The Secret Side Of History Mystery Babylon, 209P — Page 102

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Getting Your Share?’ the essence of De Leon's speech
was that, according to government statistics, labor's

The tragedy of De Leon's conclusion was that it was
just the opposite of the truth. As it turned out, De Leon
made a colossal mistake because he only considered the
cost of labor in the final stage of manufacturing,
overlooking the cost of labor along the line from raw
material to finished product. When all of the cost of labor

is added up, labor gets the 80 percent, owners get the 20
percent. Out of the 20 percent must then come the

expense of overhead, taxes, etc. until finally, the net
profit is often as low as 2 or 3 percent, or, no profit at
all.

Actually, according to U. S. Department of
Commerce figures, the worker's share is 87.5 percent and
the owners’ share is 12.5 percent. Compare this with

of

to

barely

enough

barely enough of produced wealth to exist, the
government getting the rest.

Having failed in their first attempt to get the United
States to join the League of Nations, the War-makers set
out to create a conflagration so terrible that the aftermath

wealth

exist,

the

to

The same powerful financial interests that worked to
get the United States into World War I worked with the

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share of manufactured wealth was on the average 20

percent while the owner's share was 80 percent.

according

socialist nations around the world where workers receive

would sweep the entire world into a one world

government.

now well-established Council on Foreign Relations to set