heir condition, regardless of the harm worked thereby upon
all other classes. They are in open antagonism with the capitalist
class, while the manifestos of their leaders state that the struggle is
one which can never end until the capitalist class is exterminated.

Their leaders will largely deny this last statement, but an examination
of their utterances, their actions, and the situation will forestall such
denial. In the first place, the conflict between labor and capital is
over the division of the join product. Capital and labor apply
themselves to raw material and make it into a finished product. The
difference between the value of the raw material and the value of the
finished product is the value they have added to it by their joint
effort. This added value is, therefore, their joint product, and it is
over the division of this joint product that the struggle between labor
and capital takes place. Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes
its share in profits. It is patent, if capital took in profits the whole
joint product, that labor would perish. And it is equally patent, if
labor took in wages the whole joint product, that capital would perish.
Yet this last is the very thing labor aspires to do, and that it will
never be content with anything less than the whole joint product is
evidenced by the words of its leaders.

Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has
said: "The workers want more wages; more of the comforts of life; more
leisure; more chance for self-improvement as men, as trade-unionists, as
citizens. _These were the wants of yesterday_; _they are the wants of
today_; _they will be the wants of tomorrow_, _and of tomorrow's morrow_.
The struggle may assume new forms, but the issue is the immemorial
one,--an effort of the producers to obtain an increasing measure of the
wealth that flows from their production."

Mr. Henry White, secretary of the United Garment Workers of America and a
member of the Industrial Committee of the National Civic Federation,
speaking of the National Civic Federation soon after its inception, said:
"To fall into one another's arms, to avow friendship, to express regret
at the injury which has been done, would not alter the facts of the
situation. Workingmen will continue to demand more pay, and the employer
will naturally oppose them. The readiness and ability of the workmen to
fight will, as usual, largely determine the amount