Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-04
More SOciaIistic Pointers

SOC1ali Sun, nor any OGner lSn, eau
make people mentally, morally OF
physically equal, but it can and will
give all an equal opportunity and a
chance to develop the best there is in
each and all
Every person should have for a day
labor Just what day S labor produc-
es. This is what the Socialist means
when he says the laborer should have
the whole of his product. or its equiv
alent.
Oh. yes. l hear You say, but what
should constitute days labor2 So
many hours, but not necessarily the
same number OF hours for all work, as
| hear you ask who will do the dirty
work. Strongly in point ask who
does It now2 The Socialist contention
that is under cooperative common
wealth we would produce better liv-
ing with two hours labor than we do
now by working all the time. Sup
pose it would require four hours (but
it positively would notl to produce
what we now enjoy, we could say two
hours in the dirty work for your
"dirty noses" should be days la
Dor, and six or eight hours for book
keeper Then. Mr.. ''Wild West"
which would you prefer Ten to one
il you we're ambitious to develop along
praiseworthy lines, you would want to
join your 'dirty noses or "scab''
them out of their job
earnestly believe that If we were.
organized into complete Socialist
(co-operative) using
the very best machinery (labor's pro-
duct) if we would eliminate every
needless occupation, in other words, If
we adopted the method adopted by the
trusts and force every able bodied man
to do something needful and product
i've and work the time now compelled
by the trusts that we would produce
and enjoy at least ten times as much
as We now enjoy. have seen it some
where and / believe it, that If a sold
ier's ration was issued to every man
and woman in tour" boosted nation,
leaving out the forty or fifty million
we would find that this ma
zion has never produced enough wheat |
and meat to do this.
Let us say the average working day |
to be four hours. Then by the above
or similar adjustment Of the hours
that should constitute days labor in
the different works of life in accord
ance with the supply and demand of
those seeking employment, with every
n an and woman free to choose accord
ing to his or her liking their own oc-
,upation, life would be a pleasure
There will be compulsion in this too
Is everyone must work or starve and
consequently everyone will be anxious
% chose that which he can do best as
he time of living in the sweat of his
,rother's face will be forever gone.
such "things" as tram ps and million
Tres which your boasted civilization
christian at that is so decorated with
would forever disappear, Everyone
would be guaranteed au opportunity to
work, whereas now II can't get a
OBJ, is heard on every hand.
Many falsely believe that everything
will be turned into public crib, and
hat everyone will be invited to help
imself as he sees lit, and many as
alsely believe that everything is to be |
ivided mp, for which you are not al
ogether to blame, as the papers your
cad belong to the robbery class, and ,
GU don t know it, so you take their
ord for it, and vote your class into
age slavery by believing these lies. {
| have already shown in former !
rticle that commodities under Social .
IN must sell at their labor cost. and
have also tried to show what is
leant by labor cost. Under So I
alism then, if you, 'sWild West"
louh work a day, you would be enti- Q
ed to, and could demand the average
roduct of a days labor of any COM /