The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
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The Holly and MistIetoe
By Michael Gold

The Holly and MistletOe
CAPITALISM making hypocrisy Christ
y mas is near
We have no sour complaints against the mise
the kindness that often prevail at this
goodness human nature
Capitalism which has been forced
system healthy wheat in
cannot have feet to walk with as nature intended
you Chinese arocras Proteerng hypoc
ry and
INSCRIPTIONS robbers liars and
murderers
day. when the dictatorship of the petariat has done its
necessary work. abolished there
world discover that human nature is fundamentally good
today the solidarity of
like Ien is dmy at
forget the and degra
Christmas the capitalists exploit
human feeling for their profit they do everything else in life
A Class Weapon
THE Red presumably humanity
battlefield the wounded and suffering regardless of party
% I c hog aIras refused tn ten STARVING miners If tbev
MEMBERS and Disseminated
and tornado catasrophe 1t is definitely class
weapon worker should assist it in
founded with Understanding words
the roads of America today testify to
the cheap raeg this outfit They collect great deal of money
They it to suarcoat the religious pill with
which they put the workers fighting spirit to sleep But isn't even
sweet pill They have never been known give anything away They
clothes and furniture they panhandle they charge for
bed meal they v what more they work the unemployed the
The salvation Army has been exposed often any thorough
erected for the Cristy officers Of this
ought find out where the profits OF their
ander Booths income tax and find out how
the finest bridal suites and capitalist luxury
TIE Real Christmas
AND Christmas:
mental Charles Dickens kind but truthful picture OF the great lie
nothing but odd selling campaign for department stores The
holy and the metoe marked with dollar signs wholesalers who
stocked with rubbshy goods try unload them now at fancy
Christmas means long overtime hours for hundreds Of thousands
clerks saegk The bosses inspire the Christmas
eay in others sell goods but feel little of themselves
Commitment of Charity
sTnIs supposed to be of charity and goodwill 1t
Ike ca religion six days week the robbers grind the
seventh church feel vrtuous careful
.d-7i8oa Of life into compartments.
Al they make they swatsaops and break s they
lynch h peer loot banks and foreclose farms and
hom They have their flownan of the working class
plunge the depths of poverty
at Cama they sm each ether little
Christmas carols and drink and pretend to remember the
brotherhood
plciston How anyone believe in such hypocryP
A Toys Charity Gesture
L.
presidents for wndlng has criticized those who attempt
stop
1t is SNUG but subtle kind of Tory Many exsociasts are found
its nstaton The rank and brutal Tory has harder time function
proved
expIoie bitter masses skrful
this kind OF protective cooraton
There million people New York without work food
children been dying that capitalist politely
anuon The total Of suffering the
the slow deaths, the insanity, the heartbreak.
Times this
tip to the for their patience
parade in
daily
a SIS bills.
Listen to this SNUG lead of the daily stories
The cold bringing suffering the
fortunate that the Christmas
yesterday"
Then follow little tragedies Case 10 talented
out home; Case 100 widow hungry children
with chronic illness but worked laundry dropped
hauion old longhorean
of the neishborhoo helping
A dying
blades the streets
Case ii is that of Ishwoman who
but broke her starving; and
old
messenger and so
At Christmas the bghearted New
There 100000
hypotes pretend
TTney
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