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THE NEWEST ANARCHISM 237
be sent out to all the affiliated unions to find out exactly
how the proposed great social revolution was to be carried
out. For several years the Confederation had
sought to launch a revolutionary general strike, but so
of the rank and file were asking, "What would we
many
do, even if the general strike were successful" that it
occurred to the leaders it
might be well to find out. As
a result, they sent out the following list of questions :
"(1) How would your union act in order to transform
itself from a group for combat into a group for production
"(2) How would you act in order to take possession
of the machinery pertaining to your industry
"(3) How do yon conceive the functions of the organized
shops and factories in the future
"(4) If your union is a group within the system of
highways, of transportation of products or of passengers,
of distribution, etc., how do you conceive of its functioning
"(5) What will be your relations to your federation of
trade or of industry after your reorganization
"(6) On what principle would the distribution of
products take place, and how would the productive
groups procure the raw material for themselves
"(7) What part would the Bourses du Travail play
in the transformed society, and what would be their task
with reference to the statistics and to the distribution of
products" (6)
The report dealing with the results of this inquiry contains
such a variety of views that it is not easy to summarize
it. It seems, however, to have been more or less
agreed that each group of producers was to control the
industry in which it was engaged. The peasants were to
take the land. The miners were to take the mines. The