Organization is imperative, or else in the struggle for existence, we will be so reduced that no alternative will be left but to rise in a blind, irrational struggle to be wiped out in our own blood.
THE TRAP OF SKEPTICISM.
Indeed, it is the influence that powerful and well-organized bodies exercise on public opinion. There is not only physical, but moral strength in numbers. The Trades Unions of England, at one time prescribed and illegal, now command the notice and respect of the press, the Parliament, the leading thinkers, and the entire body politic of Great Britain. The English press that once associated trades unions with stale beer and violent revolutionary twaddle, pays the greatest homage to the recent Trades Union Congress, held in London. Sept. 12-13. Long columns of favorable editorial and correct news reports are devoted to the congress.
And well may attention be paid to such a colossal body. When delegates representing over a million organized workers meet in convention, there is something that compels respect and enforces consideration. For the past fourteen years, annual meetings have been held by the Trades Unions Congress, and through its influence, legislation has been secured that reflects the highest credit upon the trades unions, and is a protection to them in many respects. 