The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-28

A Cali to the Defence Of All Workers and Farmers'
Children!
To the Whole Working Class Of the United
Statesi
To All Workers Organizations!
To Ali Working Class Mothers and Fathers!
MILLIONS Of children of American toilerS are
wi today the victims Of the most unheard of
brutal child misery, want and labor. There are
millions Of workers homes in America where
there are children sick with some disease or
staying home for lack of clothing with which to
50 10 school, or vainly appealing to their mothers
for bread.
The White House conference on Nov. 80, 1880,
on Child and Health Protection" "tearfully"
admitted that even in normal times at least
six million out Of IS million children in the
United States are not properly nourished, and
that nearly four hundred thousand are tubercu-
lar On the basis Of school board reports, the
capitalist press is forced to admit that 609 of
the children are undernourished and starved.
Ninety-f1ve per cent OF the workers children in
the United States have defective teeth, while the
granaries are overstocked with food Doctors
and health authorities predict terrible rise of
tuberculosis and ricketts, because of the conditions
under which the children live.
Millions OF. workers who have produced all the
necessities of life are unemployed, underpaid,
and surely too poor to buy food for their children
The bosses dump thousands of tons of food and
fruit and gallons Of milk into oceans and rivers
In an effort to keep up prices and increase
profits while our children haven't even the
minimum ration Of food to eat Yet the capitalist
millionaire promoter, President Hoover, has re-
peatedly declared that 1t is not the business OF
the government TO help the starving children.
AT the same time the government saves more
money FOR the bankers by cutting the wages Of
the school teachers by overcrowding the schools
and by shutting them down altogether in many
places
We Must Demand Government Support for
All Child LaboFers
Twelve million walk the streets In search of
jobs while nearly five million Of our children toll
and sweat their lives away in farms, factories
and in the streets, The capitalist press fills
pages Of sob stuff about baby Lindberg but does
not say one word OF these five million little lives,
and millions of starving children who are being
sacrificed for the profits for the rich. The crime
of child labor and misery rests ON the heads Of
the rich class A. f. of L, and socialist takers,
who all attack" child labor as a menace" to
adult workers. but have nothing to propose to
relieve this situation. These Judases are full
filing their tasks Of reducing the standard OF
living Of the workers and their children to sheer
pauperisn1 and to stop the workers from strug-
Cling FOR government support for the child
toilers.
Down With Discrimination Against Negro
Children.
The Negro child. as well as the whole Negro
race, has been made the special object OF dis
elimination everywhere. In the giving out Of
relief In g school they are the last to get any
thing and usually get nothing at all. In the
South. where the capitalist uses child lsi,r
more than anywhere else, appropriations FOR the
education OF Negro children are refused The
Negro children have no schools at all, or are
provided with miserable traps and with the
most inadequate teaching staff In many cities
children OF the Negroes are forced into Jim Grow
schools.
Down With Discrimination Of Foreign Born
Workers
The persecution of militant foreign born