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Show A Ntlinl Labor fiiniiiiiuina. Repnwntativo Karuhar, of New York, has introduced in congn-M a bill tu create a commission to lie knowti as tho United States Commission of the World's Congress of Labor, to consist of nine meinbem to be apjKilntiKl by the president. It suggest that tha prwil-dent prwil-dent shall appoint two of these meiuhem from the National Farmers' alliance, and that the rest shall lie named by the American Federation of Lalior and the Knighta of Labor, but no two of them shall be from the same state. These commissioners shall each receive an annual an-nual salary of $),fHHi, and their terms of office shall expire Dec. 81. 1H,1. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to discuss dis-cuss labor in all its phases, the relation of trusts and coin lit nations of capital to the industrial problem, and such other industrial questions as may 1st suggested to them and which they may dwm it dn-Ni dn-Ni ruble to discuss. The commiseion la authorized to Invito through the president presi-dent delegates of foreign countries to take part in tho conference. |