It is to this end that the grades are divided into classes.

The grades as well as the classes being made numerically equal at each regrading, there is not at any time, counting out the officers and the unclassified and apprentice grades, over one-ninth of the industrial army in the lowest class, and most of this number are recent apprentices, all of whom expect to rise.
Those who remain during the entire term of service in the lowest class are but a trifling fraction of the industrial army, and likely to be as deficient in sensibility to their position as in ability to better it.
"It is not even necessary that a worker should win promotion to a higher grade to have at least a taste of glory.

While promotion requires a general excellence of record as a worker, honorable mention and various sorts of prizes are awarded for excellence less than sufficient for promotion, and also for special feats and single performances in the various industries.

There are many minor distinctions of standing, not only within the grades but within the classes, each of which acts as a spur to the efforts of a group.

It is intended that no form of merit shall wholly fail of recognition.
"As for actual neglect of work positively bad work, or other overt remissness on the part of men incapable of generous motives, the discipline of the industrial army is far too strict to allow anything whatever of the sort.