The Creighton Chronicle . 553555. HE nation-wide agitation last summer and during theearly part of this year, when the unions of railroademployees in the United States threatened to stopwork if their demands were not met, was a remark-able commentary on the power of concentrated actionof workingmen. For, whatever we may have thoughtof the use they made of their advantageous position,we realized in our apprehension of the serious possi-bilities of their proposed step that tremendous power was vestedin them to secure recognition of their claims. We are likely to think that labor unions are a mod
The Creighton Chronicle . 553555. HE nation-wide agitation last summer and during theearly part of this year, when the unions of railroademployees in the United States threatened to stopwork if their demands were not met, was a remark-able commentary on the power of concentrated actionof workingmen. For, whatever we may have thoughtof the use they made of their advantageous position,we realized in our apprehension of the serious possi-bilities of their proposed step that tremendous power was vestedin them to secure recognition of their claims. We are likely to think that labor unions are a modern in-stitution, and to flatter ourselves that it remained for us ofthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries to effect, at last, theamelioration of the lot of the workingman by their centuries before, the Catholic Church had conceived andfostered a system of co-operation among tradesmen and crafts-men that will repay some study. This system is the mediaevalguild. The purpose of this paper is to show the influence
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