The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06
The Rich Want to Put
Up mo Play" Signs in
New York's Central Park
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY brings another striking contrast In the lives of the
rich and the in the nations metropolis New York
City.
The rich fighting against the setting aside Of 10
in exclusive Central Park for ohdrens playground
secrated by the hordes Of children who would drift
from the East Sde But at the time truant officer
raids singleroom houseboat on the Hudson River mud
flats, within sight of which five Children the oldest ten,
have spent all their Ves the mudas their only playground
On West 54th Street, on the fringe of Central Park,
stand stately and attractive structures. These the
town houses" Of John D. Rockefeller, sry and John D.
Rockefeller J The syndicate sending the pictures says
these the richest father and EARTH" atho
Ford and Son" also lay claim to this dubious title
The town house, Of John D. Jr. rises eight stories in
the air. like veritabIe syscraper We are not told how
many contains but building of that size the
East Side would house hundreds. On West 54th Street
is the home of only family that of John D. Jr and then
only when the oil magnates happens to be 'n town.
John D. ST. is never In town. He has spent the winter
in Florida playing golf He has estates in Florida When
he north he goes to his estate at Taytcwn the
Hudson He has other estates and residences the New
York residence standing beside that of his son. empty
except perhaps for the caretaker foursoy home boarded
up unoccupied while over on the Hudson River mudfas
those five children of "Bi Warn, worker forced
live in primitive squaor in house boat sleeping
beds made of drtwood and with rags The 100
per American tuant officer says these children,
They can't understand English integenty. They have
intellect They undernourshed. They are-in other
wordssavages They couldn't be duplicated in the unges
for there even the savaes have more than few hundred
capitalist Jungle where the savage profit beast everywhere
seeks its working class prey.
brothers of EAST Sde have been to
school, it is planned them institution"
probably of the many supported by Rockefeller charity
That Rockefes way of keeping down discontent the
Rockefeller way of handling extreme cases."
The demand for the 16acre recreation in arsto
cratic Central Park arises directly out of the cry of the
children of the East Sde for chance to play The arsto
cracy replies that the children of the East Side"
play let them have neghborhood Fairgrounds their
homes But the East Side" only few steps away Third
Avenue and Second Avenue with their tremendous conges
ton of human fe press very close onto Fifth Avenue that
skirts the park
In time the desire to play will grow greater desire.
Instead of 10 the workers will demand the whole
park the whole cty-the nation They the workers, will
up of the East Side" and the West Side" down
from the topoos of the rerap tenemens and off the
mudats and take what they need throwing off the repres
sion that has kept them down; fighting back and rising
victorious against the oppression that has held them in its
grip.
When that hour strikes the empty town houses of the
great rich around Central Park, everywhere eIse will be
occupied by the rising poor until they build better
homes for themselves.
They will be opposed by BOOKSELLERS government, to
be Capitalist rule will oppose working class rule with
all its strength. But there strength like that
by aroused and rising oppressed class The workers. in
the hour of their realization of their destiny will be
triumphant They will win their victory and build their
Communist society," where fathers and mothers will live
enjoy fewhere children play Tell that to the Rookie
feers and they will rantcay denounce "Boshevism"
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