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get tuberculosis. But it was a very well paid job, and we later discovered that grinder's rot, as they used to call it, is a silicosis situation and that the dry grinding is more dangerous than the wet grinding - but they did not know that. The wet grinding at least reduces some of the dust that is otherwise breathed in.

The labor people were anxious for laws like that. Year after year they proposed a statute law that declared Labor is not a commodity. They would make speeches at their annual conventions and get all wrought up over it. It was a long time in my life experience before I really penetrated the reason for that, but it's a very deep and basic psychological and economic reason. It wasn't until the New Deal that we ever overcame the situations that led to ardent desire /sic/. We talk about labor costs and the fact that we must reduce labor costs. That means that you must treat the man as though he were the iron or the wood that went into the article. This treating the man and his work as though it were a part of the cost of making the article puts a man on a less than human plane. He is no longer a special creation of God entitled to his own free will and to a valuation of him as a living, vital being, but just something that exists to make axes, wheelbarrows, silk or cotton cloth - a commodity, not a human soul.