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29 too happy. To begin with, the universities, particularly the recent foundations, are pouring scientifically trained men into industry. Their scarcity value has gone. Again, many of their previous sources of income—commissions on introducing capital or new inventions—have dried up. They are more and more going on regular salaries. The younger technicians are ripe for a new order of industry. It is this group of workers to whom function appeals. They would infinitely prefer to work wholeheartedly for their functional unit than be, as to-day, mere instruments of profiteering. A vapprochement between the trade unions and the professional associations is neither incongruous nor impossible. At present they both lack sagacious leadership.

Maintenance

To mention the inclusion of the scientist, the inventor and the technician in the Guild organisation is to recall the argument for functional equality. However brilliant and essential these men or women may be, they can be neither more nor less than fellow partners with all the other workers. Each and all they are industrial citizens of the Guilds as they are political citizens of the State.

It must be a great deal more than a formal equality. They are on the strength for life. In work, in reserve (now known as unemployment), in sickness and old age, their maintenance on full pay must be assured. Not for nothing have we conquered economic scarcity. Let the dead past bury its dead; shall we insult old age with a pension or cut the

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