CAPITAL DICTATES.

Grey River Argus, 17 July 1922, Page 5

CAPITAL DICTATES.

AMERICA’S MILLIONAIRES. While the anti-Labour press waxes wrath and regards with horror the idea of a dictatorship of the world workers in Russia, it remains silent on the economic dictatorship of vested interest in America and other countries outside of Russia. The Labour Research and Information Bureau, in an interesting article on this subject, gives some startling figures of the fortunes wrung from the sweat and blood of the working class in America. The organ says that more than 40 families each possess 100,000,000 dolars, more than 100 families each possess 50.000,000, more than 300 possess each 20,000,000. These are some- of the fortunes in the possession of “eminent” millionaires:— John D. Rockefeller, 2,500,000,000 dol lars; Astor family, 500,000,000; Du Pont family, 500,000,000; Guggenheim family, 500,000; Vanderbilt family 500,000,000; Harkness family, 400,000,000; Mellon family, 300,000,000; Pratt family, 300,000,000; Weyerhaeuser family, 300,000,000; Armour family, 200,000,000; Ford family, 200,000,000; Goolet family, 200,000,000; Morgan family, 200.000,000; Payne-Whitney family, 200,000,000; William Rockefeller, 200,000,000. WEALTH AND POVERTRY. There are 6,000,000 unemployed workers, not including their families, starving in misery and destitution in the United States to-day. It is the exploitation of such, unhappy workers as these which makes it possible for the following capitalist hogs to possess in each of their families over 150,000,000 dollars, or 30,000,000 sterling: Baker, Bradyl, Carnegie, Clark, Field, Frick, Gould, Harriman, Hill, Swift, Taylor-Payne.

It surely ought to have struck the millions of working men in U.S A. today that the reason why the workers get so little is because the non-work-ing exploiters get so much.