Guildsmen

Guildsmen such as Maxwell were required to be Third Order Dominicans; guild members met twice a day to recite the psalms and hymns of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to the Dominican rite, in the small chapel built near the workshops on the commons.

A Miscellany of Distributists 2008

It must not, however, be imagined that Guildsmen are advocating a highly centralised system, in which the whole of each industry will be placed under a rigid central control.

A Guild in Being 2007

But if, on the contrary, we recognize, as Medieval Guildsmen all along have recognized, and as National Guildsmen have recently come to believe, that our industrial system is a thing altogether abnormal, carrying within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and is even now on the verge of collapse, then the subject begins to wear a different complexion.

Medieval and National Guilds 2007

Guildsmen, like the Fabians, were so completely unaware that there was any connection between the Chartist demand for the abolition of the Wage System and the problem of machinery, that when they revived the phrase they came to interpret it as meaning the regularization, stabilization and moralization of the wage relationship, entirely unaware of the fact that such a policy is impossible so long as the unrestricted use of machinery is permitted.

Industrialism and Guilds 2007

But Socialists and Guildsmen to-day have not that same intellectual grip of the general situation as had their predecessors of Chartist times.

Industrialism and Guilds 2007

But, apart from this, Guildsmen are keen advocates of the greatest possible extension of local initiative and of autonomy for the small group, in which they see the best chance of keeping the whole organisation keen, fresh and adaptable, and of avoiding the tendency to rigidity and conservatism in the wrong things, so characteristic of large-scale organisation, and especially of trusts and combines under capitalism to-day.

A Guild in Being 2007

For Guildsmen, when they speak of changing the system, mean little more than changing the ownership of the system.

Industrialism and Guilds 2007

The huddled Guildsmen behind the warlocks at the foot of the stairs finally stepped away, and the light of their flaming swords revealed a collapsed figure dressed in a purple brocade robe trimmed in white fox.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Oh, I got a tavern-place that's like a Faire, 'tis, an 'they don' take to no Guildsmen neither.

The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Churchmen, village heads, and Guildsmen told wild tales, but never with any foundation.

The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995