The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-21
ANNOUNCEMENT
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of wealth, the landlords were the rul
ing class and social institutions were
determined 10y them in accordance with
their Interests. When the great trans.
formation Of land tools into factory
machinery took place at the close of the
18th and beginning of the 10th century
this machinery of the modern factory
became the most essential element in the
production Of wealth, and its owners
became the ruling class.
When the owners OF industrial capital
had gained their victory they vet about
establishing n society in accordance with
their -intcrests. They formed Mt this
time the class necessary to the basic
industrial processes of society, since the
accumulation aud organization Of capi
tai was the most essential thing mt this
historical period. Later on the capital
ist class laid down its function as or.
ganizcr and director of industry and
became simply a share.holding class.
Hired waRe.workers and superintend
ents perform all the essential social
processes. The capitalist class having
handed over it's function TO the work.
ing class, the latter becomes not only
the most essential, but the only essen.
tial class. The material interests Of
this class involve 1t in continuous strua.
gle with the capitalists. Sooner or lat
or this struggle In transferred to the
political field where the laboring class
in represented by the socialist party.
having as its object the capture Of the
powers of government and social con.
troll in order that it may use them in the
interest Of that class.
According to this philosophy the social
dinamic which compels advance is that
Of production. Every new invention
and every Improvement in the organi
cation Of industry starts in motion q
series Of influences which do not cease
until they have reached and affected
every institution within the society of
WhAcu thty ipfm thF iuuuStTiht DhSlS,
During the last 100 years mechanic al
improvements have multiplied many
fold the productive power of each IN.
dividual worker. But the army Of
unemployed prevent the price Of labor
power M a whole from arising much
above the point necessary to maintain
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q producer. Consequently the workers
who use these improved instruments
receive but q small fraction of the great.
ly multiplied product. They have no
choice under the present system but TO
accept these conditions. While pro.
duction is for sale in the competitive
market only the cheapest can continue
to produce. II the workers are to pro.
duee, and they anne live without pro.
ducing, since they have no power of
ownership to take from other produc-
ers, they must gain access to these high.
ly perfected tools. Hence they compete
with one another for the privilege of
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power to the owners of the tools. They
finally accept a wage.contract by which.
for the privilege of producing their
own wages during the first hour or two
Of work, they continue at work for
many hours more, producing surplus
which they use.
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take other than mechanical forms. The
modern trust IL, to some extent, to be
considered rs such an improvement.
Socialist writers pointed out over a
half century ago the self. obstructive
character Of competition. II was then
foreseen that one Of the inherent char.
acteristics of large industry was ITS
greater economy as compared with
smaller competitors. Consequently the
large industry tended TO eliminate all
smaller competitors within the circle Of
its market. improvements in transpor.
tation, communication, and storage rap.
idly extended the circle of the market
TO national and for some products, at
least, to international dimensions. When
however, there are sufficient plants con.
to more than supply any circle
OF the market and competition is re-
duced TO a few industrial units, the
wastes of competition and the destruc.
t~iveness of competitive war become so
evident that combination is inevitable.
The result liz some one of the various
forms Of combination by which compe.
tition is stifled aud monopoly establish.
ed.
The wage'workers seek political vie.