Is it not a singular thing, considering the manifold benefits that would come to labor from such a development, that the attention of these great and powerful organizations has not heretofore been seriously called to this matter.

* * * The story of such attempts as have already been made in this direction is one of a sad and discouraging nature to all who feel the gravity of this problem.

Again and again great organizations have risen on our soil, seeking to combine our trade associations and promising the millennium to labor, only to find within a few years suspicion, distrust, and jealousy eating the heart out of the order, and disintegration following rapidly as a natural consequence.

The time must soon come let us hope, when the lesson of these experiences will have been learned.
These are some of the salient faults of labor--faults which are patent to all dispassionate observers.

The first step to a better state of things lies through the correction of these faults.