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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 ? 
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one country will cause disturbance in all the others As the 
mutual relations of economic interests become continually 
continually embrace 
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