Evening journal., 1919-03-01

! not letter It's tuture nerltagel lne
dividends of labor lin wages) are right
! ly enormously greater than the diyi-
dends of capital, and II trade union
ism, in a new condition Of things,
lagreed TO grade labor according to It's
quality and efficiency, ambition and
prosperity would come TO labor. II II
( insisted upon having every bit OF value
/ that men produce receive a compensat-
/ ing wage, with the minimum wage OF
today for the lowest grade OF labor,
IL would begin to pick up the vast
wealth which It alone can pick up, and
10 which It alone has access.
II labor were graded and work PAID
by value. employers would be made by
trade unions TO employ labor in the
proportion that one grade bore to an
other, and, instead Of shortening hands
and energy in slack times, trade un-
ions would just shorten hours by
agreement and labor would still earn
more relatively than in a full week
today.
If labor is able to increase its out
put only % per cent 1t can either in
sist upon the 25 per cent addition to
its earnings OF. II not take the equiv
alent in spare time to enjoy life. But
II can be shown to be capable in same
industries Of $50 per cent Increase.
Think Of the incapacity OF a trade un-
ion which in America will not allow
its members TO ride TO a job on
bicycle, because, by so doing, the work
could be completed more rapidly Un-
der speeding up" quality must be
assured, but quality will be acquired
/ by the natural improvement OF men
under a system in which ambition is
stimulated, Just as atrophy automat-
ically disappears with piece workers.
When trade unions adopt this scheme
! there will be no more nonunion men.
All will Join up.
There is waiting to be picked up by
labor the full value Of all its wasted
energy. No one else can have this vast
wasted dividend-neither capitalist nor
brain worker--it just waits for labor
to discover and lift. Trade unions have
robbed labor Of 1t.
In America and England alone labor
wastes, in wage value, its own divi-
dend, amounting roughly TO si50O0,000.-
600 per annum. The greatest dividend
in the world upon the greatest asset
in the world controlled by the least
Intellectual body in the world But
labor's eyes are clOgged as well as its
hands Make no mistakei Germany.
with her propaganda, has robbed and
fooled as well as murdered. Her at
tack against English and American in
dustrial output has been subtle and
deceitful. Fostering and encouraging
the rotten ideals OF trade uniOnism, she
enabled her own commercial and in
dustrial supremacy to develop.
Here Is work for a League OF Ma
tlons. The greatest organized robbery
in the worldl Labor, the poor ignor-
ant sufferer, willingly accepting the
easy line Of Stacking for long hours
the progress Of human slugs-rather
than putting forth its energy for short
hours at higher pay
Now, however, that the military pow
or which Prussia had behind her pro-
paganda is broken, let us get up and
crush out Of existence this and the
rest of her remsming influences. For
the world Of industry and the world
Of diplomacy and politics are still
heavily under the poison injected into
her rivals systems.
Germany helped into existence news
papers poisoned that we might be un-
dermned, and its disgusting .Aubassa-
dorIal system was so debased as TO
use, en- masse, fallen women as its
agents. Il even organized German In
fluence in the Custom Houses and Con-
sular systems, and many a shipment
has been injured on the quays. and mill
lions OF dollars Of foreign work dam
aged and. paid for by Insurance COM
panies, for which German agents
should today be in jail. Dishonest
shipping and Customs facilities for
German goods have been part Of Ger
many's organization, and 1t has been !
backed by sapping the output Of her
opponents in industry through the !
lazy. ignorsrt trade union officials.
The world has suffered. and will yet
suffer, and, above all, labor has suffer
ed for these crimes which It's officials,
in their blind ignorance, have support
ed.
When will they awake and demand
the maximum technical efficiency Of |
the work ngman-maximum payment |
for proficiency, payment for work in
exact proportion to it's value? The i'm
provement this would bring into their
domestic lives and the added hours Of
recreation and health would be incal-
culable, while national life would be
permanently improved.
Probably when the members Of trade
unions have discovered what they are
losing and the officials discover that il
VIII not necessarily put them out Of