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kill, but pause not to eat, such fish as escape the meshes. When 
at last the catch is saved, then they fall to and devour the fish 
already killed. 
Here let us note an instance of intellectual anticipation of. 
Trade Unionism. Well aware that their labour has yielded 
far more than the regulation Trade stroke, and earned more 
than the Eight Hours’ wage, they quietly await settling day— 
next morning—when they are paid by being stuffed not only 
with fish, but also with crumbs soaked in wine.! 
Thus Oppian of another fish-drive, 
“The Fishers pick the choicest of the Spoil, 
Supply their wishes and reward their Toil.” 
In a story of similar fishing by Mucianus the Dolphins 
await neither summons by voice as above, or signal by torch 
(as in lian, II. 8) but “uncalled and of their own accord” 
present themselves ready for work. 
Trades Unionism among the Dolphins is again not obscurely 
indicated, ipsts guoque inter se publica est societas. Furthermore, 
close corporations, not unlike medieval Guilds or modern 
Unions, but wotting not of “ blackleg’’ or even “‘ dilutee,’”’ 
surely prevailed, for suum queque cymba e delphinis socium 
habet.? 
fElian’s dolphins foreshadow, it would seem, our modern 
principle of co-operation, when ‘‘ they draw near demanding the 
due reward of their joint-undertaking.” But their organisation 
of labour differed from ours in two respects. 
First, the willingness and the wage for night and day shift 
were identical. Second, since they were not blessed as we in 
the higher civilisation of the twentieth century are by the 
exalted, if not always successful conceptions of Conferences 
1 Pliny, IX. 9: ‘Sed enixioris opere, quam in unius diei premium conscii 
sibi opperiuntur in posterum: nec piscibus tantum sed et intrita panis e 
vino satiantur.”” 
2 In Lapland the “‘sea-swallows ” render great aid in the salmon season. 
For some cause these small marine birds elect to follow the inward and outward 
course of the fish, and are thus infallible guides to the fishermen, with whom 
they become so tame that they will light on their fingers, and take, if not ‘“‘ the 
choicest of the spoil,” scraps of fish. No wonder they are termed ‘‘ The 
nrg tl See S. Wright, The Romance of the World's Fisheries (London, 
1908), p. 69. 
