sociation of which he is a member; but the
employee is cowed by his union,--that is the essential difference
between the two. An association of employers is a union of
independent and aggressive units, and the action of the
association must meet the approval of each of these units or
disruption will follow. Workingmen do not seem to appreciate the
value of the unit; they are attracted by masses. They seem to
think strength lies only in members; but that is the keynote of
militantism, the death-knell of individualism. The real, the only
strength of a union lies in the silent, unconsulted units; now and
then they rise up and act and the union accomplishes something;
for the most part they do not act, but are blindly led, and the
union accomplishes nothing.

It was interesting to hear the comments of the intelligent young
mechanic as the different trades passed by.

"Those fellows are out on a sympathetic strike; no grievance at
all, plenty of work and good wages, but just out because they are
told to come out; big fools, I say, to be pulled about by the
nose.

"There are the plumbers; their union makes more trouble than any
other in the building trades; they are always looking for trouble,
and manage to find it when no one else can.

"Unions are all right for bachelors who can afford to loaf, but
they are pretty hard on the married man with a family.

"What's gained in a strike is lost in the fight.

"What's the use of staying out three months to get a ten per cent.
raise for nine? It doesn't pay.

"Wages have been going up for two hundred years. I can't see that
the strike has advanced the rate of increase any.

"These fellows have tried to monopolize Labor Day; they don't want
any non-union man in the parade; the people will not stand for
that very long; labor is labor whether union or non-union, and the
great majority of workingmen in this country are not members of
any union."

The parade, like all things good, came to an end, and we took the
trolley for the place where the automobile had been left.

On arriving we took out the dry cells, tested each one, and then
rewired the carriage complete and in a manner to defy rain, sand,
and oil. The difficulty, however, was in the coil. Apparently the
motion of the vehicle had worn the insulation through at some
point inside. The new coil, a common twelve-inch coil, worked
well, giving a good, hot spark.

The farmer who had so kindly pulled the machine in the