The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-08
AFFECT: r Of. MACHINERY =
OF OUTPUT Of WORLD
Some Facts Worth Knowing
About Productions and
Cost Of Living.
Statistics Show That Men Who
Do Not Work Get Benefit
of Others Labor.

New York, Oct. e.-According to
figures recently compiled the following
facts have been discovered:
Since 1850 improved machinery has
increased the productivity of labor
fortyfold. The late Mr.. Gladstone said:
by the aid of machinery the manufac-
turing power Of the world doubles
every seven years."
Since 1850 the machinery of England
has done the work of 100000, 900 men as
they worked century ago. According
to the census reports Of the United
States the aggregate manufacturing
power in 1900 was 11,300,081 horse
power, as compared with 2,o0o, 900 horse
power in 1870.
Professor Huxley, discussing the
marvellous productivity of the machine.
| said: IF this wonderful productivity
OF wealth is not to be used in better
ing the condition Of the working people,
but is to continue to pour into the
pockets OF the rich, then I would hail
the advent OF some kindly comet that
would sweep the whole thing away"
The late Senator Hanna said: 1.-THE
production in the United States is
one-thlrd larger than our consump-
tion.''
Senator Chauncey Depew in 1900 said:
THE American people produced $780,
600 more than they consumed. 1t is
because of this surplus production Of
all civilized countries that the guns
are laundering at the gates of other
nations that foreign markets may be
opened up
Do the people who produce this vast
surplus get the benefit of it? Let US
see: Thomas W. Lawson, late partner
of John and William Rockefeller, rec
emily said that in a single deal made
last year they made a clean profit of
| $4,000, 900.
Since 1897 the necesSaries OF life
| have on an average advanced 80 per
cent, while wages have on an average
advanced but 10 per cent during the
same period. The census reports show
| that the average annual product of
each worker was, in 1900, valued at
! $2,450, while the average wage he re-
ceived was $437. To get 81 for himself
the worker must create Sc worth of
value.
The statistics show that in 1850 the
total wealth Of the United States was
| $4,000, 100000. The producers share
| was 62h per cent; the non-producers'
share was 371k per cent.
In 1904 the total wealth is about
$10o,oo0o0o. The producers share is
! estimated at 10 per cent; the non-pro-
| ducers' about 80 per cent.
ia tn,
100000 famiAes;- 8,3e5, 900 families live
In rented houses. and the houses of A.
7OO,00O families are mortgaged
DR.. spahr, the statistician, says;
| One per cent of the American people
own "a per cent of all the wealth"
Since 1850 crime in the United States
has increased 600 per cent and insanitv
700 pc cent.
| Dun's Review estimates that IS per
cent of the smaller business men sooner
or later fail.
| Rabbi Hirsch, the scholar and orator
of Chicago, says: THE powerful Of
| earth should realize that we are in the
| midst OF the same conditions that
! existed in Frence which brought on the
! revolution The RICH and powerful
classes In France refused to take
! warning from what was going on about
them and relied upon the power which
| they fancied they had. The revolution
came like the eruption of volcano,
and we in America should take warm
ming. Right now we are standing over
a volcano which may burst forth with
all the fury of ,Pelee."
If you are voter, what are you go
! ing to do about 1t?