The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-16
Every Cent Given
Away Must Return
Increased in Size
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


TODAY the Rockefeller Foundation is planning to send
check for $5oooooo to Japan the money presumably to
be spent on 'heaIth institution"
That is good business for John D. Rockefeller and his
Standard Oil trust
John D." spends some of his surplus millions on
Health" in Japan, China and other oriental countries.
Carnegie spent his libraries.
RosenWaId offers donations for Y M c. A. buildings
Morgan specaIzes in Institutes
Kahn and Mccormick go in for the opera.
Ward and Weeghman offered baseball teams.
All their offerings and merely the missionaries
OF their separate business ambitions
If John D. Rockefeller senior junior were at all con-
cerned about the health conditions among the Masses
they could best start work among those who toll
the Standard Oil wells or refineries at home
Out in Elk Basin, Wyoming, men labor necessarily un-
days per week John D. Jr sheds tears about revotng
horrors in Pennsyvanias coal mnes the Southern
ton mills, and weeps benghted Orenas, but for his
own slaves he hasn't single tear.
No effort has been better the life of the
ses in the Standard Oil efneres Bayonne j. for in
stance When the workers have sought to do this Them
selves thru demands reinforced by Strikes their efforts
have been crushed with the full bruazng force of capital
ist Flaw and ORDER"
The Rockefeller Foundation, with its hundreds of mill
lions in has entirely different and sinister pur
pose from that always advertised by the kept press.
Standard Oil believes in expansion. goes into every
land China and Japan with other oriental lands offer rich
fields OF exploitation But oentas preudced against
the occiden That prejudice must be beaten down. Hence
the riches wung from the oil slaves of Bayonne j. and
wyoming everywhere Standard
Oil has secured its position used in part gifts other
peoples, not yet under John DIS" grip in order
their fears.
Julius RosenwaId, head of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
reaches the same goal thru donations prospective build
ings of the Young Mems Christian Association especially
in small localities 1t good advertising He surrounds the
SearsRoebuck with the popular glory that
Panes phlanthrophy and small town and rural prejudice
against this monster mail order machine vanishes Rosen-
valid specazes in Negro Y. M. c. A. buildings The TO-
100000 Negroes of the nation make good prospective
toners.
Andrew Carnegie, with all his millions spent on H.
brares was never able to wipe out the blood that smeard
his name as result of the Homestead of work
and other barbarc attempts to keep steel labor in
100 percent state of serfdom.
What John D. attempts on an international scale Ward
the Bread Trust king, seeks to accomplish nationally
New cities invaded by the bread trust the
ing of the outsider. Local business must be protected
Business, however, recognizes obstacles Numer-
Gus have been the methods used by the bread trust
come this local prejudice.
Ward finally hit upon the idea of using the baseball
approach to the public The Federal League organized
n competition with the National and American Leagues.
Ward had his own Brooklyn team. Charles Weeghman,
who had plans, and still has, of covering the with
chain of one-am lunch rooms, took the Chicago
that OF Babe Ruth, in baseball at the same time
the Ward open shop policy pressed vicious
IN all cities where Ward bread factories already existed
The big bankers do not very this sort of
subteruge. Morgan donates gallery the city of
New York. to divert popular attention from his latest war
making maneuyer Otto Kahn, Wall Street banker keeps
" tne PupHc eye as supporter OF metropolitan Grand
opera at the same time issuing literature attacking labor
at every opportunity
The Orientas, especially the Japs and the Chinese will
do we'll to ponder these facts when ohn d.
ing his gifts When the oil business firmly established in
the Orient John D.. will take every back again.
only in extortonae prices, but in imposing the pos
sbe conditions upon the workers in the Far Eastern
tries, he does the United States. "John d. or
any other big capitalist for that matter gave cent
away without expecting it to back home very
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