ABSTRACT
The desire for profits, the division of labour, and the misapplication of machinery, have introduced such a measure of confusion, and created such a host of parasitic trades, that as it exists to-day industry is incapable of organization except upon a capitalist basis. So long as it remains as it is, the capitalist will inevitably remain master of the position, because industry to-day has no organic structure apart from his activities. There was certainly some excuse for the public, for the movement was largely experimental, and it was unfortunately not accompanied by a propagandist movement which would have explained its aims. The consequence is that the public have failed to understand that the kind of work produced has been too often a matter of necessity rather than of deliberate choice. In practice, craftsmen are too often compelled to compromise to-day.
