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Excerpt from The Leather Workers' Journal, Vol. 19: September, 1916 With a population of a hundred millions under its flag, and a total area almost equaling that of Europe, the United States contains large districts, together with con siderable strata of society in every district. In which non-unionism is the normal and natural condition of the family bread-win ners. In our agricultural States and in the dependencies, wherever, in fact, the land owners and the tillers of the soil are one, or even where the qualified tenant farmer is yet so rare as to be in demand, the prin cipic of trade unionism invariably makes slow headway. Also among many profes sional and commercial men who, though of fering their labor for a hire and finding it dificult to establish a common scale - the expectations of each being to find himself some day in one of the highly prized places of his calling - the prevailing spirit is de cidedly that of competition as against one another, though it may be that of combi nation against individuals not yet admitted to their ranks. Even members of the typical professional society or league who do not term their remuneration wages, but fees or salaries, are often unaware of having taken up with trade union principles by organiz ing and have no sympathy with wage strikes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.