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 secretary of a local Union of workers in luxuries replied, that their members were convinced that they would have to give up their trade, probably for a long time, after the General Strike, and that they were determined to divide themselves up in trades where there was a shortage of hands, and by this their Union would cease existing as a Trade Union, and consequently would be unable to take part as such in the reorganisation of society.

Unanimously, however, all other Trade Unions wrote that they were well aware of what they had to do, as to their mission after the victory, and that they would seize the means of production in their trade and continue production. In all other questions it is sufficient to mention the results of the answers of all Trades Unions.

It will be the calling of the industrial organisations to supply raw materials to the different Unions of production in the different trades which belong to this Industrial Union.

It would be the calling of the Labour Exchanges to attend to the moral and intellectual part of life; the education, the lectures, the entertainments, and especially the statistics of the necessities of their region and neighbourhood.

The sum of the statistics of necessities, put up by the Labour Exchanges of the different localities, would make it possible for the general Labour Unious and the general Union of Labour Exchanges of the whole country to easily send those products and raw materials which are abundant in one region into those regions where they are needed. Everybody will take from the public warehouses, in which products and provisions are piled up, to his heart's content, as he will need it, because production will proceed according to the public needs. In this manner the organisation of the future results by itself from the organisation of the present.

The surplus effort of the comrades who, no more exploited by overwork, but jolly and fresh, look to other fields of occupation instead of throwing themselves exhausted upon their beds immediately after work, will express itself in numerous organisations which correspond with their taste and notions.

In this manner one will spend his leisure time in organisations of science and art, another in sanitary organisations, still others in clubs of instruction and enlightenment; and so this immense net of groups and organisations works harmoniously without any need of any central or executive body.

As soon as there is no more ruling power, after the victory of the working people in the cities, the most reactionary peasants, who always voted for the clergy and who could never be aroused to vote for Socialism, will be immediately ready to expropriate the big landlords. The traditions of the original village community, Communism, will be instrumental, so that the people will take back from the big landowners the forests and common fields.

The inferior production of the still generally used primitive system of agriculture will soon be improved by large farming