Organizing for Work

## Preface By H. L. Gantt (1919) The two greatest forces in any community are the economic force and the political force backed by military power. To develop the greatest amount of strength for the benefit of the community, they must work together, hence must be under one direction. Germany had already accomplished this union before entering the war by having her political system practically take over the industrial, and the Allies rapidly followed suit after the war began. We also found soon after entering the war that our political system alone was not adequate to the task before it, and supplemented it by a food administrator, a coal administrator, a war labor board, a war industries board, a shipping board, and others, which were intended to be industrial, and as far as possible removed from political influences. There is no question that they handled their problems much more effectively than was possible under strictly political control. The Soviet system is an attempt to make the business and industrial system serve the community as a whole, and in doing so to take over the functions of and entirely supplant the political system. Whether it can be made to work or not remains to be seen. Up to date it has failed, possibly because the control has fallen into the hands of people of such extreme radical tendencies that they would probably wreck any system.