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122 fishing, operating telephones and telegraphs, etc. It appears therefore that at least 50 per cent of the working population of the United States is comprised in what may be described as the farming and white collar classes. It appears moreover that the transportation workers, builders, miners and factory workers who are claiming the retention of war scale of wages are relatively few in number, being distinctly less than one half.

The total membership in labor unions in the United States is variable, but at the present time is not to exceed 3,500,000. If labor unionism has been of incalculable benefit, as we are told, why do not all workers unionize themselves? And why does the membership in labor unions fall off so rapidly as it has done during several years immediately past?

Now, I am not finding much fault with anybody, not even with labor unions, although there are some serious things for which they are undoubtedly responsible. It is not, however, the labor unions that have caused wages to run high and hold high, except to limited extents. What has really done it is the law of supply and demand. Everybody in the Eastern part of this country knows that the wages for domestic servants have risen proportionately as high as for most building mechanics, but there is no union of domestic servants.