Mr.George Howell shows that a number of societies, which he had specially studied, had spent in thirty years upward of $19,000,000 through their various relief-funds, and $1,369,455 only on strikes.

Mr.
Harrison speaks of seven societies spending in one year (1879) upward of $4,000,000 upon their members out of work.
He shows that seven of the great societies spent in 1882 less than 2 per cent of their income on strikes; and states that 99 per cent of union funds in England "have been expended in the beneficent work of supporting workmen in bad times, in laying by a store for bad times, and saving the country from a crisis of destitution and strife." Trades-unions ought to be doing for our workingmen what trades-unions have already done in England.

* * * It has been by the power of combination among the workingmen, developed through the trades-unions, that this long list of beneficent legislation--factory acts, mines-regulation acts, education acts, tenant-right acts, employers' liability acts, acts against "truck," acts against cruelty to animals, etc .-- has been secured.

It has been wrested from reluctant parliaments by the manifestations of strength on the part of the laboring classes.

* * * Our trades unions ought to be the means of securing one of the great necessities of labor in this country--accurate and generally diffused information concerning the state of the labor-market.