The Daily Worker

Some Deportation Victims

The Coolidge campaign in Chicago to secure propaganda material for use in getting the anti-foreign-born bills now before congress passed is growing. Out of the hundreds arrested six have been held for deportation. The local capitalist press reports that the police and immigration officials are elated at their success. No doubt. They were given instructions to find someone to deport and they did it.

The murders that were to be stopped by means of deportation have not ceased. The day after the announcement of the deportation orgy another murder was committed. It is also reported that the chiefs of the murder and bootlegging gangs have simply moved to a Chicago suburb where they will remain in safety. But hundreds of foreign-born workers will be picked up in raids and put thru the third degree at police headquarters in an effort to find more victims with which to support the Coolidge campaign to terrorize the foreign-born workers in this country.

The scare headlines in the press and the daily editorials all go to support our view that this deportation campaign is deliberately being used to give the Coolidge government some excuse for passing the fingerprinting and registering bills. The best interests of the entire working class can be served by uniting all working class forces against this attack on the foreign-born workers.

The working class organizations must voice their protests against the anti-foreign-born bills now before congress. The only purpose of this legislation is to terrorize the foreign-born workers and assure the capitalists of a great supply of bound and gagged workers afraid to demand better living conditions because of their fear of the police under whose supervision they will be placed.

The movement for the protection of the foreign-born workers which has sprang up in many cities is of the utmost importance to the entire working class. The uniting of unions, fraternal organizations and political parties of the working class into a common front on this question is the only way in which to combat the deportation and registering menace to the foreign-born workers in this country.