On page 154 of the book cited, he says that the wage system is "the root of the whole tyranny of capitalism," and then continues:
"There are four distinguishing marks of the wage system upon which National Guildsmen are accustomed to fix their attention. Let me set them out clearly in the simplest terms,
"1. The wage system abstracts 'labour' from the labourer, so that the one can be bought and sold apart from the other.
"2. Consequently, wages are paid to the wage worker only when it is profitable to the capitalist to employ his labour.
"3. The wage worker, in return for his wage, surrenders all control over the organisation of production.
"4. The wage worker, in return for his wage, surrenders all claim upon the product of his labour.
"If the wage system is to be abolished, all these four marks of degraded status must be removed. National Guilds, then, must assure to the worker, at least, the following things:—
"1. Recognition and payment as a human being, and not merely as a mortal tenement of so much labour power for which an efficient demand exists.
"2. Consequently, payment in employment and in unemployment, in sickness and in health alike.
"3. Control of the organisation of production in co-operation with his fellows.