PASSAIC'S WHITE HEARSES
Johnston, Mercer G.
Passac's White Hearses The City Where Child Death Rate Is Highest By Mercer G.Johnston The suiSets can- Passaic a "ball hole" The etrjr 4s h^yyatsti withuTftsr boidats.53 to<isy t res* the...
...some to Mobegan Colony...
...If the child death rata of Passaic were the same as that of the State (Instead of being 60 percent greater)' the' White Hearse would draw up to the doors of the poor in Pasaaie sixty odd times less frequently a year than is now the ess...
...Amalgamated Clothing" .Workers...
...For <«?aterson...
...Commerce whore the rauoaoup voice of Aldous, railing at Wm...
...If true, by the same token, it is a bloody crime on the part of the mill owners, to which Mayor McGulre...
...I sent for the report immediately...
...Beyond the question of a doubt— Oven of the most backward dollardullard, I should think—Passaic Is actually mingling the blood of babes and little children in its sacrificial wine to the bogus god of more money prosperity...
...because they ere wot— past the City Hall whore the prood Mayor attended by a posse of hie JanlzaHee fresh from manhandling blaek-marlahlng some mother and babe stands saluting, not the little storvllnge In the White Hearses, but a vlotorious etarver of the In. nooent victims Iff the person of " « ecrne.rq.gi owier oemurn to pey.hte ' greasy compliments to "His Honor...
...NO one with a live heart who saw the children of the textile strikers On their way to summer camps could deny the kiddies' plea tor broad and milk...
...They own It absolutely- - U Is "n sger-printed"— like their Lodl employees...
...We refer you to the 19 ts Report of the State Department otJXeaitfa ctfjfew ier, say...
...So the child death rate for the city of Passaic was...
...sjfrsjflhsn...
...six mUes upstream, has a child death rata cbmmendably lower than the...
...New Tork was only a blur of excited Impressions to the kids, moat ot whom hid mob the great city tor the flrpt time...
...N. J., aad others to Chatham Camp, Floral Hill, N. J. As they loft...
...Jett Lauok, distinguished ' humsne economist, for calling the Pasaaib child death rate "appallingly high," all but drowns the voice of Rachel—past the murderous mills, which Ood In his mercy has at last blotted forever from the vision ,of the company of llftle .. 'children Ho ventured to lot Pas-, sale way—than on to Trenton, peat the mansion in which bespattered Governor Moore (in dull Imitation of a certain tiottutn governor of unpleasant memory) la conspicuously washing his hands as he mumbles to himself the foolish aseuranee that the Passaio textile strike springs from a "local condition" and so le...
...A- witgat blende-haired, brewn-oyed Slovak girl who looked ntte or..tew said ska was twelve...
...State rate...
...The mills are the dough—In every cans*, bt.tb* word 'and Fatsale 4he hols...
...his Influence on the aide ot -the toell- owasrs is Involved...
...The Older girl remembered the city...
...So the child death rets for the city of Paaeaie Is U per cent greater than' in New Jersey as s whole...
...20 per cent and a fraction...
...some to the International Workers' Aid camp at Bemardsvllle, N. J...
...Have you ever been hi the country before...
...for service rendered- past the Chember of...
...Aldbus rushed (foaming at the mouth with flnanelgl fury) said: "Whosoever shall offend one ot these little ones that believe in me...
...The family had lived hero before father began , thl terrible work at Lod» Dye Works.: The elder girl looked li, thin pale and tired, shoulders slumped forward, inviting consumption...
...Do yeu wender—you who have a heartrglh^t^oh^.strlksrg call Passaic a I once saw in Borneo the shield of a native head-hunter to which was affixed sixty odd human scalps...
...u I And yet that Chstor to whose defense Mr...
...Passac's White Hearses The City Where Child Death Rate Is Highest By Mercer G.Johnston The suiSets can- Passaic a "ball hole" The etrjr 4s h^yyatsti withuTftsr boidats.53 to<isy t res* the te»pfsttoa &Bfgmm «fca -tow down1* cott^aj, .^^sltlsllsss, n»» jBisx*Ss»^^'^r* \y ¦• • Without Sao WdeaaXeasSsg' teisfie mills Passaic would be of as little cast* marcial oosjasqwtnns as the hole of si doughnut without the surrounding dough...
...Sandwiches and loo cream at the Hotel War hers' Cafeteria were passed around by union members...
...I made the . charge' an" right, ir false...
...tios are given to bolster up this slanderous statement...
...Neither figures nor statis...
...amalgamated Food "Worker...
...their hearts.' . for the hateful task) did so marvellously in the eyes of the Passaic mill owners in frustrating the forlorn hope of the mill workers that the services of a few of the extra White Hearses might be dispensed with by the manifestation of a little of .the milk of human kindness at the White House or on Capitol Hill...
...And Newark, six miles downstream, is hut slightly high...
...none of his affair— and then on to Washington, past the Capitol in which Senatore Edwards snd Edge of New Jersey . (having hard-boile...
...My tardiness In replying to Apostle of Accuracy Alddus IS due to the fact that the report to which he referred was not before mo...
...C«e--tmy little boy' to a freshly ironed blue shirt stood among did group going to Hobegan Colony wp tag Hudson...
...The youngster* wtroBvoV, seemed to have great enokffisaa, tor they wore adS stngta*1 aad cheeciag as they started tad last lap git the tourney with Harry Hotly ^d^t^mttr*, faihsrly gtrlk>r who...
