The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 6

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This is an episode in the struggle of the working class with the capitalist class and its auxiliary organization, the Socialist Party, the leader of which, Morris Hillquit, is the direct agent in causing the indictment and arrest of the editors of the Communist press, As a stool-pigeon at work “under cover” in the labor movement in his profession of betraying the workers, when once he is exposed as a police agent, will then put on his police uniform to continue his trade in the open—just so Mr. Morris Hillquit, the “socialist” leader, has been com- pelled to come out before the whole working class as an open police agent of the capitalist class, Mr. Hillquit, of course, cannot be considered merely as an individual, but is the head and the symbol of the Socialist Party. When he appeared as a complaining witness before the New York County Grand Jury to testify against the editors of the two largest Communist papers—it was in reality the Socialist Party which so vividly revealed its true character as another arm of the ruling capitalist class along with the police in the suppression of the working class. We do not mean to imply that the Socialist Party’s usefulness to the American bourgeoisie comes to an end with this one ex- posure; on the contrary, as the class struggle continues to sharpen and the radicalization of the proletarian masses proceeds, the capitalist class more and more needs and more and more will use the services of ‘such social-reformist or- ganizations of treason within the working class. This is not the first, but one of many open actions of the Socialist Party of this country in the outright police role. Another case of the kind was the despicable action of 1920, when, after the “red raids” in which thousands of Detroit workers were thrown into jail, Seymour Stedman (later Socialist Party candidate for vice-president) learned of the criminal charges against the workers of advocating the violent over- throw of the U. S. government and rushed to Detroit to file duplicate charges in a civil suit to obtain for the Socialist Party the club house property of the Communist workers. And ever more rapidly such cases have piled up in the strug- 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSRAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929 By KARL REEVE, | (Editor, Labor Defender) pee United States government is taking all possible measures to further restrict immigration, to make} jeasier. the deportation of foreign-| | born workers, and to hold the threat jof deportation over the foreign-| born workers who take part in work- jing class activity. The numerous! |bills now before congress, the de- cisions of the supreme court with |regard to immigration and deporta- |tion, and the increased activity of the American Legion and other re-| THE OSTRICH HIDES ‘The Attack on the Foreign-Born Part of U. S. Imperialism’s General War Preparations enter the country on the basis of this standard would be reduced 50 per cent. The fact that the fascist organi-| zations are advocating this change | is another indication of the inten-| tion of the government to take all| possible measures against» the for eign-born workers. The American gles of the needle trades workers in New York and else- where. We remember the promise made publicly by the Socialist Party in the Albany trials, to support a war of the United States imperialist government against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and we do not forget the Socialist Party's support of the League of Nations. The Socialist Party still will play many more times, and on a larger scale, the role of open betrayer of the working class. The exposure of the treacherous role of these vultures in the labor movement is one of the most important tasks of the workers’ revolutionary press. The Program of the Communist International, recently adopted at the Sixth World Congress of the International, gives the analysis of this phenomenon of paralysis of the labor movement by the bourgeoisie working through the “socialist” and trade union bureaucratic agencies amongst the workers. After describing the revolutionary forces lead- ing to the overthrow of the capitalist class, the program says: “However, this fundamental revolutionary tendency is tem- porarily paralysed by the fact that certain sections of the Euro- pean, North American and Japanese: proletariat are bribed by actionary organizations, prove the|Legion has gone on record in its |government is rapidly preparing for jconventions as favoring the National |the entry of the United States into |Crigins Law. _Senator Reed declared a new imperialist war. These seri-|that this origins law is favored “be- jous attacks on the foreign-born |C#use during the world war, 53 per} |workers are a part of the general/cent of the foreign-born population| war preparations. |¢laimed exemption from military | ‘The house of representatives has Services because of alienage.” jalready passed the new deportation! | Such reactionaries as J. E. Cas- jbill introduced by Albert Johnson, |Sidy, speaking for the United States | ichairman of the immigration com- | Air Forces Association, demand the |mittee. This bill extends greatly the |@PPlication of the 1790 quota stand- grounds for deportation and removes |@™d immediately. Cassidly detlared: |the time limit of five years within |““Anglo-Saxon stock is the essential |which an alien illegally in this coun-|t00t of the builders of the U. S., ltry can be deported. The Johnson | While the other aliens sprang from |bill, which is an even more drastic |" abnormal influk of those deciding |substitute for Senate Bill No, 5094, |to