The men were forced to cooperate to secure not only their economic, but their simple human rights.

They, like other workmen, were compelled by the very conditions under which they lived to unite in unions of their industry or trade, and these unions were bound to grow in size, in strength, and in power for good and evil as the industries in which the men were employed grew larger and larger.
A democracy can be such in fact only if there is some rough approximation in similarity in stature among the men composing it.

One of us can deal in our private lives with the grocer or the butcher or the carpenter or the chicken raiser, or if we are the grocer or carpenter or butcher or farmer, we can deal with our customers, because _we are all of about the same size_.

Therefore a simple and poor society can exist as a democracy on a basis of sheer individualism.

But a rich and complex industrial society cannot so exist; for some individuals, and especially those artificial individuals called corporations, become so very big that the ordinary individual is utterly dwarfed beside them, and cannot deal with them on terms of equality.