MODEM STUDYCOuRSE
^Capital and wage labor Opposed
■ From The Weekly People.
Continued from last week.
' The one' capitiilisc 1 earn drive
’the other from the 'field an h.ar
■xy off his capital only by selling
•more-cheaply.1 In order to sell
•auoro cheaply without ruining
•thimself ite must produce more
•cheaply, i. t>., increase the pro
ductive force of labor ' as much
• as possible.33ui 1I10 productive
>force of labor-ia increased above
all by a greater division of la
bor and by a more general intio
‘■dilution and. constant improve
• meut--of machinery. The larger
“The army •of workers among
'whom the labor is subdivided,
»tho mars gigantic the scale upon
'which mnclvinery is introduced.,
the more in proportion does the
‘cost .of ^production decrease; the
.-more i.11 proportion sloes the cosi
• of production decrease, the more
■ fruitful is tins labor. And so
'there arises among the capital
ists a universal rivalry for the
■ increase of the division of labor
• and of lnachii.ery aud lor their
'exploitation upon the greatest
■ possible scale. If, now, by i>
, greater divisi ■n ofdabor, by the
.application and improvement of
• new mat bines, by->a “more ad
'vautageous exploitation of the
forces of nature on a larget
>scalcs a capitalist has found tlK
means of producing -with tin
31 me amount of labor (whethei
-it be direct or accumulated la
bor') a larger amount of pro!
• duels, <>f commodities than hi*
■ competitors*—if''for- inst mci hf
•can produce a whole yard of liij
■en in the same labor time it; j
'which his competitors weave
..l iirlf a yard—howavill tho eapb.
ti.lisi act':’
vI!e could keep cm selling luul1
'yaiil of linen at theno !d muikei
price; but I bis ■wemk! nut havr
1 lie cdl'cct of driving his oppon
nts from the field and enlarging
"his own market. licit his nice
* of a market has infraasocfin the
same measu le in \\hnh liis pit
motive ; ower has extend.d. Tlie
■ more powerful and costly means
< f production lhat'ho has called
into t xis once enfiMo him, it h
true, to se’l hi3 c-waves more
s cheaply, hut they compel him
at the same time to stU more
wares, to get control1 ■■of a much
greater market for his ccmmodi
lies; consequently, this capital
ist wiil-sell li.s hallyyai d cd linen
more cheaply than his competi
tors.
ESTER
.Auto Service
Leaves
,N ordale Hotel
.Twxco Daily
But the capitalist will not sell
the whole yard so cheaply us his
competitors sell the half yard,
though-the production of tin
while yard costs no • more to him
than does>tiiat of the- half, yard
to ‘the othcis. Otherwise In
i would make no extra protit, mm
| would get buck in exchange on
ly the cost.of production. lie
might obtain a greater inconu
from having'set-in motion a lar
ger capital, hut' not from hav
ing 'made a greater f relit on lib
1 capital than the others. Moreov
er, l.e attuins the oljeel he it
aiming at if L'e prices his goods
only a small , perie.ttago iowei
ilmn his competitors, lie drives
thorn elf the lieldjhe wiesls from
ihceo at least a part of their mai
kit !.*y underselling them.
And loudly let us rememhei
that iho cnrri nt price always
stands either above or below tin
cost of product ion, according a.
die sale of a commodity takes
[dace iu die lav ora Ido or unfuv
i ruble period ‘of nidustiy. &c
jording as -the market price ol
ho yard1of linen stands ahovt
or below- it s former cost of pro.
ducliou,' will tlio pixeentago va
ry at which 'tdio ciipiipdsl win
lias mudo wse of the new and
more fruitful means of prodiuf
tion sel s above his real cost o)
product.on.
Bat ti e privilege of our caps
talisc is not of long duration'
Oilier competing capitalists in
roduce the sameunachincs, tin
-aino division of labor, ami inti<!
luce them ‘upon the same (i
■ven upon a larger scale. Ai.o
ina ly tins • introduction In
omes so ftniversa 1 that tl.<
nice of- the einen'is low ere l not
mly below its old but. e vo.i it
ow iis new cost of production..
The eap'itaiists therefore iind
hetnsfives, in their mutual le
lotions, in 'tbo same silualimi in
whicli they were before tbo in
deduction of the new means ot
prodtu.Hi mj.and'df they are by
these means enabled to oiler dmi
b'e the [iroduct*Rt the oi l pri-e,
.bey are now forced to furnish
louble the prodm-t-for less than
the old price. •Having 'arrived
it the new point, the new cost
of production, tbo battle for so
premacy in-the market has to
lie fought-oat • fine*\ ^Given
more division' of labor a ml miort
macb irery, anil there remits a
giea'eftc.le Alpon •'■Which Givis
jion o! la! or and machinery are
j exploited. An<l competition
'again hi ings the same reaction
j against this result.
HENRY JOKI,
& is/Sdi- '
'BARBER
Front Streot, Next to tlfe
M i.vi.n »t!i Clothin r Stoiw
^Denounces
I (
!j Gun Purchase
j Characterizing as “‘damnable”
|ami •‘‘disgraceful” die action of
’ the Los-Angeles City Council in
appropriating $700 to buy sawed
j off shot-guns for the police and
; stating that the action was taken
! without his knowlege or consent,
Fred C. Wheeler, Socialist coun
cilman, asked the Council to
change the Council minutes - to
j record him as voting ‘‘No.’’ At
J the same time he introduced a re
j solution calling-for a public inves
tigation of- the “citizens” police
force of 1,000. which recently
i ottered its services free to Chief
! Sebastian. !
“I certainly would have raised
my voice to protest against what
I consider a damnable piece of
business’ - -.said Mr. Wheeler. The
city ishere 11 protect our pe pie
rather than to send out men and
shotguns to shoot down working
men who are in a contest with |
their employers over wages.
“Never in i«0 years has a state
militia been called out to protect
the working class. Always the
police and militia have been call
ed out against the wonters. I feel
that i could never luok an honest j
man in tne fare again if 1 let my j
name stand in lavor of buying
tlios? guns, i’arty Builder.
1
Parly
Grows.
The! report of the Belgian So
cialist party Tb. the past year
shows considerable growth. It
1910 the total membership was
202,581; in 1913 it had climbed to
269,830. Gver 126,000 • members
belong to labor Unions.
| The S . ciatist)"Party of North
l)akofc».-hajf taken over the Iconr
oclast'-arid will operate it as a
part; Vpafv r. Indications'tre that
tlle^aper will be a success. Ex.
Another Seat |
* Italian Socialists have secured
another «c at by the “election of
Deputy Be«hi” from'itovigo. Mary
■Siciaiist ballot^ were thrown out
on technicalities ami still Ileghi
had GOO more votes than his op
ponent. EKehaivc.e.
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