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Show Unproductive Labor. Although labor, when applied to the production of necessary things, is highly efficient; that is, the production of food, raiment and. shelter, there are other classes of laborers whose labor is not efficient, ef-ficient, whose existence and support as : laborers is nothing else than a burden I upon the true laborers. .. Now, the whole mystery, while wages is so low and profits low, is fully ex- plained by the existence of whole classes if unproductive laborers, who consume ii very large proportion of the commodities commodi-ties that should and would otherwise go as an addition to the wages of thopro- . Juctive laborers. Is the workman who is engaged making a pond or artificial lake on a gentleman's estate a productive 'aborer? What stomach hag he helped to .ill or what back has ho clothed? , I Does not this man come into the mar-jet mar-jet and buy your food and your clothing, cloth-ing, making them dearer t you, making mak-ing your wages less? Has Be made wages for himself as you have done, working on a farm or as a tailor, carpenter, car-penter, shoemaker or a mason? In your case you have matfo a valuable valua-ble product, a product which is a con-tituent con-tituent of true wages, something that is in immediate essential to the support of iii'e. He has only helped to make a wnd, a thiDg that starving people and bw paid workmen can do without. The .act is the efficiency of your labor has nade his labor possible, but all the same y the same stroke your wages is that iiuch less. Cor. Toronto Globe. |