The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-09

endless NUMBER OF occupations.
&c. The immense army of those
who do not produce, but whose SER
vices are required under the existing
system of society to protect those
who have, from the ravenous hunger
of those who have not; this condition
being the direct result of the sixty
per cent waste of human effort. This
item includes the armies of lawyers
and judges, clerks and police, whose
offices would not be required if there
were enough for all. For would not
the conversion of this sixty per cent
waste into productivity be sufficient
to change the hungry human beings
into peaceable citizens comfortably
provided for?
"7 Labor utilized in the production
of articles injurious to mankind-opi-
um, whisky, poisonous drugs, etc.
"8 Labor in homes hospitals and as
ylums, devoted to taking care of indi-
viduals who become victims of these
poisons. In this item is to be included
the worlds loss in production through
the immense number of people made
idle by preventable disease.
{" 9 The waste in manufacturing ar
ticles that serve no real purpose in the
comfort and convenience of mankind,
that are now foisted upon the public
by appeals Of the manufacturer to the
vanity or weakness of men and women.
" The vast and needless cost of ad-
vertising required to induce the public
to buy well made and valuable article
in opposition to one that is fraudulent
al The great army of those who
live as parasites on the human family,
trading upon their woes and preju-
dices; providing nothing themselves
except additions to the sum total of
human misery. Gamblers, usurers,
preachers of crank religions, clairvo-
yants, confidence men, and the whole
army of those who prey upon man.
kinds necessities, or upon it's imagin-
ary needs.
"12. The destruction of human bod
les by venereal diseases and by the
white slave traffic, having its roots
set in the greed created by existing
conditions of poverty by the waste
of sixty per cent of the worlds pro-
ducing power.
"13. The loss through destruction
of the individual who would have been
useful in production, but whose body
has been enfeebled in child labor, due
to the greed of the existing system.
"14. The loss through bad distribu-
ton of products, or through inability
to distribute the surplus products of
farms and factories, because of the
lack of transportation, lack or organ
lied markets, or through other causes
due to unscientific organization.
"15. Labor used up in hauling over
mushy roads which cumber the earth's
surface, four-fifths of which could be
saved if the money now expended up
on battleships could be devoted to
road building.
"16. The waste through middlemen
who impose themselves upon the oper-
ations of production, or are required
under existing conditions.
"17. Use of machinery not calculat-
ed to do efficiently the work of the
farm and factory.
"1S. The loss of time in transporta-
tion due to the occupation of cities
built irregularly and unscientifically
under the system of speculative land
holdings.
"19. Lessened production due to the
fear and anxiety which arise from the
constantly varying conditions of la
Dor, and through lockouts, strikes,
etc.
ego. Men engaged in professions
which render services that are needed
only in an imperfect condition of So
ciety. They serve the ideals of our
present civilization without them
selves producing anything that is use
full and so help to exhaust the re-
sources of the workers.
"2l. Finally we come to the waste
that is most difficult to measure, but
is undoubtedly the greatest of all
THE WASTE OF BRAIN POWERl
First, our education seeks to befog
and confuse; it tends to create ma
chimes instead of thinkers. If the
mind of the genius survives this or
deal, society takes it and puts it in
treadmill. 1t says: Your duty is
not to study great problems, to design
great enterprises, to write great
books, but to turn to the treadmill
which grinds the daily grist for your
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