The problem of " more looms to a weaver "
cannot possibly be solved by the determination of the operatives neither to work the new system nor to discuss it. If the operatives have got a good case—if they can prove that the alleged progress is not progress, and that some- thing which passes as scientific is unscientific—they have nothing to lose by making the facts known. At present they are making a present of all the arguments to their opponents. They put the employers in the position of being able to say, " What are your Trade Unions for if they are not for mass bargaining ? Here we are, offering to meet the Unions for full and free discussion, and we can get nothing but a blank refusal 1 " The men's leaders, fortunately, are in a more amenable temper than the men themselves.
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