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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER IX
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Are you all agreed so far ?" Heads nodded around the table in affirmation.
"Labor and capital having produced this one hundred dollars, now proceed to divide it.

The statistics of this division are fractional; so let us, for the sake of convenience, make them roughly approximate.

Capital takes fifty dollars as its share, and labor gets in wages fifty dollars as its share.

We will not enter into the squabbling over the division.* No matter how much squabbling takes place, in one percentage or another the division is arranged.

And take notice here, that what is true of this particular industrial process is true of all industrial processes.
Am I right ?" * Everhard here clearly develops the cause of all the labor troubles of that time.


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