The most urgent need of organization is precisely in those industries where it is most difficult to organize.

It is, on the whole, not reasonable to expect that this remedy, unless aided by other forces working against the small workshops, will enable the "hands" in the small sweater's den to materially improve their condition.
Sec.4.Trade Union Methods of limiting Competition .-- So far we have regarded the value of combination as dependent on the ability of workers to combine.

There is another side which cannot be neglected.

Two societies of workmen equally strong in the moral qualities of successful union may differ widely in the influence they can exert to secure and improve their position.

We saw that the real value of organization to a body of workmen lay in the power it gave them to make it inconvenient for an employer to dispense with their services in favour of outsiders.
Now the degree of this inconvenience will obviously depend in great measure upon the number of outsiders qualified by strength and skill to take their place without delay.