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it to himself and to his class to furnish as little work for a dollar as
he dares and take a dollar for fifty cents' worth of work.

Each man sees this several times a day, but he belongs to a vast machine
for getting something for nothing. Every man knows in his heart that the
cure for everybody's trying to get something for nothing is everybody's
at once getting to work doing more than he has to for the money. Then the
American dollar will quit being worth fifty cents.

Why doesn't he do it? Because the machinery he belongs with and that
everybody belongs with consists of two great something-for-nothing
machines. Both of these stupendous machines of capital and labor are
geared for backing in producing and not for going forward. All that has
to be done with them is to run them the other way round and we have what
we want.

People on both sides admit in a vague anonymous scattered fashion that
the way to meet a situation in which prices are too high is for everybody
to produce more and to charge less for what he produces.

But labor will not do this if capital does not do it.

Capital will not do this if labor does not do it.

It cannot be done by one man getting up all alone and saying he will get
on with half a profit or half a wage when he sees everybody about him
getting on with twice as much.

The only way it can be done is by organizing, by arranging machines for
mutual frank expression, confession and cooeperation--mutual confession
and cooeperation by the men in each industry saying, "I will if you will,"
until we cover the nation.

This is one of the first things anti-Bolshevik capital and anti-Bolshevik
labor are going to stand for--the organizing and advertising in their own
industry of a voluntary understanding and professional producing among
men who produce.

The men who are increasing the cost of flour by having too high wages in
flour mills, will say to men who are increasing the cost of cotton by too
high wages in cotton mills, "We will make cheaper cotton for you, if you
will make cheaper flour for us."

It is not a matter of meanness in American human nature we are dealing
with, it is a matter of agreement between men--hundreds and thousands and
millions of men, who do not feel mean or want to be mean and who are
trying to slink out of it.

The thing cannot be done without mutual agreement and the agreement
probably cannot be made without voluntary contagious publicity, without
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