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We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.