. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. f thetrades unions will cease to exist. The bestargument on this matter is the fact that beforetrades unions were thoroughly organized inEngland there was but one apprentice to seven-teen tradesmen, and now, both there and in thiscountry, on a trades union basis, the average is who may desire, a technical knowledge of thelabor arts and methods, and leaving the pursuitof high-school education to our colleges anduniversities? Ben Franklin said good appren-tices make good citizens, and that being theaim
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. f thetrades unions will cease to exist. The bestargument on this matter is the fact that beforetrades unions were thoroughly organized inEngland there was but one apprentice to seven-teen tradesmen, and now, both there and in thiscountry, on a trades union basis, the average is who may desire, a technical knowledge of thelabor arts and methods, and leaving the pursuitof high-school education to our colleges anduniversities? Ben Franklin said good appren-tices make good citizens, and that being theaim of state and education, the plan we havesuggested is feasible and desirable. If our law-makers can evolve from their gigantic intellectssome plan that will impress upon the youth ofthe land the dignity and necessity of labor, fu-ture generations will rise up and call themblessed, and instead of depending on emigra-tion to supply us with skilled artisans, we canreasonably expect to see in the immediate fu-ture a large class of intelligent American me-chanics. The end is worth striving COUNTRY WITH MYERS SANITARY DEPOTS THE APPRENTICESHIP QUESTION. In a paper read at the lecent convention ofthe master house painters association of theUnited States, Mr. J. G. McCarthy of Chicago,one of the leading spirits of his association, sub-mitted a report on the Legal Aspect of theApprenticeship Question, in which, amongother things, he said : The policy of trades unions in all ages hasbeen favorable to the apprenticeship system ;their loudest cry in our times is for some methodthat will weed out in competent work menandprevent handy men from taking the place ofregular mechanics. But you say, they attemptto limit the number of apprentices in their re-spective trades. They do, and justly so; forwhile the plan prevails of leaving a knowledge three to seven, thus proving that employers andapprentices themselves are the most active ene-mies of the system. To start with, the
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