The twenty-five millions of wage-workers in the United States are twenty-five millions of twentieth century slaves.
This is the plain meaning of what is known as
THE LABOR MARKET.
And the labor market follows the capitalist flag.
The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization.
They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings.
The labor market is the foundation of so-called civilized society. Without these shambles, without this commerce in human life, this sacrifice of manhood and womanhood, this barter of babes, this sales of souls, the capitalist civilizations of all lands and all climes would crumble to ruin and perish from the earth.
Twenty-five millions of wage-slaves are bought and sold daily at prevailing prices in the American Labor Market.
This is the