A man able to do duty, and persistently refusing, is sentenced to solitary imprisonment on bread and water till he consents.
"The lowest grade of the officers of the industrial army, that of assistant foremen or lieutenants, is appointed out of men who have held their place for two years in the first class of the first grade.

Where this leaves too large a range of choice, only the first group of this class are eligible.

No one thus comes to the point of commanding men until he is about thirty years old.

After a man becomes an officer, his rating of course no longer depends on the efficiency of his own work, but on that of his men.

The foremen are appointed from among the assistant foremen, by the same exercise of discretion limited to a small eligible class.