ABSTRACT
Control over the great corporations that administer industry and dominate government is the foundation of the labor and progressive program. The government is indispensable both "to promote and to encourage co-operation and combination" and to "equalize the advantages as well as prevent the possible abuses of this collective power". The gradual extension of such new forms of governmental supervision and control is what labor as well as the progressives are looking toward in this country. Organized labor and the progressives would give labor, agriculture, and other economic groups proportional representation on this and all similar boards. The government is indispensable both "to promote and to encourage co-operation and combination" and to "equalize the advantages as well as prevent the possible abuses of this collective power". The emphasis on local self-government means nothing more or less than capitalist self-government— and the abandonment of all hope of social supervision and control over the corporations and the industrial structure.
