One cannot leave the subject of the Trade Union Congress
with- out reflecting upon the astonishing variety of tendencies which it represented. To begin with, we have Mr. Ogden advocating his universal organisation of trade unions for all nations, although a considerable part of the time of the Congress was taken up with quarrels among the British trade unions. If our own trade unions cannot agree among themselves, what hope would there be for an organization of all the unions of the civilized world ? What a menagerie it would be ! We fancy that Mappin terraces would have to be designed for the delegates to the oecumenical conferences in order that they might move on different levels and not come into physical contact :
0, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?
says Bolingbroke in Richard II., and who, we ask, could reconcile a carpenter with a joiner or a boilermaker with an engineer by thinking upon Mr. Ogden's international organization ?
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