A cityless and countryless world : $b An outline of practical cooperative individualismOlerich, Henry
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A cityless and countryless world : $b An outline of practical cooperative individualism
Olerich, Henry
Cooperation; Social problems -- Miscellanea
“The foreman of any branch of industry whether of the family, such as
storekeeper, barber, cook, etc., or whether of the community, such as
head agriculturist, head painter, head builder, etc., always elects
himself to his position by his own deeds, by his superior ability
of doing work in his occupation, by being kind and pleasant, by
directing the labor of his or her co-laborers in the most productive
and agreeable channels. Our foreman is leader only just so far as his
co-laborers are willing to acknowledge him as such; and when a person
of greater ability appears in his branch of industry, the former
leader naturally resigns his position to his superior, because such
a resignation is agreeable to the former leader as well as to his
co-laborers. Hence the leader always does the most and best work and
receives no more pay than the commonest laborer. All our officers are
elected, then, by the tacit or avowed ballot of superior ability and
agreeableness, but never by a _paper_ ballot. Hence you can plainly
see that we acknowledge universal suffrage in its true and full sense,
because every man, woman and child is a voter as well as a candidate.
“Some of our family leaders, or officers as you would call them, are
foremen in the following departments: Store, restaurant, kitchen,
bakery, dining hall, parlors, engine room, tailor shop, barber shop,
halls, bath-rooms, commercial apartment, vehicle apartment, the
departments of ushers, painters, house cleaners, laundry department,
representatives in the ‘Com,’ Fano and Modano, etc., etc.
“Now let us briefly glance at the government of the community. The
business of the community is transacted at the ‘Com,’ as I have already
told you. Every family has one or more representatives in the ‘Com,’
who are daily laboring there, in some department, as paying bills,
making money, examining labor-records, printing, receiving money from
the families, canceling the community’s own money when it arrives,
inventing, etc.
“The family representatives who work at the ‘Com’ nearly always
return to their own family after the close of their day’s work. By
this arrangement every family, and every person in the family, is in
constant personal communication with the ‘Com.’ Any one who desires
information concerning the business of the community can get it orally
from the family representative, or, he can get it from the daily
community’s newspaper, which contains all the business and which is
taken and read by every one who is old enough to read it.
“Some of the community’s and family’s foremen are in the following
departments: Printing, money making, paying, money receiving, selling,
building and repairing motor lines, agriculture, stock raising, mining,
manufacturing, warehouse, roads and boulevards, electric light, parks,
conservatory and greenhouse, garden, orchard, inventor, etc., etc.
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