Jah 12-21-48 65432 EXPLANATION There are some books which one cannot read and remain the same person. To hope that this volume may be such an evolutionary agency is an ambition far beyond any reasonable expectation of fulfilment; but if the reader is herein confronted with conditions that have never before been appreciated, and is thereby impelled toward further investigation, the object will have been accomplished. This Handbook summarizes actual conditions in the United States that are often overlooked-realities that every fairminded person should take into account before committing himself to definite political opinions. Those who are satisfied with the existing social order can truly testify to the great prosperity of this country and the favorable status of the workers compared with those in other parts of the world. This viewpoint is expressed in the majority of publications and can be offset against the facts herewith presented. There are good grounds for happiness. Are there equally valid causes for discontent? To dissipate the gloom engendered by the long list of inequities in the following pages, conservatives may argue that the distressing conditions are natural concomitants of our civilization which may correct themselves in the course of time; while the liberal can rejoice over the ease with which unjust conditions may be eliminated if the privileged classes will yield but a trifle of their advantageous position. There is no desire on the part of the editor to alter a single factor in the present social order unless its existence results in injustice. There is no wish to change anyone's opinion against his better judgment. There is no conscious attempt in this book at propaganda for any particular economic theory; no partiality towards any class of people. There is decided opposition to the overthrow of government by violence, to a dictatorship of any class, or to infringement of the Constitution of the United States. Whatever political and economic changes are desirable may be effected by amending that docu ment. The intended Who's Who section has been omitted on account of protests from individuals who disliked classification for economic and other reasons. The editor is responsible for the accuracy of all statements in this book, except where they are signed or quoted. The members of the Advisory Board, representing varied opinions, are no more liable for errors than the directors of a corporation, but are entitled to dividends of thanks for lending their authority to the enterprise. WILLIAM FLOYD, Editor. ADVISORY BOARD HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH SOLON DE LEON LOUISE ADAMS FLOYD BOLTON HALL JOHN HAYNES HOLMES FREDERIC C. HOWE B. W. HUEBSCH JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN JAMES H. MAURER SCOTT NEARING LOUIS F. POST UPTON SINCLAIR OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD Part I-Causes of Discontent Incomes and the Cost of Living Wages; losses from unemployment, strikes, acci- dents, illness, occupational diseases. Budgets for families having $1,000 to $50,000 a year. Salaries; how fortunes are made; excess profits tax; Federal Reserve System; stock dividends; speculation; New York Stock Exchange; bucket shops; watered stock; evasion of taxes; inter- Accounts of operations in steel, oil, coal, rail- roads, manufacturing, sugar, bread. War profits; Testimony of prominent men; arguments of con- servatives; agents provocateurs; spies in in- CHAPTER 2-THE INDUSTRIAL STRUGGLE Pullman, McKees Rocks, Los Angeles Times, Lawrence; Ettor and Giovanitti, Coronado, Ford and Suhr, Paterson, Mesaba Range, Mooney, Everett, Frank H. Little, Bisbee, Steel, Centralia, Coal, Harrison, Railroad shopmen, Herrin, Mer- CHAPTER 3-OPPRESSION BY GOVERNMENT. Alien and Sedition laws, alien laws, deportations, Goldman and Berkman, Buford, Bridgeport raid, Conscription and Espionage Laws Roger N. Baldwin, Sermon on the Mount, Dunn, L. Berger, Milwaukee Leader, The Masses, Debs, Department of Labor, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Naturalization, Children's Bureau, Sherman Act, Erdman Act, Newlands Act, Adamson Law, Esch-Cummins Law, Railroad Labor Board, Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Act, Duplex Printing Case, Lever Act, Keating-Owen Bill. Harry Thaw, Charles W. Morse, William Bross Lloyd, Francis N. Nobbé, J. Herman Diercks, Abby Rockefeller, Leopold and Loeb; Jury ser- CHAPTER 6-WAR BREEDS INJUSTICE. Psychological, economic, political, social. Lack of international law; Secret diplomacy; Infrac- |