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to the returns to their labor. This is avowedly a practical attempt at industrial education and illustrates the interest that the company has not only in its present corps of workmen, but in its prospective employes as well.

FIG. ii. THE OLD WAY

The attitude of the employes has been sufficiently indicated. At a recent mass meeting they expressed themselves as follows :

Resolved, That we thank the company for the many concessions in our favor made by them, prominent among which is the further reduction of fifteen minutes in our working time, giving us ten hours' pay for nine and one-half hours' work ; and that we pledge our best efforts to make their action a source of profit to them.

Resolved, That in these resolutions is expressed the real spirit of the entire force of the N. C. R. employe's.

But it frequently happens that organized labor not directly connected with industrial establishments that have adopted some such modification of the wage system assumes a very critical attitude. It is unnecessary to inquire into the reasons for this reasons sometimes quite complex. In the present instance organized labor has commended these efforts and expressed itself in no uncertain terms. The Dayton Trades and Labor