The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-04
Child LABOR
AMENDMENT Loss
PLEASES BUTLER
Bosses Can Continue to
Exploit Kids

NEW YORK, Feb. Mich
oIas Murray the Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia. University,
has issued a statement hailing
the defeat of the child labor
amendment as victory for the
people and Vindication of the
nations capacity for citizenship.
The Butler runs a university
solely for the purpose of turning
out bourgeois mediOcrities as a
machine turns out sausages.
These mediocrities are to work for
capitalistic concerns and capitalism
and any instructor or professor in the
Buffers show is asked to resign If he
dares do any original thinking or be-
comes radical"
President Butler isn't satisfied with
his presidency of college. He wants
to be president of the U. s. and thinks
he will make a supervision. He
throws out this bait to capitalism to
show he's a safe man to be nominal
ed
Butler says in his statement:
"The prompt and overwhelming de-
feat of the proposal to ratify the So
called child-labor amendment to the
constitution OF the United States is
a new and heartening declaration of
independence by the American people.
It serves notice on the congress at
Washington that we shall be much
obliged If that body will attend with
more intelligence and more compe-
tence to the business that we have
confded to it and leave us alone to
manage our own private, local and
state affairs"
What HypoerIey.
Fineness, decency and gentle in
stincts are so foreign to this snob
professor that in his rage at even
an attempt to prevent the exploitation
Of children by the capitalists he
sneers at all those who are discour-
aged, disheartened and revolted by
the cruel atrocious indifference to the
exploitation of children, by referring
to them as follows:
Every parent, and every lover Of
childhood who is not parent, should
rejoice at the defeat Of this amend
ment. 1t aimed at childhood the heav-
lest blow ever contemplated any
where by anybody"
Butler says in another place:
Had the amendment been adopted
more than 100000 Of young Ameri-
cans would have been legally handed
over the the tender mercies Of the
American congress-"
This man would rather have the
children in the hands of exploiting
capitalists, who can, as Butler does in
his university, keep the children more
completely under their control, than
If the people had a say about them.
Butler trembles lest the people them
selves have something to say about
the education of their children. They
are safe in capitalistic universities,
sweat shops and factories and he and
the opponents of child labor want
them in such safe" places.
Their Joy Short Lived.
President Butler and his ilk, CAPT
talism and all its soul-rotten worship
pers are rejoicing in glee today at
the defeat OF the child labor amend
ment. They can look with great Joy
now on the continued exploitation of
a million and half children working
for the capitalist exploiters, grinding
out for these ghouls, profits, profits
more profits. Nicholas Murray, the
Butler and all the rest will wear
their brutal smiles while children in
South Carolina work IL hours day,
the children to replace them getting
out of their beds to take their places
when the others are given permits
sion to stop work and go to bed
Thus the beds are never cold. And