ment?
 No, they do not or they would turn upon their false leaders with the fury of madmen.
 Very few workingmen know that it is the Financier and not the manufacturer who decides upon the wage scale that they are to receive.
 The financier has the Industrialist by the throat just as he has workingman by the throat. So the manufacturer must pay such wages to workingmen as he is told to pay by the financier whom he is indebted to for back interest.
 More than Two Hundred Thousand Fac­tor­ies have been closed in the United States since 1929, which caused more than Twelve Million men to be thrown out of employment.
 The manufacturers were not foolish enough to close their factories when that was their means of support, and neither were the workingmen foolish enough to close the factories and throw themselves out of jobs. It was the financiers who control the money needed to buy materials and pay wages that closed the independent manufacturers’ plants.
 The financiers closed the factories for two specific reasons: (1) to get actual possession of the factories for themselves, and (2) to keep large numbers of workingmen out of jobs so that they would be a menace to those with jobs, thus making it easy to keep wages at a minimum.
 Why do the financiers want low wages in this country? So that goods can be manufactured in America as cheaply as in European and Asiatic countries, and so that eventually they can bring the American workingman down to the level of Chinese coolies and thereby make serfs of them.
 Agents of the financiers organize different workingmen’s unions, clubs, leagues and associations with conflicting rules and principies and then set the members of each against the other until the workingmen hate each other more than they do the serpent who would destroy them The workingmen actually club and kill each other when in no way are they responsible for the terrible conditions under which they suffer.
 It would seem unbelievable that the slickers, who have robbed the workingmen of all of their earnings, could then get the workingmen to hate and maul each other as though they themselves were to blame for being robbed, if it was not a fact that that is exactly what happens.
 Such a monstrous state of affairs is created by the underhanded work of touts whom the workingmen trust and rely upon for their advice and education. False leaders are continually sending workingmen into traps and ambush where they are beaten and they do not know how it all happened.
 The Slickers are so tricky that they actually make the workingmen believe they have won a victory wherein fact they have been literally beaten out of their boots.
 For instance, workingmen go out on a strike—frequently ordered by financiers in the background—and after a long period of