Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: the Employer, the Unemployed and the Man on the Job

Quote Joe Hill, Mr Block Got Lucky, LRSB 36th ed, 1995 ———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday August 8, 1910
The Employer-The Unemployed-The Man on the Job

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of August 6, 1910:

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The boss works not at all. The unemployed works not at all. The worker works 10 hours per day. The worker produces a luxurious living for the boss, an existence for the unemployed, and a bare living for himself. What’s the matter with letting the unemployed go to work, making the boss go to work, and having the worker working one-third as long? If we organize and cut the working hours the boss will have to hire the unemployed. That will reduce competition among the workers for a job and give them power to later force the boss to cease being a boss and become a worker.

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