Masters [capitalists/bosses] conspire together with each other. Whoever denies this is naive. They conspire together in lots of ways, but especially to keep wag

Masters [capitalists/bosses] conspire together with each other. Whoever denies this is naive. They conspire together in lots of ways, but especially to keep wages down. They keep things quiet until they act on lowering the wages or whatever they're doing, and [somehow] do so in such a way that keeps the workers from communicating with each other about it. In contrast, when workers conspire [unionize] the masters will loudly beg for help from the state to keep the workers from achieving anything.