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First Theodore Dreiser went down to investigate conditions. No sooner had he started his work than he was arrested on a trumped-up charge convicted and sent out of the state. Then came the trial of various labor workers for murder, in connection with the many deaths resulting from strikes. The tirade against communism and other radical institutions by the presiding judge, who convicted these men drew the fire of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. When the reporters criticized the judiciary methods the courts were closed to the press. Newton D. Baker at attorney for the paper then brought suit...
...capitalistic interests have gained little by these actions. True, they have so far kept the general public from learning the true facts about conditions in the coal fields and won three minor victories against the press. On the other hand the public is now aware of the abuses. Dreiser as a widely-read novelist can and undoubtedly will air his views on the subject. The Seripps-Howard newspapers have been running daily stories about the reign of terror. Frank and his associates have already started Congressional investigation and they can at a moment's notice will the controversial magazines with...
...preventive against further debasement of American people's mentality Dreiser offers some 400 pages of statistical indictments of capitalism and capitalists. The Morgans, Supreme Court, Red Cross, railroads all come in for a good wigging. Nothing offering opportunity for indignation is left out, from the claim that "ROCKEFELLER is RELATIVELY...
...PRESENT OWNER OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY" (Dreiser's capitals) to that fact that in Tacoma, Wash, "on February 19, 1931 . . . sixteen men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died...
...this ill-assorted avalanche of complaints Author Dreiser's prescription is simple. "America, as I see it, should be reorganized on a noncompetitive basis commercially." This will of course necessitate "an executive power for the American working masses not unlike the Communist Central Committee in Moscow. . . ." By this device the masses will somehow be enabled to oligarchize over the masses...