Chapter+31

Brief Summary-** After being empowered by socialism, Jurgis tries to get Marija to leave prostitution and become socialist, but she refuses to for her addiction to morphine is too strong. Jurgis meets with a magazine director to pose his socialist beliefs and the real conditions of Packington’s meat packing. Jurgis learns about Nicholas Schliemann who is a powerful socialist that promotes socialist view to the public. The book ends with a socilaist speaker preaching that we must continue to fight and that Chicago will be ours.
 * Chapter 31
 * Characters-** Jurgis, magazine editor, Nicholas Schliemann, Ostrinski
 * Passages-** "A Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life; and, second, that a Socialist believes that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners."(336)