The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

normalcy in those children who
army Of over two million chill
dren under 15 years OF age are
forced to work In the industries
to help support their families.
Doesn't Better chiIdren's Lot.
Coolidge, who has sponsored anti
Communist education week" recent
" accepted the honorary presidency
Of farm boys and girls club num-
bering over 100000 members. Yet
Coolidge did not raise his voice to bet
ter the lot of the 600, 900 child laborers
who were taken out of school to work
long hours on the farms.
The official report Of Coolidge's U.
s. department Of labor shows that
1000 1858 children from ten to fifteen
years Of age were engaged working in
American industries in 1920. In ad-
diticn, several hundred thousand chill
dren under ten years Of age are known
to labor in the United States.
Since 1920, the army Of child La
borers has steadily increased. One
child In twelve, under the Coolidge
administration, is forced to leave
school and enter industry as work.
er. In the oyster beds Of Mississippi,
on the truck farms of Maryland. on
the best fields from Michigan to Colo
rado. in the tenement sweat shops of
New Jersey and New York and in the
ccai mines of Pennsylvania the manu-
faGturers are hiring children by the
hundreds Of thousands. uliteratB chill
drun, taken from school at an early
aga die young or deformsd hsnause
the master class wants thair cheaper
labor power.
Figures Of the q. s. department of
labor show that child labor increased
4S per cent from 1920 to 1922. In the
first six months Of 1898, under the
rule Of the Opensh0ppers, child labor
further increased "a per cent over
1929. These children, the report re-
veals, work for four, ffvs and ten
cents an hour because thaiP parents
income is not sufficient, under the
capitalist system. to keep fhs family
alive.
Many Children suh-nDrmah
Children everywhere have been
found to be subnnrmal, even when
their parents have been ahle to earn
enough money under the profit system
to send them to school, Examinations
made by school medical inspectors of
New York state two months ago show.
ed that AZ per cent of the children liv-
ing in cities, 48,9 per cent Of those liV-
ing in villages and ETA per cent of
those living in the country are physi-
cally normal ALI the rest are defec-
tive.
Ebert H. Gary, one of Coolfdge's
most ardent supporters. PIRATES about
Coolidge's concern for the people. Yet
in Gary's own town in the shadows
of the steel mills at Gary. Indiana, in
vestigation conducted by Coolidge par
tisans In the q. 8. department Of la
Dor, found over IS per cent of the chill
dren under nosrished. Less than one
half OF one per cent of the Gary chill
dren OF preschool age get the right
amount Of food, an examination Of
6015 children Of mill workers there
disclosed.
Yet all Coolidge can find to do dur
ing education week is to denounce the
Communists who are trying to estab-
Iish q system OF working class rule
that win abolish the frightful condi-
ton of the youth of the country.
In prociaimtng education week, "
Coolidge declared, Every American
citizen Is entitled to a liberal ednca-
ton" But the United States govern
mont Is permitting millions of children