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Wages and Prices BY CHARLES H. KERR. 'content to leave Hialf the population disfranchised. The success of this undertaking depends upon us every one of is. are we going to do about it? Let all Socialists arm themse.ves witft one or more of these petitions and go forth to secure a list of sig- natures.

Our united effort can not bo in vain. AH agitation is good. So, comrades, one and aill, let us work together with but one end in view, and sooner or later we wi.l be rewarded by seeing justice done to the millions of wage workers who so ably hejlp to do the work of the woild, and the motiiers of the race who have been denied the right of citizenship for ages. WOMAN SUFFRAGE PETITION BY GRACE D. BREWER.

I can not understand how any sane minded man or woman could refuse, to sign the woman suffrage petition to the senate and house of representatives, now ibeing circulated by the Sociajlist Party. Neither can I understand why some Socialists regard this as a thing apart from their regular propaganda work. Does not the nationaf platform of the Socialist Party declare in favor of woman suffrage? Does that mean we are simply in favor of having the badlot, or that we believe it to be right and just and that we will do all in our power to help to get this weapon of defense and protection? In a land where democracy is a recognized and boasted feature of government it seems absurd that one-half th? population should be denied a voice and a vote in the laws governing them, especially when millions of our wage workers come fiom the disfranchised ranks. Under the present form of government the ballot is the weapon used to show our position on certain political issues, and registers our approval or dislike of the various legislative measures. Do you tthlnk that the millions of The Rose Door The Story of a House of Prostitution by ESTlLLE BAKER It is roughly estimated that there are over 500,000 women and girls in the United States who earn their living by the sale of their bodies.

Much has been written about the oldest of all the professions; investigations have been made; statistics prepared judgments pronounced and rigorous means of suppressing prostitution have been attempted to no avail. It has remained for Socialism to discover the Cure for the Social Evil. Miss Bakers book is not a preachment, nor a theory or a study, but a living, gripping story of the Actual Lives of four Women of the Streets, with all the heart hunger, the yearning for maternity, and the sordid commercialism with which the Public Woman is always at war. Read The Rose Door. Go down into the depths of pain and love and misery with your Sisters of the Street.

There you will find the cause of their degradation and the cure for the great Social Evil. Get this book for your daughters and your sons. You need it and your neighbor will be a wiser and better man for having read it. Handsomely bound in cloth; illustrations by Ralph Chaplin. First edition quickly sold out; second edition ready.

we pay postage. Address THE SOCIA1ST CO-OP EH ATI VE PUBLISHING FINDLAY, OHIO. Tad -question has been asked: Suppose the wage-workers through an effective industrial organization were to succeed in raising the genera! wage level fifty per could not and would hot the capitalists respond by raising tap general level of pi ices fifty per so that the purchasing powrer of the wages wou.d he no more than before? No. They would like, to do so, hut they could not. Some prices would rise, others would actually fall, the general average would remain the same.

What f.xes prices? Some amiable reformers talk as if bad capitalists charged high prices and good capitalists were satisfied low prices. Other people talk of the law of supply and demand as if this ex-pained not only fluctuations, hut the point around which the price 0 each commodity tends to flictuate. And some of us revolutionary Socialists have the habit of saying that conodities, as a rule sell at their values. Now when we mean that thesum total of the prices of al commodities is equal to the sum WORKING MEN AND WORKI1NG WOMEN, LISTEN! By John C. Chase.

You have a golden opportunity, an opportunity to do something which will be historic in the progress of civilization. You have an opportunity to strike a tremendous blow for tdie freedom, not only of working men, but the -freedom of' working women. There is a petition being circulated throughout the United States requesting congress to submit to the legislatures of the several states for ratification, an amendment to the national constitution, which will en- women wage workers should longer women" to vote in aill elections he denied the right to such an ex- on an equa7ity with men. pressicn? Do you believe that the you know that the ballot is tlie women in 1175 homes, the mothers of great weapon which the working the race, stiould be denied the right 1 ciagS can use whenever that class to prof ct their children by voic-1 gets ready to use it. You know' also, ing their sentiments at the ballot jia le working class is about to box? that weapon for its emancipa- Let us forget it is woman suff- jtion.

Do you not want your mother, rage we are now fighting for andlsjster or daughter to be able to use think only of the millions of wage that balilot with you? Tobacco Habit Swiftly Banished Dr. Elders Tobacco Boon Banishes work is, exploited in tUe mills to 120 Hou.abit and factories who are denied a right Guaranteed positively to be a harmless, I to iote. Let us forget ttiey aie wo-swlft and permanent relief from the slavery them as hu- of the Tobacco Habit. Easy to take. No i us ullnK 01 craving for Tobacco after the first dose, man beings wage worker WOlk- Onetothreeboxessufflcientforaliordlnary cases.

