The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 11

By MAX BEDACHT. EMOCRACY is revealing more clearly every day the mephisto- phelian hoof of its real character_as a capitalist dictatorship. The greater the importance and powers of the workers grows in the economic ma- chinery of society the more open must capitalism maneuver with it: political power to retain its ruling po- sition, the more open must it use its instrument of rule, the government. This government develops gradually into an undisguised agent of capital in foreign lands, And at home it be- come. an. agency for strikebreakiny and an instrument for labor .persecu- tion, ;. In late years these strikebreaking sts” hg ve. “Fevealed. actiy, es of ibe gover ment, of the!}}.- eek ‘capitalis themselves in activitiés against labor: struggles and against labor unions in general, and also in the attempts. to adapt the immigration policy to the task of importation of prospective strikebreakers. Selective immigration is nothing but an attempt to sift prospective immigrants and assure a_ steady stream of meek “hands” into the United States. But although those workers admit- ted into the United States may have & politically spotless, a strike-less and a unionless past so that they can pass the-closest scrutiny of American consular agents, yet, the bitter, experi ence of these workers in the profit- mills of American capital may drive them into labor organizations, into strikes, and eventually even into the revolutionary party of the workers, the Communists Party. So our steel and other industrial barons of the United States find selective immigra- tion insufficient. It does not guaran- tee absolute and definite submissive- ness of all the “hands” finally admit- — into the country.) this ahdeincidentally to give Pfodot’ ofthe character of gloried “democracy” in the United States, attempts are made to tie a string to all immigrants. The depart- ment of labor is to be made a real and unmistakable agency for the sup- ply of strikebreakers to open-shor American capital. To assure a supply of strikebreakers for the departmeni of labor that body is to be given pow- ers which would automatically make it the slave driver with the immigrap‘ workers as the slaves. A number of bills have been drafted in late years to accomplish this end. There is at this moment a bill before the house of representatives in Wash- ington introduced by Congressman Asweil. Mr. Aswell is a professor. He ad- vanced rapidly in his chosen field of activity because he quickly caught on to the educational needs of capi- talism. To drive meekness into and to drive tendencies to think out ef the heads of the pupils—that is the es- sence of the science of goosestepping education. Mr. Aswell proves in his serves his capitalist .masters as -effi- ciently in the field of legislation as he id ‘ii the’ field of ediication. ~The bill provides the registration of all aliens and the payment of a year- ly registration fee of from $3 to $10. The bill practically regulates the immigrant worker to an existence of peon. It puts him under police regulation and police supervision. The immigrant worker will have the hand of the police suspended over his head like a Damocles sword. Any partici- pation in a strike is bound to bring the alien worker into conflict with the police, since the main task of the police is to prevent the wage slave from leaving the tread mills of profit- hungry American capital. To strike, to’ pickety or to do anything in con- junction with the other workers of an establishment that would force the capitalist to pay decent wages or es- tablish acceptable conditions of labor is a major crime in our “democracy”. Participation in ‘such “criminal” ac- tivities would be bound to bring the alien under the clutches of the police. Any such conflict with the police will “be checked up against the alien. Na- ———$—$S A turalization will be made impossible for these aliens and thus police su- pervision over thém will be prolonged indefinitely. Repeated conflicts of that sort will definitely establish the un} desirability of such aliens and de- portation will result. But that is not the final aim of this bill. The big object is intimidation. The immigrant worker is to be de- livered into the hands of the official strikebreaking ageney of Ameriéan capital, the department of labor. With the threat’ of deportation hanging over | in Europe with information as to open, them these alien workers are to be | kept out of labor unions. Fear is to all-Russian conference in Moscow. selahed made ae ler e — the most vital passage of which we give herewith” You*know; éonirades, the dokan originated by Vladimir. yiteh, ~The Role of Workers’ Correspondents The mstilie cman of the Soviet press’recently held an Expats’ Paradise 1s Aim Of Alien Registration keep them in the factory when un- bearable conditions of labor drive the workers out on strike. And this fear is to be kept alive by the deportation of those few courageous aliens who will not submit. The Aswell bill is an attempt. to make the United States .ome great prison camp for alien workers. The bill falls little. short .of- estab- lishing actual peonage for the alien. It provides that the department of la- bor furnish the American consulates information or cities labor markets; about states, that is, territories, At this conference Comrade Zino- and which became the ° ‘slogan of our party at the dawn of the first. revolution, ‘before 1905, “Evety “shop must become a fortress of our. party.” The meaning is that our party must know. how to conquer the majority of the workers (in the shops), how to bring them under their leadership, dominate the thought of the workers there, and implant their influence by organization measures. This aim has not yet been attained, although we are approaching it. It is up to the workers’ correspondents of our press to help us to reach it, The worker correspondents form, in a way, the guard of our fortresses, the shops. conditions of work and the life of the workers as it really is. big job! In our peasant country it is necessary in addition that each village become if not a fortress of our party, at least one of its front trenches. And again the most responsible, the most difficult, but also the finest » task falls upon our peasant correspondents. I am of the same opinion as Pravda, which thinks that the re- cruiting of worker and peasant correspondents must be entirely free, and based upon volunteers. The most important consideration to us at this moment is the number. Our country is so large, it still contains so many ignorant people, that the 50,000 volunteer collaborators of Its a Wherever they work, their task is