The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-01-17
BRICKLAYER GIVES Y,
SOME GOOD ADVICE

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i BRICKLAYER GIVES
]: SOME GOOD ADVICE
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TO the Labor World: ], ::'.s I3ss u
What | think is as great as any
thing that can be sought for In this I
world is happiness and Justice among I
all of the people, I think the main (
reason the Workingman can not enjoy
life. Is because he has not the cans i
to buy the necessities OF life and
about the only thing he has to do and I
to think about is work.
I am not a Socialist, but do think
that something should be done to bet
ter the conditions Of the poor. work
ing man. 1 believe that no man, IN
the city at least should work moe 4
than eight hours a day, (the farmers
are Obliged to work more hours diff
ferent seasons of the year and less j
in other seasons) and the pay should
be no less than a dollar day moe
than they are getting now or no less !
than four dollars a day. l. T., VIZ
The Eight Hour Man. y i
There is more life in a. man that
works eight hours day and he can
do just as much work as one that
works ten, take it for. any length If
time or the difference would be very
little ..,- ....-
BY working eight hours a day m en-
would have more time to themselves
and would be. able to have a garden
of their own and could get much more
pleasure out Of life in every way and
still your employer would get all that
is coming to him just the same. 49,
The large, trusts and combines have
made their millions almost wholly
through the labor of the working
men, but they still keep grinding them
down by paying as low wages as they
can and everything possible is done
to keep them from organizing or join
ing any unions to better their cond! =
tons. Is it justice? =
I have done as much hard work $
most anybody. I am: a union brick
layer and I find that union labor in
other branches as we'll is fair to deal
with. ~. ~ -.
Idle Labor Problem. :,
The unemployed army is getting to
be quite a serious question. If less
hours of work a day was the rule the
unemployed army would not be 50
large. You can not blame the work.
ing man for the high cost of living,
but you can. blame the middle man.
the rnonopolies and trusts. The work.
ing man is supposed to keep quiet
and take what he can get and pay a
big price for everything he needs and
Big Business can pretty nearly have
its own way in having laws made for
Special Privileges and at the same
time have laws in their favor in hold
ing the working man down; so the
| poor fellow gets it going and coming.
Men in general are not paid ac-
cording to the work they do; wages
are generally paid according to the
| supply and demand of labor. -.
! The ore docks a few blocks from
where live, operated by the Steel
Trust, will hire men in the spring of
the year and pay them 35 cents q
| day less than they pay in the summer
| and fall for exactly the same work,
because labor is more plentiful in the
/ spring, and it is the same way in all
other lines. @%e@is.>Gq xsao.t ~. & = !
If the working man had more mon
| ey for his work he would save money
to buy with, but you can not "suck
| blood out of a turnip," and these bus
! mess houses would not need to do SO
! much credit work as they do now: The
working man should own his l. own
home instead Of paying rent, as he is
fully entitled to it. -
| Too Much Wealth. -
| Rockefeller. has more money than
| 1,o IN o1 Mt nd
! if he would follow in Carnegie''s foot
only a few of the leisure class can
make use of. but by establishing
Wholesale houses instead of libraries
where the people could get the neces-
stiles of 'life without paying profits to
two or three middle men,, he would
! do something worth while. There are
more stores than necessary now, and
they all cost lots of money, and too
Large an amount is paid in rent, which
/ the people have to pay when they
buy clothes, food and other things.
! I believe the back to the land move
! ment would eliminate good deal OF
poverty and it seems to me. the gov
eminent should buy up land with
money deposited in the postal savings
bank or otherwise, and sell, it back
to the. people in the cities on time.
/ The land itself is good security, and
most all Of the necessities of life arc
grown on the farm. and there are
lots Of people in the cities that would
be glad to get onto a piece of land
if they had the means, and pay down
a cash payment, but then Big Bust
ness would say we would rather keep
!. them in the cities, then we, can have
+ cheap labor for our factories. thank
!, s JOHN GOODWIN. {
!: THE DOUBLE-TWIsTED CRAB. /
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