The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
WAR VETS
Want Soviet
System Here
(By a Worker Correspondent

| NEW YORK, N. Y, Metropolitan
Hospital, Welfare Island.--I have
/ served IL years in the United States
military service and was gassed at
tArgonne, October l, 1918, and as a
result of this misfortune l have de-
veloped epilepsy, which is per-
manent disorder which afflicts the
! mental facilities of the one afflicted.
have been admitted to the Met
ropolitan Hospital, situated at We'll
fare Island, for observation before
being sent to a sanatorium known
as Craig Colony, in which I believe
will spend the remainder of my
life. This is perfect compensation,
according to the methods of the CAPT
talist system, and is what every
worker may expect in return for
conserving and striving to continue
this system which has decayed to
such an extent that it cannot func
ton any longer. I will specify a
few of its methods.
Mr.. Connolly, who stole S30,000,-
900 of the taxpayers money, is So
journing over here in what is known
as the penitentiary and is given
every consideration necessary to his
comfort and welfare, while |, as a
veteran OF IL years of service, am
compelled to sleep on spring in
q drafty hallway and consume food
unfit for human consumption and
submit to abuse at the hands Of
illiterate executives, whose ability
at taking the necessary care Of the
sick is confined to what benefits
can be derived from their employ
ment for their personal benefit.
DISABLED WAR VETERAN.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Metropolitan
Hospital, Welfare Island.-I am
taking the privilege of dropping you
this letter, and sincerely hope you
will publish it, so as to show and
convince the citizens of New York
City of the methods used by the
democratic party of robbing them
and expose the capitalist system of
distribution of taxes collected, SO as
to convince them of the necessity of
change in their administration.
There has been an increase in sal
airy allotted to firemen and police
of the city Of New York of $500 a
year, and an attempt by Mr.. James
Walker, mayor of New York, and
other members of the executive
force of this administration to in
crease their salaries from $4,000 a
year up.
Their ability as parasitical thieves
is unquestionable, but their educa-
ton is not beyond question and their
ability for the position they hold is
dubious.
l am a patient in Metropolitan
Hospital, situated at Welfare Island,
and have been an inmate of this in
stitution for the past several
months, and find that physicians at
tached to this hospital are compelled
by rules and regulations to have a
college education and a diploma to
prove they have essential qualifica-
lions to perform the tasks they are
assigned to. These physicians are
subject to call in emergency cases
"a hours day and 365 days year,
and receive absolutely no compen-
sation, although they have the same
necessities to satisfy as the para
site and his hirelings that force sub
mission by these physicians.
The nurses attached to this insti-
tuition are all high school young
women with unquestionable charac-
tiers and excellent dispositions, 9TH
erwise they could not endure the
existing conditions which are so re-
pulsive that the average human in
dividual could not submit to them;
their food is scanty and of poor
quality and their pleasures curtailed
in accordance with rules and regu-
lations.
Although their necessities of life
are the same as our Mayor, Mr..
James Walker, who needs $4,000
year or more to survive, these young
ladies are granted the abundant sum
of S25 a month to maintain them
selves. / believe that this is one
reason to prove it is time to change
this system and try some other. 1
suggest that the Soviet system, or
that which is known as Red" be
tried and result tested. MAC.