Dreiser raps industry for failure to allow workers fair share of production: says millionaire class grows as labor is crushed.

• Author: Dreiser, Theodore
• Position: THE 1930S FLASHBACK - Brief article

May 30, 1931

American corporate business is so constructed that no matter what the contingency--either so-called prosperity or depression--billions of dollars exist for those who manage, execute, and build, while merely a bare existence or even less remains to those who do the work which makes any life whatsoever possible. It may be said that these combined organizations, never failing in collecting most fruitfully for salaries, for bonuses, and for stockholders, always fail in providing a decent living for those at the bottom.

That the underlying structure of...