| Show Around the Circle With the Soviet F From rom the Diary of a Proletarian ian I Ij j i By Murray Schick l t I Copyright 1920 FOURTH INSTALMENT MAY 13 12 I lIE Bullion City Miners' Miners Soviet i held helo its ts t first I meeting t today oday The opera T THE house being the largest building In town was c chosen osen as as headquarters Comrade Anderson was for lining the men up and marching them to the mines in double I suggested that w we get the books of ot the different mining companies and find out w where ere w we were at Anderson Insisted that this would be a waste of ot time 1 Did you ever hear of ot any anyone one gettin a pound of ot ore out o 0 fa to book he demanded is a part of ot the capitalist system Comrade Wells agreed with me me to a certain extent though he said he did not believe belleve in too much bookkeeping Dont waste much time on it It Comrade Root he said I should be a avery avery avery very simple matter to find out what the inc Income me of ot the Soviet will be How would you go gO about it I inquired Taking a newspaper from his pocket he pointed to a headline in which the statement was made the April production of ot the he district ct had been tons of ot ore valued at c We have about men on our payroll he said Multiply by bv BO BOa Ii a days day's pay J JI I did so and got That Is the payroll for one d day y said our peerless leader In thirty days it would be That from would would leave leave- Two hundred sixty-eight sixty thousand thousand- I replied You see how labor how labor has been robbed exclaimed Wells But nut how about the other expenses r I questioned What other demanded Wells labor expenses labor produce 4 every thing Sure It does I said hastily but In mining me tao will wUl have a a lot of ot things Our labor doesn't produce such as rails explosives timber fuel tuel electric power pOwer and so on Besides the companies have made it it a practice to put aside s something for depreciation to replace b buildings and machinery when they are worn out y yAnd And what will these other expenses amount to asked the chief t. t I cant can't nt tell you till tillI I go through t the e books was my answer but iut t I think they come to about 1150 for each dollar In wages wages' And that would be be- be Sixty six thousand a month ft Added to the good to wages that makes that from leaves u us ul T 70 70 VI You forget I reminded him that w we have reduced the working hours to six or or- 25 26 Per percent That will give ap up p only tons worth Comrade Wells ells made no reply but I could see suspicion in the glanCe v books book ca cant t at I me cannot I decided to J be say nothing J more until n i was through with h the he I afford atford to suspected of ot sympathy with W the capitalist class Wells Is a smart spart man but I am afraid he is not as practical as aai he I be when it cornea comes to mining |
