cheaper than you and gets your job ? Eh ? How
about his wife and kiddies ? He s more interested
in them than in yours, and he can t see them starve.
So he cuts the price of labor and out you go. But
you mustn t blame him, poor devil. He can t help
it. Wages always come down when two men are

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after the same job. That s the fault of competition,
not of the man who cuts the price."

"But wyges don t come down where there s a
union," the objection was made.

"And there you are again, right on the head.
The union checks competition among the laborers,
but makes it harder where there are no unions.

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