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 brought to admit copartnership members on special terms.