disruption will follow. Workingmen do not seem to appreciate the
value of the unit; they are attracted by masses. They seem to
think strength lies only in members; but that is the keynote of
militantism, the death-knell of individualism. The real, the only
strength of a union lies in the silent, unconsulted units; now and
then they rise up and act and the union accomplishes something;
for the most part they do not act, but are blindly led, and the
union accomplishes nothing.

It was interesting to hear the comments of the intelligent young
mechanic as the different trades passed by.

"Those fellows are out on a sympathetic strike; no grievance at
all, plenty of work and good wages, but just out because they are
told to come out; big fools, I say, to be pulled about by the
nose.

"There are the plumbers; their union makes more trouble than any
other in the building trades; they are always looking for trouble,
and manage to find it when no one else can.

"Unions are all right for bachelors who can afford to loaf, but
they are pretty hard on the married man with a family.

"What's gained in a strike is lost in the fight.

"What's the use of staying out three months to get a ten per cent.
raise for nine? It doesn't pay.

"Wages have been going up for two hundred years. I can't see that