THE 4 HOUR DAY Hello fellow worker, Ok, here's how you might get a 4 hour work day--if you organize. The figures below have been gleaned from the "Survey of Current Business" and publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As is shown, output per worker has been growing in real terms since 1950. Yet, it seems that the general standard of living for people who are employed (as opposed to people who are employers) has gone down. Look around you. See what's happening and then, if you can bear the freedom, organize. The Industrial Workers of the World, IWW or Wobblies as they have been known over the years, offer you the opportunity to do something about crawling out of this abysmal situation. But you have to take responsibility for your actions or non actions. Why not make a New Years Resolution to get wise and organize? You can do it. Remember what John Lennon sang, "A working class hero is something to be." Anybody who is an employee should take this advice to heart and begin by calling (415) 863-9627. That's right 863-WOBS. Write: IWW 1095 Market St. Suite 204 San Francisco California 94103 GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT NUMBER OF WORKERS AVERAGE VALUE IN BILLIONS OF CONSTANT PRODUCING GNP OF OUTPUT 1982 DOLLAR$ PER WORKER IN CONSTANT 1982 DOLLAR$ YEAR: 1950=$1,203.7*****************63,377,000************$18,992 1960=$1,665.3*****************65,778,000************$25,316 1970=$2,416.2*****************78,678,000************$30,709 1980=$3,187.1*****************99,303,000************$32,094 1989=$4,117.7****************117,957,000************$34,908 Averaged over the same time span in constant 1982 $, wages were running between $7,000 and $10,000. Remember that's an average, nationwide and in 1982 dollars. Is it any wonder that the top 1% of the households in this nation control more wealth than the bottom 90%? "The wealth of a household, or net worth, is what it owns (including stocks and bonds, housing and other real estate, checking and savings accounts, and so forth) minus what it owes in debt (including mortgage loans, credit card balances and business loans.) "By 1989, the top 1 percent (834,000 households with about $5.7 trillion of net worth) was worth more than the bottom 90 percent of Americans (84 million households, with about $4.8 trillion in net worth)." "New York Times" page 1, April 21, 1992 issue. Information based on the "Federal Reserve's triennial Survey of Consumer Finances". The top 1% are not the wage slaves producing the wealth. They are the owners of the stock, bonds, real estate, ..... the owners of the wealth and the means of producing the wealth. They employ the rest of us to produce the commodities which are measured by dollars and called the GNP. BTW, I realize the new measurement is of the GDP. Latest figures are usually found mid-month in the "Wall Street Journal". It stands to reason that if we can produce this much wealth now, most of it not even coming back to us because of the robbery inherit in the wage system, we could produce the same amount, for ourselves, in half the time. Onward to the four hour day, probably even less.