The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-10-24
Getting Cheap Labor


Abs to produce his the That theory
but condition. and condition which the manufacturer
condition every gets prs
eabe that fact connection with the fact that every yIs.
continuous struggle between the who with the men
While the tendency on each side s get all each interest
acts check upon the 9her and the wage scale Is always com
being though keeping an 10 the next chance
compromises and less formal agreements fix the standard
o. wages th. prevail all and determine the standard OF living for the
maintain living necessary
working keep cheap labor the market He very
sOnab objects importation coolies satsrs
ambitious people who will for less easily satisfied
For the he objects the farming out Of convict labor
In prisons He demands that abOr receive the prevailing
rate Of wages based upon time and product.
In general way this demand complied WITH for the double
reason that is enforced by the worngmen and that is nee
tbr..ped by new ent.pr and psw methods and II Is Of new
enterprise with old method that have deal There
manufacturer in the field with peculiar means OF obtaining
cheap labor.
That new manufacturer is the Roman Catholic Church corpora
lion whose conspicuous Of labor in It's sundes and
schools In ITS paroeh schools uuHeS thousands OF nuns VINO
work for nothing but cheap board and clothing On the Of
religion supposed to be connected Herewith On the part the
corporation that labor coined into divers profits received as tuition
II teachers paid the prevailing of the
poaon schools could not compete with the public schools but
equivalent Of slave labor this commercisr of education
profitable undertaking and gradually driving the
'ublc school toward inefcency and oblteration
rrons S ba aD5 b poOp psnep. oVe courts Of correction
these aunde usually operated in the socaed Houses OF the
clothes dirty heapy legitimate laundry
who and thereby have advantage gained through
the operation of their pretended religion and charities Getting
cheap good business getting in the of religion
and charity is great graft 1t is great great thing for the commercial
of slave labor
But Rome is stopping at parochal schools and laundres
These but the beginnings OF system designed expand and
connection with alleged charity owned by Rome in an eastern
shoe factory which sells its product direct to consum
by of handsome catalogue The catalogue contains
shop operation of boys in kncker
making who orphans dependents and
shoes that priests and their system may have profit
may that city, county paying for the
that they economic
equivalent of slave labor with which legitimate shoemake
in daily competition the institution gets for their keep
benefit of their labor transaction
bs Laundry at Los Angeles this double revenue Is being
derived from girls committed to the institution and that of the
inmates have been shaving there for years
doubt that pope's campaign
lea Catholic includes an industrial as well as political program
Qu cheap labor rapidly the for it work
prepared OF the idea will by who
already happened and promise Of What to follow Don't get
excited but look the situation calmly and see what
depression unemployed
the streets willing to work for short time at least for the chance
to eat
Then will be the ideal time and condition for Rome
benevolent udasm and f her charity shops with hungry workers
She can then turn out the babies now doing the work and fill their
conditions rather than Such situation pleasant
certain tendency direction danger will
be aveed until slave labor the charity sweatshOps totally
abolished We have the law to abolish them but the officers who
should enforce the law either paps sympathizers
up the American workngman vote that he viii
coming competition with slave labor in the sweatshops Of
Give votes such candidates only
enforce the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United
States which provides that:
Neither slavery involuntary servude punish
for crime whereof the party shall duly convicted
shall exist within the United States place subject
jurisdiction"
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against being granted the privileges enjoyed by other pub
eaton at the hands of the postal officials Romanists howl
about the injustice of their paying support postal
chnery that distributes the the of United
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In the mails The Menace pays the government for all gets
from IT, thank and If there's deficit
because