SUPPRESSED INFORMATION
ON CAUSE OF IDLENESS
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these unsanitary and dangerous surround
ings!” again protests our'capilalist apol
ogist. Sidney Webb, in “Industrial De
mocracy,” says:
The wage earner sells to his employer,
not merely so much muscular energy or
mechanical ingenuity, but practically his
whole existence during the working day.
An overcrowded or badly ventilated
workshop may exhaust his energies;
sewer gas or poisonous material may
undermine his health; a badly construct
ed plant or imperfect machinery may
maim him, or even cut short his days;
coarsening surroundings may brutalize
his life and degrade his character; yet,
when he accepts employment, he tacitly
undertakes to mind whatever machinery,
use whatever materials, breathe whatever
atmosphere, and endure whatever sights,
sounds and smells he may find in the
employer’s workshop, however inimical
they may be to health and safety.
The workingman today has no choice;
if he does not like the conditions of his
employment, the employer or his agent
shrugs his shoulders and informs him
there are plenty of men willing to do the
job. Pressing necessity and the cry of
the little ones at home decide the day,
and for the bread necessary to sustain
life, men will face risks which the slave
master would never have permitted his
slave to take.
We now come to that phase of idleness
—the “closed shop. ” Not the “closed
shop” which Mr. Parry and his friends
talk about—but the shop that is closed
because the capitalist can find a market
for no more of his goods. Mr. Wright
enumerates under the headings, “Es
tablishments Closed," “Unable to get
work" and “SlackWork,” responsibility,
for 56.96 per cent of the idleness which
he found existed among the workers.
There is uo other explanation; simply
the shop was closed, or work was slack
and the applicant was nnable to secure
employment.
Suppressed information is a collection
of statistics from the “Eighteenth Ann
ual Report of the Commissioner of Lab
or’’ and tells of unemployment through
out the country. There is far more
people out of employment to-day than
when the Eighteenth report was taken.
Every machine that is put to work dis
places more and more workers until, at
a not very distant date, they will take
and hold the tools of production. In
Alaska as well as on the outside there
is a large army of jobless men waiting
for the capitalist politicians to furnish
them jobs. The capitalist press tells us
that if the Democratic politicians down
at Washington would do this or that
Alaska will come into its own.
No politician can give Alaska anything.
The natural resources, here in Alaska,
are ready to be turned into wealth by
the application of labor they to be used
to satisfy man’s needs. The politicians
in California gave away practically the
whole state to their masters under the
guise of building railroads. The Laurier
government iu Canada gave away al
most the entire northern part of Canada
to a bunch of private capitalists. The
workers always share in the spoils to the
extent that they do the work and pay the
taxes indirectly, and then see the
product of their labor hashed out to a
lot of parishes, while the}-, themselves,
w mder around looking, looking, always
looking for jobs.
If you are a worker you need
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The working man makes the automo
biles and pushes a wheelbarrow.
He builds the palace cars and rides
the bumpers.
He builds the ocean liners and lives
in a flatboat.
He builds the grand-stand and sits in
the bleachers.
He builds palaces and lives in shacks.
lie builds the banks but has no bank
account.
He builds the aeroplane and lives on
a low plane.
He builds the hotels and eats free lunch.
He builds the parks and is chased out
by a policeman.
He makes the policeman’s club and
gets the full product on the head.
lie makes silk suspenders and holds
his pants up with nails.
He makes enamel bath-tubs and bathes
in a tin basin.
He makes the broadcloath and wears
jeans.
He makes the Elgin creamery butter
and eats dried axle grease.
He makes feather mattresses and
sleeps on corn shucks.
He builds the wireless telegraph ap
paratus but uses a postal card.
He builds the flue churches and gets a
threat.
He builds the fine theatres and goes to
nickel shows.
He builds the armory and hears from
it in strikes.
He builds the life insurance buildings
and leaves his family nothing.
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He makes the cannon, muskets and
machine guns, and gets blown to atoms.
He digs the gold and has his teeth
filled with zinc.
He digs the diamonds and his master
wears them.
He digs the coal and freezes to death.
He builds fine cemeteries and is buried
in potter’s field.
He builds fine monuments, yet no
! stone marks his grave.
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He makes the paper on which the bal
lot is printed and he uses it to vote
, against his own intere ts. Saddest of all.
RUSSIAN REVOLUIiONiSI
DESCRIBES HIS EXILE
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of the Lena River, a long, hard way, an
abomination of halting places with their
half-prisou condition and continual tor
ments, they are liberated at last from
the boat ‘at their will.’
“On the ground of rocky shores and
marshy forests, a pitiful fate comes to
this small crowd of people, as though
cast on shore by the waves, in their gray
prison dressing gowns and their coarse
linen clothes. Their worn prisoners’
garments are the only property in their
possession.
“A few coppers, accidentally saved, is
their only resource. What awaits them?
A slow death out in a starving village,
without any subsistence, without any
earnings, without any help.
“But the hour of justice is coming and
a sharp ear always hears the remote
rolling of its advent.”
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