Wheat (50 bushels) 7 160
Loading ore (loading 100 tons iron ore on cars) 2 200
Unloading coal (transferring 200 tons from
canal-boats to bins 400 feet distant) 20 240
Pitchforks (50 pitchforks, 12-inch tines) 12 200
Plough (one landside plough, oak beams and
handles) 3 118

According to the same authority, under the best conditions for
organization in farming, labour can produce 20 bushels of wheat for
66 cents, or 1 bushel for 3.5 cents. This was done on a bonanza farm
of 10,000 acres in California, and was the average cost of the whole
product of the farm. Mr. Carroll D. Wright says that to-day
4,500,000 men, aided by machinery, turn out a product that would
require the labour of 40,000,000 men if produced by hand. Professor
Herzog, of Austria, says that 5,000,000 people with the machinery of
to-day, employed at socially useful labour, would be able to supply a
population of 20,000,000 people with all the necessaries and small
luxuries of life by working 1.5 hours per day.

This being so, matter being mastered, man's efficiency for food- and
shelter-getting being increased a thousandfold over the efficiency of
the caveman, then why is it that millions of modern men live more
miserably than lived the caveman? This is the question the
revolutionist asks, and he asks it of the managing class, the
capitalist class. The capitalist class does not answer it. The
capitalist class cannot answer it.

If modern man's food- and shelter-getting efficiency is a
thousandfold greater than that of the caveman, why, then, are there