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The article is part of an approach to the development of labor legislation and social policies in pre-communist Romania, focused on their connection with the evolution of professional representation. Looking at the period of the early XXth century with the hindsight of previous inquiries into the issue of the origins of the corporatist vision of professional representation from within the movement of professional associations itself—before the adoption of the corporatist project by Mihail Manoilescu and other theorits of the Right—, it discovers an episode hitherto understood as pertaining to the (slightly adjusted) survival of the pre-modern type of guild organization to have acted, in fact, as an integral part of the modern confrontation between the syndicalist and the corporatist designs for the representation of professional interests.