dustry must be advertised for
a long period before establishment, so as to prevent failure on the
part of those who might wish to start a similar business six months
later. Whenever a new industrial establishment is founded, the Company
should be informed, so that all those interested may obtain
information from it.
Industrialists will be able to make use of centralized labor agencies,
which will only receive a commission large enough to ensure their
continuance. The industrialists might, for example, telegraph for 500
unskilled laborers for three days, three weeks, or three months. The
labor agency would then collect these 500 unskilled laborers from
every possible source, and despatch them at once to carry out the
agricultural or industrial enterprise. Parties of workmen will thus be
systematically drafted from place to place like a body of troops.
These men will, of course, not be sweated, but will work only a
seven-hour day; and, in spite of their change of locality, they will
preserve their organization, work out their term of service, and
receive commands, promotions, and pensions. Some establishments may,
of course, be able to obtain their workmen from other sources, if they
wish, but they will not find it easy to do so. The Society will be
able to prevent the introduction of non-Jewish work-slaves by
boycotting obstinate employers, by obstructing traffic, and by
various other methods. The seven-hour workers will therefore have to
be taken, and we shall thus bring our people gradually, and without
coercion, to adopt the normal seven-hour day.
SETTLEMENT OF SKILLED LABORERS
It is clear that what can be done for unskilled workers can be even
more easily done for skilled laborers. These will work under similar
regulations in the factories, and the central labor agency will
provide them when required.
Independent operatives and small employers, must be carefully taught
on account of the rapid progress of scientific improvements, must
acquire technical knowledge even if no longer very young men, must
study the power of water, and appreciate the forces of electricity.
Independent workers must also be discovered and supplied by the
Society's agency. The local branch will apply, for example, to the
central office: "We want so many carpenters, locksmiths, glaziers,
etc." The central office will publish this demand, and the proper men
will apply there for the work. These would then travel with their
families to
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