9d. per week is £1 17s. 6d. for every 50 weeks you work. If you work with one of these knotters for three years your employer has been paid =more= than the original cost; but they continue to stop the five per cent. and the knotter still belongs to the employer. If you work at a mill ten years and pay five per cent. all the time you cannot take the knotter with you when you leave. Think about it. You pay for it three or four times over, but it doesn't belong to you. =Oh, no!= We ask you to pay =5d.= to your Trade Union so that we can =stop your employer from keeping 9d. out of your wages=. If you would rather pay 9d. to your employers than 5d. to your Trade Union you have =LESS SENSE= than we thought you had. "But," you say, "we can earn more money with a knotter." Quite true, but you are paid on "=production=," so if you get more money it is only because you turn more work off, and in turning more work off your Employers get a Greater Production but they make =YOU= pay for it. The knotter enables you to piece up at a quicker rate; this saves time. It enables you to make smaller knots, thus making better work. The two combined makes Quantity and Quality. The employers get =both= and make you pay for it. We say to you that it is no part of your duty to pay for improved machinery. If it is beneficial to the employers to improve any part of any machine they'll do it without consulting you, but we hold that if by doing this they get a greater and better production then they ought to =ADVANCE= your wages and not deduct five per cent. from them. Think! Think! Think! View the matter over in your own minds. Reason the matter from your own point of view. If you are satisfied with the present system, well, =DON'T GRUMBLE=. If you're not, =What are you going to do to stop it?= Have you a remedy? If so, what is it? If you haven't, =WE HAVE!= Organisation is the only solution! Trade Unionism will solve the problem for you, but You'll have to pay and not pout! " " act " shout! Pay 5d. and keep the 9d.! Fight and don't Funk. DON'T HESITATE--AGITATE! If you have eyes--SEE! If you have ears--HEAR! JOIN THE UNION! Bring your grievances to the Officials! But join--Delay is Dangerous--Join at once! --------, Secretary. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII. RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED BY THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN WORKERS TO THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS, 1915. "(_a_) That all women who register for war service should immediately join the appropriate trade union in the trade for which they are volunteering service, and that membership of such organisation should be the condition of their employment for war service, and that those trade unions which exclude women be urged to admit women as members. "(_b_) That where a woman is doing the same work as a man she should receive the same rate of pay, and that the principle of equal pay for equal work should be rigidly maintained."