But those who formed and direct it got their directions from Moscow and report to Moscow regularly on progress. It gains the attention of the foreignborn workers with the claim that its purpose is to aid and protect them. Every measure presented in Congress looking toward restriction or a humane way of dealing with immigrants is at once turned into a terrifying bogeyman by the propagandists. The foreigners are told by speakers who know their language that the measure is designed to destroy them. that it is some scheme of the capitalist to enslave them. that their very families are in danger. and that it becomes their duty as a matter of selfpreservation to join the organization and prepare to battle. by the use of force if necessary. the Government that is seeking to crush themthat is. the Government of the United States. I need not tell you the effect this sort of harangue has.
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