The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-01
Crimes of Capitalism
VIII in Time Destroy 1t
Instead of It's Victims
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

QUAY, me United States government is showing great
socitude for herds of deer said starving along
Kabab Plateau of the Kaibab Forest in Northern
Arizona The big herd has multiplied rapidly gov
eminent protection that there isn't enough vegetation
feed them all.
The warrnongers Washington can't get war started
between rival factions of the herds kill off
few thousands The deer wiser than humans
this respect. They have
The deer can't be into modern industry there to
have their numbers decmated thru occupaona diseases
Industrial accidents In this they Iuckie than
Back in 1906 the species threatened with extinction
because of illegal hunting Hunters murdered the animals
for the sport of it, just the western plains swept
bare of buffalo But the deer protected by
national forest reserve.
In this, in other ways the government shows it is
much soIctous about the welfare of animals than
about human beings Diseases of hogs get much aen
ton than the diseases OF children.
The tenement sums Of every large industrial center are
is populated with deer But the United
takes of the children offers free
charges The deer will be taken care Of But the children
may die where they are.
The DAILY WORKER yesterday told the story of two
young cotton mill workers sentenced to death for murder
States for big manufacturers children
homes and slowly murder them in their cotton mills The
But the days each hardly long enough for
to violate all of the ten commandments.
Child murder has been declared constitutional by the
United States Supreme Court 1t did this Anti
Child Labor Law was declared unconstitutional.
Mortimer N. King and Frank HarreI, the two young mill
workers now facing the gaows didn't die in their childhood
under the mill owners LASH They insisted living in spite
Of the tremendous handcaps put upon them in the struggle
for existence One of them had the courage marry
and there child More human fodder for the cotton mills
There came time recently when the mills shut down. in
South Carolina as in many other states The two young
workers, King and Harrel lost their jobs. There
other their town-chesterieId They had to
take to the road to find job just like millions of their
fellows
Hunger came People don't like to take care of hungry
on rOad TheV sand affoFt henn
They call them tramps.
King and HarreI out on the road so the charge goes
got lift from Major H. McLeary in his automobile
The major was hired killer, but he did it according to
capitalist laws It is against capitalist law to kill if
hungry in order that get money buy food The
Christian commandment Thou shalt not kill" applies only
profits hungry in fact that sometimes they
whole nation into war; resulting in the killing of millions
order that they may capture the markets OF the capitalists of
foreign countries
But King and Harrel knew only the law of hunger
which is the law of sefpresevaton. They stuck gun
the majors face is charged and began searching his
his belongings He made Inge at the boys The gun
was too quick for him. 1t exploded The major killed
The boys arrested forced accept the counsel the
provided Them the jury brought in guilty verdict
now they will be hanged on Nov 21s al according to law
In the meantime the streams of millions of more children
will keep pouring Mines mills the
nation to be slowly tortured to death before their time No
employer of child labor will be the gaIows this
crime That is capitalism.
drive Of hunger the masses underneath learn
to have little respect for capitalist law In Central Europe
in the days of misery after the war; the
Dawes pan the hungry millions have usually just gone
and taken food wherever they could find it.
In Russia was with the cry for Bread" upon their lips
that the workers in the cities seized the factories power
The accumulated rage of centuries burst upon regime of
the the bankers and the landlords and destroyed it.
new social order was born.
The two boys, King and HarreI reacted naturally in
their struggle for bread in their fight against starvation
Only the dog, in human rags will crawl into die,
without resistance
But the individual is helpless. Only Masses organ
lied and disciplined fight successfully against the capital
st ORDER that breeds want hunger and misery The
Party building that organization. It is building power
that makes war upon capitalism that will finally destroy it.
The rule Of the cotton mill owners may hang King and
Harre on Nov. 21st. But they will be hanging two
boys for crime that capitasm-the mill owners social
orders guilty Of II is not difficult visualize capitalism
taking it's place upon the gaows with its victims The crimes