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be carried out practically; to arrange the details would be for the experts of the future. These four classes of prices would be:
A. For common labor, that anybody can perform without any preparatory apprenticeship.
B. For skilled labor, like handling merchandise and machinery, plowing, etc.
C. For skilled labor of a higher degree, like cabinet-making, carpentry, weaving, and similar mechanical labor.
D. For professional labor, engineering, drawing, calculating, superintending, organizing, etc.
All productive labor might be divided into four classes like these, and the price at a given duration of performance might be for
| Class | A | $ | 1.00 |
| Class„ | B | 1.50 | |
| Class„ | C | 2.00 | |
| Class„ | D | 2.50 |
Besides, a lowest limit would have to be fixed for wages, or better, a lowest limit for the income of anyone to be guaranteed even to the most unskilled laborer. Let us say, that, for instance, at seven hours of daily toil the lowest amount of wages should be $20 per week; then the wages would be for
| Class | A | $ | 120.00 |
| Class„ | B | 30.0 | |
| Class„ | C | 40.00 | |
| Class„ | D | 50.50 |
But I must insist that this is only an illustration, selected to give you an idea of the system; for, I am sure that in the future there will be a scale of wages much more elaborate and fitted to existing conditions and circumstances. Yet, I maintain this: That for the time to immediately follow the present system the difference between the highest and lowest income must not be too large, and that the lowest income must afford a comfortable, happy existence.
