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Show the eMrn sti-rcoiypin pVmt th-y found metal in tlie puis with a fire l.uminj.'" aJl Hint lmm tlijtely after the explosion. Many a man lias lcn han.wd on cli cum uiuiti.il evidence loss conclusive than tlic.-o Idtd of testimony tes-timony ai;aln-t tin.- Ucs Angles Times iivcgrlty. people. Socialists" paity paper.--, misleading on economics. EVILS OF COMPETITION Entails Waste, Cuts Down Wages, and Leads to Displacement of Labor Also Hits Cockroach Capitalists. Of all tbe commonplace copybook maxims which arc tnuKht to ih children chil-dren In our schools, none Is more con-cIummIv con-cIummIv c.nt radioed by their alter experience than tbe obi proverb of: "Wa.-u- not, want not." ( Having left the ordered life of the schoolroom, the child enter Into the chaos of competitive coifimerclallsui, where be is led to belbM- that compe- ' titb.n is the life of trade and that J Hie waste which It entails is a neccs- j sary and Inevitable accompaniment of business processes. I Hut to the ruoie thouebtful of Ihe i workers there comca a lime when j they heln to uestloii tbo sacre'lness and Fnrtclty of n system which has j for one of Us permanent features an enormous waste ot" lives and rc-fjiiirces. rc-fjiiirces. Tboy find themselves in the mld.it of a u.st biilne!s organization which j lias for its ostensible, object the supplying sup-plying of society with the soods which it requires to 'satisfy the need houses, food, clothes, coal and the machinery ma-chinery and Implements, which are used in the production and transHrta-tion transHrta-tion of these articles. Surely then, H should be the object of iho nation 10 see thai the feeding, cbublnp, and housing of its people is carried on in the most efficient manner man-ner ossible and lhat the labor, machinery, ma-chinery, and natural resouices arc-utilized arc-utilized with the minimum of waste. The Socialists alone possess the key to the problems presented by tho( !tnNii;onlsin lH.-tween conteniKrary nxiral precepts and commercial practices. prac-tices. He knows that, despite the lino phrases nnd pious expressions of the j defenders of the exlst'.nc system, the real moilve, tho doniinaDi incentive, of those who own and control the Industries In-dustries and business of'tbe country Is ont the sat 1 3 fart Ion of the people's peo-ple's needs, but the production of profit, and only in so far as they In terferft with the making of profits are the wastes of competition removed More ilrne is spent In selling corn-mod corn-mod Hies than In making them; vast hordes of commercial travellers aud salesmen, whose labor Is that of endeavoring en-deavoring lo wrest trade from coin petitors, are kept by commercial firms; bundrels of thousands of unemployed un-employed woikers eagerly scan the advertisement ctdnmns of the news- j papers and flock to ihe doors of tbr labor exchanges and factories vainly endeavoring to secure employment; thousands of tons of food are destroy-ed destroy-ed to keep up market prices; cotlon crops are burnt in America for the same purpose, and in ti:nes of commercial com-mercial depn ssion factories and machinery ma-chinery lie idle, while tho workers suffer from lack of the things which their lalMir, given access to the machines, ma-chines, could readily produce I-ven in the most skilled trades this waste of unemployed labor is rife, labor Having machinery is continually dls placing the skilled artisans, one striking strik-ing illustration of this is furnished by the Hollormakers' society, this union of highly skilled workmen had during the last year no less than 10.-000 10.-000 of iis lo.tnbi members unemployed, this slate of affairs being largely due to the introduction of pneum 1 tic tools. Hut while commercialism finds it more profitable to add to the coin petition peti-tion pievalling In the labor murket, it is at the same lime, by the formation forma-tion of trusts and syndicates ami the ciushlng out of the small capitalists and shopkeepers, largely abolishing competition among capitalists. Far from nieaulng as it would in a Socialist system of society, more leasurp and gieater wealth lor all tho people, todav this doing away with waste will bring more suffering and anxiety to the workers. During the next few cars we shall undoubtedly see the formation of trusts and combines In every branch of trade and a consequent increase In tho number of unemployed workmen work-men Already we have .een this process at work in many Industries; railway agreements have shown that the employers em-ployers find It more profitable to coin- j bine than ti compete. 1 The outlook for tho workers under capitalism is indeed dismal, tbo growth of combination among capa-lln' capa-lln' s must cnlvetably mean more competition lor employment among the workers. Tin Ir only h"pc lies in Ihelr learning learn-ing the b-ssnn from their masters that combination is better than competition and In their joining together to establish es-tablish h t-ocial Metcm based upon the common ownership of the means of productli n. so lhat the labor and resources of the nutlon may be employed em-ployed to secure communal happiness Instead of protlti for dividend seekers. Only thus can all Ihe wastes of competition com-petition I ri moved and the. t-qualor, want, and unemployment of the workers altoMshed. (.'ombiiied Industry Is the most etllcb nt foruj of production, produc-tion, if ensures a greater output with a lessened expenditure of labor. It. brings beiitbclal n sults lo Its owners: when tlm whole of the workers nre Joint owners of Industry under Socialism Social-ism It will bring beneficial results to them: ""HI then It will only Increase In-crease their weary toll and hopeless poverty and continue tb curse of competition tor employment The New World Experience teaches that dynamite explosions an- Mhy things, frequently resorted to by the usurping poaerd to draw attention away from their own misdeeds. It was bo recently In Portugal where court circles, gyllty of embezzlement. Tclt that the end of their tether. Tlie leant that the reports re-ports of the blowing up of the nonunion non-union Los Angeles Times Justify one to Bay that it is passing suspicious that, as reported. Immediately after the explosion, "pressmen walked Into another building down the street where there were two modern presses concealed from observation by drawn blinds, tbrew back the canvas covering cover-ing and started the presses." Tho further report U to the effect that . "when the utercoty pors stepped Into |