| | | | | | The producers in |Machine Man-| |Transport | |Agricultural| each of the major |ufacturing | |Industries| |Industries | industrial groups |Industries | | | | | are the qualified | | | | | | electors of the | | | | | | industry. ------------ ---------- ------------ 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 class conflict and ultimately to social disintegration. If the community is dependent upon production for its existence, there must be sufficient incentive to continue production, otherwise the community dies. The disastrous consequences that must of necessity follow on the economic order as it is constituted at the present time are already in evidence,--strikingly so in the case of the European breakdown. The owning class society is coming to an end--falling of its own weight. The time has come when the producers must take the control of the world into their own hands or suffer disaster.