The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-07-30
The Capitalistic Child Slaughter.


children from starvation the German Bourgee launched the
weeks before Xmas Reef Action for Children Posters depict
ing with heartrendng reality proetaran mother hItng ap
peangy towards the passrsby her crippled keletonke OIL
spring. been fastened to the walls of every sretcoer and
were seen in many hopwndows And thus it about that the
bourgeose gave aims for the oor hungry children with one
hand while with other threw the time hundreds OF
thousands the parents of the children mercess
upon the While at the time the bosses commenced
cutting down wages while at the same time free exchange IT, e.
unlimited usury) reesabshed for almost all agricultural
products While society making in heartmovng phrases and
charity and their penpushers kept busy getting off pctu
esqe descriptions of the conditions prevailing in the sums and
statistical figures proving the widespread misery of the nsu
tons devoted the welfare of the children and their mothers
one after the other be closed the German states for lack
of financial support by the instrument of the amspendng
bourpeoe the government thus leaving mother and child to
famine misery and ruin.
Though nothing much has been heard of the subject since
has had that good effect thousands of poetaan fathers and
mothers have had their opened to the hypocry OF the Dou
geose the misery of the proaran generation as
we'll the action they had only seen their own children
and those of their friends and neghbors They had known that
these children very badly off, they had suspected that
others suffering but they had not been aware of the
formidable exenon of the misery had they known its
era character The statistical figures chdrens mortality and
consumpve children the publishing of the reports OF the school
physicians clearly shown that the misery s not of merely
transtory character but result of the slowly decayng capital
sm threatening the future of the whole proetaran class
The bourgeois Relief Action has proved the absolute impotence
of the governing class which neither intends to change
the existing conditions The proetaria must clearly recognise
the connection between capitalism and chdens misery between
decay Of the capitalist system and the roetarian wholesale
dying consequently put the question OF relief to their children
not as problem of bourgeois reform and charity within the exist
ing order of society," but task Of the poearian class struggle
away with this disorder The proetaa must recognize that
only the proetaan revolution bring relief to their children
The following figures though they cannot completely prove
will give fair intimaton of the formidable extension of the
misery proearan children suffering in the capitastc
ety today In the years 194191S the mortality of children
at the age 5-5 years has in Prussia from 2 30
to 539 The Central Committee of the German Red Cross AS
socaons Department Mother and Child reports that amongst
4SOOO children of total population of 95 millions in Berlin
$4,000 suffering with tuberculosis,
77,0O0 are i'll and badly undernourished
10000 are badly undernourished
According reports there 43 great cities in Ger
many
200633 children suffering with tuberculosis,
S95 i'll and heavily undernourished
catastrophe chdrens lack of appara and
wear is stated for instance that in the city of Ga of 1912
schoochdren 21 had shirt whatever while 446 pos
sessed of but 03 children have pair of socks while 297
had none whatever III had only clogs shoes made of cloth with
wooden so while 21 had nothing whatever protect their feet
with.
In the city of Kasersaute out of 214 children only 27S4
were sufficiently dressed while the clothing of 97 consisted
nothing rags had shirt whatever 220 only one had
no underwear, 43S no shoes.
The Statistics Bureau of France has published figures which
far prove that France like the of the European
has to record appalling mortality of children Out of 10000
children according to these figures the following number have
died. Rouen 294 in Lille 342 in Dunkrch 5O Hauin 500
In Paris half the number of all children die before they weaned
the of this tremendous percentage being lack nurere
and other institutions devoted to the welfare children
The American Red Cross Mission in Budapest publishes tn
following figures the misery prevailing amongst the children
that city, When $40 children of school asked what the
had eaten during that day. appeared that 10 had eaten but
200 had eaten twice. their meals consisting piece bread
chcoy BROTH Of the $40 children only 1S had Will
only al had bit of milk added to their coffee"
To this the mission adds that in reality the undenourshmer
many children ashamed to confess havn
eaten nothing.
The Brussees newspaper lie Peupe reports that in German
there million sick children that in Austria hdre
have died Of hunger that Poland 100000 children sue
ing hunger in the very of the word
What true of the European continent also true for IL
rest of the "civlised" world.
In the face of this terrible misery the proetaat
inactive try make good with its exhausted resouc