It crops up in all manner of ways, as in this strike, in ways that disconcert all the plans and all the schemes of those who would deny or ignore it. The same as, regardless of the quantity of money there may be in the money market, pork chops will fetch a smaller price if the pork chop market is overstocked, so will the merchandise labor fetch a smaller price, however much money there may be, if the labor market is overstocked. And capitalism does that very thing. Privately-owned improved machinery, and concentration of plants, ruthlessly displace labor and overstock the labor market. They will take care of a horse, but let the workingmen die.
Labor is cheap, and it is treated that way under capitalism.
Under socialism, standing upon that high scientific plane, we see a higher morality. So treating him, the wageworker of today becomes a part owner in the machinery of production, and, being part owner of the machinery of production, he gets the full return of his labor. He is then free from the shackles that compel him to accept wages. He becomes the boss of the machine, whereas today he is its appendage. Under the present industrial system, where not the masses but the few control the means of production, it can lift up the individual only so long as his education is superior to his fellows'.