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THE SOVIET WAGE SCALE.
The Bolsevik (’.nvornment ..f Russia has announced its official way
seven categories ami names an nt‘bitrar> monthly wage for each. The
amounts are given in rubles, which arc nominally worth fifty cents in Ameri
can money: so that by dividing by two, the equivalent* in dollars is ascertain
for unskilled laborers, to 2.11" rubles for industrial experts and 2.200 for
•managers in the people’s commissariats." If the rubles were worth par.
$13,200. As a matter of fact, however, the Soviet currency is so much
A most noticeable thing about this wage seale. however, is that even
a proletariat government, which proclaims economic leveling as its chief tenet
— and which, moreover, usually levels downward—has found, it necessary
to divide tin* workers by band or brain int * twenty-seven classes, with corre
sponding variations in pay. Still further, it is provided that “the higher
scientific, technical, commercial, medical .*i administrative staffs, not men
tioned in the regulations, are to Ik* paid according to special settles to be
opens the way for the favoritism to its own agents, which, it is claimed, is
exercised by the "ins” in all governments, and from which the Bolshcviki
THE PART OF PRODUCTION.
ar*d mind-wrecking toil, that nation \\"Uld never be capable of self-govern
Orgonized labor was quick to appropriate this idea, and has used it
with tolling effect in its effort t.. shorten the hours of labor, for the avow..I
During the long period when there was a world surplus of goods and
existing ones.
For labor to use its strengthened position t<* force working hours below
the point of health requirements is merely to promote vicious idleness, and
products or industry than over before, is to commit a moral crime against
civilization and to invite economic disaster.
have had the support of medical science aiul the aid of all right-thinking men
and women. The reduction of hours to a just standard has been of im
But in their effort at this time to reduce the working day beyond th'*
health limit fixed by experience and medical science they are arraying labor
as a class against all other elements of the body politic.
SHEAR NONSENSE.
( Sandusky Register. )
Jazzbo, the man from Mars, was making a dying trip t<> the various
capitals of the world to observe the wisdom with which tin1 nations ruled
themselves.
His first stop was Washington, where congress was in the act >>f pass
ing a resolution beseeching Kngland to please wear rubber heels if she persist
ed in treading on the long suffering necks of the Irish.
"Haw perfectly charming and humane!’* thought Jazzbo. "To think
of a country so perfect that it can devote its time to the moral betterment of
other countries!”
And he hopped to London, where he found parliament preparing* a
message begging Mexico to speak harshly to her bandits and. if necessary.
10 even take, their guns away.
“How exceedingly bizarre!" thought Jazzbo.
And ho skipped to Paris just in time to find the chamber of deputies
drafting an appeal to the United States to please remember, if they insisted
cm lynching negroes, that this is the age of anaesthetics.
“Well, I’m another!” thought Jazzbo, although he hardly ever used
slang. And three French fire engines, looking for a fire, ran over him before
he recovered from ids daze.
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