But the bulk of evidence goes to show that the sweater, even when he does not occupy himself in detailed manual labour, performs a useful work of superintendence and management.

"The sweater in the vast majority of cases is the one man in the workshop who can, and does, perform each and any branch of the trade." For the old adage, which made a tailor the ninth part of a man, has been completely reversed by the subdivision of work in modern industry.

It now takes more than nine men to make a tailor.

We have foremen or cutters, basters, machinists, fellers, button-holers, pressers, general workers, &c.

No fewer than twenty-five such subdivisions have been marked in the trade.