Gimme a break - Rand just shoved him in there to reveal just what sort of an Alpha Male we're dealing with here, buster, so you can forget about winning against these guys, you looters, you. Can we possibly imagine a more transparent plot device? Oh, oh - I know! How about if Francisco descends on the mills in his flying saucer and uses his Reardon Metal-enabled Super-Hypno Powers to organize the workers - that's only slightly less believable than the feckless-playboy-with-a-heart-of-gold bit Rand gives us, right?
Remember, the 'movement'consisted of thousands of people, not just the few that Rand had as the leaders.