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THE 4 HOUR DAY
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Hello fellow worker,
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Ok, here's how you might get a 4 hour work day--if you organize.
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The figures below have been gleaned from the "Survey of Current
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Business" and publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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As is shown, output per worker has been growing in real terms
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since 1950. Yet, it seems that the general standard of living
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for people who are employed (as opposed to people who are employers)
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has gone down. Look around you. See what's happening and then,
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if you can bear the freedom, organize. The Industrial Workers of
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the World, IWW or Wobblies as they have been known over the years,
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offer you the opportunity to do something about crawling out of
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this abysmal situation. But you have to take responsibility for
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your actions or non actions. Why not make a New Years Resolution
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to get wise and organize? You can do it. Remember what John
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Lennon sang, "A working class hero is something to be." Anybody
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who is an employee should take this advice to heart and begin
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by calling (415) 863-9627. That's right 863-WOBS.
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Write: IWW
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1095 Market St. Suite 204
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San Francisco
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California 94103
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GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT NUMBER OF WORKERS AVERAGE VALUE
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IN BILLIONS OF CONSTANT PRODUCING GNP OF OUTPUT
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1982 DOLLAR$ PER WORKER
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IN CONSTANT 1982
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DOLLAR$
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YEAR:
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1950=$1,203.7*****************63,377,000************$18,992
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1960=$1,665.3*****************65,778,000************$25,316
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1970=$2,416.2*****************78,678,000************$30,709
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1980=$3,187.1*****************99,303,000************$32,094
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1989=$4,117.7****************117,957,000************$34,908
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Averaged over the same time span in constant 1982 $, wages were
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running between $7,000 and $10,000. Remember that's an average,
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nationwide and in 1982 dollars. Is it any wonder that the top
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1% of the households in this nation control more wealth than
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the bottom 90%?
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"The wealth of a household, or net worth, is what it owns (including
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stocks and bonds, housing and other real estate, checking and
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savings accounts, and so forth) minus what it owes in debt
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(including mortgage loans, credit card balances and business
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loans.)
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"By 1989, the top 1 percent (834,000 households with about $5.7
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trillion of net worth) was worth more than the bottom 90 percent of
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Americans (84 million households, with about $4.8 trillion in net
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worth)."
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"New York Times" page 1, April 21, 1992 issue. Information based
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on the "Federal Reserve's triennial Survey of Consumer Finances".
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The top 1% are not the wage slaves producing the wealth. They
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are the owners of the stock, bonds, real estate, .....
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the owners of the wealth and the means of producing the wealth.
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They employ the rest of us to produce the commodities which
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are measured by dollars and called the GNP.
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BTW, I realize the new measurement is of the GDP. Latest
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figures are usually found mid-month in the "Wall Street Journal".
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It stands to reason that if we can produce this much wealth
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now, most of it not even coming back to us because of the
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robbery inherit in the wage system, we could produce the
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same amount, for ourselves, in half the time. Onward
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to the four hour day, probably even less.
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