The daily worker., 1924-11-20
Capitalism Is Too Strong
for Lone Worker to Fight;
Get Strength Thru Unity
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY, two boys and two girls, not yet Of age
trial for murder the Criminal Courts Building in the
youths Loeb and Leopold.
Assistant States Attorney Michael Romano asks for
Lucille Marshall both s Years od ng the gows With
"Peggy's" brother Red" vaIanis, and William Lydon.
'We wanted money for clothes and fun"
That is the defense They say they didn't to kill.
They Just wanted some Of the money that belonged to
Mrs. Bessie Gaenssen, boarding house Keeper who had
more Of it than they. In getting It they killed her
The capitalist law, thru the prosecutor will weep
the dead Mrs Caenssen in order to conviction.
But it will not be thinking Of her, Life is cheap under
capitalism. 1t can easily be replaced aas
But these children tried get property that cap
tasm said didn't belong to them That is their greatest
Offense. Capitalist justice protect the thing
will go hard with Peggy" Lucille, Red and BILL
What change in the surroundings since the Loeb
Leopold trial. No millionaire fathers with their purse
strings united and of gold flowing for expenses.
The father of the Vaan boy and girl is helpless inmate
of the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee. ss.e ,,e
The Hearst press that sobbered over the rich youths
Loeb and Leopold always fashonaby dressed eers the
clothes by these children of the working class Here
is just paragraph
"Urk predecessors Loeb.
chairs only short time the youthful furnish
fashion Red and sp the loud suits
blue respectively with wide white stripes cuffs and girls
staggered into the courtroom their cheap little black eoat trimmed
with imitation fur"
Then the judge orders the trial rushed. He rules
all further references the poverty of the defendants
compared with the riches of others recently tried here
that the lawyers making in examining prospective
jurors There rush at the Loeb-Leopod trial. They
given all the time required Their trial dragged in
terminaby.
But in this matter of clothes. It was only yesterday
that 1000 delegates to the Mexican Federation of Labor
convention at Juaez crossed The international Bridge"
attend the meeting of the American Federation Of Labor in
El Paso Texas They in their work clothes; their
oyeras cotton sandals the cheap clothes of the
undepad worker and peasant w. S. immigration officials
Mortified They tried to prevent them from coming
into this country Surely these couldn't be the delegates of
labor organizations in convention assembled But they
And they crossed the Rio Grande River and to
the Convention Hall where the grand dukes" of U. S.
organized labor paunched and bejeweed, assembled
They made startling comparison. The labor ackeys of
American capitalism, Fascist in the making; while the
Mexcans, revoutonists who had swept Daz and his
into the discard and still fighting for "A PoWer
into the hands OF the workers and peasants of Mexico
These four children of the working class, on trial for
murder in Chicago court room, took the wrong way
get of the good things of M To be they needed
money for clothes They young and they need "te
fun" and that costs money too. But capitalism
strong for the Individual worker who tansgesses laws
Only thru the organized strength of all workers capital
ism be conquered
The Communist movement needs all young workers
who aspire something better It will teach them that
the effort of the Individual lift himself under the
must be educated and organized in the fight for the better
day, to abolish the capitalism that holds in chains, and
win liberation under the oncoming Communist Then
there will be fewer boys and girls of the working class
facing he rope in capitalist courts; but the foundations
will crumble quicker under the decaying capitalist social