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Show HARD LUCK STORIES ARE BEING GATHERED American Federation of Labor to Print Data on Privations of Shop- j men on Strike. j . j By International News Service. CHICAGO, July 5. The railway employees' em-ployees' department of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor has begun to gather data for the greatest hard luck story ever written. Sordid chapters from the lives of oo.OOO men will be gathered. The whole when compiled will tell the story of the hardships, the sufferings, the poverty and sickness of the union shopmen thrown out of work thirty-three months ago when labor difficulties arose between them and the Illinois Central railroad and the TJar riman lines. The vast amount of information and evidence evi-dence is boing collected by Attorney Frank Cornerford and will be presented In an investigation in-vestigation of the two railroad systems bo for.fi the United States commission on Industrial relations in Chicago next month. Sixty thousand question sheets will be circulated tomorrow by a corps of twenty officers of the labor organizations. Many of the shop employees have wandered all over the country and have obtained work in half a hundred occupations, i The work will cover the entire 25,000 , miles of railroad of the two systems and thousands of circulars will be distributed through local railroad unions in all parts of tiie country. There are fifty-two questions asked, and on the back of the circular is a space where each man is asked to tell the story of Ills life since the strike and the vicissitudes vicis-situdes through which he has passed. |