The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-08-15

improved waNs of making things?
We IN IL fad an answer to tins
qu,2 Iau i We 90 back again to The
'lm4 ven these great inventions
first cam lnto use and watch the
changes tat then took place.
, J. Ich Iirorar, at that time, made the
Nin'e of All artlcl", AMI there vas
no dispute abou, lis ownership.
y npn the machines for making
hoes had been introduced, each
IN made bat a small part of the
whole shoe. One man attended to
he c"Iine thlt ran the machine;
ano her Gr:l the boll re-, and yet
Others prepa., d the lea her. Each
article was made through the coop
Grafton of a large number Of labor
ers.
To express the change that had
aiken place in the words of tech
meal economist-producti0n was
now carried on collectively, where
as it had formerly been conducted
individually.
While each man had worked
alone, he owned the tools with
which he worked. But when many
worked together in one shop, with
these new tools aud machines it be
came impossible for each one to
own the entire factory: and as the
article could not he made without
the nse of The entire factory, any
thing less would be useless.
Starting from the commencement
OF the present system of society, we
are nov able to view the process Of
evolution. First: The laborer own
ed his tools and used them himself
IN the production Of goods. Sec.
cond: the machine was invented
that only produced part of an ar
ticle and the owner was unable to
attend all the machines that were
required to produce the whole pro-
duct. Third:-H was compelled
to purchase labor power 10 operate
these machines. THUS the labor
er became divorced from hl- tools
and was unable to produce without
the consent OF the class who owned |
the machines.
Now that the owners of the ma
chimes became the masters of indus.
try, let us see, how evolution has
carried them onward to the pres
ent. If We apply tie law of com.
petition to the owners of these ma
chimes we discover three things.
First We see that only the man who
buys the cheapest labor power can
run his machines at all, as other
wise he would he undersold and
ruined. Second: only the man who
has the best machine can produce.
finally no ore can afford to bny
abOr power unless he can make a
profit on IL and IN order to make a
profit, the articles proluced must
De sold tor more than what was
paid for labor power and raw ma
,erial.
A the laboring class became de- ,
oenden. upon the owning class, 1t
s on y natural that this owning
;lass would rule. Now, when this
,al italist class first b gan to rule
hey really organlz d and directed
Industry. The owners of the great
actories were The ones who gather
d the liborers together, I'd drilled
hem IN working comparatively.
These owners competed with each
'ther to find new and improved
Methods of production, and aided
,rea,ly IN the advance of Industry.
little by little, smaller firms were
orced to 60 out OF business. be-
ause the larger ones could produce
heaper. The income from these
reat plants was so large, that the
wners no longer needed to act :s
heir own overseers and snperinten- l
ents. So they choose from among
he laborers, the brightest and
harpest men, and set them to work L
, control and organize their fellow A
'orkers.
Then the corporations came in.
he stockholders in the corpora.
ons do not need to know ANYTHING {
bout the business, in which they
old shares, and never have any \
ing to say about it's actual mango
ent save indirectly and al long In a..