Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-10-27

HlSll OF FcGllC INDUSTRIES, SOLUTION
for Emancipation of Laboring Men.
From Saturdays Daily.
THE abolition of capital and the in
PRODUCTION of socialism is the only
possible solution of the emancipation
of the laboring man. declared John
NJ Work of Des Moines, candidate for
governor of the state of Iowa upon the
socialist ticket at meeting held last
evening in the Woodmen hall in the
Taylor building. There was a good
sized audience in attendance and close
attention was given to the speaker.
Mr.. Work speaks in peculiarly
quiet and effective manner. There is
no attempt to make a display of ora
tory on to win applause from his audi
tors by any special burst of eloqunce
in language or thought. Granting the
premises from which he starts he
makes a closely thought out and ar
gumentative presentation of his SUBJ
ject
The address was in part as follows:
Every product is saturated with
human labor. The lead pencil which
use may have been made by an I'M
skilled laborer and it may have taken
him long time to make it. Again, it
may have been made by skilled la
borer who worked more rapidly and
did it in half the time The value of
a lead pencil is fixed by the average
amount OF time that it takes the maxi
ers of the pencils to make each indi-
| vidual one.
The value of every other product
| of human labor is fixed in the same
way by the average amount of human
labor which it takes to produce it,
The laborer is entitled to the full
value of the product which he pro-
duces and yet the great working class
! do not receive by at least one-half,
/ the value OF the product which it pro-
| duces. To obtain for the laborer this
| full value is the purpose of the social
ist party.
when laboring man goes to a
/ capitalist to secure job the capitalist
says to him not in words but he vir-
tually says it, nevertheless; in one or
two hours the profit on what you pro-
! duce will pay me for what | pay you.
4 In one hour more the profit you pro-
| duce will pay for the cost OF the raw
goods which you will use all day ali
the rest of the day you will work and
4 produce for me for absolutely nothing.
4 This profit is mine not because have
any good reason or argument for maxi
ing it mine, but because ] have you at
my mercy and in my power
There is a fiction IN this country
that all men are free. The only free.
dom that is guaranteed the working
4 man is freedom from money. The cap.
i italist says, This is my factory. | OWL
4 the raw material, the tools and the
/ building You have the freedom OF
working for me or not as you choose
4 The only condition upon which you
may work for me, however, is that you
will give me three or four hours OF
your time absolutely for nothing. Il
4 you don't want to work for me you dc
4 not have to, but am sure you will just
as soon as you get good and hungry.
. Every working man is a slave tc
capital, bound with bail and chain
There is but one, day in the year when
he is a free man and that is election
day. Upon that day he seizes the key
to his freedom, unloclts the door, puts
on heavier ball and chain and locks
up the door again
1.-THE time is at hand when the work
ing man will emancipate himself. How
BY the public ownership and popular
management Of public industries. This
is the only possible means OF emancipa
ton. Every year thousands of work
ingmen and their families starye. 9th
er thousands are starved half the time
others are hungry all the time.
Trades unionism has done grea
work for the laboring people of tn
world by drawing the diffused and iso
lated workmen together and it ha
taught them that their interests ar,
mutual and that they must stand to
gether. The one great gain has beel
in shorter hours of labor and NOR
time for self improvement and educa
ton. 1t has given an increase il
wages, but capital has at once put Vi
the price of the necessaries of life
thereby multiplying the advantag
gained in the advance in wages. Their
is no possible emancipation for the la
boring man except by the abolition o
capital and the introduction of social
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