ABSTRACT
Numerous and varied are the personal qualities thanks to which certain individuals succeed in ruling the masses. These qualities, which may be considered as specific qualities of leadership, are not necessarily all assembled in every leader. In a democratic regime, the born leaders are orators and journalists. In the opening days of the labor movement, the foundation of leadership consisted mainly, if not exclusively, in oratorical skill. Those who aspire to leadership in the labor organizations fully recognize the importance of the oratorical art. William Morris, he had broken with the old professional leaders of the English labor movement, was reduced to the leadership of his little guard of intellectuals at Hammersmith. The ancient Greeks said that white hairs were the first crown which must decorate the leaders' foreheads. It is certainly different as far as concerns leaders who have grown old in the service of the party.