participate in national prosperity provides that all foreign-born who |and avoid unsettled European condi- jattempt to conceal or harbor any | tions.” Other. fascist-like persons, other alien liable to deportation, or Such as Major G. Blair, of the Mili- | lany alien who assists other aliens to |taty Order of the World War, an or- lenter the United States unlawfully, |anization of army officers, and F. or any alien convicted of any of- |. Kinnicutt of the American Im-| fense within ten years after entry,) gration Restriction League, are| may be deported immediately. The |@!So demanding the immediate ap- |bill makes illegal entry to the United |Plication of this quota basis: |States a.crime, and imposes a pen-| General Reaction. \alty of one year imprisonment, in} The U. S. government in all its addition to a fine. The secretary of | branches, is tightening the screws labor is given dictatorial powers to|against the foreign-born workers. decide whether or not foreign-born |On February 19th, the department of the imperialist bourgeoisie, and by the treachery of the national bourgeoisie in the semi-colonial and colonial countries who are seared by the revolutionary mass movement. The bourgeoisie in imperialist countries which is able to secure additional surplus profits from the position it holds in the world market (more developed techniques, export of capital to countries with a higher rate of profit, etc.), and from the proceeds of its plunder of the colonies and semi-colonies—was able to raise the wages of its “own” workers out of these surplus profits, thus giving these workers an interest in the development of “home” capitalism, “in. the plunder of the colonies and in being loyal to the imperial- ist states. This systematic bribery was and is being very widely practiced in the most powerful imperialist countries and finds most striking expression in the ideology and practice of the labor aristocracy and the bureaucratic strata of the working class, i. e, the social democratic and trade union leaders, who proved to be the direct agencies of bourgeois influence among the proletariat and stalwart pillars of the capitalist system. “By stimulating the growth of the corrupt upper stratum of the working class, however, imperialism, in the end, destroys its inflyence upon the working class, because the growing con- tradictions of imperialism, the worsening of the conditions of the broad masses of the workers, the mass unemployment among the proletariat, the enormous cost of military conflicts and the burdens they entail, the fact that certain powers have lost their monopolistic position in the world market, the break-away of the celonies, etc.,'serve to undermine the basis of social democracy among the masses. | Throughout the whole world the exposure of the yellow Socialist parties and the yellow trade union bureaucracy must now be carried on as never before. Such honest work- ers.as may still be deluded by these “socialist” leaders must be made to see that by supporting such agents of the capital- ist class they are betraying their own class. Especially now with the rapidly sharpening contradictions of the capitalist world system, with the rapid development of the mood for struggle on the part of the working class, with the approach of the coming imperialist war, with the tremendous duties of -_ revolutionary action on the part of the working class—it is _ necessary to reveal to the workers the character of these social reformist agents who will so powerfully help the capi- talist class to plunge the workers into the slaughter. As for this particular case, and Morris Hillquit, the Daily Worker will continue even more energetically the ex- posure of the treacherous stool-pigeon not only ‘in the $150,- 000 stock jugling swindle, but also in his whole scrdid role as a betrayer of the working class, af . . workers charged with violating this bill are to be deported. | Compulsory Volunteers. { The Johnson bill is submitted in! \addition to the general bill for the) | revision of immigration restriction) |rules, and another bill which permits | la system of registration of aliens) lat the port of entry on “vountary” at the port of entry on “voluntary” basis is the entering wedge for the forcible registration, finger printing and the espionage system against foreign-born workers. The deporta- tion bill provides that upon the de- cision of the secretary of labor, that an alien is an undesirable citizen, the alien shall be deported. Those who may be deported include viola- tors of the drug and narcotic act, persons who have been sentenéed to one year or more of imprisonment \for carrying any concealed weapon or bomb, and persons who hereafter wilfully enter the United States, il- legally or violate ahy immigration le» -The language of the bill is vague and allows wide interpretation. - Means Espionage. Senator King of Utah, a member of the senate immigration commit- tee, stated: “I am opposed to the Johnson bill in its ptesent form. I am opposed to the application in the United States of the espionage sys- tem which has prevailed in the mon- archical countries of Europe.” Even the bourgeois Senator King pointed out the fact that this bill which has now passed the house, means es- pionage practiced against the 10 million foreign-born workers resid- ing in this country. Still another measure which radically revises the immigration laws and which gives the government a further Hold upon the foreign-born workers, is the plan to enact the National Origin basis for immigration quotas. This means that the immigration quotas will be fixed on the basis of the American population as it was in 1790, and in effect reduces the quota on a great |many. nationalities. For example, state of the