...Opening it at page 11« I And that the total' deaths In New Jersey for the year IdU 'were 40,5*1, and that the total deaths of children up to and including * years of age (about seven-eighths under S years) was 8,1(4...
...f The Passaic CSamhesr'sTd*-' Cdeijnsree Is...
...glorious vacations...
...Thirty-one...
...PeekskUl, N. t.i some to the Modern School Association camp at Steiton...
...Joint board of dress add cloakmaker...
...Pasaaie the while I hoar the voice of Rachel weeping for her children and' refusing to be comforted...
...joint board of furriers which i* taxing each of its U.Oto members U for Pasaaie...
...Indeed they own Fasaaic—except the resurrected portion of the populitidn now on strike or In sympathy .with ..the stalwart ato»t£r,lt >j»i*~ without saying they owxg...
...But the youngster* couldn't cacao to the big meeting ai the and' id Union Square New Tork Poltoe tiaat wast ,*bem -e»plo|tofl"-^vap tor taotr owa xaito and hread «« ttH^tg^ started on their ways for...
...So the child death rate for the entire State was...
...Building workers, truckman, warehouse moa, bakers eating their lunches outside of the big National Biscuit Compgny...
...Nor—to give -the devil his dues— woud it be fair to lay the whole blame of this wholesale slaughter of innocents upon the filthy bosom of the PSsssic river...
...A bashful Utile Italian girl shrunk smilingly against bar sister, the gleam of her eyes telling hew eagerly she was looking forward to camp...
...had too* to the labor papers...
...The mills are the bins from whence . oometh the satrtsjsrrtsT strength of Passaic...
...a Opening the same book at page 269 I find that the total deaths in Passaic for the year 18J4 was 549, and that the total deaths of children up to and including 9 years (about seven-eighths under B years) was 171...
...Ass sa It wad around toe group...
...It now lies before me, apparently "undoctored" whether by Communist or Commercial 1st...
...The people of the State ot New Jersey, for the strange privilege of keeping a portion of Its child population within the city over which Mayor McGuire presides, pays an annual forfait to death ot the uvea ,qt sixty odd extra little children—little children whose angels dwell in the proposed of the eternal, but whose, sea^eyre P#*ed <t> the shield of the 8tate-*over which Governor Harry Moore presides...
...help, his come...
...Among other shameful things It moans that if "the whole population" of New- Jersey had lived in Paasate ta 1924 (disregarding any increased hasard for further congestion in a city in...
...Whoa hi* back wag turned you'd guess ho wag tear or five But when be turned his old little taee to you told you "eight years old"—it wad a shock...
...This Chamber of Commerce, through its chairman of the PubUb Information Committee, has made charges against one in connection with a previous article I wrote.-concernmg the Passaic strike...
...pf the Chamber of C<«Slii*rOe,;Body, soul and breeches—as completely as if he were a Jack-in-the-Box...
...At the office of The rfow Leader Jkttr demolished a little mountain of lollipops provided for them by Edward Lovlnaoh...
...Let us now loolfat the major charge against me...
...says' my article fi ""to' inaccurate, and so false that in Justice to our city we must answer it" What to this instance...
...Does the self-constituted guardian of "holy religion" blame me for saying that (by proxy, of course, saving his reverence) ? ta.lt not as plain as the nese on bis toee^thet-Hfe tor a AIM in PaaaaJe—t had almost said New Jersey's murderous Baby Farm—la extra-haaardous...
...Ts^^JdJjsirjflfBg^xountain Aldous...
...P*r bent and a fraction...
...The buses aad tracks, ot dhildren and parent*-: oyer, too all told—called at seat* of the union offices trom which...
...I seem to see these sixty, odd, wholly unnecessary, Whito Hearses _. winding their way through the - . stroffpp...
...It's a damned shame...
...I bad ventured to rely upon information furnished by the Workers' Health Bureau, New Tork City...
...The city was an easy capture, despite traffic tangled worse than usual by the subway strike...
...It Is certainty a slanderous statement or/"my part...
...the Chamber of Commerce, Governor Moore, Senators Edwards and Edge, are partlceps crlmmls, and in which every citizen of Passaic and New Jersey- who throws the weight - of...
...sssWint editor...
...which five-sixths of the people are hived In one-sixth of its area) the procession of White Hearses bearing little children out of that vale ot misery would have been Increased by 4,270...
...Just a Bttle thunder mug kept-by the miU owners for thsir •anvantonce In this hois...
...A charge Is made in Johnston's article that the death rate of children In Passaic is SO per- cent greater than elsewhere In Mew Jersey...
...I hear on good authority that the high priests of Meatmen wore more generous with -the innocent blood in ifilt than In l»«4...
...is 65 per cent greater than to...
...Passaic Youngsters Tell the Story By Esther Lowell PASSAIC youngsters took New Tork without a blow...
...plants, street car men, wives of worker* at -the windows ot thetr tenements and workers' children in the streets—all cheered the bus leads of Passaic youngsters as they passed, 'The band boomed aad the kids sang strike song* until their Utti* throats were parched...
...Look at It another way...
...it is better for him that a mfflstone wore hanged about his neck, and be were cast into the sea" linger a moment and realise what this "appallingly high" child death rate means...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 28
