follows:
Nothing in this act shall exclude, if otherwise adj
MISSILE persons convicted admitting the commission
of an Offense purely political"
AS recently March e. 1884, the report of the Ellis
Island committee reminded again of this American ira
dton:
Asylum for those who flee from religious, racial
and political persecution is of the oldest and most
valued of America"
Since time immemorial, the right of asylum has been
recognized natural right We must fight for it's
institution this country and for it's application the
OF Alfred Miller as political refugee.