Vol. 72/No. 42      October 27, 2008

The issues to be discussed are important both to NBIPP members and supporters and to activists in the Black and labor movements seeking ways to defend and advance the political interests of Blacks.

The congress takes place in the context of growing political ferment in the Black community and among working people in general. This ferment is a result of the deepening employer-government offensive against wages, working conditions, democratic rights, and quality of life for all working people, especially for Blacks.

November 10, 1958
The American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born has announced it will hold its 26th annual national conference Dec. 6 and 7 in New York. Representation from at least 14 national groups is expected.

Commenting on the importance of the conference, committee secretary Abner Green said that despite recent Supreme Court rulings bolstering the status of naturalized citizens, and the right of non-citizens to remain in the U.S., the anti-foreign-born Walter-McCarran law still remains the law of the land.

“If the human and civil rights of the more than 15 million foreign-born Americans are to be truly safeguarded,” Green declared, “the Walter-McCarran Act must go and the immigration and naturalization policy of these United States rewritten from beginning to end.”

October 28, 1933
Philadelphia—For the past few months Antonio Bellusi, a militant Italian worker, has been held in the Gloucester Immigration Station awaiting deportation.

He has been in the labor movement ever since 1918. He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and later joined the Italian C.P. In 1924 he took a ship and came to the United States, where he immediately became a member of the C.P.U.S.A. from which he was later expelled.

Antonio Bellusi was arrested in July of this year in Wilkes-Barre on the charge of distributing the Militant. His home was raided and books were found which gave documentary proof that this worker had been an active fighter, for 15 years, in behalf of the toiling masses.  
 
 
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