The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-03
Workers can Expect No
Help from Charity of
Capitalists Red Cross
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Victor l. Berger the Milwaukee socialist" con-
gresham, is back in Washington D. c. waiting for the
while his daily newspaper back home, The Leader, carries
the stuff that will help keep him snug and comfortable in his
seat meath the captols dome.
Right every capitalist daily in the land is gushing
in praise Of the Red Cross The profit trying
everyone to buy Christmas SEALS little stamps the size
of those issued by the postal department. is said
proceeds aid in the fight on tuberculosis.
Like the good and faithful ally of capitalism is
Berges Milwaukee Leader falls gracefully into line with an
editorial starting off with this paragraph:
duty pleasure request buy
Christmas seals"
That is reminder of the war days when everyone
not only urged but bacacked into subscrbngfor the Red
Cross we'll buying liberty bonds and saving stamps
not to mention aid to the Salvation Army similar pap
sucking organizations Only the staunches reVoutionsts
loyal to their principles fought off the paytrot horde
Carl HaessIer obector. In the early days of
the war he was member of the Leaders editorial staff He
wrote scathng attack against the Red Cross and acv
es Berger the socialist could deny truth Of
the charges made against this capitalist philanthropy
deemed bad policy to publish it. Not bad policy from the
light OF socialist principles But i'll advised when studied
from the viewpoint of Bergers political ambitions.
Instead Berger became supporter of the Red
Cross And he still is His editorial writer dates great
length about the supposed accrue from the sale Of
the christmas seals:
"They travelling clinic training
school, health institutes in teaching
how to avoid tuberculosis and how it When
The indifference Of the American capitalist state to the
neaIth and welfare OF the living rule is
shown by the fact that this public charity the Red
Cross must beg funds carry its arca fight against
this terrible plague 1t cannot be expected this charity
can rise above the profit level of the social system that
feeds it. No effort is made to the of tuber-
culoss In TACT the big factory owners children
at tender ages, to the Unsuitable appetite industry are
among the biggest contributors Red Cross These
children tubercula ncuabe wrecks hopeless even
for charity takers to claw IL sise
The Red Cross did not worry the Illinois miners
until the Cherry Mine disaster in which many hundreds were
Killed under conditions revolving great sums were
raised IN an effort to gag the cries orphans and widows
LETT behind The Red Cross merely concerned itself with the
distribution OF the charity fund under conditions that caused
uhold protest The mine baons of the anthracite coal fields
today will buy the Christmas of the Red Cross be-
cause the Red Cross will champion miners struggle
tor shorter Workday increased wages and better cond-
tons the best weapon in the fight against and
al other industrial diseases that clip the thread of life of
tnese workers at an early age No mention has ever been
mace OF the Red Cross fighting tuberculosis by chaponinc
the struggle against wage New England TEXTILE
INDUSTRY where the white plague also finds its ready victims
mention conditions in the and in the textile mills is
10 expose the relation of the Red to the workers in all
industries 1t is the side of bosses against the inter
ests of the working class '''''-
Let the workers, instead of purchasing the chrs+mas
seas OF the Red Cross spend their pennies or greater
TOT the strengthening OF their class organizations e+
ne socialists with the class collaborating labor ofcaldon,
DOW surprisingly before this fraud of the bouroeos a.
the working class stand erect and fight H. ~