The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

the hearth, the wife and the kid
dies. This noXiouS stuff springs from
every we'll Of modern communica-
ton at an oil-gusher rate. Press
radio, movies-all are one in sing
ing the praises of the police author
tiles (who still have no convincing
proof of the identity of the Lind
bergh baby's kidnappers) as the pro-
tectors of all that is holy in Amer
lean life.
These people said not a single
solitary word about the progressive
growth of pellagra and ricketts,
among the children of the Southern
textile workers. Not a peep out of
them at the fact that millions of
children had neither milk nor suffi-
Gent clothes. The Flaw enforce
ment" agencies moved not a muscle
to defend the rights Of the textile
workers, fighting for a little more
food for their children, but on the
contrary, did everything possible to
break the strike. And yet they speak
Of the need for bringing to justice
the kidnappers of one child! And
yet Attorney General Cummings can
say that
tine American people have
reason to feel that the prestige,
the power and the effectiveness Of
law enforcement agencies is on the
increase and that renewed faith
and confidence in these agencies
is justified"
The monumental hypocrisy of It'll
The ''law enforcement agencies"
have just gotten through breaking
the textile strike. Strikers blood
has hardly dried on the bayonets
of the guardsmen - and Mr.. Cum
mings wants the textile mill work
ers, Shaving for $11 week, to respect
the agencies that broke their strike
for better conditionsl
But Mr.. Cummings has a political
objective. He wants to strengthen
the Department of Justice, force
that will aid in the drive against the
Communists and all other sections
Of labor. Commenting On this mat
ter, Robert Allen and Drew Pearson,
in their syndicated column, wash
ington Merry Go Round" of Sept.
81, 1884, write:
Because of the success of the
Bureau of Investigation in captur-
ing Bruno Hauptmann and kid
nappers, it is almost inevitable
that the Justice Department will
ask for an increased crime -detec-
ticn appropriation from Congress
next session"
GLASS CONSCIOUS workers will
" patiently explain these funda-
mental factors involved in the Lind
bergh case. A discussion CT this par
ticular crime will uncover the great
est criminal of all--the capitalist
ruling class and its system.
Only revolutionary workers gov
eminent, the only government which
will provide economic security for
the masses, will do away with the
fundamental reasons for kidnap-
pings and most forms of crime. In
Soviet United States there will be
no Lindbergh kidnappings Workers
who have jobs, whose standard of
living is constantly on the rise,
whose children are fed, clothed and
educated well-such people do not
provide any social soil for the dis
eased plant of kidnapping to take
root. All of Edgar Hoover's horses
and all of Edgar Hoover's men will
not abolish kidnapping or crime,
Only socialist society can do that.
Some one Is skeptical? Look at
the Soviet Union, my friendl There
you will find the answer. There you
will find that since the capitalist
class was overthrown in 1917 there
has been a constant decrease in
property crime. There the working
class has taken the read to life.
When the American working class
will have taken that highway, then
and only then-will the Lind
bergh case" and all kidnappings be
solved in the only fundamental
way possibility the destruction of
the social basis for kidnapping and
crime.