What has happened in the cotton trade may be paralleled by the experience of other trades. Wherever sweating has been eliminated by the regulation of wages, the health of the trade is established. Wherever the trade is only partly organised, as in the umbrella, the boot or the tailoring trade, the wholesome part suffers by the competition of those whose stock in trade is the misery of the unorganised poor. As an illustration of this competition I may quote the following comparison given by Miss Gertrude Tuckwell at the Guildhall Conference. AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF TAILORS AND TAILORESSES. │ STATEMENT OF PRICES AS AGREED TO BETWEEN THIS BODY AND THE LONDON MASTER TAILORS’ ASSOCIATION, AND OF THE “SWEATED” RATES FOR SIMILAR WORK. │ │ TRADE UNION. NON-UNION. │ Making Dress Coat│£1. 5s. 6d. to £1. 7s. 6d. 10s. to 16s. │ (6d. to 7d. per hour). (These are prices where │ middleman is employed │ —16s. rarely reached.) Gentleman’s Frock│ Do. Do. Coat │ Dress Vest │ 8s. to 9s. 3d. 2s. 6d. Dress Trousers │ 7s. 3d. to 8s. 5d. 2s. to 4s. Ladies’ Costume— │ Pressing │ With very little 2½d. Machining │ extras) 30s. 9d. Baisting │ 7d. Felling │ 1¼d. │ ——1s. 7¾d. Ladies’ Jackets— │ Pressing │ 1¼d. Baisting │ 23s. 3½d. Machining │ 4½d. Felling │ ½d. │ ——9¾d. Ninepence three farthings against twenty three shillings! How is it possible for honest industry to compete against this exploitation of flesh and blood subsidised by the ratepayer? It was staggering facts of this sort that induced the Guildhall Conference to go beyond the scope of its reference by passing an amendment calling for the abolition of the outworker in all trades and the provision of workshop accommodation. Trade unionism has succeeded in regulating wages in the great industries whose operations can only be carried on on a great collective scale; but trade unionism alone is clearly unable to destroy sweating in the many industries in which the fabrication of the parts is let and sub-let until the origin of the whole is found in the dim, one-roomed tenement of the slum where the victim of the sweater carries on her tragic struggle with famine.