U. S. government issued a statement which said, in part, “a conference of American consular of- fieers in Mexico City called by the department of state and by Ambas- sador Morrow, met the morning of February 18th, 1929, at the embassy. of Mexico City. This is the first general conference of the consular officers in Mexico held in many years. “One of the principle objects of this phase of the conference in the consulate general is to take meas- ures which will insure that the stand- ards of admissibility, observed by the American consular officers in Mexico in discharging their respon- sibilities under the immigration law of the U. S., are equal to the stand- ards observed in Europe and else- where. ‘It is anticipated that this will result in a certain reduction of the volume of Mexican immigrati: to the United States.” * * * * The courts have also’ been active in the attacks on the foreign-born workers, Numerous interpretations of the Immigration Act of 1924 have, been made, such as the recent ruling of ‘the U. S. supreme court in the case of John M. Ulrich, which approved the law that any, woman who marries a citizen.of the United States does not thereby become a citizen, and that any foreign-born worker convicted of a crime, even though married to a U. S. citizen, cannot secure citizenship. This de- cision further states: “we are not able to find any provision of the im- migration laws which provides for an official review of the action of the consular officers in such cases by a cabinet officer or other au- thority.” In other words, there is no appeal from the decision of the immigration authorities, Against Temporary Entrance. The house committee on Februaw 8th made public its report on the Box Bill, House Bill No, 16927, which port points out that the lower courts have decided that an alien residing in Canada and coming to the U. S. to work near the border and return- ing each night to his home in Can- ada, were not immigrants and did not need an immigration visa. The committee protests against this in- terpretation and insists that the laws relating to such workers. be inter- preted to mean that these workers are immigrants requiring immigra- tion visas. The committee’s report states: “If the supreme court affirms the de- cision, a large number of aliens will be admitted before legislation can be eriacted at the next session.” The report further states “that if such aliens can come to Canada and then be admitted to the U. S, it is appre- jhended that a serious situation pre- sents itself to congress.” The Box bill, the house committee points out, “clarifies” the meaning of the im- migration act to exclude from ad- mission above the quota “aliens coming to engage in or resume em- ployment in the U. S. by an em- ployer in the U. S. by an agreement already made.” The only exception made to this restriction is that of a skilled la- borer, which the secretary of labor decides cannot be secured in this country, actors, artists, etc., and aliens imported in connection with an exposition. The law also excludes all aliens coming to resume or en- gage in employment in any business or industry of the United States, unless they are one of the three exceptions noted above. All of these |foreign-born must come in under ‘the \regular quota law. Other bills relating to immigra- tion, are House Bill No. 13793, which provides for the registration of ar- rivals and the espionage of aliens House Bill No. 16926, relating also to the admission of aliens above the quota. House Bill No. 16926 would give the government the power to decide what aliens shall be admitted in the regular quotas and “grants preference within the quota to highly skilled aliens needed in the develop- ment of American business.” Every branch of the government ‘is giving attention to the matter of restricting immigration, making de- portation easier and in all ways at- tacking the foreign-born workers. Immigration Commissioner Hull de- clares that over 29,000 aliens were deported from this country in the last year, 18,000 being apprehended by the board of patrol and 11,625 being arrested in the interior on warrants and deported. Hull de- clares that it is not true that after five years’ residence in the United States, an alien may not be deported for illegal entry. He says: “It is not possible for any alien entering surreptitiously on and after July Ast, 1924 and without a visa, to re- main here without sooner or later being detected and deported.” Legion Attacks. The American Legion has issued an official statement on. the pro- posed anti-foreign legislation, in Which it declares: “The Legion be- lieves firmly in restrictive immigra- tion. We believe that this is our country, and that we are entitled to be the judge of whether we shall allow people to. come from foreign countries to make their home with us or to say to them ‘we now have sufficient persons of other races ‘within our shores.’ During the world relates to the temporary entrance of ithe number of Germans allowed to aliens to the United States, This re- sat: war, 2,000,000 persons resident in America of foreign birth, claimed 7 x a resident in the United, States, and| By Fred Ellis i} exemption under the draft,*because | lof their alienage. Yet, should we jcontinue to base our quotas upon the |foreign-born population, the coun- tries of which these slackers are na- tives, would be allowed to send ad- |ditional immigrants to America, al- though no account would be taken lin immigration quotas of the native born Americans who responded so admirably to the call of their coun- try. The issue can be brought squarely between patriotism and slackerism—shall slackerism be rep- resented in selecting our immigrants, or patriotism?” Workers Must Mobilize. The working class organizations | must immediately mobilize to fight against all of the attacks of the gov- ernment on the foreign-born work- ers. The Civil Liberties Union, and jsuch middle-class organizations are |not to be relied upon in the defense of the foreign-born workers. An of- ficial statement of the Civil Liber- ties Union, released February 15th, makes the statement that “further changes should not be made until jneed for them is plainly evident.” The Civil Liberties Union further charges that the house committee “is controlled by an _ anti-alien group,” and states “there is no need for this legislation. Even Secretary of Labor Davis himself has made no such recommendation.” Such phrases as “that the bill is contrary to hu- man nature” are contained in the Civil Liberties statement. The Civil Liberties Union main- tains silence on the fact that the jnew bills, ete, against the foreign- born, are the attacks of the capi- talist class against the working class, and a part of the conscious effort of the United States govern- |ment to prepare to crush all work- jing class activity and to prepare to iresist working class protest when \the government plunges the workers \into a new imperialist war. The so- | clalist party, the servant of the \eapitalist class, the third party of the bourgeoisie, of course will not {make any fight upon this attack on the foreign-born workers. Communists Will Act. The Workers (Communist) Party, and such working class organizations as the International Labor Defense, must mobilize a broad mass protest against this vicious attack on the foreign-born workers. The foreign- born workers are being attacked, because they are politically devel- oped, because they are more class- conscious, because they are to be found in great numbers in the basic, important industries. The attack on the foreign-born workers is an at- tack on the working class by the Hoover imperialist government. The attack on the foreign-born workers is part of the process leading toward fascistization. It is an imperialist ‘attack on a large and militant sec- tion of the working class. Only by the unified action of the entire york- ing class can this attack on the for- eign-born workers be repulsed. The meaning of the new bills before con- gress, the decisions of the United States supreme court, etc., is an at- tack on all militant working class action. The socialist party, the Amer- ican Federation of Labor bureau- eracy, will support the government in this attack on the foreign-born workers, because they are agents of the capitalist government. The Workers (Communist) Party leads the fight for the protection of the foreign-born workers, leads the fight against such manifestations of fas- cism. ern bourgeois routed from tk: | wociety, has not d antagoniam: donew — clannen, ‘oppression, new in place of the Marx (Communist Manifesto). Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Co., Inc. BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK The “Green Book” of the W. F. M. In the Colorado Mine War; the Charges of the Owners Answered All rights resevved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. In previous chapters Haywood told of his early life as cowboy, miner and homesteader in the old west; of years in the miners and mine union as Silver City, Idaho; his final election as executive secre- tary of the Western Federation of Miners; its struggles he directed in Colorado; how he got Senator Patterson to revly to an attack in the U. S. Senate. Now go’ on reading. . PART XLVIII. | ROM Senator Patterson’s Senate Document, which was our reply to the Mine Owners’ Association, we compiled our “Green Book” in answer to the “Red Book” already mentioned. Here are some of the mine owners accusations against us, and our answers in part from the Senate Document, as they appeared in the “Green Book.” The Mine Owners said: That a large number of criminals and lawless men have been welcomed, sup- ported and sheltered by the Western Federation of Miners. .. « The Western Federation replied: That a large number of ex-convicts, gamblers, desperadoes and other criminals have been and now are knowingly em- ployed and paid by the Colorado Mine Owners’ As- sociation and the Citizens’ Alliance in Cripple Creek, Telluride and elsewhere in the state, as deputy sher- iffs, guards, detectives, ete... . The Mine Owners said: That the officers of : that organization and a large number of the members, while perhaps not committing crimes themselves for which they can be prosecuted, do directly and indirectly advise or encourage the lawless among them to commit crimes... . The Western Federation replied: That the officers of these organi- zations and a large number of the members have not only committed crimes themselves, for which they could and should be prosecuted and punished, but the organizations, as such have directly and openly aided and abetted the same, and their members have boasted and approved of such crimes. . . * * HE Mine Owners said: That these officers and this element preach disrespect for law-and contempt for lawful authorities and openly and publicy, as individuals, approve of and gloat over the sluggings, dynamiting and murdering of non-union men by their criminal as- sociates. ... + The Western Federation replied: That the association and alliance, while shouting hypocritically ‘for “law and order,” have openly defied the courts, destroyed liberty of the press, invaded the sanctity of the home, caused arrests without warrant, imprisoned men without charges of crime, driven men from the county after robbing them, and while declaring such men to be criminals of the deepest dye, have without compunction, dumped them on neighboring communities. They have tortured men