Show DOAK REVEAlS PREYING UPON FOREIGN-BORN FOREIGN Tells of Daring Racketeers Who Forged Deportation tion ion Warrants Dr Dy Associated lm Ites NEW YORK Oct Ocl 26 26 Secretary Secretary Doak said today todar that while the labor department has been attempting attempting at at- tempting to ent o the immigration law our most vigorous activities have been to apprehend end and convict American citizens who are guilty of robbing foreign born people Addressing the foreign l language bureau of the Republican national committee Doak Dank said an investigation started soon after aHer he lie took office Uncovered uncovered uncovered un covered a gang of racketeers so bold they forged warrants of of deportation We Ve discovered he said not only the out men working this racket but even some of ot those in inthe inthe inthe the immigration service were levying tribute on the poor unsuspecting for for- born eign-born people here We apprehended apprehended some of our who were accepting and demanding graft from rom these foreign-born foreign people and andin andin andin in no community were the offenses more grave than we found them in the city of New York Dank Doak said sOlid he be had been accused of playing politics with humanity He continued This was a vicious and malicious falsehood I never considered the political angle of the situation and andt it t certainly ha has never entered into my enforcement of ot the immigration laws All of my adult life has been spent in representing labor a man who has fought fou ht for the underdog if U you ou please How anyone could make a charge of playing politics with human human human hu hu- hu- hu man misery against me mc is beyond my comprehension On the contrary I hunted down these racketeers these slave drivers these damnable crooks who had been preying on our foreign born under the guise of being their benefactors 1 |