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 Awful as it was, it isn't a puny drop in the bloody bucket.

Listen—this is from the New York Independent—not a Socialist paper. This conservative journal said in its issue of March 14, 1907:

And yet, every mine, mill, factory and railroad could be so guarded with safety appliances that accidents and loss of life would be reduced to a minimum.

But what does the Plunderbund care for human life when Dollars are in sight?

What does a workingman or a workingwoman or a child of the working class amount to, anyway, in the eyes of the masters that the working class votes to maintain in power?

What do the masters care that Disease, the dirty brood of Poverty and Filth, reaps its awful harvest every