From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . ame characterthe Unions followed, and in all there are about 2,000 trade unions inGreat Britain and Ireland, with a membership of nearly 2,250,000, and anannual income of about $10,000,000. The purposes of the union are various. The mutual aid and benefitfeature is secondary to the protective purpose, which is to secure the mostfavorable conditions of labor that can be obtained. This includes efforts toraise wages and to prevent their fall, reduction of hours of labor and pre-vention of their increase, the
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . ame characterthe Unions followed, and in all there are about 2,000 trade unions inGreat Britain and Ireland, with a membership of nearly 2,250,000, and anannual income of about $10,000,000. The purposes of the union are various. The mutual aid and benefitfeature is secondary to the protective purpose, which is to secure the mostfavorable conditions of labor that can be obtained. This includes efforts toraise wages and to prevent their fall, reduction of hours of labor and pre-vention of their increase, the regulation of apprentices, overtime, piecework,and many other difficulties which arise in the complicated relations of laborand capital. It is generally acknowledged that the trade union has reached itshighest state of organization and power in Great Britain, and that theBritish workman, in consequence, controls the situation more fully than inany other country. This form of organization has only of late yearsappeared on the continent of Europe, freedom to combine having been denied. THE HERO OF THE STRIKE, COAL CREEK, TENN. In 1892 a periud of great labor agitation began, lasting for several years. One of the most heroic figures of thosetroublesome times is Colonel Anderson, under a flag of truce, meeting the infuriated miners at Coal Creek,
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