The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor - these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age - other people's money - these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in. Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities. Throughout the nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itse…

For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own han…

The work itself will cover a wide field including clearance of slums, which for adequate reasons cannot be undertaken by private capital; in rural housing of s…

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Contented labor is an element of national prosperity. A…

The ranchers want to keep us divided in order to keep us weak. Many of us have signed individual 'work contracts' with the ranchers or contractors, contracts i…

Power, instrument of the collective force, created in society to serve as mediator between capital and labor, has become inescapably enchained to capital and d…