The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-13
Half billion Capital of
the Greater Bread Trust
Opens New Monopoly Era
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

means SFedIer COMMUNICATION IN Industry. The
trusts the powerful cpen shop" interests planning to
consolidate their power than ever In the words of
the New York Times mot only been an enormous
volume of speculative buying in Wall Street Company
mergers on large scale are planned nearly completed"
1t with these preIminaries that the announcement is
made of the $5o0,oo0000 merger bakeries The widely
heraded Bread Trust" the Ward Baking Company be-
comes only the nucleus Of this new and greater monopoly
One expects big STEEL COAL oil and transporta-
tion But here is daily necessity that many years ago
turned out almost exclusively the home the produce
ton of which Is capitalized at half the huge that
started off Americas first Millionaire corporation-he
United States Steel Corporation
No word has been heard from the LaFoette camp with
its Back to 6" slogan urging the return of the days when
mothers baked their bread in the open fepaces of log
cabins The LaFoIette campaign in its infancy last
started exposure stunt against "The Bread Trust
But that the campaign days this expose
Sleep Attacks trusts supposed to be good
getes But after the ballots counted they usually
put on the shelf for safekeepng.
The new ssoOoooooo bread merger is to be known as
the Continental Baking Corporation. Its launching has
announced by George Barber Of the
United Bakeries Corporation which already operates
bakeries in 80 cities. Its profits it's Certified Bread" this
past year 100000 sales amounting $4oooooo
The other interested concerns, outside of the Ward
Baking Company, the General Baking Company, the
American Baking Company cushman Sons the FIeischman
Company and the Brennan Company Each of these has
developed out of the merging of many smaller
This amaIgamation of capitalist means more
difficult struggle for the workers in the food industry 1t is
the Of Ward concern instance bread
is produced, untouched by human hands," This
that machinery has been perfected in the produc
ton of bread that the of human labor has been reduced
to minimum 1t is the Ward outfit that has been most
active in seeking establish the open shop in all Of its
Ia
lied bakery workers. establishing the sweating sys-
TENS in its plants.
consolidation in the bread industry as in every
other industry, that wealth and power falls into
fewer and fewer hands, This greater riches for the
ogarchy Of great wealth. but bitter struggle for
existence on the part of the working masses
The New York Times anticipating this condition, sends
out warning to the great rich OF the capitalist class
represents. It says:
"Perhaps Important the social effects Of
period Of immense making with silly OenatOn the
display the newly wealth. before
fabric closely knit What is done in part Of instantly
n
KNOWLEDGE OF THE WAYS OF SIR GORGEOUS MIDAS IN
HIS PALACE QUICKLY PENETRATEs TO TENEMENTs AND
sLuMs Hence of higher Importance than
great Industrial and financial matters
methods which they set about making and especially the
style In which they Of all to be spending it."
The advice of the Times to the rich is make less
money but to be careful how they it, It tells them
endow mobile charities and other palatves that the
ruling class has always been subsdzng antdote
"the embittering of class feeling"
was the New York Times in its days greatest pros
Perty that aped the rich Of Fifth Avenue" by build
ing towering palace of its at 42nd ST. and Seventh
Ave. in the heart of the nations metropolis calling
the surroundings Times Square," nightly the bedam
of 1.-THE spenders."
was the New York Times that remained silent when
Ward Jr, the of the Bread Trust czar murdered
sailor, but brought to trial for the The
Times did not raise its voice against the worker
lured into the navy slain by the dssoute Of the
nations bread magnates.
The Times scheme Of great riches and little charity
won't work. The consultations of great capital
the workers to analgamate their organizations
sequence This will result In intelligent waging Of
the class fight OF the workers against their employers
will not be satisfied with libraries, galleries, universities
and other knckknaoks that the rich dole but that
poor never have an opportunity to enjoy.
Sam compers and all his crowd, in the approaching
convention Of the American Federation of Labor e