the world producers' federation.

The activities of the resources and raw materials board will include:

1. A survey of all available resources and raw materials.

2. A survey of the present consumption of these raw materials.

3. A survey of the present production and of the possible production
of these materials.

4. A production budget, assigning to each of the producing areas the
amounts of materials that they are responsible for producing.

5. A consumption budget, assigning to the various using areas their
quotas of the materials produced.

6. Provision for the increase in production necessary to meet the
demands of the consumers of raw materials.

7. Final decisions as to which resources should be used, and for what
purposes.

This board would have under its immediate control the destiny of the
whole producing world. It would not own the resources any more than the
postal department of a government owns the post offices and the mail
trucks, but in one case, as in the other, the power to decide on the
service to be rendered would rest with the administrative officers.

The need for some central control over the world's resources, and of
some clearing house for raw materials seems quite obvious. The world
producers' federation faces no more important or pressing issue. In this
field alone, through its elimination of sources of conflict and its
regularizing of raw material supplies, the world producers' federation
could undoubtedly justify its existence.

6. _The Transport and Communication Board_

The transport and communication board would have jurisdiction over all
of those activities involving the transfer of goods, of people and of
messages, not wholly within one division. Such a plan has been worked
out in part in the United States of America, where commerce between the
states (interstate commerce) is under the control of the Federal
Government, while commerce wholly within one state is under the control
of that state. The same principle, applied to a producers' society,
would leave local transport in local hands, while all matters concerning
world transport would be under the control of the world producers'
federation.

The present economic system depends on the shipment of goods from one
point to another. Raw materials are sent from the place of their origin
to the fabricating establishment that consumes them. In some cases,
these distances are small,