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Herein disappears a prolific cause of frictionprice! How many thousand times every hour of each working day does some buyer feel aggrieved at the price he is charged. For that matter, there are at least ten million wage-earners who feel equally aggrieved at the price they are paid for their labour commodity. And more fools they! Let us ponder a functional society where labour has no price and where commodities are sold at a cost which cannot be questioned.

When, therefore, a producing Guild, through the usual machinery, meets a consuming Guild, the main questions are simplified. As to quality, what grades? As to quantity, how much at each delivery?

We are well on the way to production and distribution without friction: the two processes, which are really one, are harmonised.

Nevertheless, in a vast industrial complex such as ours there are innumerable problems common to all the Guilds. Any Guild might perhaps decide on one or many of these problems without giving due weight to the opinions or needs of the other Guilds. To meet any such contvetemps it is proposed that every Guild should have representatives—functional ambassadors—upon every other Guild. This obviously conduces to harmony, any possible source of friction being, by mutual goodwill, removed on the instant.

Internal Problems To co-ordinate the internal affairs of the Guild is, in many ways, more difficult than to harmonise