The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Capitalist Monster Dies
But Social System That
Spawned Him Still Lives
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY William Madison Wood mult-milionaire wooden
trust is dead among luxurious surroundings in
Florida The becomes the leading feature of the day
in the kept press while at the time another tem only
few lines long, is hidden away an obscure corner telling
another story as follows:
Kentucky Senate Rejects Child Labor Amendment
Frankfort KY, 1(AP)-Ths Kentucky today rejected
without dissenting the proposed child labor amendment the
constitution. N@8ef
Wood, the ensIaver of humanity who used all the power
of his amassed millions to beat down the workers. is dead;
but the Wood system lives The above item, giving the
action of the Kentucky senate in captass the chill
dren would prove fitting epaph on Woods tombstone He
would glory in it, even in his grave, if such things are
possible.
Wood part Of 1.-The New England system that in
cudes the skebreaker President Cal Coolidge in the poll
tcaI and William H. Butler another northumberland
mill owner of the powerful connecting links between
Coolidge and the capitalist world that picked him out of
bacwoods obscuy to be used and manipulated for its own
purposes
Wooen company which grew into the largest textile
manufacturing organization in the world boastng 1.-THE
Wood Worsed Mill in Lawrence Mass the largest plant of
its kind earth" named Wood himself also stands
of the most powerful ctades of capitalism in the
against American labor.
The WoodButer system of war against the unions
wage CUTS spying the workers. the speed-up efforts at
the bringing in of police the militia,
cepted system of the Coolidge administration.
Numerous revots have taken place against the Wood
system The desperate and restless New England textile
workers are continually striking at their chains One Of the
Lawrence strike of 1912 the frame-up system
brot into and workers sent to for long The
militia called prevent children being of
the strike to be cared for by friends The mill
knew that the sight of their starving children helping
to force the workers back to their jobs
So vicious the industrial warfare carried on by the
wooden trust against the workers that couldn't prevent
Wood from being indicted for conspiracy plant dyna
mite which had been found in the homes of several mill
"hands" in effort frame" them Wood was of course,
freed by the of his later confessed
to being guilty similar charge. But he
prison. AS Wood died in the midst of Fordas tropical spen
DOR Sacco and Vanzett victims of this Wood "open
shop system, still sit in prison in the shadow of the hungry
gaIows in Massachusetts,
Again in 1920 the tail end of the antitrust prosecu-
ton that have entirely disappeared under Coolidge,
hit Woods wooden with Indictment proteerng
in the sale of WOODEN CLOTH An obgng judge threw the
out of court.
may be said that hundreds of thousands of
in New England learned to hate Wood The passing Wood
must convince these workers that hatred against ndv
ua is useless unless is converted into hatred for
cia system that produced this ugly offspring hatred
must manifest itself in renewed efforts organize New Eng
lands workers. in the textile industry the shoe industry
all other open shop plants It manifest itself in an
effort to win the workers away from the political parties
their masters, thru the building of the labor party
spread Oft into the southern states where the New England
proteers now sending many of their mills adj
vantage of the exploitation of children there permitted Them
Wood, the capitalist monster dead but the capitalist
social order that spawned him is still here fought and
destroyed by awakened and conscious working class