The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-15
An Vice President
Pebbles More Hokum
for His Capitalist Class
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the capitalist upon children gains another
recruit in the person of Thomas R. Marshall time
progressive governor of Indiana and later vcepredent
of these United States But his arguments pedded thru
press syndicate to the most reaconay capitalist dales
are as old as the most ancient
Marshall is out to preserve the family" He makes his
hypocca appeal to the fathers and mothers presumably
the fathers and mothers of the working class
children Of the rich do not into the mines the mills and
the factories Of the nation.
The prize gem advanced by the Indiana democratic
politician who also raises the ageoId plea of states rights
always championed by his party Isl
ITO my question determine Isl
Does he belong the state the belong
other words Has will
organized to make him do he chooses regardless of his desres
for the capitalist order The capitalist state does belong
to the 100000 of the American people, The capitalist
state that is called the American government weapon
in the hands of the powerful capitalists for the oppres
sion Of the masses The family relation the rights Of child
to the enjoyment of their childhood all human rights
ground into the mre of the most cruel exploitation by
this MoIoch of greed.
tcan resorts to this usual subteruge of democracy try
ing to fool the into the comfortable belief that the
they do in giving their support capitalist institutions
then they ooshy blame themselves for all the wrongs they
suffer
To the illusion that the state belongs to the people,
Marshall adds hokum about God given rights.
The erstwhe vicepresdent claims that Long before
reaches 10 years of age normal child has begun find
his way in the world and that he have the Cod given
right to 60 alone, without being hampered by constu-
tona amendment declaring that Congress shall
under 10 years of age"
Marshall says the boy and girl under 18 years of age
must enjoy the God given right to 60 out in the world
and battle with the cotton trust the textile barons mine
and other employers of youth labor for the right
live Marshall goes to church and he get considerable
heaVenynspred Joy out of this combat Yet this
is not the first time that the capitalist found
ally in God in the struggle defend it's institutions The
church turnout "The South in the days before the Civil
War almost unanimous in its defense of chate slavery.
Religion but reflection of the system of oppression under
which it thrives
Marshall fears that the protection of the children
herads the coming of socialism. He stands petrfed in the
grip of fear that any government might itself with
the welfare of growing boys and girls
Marshall may rest easy insofar his capitalist state
is concerned 1t will lift the burden of toll from the
shoulders of the young No cannbaI born who
devoured his human meal with greater relish than the Joy
with which capitalism feeds upon its youth. Capitalism will
always fight for the right to send children into the of
the great industrial machine, competitors with their
fathers and mothers their grown brothers and sisters
the slave market of the wage workers.
The problem of child labor, like the problem of
poyent and other ills inherent in the social system,
will endure long capitalism The struggle against
mentally the struggle end the capitalist system and all
evils it spawns.
That is the struggle of the Workers (Communst)
Party and the Young Workers (communst) League their
joint against child labor. Labor learn that
right against child labor is fight to abolish the capitalist
sate effort to establish Soviet Rule for the suppression
of the last of capitalism and the usherng of
Communist social order under which children will
history began