  CHAPTER ONE. A Confidential Word With the Man of the Working Class. CHAPTER THREE. The Situation Also the Explanation. CHAPTER FOUR. The Cost of War In Blood and In Cash. CHAPTER SIX. Tricked to the Trenches Then Snubbed. CHAPTER SEVEN. For Father and the Boys. CHAPTER EIGHT. For Mother and the Boys and Girls. CHAPTER NINE. The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash-Register. CHAPTER TEN. Now What Shall We Do About It? CHAPTER ELEVEN. A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class. CHAPTER TWELVE. More Suggestions and What to Read. Transcriber's Note: The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. INDUSTRIAL DESPOTISM, SHREWDLY CALLED FREEDOM. (Illustrating the Wage-Earner’s “Freedom of Contract.”) BY GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK “The cannon’s prey has begun to think, and, thinking twice, loses its admiration for being made a target.”—Victor Hugo. “A nod from a lord is a breakfast—for a fool.”—Proverb. “The poor souls for whom this hungry war opens its vast jaws.”—William Shakespeare. First Edition, August, 1910. Second Edition, October, 1910. Third Edition, December, 1910. Fourth Edition, April, 1911. Fifth Edition, Thirtieth Thousand, May, 1911. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, WEST LA FAYETTE, OHIO Copyrighted, 1910, BY GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 350. WAR—WHAT FOR? SINGLE COPY, $1.20 Liberal discounts in clubs of 3, 10 and 25 or more. By the same author: THINK—OR SURRENDER About 100 pages of elementary economics, politics and organization—for the propaganda of Socialism. (Nearly ready.) This book is dedicated to the victims of the civil war in industry; that is, to my brothers and sisters of the working class, the class who furnish the blood and tears and cripples and corpses in all wars—yet win no victories for their own class. |
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