Their scale of wages would be determined in general by that of the lowest grade of industrial labor, but their expenses would be materially smaller.
That the organization of labor herewith suggested would prove to be any ultimate solution of the labor problem, is wholly improbable.

It would constitute, like the proposed system, of corporate regulation, at best a transitional method of reaching some very different method of labor-training, distribution, and compensation; and what that method might be, is at present merely a matter of speculation.

The proposed reorganization of labor, like the proposed system of institutional reform, and like the proposed constructive regulation of large industrial corporations, simply takes advantage of those tendencies in our current methods which look in a formative direction; and in so far as these several tendencies prevail, they will severally supplement and strengthen one another.

The more independent, responsible, and vigorous political authority will be the readier to seek some formative solution of the problem of the distribution of wealth and that of the organization of labor.

Just in so far as the combination of capital continues to be economically necessary, it is bound to be accompanied by the completer unionizing of labor.