ociety, with its market and equipment of tools and
machinery. These advantages, make the productive work of all classes,
nearly equal. Let us try to find the real difference, between the daily
labor products of the strongest and the weakest workers. Let us consider
present conditions here at Solaris, as an illustration. Let us take one
hundred dollars, as the value of the product of one day's labor, by an
average person, plus the advantage of such superior social organization,
training, tools and equipment, as Solaris can now furnish. On the other
hand, let us take fifty cents, as the value of one day's labor, by the
strongest, most capable worker, when isolated from his fellows, and from
all social organization, with its tools and equipment. Under the
circumstances, allowing that the strongest could produce twice as much
as the weakest, we should have twenty-five cents, as the value of the
daily product of the weakest worker. These sums, compared with one
hundred dollars, would give us the exact difference between the
strongest and the weakest, under the favorable co-operative conditions,
existing at Solaris. A difference, so trifling as to be scarcely worthy
of consideration, only one-fourth of one per cent. What think you,
George! Where now is the injustice of equal wages? Remember, when
justice is done, the mission of charity is finished!"

"Your clear statement of the case, has proved a revelation to me,
Fillmore! I am quite ready to acknowledge the exact justice, of your
co-operative system of equal wages. I am profoundly impressed with the
soundness of your argument, that women and all weaker units in the army
of labor, are justly entitled to an equal share of the advantages
conferred on labor, by social organization, and by the education,
training and equipment, resulting from that organization. This view of
the question, is a new one to me. It places the whole subject, in quite
a different light. By the aid of this light, I am beginning to
understand something of the intricacy and force, of this co-operative
machine, which we call society; and how much it affects the question of
labor and wages.

"My experience with co-operative farming here at Solaris, is beginning
to bear fruit. Under your instruction, friend Flagg, I think I can now
understand the wide difference, between the competitive and the
co-operative systems of organized labor. The former, benefits the few at
the expense of the many. The latter, rai