The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.