The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-11-30
STARVING AMIDST PLENTY

The chaftt bile institutions in Ey-
erctt are informing the public that
there are quito a nufihcr of families
in Everett who are In uocd Of food and
clothing.
One little girl collapsed in school
the other day for the need Of iood
She had no underwear ON, Just dress.
When the case was investigated 1t
was found that the mother wa dead
and that the father was carving ). =
day in one of the city's mills aud WAY
supporting six children on it,
Several cases have been reported
lately of children being unable TO go
on with their lessons on account of
lack of food And yet the daily press
is able TO mako the general public be
heve that everything is all right. That
if YOU are poor it is your own fault
That you should save your money.
That it is quite possible to live ON 40
cents day. That if Hughes were
elected everything would be q. X.
That by sending Wilson back to finish
his work it would be possible to have
such an era of prosperity MS the
world never saw. And so on ad nau-
siam,
And what about the slaves? Do
they believe it? Sure they do. They
just suck it in. Their belly-button
may be rubbing up against their back
bone but never CLEAN of the real
truth of affairs enters their brains.
They will slave in somebody else's
factory, grinding out profits for
somebody else's family. From sun up
till shutdown, ever on the job. Turn
ing out food, clothing mad shelter,
enough to feed, clothe and shelter the
world in the best that the hand of
man and machine can produce, enough
to supply everybody with this worlds
needs ten times over, and yet they
starve amidst plenty. Stave without
protest; yea, they will even die of
starvation with a prayer on their lips
thanking God for some blessing that
they had, in their imagination, re-
eeived.
Millions of tons of minerals under
ground. Millions Of acres of land be-
| ing cultivated. Millions of acres of
land lying Idle. Giant forests still UNI
touched. Rivers teeming with fish.
Vast machines turning raw materials
into commodities. Plenty of men to
tend the machines. Plenty of men
ready and willing to tend more ma
chimes. Plenty Of men to mine, pillow
fish, saw and transport, and yet
America starves. Plenty of everything
but intelligence OF how to satisfy
everybody's want with the means at
hand.
It's so simple to supply everybody
with plenty Of this worlds goods that
the masses fail to see it. Everything
is at hand waiting, waiting for the
masses to take and convert into then
own use, to satisfy their own needs
With the expenditure of their Labor
power they can have everything tha
the genius of man can produce. Onl!
one thing stands in their way. Jus
one thing to sweep aside and all il
theirs. That one thing is PRIVATE
| OWNERSHIP of the machiner,
of wealth production. With the own
ership of the natural resources in tn,
hands of the masses their power t.
produce for themselves would go un
challenged.
How lony will the masses stand TO
it? How long will they continue to b,
the abject slaves of the biggest buncl
of parasites that ever trod upon thi
green earth?
Slaves! Yea, verify. He that own
that which I must have access to il
order to live, owns me.