The daily worker., 1925-03-03
Rouse Working Class
Against the Threat of
Era of Greater Trusts
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL

TODAY, the Literary Digest weekly organ of the comfort
able middle class, claims to be highly excited because it
turned" But also expatates at great length 1.-THE Re-
Of the assuring its readers essence
that al's we'll with this capitalist world.
The gs Of the impression that the Literary Digest
convey its readers is contained in the
reproduced from the Washington, D. c. Daily News show
ing bunch of dnosaur-lookng animals, labelled Monopo
Sddua wh the U % ssnd@ Sa q for o Eo%mon
People" branded the seat of his pants. &C. P excams
Good Night We thought those things were killed off long
ago!"
In this picture the Literary Digest seeks to convey
to its millions OF readers including couple of hundred
thousand small bankers, that rustbusting was highly
successful ondeavo in the past that the watch dogs
the JOB at Washington and anything is wrong now that
will be carefully and quickly attended to- nsnuating that
that has been the case in the past
There is of nothing to show that justification
has been halted in any great basic industry anywhere
else for that matter No effort is made prove that any
tusbustng effort the part of the government has
and his Back to 1776" program
the readers of the Literary Digest displayed any ina
tive of their own in doing their thinking, which they
will they would behold several startling revelations in the
mass of material that is presented to them.
FIRST-Congress proposes to the Federal Trade Com
mission that investigate the General Electric Company (the
superpowe trust) and the American Tobacco Company
SECOND-One of the subsidiaries of the General Elec-
trio Company is the Electric Bond and Share Company that
practically controls the public utility business of
try" stock of this great trust is carefully dstb-
uted to the largest number of individuals that any attack
upon it, becomes an attack on large numbers of nervous
tmd, coupon-cpping bondhoIders Of the middle class
THlRD.-The trusts have powerful spokesmen in
Cooidges cabinet in the person of the mutimIonaire An
drew W. Mellon secretary of the treasury himself the largest
stockholder in the Aluminium Company of America, the
Aluminium trust that sneaks into every American kitchen
and takes its excessive toll Of profits every aluminium
kitchen utensI in use. b,,
Harlan Stone the late attorney general was supposed
to nave discovered of the crimes Of MELONS aluminium
trust but he has since been elevated the United States
supreme court and the sugar trust ackey Warren Mchi
gan, is slated to take his place.
Thus the great buwar their fortress against any
and all attacks The middle class is held quescent the
in these great corporations. That part the meaning of
the effort to sell stock the working class an effort
that has been successful to extent due the coabo
alton of the labor aristocracy with the capitalist class
And in the powerful of its capitalist govern
ment it has its own carefully handpcked spokesmen.
When the workers and poor farmers fully awaken to
class against the organized strength of whole
bourgeoise.
The trust problem will be solved under capitalism
The growing threat of monopoly increasingly aggravated
until capitalism goes Then the great will fall into the
hands of the ruling class-he toing masses-that will
retain the highly organized efficiency of the trusts at the
same time deprVing them of their power to plumber mankind
Soviet Russia today being electrified for the sole pur-
pose of bringing this great benefit the and peas
ants.
The United States is being electrified in order to bring
profits into the cash boxes of the Electric Copany
labors task is to end the profit nightmare of capitalism
that produces the General Electric Company naugurate
the Communist society whore class will to prey
upon another where classes altogether disappear with the
abolition of class rule and its accompanying oppression