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Show of capitalism, in their astounding dishonest dis-honest vv or folly, or .hoth, try to ox-plain ox-plain mailers by naying - that there h.i hvn an overproduction of Roods. Just fancy ; Too nuirh food, clothing nnrl shelter, whlb hundreds o( thousands thou-sands of men, women and children arc hungry, rapged. and homeless! How-cjer, How-cjer, the mass of the workcrsnre content con-tent t .) swallow the extraordinary yarns served out by these loglcnL ex pon ihs of the dismal science, Thou: sands of employes arc discharged from every branch of trade, and stnr; vnilnn stares them In the-face They rend mute despair on the pale, pinched pinch-ed faces of their wives and children. They must get a job at all costs, consequently con-sequently they compete with their brothers who are still fortunate enough to be employed, offering to do the same work for a smaller wage. REFORMS ARE STUMBLING BLOCKS TO THE WORKERS Trades Unionism on the other hand does not see the necessity for the abolition of capitalism, maintaining that the application of certain palliatives pallia-tives will be sufficient to redress the workers' grievances. One of these palliatives pal-liatives la the fiifofeement by law of a "fair wage" clause In all labor contracts. con-tracts. Our present purpo?e is to demonstrate that workers will never pet a fair wage under capitalism because be-cause an economic law exists which e'efeats every attempt to secure a general and permanent amelioration of .he workers' lot. What is this economic law? It Is tho law of surplm ysliie the production pro-duction of commodities for profit In-I In-I ftep.d of for use. This is the secret of capitalist exploitation, and the cause of ninety-nine per cent of the degradation, vice and crime with which humanity is afflicted. The economic law of profit Is founded found-ed upon the institution of the private ownershln of the means of life. The land and the instrum?nts of production, pro-duction, distribution and exchange, without which human life U imn09-sHile, imn09-sHile, belong to a few people. Th? i r-st of the people the workers possess pos-sess nothing but the slreugth anl skill required to produce those things which nre necessary for their well-being. well-being. They must therefore go cap In hand to the property-owners (the capitalists! for leave to use land and machinery required in the production cf wealth. This the capitalists will giant readily enough, provided they can make a profit from the result of the workers' toil. That is to say, the workers are compelled to accept v.Tiges of less value than.ibat of the commodltle.s they uroduco. Were this not the ca the capitalists would have no inteve.-j in employing them. Cau"e of Panics. Hence It e'early follows that the total wages ret rived bj nil the workers work-ers are InsefPcient to buy from- the open maiS-e'. all the provisions, clothing, cloth-ing, furniture, etc.. which they have manufactured. A verv laise surplus of these necessary ibings is being constantly stored up. as. obviously, the capitalists, who are few in mini-'her. mini-'her. can consume only n small part of the output. The real body of consumers con-sumers are the workers, and they form at least niuetv ner cent of the community. But. as we have noted, their power of consumption is very largely restricted by I he inadequacy of their wages. There is on hand, then, a surplus which the capitalists are too few to use. and the workers too poor to buy. A crisis takes place. The supporters |