Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-03

be paid for bunch making for the same
time, and two dollars and a half for
cigarmaking. And 50 on, from time to
time, rs Gronlund has it; "The workers
in each department settle among them.
selves the rate Of remuneration which
shall he paid to ntSktled labor and to
the various grddeS of skilled labor they
further calculate for themselves how
much labor will be embodied in their
products, and from these data the re-
Enumeration to be paid to each worker
is a Simple natter Of .fWucS.' Do you
see now, Mr. Norris;
While am at it, may as well read a
little more Gronlund to my critics, and
thus settle this discussion once for all,
so far at least as my standpoint is con-
cerned, leaving no room for hasty mis-
interpretations: "The prices Of the
products states }lr. Gronlund very
properly, 'is a matter that vitally con
Germs the whole people, and should be
fixed by its central regulative organ.
The rate Of remuneration and the hours
Of labor, however, only concern the
mpntS. As prOducts are received
or as services are rendered labor checks
would be issued TOR perhaps such money
a, we use now, which then will have the
same function as the labor checks;
each check will represent so and 50
many normal duLH Of common labor, and
during each year az many checks are
issued as correspond to the days Of
labor actually pTfOrmed Of
course in inntltutmg the new "grada-
ton in the labors Of professional men,
Socialists will make allowance for the
many years If study these men have
needed to properly qualify themselves.
But this will apply also to skilled labor,
as both kinds Of labor are but multiplied
common Hbor.
This will be the glorious achieve
ment Of the co operative common
wealth; that the whole proceeds of
Labor will he distributed exclusively
among those who do the labor But
Socialist workmen should especially re-
member; that common prudence should
make them turn the cold shoulder to
the idea Of MeWiy just wages, and
again. should make them satisfied with
! the present ratio of Wages-0t all ereRtS
/ till a more perfect and at the same time
erpediet graduation Of tabor has been
/ perfected
Both Mr.. Norris and Mrs. Woodman
are somewhat sticking about my use of
! the terms "competition" and ''individ-
uaIism," although they must have well
| understood that | use them in exactly
| the same sense as the one uses the term
"emulatlOn,' the other the term "indi-
viduality' respectively. So long as my
true meaning was clear and plain to all,
| | do not care to waste any time in dis
cussing the propriety of the terms as |
used them, and on that subject would
refer my critics to some authority on
rhetoric or logic. But even on that
ground | am rather sure that | would
hold my own; but do not let me tread
on forbidden ground A propos | am
here very much reminded of Goethe's
sCathing satire on the pedantry of the
old school professors, which may as
well apply here: Where thoughts are
missing, there a word comes Just in
time to fill their place.
Mr.. Stahl is right says Mrs. Wood
man, Fundamentally and emphatically
right. He knows exactly what he is
/ lulhlllE dIoult GUN, dLluNlllS DIS IL Is,
my fair critic sides with me on all ma
terial points and opposes COmrade Stahl
1t necessarily follows that she does not
know what she is talking about She
in her womanly imagination fancies
herself in the midst of elysian fields of
leisure and plenty, which cooperative
commonwealth will have created after
centuries of existence for the delight
and enjoyment of humanity, while
am considering the hard, cold facts OF
to-day and what is immediately expedi,
ent for Socialist agitation. A platform
and especially a sOCialistic one is, after
ALL an instrument for propaganda ad
dressing itself principally to a public
largely Indifferent and even hostile t.
the cause which the platform is in
tended to serve. AS matter of com
mon Ir1u}euce, therefore, to use Mr.
GrOnlund's term, no plank should be
embodied which is calculated or tend t
unnecessarily widen the breach already
existing between Socialists and Others
by enunCiating certain truths IN d form
repulsiye to the common notions o.
Justice and right. We Socialists SHOULD
treat the large Indifferent public as {
good teacher would treat a child, or
doctor treat a patient, by instilling int,
them such doses of truth or medicin,
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