and intimidated women and children to obtain confes- sions, and openly and publicly boasted and approved such crimes, as organizations, by adopting and publishing resolutions commendatory of them. .. * s . HE Mine Owners said: That where this organization has had its members in local public offices, or where it has had the power to influence peace officers and courts in this state, it has paralyzed the hand of justice and made it next to impossible to convict members of the Federation caught in the act of committing crimes. . . The Western Federation Replied: That wherever the association or alliance have not had their members in public office, they have, wherever deemed necessary, compelled by violence and intimidation, the resignation of duly elected public officials and the appointment of their own creatures in the so-called vacancies. Wherever their members or tools are in office, or where they have had the power to influence peace officers and courts in this state, the law, as established since Magna Charta, has been subverted by decisions which have made the state a subject of derision to the entire country, the hand of justice has been paralyzed, and it has been futile to attempt conviction of their mem- bers, although caught in the act of committing crime and ovenly con- fessing and boasting of it. This charge is supported and: proven by the decisions themselves and by the following facts: The informations for riots and conspiracy which a court conipelled an unwilling district attorney to file at Idaho Springs against some eighty members of these organizations, charging them as participants in a mob which had driven miners from their homes, were at the earliest possible moment dismissed by the same dis- trict attorney, and the criminals allowed to escaped trial and punish ment, though the whole community could have testified to their identity. At the same time, the same district attorney, aided by the attorneys of those organizations and backed by all the money needed, made two at- tempts by two separate trial to convict miners of the crimes of arson and conspiracy for which th esame mob had pretended to expel them. They were each and all triumphantly acquitted without introducing evidence in their defense. Not one of the mob of “best citizens” who exiled miners from Tel- luride has been prosecuted. When Judge Stevens issued his injunction to aid the exiles in returning home, the mob appealed to the governor of the state for force to defy the courts and he ordered out the militia, placed the leader of the mob in command, and the court stands defied and helpless to this day. , 3 At Cripple Creek, a mob’ in brass and blue under orders from a puppet governor controlled by the association and the alliance, filled the courtroom with armed men, and defied the court in open session. While this mob of soldiers was in the district, it aided and abetted the members of the alliance and association, in compelling, by force and threats, the resignation of the duly elected sheriff and coroner’and other civil officers of Teller county, and the appointment of their own creatures to the so-called vacancies.” 2 Ever since this lawless governor recalled his mob of soldiers from Cripple Creek the reign of terror continues. Storesbelonging to a for- eign corporation have been looted in broad daylight by mobs led by A. E. Carlton, president First National Bank; Nelson Franklin, former mayor, and Cliff Newcomb, cashier First National Bank, and other “law- abiding” citizens. Not one of these criminals fears arrest or punish- ment, and daily outrages are committed with impunity by mobs composed of members of the alliance and association, or acting under orders from them, and acting with the approval of the peace officers of the country, whom they forcibly installed in office. These crimes are committed with the consent and approval of the governor, who refuses to enforce the law and restore order on the pitiful pretense that he has “not been of- ficially notified... . = . . * 'HE Mine Owners Said: That this organization, having formally and officially espoused the cause of, the so-called Socialist Party, is op- possed to our present form of government and is aiming at its oyer- throw, together with the abrogation of the present Constitution. ... The Western Federation replied: That these organizations have for- mally and officially espoused the cause of the so-called Republican Party, which they pretend to be-still the party of Lincoln. That each of them is opposed to our present form of government and aiming at its overthrow. To this end they have destroyed and confiscated property, destroyed the freedom of the press, defied the courts, nullified the writ of habeas corpus, exercised the right of search without warrant, denied the right of trial by jury, exercised the power of banishment, denied th: right of citizens to keep and bear arms, and trampled upon ever othei guarantee of personal liberty made by the constitution of the state and of the United States. Besides these and other violations of the consti- tutional rights of citizens, they are seeking to abrogate the Constitution and install a plutocracy, and to that end have adopted as their rallying cry a phrase, classic in its terseness and aptly descriptive of the men and their purpose, to wit: Hie! Mell with ‘the Constitution.” In the next instalment Haywood writes of the Rockefeller Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Company and,jts use of the thugs of the Reno Detective Agency: of the hundteda of men killed by the Mine Owners’ Association; of what he thinks about craft wnionism. Readers who wish to yet Haywood’s Book in regular bound volume can obtain it free with a yearly subscription to the Daily ‘Worker.