He fully believes, of course, in competition among employers, just as the employers are extremely enthusiastic over the individual liberty of the working man.

But in his own trade he has no use for individuality of any kind.

The union is to be composed of so many equal units who will work the same number of hours for the some wages, and no one of whom is to receive more pay even for more work.

The unionist, that is, has come to depend upon his union for that material prosperity and advancement which, according to the American tradition, was to be the inevitable result of American political ideas and institutions.

His attachment to his union has come to be the most important attachment of his life--more important in most cases than his attachment to the American ideal and to the national interest.
Some of the labor unions, like some of the corporations, have taken advantage of the infirmities of local and state governments to become arrogant and lawless.