to describe’ press form no more than an advance contingent. The institution of worker and peasant correspondents is now ac> quiring an international character. the labor press is beginning really to “workerize” itself. Wall papers have ‘angio their. ih poeeaa in shops in Berlin and Paris. In Berlin, their au what a new noah we cia HAR The chief thing is that we have demonstrated that we know how to initiate important new steps in order to put into motion the life of advanced workers and peasants. press correspondents deserves to be called a practical realization of Leninism. The Bolshevik is above all a man of the masses. knows how to speak to the masses. The worker correspondent must become the elder brother, the guide of the peasant correspondent. In western countries, by contagion, Germaw social democracy; realizes A We prep aqamt oft Yo atrotie sit tK In this sense, the institution of The Leninist where “hands” are needed. The visas are to be given to the prospective im- migrants only for the states or cities specified in the visa. The visa is to be recognized only if the alien actu- ally settles in the Me onto or city specified. All that is needed, to iaikd @ real slave out of the immigrant is a police regulation that forbids the alien to leave the place specified in his visa. This would make a more perfect slave out of the alien worker than the southern cotton planters ever had. But the bill is not only directed against the alien workers, By or- ganizing the immigrant worker thru police regulations into an army of open shop and strikebreaking hands the bill is also @irécted against the nativé and naturalized workers. With such a law as a weapon the official strikebreaking agency of American ‘capital, the department’ ‘of labor, gh : strengthen fire open Shop campaign the. capitalists. It wit! marehan dy sir ganized immigrants with ‘the he the police power of the ne ataedt against the existing labor unions. It will try to fill the places of strikers by a terrified army of unorganized alien workers. Thus American capital will succeed, on the one hand, to defeat the work- ers in strikes and to break up their unions; on the other hand it will cre- at an antagonism with the native workers against the immigrants. This antagonism will make still more diffi- cult united and solidary action of all the workers against their capitalist exploiters, It will make one-half of the American workers look upon the other half as enemies instea@ of hav- ing both halves unitedly fight the common enemy: capitalism. The Aswell bill is only one of many such ingenious attempts to enslave the American workers more and more. The very fact that such bills are in- troduced is sufficient proog that the desire for such regulations exists among the American capitalist mas- ters. Final passage. of* such “a bill, therefore, is only a’ question Of time] No momentary pause in the attempts to pass such slave acts by congress must lull the American workers into a feeling of security. The protestion of the foreign-born workers is one of the tasks of the hour for the Ameri- can workers. Protection of the for- eign born is an act of protection of the whole working class of America. Therefore workers, be on your guard! By ART SHIELDS Review of ses Penctnstion by Jamed M. Beck (Duan), Solicitor General James M. Beck reverences the constitution but he approaches. the time worn sacred theme with more frankness than is ommon in this age of exploitation and bunk. Beck readily admits that the venerable document was drawn up by men of property in defense of their property against what he terms the excesses of democracy. Our elderly solictor general is a tory of the tories, but he has a meas- ure of bold-facedness about his pol- icy. He does not ooze with words of love for the masses. The place of the masses, he makes plain, is at work, and he is much disturbed by the tendency of the masses to take things easier than they used to. . In} fact he fears that the moral founda- tions of the republic the founding fathers founded are badly shaken. , Beck mourns the decay of leader- ship in politics today. He finds few giants in these days as when George Washington, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison sat through the secret sessions of the constitutional convention. Ah! those days. Yet all is not lost. Beck finds two moderns who are worthy to sit with the ancients of the eighteenth |. cenury. Guess who they are? One Our Solicitor General Is Frank was Warren. G. Harding and the other his. present chief, Cal. Coolidge. For the most part the tone of the volume is gloomy. Yet a not un- merry clink comes in the chapter on Ben Franklin‘s dinner to the consti- tution founders—a dinner featured by a huge cask. They could drink in those times. Beck says if the eighteenth amendment had been in effect, Franklin’s ‘guests would, un- doubtedly have left. He tells of an- other dinner, one given by Governor Clinton to Washingtén and LaFay- ette, with 120 guests present when the bill cited the consumption of 36 bottles of Madeira, 36 of port, 60 of English beer and 30 bowls of flowing punch, and the wreckage of 60 glass- es and 8 broken decanters. As a matter of interest we may note—though not mentioned in this none eo author served. for years @ leading counselor. for the oil gee and the sugar trust. Se Our Kids Are Having ONE BIG JOB Carrying Their Communist Message To the Children of THE WORKING CLASS SUPPORT THEIRe MOVEMENT Come to the JUNIORS’ DANCE SAT., FEB. 14, 1925 Workers’ Lyceum Poems for the New Age. A book of poems which must prove of interest to readers of the DAILY WORKER is “Poems for ‘the New Age,” by Simon Felshin, recently pub- lished by Thomas Seltzer, New York. Many of Simon Felshin’s poems have already appeared) in the Communist press and this is, am! opportunity.fer comrades to possess a’ collection of the poems by the Communist poét,7a member of the Workers Party,” The first section of the book con- tains revolutionary poems. The book asa whole is a work of art, and, wo are proud to say, a distinct contribu: tion to literature. The revolutionary poems are straightout revolutionary, they do not equivocate, as so much poetry of protest does. There is nc ambiguity here, no possibility of a double interpretation, for the poems are written by a Communist, and that makes a difference. And yet they are ot poems of propaganda purely and simply. Art is not shoved jnto the background... The. book, from Gover to cover is replete srith, rinAROAY tt a rare treat. ~ Those who déatie t to nets the widok t can buy it from the Literature De- partment of the Workers Party at the price of one dollar. When you buy, for the DAILY fe) t an “Ad” KER.