An association of employers is a union of independent and aggressive units, and the action of the association must meet the approval of each of these units or 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 the strike has advanced the rate of increase any.
"These fellows have tried to monopolize Labor Day; they don't want any non-union man in the parade; the people will not stand for that very long; labor is labor whether union or non-union, and the great majority of workingmen in this country are not members of any union." The parade, like all things good, came to an end, and we took the trolley for the place where the automobile had been left.
On arriving we took out the dry cells, tested each one, and then rewired the carriage complete and in a manner to defy rain, sand, and oil.