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 97 Building Modern Babylon 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