Show 4 I UNEMPLOYMENT U N E M P LOY M E NT It Merely Means That the Working Workingman man lr Ir Unable to Find a Purchaser Whenever unemployment is spoken en enof of what Is Js i meant Is that social problem lem which faces us its S In the shape of a largo large number number of p proletariat seeking to sell soi their commodity but who are arc unable to lo find capitalists who will wi buy bur the th commodity which they th r roler offer oler for fOI sale Many political quacks arc aro abroad ex explaining x to lo their own satisfaction if not to lo tho the present writers the causes and anh what they the consider lo to be the rem remedies cues edies of this particular evil Wo We 0 have hao tho the tariff somo sonic bigoted tee to tiers who assert that poverty etc et is caused by b the drink evil ovi anti and tho the preachers of thrift frugality and tem toni temperance perance verance Wo We 0 have also those who whilst whist believing that hat the tho capitalist system s Is the best of oC all al possible systems tools toms and advocate Its ls conservation agree ec to its is being patched up In some Inconceivable way by br those who aro are wishful wish fil of alleviating alienating the distress by b the tue evils evis which arise out of the system They The never seem seeni prepared ed to todo do any of the lie th dirty work of patch patching patchIng patching ing up this rotten rolen system themselves they the leave heave that to lo such a body bo bod as the labor lab r party Some of us think It Is not worth while to spend our energies In patching It up wo we consider tic Iho best leSt and anti most expeditious way Wa of deal dealing ing with wih the tho to evil evi effects of this system would be to end it by br supplanting It It with another which would he be moro more scientific being based upon funda fundamental Ind mental truths economic and sociological Causes of Unemployment What are aro arp the causes of unemployment ment meat 7 Tho The proximate causes arc many butt but the primary Is to tobe tobe tobe be found In the ito ownership of land ami jul of tho lie machinery of oC production by b a asmal small smal section of or the community and therefore the tho exclusion of tho the rest res of r i ji 1 the tho community from nil all ni participation I in iii the ownership thereof This hatter latler laler portion porion of the lie community is allowed to exist only on certain certIn conditions Tho The conditions arc aro these they must I appear and driven iriven by bs the pangs pang of hunger they do 10 appear on tho the mar market market market ket to sell sel ehl to t tho the capitalists c as a com corn commodity the energy contained within their belt own bodies The complexity of oC our social life Is hidden en from the mass muss massof massof of or the proletariat proletariat and consequently t the tho capitalists are able to keep them Ulm divided each cacti against the other In competition with ono one another thereby keeping the lie which tho the capital capitalists IsIs pay par to them Ule down at a a very vcr low how standard About three hundred years ago when the capitalistic system was in its infancy in Can cr the owner of the machin machinery cry ery appropriated the product but at that hint time Into the owner was working in inmost inmost inmost most most cases at his trade he lie was a I mas fins master master finster ter craftsman ITo IIo paid wages to those whom he employed but bitt hit payment ot of wages was an au exception rather rath r titan than the lie rule A young man inait used to lo go asan as asan asan an apprentice becoming In time an ar or artisan and later on account of tho the small amount of oC capital required to sot up tip lp In business for himself he In most cases became a master craftsman so as a general generl rule a man own was only a wage laborer for a portion porion of or his work working w rJ ing lifetime I Life Long Wage Slavery Slaver There Thee are arc several facts acts to be noted In this connection viz Iz 1 That the th product was appropriated printed by b tho the owner of the tho UI implements implements ments of production and anti that butt this Is Js still done 2 That wage labor which was tho ho exception has now become b cole the general generl rule ride rile as a result of o Industrial and anti econ economic economic ornic development 3 That production was mainly for use 1150 where as now It Jt Is mainly for profit 1 1 Unemployment is the tho modern sense was unknown The position Is then that the lie work ers era are arc devoid of or the opportunities of ot becoming owners of DC implements implements ments of production PIO I 1 on account ot of the size of those implements anti anil 2 on 01 account of the lie monopoly of them they tho aro arc compelled to be therefore lifelong lelong wage wago laborers they appear on l the labor market to sell sel their labor Jahl power to the capitalists Tho The capitalists buy tho tha commodity f labor power hut butt do tie not give the work workers wor workers ers ors an equivalent to that which they tc as workers produce Tho capitalists c I buy bu other commodities which have havo been produced by b labor besides this thlu commodity labor power For these those I other commodities they time the have as a rule ule r to give an nil S1 equivalent hut but but with re reo respect sped se to labor power If they tho gave to tolie the lie worker tho the full ful value vatu of his product they hey Ule would have havo lao no surplus and capi capitalism would bo be at at an end ond Labor power powel is the only commodity sold on thur th market which produces an nn ex cx I I I I change value greater gealer than thon Its Ils own cx ex exchange I I change Cha value It I receives Us is 1 5 value Vall 1 I I IC e C an Uli equivalent lo to the social labor laborI power hewer which Is IB necessary to product produce i tho ho 0 commodities which arc aro so essential l to tho the workers worker subsistence anti and ad to en enable enable able ablo them thom to t produce their kind so that the labor market nay may ma be always 1 well vell wel supplied The workers produce an equivalent to lo their cost cst of or subsistence tence in a few hours consequently consequent I during the tho te rest of the tho to time they are arc working they are arc producing surplus value which passes In the form of or profits rent rent and Interest to the own owners owners owners ers of the tho means of production The products of labor aro are divided rough roughly ly Iy speaking Into two portions profits and ad wages the he greater the tho portion porton of the production which Is allotted as profits tho the less hens will wi be bo the portion porton al allotted allotted to wages and vice versa I Weekly People i |