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Men who angrily de- clare that there shall be no organization of labor ought to read carefully the industrial history of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, when the conditions which they consider ideal were prevailing in the great industrial centers. There were no unions in England during the earlier part of this period; laws of the most drastic char- ^The Social Unrest, p 15. [55] THE LABOR QUESTION acter, which made it a criminal conspir- acy for two or three working men to consult... together for the purpose of securing shorter hours or better wages, had effectually stamped out unionism. For the employers it was a most pros- perous period; wealth was increasing by leaps and bounds, great fortunes were being heaped up; but the chasm between the employer and the em- ployed was steadily widening, and the condition of the working people was becoming more and more deplorable. "In the new cities," says Arnold Toyn- bee, "the old warm attachments, born of local contiguity and intercourse, vanished in the fierce contest for wealth among thousands who had never seen each other's faces before.
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