The people step—up—to power. They must.
This is progress.
“The right to rule in industry is ours!” say the capitalist industrial masters, the industrial kings.
“You are wrong!” is the increasing answer of the increasing multitude of the increasingly intelligent members of the working class.
The kings of capitalism will come down. They must.
The working class will go up—to industrial democracy. They must.
This will be progress.
If despotism is all wrong in politics, it can not be all right in industry.
Increasing democracy is on the increasing program of mankind.
The master of ceremonies is the political party of the working class to secure, to inaugurate, to “render the next number on the program,”—industrial democracy.