End the Wealth of the Idle Rich!
End the Wealth of the Idle Rich! Socialism Challenges the System That Rewards Exploitation And Penalizes the Workers WE ARE asked to give a simple presentation of the Socialist challenge to...
...This is the revolutionary program of Socialism...
...We will keep the managers, experts and technicians...
...The result is that idlers rule by the consent of the useful workers...
...It hurled them into a brutal war...
...Socialism Challenges the System That Rewards Exploitation And Penalizes the Workers WE ARE asked to give a simple presentation of the Socialist challenge to capitalist civilization...
...He was "worth" $50,000...
...Instead of looking up to the idle owners and their politicians they should look down on them as we do on other sharpers who live without doing'useful work...
...He who understands this folly has also learned an important lesson in political action...
...For a laborer to support the views and interests of the owning class is as foolish as for the idle rich to support the laborer's views and interests...
...The worker in a mine is a useful man...
...It has heaped upon them staggering armaments and it threatens to bring on another war...
...The more such ballots thus wasted the greater is the folly and the more certain it is that the idle owners will rule in government and industry...
...The workless idlers "do not sup-xwt the parties and candidates of the worker but so many useful workers support the parties and candidates of the workless idlers...
...So instead of doing the work of managing in each plant he hires a manager just as the machinist and the office boy are hired...
...They may becotnt paralyzed...
...The capitalist owner on B yacht or spending a year In southern France certainly does not produce these Raines...
...To perform useful labor in these industries means a life of toil for a small and uncertain reward...
...There will be no workless incomes to go to the idle and the insane...
...Let's organize to end it...
...It piled the war debts on the backs of the masses...
...They work, too...
...Knowing these two facts, the worker unites with other class conscious workers for common purposes...
...Socialism proposes to discharge the idle owners...
...Where do the values which they receive come from...
...The idle class stopped work long ago, but whether we are jobless or unemployed the owning classes sit easy, enjoy the fruits of our labor, and make workers believe that we cannot get along without their idleness...
...They may stay abroad for years...
...They have brains...
...Ownership by a few men of a great steel industry or a railroad or of textile mills means great incomes for the owners without doing useful work...
...He who does understand is class conscious, He knows that he is a member of the producing army of workers...
...She was declared insane in 1S99 and since 1901 she was an inmate of a sanitarium...
...Then the capitalist system breaks down and the idle owning class locks the workers out of industry...
...The greasy cap and the silk hat are not found in the same company except one day in the year, election day...
...Then we have this funny situation...
...Where did that extra $11,000,000 come from...
...Properlyless labor and workless fortunes must be abolished...
...When she died in 1930 the million had increased to over $12,000,000...
...It is tragic for this reason...
...He and other owners of industry never see the industries they own...
...Instead of working for the idlers they will work for us...
...The workless owner and the jobless worker often vote for the same parties and tjie same candidates...
...The worker who understands this indictment and this program is a Socialist...
...Flagler's "Earnings" In 1930 the divorced wife of Henry M. I'lagler, one of the founders of the Standard Oil kingdom, died...
...They may go blind or insane, but it makes no difference, riiev will receive their workless incomes just the same...
...Many other examples of workless incomes of idle and incompetent owners could be cited but we have proven our contention...
...It is comic for this reason...
...The useful workers send the candidates of the workless owners into office...
...That is the Socialist indictment of the capitalist system...
...Their vast incomes are the reward of their great abilities and knowledge...
...But, some readers will say, the owners of banks and mines and railroads and great industries are not idlers...
...So the idle class is on top and the useful class is at the bottom...
...In other words, they have become idle oxvncrs...
...The idlers rule in both government and industry...
...We, the working masses, will take over the industries...
...Here it is: The work l e s s man must be guaranteed a job with a leisure income and the idle rich must cease to be rich and idle...
...When he was released his fortune had increased several millions of dollars...
...organize in industry and in politics, unfurl the banner of intelligent revolt,Mild up iht Socialist Party, and siveep the idle ruling classes from their seats of power in government and industry...
...The wprkers lock themselves out of the governing powers and the capitalists lock the workers out of the industries...
...Useful Idffor produces enormous values which idle owners take...
...The owners of mines are useless men...
...The capitalistic system has imposed terrible hardships on the working masses...
...Rockefeller does not go to his plants each day in this and other nations where they are located...
...The owners who nianaged small industries a few decades ago and often personally met their employes have largely disappeared...
...He could not if he wanted to...
...They can lake because they otvn, not because of any useful service they perform, they do not perform any...
...It enables idlers to rob the doers...
...We will tvork for ourselves in the industries and services which we collectively oivn...
...The workless owners are never found supporting us but many workers foolishly support them...
...He also knows that the minority of owners belong to another class...
...s Some Rich Loafers These owners may travel abroad...
...Thus there is a conflict between the useful working class and the workless owning class...
...Nearly fifty years later, 1923, this feeble minded man died and his fortune had become more than $1,000,000...
...It has locked us out of the industries and thrown us Into the breadlines...
...As a rule they owned one plant and personally appeared at the plant office each day...
...Well, let's see about that...
...Today the real rulers of industry share in the ownership of thousands of plants and industries scattered all over the nation and even throughout the world...
...There is the famous Philadelfmally declared insane ami spent years in an insane asylum...
...They receive workless incomes...
...He who does not understand helps to prolong tht robbery and misery of his class...
...Did he produce those extra millions or did the workers in the industries in which he shared ownership produce them ? Jn 1874 Frederick W. Suydam was declined incompetent...
...When she went to the sanitarium she was "worth" $1,000,000...
...When we stop work industry is paralyzed...
...And if he goes blind or becomes insanS he docs not produce than and yet sL Let's consider* a few of these Workless idlers...
...He learns that a ballot cast for any other class and party than his own is thrown away...
...Funny—And Tragic It is amusing and also tragic, amusing for the idler and tragic for the worker...
...They are the salt of the e*arth...
...Did the extra $950,000 represent the labor of others or was it due to the "brains" of this fceblc-iffhidcd person...
...The working people must assert their claims...
...To transfer ownership and* control of government and Industry from an idle and useless class to the useful class, the great majority, is the aim of Socialism...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 14
