Sentence:  Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would <WSD>now</WSD> be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent , as they are each a part of the whole . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events