ABSTRACT
Several years ago the workers in the lighting plants of Paris determined to remind the people of that city of a few elementary facts. A few thousand humble individuals had walked away from their machines. In what is usually called the democratization of industry, the power of the strategic minority is likely to increase rather than to diminish, unless new and better methods of social control are devised. In any system there will remain the fact that some men do work which sustains life from day to day, some do work which sustains it from year to year, while the labor of others is effective only over long periods of time. In a purely industrial republic in which each guild was highly autonomous those who created the immediate necessities would be immeasurably more powerful than those who produced for deferred consumption.
