The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-02

THE PRODUCERS NEWS
productivity the higher paid worker Large wages are spur
to large output and the largest producers are generally best paid
The wepad man fears to lose his job thinking that he may
never get another good He to please The poorly
PAID man. deprived of adequate comforts for himself family
renders relatively poor service
There is the tragic side to low wages too Whenever large
employer of lOwprced makes cut in the WAGES of his
workers. ne can know to certainty that precious
Will be lost result of his Chdrens Bureau of the
department OF Labor has published showing the close
relation between income and infant mortality the lower the
gs the less chance the worker has Of saving his babies Can
man whose babies dying he cannot properly care for
them put the same heart into his who is adequately
paid?
And then there is the business side to bo and low WAGES
Wages are too high propose it that the wages of all
workers IN the country reduced easta dollar day. Let
suppose the business men OF the country coming together and
s S"Ol sCatenepU IL might sound reasonable, but is it?
1heIe are 4OOOOO0O workers in the country they get
dollar less day Is it good business turn away from the
possible profits S4OOOOOOO worth of merchandise every dav
Can the business interests of the country get along with the an
nua total Of $2OOOOOOOO less purchases Of commodities
IMAM at PRESENT. Many business like sheep show
ABOUT as much sense If the workers in community spend
tne earnings IN that community why should any business
men IN that community want them paid minimum wage? Is it
not 70 the interests of everybody in that community that they
should be well pad Will workers not be more contented and
VIII not the industries be buster and dividends larger than
could possibly be the the workers were paid on subsis
basis?
Mr. GOmpers has pontedy called the attention of American
business men to the fact that they have to be thankful for
because wages have been high that high wages that
have made America what is and long hours and low
wages make for commercial prosperity then China should be the
leader among the family of nations instead being taender
so to speak
Yet with all these good reasons for holding wages at HIGH
eVe the leading mancier of Wall Street. when asked in 1914 i'll
ne thought ten dollars week was high enough WAGE for In
oenan IS alleged to have made the nonsenscaI reply eyes;
IS enough he accepts it, Our comment on such remark must
necessarily be that one who would such remark shows
PLAINLY that ne does not love his children He thinking
OF tne present and not of the future Or he is thinking of the
future ne IS thinking Of it in terms machine guns without
doubt Guns "i''-'"V
Senator La Toilette the abest statesman in American
puOc fe boldly claims great conspiracy by the masters of
american finance to bring the workers of this country to actual
through systematic campaign Of wage cutting Some
OF his expressions on the subject are as follows:
1 set myself the task of proving the Senate and
the country that the of labor today are less than
ney were at the beginning of this century, that the pur
CHASING power OF labor at this moment Of time will not
command, by considerable amount as much of the ne
cessaes of life the case ten years before the he
ginning OF this century. undertake say that no ans
war can be made to the facts and arguments which it Will
De possible to put before the Senate United States"
Today there are five six millions of tOiIers in
the United States who out of work their families
are hungry to the end that their spirit may be crushed
and new generation Of serfs may be bred This evil
combination against the workers made more formid
able and terrifying because has enlisted the active sun
port and cooperation of the national administration and
courts The United States Supreme Court and the lower
courts are deprivng the workers weapons Of de-
tense one by and seeking bind them with chains 81
mat their masters with impunty scOurge them into
submission. NO such combination has arayed
together for an evil purpose in the history of this country
BESIDE It. the slave power paIes into nsigncance by the
record that is being by the federal courts At this
time" A