The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
FARMERS WAGE WORKERS AND GOVERNMENT OWNER
SHIP.
BY Francis Lemon.


poets alone attempt to that the above measure realized
mutually benefit and wageworSers IN virtual IN
of incomes Discussion of moral psychological or t9eca
phases of the proposal be deferred believe careful study
of this article viii give to objection made against
government ownership ON purely economic grounds. ,
Seeing that cannot get socialism at once let us advocate that
THE government generaize the Panama scheme:
Go into business good and sell its produced com
If by doing enabled the farmers and workers
email buy with daily income of 2 what now takes So
day wageworer Let tentatively fix on
this for the sake of argument Its actual amount would depend
upon the extent the government went into business
We not exploited in buying and selling but economic law
government gives things away 1t gives education to children
lanes subsdze labor the of all wealth BY sell
ing commodities at actual cost would be giving the surplus
value turned into interest profit and rent to the consumers
Farmers and workers. of goods Of general use would
then be receiving the subsidy Of dollar day from the
determined N by the the productivity
his land and tools and 2 by his intelligence and industry
Neither of these factors would be altered by the reception Of
subsidy the form of cheap made goods The farmer
actual income of use values would thus be increased
Would the wagewore get any benefit therefrom Some folks
nteriec wagewoer under circumstances realize
gets would fall in the above contingency The fact
however that he would continue to get wages - plus subsidy
The conception that the value of the
aboers commodity which aborpower and which he sells IN the
equivalent value That value by the economic law
socially necessary labor required in its production
Now governmental subs would no way alter the amU%nt
would the constant value and sell for the as
Economic
commodity ultimately sell at its value and in the
the government their commodity aborpowe would prove an e
cepon and the boss could buy for less than before
government socialsc tendencies may give things
part nevertheless the law Of value remains stead
exchange should he choose and the private
STEEL cloth labor will always choose
foundation wagewoers fools who would sell their
below its value merely because they could get along
is fatty denying economic law say that should the labor
this aforesaid governmental aid the value of their labor
would sink and the boss could buy it for less than
Two dollars wages plus 81 subsidy equals three dollars income
the wageorer for the production of aboPoTer would produce
labor market Advancing STEP assert that wages
the influence of subsidiary aid in the form Of low
priced commodities This becomes manifest when look at the
question thru the spectaces Of supply and demand VII.
In all their diversity eaPt3lstlc single tax and Mar1st econ
tests itself thru supply and demand statement of economic law
defective Believers in Marx before dputng this will please read
carefully what Marx says supply and demand in the last chapter
abopow has features distinguishing it from the value of other
commodities and that the value of aborpower is not liked but
of Oabor-power), its actual
settlement always depends upon supply and demand for labor the
part of capital and the supply of labor by workingmen"
limit or reaches higher fixed by
upon sp nd a ana & Se Tn Ha o" 81
other commodities there is abundant ground supplied by Marx at
would expand thru the influence Of this measure which IS here de-
70 raise wages decrease the supply aorers make them
Independent and at the time increase the demand for
labor and make constant Our measure will do both
Cheap government commodities would increased in
come for the workers and render them more independent
Kampmeyer quotes Kautsy the effect the he cheaper the
of life cheaper the worker cohe and feed himself
capable of resistance nyersey Marx also
the destructive influence the condition of the
aboer exercised by the modern system Of taxes the most
necessary of life Thereby raising their price, extoed by the
Dutch patriot De Witt as the best system for making the wage
frugal INDUSTRIOUS and bmdened with
labor The increased income due to the eectuaton of pro
posed would render less acute among abres the compe
ton for jobs
The of crises of overpoductOn" the retention by the
capitalists of surplus from producing
ciety by capac exploitation The capitalists will not give
away; it heaps until the wheels Of industry
oggd up and stopped But the assuming business
functions and dispensing its goods at cost would reduce the Cover
produce by giving the the produced under
its supervision The consuming wagewokers and farmers wouc
put their share of this overpoduce in place where would