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Monday, March 23, 1998

Watching the thieving worker


      " You know the bartenders are not going to like it ", Mike Mogdam,

    president of Barmate Corp. said in the N.Y. times. Mogdam invented

    a computer guided electronic system that lets bar owners track every

    drop of booze.

        Why should bar tenders like such an affront to their integrity ?

    It is no surprise that in enterprises where workers are most exploited

    - bars and restaurants - the owners are most suspicious of being robbed.

    When this does occur it can best be described as a " redistribution of

    the surplus product ".

       Are workers in general getting RICH nowadays at the expense of the

    capitalist owners ? Just the opposite is happening. And government is

    doing very little to correct the injustice,

         From the government workers have been getting this message : " We

    owe you nothing ! "

       From business workers have been getting the same contemptuous message:

       " We owe you nothing ! "

     The law of life, of nature -of course - is that the workers owe themselves

    their fair share of the economic pie - which in theory at least ( remember

    the labor theory of value ? ) may be the WHOLE PIE !

       Marx said long ago that " vampire like, Capital wishes to squeeze

    every drop of blood from the working class ".

        It is nothing less than incredible to hear owners of bars and

    restaurants whine about how they are being cheated by the " low-life "

    help. Of course the wages paid out guarantee a " low life " for the help.

      Kids are exploited abominably in the fast food chains especially. They

    should have UNION protection and health benefits. No more minimum

    wage for such blatant exploitation !

       A Labor Party should be created to monitor every drop of wealth the

    capitalists steal from the workers !

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