ABSTRACT
The old unions have voted large sums of money and rendered the most invaluable personal help to the new; and the new have followed the counsel, and imitated the lines of organization of the old. "The New Trades Unionism" recognizes no inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, because the unskilled is only so through a force of circumstances over which he had no control, and all occupations require skill more or less. Therefore, it is to what is known as "the unskilled labour market" that the people attention is especially directed, and it is to the discredit of the old trade unionists that the fallacy of their antipathy to the unskilled class was not earlier revealed. Profit-sharing has been introduced as a salve for the wound of discontent. It is assumed that “new trade unionism” “relies absolutely on legislation rather than on combination.”.
