Whether reasonable or not, combinations are not subjects for legislative interference; the law having no cognizance of their causes.
Disturbance of the peace being otherwise provided against, combinations are wisely therefore now left unregarded by the law.
The condition of labourers may be best improved,—
1st. By inventions and discoveries which create capital.
2d. By husbanding instead of wasting capital:—for instance by making savings instead of supporting strikes.
3d. By adjusting the proportion of population to capital.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, STAMFORD-STREET.