The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29
Labor Must Learn that
All Industry Rests on
It's Broad Shoulders
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TODAY, while the Of thousands workers in the far
flung plants of the Pullman Palace Car Company
going their jobs lawyers for the widows of the deceased
Gear" Pulman's going battle
the wealth these workers produce.
On the hand the brutal exploitation Of labor;
the other the lavish waste of the products Of labor
Only recently the Pullman Corporation broke another
effort of the workers in the carshops Pullman, Ill.,
maintain their standard Of living That merely echo
of the crushing anabor tactics always employed by Geo.
M. Pullman while alive. With Marshall Field in Chicago
and Cornelius Vanderbilt, in New York, alliance was
formed that dominated the Pullman Company and thru
INSCRIPTIONS management caused ceaseIess flow of gold
to pour into its Golfers
Pullman amassed great wealth. Yet the Pullman family,
dominating power in American capitalist industry be-
gan and ended with George NJ Pullman The twin sons Ct
typical rich mans sons They kept their father busy
paying their bills out Of exObitant profits wrung from the
workers. They both died at early age leaving behind
them widows; two sisters who still live in Chicago.
Where the twin sons left off, the two widows took up the
fight to spend the Pullman fortune They now trying to
get the summer home Of the late Mrs. Pullman at Elberon
NJ J property valued at 100000 that is claimed the
father gave to his twin degenerates
The attack Of the widows is directed against Frank O.
Lowden former governor of Illinois, who married into the
Pullman millions, and the Northern Trust Company,
of Mrs. Pumans WILL 1t Lowden who tried
to buy the republican presidential nomination in 1920 with
PuImans millions With these riches he has purchased
great estate in illinois, and for political purposes advertzes
himself farmer get the downstate vote. He
mentioned candidate secretary agriculture follow
ing the death of Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace recently
It is declared that nine of lawyers have refused
take the of the widows against the great ndustra
political and financial power represented in the Pullman
Company in LoWden and the Northern Trust Company But
the job has finally been accepted by James Hamilton Lewis
former democratic u s. senator, who has his methods
for winning court battles
This sordid page in the history of the Pullman family
finds its counterpart practically every chronicle of family
of the American great rch There the Gouds the Van
derblts, the Stmans and the Astors few examples.
These families of the American putocracy furnish
of the boosted Initiative that supposed have lifted
Industry goes without Them The functions OF
et taken by the great banks, with their inter-
locking drectorates John D. Rockefeller Jr teaches his
Sunday School class The Standard Oil business flows
Morgan has succeed him. neither has Gary OF the
U. S. Steel Trust SchWab of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
The species of pesentday putocratc punderers will soon
be extinct
Production of oil and steel go just the because
there millions of workers upon those backs the tasks of
everyday labor rests They the foundation upon which
all civilizations have been built.
Yet these many millions of workers do not yet fully
realize their important position in industry The nternecne
squabbe in the Pullman family should help teach them They
get along without their oppressor who try pose the
most necessary elements in society.
labor realizes its important position, it will proceed
to take advantage of fully Labor will learn that capital
isn-the capitalist social order-s its enemy will
build social order, without classes without
great rich and abect poor; without Mogans Rockefeers,
Puans and Schwabs and other buccaneers OF industry
will real recognition for the first time in all
history where the of the Individual to prey and
plumber his fellow man will be exterminated forever