Capital and labor . lords of finance will practicallyown the earth. It is both strange and satirically amus-ing that the masses of people can be induced to remainthe slaves of the human kings in a free country. The skilled worker who has served years of appren-ticeship, and who is bound down to certain hours ofemployment, feels as if something is wrong when thefruits of his labor are turned from his own comfortand his own family to swell the fat treasuries of richindividuals and rich corporations. Is it a wonder that THil CONDITIOIJ OP THE SKILLED 49 he is still dissatisfied, even wit
Capital and labor . lords of finance will practicallyown the earth. It is both strange and satirically amus-ing that the masses of people can be induced to remainthe slaves of the human kings in a free country. The skilled worker who has served years of appren-ticeship, and who is bound down to certain hours ofemployment, feels as if something is wrong when thefruits of his labor are turned from his own comfortand his own family to swell the fat treasuries of richindividuals and rich corporations. Is it a wonder that THil CONDITIOIJ OP THE SKILLED 49 he is still dissatisfied, even with, a certaia iaorease ofwages that has come to him? K the truth were prop-erly stated, it would be said, that while he is support-ing his own family, he is, at the same time, earningenough to support one or two other families. This addi-tional money he does not get, neither does he, expectto get it, because of the fearful dilemma into whichMonopoly has thrust him. PROPERTY OF LFBRARY UriM vnnv orirr nmiMm CHAPTEE W^i^ I.—A GENEEAL GLIMPSE. If one wish to see the greater sufferings of theworking people, he must look into the unskilled is from this class that the greatest waU of distressrises heavenward, and the greatest number of discon-tented are found. In the United States there are inround numbers 10,000,000 poor families, and to thedoor of several millions of these, the cruel wolf has al-ready come. The story of want, poverty and wretch-edness, as witnessed in these unfortunate abodes, isterrible to relate. Books have been written on the subject of povertyby Walter A. Wycoff, I. K. Friedman, Eobert Hunter,Jacob A. Eiis, Mrs. Lillian Betts, and a host of others,to say nothing of the magazine articles and the flashes 50 THE CONDITION OP THE UNSKILLED WOEKEE. 51 in the public press. This has awakened public senti-ment to some extent, and yet, with all this, the generalcondition of the lower classes is but little improved. Taking a glimpse of the United States alo
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