1. The Potters Brigade—Would furnish us with the earthenware, for which we should from the first have a very large demand. The Household Salvage Brigade would require some thousands of pots to start with and in connection with our food depôts we should be able to dispose of thousands more.
2. The Weavers Brigade—This would give employment for a large number of skilled hands. Their first object would be to supply the kinds of clothes, blankets, &c., which would be most suitable for the use of the submerged tenth. In catering for their wants we should avoid, however, anything prisony, or workhousey, or charity-institutiony in appearance. As our numbers increased we should find plenty of work for our weavers, at any rate for many years to come without entering into any sort of competition either with the market or the mills.
3. The Basket Brigade—Would supply us with all sorts of cheap baskets, for which we should have a constant demand.
4. The Mat Making Brigade—Would find employment for many more hands in supplying us with mats for sleeping and household purposes.
5. The Fuel Brigade—Here we have an industry which requires no skill. There would be two branches of it—the woodchoppers and the Oopala makers. For the latter women and children could be largely employed both in the collection of the cow-dung and in the preparation of it for use as fuel.
6. The Tinners Brigade—Will be kept busy making receptables and badges for the Salvage Brigade, and also probably emblems for the Labor Bureau.
7. The Ropemakers Brigade—Will furnish employment to a number
more and the results of their labour will find an ample market in
our various colonies.
8. The Tanners Brigade—Will supply all our departments with such
leather as may be required for various purposes, and among other
things will be attached to.
9. The Shoemakers Brigade—Who will be employed in patching up the
old shoes collected by our Household Salvage Brigade and in making
new ones for our consumption.
10. The Tailors Brigade—Will supply uniform and clothing of all
kinds. For these we have already a very considerable demand, which
would increase year by year.