Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
"NATIONAL AMERICAN COMMITTEE IS
TO TEACH WORKERS CHEAP LIVING
Concerned High Cost of Living Astor Carey and Other
Families of Wealth. Frank P. Walsh Draws Curtain
So that All May See the Methods Pursued by
Plutes o Keep Workers in Poverty.

among the "neighbors" of Mr.. and
Mrs. Astor against the extortions OF
landlordism, whose chief exemplars in
Manhattan and in the United States
are the Astor family. Any effort on
the part of the public to tax unused
and unimproved lands of the cities
into use, and thus to give some relief
of competition to monopoly landlord
ism, is most vigorously opposed by the
Astor family and other wealthy Amer
icanizers of the foreigners"
With an estimated four thousand
vacant lots in the Bronx part of New
York, the Astor family upholds with
all its wealth and power system
which gives to wealthy few the un-
earned and speculative values which
are added to the land by the work and
thrift of the foreigners" and other
producers.
Patriots For Plunder
The active use of wealth and power
and one-sided publicity of Mr. Frank
Trumbull and his associates of the
railroads and of the United States
chambers of commerce to make it a
crime for men to be effective labor
unionists, verifies also this following
statement and prediction of Mr..
Walsh: Il find much positive evidence
that your efforts are primarily di-
rected to strengthening the chains of
industrial tyranny in this country.
You propose to sanctify and confirm
oppression by waving the American
flag in the face of its victims, and by
insidiously stigmatizing as unpatriot-
ic any attempts thev may make to
throw off the yoke of the exploiting
interests you represent.
The enormous profits Of the steel
trust exceeded S105, 100000 for the
past three months alone these profits
shown in connection with the long
hours Of work of the majority of the
steel trust employees, IN connection,
also with the use of the courts and
the militia and private gunner TO
prevent the formation Of labor unions
among those steel trust employees, con-
firms what Mr.. Walsh asserted:
Control Lives of Workers.
"You will have employers" declared
Mr. Walsh, extend their arbitrary
control over the lives Of the workers
to the workers leisure hours, dictat-
ing to them what they shall do in the
evening, and Threatening them with
the loss Of their opportunity to earn a
living-that is, with starvation for
themselves and their families-if they
do not obey. And it is admitted by
you that this hateful use of arbitrary
power by the employer is for the pur-
pose of defeating the efforts of strike
agitators, preventing strikes and in
creasing the economic value of the
worker to his employer"
Next weeks exhibit TO the high cost
of living is being prepared by men and
women who are exposing industrial
and social injustices. They have rent
ed a storeroom in Twenty-siXth street
just off Fifth avenue for exhibits and
speeches. They are going after" the
ownership of natural resources by pri-
vate monopoly. They are opposing
the control of the many workers by
the few idlers. Inquiries into unearned
increment in land values, railroad
freight eXtortions and terminal grabs
watered corporation stocks and unjust
taxation are on this program, as are
the other devices for keeping down
wages and for reducing the purchas-
ing power of wages.