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poly  ?  For  instance,  are  the  drapers  to  have  the  sole  right  of
manufacturing  cloth?  If  you  grant  them  this  privilege,  the
master  will  no  longer  be  able  to  recruit  his  staff  from  whatever
source  he  chooses.  What  then  becomes  of  freedom  of  trade  ?
How  are  these  monopolies  to  be  reconciled  with  the  constant
progress  of  the  methods  of  manufacture  and  the  varying
number  of  workpeople  required?  If,  on  the  other  hand,  the
law  maintains  liberty,  these  trade  corporations  become  simply
the  English  trades  unions,  which  are  certainly  powerful
machines  of  war  for  organizing  strikes  and  coalitions,  but
which  do  not  contain  the  elements  of  a  new  organization  of
labour.  At  any  rate,  this  programme  contains  one  very  just
observation,  namely,  that  all  these  measures  of  protection  in
favour  of  the  working  classes  ought  to  be  enacted  as  part  of
an  international  agreement  Thus,  England,  France,  and  the
majority  of  European  States  prohibit  the  labour  of  children  in
factories,  while  certain  countries,  under  pretext  of  respecting
liberty,  still  refuse  to  do  so.  Is  it  not  too  bad  that  the  English
and  t  rench  manufacturers  should  be  the  victims  of  the  equity
o  their  country’s  laws,  and  that  others  should  take  advantage
of  the  inhumanity  of  the  legislation  under  which  they  live  to
emp  oy  young  children,  and  thus  doom  them  to  untimely
infirmities  in  order  to  be  able  to  sell  cheaper  than  elsewhere  ?
tinn  if  f  to  the  facility  of  communica--aiSEzS:

one  country  will  cause  disturbance  in  all  the  others  As  the
mutual  relations  of  economic  interests  become  continually
continually  embrace
lb.  imbued  with  the  Socialistic  ideas  that  he  had  developed
"Titings,  wished  to  play  the  part  of  Emperor  of  the