Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
FAIR
BY Westbrook
PeeIer

WE WERE talking about i'm
w migration and foreignism
and when 1 finally got hold of
the dice / said / would take for
my point the contention that
those who are so nasty TO the
native American in their solicit
tude for the privileges OF the
foriegn-born were inconsistent
and hypocritical and just play
ing power-politics.
Now l will make my point.
Shove back, men, and let us
have no crock-dice.
These people are all New
Dealers, of course. / don't mean
to concede that New Dealers
are the only ones who believe
we should continue to have
more or less immigration after
this war because lots Of Repub--
licans disagree with my own
idea that we should suspend inn
migration until we have cooled
off here at home and had a
chance 10 observe whether Eu-
rope goes Communist. Possibly,
some Republicans would be
thinking, wistfully, about cheap
European labor, too.
IN THE other hand, some in
" fiuential southern Demo-
Gratis are sore and Inundated in
their own party by the rise of
Sidney Hillman and the COM
munists who certainly do not
speak the political language of
the old Democratic Solid South
which gave us the second ku
kluX Khan and 100 per cent
AnericaniSm only 20 years ago.
The people i am arguing with
are those New Dealers who have
lost patience with the American
system and have turned TO Eu-
rope for methods of regimenta-
ton as solutions for our Ameri-
can problems.
Just minute, Mrs. Roose-
welt and Dubinsky and you, too,
Mr.. Big, those are still my dice.
YOU people all support sys-
L tenn whereby a native Amer
lean carpenter in one town in
say, New Jersey, must 60 first
to the union hall when he moves
In a town in. say, Indiana. in
stead of going TO an employer,
to get job.
He must 60 to the union hall
and put in his card for a trans
fer and slap down a transfer
fee which certainly is an inIni-
grafton head-tax intended TO
keep out foreigners" in that
tiny jurisdiction.
He may be Plymouth Rock
American but. outside his home
town and state, although still
within his own country, he is a
foreigner"
Then, if things are slack. this
native American Immigrant"
must go TO the bottom of the
list and the locals or .natives"
as you might call them, who
naturally want all the available
work for themselves, keep him
in suspense until they are ready
10 give him a card or a permit.
MEANTIME, if he goes skulk-
A'A ing around in the dark of
the moon 10 mend latch here
or shave a swollen door there.
all on the sneak in his own
glorious free land and the union
catches him at it, he is a dirty
scab forever. 1t makes no diff
ference that his family are hum
CRY or his wife is having
baby.
He is an Immigrant" and
those who would tear the heart
out Of you for discriminating
against a foreigner from
Europe. will call you a dirty,
labor-baiting rat and fink if you
say his national government
should. at least sympathize,
with this native American.
II the local in the new loca-
ton decides never TO "natu-
ralize" this American. that is
all right with the New Dealers
and they have been fighting all
these years against all propos-
ais to bring union rules and con-
situations into conformity and
moral consistency with the
Constitution Of the United
States.
In some cases, il takes the
votes of 100 sub-human Ameri-
can workers 10 equal the vote
OF one regular member who
may be an unnaturaliZed Euro
pean and a Communist at that.
WHAT goes, specifically, for
L Mrs. Roosevelt because she
once delivered one Of her spells
before crowd of strikers be-
longing TO just such a union. all
of them sub-human members.
100. just before the union bosses
turned them loose for a violent
insurrection against the lawful
government Of the city of New
York in a mass assault on a
small detail of policemen.
Your New Dealer believes in
severely restricted pas sports
within tn country for native
Americans because he upholds
the right of a union TO stop i'm
migration into a given district.
If a man of skill can't get
union clearance into the new
town that means he can't earn
a living
And xt0,tr Nou, noaIor 10