The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-26
LIBERALS MAKE
TIMID GESTURE
AT CHILD LABOR
Ask That Parsons Pray
to Make Slavers Kind

tile factories and coal mines, they
will then be ready to listen to non.
worker children in white recite
Protect me, for the Master said
Let little children come to Me, AnC
yet, whate'er We do to them, Ye dc
it also unto Me- "-Ertract from
the Program.) Well, if Jesus ever
really lived, (which is probably
bunk the legend about him is that
he was carpenter, and there isn't
any law against exploiting car
penters, either.
The AIilitarist Twist.
If the child SLAYER doesn't fall
asleep, he will hear two pages of
prosy verse sung to him. One of
the songs goes to the tune of 1.-THE
Son of God Goes Forth to War"
and that ought to suggest COM
promise to the child SLAYER, doing
in his pew. Why not put 'em in the
marines? The witchcraft trials in
York show that boy of ID can en-
list in the army, if he is strong
enough to carry a nine-pound rifle.
Get the PADRES Number.
In between the marching songs of
this crusade, the preacher will utter
a prayer. Now the National Child
Labor Committee knows its preach
ers. Who can tell what man, who
draws his wages from those who
can afford donations to religion,
might not say in prayer like that :?
He probably takes his theology from
the hand that signs his pay check.
He might repeat that text from the
Bible which runs, Servants be obedi-
ent unto them that are your mas
ters" (no age limit-the saint hadn't
heard of a factory.
Preserved Prayers.
Nope, this is a crusade, even if
the cross bearers feel somewhat out
of place. We have to put up bluff
of fighting child slavery, or the Reds
we'll, you know.
So they write out in full, periods
and commas and capital letters, the
exact prayer the preacher shall pray,
bent on his padded knees on the
swept spot on the floor beside the
pulpit. 1t starts out 80, Thou great
Father of the weak" so as not to
scare the SLAYER nodding down be-
low, and it says, LET not their lit
tie bodies be utterly Slapped, and
their minds given over to stupidity
and the vices of an empty SOUL
tFrom the Program.) That ought
to go well--a forward thinking
SLAYER might some day need some
adults, growing up out of this swarm
of profit builders, and if they are
drunk all the time, or too damn
dumb, or too thoroly sapped, they
won't be useful.
A Paper Crusade.
So that's the crusade. The nice
lady in the lovely offices of the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee, up
on Fourth Ave, didn't know how
many churches would actually con-
duct National Child Labor Sunday.
She didn't even know whether any
of them would. She thought DR..
Holmes would. It's a sinful world,
a skeptical, cynical world, and a
world fed on printed paper. Per-
haps it is just as well if the crusade
be confined entirely to paper. Then
the SLAYER can be handed the pro-
gram, printed prayer and all, as he
sits in his pew, and he can have
the fling clerk file it away next to
the Taylor system index for Johnny,
aged 16, laboring out in the works.
That's good safe, healthy, and
truly liberal sort of crusade. Lib
erals are naturally tired people, and
this is the easiest way out.
What do you expect?
Knows About Gold.
Here is Samuel McCune Lindsay,
chairman Of the N. c. L. C. He is
a Columbia University professor
Morgan's university. He is cap
;talist economist. He has been a
special agent Of several senate COM
nittees. He writes for the encyclo-
pedias. His first work of import
ance was on the price movements of
the precious metals, written in Ger
man for Jena University, under the
kaiser. Yes, he is one of the Gap
80 -
The Charity Doler.
Here is, also, one Of four vice.
chairmen, Homer Folks. He is now
in the social worker game, secretary
of the State Charities Aid Associa-
tion of New York, one time a New
York alderman, one time commits
sioner of public charities, with power
to hire and fire lot of people who
need political jobs. He was a val
ued assistant of the military govern
mert of Cuba. And in every war he
seems to have been part of the Red
CROSS, army behind the armies of
Imperialism. Did he put that in
shout "The Son of God Goes Forth
to War;"
The Mellon Man.
Here is another vice-chairman,
William Draper Lewis. He was
dein Of the law department of the
University Of Pennsylvania, Mel
Ions university, in Melons coal anS
iron state. where they work 'em
young and work EN- long in coal
breakers. where they keep the coun-