In trades where such unions are dominant, counter-unions will be organized, and the members of these counter-unions alone will have any chance of obtaining work.

In this way the organization of labor like the organization of capital may gradually be fitted into a nationalized economic system." The conditions to which a "good" labor union ought to conform are more easily definable than the conditions to which a "good" trust ought to conform.

In the first place the union should have the right to demand a minimum wage and a minimum working day.

This minimum would vary, of course, in different trades, in different branches of the same trade, and in different parts of the country; and it might vary, also, at different industrial seasons.

It would be reached by collective bargaining between the organizations of the employer and those of the employee.