The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
What Human Life Depends On.

1919 II III
these assured are freedom. culture
and higher human development pos
slble. To produce. food. clothing
or shelter, and and machinery are
needed. Lane alone does not salts
fy human needs. Human labor
creates machinery and applies il to
the land for the production of raw
material and food. Whoever has con-
troll of land and machinery controls
human labor, and with it human
life and liberty.
The Cause Of Glass Rule.
Today the machinery and the
minority. So long as machinery Is
land used for industrial are
owned by a rapidly decreasing
supple and easily handled by one
man, it's owner cannot dominate the
sources of life of others. But when
machinery becomes more complex
and expensive. and requires for it's
operation h organized effort of
many workers. it's influence reaches
over wide. circles OF life. The owners
nant class.
:: Men Are Made Slaves.
In proportion as the number of
oiii GU IL Ill
other classes decreases, their power
in the nation and in the world in
creases. They bring ever large mas
scs of working people under their
control, reducing them to the point
where muscle and brain are their
only productive property. Millions
OF formerly self-employing workers
thus become the helpless wage slaves
of industrial masters.
go. Ruling Glass rs Parasites.
sBAs the economic power of the rul-
lug class grows it becomes less use.
mi in the life OF the nation. al
the useful work OF the nation fills
upon the shoulders OF the class
whose only property is its manual
and mental labor powcr-the wage
worker-or of the class WHO have
but little land and little effective
machinery outside of their labor
power-the small traders and small
farmers. The ruling minority is
steadily becoming useless and para
site.
Il II Glass Struggle.
a bitter struggle over the division
OF the products of labor is wayed bo-
tween the exploiting ~propcrtied
Si"sscs on the one hand and the cx-
ploltlnE propcrtyless class on the
other. In this struggle the wage
working class cannot expect ADEQUATE
Eoiief from any reform of the present
oiuer at the hand of the dominant
class.
The wage workers are. therefore.
the most antagonists of tho ruling
elasS. They suffer most from the
curse of class rule. The fact that
a -tGW ca nltDliQfc p ,., -
control all the country's Industrial
resources and social tools for their
individual profit, and to make the
production. of the necessaries of life
TIC object of competitive private en-
t'iPrlse speculation is at the
bottom of all the social evils of our
time.
o'crproduction and Idlcness.
IN spite of the organization of
trusts, pools and combinations, the
CAPITALISTS are Dowerlcss to regulate
production for social ends. Indus
tfieS are largely conducted in a
painless Through periods
or fcverish activity the strength and
health of the workers are merciless-
~ used up, and during periods of eu.
forced idlenes the workers are freq
uently reduced to starvation.
iIhc cllmaNeS of this system of pro-
auction are h regularly recurring
lndustrlals depressions and crises
which paralyZe the nation every fiji
teen or twenty years.
Labor's ENploitation.
The capitalist class, in its mad
race. for profits, is bound to explojt
the workers to the very limit nf
their endurance and to sacrifice Their
physical, moral and mental welfare
to-its own Unsuitable greed. Capital-
ism keeps the masses of workinrmeu
IN poverty, destitution, physical ~
haustion and ignorance. 1t drags
their wives from their homes tn the
mill and factory. 1t snatchcs their
children from the Fairgrounds AMI
sckool and grinds their slen.Ier
bodies and Uniformed minds inro cold
collars 1t disfgures. mains and
kiiis hundreds OF thousands of work.
1nSmen annually in mines. on rail-
roads and in factories. 1t dives
millions of workers into the ranks
OF the unemployed and forces large
numbers of them into be.-:ry.
vagrancy and all forms of crime and
vice.
Power OF Corruption.
To maintain their rule over .hajr
Fellow men, the capitalists must keep