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What industrial precedents are there?
The nearest and most recent is the Canal Commission entrusted by the American State with the construction of the Panama Canal.
What forms would the Guilds take?
The Guilds would fall into three main ordersstate or civil Guilds; professional Guilds; and National or Industrial Guilds.
What are State Guilds?
State guilds would consist of the existing Civil Services, the Army, the Navy, the Post Office, etc.
What are professional Guilds?
The professional Guilds consist of the existing professions already nationally chartered.
What are the National Industrial Guilds?
The National Guilds include the various existing industries mainly as already outlined in amalgamated or national trade unions.
Would everybody belong to one or other of these Guilds?
Outside the Civil Services, the professions, and the National Industrial Guilds would be a number of occupations insusceptible of organisation; journalism, art, literature, etc.
How would the members of these callings live?
They would live as they do now, by their wits.
Leaving aside the civil and professional Guilds, oi the two parties to the contract or charter establishing National Guilds, would not one or the other prove the more powerful in the long run; and, if so, what would result?