The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
LITTLE FACTORY
SLAVES BLOOD ON
LEOPOLD, SENIOR

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kept up. The Reliance prison manu-.
featuring trust, which exploits thou
sands of convicts, must be supplied
with its Black Beauty shirt boxes.
Nathan Leopold junior was in trouble
for butchering another son of the per-
verted rich. Profits had to be ground
out to pay for the million dollar de-
Tense of the carefree Babe"
Suddenly it happened. Donald's
foot, weary from the long hours of
standing on the hard cement floor,
slipped into the relentless Leopold
machine. There was a crunching
sound. Donald is now seriously hurt,
his right leg mangled and crushed, his
toes smashed, his bones broken.
Dr. H. M. Ferguson, so year resident
o morris who once before came into
the franks case as the eye specialist
who help put the prosecution on the
track of the owner of the glasses, now
re-enters the case in a less glorious
role. Ferguson is the corporation
doctor Off tn Leopold plant. He treats
all the accidents in Nathan Leopold's
sweat shop.
Leopold Doctor Talks.
Dr. Ferguson, when interviewed by
the DAILY WORKER, admitted he is
entirely satisfied with the Nathan
Leopold plant He gets all the acct
dent cases. and he admitted there are
fGfonln HoI
hurt" said DR.. Ferguson. Il told w.
Beckwith, the manage rof the plant,
it was not absolutely necessary, but
was most advisable, to send Donald
to the hospital. Beckwith Immediately
said, sure, send him to the hospital.
That shows how well Leopold treats
his help"
But after the DAILY WORKER -e-
porter had telephoned the Morris
Hehald, and they had refused to give
any information on the case, saying,
''he was only slightly hurt" another
reason for sending Donld to the hos
pital became apparent. The Morris
hospital is over a mile out of town.
Better for the good name" of Nathan
Leopold to have the cripple secluded
from the eyes of the other workers.
than to have him hobbling around the
Morris streets, a walking advertise
ment to the other workers of the
horrors inflicted by the Leopold fac.
tory.
While Nathan Is Smiling.
At the very moment when Nathan
Leopold, Jr., sat smiling in the court
room, amused by the $3.50 day
alienists testimony as to Nathan's
childish phantasies. Donald Steele
was writhing in pain at the injuries
inflicted by Nathan Leopold, Seniors,
machines. While the Chicago kept
press is heaping sympathy upon the
elder Leopold for the "sins inflicted
by his child" other children-but poor
peoples children-are giving up their
best energies, their toil-racked bodies.
their dull souls, to pay for these aliea-
lists. Nathan Leopold is willing 10
pay $3.50 day for an alienist to save
his perverted son from the gallows.
but he begrudges even SIS a week to
children whom he has been willing to
take out of high school in order to
roll up his i'll spent wealth.
Cheating the Cripples ......- ...
Leopold takes good care Of his In
jured help" esked one of Donald
Steele's companions when told that
DR.. Ferguson had said they were we'll
taken care of. Like hell he does.
They get yanked down to Ferguson.
treated and sent home or to the hos-
pital. The Leopold factory is sup
posed to pay half the wages, which ia
Just $3.50 week. But very often the
men don't get even that, and they
hav emo way to get justice"