The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
This Lawyer Helped to
Create Great Trusts AS
He Fought Communism
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

earlier in the week in New York City, is buried. Bank
ndustrasts merchants judges editors publishers
vvng lawyers making an imposing array OF capitalists and
defenders of capitalism, attend his funeral.
Thus passes whom the kept press euIogizes
PAM atho Jew contributed literally the Roman catho-
lie church because he believed instrument in opposing
the spread OF the doctrines OF socialism
But Max Pam was, nevertheless, an unwilling nstru-
ment caught up in the flood of social forces helping
traze the agencies of capitalism thus aiding in develop
ment toward the social revolution that userng the
he protested to combat Pam passes away the nation
witnesses acceeratng growth of greater trusts
couraged for instance by the recent ruling of the department
of agriculture that the colossal merger of the Armour and
Morris packing interests is in violation of any antitrust
decree But the growing masses of workers under
plotting corporation will learn quicker their common identity
OF interest will more readily develop their mass organization
will enter effectively into the developing class struggle
their ruthless pundere stands clearly revealed be-
fore them.
Pam an aid in the building of these greater
trusts. He was legal agent in building trusts.
AS clever corporation lawyer Max Pam helped wipe
aside the oobwsbs Of legal obstacles set up BY an era that
gone that sought to perpetuate competition in industry in its
attempt to safeguard and protect little business
Pam was the ally of Judge E. r. Gary head Of the United
States Steel Corporation sitting fearful upon the seethng
volcano of labor unrest in this industry. He helped
this great and growing consolidation
Pam was associated with the late E. r. Hartman, po
neer nancier in the merging of great railroad enterprises
and bitter enemy OF organized labor He worked with John
W. Gates spectacular Wall operator the creation of
the American Steel and Wire Co., budding trusts were
just beginning to lift their heads the industrial horizon
Pam helped organize, along with VicePresident Dawes
and Others the powerful Central Trust Company of Illinois,
weds mighty influence over industry in the middle
west He among those officiating at the birth Of the
international Harvester Co. and the National Packing Co.
In politics he belonged the republican party of the great
capitalists being close to Harding, Coolidge and Taft
This the foe of Marxism, who tried to stem the
worldwide tide of political evolution with petty contribu-
tons to the antiCommunist Catholic Church. while reality
he meeky lived from day to day. obedience to the nexor
able international social forces clearly analysed and
planned by the philosopher of the proearan struggle for
power Karl Marx whose theories find their application to
in The in viii
heat of the Russian workers. and peasants triumph.
The great trusts that Max Pam helped create coin
profits undeamt of by the business bandits of of
years ago. This surplus stolen fran labor struggles for in
vestment home and abroad with all the resulting COM
pcations not Max Pam would have wished for the
hancement of capitalism and its perpetual continuance in
power but according to the theories of Marxsm and Len
ism that point to the passing of the capitalist
coming of its successor-the stage of civilization
Communism.
Foes of Marxism and Leninism like Max Pam, are
myriad They and they pass But Marxsm and Lenn-
ism continue inspiring and directing and greater
of oppressed to growing victories until the whole
world has been won for labor