Railroad Melons, Rates and Wages: A Handbook of Railroad Information by Charles E. Russell. Charles H. Kerr Cooperative, Chicago. 1922.

Contents: Dedication, The Beginnings of the Story, The New York Central Lines, The New York Central & Hudson River, The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, The Southern Pacific System, Foundations of Its Capital, The Contract and Finance Company, The Sunset Line, The Control of Government, One Item in the Bill, The Rock Island System, The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton: Physical Perils of Overcapitalization, The Great Northern: The True Uses of Melons, The Reading Company and System: The True Use of the Holding Company, The Pere Marquette: A Sample of Artistic Wreckage, The Frisco Lines: Wreckage by Syndicates, The Pullman Company: A History of Marvels, The Incidentals of Capital Making, The Hocking Valley Case, Samples from a Fruitful Field, The Land Grant Railroads, The Louisville & Nashville, The Railroad in Politics and the Government. What Happened to the New Haven. Conclusions and Remedies. 339 pages.

Charles H. Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement. It remains a left wing publisher today.

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