ABSTRACT
The principles that govern Combines are just as old as the law of gravitation and just as immutable. The difficulty is sometimes to find out what these principles are, but the principles are there, we may depend upon it, and we may also depend upon it that they apply equally certainly to the masters as to the men. The machines would be no respecters of either master or man; they would not stop on the master's side or on the man's side. If either got entangled in the machinery, the mishap would be just the same whether master or man. The chapter explains number of Trade Unions in England to-day is larger than it ever was in the whole of the preceding centuries of the world's history, and combines of masters are larger to-day and represent a larger amount of capital than was ever known in the preceding history of the world.
