The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-28
By d. SAssLAWsKI.


BY ID. SASSLAWSKI.
THE entire bourgeois press of
America raised hue and cry
when Lindberghs baby was kid
mapped. 1t cried out twice as loud
when the boy was found. Capt.
talisit America went into mourning.
Hundreds Of American children,
workers children, are today dying
Of starvation. Not a line about this
is to be found in the columns of
the capitalist press. But the death
of young Charles Lindbergh
shocked the entire country.
Was Police Event.
The kidnapping of the child of
the famous flyer, Lindbergh, over
stepped the bounds of an ordinary
crime. 1t became political event
of gigantic Importance. 1t will go
down in world history as proof
Of the disintegration and rotten
ness of capitalist society. In this
respect, it is no less significant than
the unhealthy indices of the de-
cline and stagnatioin of the most
important branches of industry; no
less significant that the bankrupt
cies that astound the world, and
the collapse of world trusts; no less
significant that the suicide of Kreu-
ger, Eastman and other Kings"
whose thrones are toppling.
Lindbergh's child was kidnapped
on March 1. In the note which the
kidnappers left behind, they spoke
of ransom. The following day, 5000
secret service agents and police
stood at all the crossroads of
America the country over, wherever
an auto might arrive by travelling
at even the highest speed; all autos
were checked up, not single car
carrying child could pass. There
were modified at once all the
means at the disposal of the secret
police-telephone and radio, the
press, and thousands of volunteers.
Lindbergh happens to be among the
national heroes and a darling of
bourgeois America. He is one of it's
most popular persons. The kidnap-
ping of his son, a 19-months-o
baby, was the signal for the stirring
of whole nation. The speedy APP
prehension of the kidnappers be-
came point of honor with the
American police. But the kidnap-
pers had vanished as though the
earth had swallowed them. Had it
been only the earth that swallowed
them, they would certainly have
been found, but they went to a
place where the policie dare not go.
Causes Panic.
The first effect of the Kidnap-
ping Of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., was
terrible panic in the upper cir
cles of the American bourgeoisie,
from here the panic spread to the
entire bourgeoisie. The newspapers
stated that in the past two years,
more than two thousand kidnap-
pings had taken place, with ran
som as their motive. In the over
whelming majority of cases, the
parents ransomed their children
and paid enormous sums to the
hdnappers. Many millions were
spent in this maner-no exact
check is possible in this branch of
American industry, since neither
the parents nor the kidnappers are
inclined to report on income and
expenditure in this line.
The recognized head of the Chi
cago gangster, Al. Capone, was at
the time o fthe kidnapping in Jail,
not because of his gangsterism,
but because he concealed the
amount of his income. Here is re-
vealed the morality of capitalist
society: you may be a gangster, as
long as you do not overstep your
bounds; but the gains of your gang
sterisn you must divide honorably
with the treasury of the capitalist
state.
Evolution of Gangsterism.
This morality was also expressed
in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh
child. Gangsterism stood revealed
as a two-edged sword. Nourished