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‘AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
They are on the verge of a breakdown unless our equal-rights Congress, or the
one to be nominated and elected this year, shall remedy our underconsumption.

The countries of Europe are planning to combine against us industrially and
politically, but they are comparatively helpless to get back their fair share of the
trade with Latin America and other lands. The only possible remedy is that
the United States shall enact laws for the new institution, industrial democracy,
in combination with ending our underconsumption from concentrated wealth.
These two remedies will enable our people to receive their fair share of the out-
put from our industries, including agriculture.

The alternative.—The alternative to industrial democracy and the unprece-
dented prosperity is the fast apprcaching world-wide breakdown in industry, to
be accompanied by universal conscription by our Congress—the complete ending
of civil liberty and the confiscation of all property. In Europe would come the
universal uprising of the masses for communism, in connection with an extreme
form of class war and the killing of the more-developed families.

This is in line with the prediction stated above by Sir George Paish.

C. To attain the unprecedented prosperity in this country and in all lands,
there must function the proposed commission on equilibrium of prices. The
prices for products from the soil are still to be fixed by the relation between the
supply and the demand; with the prices for the products from the mines and
factories to be adjusted to the prices of the products from the soil, month by
month. This is to be calculated by the experts in the employ of the commis-~
sion on equilibrium of prices. Intelligence is to be applied in the fixing of prices,
in place of unregulated competition, dominated by the priviligists, the organized
bigasss interests, a system of anarchism—the absence of the reign of law and
order.

D. The attainment of equitable prices in the several industries will be feasible
provided the mammoth organizations of the wage people will consent to lay
aside the strike. This was done here in the United States during the World War.
Equitable adjustment of wages by the National Wage Board were made from
time to time, together with allowing the wage people to organize.

E. Part of the contract with organized labor should include an up-to-date form
of profit sharing, similar to the system in the Dutchess Bleachery, at Wappingers
Falls, New York State. Thus the present-day wage people in the factories and
mines are to become partners with the capitalists—partners in the management as
well as in the profits, and gradually pay off the capitalists from the earnings of the
corporations. By this form of partnership the output can be increased some 30
per cent per hour per worker, plus an equal increase from running full handed.
Hours can be reduced to eight universally, and everyone can be supplied with an
equitable portion of the Nation’s income provided he or she does his part. A
wholly new system of an unprecedented output can readily be attained. Equal
rights are to be strictly applied, thus to prevent underconsumption. Social
justice is to prevail.

F. Among the forthcoming competing business interests, to consist of the
larger part of the breadwinners of our population, the system of self-regulation
by majority rule and Government supervision will extend to whatever degree of
regulation shall be found beneficial to the producers and the public; that is,
the ethics of doing business are to be made enforceable, as well as be decided by
majority vote. For example, before a competing store or manufacturing plant
can be opened there will first have to be secured a license, and the executive will
have to be shown that the application of the additional capital and labor will
benefit the public. But the established firms will be undergoing a thorough-
going regulation in behalf of the public, which is not the case at present. To-day
unregulated competition is relied on to bring the needed service to the public,
and this system is now fleecing the public by secret cooperation among the
Sompotitons by means of the trade associations and territorial trade alliances.
a next Shap is » apply industrial democracy, by means of liberal government.
Su) 3s 4 e lime 0 development. And because the public will be protected, as
hed at the competitors will be protected from senseless injuries, intelligence
there e Spled. In the past it used to be that railroads could be paralleled,

pores 7 sacdling the public with worse than useless original costs, but when there

Ain ¢ Lovernment commission to regulate the public utilities then
part o e regulation was to protect the public from the senseless paralleling of
ratroads. Now the new system of Government regulation is to be applied to all
ou 0 : Uiinass for the mutual protection of all concerned. The existence of
on esen ‘a ives 9 each industry on each national board will insure self-protection.

zation and equity will be combined. The maintenance of equal rights