The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-17

we are part The part we as
workers may take varies as the
conditions vary. At times it
seems as though we had the ruling
I power, at other times we seem to
have lost all semblancc of power
that we at one time may have
held. The conditions that pre-
| vail in the industrial realm having
either good or bad effect accord
ing to our economic stats at the
time the conditions change. So
long as all of us have work. that
we may consume the articles OF
production, we find that our
society is prosperous; but Just as
soon as we lack work. then we are
confronted with a condition of af-
fairs, that may in the near future
be menance to the welfare of all.
The society of to-day is pre-. emf
ncntly an industrial one. It's aims
as such do not take into consider
alton the welfare of all the people
as IS so glibly set forth; but has its
life and being in its right to take
from the one and give to the other
thus evolving itself into two classes
the interests of one being the
direct opposite of the other. We
find the men control the industries
of the country. sitting in con
tfol IN its seat of govern
ment, watching the interests of
class of which they are Il part. and
directing the law making power to
do its bidding, while we the mem.
bers of the working people sit idly
by and allow them to con time TO
place before us set of conditions
that have tendency to degrade
and humi!iate, to tear down rather
than build up.
1t seems at present apparent to
all that have given the question
/ any thought, for the time being
at least, that we are going back
ward instead Of moving forward.
/ but how long this can continue. is
not easy to discern but of this fact
! we may rest assured that the in
teIligencc within the working class
/ cannot and what is more will not
/ allow It's members to be placed in
an unjust position, after it has
! learned the direct cause of the law
that has the making of these in
/ justices.
/ The conditions under which the
/ wage system operates. is one that
leads into slavery. it cannot as
sumo even in a small measure to
act fairly between the person who
is wage worker and the person.
who is the receiver of the product
which the wage worker produces.
do not claim that the wage
worker is any more of a product
than is the intellectual worker
they are one and the same so long
as they return to society a labor of
either one kind or the other that
IS useful in the field of production.
hut there are men who do not re-
turn in services any good but to
themselves; they care not what in
justices may be heapcd upon all
the people so long as there ends
and aims are not tam percd with
they may enjoy wealth they have
/ not produced. that they NAV live
III ldIcness and ease at the expense
of those who have Iaborcd hard tn
bring from the earth the good
hlngs that are so nccdful to all in
order to make life worth living.
and earth a paradise.
Notwithstanding our ability to
produce the needs of life. and our
knowledge of what our life should
be, vet we are denied the right to
/ ENJOY 1t because a few must retain
/ the harbaTous methods that by
/ rights belong to systems of the
past We have advanced so
rapidly in industry. and yet 50
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