Once the passion for revolutionary change was aroused a passion long disturbing governments it was bound to follow sooner or later that eagerness for change would pass from the political sphere over into the related field of economics. In fact, new developments in industry, new techniques striking out on new paths, changed relations of employer and destitution among the masses, increased self-reliance on the part of workers as well as a closer bond of union with one another, and in addition to all this, a decline in morals have caused conflict to break forth.