/ | \ \
/ | \ \
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| | | | | | The producers in
|Machine Man-| |Transport | |Agricultural| each of the major
|ufacturing | |Industries| |Industries | industrial groups
|Industries | | | | | are the qualified
| | | | | | electors of the
| | | | | | industry.
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7. The world parliament would exercise, directly, or by delegated
authority, all legislative, executive and judicial functions that
pertained to its activities. It would therefore create the
departments or subdivisions necessary to the carrying out of these
various functions. The members of the world parliament would be
elected for one year, subject to recall at any time by the
constituency that elected them. The parliament would decide on the
qualifications of its own members.

This proposed plan for the organization of a world producers' federation
will be made clearer by a diagram. (p. 116.)

8. _All Power to the Producers!_

The plan for a world producers' federation is designed with the object
of placing all power in the hands of the producers. The society of the
present day vests power--particularly economic power--in the hands of
the owners of economic resources and machinery. Their public institution
is the capitalist state, and their rule is perpetuated by the
manipulation of its machinery.

Under this order of society, the chief emphasis is placed on owning
rather than on working. The largest material rewards and the greatest
amount of social prestige go to the owners. The present society
sanctifies ownership, and raises the owner to a position of moral
superiority.

The same system which dignifies ownership can scarcely recognize work as
of supreme social consequence. The worker is therefore placed in a
position inferior to that of the owner. His economic rewards are less,
his place on the social ladder is lower, and his children are taught in
the schools the necessity of getting out of his class into the society
of those who are able to live without working.

It is hardly necessary to remark that in a community dependent for its
existence upon labor, the teaching of such a philosophy points the way
to c