Proofs in plenty from those who ing side by side ith male memners have experienced the wonderful benefits of naofnl labor Dr. Elders Guaranteed Home Treatment. of society, performing usetul Are you going to allow yourselves to be weakened in th" great conflict by having those so closely interested with you, so closely sallied with you in tine strugg deprived of a chance to aid you in the struggle? Remember that there aie millions daughters and sisters, of women, True Cases Never Self-Cured Dr. VanYleck Found Genuine Relief Which Is Healing Thousands Sends $1.00 Package to Try Free. "wouldn't 1 Let us forSet that the "oman ln take Jiooo for what the bomir striving to make thewjVes and motbrs, who are now neve'rhave ahank-' family income go round under the obliged to work and slave in order made, tnefe is a small proportion of constant and a large proportion of variable capital.

Capital so invested is said to be of lower composition. In the most highly developed industries, such as the manufacture of shoes, the proportion of constant capital is high, that of variable capital low. The capital in this industry is of higher composition. Now every socialist lnoiws or should know that tne profits of the capital class come from the surplus value produced by the wage-workers. But if each commodity were sold at its value, then the biggest profits would be made by the cap-talists emp eying tbe largest number of laboreis, regardless of the macainery used.

But tbe owners of the best machineiy do not need to sell their products at their value; they can get moie. As a general ruile, apart from temporary fluctuations, the owners of capital of higher composition than the average can and do sell their product above its vaiue, while the owners of capital of lower composition than the average must and do sell their product below its value. et uS then see what happens if, without any change in the productivity of ilabor, wages were to be raised fifTy per cent. In chapter XI of the third volume of capital, Marx figures out in full detail exactly what nit.st happen. His conclusion "is that tbe total profits of the capitalist class would fa, 11 by the amount of the increased wage.

Also that the prices of commodities produced by capitas of average (composition would remain unchanged. Also that prices of commodities p- cThced by capitals of lower composition wou'd rise, but not in the same proportion in which the profit falOs. Also that prices of commodities produced by capitals of higher composition wiuld actual fall, but not so much as the profit. Capitalists cannot fix prices. These are determined by social forces stronger than any capitalist or any group of capitalists.

Marx discovered a generation ago what is now hecI5ilngmore and more apparent to every keen namely that the interests of each" individial capitalist are hound up with these of the capitalist class, while the interests of each w'age-worker are bound up ith the interest of the whole proletariat. The solitary craft is today as helpless against concentrated capital as the solitary laborer. But concentrated capital itself will be helpless when it faces a working class fully organized and resolute in its demands. To unite, educate and organize tirT working of the world is tbe historic task of the international Socialist movement of which the Socialist Party of America is a part. Shrewd capitalists see that they must grant some reforms to allay discontent if they are to stay much onger on the workeis backs.

As the Socialist Party grows in strength they may even allow it to win local victories where it is led in such a way as to make it look safe to the capitalists. But for the most part all the reforms w0 can propose that leave wage slavery to cont'nue will be taken over bodily by the capitalist partie.s. Sooner or later, the Socialist Party must stand sqvareiy for revolution, for Let save present high prices, and doing a -1 to live erlng for tobacco any more; One box of your Tobacco Boon cared me after 20 years habit: Used tobacco in all forms for 17 years, three boxes cured me These are a LI members of the working class and have the same interests as uhe fathers, husbands, brotheis and sons. Will you deprive them longer, by your carelessness and inactivity, of the privilege cf participating in the making of she can to add to the support of the children is a woman. Let us think of her as a human being ex-erc'sing her functions, who is denied the right to say, under what kind of laws she shall live, or whether the children of that home I cannotpraiae your Tobacco Boon enough.

Other Mothers can also cure their sons: 'Tsed Tobacco for almost 61 years and I cannot express my gratitude to you for putting me ln my present condition. Bemember, a legal binding guarantee of results in every case, or money refunded. It will surely pay any one to send for Free age of six or sixteen. Booklet giving full Information of Elders Tobacoo Boon. Home Treatment.

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Let us forget that of this land, whether factory at trae'laWs whch govern thfir conditions The law of today, In the great the workers majority of states, place women al of fhe values, this is an accurate statement of fact, but if wre are talking of the price of any paiticu lar commodity, that is another story. In the highly developed capitalism of today, no one capitalist owns any one slave. But all wage slaves toil for all the capitalists. And the capitalists divide among themselves trie surplus value created by the wage-workers, not In proportion to the number of wage-w'orkers em-p oy-d by each captalist, but in pro-poition to the amount of capital owned by each. This law of division enforces itself automatically in this way.

