ABSTRACT
The basis of the workers’ revolt against the tyranny of the middleman and financier must be the strike for quality. But strikes at the best are negative measures, and if the middleman is to be eliminated, it can only be by means of action of positive kind. At first an agency of this kind would have to make use of such craftsmen as it found at its hand. But as its position became more secure and it came to promote the interests of new men, it would be able to facilitate a transition towards revival of Guilds. At a later date, when the machinations of the middlemen had been thoroughly exposed, such agencies could be financed by the Guilds until such time as local markets were restored, when they would become unnecessary. To what extent organization on basis is possible it is difficult to say; but production in small workshops is very much more general than is usually supposed.
