. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . be impossible; . nd the mechanic, instead of dependingupon coercion and boycotting, would1 e self-reliant and trust to merit only;fowderly, Most, Parsons, et al., wouldbe without a following, and one of thegreatest factors for disturbance wouldbe comparatively unknown. A remedyhas been suggested, being a prompt re-turn to old principles, the apprenticesystem and the employment of meri-torious workmen only; non-recognitionof trades unionism in any form, and adissolution of all combinations hav
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . be impossible; . nd the mechanic, instead of dependingupon coercion and boycotting, would1 e self-reliant and trust to merit only;fowderly, Most, Parsons, et al., wouldbe without a following, and one of thegreatest factors for disturbance wouldbe comparatively unknown. A remedyhas been suggested, being a prompt re-turn to old principles, the apprenticesystem and the employment of meri-torious workmen only; non-recognitionof trades unionism in any form, and adissolution of all combinations having point of excellence which the true occupies. Apprentices are loo in-dependent. Ihoy feci themselves boundby no honorable obligation to their em-ployer, but assume a freedom of move-ment that prevents them from ever be-coming skilled workmen. Serving oneyear, or perhaps two, they tire of thedrudgery and aspire to the position andconsideration of the workman, withoutthe education and skill that make suchconsideiation a legitimate result. Forthe first six months of his novitiate, pcr-. TRANSFER TABUR. MISSOURI PACIFIC SHOlS SKUALIA. MO., SHOWING DOUBLE DROP DOORS AND WINDOW ARRANGEMENT. Courtesy of the Anv Soullmrst. as objects the depression of wages; inshort, for merit and justice, and theyalone, to be the standard for guidance. Aremedy must be forthcoming very soon;the industrial fabric is in great danger;the tension is becoming too great, andif not relieved must break, and then—revolution and bloodshed. It has been well said by a mechanicalwriter that the position of workman andmechanic has been lowered as much bythe incompetence of those wdio professto know a trade as by any other country is full of half-taught work-ers who have a mere smattering of theirbusiness, who, if they have served anapprenticeship, have never learned thetrade; or who. having become disgustedwith the drudgery and routine of theshop, or of the apprentice stage ofwork, seek new
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