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Rh for them and rest there if it were not that we can see that the aristocrats of labor are easing up in their work and thus diminishing the amount of the national produce; and that they are eating up what ought to be saved to provide for future national requirements.

There is a prevalent misconception, which organized labor is doing its best to promote, that we are in the midst of a contest between greedy employers and ill-treated employees. That is not the truth in any way. Most employers are willing to give their labor anything it wants, providing they can recoup themselves from the general public. The real issue is between the general public and a portion of town labor, not to exceed one third of all the workers of the country, which is seeking to enhance its scale of living at the expense of all the rest of the people and is jeopardizing the national welfare in the process. When people get the dust out of their eyes they will see that and will have no patience with mawkish sentiment and foolish misconceptions.

The total number of workers in the United States is about 42 million, of whom about 11 million are farmers and farm laborers, and about 10 million are professional men, managers, merchants, clerks and governmental employees. There are about 744 million factory workers, 134 million workers at hand trades, about 234 million engaged in transportation services and about 3 million engaged in building construction, both as mechanics and laborers. There is therefore a total of about 1414 million workers engaged in those major, mechanical occupations. The remainder of the working population comprises those who are classed as being in service, numbering about 4 million, and those who are in minor occupations, such as lumbering,