The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-25
Trees, Not Children,
First Care of New York,
Worlds Richest City
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY money tender can do to save the
trees in Central Park New York City, from aings affct
ing them is being done. The DaVey Tree Expert Company
has been brought in especially to Save Them from DEATH
1t is declared they are mortalIy sick.
The park Fortunate The children of the otYs
congesed working class districts Fortunate The
New York City government thru many Investigations knows
what troubles the chdren manutron thru improper food
diseases born of overcrowded housing conditions resulting
lack of fresh air. absence of sunlight and other evils be
found stalking thru every American municipality. But
nothing is done
The get all the attention The other day. as
carefully reported with pictures in the metropolitan press
seven khakdressed climbed into the dead tops Of
gigantic es shading the 72nd street the Mall
and their feess and infected limbs from Them Today
systematic feeding of these and many other trees in the
But what of the children Of the working No
tender shown Them Their eyes and teeth may be bad
with many easily durable malades. But they get aen
ton their parents unable to pay the crushing doctor
children carefully does after the in the parks
denounced as "Boshevism."
is now declared that there is almost no healthy tree
in the park They all aiIng But they all be made
healthy.
They affected by the noxous gases that pour
from the automobile traffic that continues increasingly thru
The have just received much artificial aten-
ton They have been too we'll taken of. They have
them The soil has been packed down that water
air could penetrate it. The trees have been deprived of the
decomposg vegetation that develops naturally in the open
forest This condition be remeded by the turning
of the soil and the of fertilizers An effort to be made
care of these trees.
Similarly workers forced live artificial lives in
the great cities Human rebels being forced
labor 10 and IL hours daily less under unnatural
conditons the remaining hours be spent in equally
artificial The pavements of the streets
intended Fairgrounds for children. Yet children
forced to accept them because real Fairgrounds
and parks almost unknown Homes not built in great
Cities for the of healthy families but rather
of collecting high rents from workers forced to live in Them
New York has officially reported that its housing conditions
for workers are steadily getting worse, not better
New York City, in the days to come will proudly pro-
claim that has saved the trees in its PARKS that the
natural conditions that killing the trees have been
come by artificial means.
But the murder of the children, we'll of the grown
ups of the working class, will continue BEFORE The profit
system demands it. An intensely exploited working class
with low standard of living results in high dividends for
invested capital That interfered with So say
the capitalists.
But the time will come when the workers will demand
the consideration shown the trees in the parks They
will insist that they also enjoy possible opportunity
combat the artifcay of the present machine age They
will never win that chance under capitalism. They will learn
that this victory only be achieved thru the ending cap
alsm and the building of the social order-Commun-
sthat abohes profits and holds first the interests of
all toiling humanity