It places both sides to the controversy in an amicable mood, and is an appeal to the reason and conscience--not wholly dead in the most soulless corporation.

It costs next to nothing.

It is already becoming a substitute for strikes in England, where the trades-unions are adopting this new weapon.

* * * Trades-unions ought, among us, to emulate the wisdom of European workingmen, and use their mechanism to organize forms of association which should look not alone to winning higher wages but to making the most of existing wages, and ultimately to leading the wage-system into a higher development.

The provident features of the English trades-unions are commonly overlooked, and yet it is precisely in these provident features that their main development has been reached.