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196 lecturer what business in the United States would answer to the above condition, he replied that our railroads already had unions, with technical knowledge enough among engineers and in the shops to take over and run the system "within a very few years." He thought the Western Federation of Miners already equipped to run the mines and that the big breweries had a labor organization powerful enough and technical equipment so advanced that they might easily pass from capitalist to labor management. Much of the electrical work he believed to be in the same hopeful stage of transition.

He made much of the familiar suggestion that the general trust development had proved already that the biggest business can be run by those who have developed within the business and are hired by the outside capitalist. "If they will do it for the capitalists, they will do it for all of us." To the redoubtable question as to how these enterprises were to be financed, he replied that a few years more of increasing unrest, strikes becoming more and more general, interspersed with the gaieties of sabotage, would make capitalistic investments so uncertain and insecure that the outside capitalist would tire of the game. "The financier," he said, "does not realize in the least how hard we are going to make it for him to run these things in the old way."

According to Odon Por it is a great step toward the new order that the clerical force in the French Post Office has lost confidence in the official political management. In his own words: "The employees were tired of being directed and dominated by a political