The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-26
John D. Jr. Presents to
the World the Model
Father" of Capitalism
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY John D. Rockefeller Jr who compe+es with EdseI
Ford heir to the greatest pile Of riches in the world
relieves himself of another paternastc to the effect
that John D. Rockefeller Sr, is "model father
i would certainly be gross ungratefuness on the part
OF John D. Jr who has performed real days work
in all his fe argue otherwise Life has been pretty soft
for John D. J outside Of the terrific exerton takes to
lecture bible class in Fifth Avenue baptist church, in
New York City, occasionally.
John Jr has kept up the christian end while John D.
"J" may be gody but "sr" the gOgetter and still Is
corruption of subserven government to maintain OPP
pressve rule the wage working in order that
John B. ST. may be AmodeI father" He is a "modsI
capitalist" he is successful capitalist" But there
in this country who rapidly learning that the model and
successful capitalist their enemy, that John D. sr
smallest ota the great burden of misery that brushes heavily
upon the children of the working class What labor look
ing for working class models of perfection and not
capitalist class models
John D. J says -" cannot remember hearing my father
say harsh word to any OF his children Why should he7
If to be spoken he could doubt hire and
But the harsh words of the Rockefeller fortune are
continually dnned into the ears of workers the world
oil reneres of Bayonne New Jersey the coal fields Of SOUTH
Colorado, the oil fields of dozen countries upon the
oil ships that sail all the all belonging to the Rookie
Teller Standard Oil trust there the Of the Rookie
Teller wealth heard in an unendng stream urging labor
at break neck speed to produce wealth. greater
fits, for the Rockefeller family.
John D. Jr. adds, y remember him ever critic
izing u.s.. But the working class has heard Whenever
sought better its conditions the job, In egs
ative halls there Rockefeller money has been hand to
WELD its ant-labor whip ae
John D. Sr. may not have criticized his children,
but his thugs and in the uniform OF the Colorado
militia, otherwise, murdered the and children,
not to mention the Of the Colorado coal fields.
If the lips of the oppressed of Rockefeller oil could
speak, their would frame tales of horror that
would ouatch those Of any oppressed class since history
began 1t is the model father that the workers inter-
ested in. Labor struggles for model social system that
sIoughs off class oppression forever and makes possible
for all to live happily.
Annually around his birthday anniversary John D. Sr
goes of Sunday, to the church at TarytoWn, NJ " and
delights the children of the neghborhood by dispensing
brand silver dimes among Them That is the price that
the of oil places upon the affection of the children
thin dimes worth.
But the children OF this generation in the puIsatng
working class sections of the nation and the world dis
covering different values. Not in the language of the High
land Park illinois, Press declaring that 'the red workers
have agents at work in various ways trying
teach the youngser that patriotism is something to be
ashamed Of that the American bondage
for the workers and that the only system of
that which now in vogue in Red Russia Capitalism itself,
with its oil and heir apparent; with its vver king and
his princes with its whole retnue of monarchs
and industrial kaises is arousing the children the
real of the social system under which they live These
children will grow consider only those fathers mode
capitalist social SYSTEM for the
Communist victory of the working class For such odsI
fathers John D. Jr like the ruling oppressors of all
tast nations, open prisons, gates swinging inward
call firing squads to do their murderous work. Yet these
the ode fathers of the future the future that