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Show nonth. The laborer slls his labor-ver labor-ver at lu value. If he works t-n hours each day. he vrka five hour lor himself and five hour for the capitalist. Id live bourn of UIt tno norkT returns an equivalent for bl lih.r jKwt-r, which li necessary labor. lab-or. Tbe other five hourtt he works for the c&pl'alist. and creates surplus ue, which the capltallM appropriates for himm-lf, and f'r which he returns DO equivalent. The value of labor-iower la determined deter-mined by the means of subsistence requisite, to keep the laborer lo bare extitenre as a laborer. If tb; worker labors ten hour eaca !Jay, la flvo hours of labor he cr-Mes cr-Mes the. value which 1 necessary Tor , the maintenance of bis labor-power. So yu se when the worker ro j to market t- soil. It Is to themselves lihejr eell, they aro a commodity, tho I same as boots or h. but labor Is a dllferent commodity than boots and ; shos. It Is a means of rreattnir tur-, tur-, plus value, fr the capitalist. Here then we have society divided Jnfo two distinct clasies. the lour-' lour-' fceols and the proletariat. Which j throws society into convulsions of the claiis struggle. Every strike tells us tiat this struggle Is still on, every time the militia Is 'callc-a out In the Interest of the employers, as against ' the workers. Is a lesson on the cla6 Ururgle. The working clasr create the wealth of the worl-1, but It Is taken away from them, by the rs'ltallxt cla3 In th form of rent, interest and profit. The working class must organize In the economic and political field. In order or-der that they may own, opcnU. and control the means by which they live. In order that they may receive the full social velue of their toll. The working class are not content n.l tatUfkd with their lot as wago-Blnves, wago-Blnves, and are working ro abolish the j wage-eystem, and have a higher s-citl s-citl order, lo which the exploitation of man will be Impossible, and where the full and free development of each and every member of society will be assured. HOWARD HALL. WORKING CLASS ECONOMICS. Tho present mode of production wo call capitalistic production. Tho means by which wealth is created; 1. c the mines, mills, factories, railroads, rail-roads, telegraph and telephones wo csill capital. The dominant class in roclety Is tbo capitalist class, the class which owns the capital of tb world. It is they who own all wealth, but create none. Those members of society, who create cre-ate all wealth and possess Done are the working class. When the working work-ing class go U market to sell, all they have for sale Is their !aior-rwer of bralo and brawn, which they must tM.ll to the capitalist, who owns tho means which the workers need access ac-cess to. In order that they may liv. The capitalist class through their own-eirbip own-eirbip of tho workers' nians of life, deny theiu their freedom. The working work-ing class aro wage-slaves. "Working-run "Working-run have no country. Hy freedom u nvant fn-e buying and selling," The workers aro forced to sell their labor-power on credit, byt the week or |