The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-16
A PERVERSE VIEW.

end, rom the craulC J0 the grave, seems the sum of all conscious hu- man effort.
 A lordly and powerful merchant, a lawyer, a doctor, a rabbi, a lone some and excited labor leader, pro- fc5sors and certain wise men and women foregathered to solve the question of unemployment with the evident knowledge that to actually do so would be to pull down upon their heads the supcrstructure of their own temple!
 The fruits of their labors for three days, a report, will be a mass of transformation and way ward platitude effectively obscur- ing whatever of truth that might have filtered into their inquiries.
 Withal, let it be said here they were kindly and benevole2t-will- ing indeed 10 make any sacrifice cx- cCpt the one essential thing, to get off the backs of the workers
 In no great wisdom but in simple devotion the writer submits the following demonstration.
 Unemployment is due primarily to exploitation of labor, essential under the wages system of wealth production, in that
 Goods and commodities sell or exchange On the average at their value. They must be produced at cost i'll wages to labor below the:r value, otherwise there would be no object in employment what ever. Indeed that is the sole occa- sion for unemployment when ob- jective profits are removed, due to the fact
 That this process creates an ua- con3umable surplus since wages sufficient to buy back at their val ues the products created are not re- cciv d, fnG resulting in no sense from the state of need of the peo- pie but from their inability to buy under wages which measure short of the values Of the products. To illustrate:
 Let all industry be represented by bakery, whose proprietor owns all capital, and ten bakers repre- sent III labor, and $1OO worth of bread the value or selling price of the product. But tho bakers must receive lcJs than that as we have seen. Let us suppose them com plotely org nized into a union and receiving a flair" wage of 300 a cay. Maiifostly then $50 would represent the buying power of the labor employed Suppose that the proprietor is physically able to con sume twice as much as any single baker, or SIG, and that he is will ing to waste in ostGntstion and pa rasitic rctinre an amount double his own power to consume mak-
 
 power of the public $50, and leav- ing 2n unconsumable surplus of $2O, which accommodating .laily for the industrial season removes all oc- casion for employment and bring ing on a-"crisis.
 This would result in time, with out contributing or secondary" causes, such as the increased pro- ductivenCss of labor duo to i'm proved machinery or increased eff iccncy." Therefore there IS no prm- ary remedy except the abolition of the wages system of production in it's entirety, and the substitution therefor of system of wealth pro- duction by cooperation which would work no arbitrary limitation upon consumption of either neces- saries or luxuries short O. the needs and desires of any class whatso- ever.
 It is agreed of course that this cannot be done ny any sudden over turning of the present order of things. Indeed it may never be done until there is more or less common opinion supporting it and developing a statesmanship cap able of bringing about the orderly change. Hence a few further re- marks.
 Secondary, or to speak more ac- curately, aggravating causes acce-