The camp at Yale was even called a miniature socialist republic. While the Industrial Worker did not go this far it insisted that the strikers at Yale “are laying a broad and deep foundation for a system of society managed industrially by those who do the world’s work.” The strike as a whole was “proof that the workers are becoming capable of managing their own affairs and thereby are demonstrating their fitness to manage industry when power is gained to take and hold the industries.” - Philip S. Foner (on the Canada Northern Railroad strikers' camp at Yale, British Columbia. We could totally do that too though.