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[Daugaard <fum...@th...>]

Gination of labour and touching the imagination of capital. "_Without
Vision the People perish_." I would begin with spending five million
dollars on a vision for the people. What would I do with a
five-million-dollar fund for touching the imagination of labour and
touching the imagination of capital? First: preliminary announcement in
all papers and in all public ways, asking names and addresses of workmen
who have already proved and established their belief in copartnership.
Names and addresses of employers in the same way. Second: names and
addresses of workmen who would believe in it if they could; who believe
in the principle theoretically and would be interested in seeing how it
could be practically and technically proved. Names and addresses of
employers in the same way. Third: selection of one firm in each
industry, the best and most strategically placed to carry it out in that
industry, and placing the facts before them. Selection of the leading
workmen out of all the workmen in the nation employed in that industry,
who would be willing to work with such a firm. Fourth: a selection of
travelling secretaries to visit trades unions and get provisional
permission and toleration for these workmen so that they can take
copartnership places under such a firm with the consent of their fellows
and he set one side for experimental purposes, under the protection of
the trades union rules. Fifth: I would find the most promising
trades-union branch in each industry and I would try to get this branch
to take it up with the other branches until all trades unions were b