[4] In the San Francisco Examiner of November 16, 1904, there is an account of the use of fire-hose to drive away three hundred men who wanted work at unloading a vessel in the harbor. So anxious were the men to get the two or three hours’ job that they made a veritable mob and had to be driven off.
[5] “It was no uncommon thing in these sweatshops for men to sit bent over a sewing-machine continuously from eleven to fifteen hours a day in July weather, operating a sewing-machine by foot-power, and often so driven that they could not stop for lunch. The seasonal character of the work meant demoralizing toil for a few months in the year, and a not less demoralizing idleness for the remainder of the time. Consumption, the plague of the tenements and the especial plague of the garment industry, carried off many of these workers; poor nutrition and exhaustion, many more.”—From McClure’s Magazine.
[6] The Social Unrest. Macmillan Company.
[7] “Our Benevolent Feudalism.” By W. J. Ghent. The Macmillan Company.
[8] “The Social Unrest.” By John Graham Brooks. The Macmillan Company.
[9] From figures presented by Miss Nellie Mason Auten in the American Journal of Sociology, and copied extensively by the trade-union and Socialist press.
[10] “The Bitter Cry of Outcast London.”
[11] An item from the Social Democratic Herald. Hundreds of these items, culled from current happenings, are published weekly in the papers of the workers.
[12] Karl Marx, the great Socialist, worked out the trust development forty years ago, for which he was laughed at by the orthodox economists.