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...Prospect Union is an institution conducted entirely by Harvard men. It aims to bring together student and workingman on a basis of mutual helpfulness. All the workingmen of Cambridge and suburbs are invited to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. The membership fee is $2, and this entitles men to the free use of the library, game room and shower baths, and gives free admission to all classes, lectures, and smoke talks...
...Avenel then traced the changes in price which had affected other food products from the Middle Ages down to the present time. Similar changes have indirectly applied to clothing as well. Now a suit of clothes represents about four per cent of the income of the average workingman, whereas in old times it represented about eight per cent of the salaries...
...manufactured articles rose in value; this was a disastrous state for the workingmen. But during the last 60 years the opposite conditions have been in evidence: salaries have been increased and commodities have decreased in value. Certain commonplace luxuries have been put within the reach of the workingman, but in fact, it is the commonplace which makes the eulogy and glory of the present...
Under the changes brought about by the revolution, there was no material difference in the condition of the workingman; merely a political change resulted. Since the revolution, on the other hand, the workingman has experienced great material changes. These are due solely to the progress of science and not to political interference. The most important element in the consideration of this matter, has been the changes in money values. Two hundred dollars in the year 1200, would be worth only 74 cents today...
...that with plenty for all such conditions exist? It is because the capitalist class, standing in the avenues to work refuses to let, the workingman pass, and wastes that which would fed and shelter the poor. This criminal mismanagement is bringing on the uprising of the working class, the Revolution...