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Excerpt from On Trades Unions in Relation to National Industry
A very limited number of Trades Unions have regulations against the introduction of machinery, whilst a larger number do not allow payment of wages according to piecework. A few trades also prescribe a maximum rate of working, wherever wages are paid according to time. All these usages have one and the same effect, viz. To check production, and to prevent the economizing of labour. The practices are inexcusable in the more skilled and highly paid trades. Indeed, everywhere they are to be condemned; but if any extenuation may be offered, it is in the case of unskilled labourers, whose number is rendered artificially superabundant by the exclu sion from the skilled trades of many who would have entered them. N o doubt other causes, such as want of education, idleness, or intem perate habits, tend constantly to reinforce, beyond measure, the class whose work is simply labour, requiring neither thought nor skill. But many of them are the victims of Trades Union monopoly, and on their behalf, as well as in the interest of the Nation, some effort is urgently needed to break down the artificial barriers which exclude them from the better paid callings.
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