The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-05-26

tnat some OF the pest OF chicago men, DOS
sessing both money and brain, think 90 too
While in the foregoing have admitted
that capital and labor are closely related and
ought nor to fall out by the way, still dc
not wish to be understood as advancing the
absurd theory put forth by the iron masters
OF the East In the late strikes shat capital
owns labor 70 certain extent" not any
thank you, far be it from me, and withered
be the hand that would write such an ides
and palsied the tongue that would give !,
utterance. Let such ideas be buried with its
twin relic Of barbarism-slavery.
In its time, capital did own labor, one kind
Of labor, but that is passed, henccforyard 4
never can and never shall, our course lik.
that Of the unfettered eagle il nov onward
and upward
We claim that the time will come, and
wish all to mark cell our assertion, when
LABOR WILL BE MASTER, not over capital in
its negative state, but master in its own
seld not master in any arbitrary or tyran.
nical sense, but by cooperation fully ana
fairly developed, receive the full and first
reward Of labor, and each in his own trade,
sitting as it were under bis own vine and fie
tree be enabled to enjoy that which rightly
belongs 70 them, in its fullest sense-the
fruits of their own toll
CAPITAL RoBs LABOR.
A recent Eastern writer states IA sub
stance as follows The gross injustice done
by associated capital to labor car be sh
by single statement, which Is taken from
the last census report OF Massachusetts.
According to this report there are three e..
adjustments in that state for the manufac-
ture of cotton goods The united capital EN-
ployed n the establishments is x490, COO
the value Of the materials consumed is
$22S,5l5, the number of operative employed,
male and female, 1925, the amount paid to
them for their labor. is S73,s50, and the
value Of the goods they produced is $685.
900. Now, reader, take your pencil and
cast mp the different sides Of this statement,
and distribute them where they belong, and
you will see that the material consumed and
the labor, putting both together, cost 1908, :
626, the rdlae Of the goods MANUFACTURED i,
1915, 200, and hence the clear profit to tn
capitsist Is s212.s75. The reader will
notice at once that the profits are nearly
half as great as the capital invested If We
suppose there are fifteen partners to these
profits, owners Of the three factories, il
gives to each one of the fifteen the hand
some sum Of $l4,172, or, if we deduct the
interest at six per cent. on the capital inves-
ed, it still gives profit to each one Of the
capitalists Of $l2,2l2. Who says il is not
time than the workingmen Of America de-
manded their rights Bear in mind the
above is no imaginative or fancy sketch, but
one of the "official documents" Of that re.
liable old State, Massachusetts,, and thai
these enormous profits have been wrung
from the sweat and blood of the over work.
ed and unrared for mill operatives of her
SOIL Under such q system of things the
puritanical money changers may well blush
at the assertion Of the Charleston Mercury
that New England factory towns supplied
southern cities with nymphs de pace.
LABOR SHOULD HAVE ITS PROPER SHARE.
Now, let US look on the other side Of the
picture. We have seen how much capital
has been able to make in q single year from
its investments; let Us see how the account
stands with labor Certainly, If there il tc
the cooperation desired, and which some
maintain already exists between labor and
capital, than labor ought to receive ito share
of the benefit that accrue. The whole
amount paid for labor. both male and Re.
male, was s73, $50; there were 800 opera.
tives. This of course gives to each one the
sum Of $226.24 for a whole years work
the time covered by the census report),
Now, it strikes US there is a vast deal Of
difference between the individual earning Of
the capitalist and laborer, saying nothing
about aching bones, &c. Two hundred and
twenty six dollars and twenty four cents for
4 year of life destroying toil-and twelve
thousand two hundred and twelve dollars
'or---well, because they have the capitali
Again. of these 1926 laborers, l57 were
males, and leg females. OF course the
males earned the larger amount OF wages in
he division, and the females much the less.
Had the profits been divided equally, not to
,ay equitably, herween the lsborers and the
capitalists employing them, the former
would have got for their average pay $787
instead of 1927. ANY one can see, from
his very simple, direct and truthful illss-
ration, how unequally, unjust and tyfan.
1ically the present relations between the
father and son--capitsl and labor-operate
against the latter, and what an urgent need
exists for revising these relations ct ence,
and establishing them upon basis Of justice
and equality. Labor ought to have chance
in this country. Opportunity is what every
body Graves, and in nine cases out Of ten
il is ell that makes the difference betweer
men who labor.
Ccumunicafsd
THE ARTS AND SCHEMES. 4.
The rapid progress Of the United States