body and soul. ... Suppose this Foote who does you the favor to let
you earn millions for him--suppose he wants to buy his wife a diamond
necklace. ... What's to prevent him lowering your wages next week to
pay for it?... YOU couldn't stop him!... Why can an army beat a mob
of double its numbers? Because the army is ORGANIZED! Because the
army fights as one man for one object! ... You are a mob. Capital is
organized against you. ... How can you hope to defend yourselves? How
can you force a betterment of your conditions, of your wage? ... By
becoming an army--a labor army!... By organizing. ... That's why I'm
here, sent by the National Federation--to organize you. To show you
how to resist! ... To teach you how to make yourselves
irresistible!..." There were shouts and cheers which blotted out the
speaker's words. Then Bonbright heard him again:

"Bonbright Foote, Incorporated, is entitled to fair interest on the
money it has invested in its plant. It is entitled to a fair profit
on the raw materials it uses in manufacture. ... But how much of the
final cost of its axles does raw material represent? A fraction! What
gives the axles the rest of their value?... LABOR! You men are paid
two, three, some of you even four dollars a day--for your labor.
Bonbright Foote, Incorporated, adds a little pig iron to your labor,
and gives you a place to work in, and takes his millions of dollars a
year. ... Do you get your fair share?... You do NOT, and you will
never get a respectable fraction of your fair share till you
organize--and seize it."

There was more. Bonbright had never heard the like of it before and
it fascinated him. Here was a point of view that was new to him. What
did it mean? Vaguely he had heard of Socialism, of labor unions, of
the existence of a spirit of suspicion and discord between capital