- .’- f f f l > 2 0 - MANCHESTER HERALD. SaL, NovjB . 190^—* Balloonists Arson suspected] Stenciling isn't jm ' BUSINESS In trip in clinic fire hard to learn page 4 ... page 10 page 11 A national workmen's card stop and think IS. V Under a proposed immigration bill that almost treated and told to work 12 hours a day for 35 cents an became law in 1982 and-that is scheduled for con­ hour? If not, what kind of competition will U.S. citizens gressional consideration in 1983. tough measures would then have — more harmful or less? 81 Will the predatory gangs likely to run the extortion be taken to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into this ____ • __ •__D la r> Sunny, cooler Manchester, Conn. country. Empioyers would be forbidden to hire illegals rings generated by the new illegality stop at extortlSh National Workers’ Card Plan by threat of stiff penalties, workers would have to carry from the illegals? on Tuesday Monday, Nov. 8, 1982 a card to show that they were citizens or were here History emphasizes that the bootleggers went on to Has Hidden Drawbacks properly. If not, they would face sumtffary arrest as other activities. Do we have any evidence that history — See page 2 25 Cents well as bring serious trouble on employers. will not repeat itself? If we have a "national workers’ The idea has gained widesperad support from These are the mundane, practical questions that come card" in the United States as anrh^atTr llTralb to mind if you just try to imagine what could follow the frustrated enforcement officials who can't seem to stop proposed: the influx of unauthorized entrants and from the ranks implementation of a national identity card program. of the unemployed, who see illegals competing for jobs Why not a far greater uproar? Is it possible that our 1) What happens to you if your,wallet is that otherwise would be theirs. Whether U.S. citizens citizens are so dazed by the relentless flow of official­ stolen and you don’t have proof at hand generally would want the lowbr-rung jobs usually held gangs to make fortunes by faking the cards — at least sounding proposals that sound plausible that we’re not thinking the proposals through? of your right to be here in the United by illegals is a question seldom asked. well enough to fool the would-be illegal entrant who States? • would thus join our vast underground economy? More spectacularly, a sizzling controversy has PUT ASIDE THE practical, immediate aspects. 2) What happens if you want a job erupted over the proposed national identity card, which Could it be that a sophisticated ring of the type certain How do we evaiuate the claimed risk that the card to spring up in the wake of a law of this sort could fool quickly to meet your expenses, and some observers claim is reminiscent of such cards in system would lay the foundations for p slide away from your application is misplaced or lost the Soviet Union or the "ausweis" that was your permit even the geniuses employed by the federal government freedom? Erosions of privacy and liberty already have G>lonial Fiber laying off 73 and with it, your card? to exist in the Germany of Adolf Hitler. to enforce the requirement? occurred. 4) How about imagining the perfect — but easy — 3) What about alien-smuggling gangs k S TKI* rONV VKD totalitarianism is the way it is • The computer technology is in place to keep track of extortion plot? Say I pose as an inspector or even a plain practically everything any of us does, through bahking, making" a fortune faking the cards to » condemned by opponents who say it would be a com­ bully and grab your wallet with card in it. "Pay up," I fool would-be illegal entrants? puterized means of keeping tabs on everybody in the credit, other data systems. demand, "or leave the United States." Who is to control • No matter who you are — business entrepreneur, 4) What about extortionists who grab United States, destructive of our privacy and ultimately this evil? How? Plant ' also destructive of our right to dissent, prized under our executive, union official, politically active citizen — you your card and demand, "Pay up, or First .Amendment No such spooks will come out of the .5) W M A r IF THE IIJ.-FATED "enemies list ’ were must fill out or maintain so many forms and records else"? 8 closet at all. retort the backers of the card proposal, to resurface? How hard would it be to use the card that someone who wants to presumably could find a 5) If the ill-fated "enemies list" were to who stress it's simply a way to control, for the benefit of system to "get" or to harass the unpopular? technical violation somewhere. All that would be needed resurface, how hard would it be to use shutting all of us' already here, the spigot of unauthorized im­ "Senator, I don't seem to recall seeing your face in is selective enforcemenLat the request of a person with the card system to harass the unpopular? an enemies list and access to the computers. migration. the newspaper, but since I have your card now. I’ll have 6) What would happen to illegal What about the practical aspects of the question? to take you in. We took your money when we arrested • The computerized banking system also permits ins­ ' ■ -• ■ tant financial execution of many of us: Simply instruct entrants who can’t work because they Buried, as usual, under the rhetoric of both sides. To il­ you for safekeeping, so you can't make the phone call have no cards and who resort to crime? down lustrate: right now." Or version two: "You will have to get off the computer to make an error wiping out all your 1) What happens if your wallet is stolen and you don't this plane. I have seized your card because the com­ assets, plane reservations and whatever — and you are 7) How do illegals who are mistreated done in. Even what you owe the Internal. Revenue Ser­ By Richard Cody have your proof at hand of your right to be here as a puter says there is a duplicate somewhere and we have in hours and pay stand up if they have TOM WALSH vice could be changed b y .a computer “mistake” and Raymond T. DeMeo citften or legal resident alien'’ You could be subject to to investigate which is fraudulent, yours or the other — no cards? . “It’s a sham” being jailed on the spot (it's not out of the question), or perhaps there is a computer malfunction punched into the keylraard that accepts whatever is fed 8) What about extortion rings that prey Herald Reporters . ■ I likely to be deported to wherever it was believed you somewhere." into it. on the illegals? came from — if you couldn't phone someone who could 6) What would happen to the illegal aliens who can’t • Investigations into your affairs can he launched find your, birth certificate fast , work because their employers are afraid of the new, without your knowledge. Financial institutions can be Seventy-three employees of the 2) What happens if you want a job quickly to meet tough penalties? asked to provide records about you without your being Colonial Fiber Co., a division of the m your expenses, but the bureaucracy loses’your applica­ Thus, unless' a Soviet KGB or Gestapo-like entity, informed if violations by you are suspected. (Save money every ,day! Sylvia Porter’s Financial Manchester-based Lydall Inc., will tion and puts your second application at the bottom of covert or overt, "takes care" of them on behalf of the Almanac for 1983 is a comprehensive desk calendar and lose their jobs by the end of the • Courts can order not only wiretaps, but also bugs in year, the company announced today. somebody's "in " box and when it's processed, the com­ country from which they supposedly escaped, these homes, law offices and other sensitive locations based consumer handbook featuring Porter’s best money­ aliens will remain here physically, if not on paper. They The plant will be shutting down puter malfunctions'.’ (Impossible, you say?) on probable cause — without informing the subjects of saving advice and tips for organizing your budget. Send will have to eat. If because they can’t work they resort permanently because of weak de­ A'our would-be employer would be required to tell you. the surveillance until later, if ever. $8.95 plus $1 for mailing and handling to Financial to crime, will this be beneficial to our streets? mand for its products, Leonard R. ".Sorry, we would like to hire you, but we couW be Stop and think it through! A national identity card ■Almanac in care of The Manchester Herald,- 4400 John­ punished because you have no card." son Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks payable to Jaskol, vice president of Lydall’s 7) IM’OSE, CONTRARY to law, the illegals do added to this already formidable and expanding list. Do fiber materials group, said today. Universal Press Syndicate.) .() MOW MUM) WOULD it be for alien-smuggling find work Will they be in a position to stand up if mis- you want it? Need it? Or fear it? The company manufacturers fiberboard. The announcement came this morning at the plant at 9 a.m. after -In B rie f--------- High tech the workers came off a three-week % -1 - furlough, employees at the plant, N CONVEX said today.