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Show IN SESSION AT DENVER. Annual Convention of the American Association As-sociation of State Labor, Commissioners. Denver, Colo., May 24. The annual convention con-vention of the American association of state labor commissioners opened here today with Hon. Lester Bodine, state labor commissioner commis-sioner of Colorado, presiding. Among those present are F. H. Belton of Kansas, Carrol L. Wright of Washington, Charles 3. Peck of New York, an intimate and trusted friend of Senator Hill, W. A. Pelle, chief of the bureau of statistics of Indiana, and many others. The assoeiotion is composed of the commissioners and other deputies of the various states and territories which have state departments of labor. It ha been in existence for ten years, and in the exchange of ideas at its conventions con-ventions and in the systematic gathering of statistics in regard to all phases of the labor question it has accomplished a vast amount of good, both to the employer of labor and to the employees. Among the questions which have been taken up for consideration in the various states are the child and women labor questions, the investigation of tenement house abuses, the sanitary condition con-dition of workshops, factory inspectors, the Chinese question, and employers' liab lities. These statistics are looked upon by the legislatures of the various states as a sound basis for legislation in regard to labor questions, and nearly all such legislation has come from their recommendations to such legislatures. It is the first convention that has been held west of the Mississippi river. A- a |