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Show BUSINESS FOR PROFITS AND (NOT PHILANTHROPY. C'apltuli.vts are in business for profit j.i'il not for philanthropy, therefore thi y will reduce the wages of the employe I lo the figure quoted by th? tmeniplovod. If th employed show inns of discontent, out they mii6t go to make room for cheaper and more contented "hands." And so tiir ghastly game goes on till the mrplns Is got rid of somehow, when, of course, there is another "revival rf trade." As time goes on, however, the formation for-mation of trust6. the use of "labor saving" appliances, etc., intensifies this compet't.'yn for employment by throwing larg'.T and larger bodies of r.ien and women out of work; wltn the re-4.i t that periods of so-called prosperity become shorter, and periods per-iods of nJversIty longer. The law of wages, which Karl Marx .first enunciated enun-ciated in fcientlflc formula, will continue con-tinue to act though all the workers in the world formed themselves Into i gigantic Trade Union and forced I up the rate of wages. Increased wages do not. mean Increased purchasing pur-chasing power. In what way would the average worker be benefited by r.i! Increase of pay from $12 to $15 per week, if $15 would buy only as much as. If not less than, what could previously be bought for $12? Enough has been said to prove to iiny worker with a grain of common sense in his or her anatomy that no good will come of striving for a "fair day's wage for a fair day 6 work" so long as society is" built on prl-v&ie prl-v&ie mouopoly and the profit making irinclple. What the workers mu6t do Is to become their own masters. In order that industry may be. organized or-ganized to produce for use instead of tor profit. But before the present industrial chaos can he reduced to order, it will be necessary for the workers to nationalize or collectively collective-ly own the land and the instruments of. production aud exchange. This is the Socialist solution of the problem, ami the only means whereby every worker will receive the full social value of bis or her labor, which Is the true definition of a ' Fair Wage." Weekly People The Meaning of Socialism. When the bread and butter question has been settled for the vast majority major-ity of the people, then we will haie Socialism, when that day Is at hand w. will have Industrial freedom. Every Ev-ery number of society shall bavo the rishv to work, and all those who work ?-hnll receive the full Social value of tl.( ir toil. When working men no longer need worry of the morrow, as to how they are going to get bread for their wives and children, then they can look around them aud understand something some-thing of the world In which they live. They can delve into the silences, learn the arts, music, etc. Some may ask, how are we going to come into this future day and how Is this to come about? The laws of evolution nre bringing ns nearer Socialism each day; the great complex machines which are owned by the big corporations of today to-day and which the great mass of the people need access to. In order that they may live, are making the onward march to Socialism possible. But the trouble today lies in this, that the few who own the machines of production, milk a profit from the toil of every Individual laborer. Therefore, There-fore, production Is being carried on for the profit of the few. In order that the many may suffer, and live In poverty pov-erty and desnalr. The remedy for the social evils of today is vry simple. What the workers work-ers nee-' do Is change the means of prod-.tion from the hands of the captains of industry, and make them the property of the useful members of society. I. e , the working class. Mr. Workingman and woman we can do this by organizing on the political field into the Socialist Labor Party, and on the industrial field Into the International Workers of the World. Let eery class conscious working-man working-man regardless of rcllcton. nationality national-ity or color put his shoulder to the wheel, in order that we may free our selves from the bonds of wa?o slavery slav-ery and proclaim tho Socialist Republic. Re-public. HOWARD HALL. |