The house of Industry : a new estate of the realm

46 THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY

commissions. In the United States, salaries of #20,000 are not infrequent; in Great Britain, £10,000 is not infrequent. The House of Industry would not tolerate such preposterous payments for ten seconds. So that, with Labour entering into partnership and artificial salaries disappearing, we are in a fair way to realise Bernard Shaw’s dream of equality of income. The first step towards this is obviously the abolition of the wage system. That indubitably leads to partnership. But partnership will not endure without equality.

The great industry was the cradle of the wage system, as we know it. The House of Industry will make its coffin.

SENTENCE OF DEATH

Wuewn the House of Industry clamps down the coffin-lid on the wage system, it thereby decrees the death of the Servile State.