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Astronaut, v. 1, issue 1, September 1947
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18 ASTRONAUT WHY IT HAPPENED (Continued from page 4) more profitable than tenant farming, it made the people who had been living and working on the lands of the nobility leave the farms and go into the cities. Here, at the very critical moment they were needed, were the workers that the Industrial Revolution demanded to run and supervise the new machinery in the mushrooming industries. And these were not slaves, but freemen, who demanded wages for their labor. The incentive of money-for-work made these freeman laborers work even harder than slaves. But it was also the sight of the payrolls that made the factory owners invest ever more heavily in labor-saving machinery and new inventions calculated to save him many man-hours every month. Thus it was this reservoir of free manpower, as opposed to slave labor, that "made" the Industrial Revolution and the present Age of Science. Odd, isn't it? THE END …………………………………...……………… ADVERTISEMENTS Astronaut accepts advertisements for ANYTHING, provided they are accompanied by the necessary cash. A full page ad will cost you $1.00, parts of page in ratio. Classified ads of just a few words will cost 1c per word. We also gladly trade ads. …………………………………………………….. FOR SALE: Hectograph machine with hand roller and ten gelatin rolls, $20.00. Machine stands about 4 feet high, and is in good working order. You pay express costs. Bob Stein (address below) …………………………………………………… WANTED -- THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS! For a copy of H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider and Others, published by Arkham House in 1939, I offer the following books in trade: THE TIME STREAM (Taine) FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley) THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT (Sheriff) TALES OF FANTASY AND FACT SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (Wells) THE WORLD SET FREE (Wells) SHE (Haggard) INSIDE ASIA (Gunther) PLUS: the following Merritt pocketbooks: Seven Footprints to Satan, Burn Witch Burn, The Ship of Ishtar, Dwellers in the Mirage, Creep Shadow Creep; PLUS the four Teck Amazings containing E. E. Smith's Triplanetary; PLUS the following pocketbooks: Out of This World (anthology), Rocket to the Morgue (Holmes-Boucher), To Walk the Night (Sloane), Donovan's Brain (Siodmak), and the famous Rebirth by T. C. McClary; PLUS all these Lovecraft publications: The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth (and other stories), The Dunwich Horror (and other stories), The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft, and Supernatural Horror in Literature! NOTE: Many of these items are also offered on a Trade-A-While basis elsewhere in this issue. This transaction, however, will be permanent, and take precedence over the Trade-A-While plan. ADDRESS: BOB STEIN, 514 West Vienna Ave., Milwaukee 12, Wisconsin.
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18 ASTRONAUT WHY IT HAPPENED (Continued from page 4) more profitable than tenant farming, it made the people who had been living and working on the lands of the nobility leave the farms and go into the cities. Here, at the very critical moment they were needed, were the workers that the Industrial Revolution demanded to run and supervise the new machinery in the mushrooming industries. And these were not slaves, but freemen, who demanded wages for their labor. The incentive of money-for-work made these freeman laborers work even harder than slaves. But it was also the sight of the payrolls that made the factory owners invest ever more heavily in labor-saving machinery and new inventions calculated to save him many man-hours every month. Thus it was this reservoir of free manpower, as opposed to slave labor, that "made" the Industrial Revolution and the present Age of Science. Odd, isn't it? THE END …………………………………...……………… ADVERTISEMENTS Astronaut accepts advertisements for ANYTHING, provided they are accompanied by the necessary cash. A full page ad will cost you $1.00, parts of page in ratio. Classified ads of just a few words will cost 1c per word. We also gladly trade ads. …………………………………………………….. FOR SALE: Hectograph machine with hand roller and ten gelatin rolls, $20.00. Machine stands about 4 feet high, and is in good working order. You pay express costs. Bob Stein (address below) …………………………………………………… WANTED -- THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS! For a copy of H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider and Others, published by Arkham House in 1939, I offer the following books in trade: THE TIME STREAM (Taine) FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley) THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT (Sheriff) TALES OF FANTASY AND FACT SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (Wells) THE WORLD SET FREE (Wells) SHE (Haggard) INSIDE ASIA (Gunther) PLUS: the following Merritt pocketbooks: Seven Footprints to Satan, Burn Witch Burn, The Ship of Ishtar, Dwellers in the Mirage, Creep Shadow Creep; PLUS the four Teck Amazings containing E. E. Smith's Triplanetary; PLUS the following pocketbooks: Out of This World (anthology), Rocket to the Morgue (Holmes-Boucher), To Walk the Night (Sloane), Donovan's Brain (Siodmak), and the famous Rebirth by T. C. McClary; PLUS all these Lovecraft publications: The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth (and other stories), The Dunwich Horror (and other stories), The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft, and Supernatural Horror in Literature! NOTE: Many of these items are also offered on a Trade-A-While basis elsewhere in this issue. This transaction, however, will be permanent, and take precedence over the Trade-A-While plan. ADDRESS: BOB STEIN, 514 West Vienna Ave., Milwaukee 12, Wisconsin.
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