[Illustration: NATIONAL COMMITTEE DELEGATES YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO MEETING, Aug. 20, 1919.--Standing, left to right: F. P. Hanaway, _Miners_; D. Hickey, _Miners_; C. Claherty, _Blacksmiths_; R. J. Barr, _Machinists_; H. F. Liley, _Railway Carmen_; R. L. Hall, _Machinists_; R. T. McCoy, _Molders_; R. W. Beattie, _Firemen_; J. W. Morton. _Firemen_; P. A. Trant, _Amalgamated Association_. Seated, left to right: E. Crough, J. D. Cannon, _Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers_; F. J. Hardison, _Blacksmiths_; J. Manley, _Iron Workers_; Wm. Hannon, _Machinists_; John Fitzpatrick, _Chairman_; Wm. Z. Foster, _Sec.-Treasurer_; C. N. Glover, _Blacksmiths_; T. C. Cashen, _Switchmen_; D. J. Davis, _Amalgamated Association_.] The organization of workingmen into trade unions is a comparatively simple matter when it is properly handled. It depends almost entirely upon the honesty, intelligence, power and persistence of the organizing forces. If these factors are strongly present, employers can do little to stop the movement of their employees. This is because the hard industrial conditions powerfully predispose the workers to take up any movement offering reasonable prospects of bettering their miserable lot. All that union organizers have to do is to place before these psychologically ripe workers, with sufficient clarity and persistence, the splendid achievements of the trade-union movement, and be prepared with a comprehensive organization plan to take care of the members when they come. If this presentation of trade unionism is made in even half-decent fashion the workers can hardly fail to respond. It is largely a mechanical proposition. In view of its great wealth and latent power, it may be truthfully said that there isn't an industry in the country which the trade-union movement cannot organize any time it sees fit. The problem in any case is merely to develop the proper organizing crews and systems, and the freedom-hungry workers, skilled or unskilled, men or women, black or white, will react almost as naturally and inevitably as water runs down hill.