If the capitalists one industry are making more than average profits, other capitalists rush into the industry and their competition brings prices down If th capitalists in another indus try are making less than average profits, some of them go to the wall or pull out until 'Supply falls below demand and prices stiffen. And the net result of this fluctuation is that the price of any commodity tends to he equal to the cost plus a profit equal to the average rate of profit at the time and place in question, figured on the capital required to produce the commodity in question. This price may be equal to the value, and there is one case in which it will be equal to the value. Tmit case is where tlie commodity is produced by labor working with capital of average composition. re we must stop and define our terms.

The capital used to produce a commodity is composed of two parts, constant and variable. The variable capital is that portion used to pay the wages of the people who do the work. It is, called variable because the work which it pays for represents two different values, the value of the labor power, which the wage-worker gets, and the value added to the product by the expen-ture of the labor power. This the capitalist gets, and it is always more than "the value of the labor power. The constant capital is that invested in machinery, raw materials, fuel, in fact all except that used for the payment of wages.

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Tn backward industries like'us face the issue now, and the sweat-shops where clothing is years of misdirected effort. the abolition of wage slavery. themselves. These are the ones who hold up tneir hands in holy horror at the thought of the women engaging in the affairs of state. It is they who tell the prople that it is unladylike" and unfeminine for women to vote.

They know that It would be dangerous to tlhem and their class if the working women, Mho are in the majority, should he given the baillot. Dont be fooled any longer by this cry of th3 dilettante opponent of equal suffrage. Give your wife, daughter, mother and sister a chance to stand with you, and win or lose with you, in your struggles against your oppressors. a The Socialist Party has flooded th- country with petitions asking congress to submit this amendment. Every labor organization, every Socialist local, every individual working man, every Individual Socialist should take 'hold In this matter and secure the signature of ev-ry person In his community to t'hwro petitions.

Every one, who believes in free-- Lil'JLE SERMONS IN SOCIALISM BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Abraham Lincoln. Everybody who reads the capi- Name Unue to whether she would refuse to listen to those caling attention to her class interest, does not alter tae fact that as a human being, living under the laws of this nation, contributing to the wealth of the country, and pel forming tine most Important function of the human race motherhood slm should have the ballot. If we believe ln the principles of lnbernai'on)al Socialism, If the Socialist platform of our country means anything to us, we will vigorously circulate these petitions-We will welcome this opportunity to prove that we infant what we violate the federal laws are socked said when we declared ln our Pint Into prison in a hurry. Some poo-1 form of 1908 that the oaa pie hug the delusion that the courts Party of the I nited States stan ir- to protect the weak against the strong.

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Thomas Jctfcrson was a dreamer of splendid dreaifffTsuch as the abolition of human warfare and a substitution of peopb rule tor class rule. Thomas Jefferson, born cen-ti ries ahead of his time, April 2, 1743. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women and we pledge curs' Ives to engage ln an active Address bring this petition before that body. Wh you have read this, dont hesitate. If you havent any petition blanks, drop a postal to the na- talist press has noticed how per-ldtent such papers fan international and radical! quarrels and urge the necessity of this or that nation arming itself! And everybody Knows that the Socialists are constantly urging the workers of the whole world to unite.

Where did Lincoln stand on this subjut? In an address to a workingmens association Novfmher 21, 1804, Mr. Lincoln said: The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family bo one uniting all work-shoulder with tho MEN of toil in ing people of all nations, tongues the greatest battle of mil time. and kindreds. Se0 life of Lincoln, by Coflln, page 395. 1 nm not hem in the capacity of, Whfn tlr workers of the world Mall this coupon today to Dr.

Van Vleck VM41 Majeetlc Jackson, Mich. Return post will bring the $1 package os trial. You are opposed to Socialism. Then tell me how you propose to settle the irrepressible conflict tween the capitalist class and the the working class? Ts this conflict l6rgo on Nonsense, Its going to be settled and can never he settled until the working class settle It by establishing the co-operative commonwealth. that ALL of the workers shall be endow franchised, that the WOMEN who tou will no longer be denied the privilege of fighting snouldcr campaign in thnt direction.

lias been opened all of us now dowlll Bgn. before bave mo Congressman Victor Berger, gb to have a fli-gf, genuine representative of the and equality before the law, every one who believes women are human beings as Mell as the nien, Pay no attention to the ranting of liearst, or tbe Incendiary articles lic'ng printed in tbe magazines. writers are only ii nd have been unhorsed ln political and economic stiuugl are saddle. They do not propose to to Comrade Berger The campaign and lot each and our duty. Never Itunate enoi soreheads been srr je.

sr 1 to having the big fellows lo all the gross wl 1 be forced to realize that mrny signatures that he will have a fleht of the working thpmg0lveg for robbing, leaving the small capitalist i there is a large per rent, of the pro-! to employ the servlees of every oth- or anywhere I rerognlzn tl hat It Is making targets of to M-ige slavery or starvation. pie of this nation who are no longer er in the house to my fight. Eugene V. Debs. The International Socialist DauIaiai fry tha working clans.

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