eet at regular intervals, and
would be responsible for the conduct of the industry when the
industrial congress was not in session.
e. The congress would pick a number of additional committees to deal
with the various problems arising within each industry. These
committees might be called policy committees. In practice, and for
the sake of greater effectiveness, it might be desirable for the
industrial congress to select a chairman, permit him to pick his
committee from the membership of the congress, and then endorse the
whole committee, very much as a minister in a responsible government
picks his cabinet. Since these committees would be concerned with
problems of policy on one side and with problems of administration on
the other, such a method would develop a far more harmonious working
group.
f. The chairmen of these various policy committees together with the
chairman of the executive committee would constitute the board of
managers of the industry, which would be the responsible directing
authority for the world industrial group.
g. Connected with each of these committees, and selected by them,
there would be a board of engineers and experts, responsible for the
technical side of the industry.
A diagram may help to visualize the relations existing between the
various parts of the world organization. (p. 98.)
10. _The Progress of Self-government_
This outline of the organization of one of the major world economic
units is tentative and suggestive rather than arbitrary or final. The
details of the plan would necessarily vary from one industry to another
and from one district and one division to another. All such matters of
detail would be subject to the decisions made by the district
committees, by the divisional congresses and by the world congress of
each industrial group.
The aim of the plan is to build up an economic structure that will be
efficient and at the same time sufficiently elastic to meet the changing
needs of the times. Production is always necessary, but the methods vary
from one age to another. The changes which occur in the economic
activities of a population must find their counterpart in the changing
economic structure of that community, otherwise disorganization and
chaos will inevitably result.
The means best calculated to preserve the efficiency and to guarantee
the mobility of the economic life of the world is
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