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Show CONVENTION Of THE MINDERS Association Will Hold Its Ninth Annual Meeting in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. The National Founders' association, the members of which employ about CO.OOO men, has ls- sued a call for ,jts ninth annual conven-' conven-' tion, which wHl be held in the Hotel Astor on Wednesday and Thursday. The call to the convention does not Intimate that there is any intention at ! present to refuse to make agreements with the Iron Molders' unions or any-other any-other of the unions in the skilled trades, but its general trend is against the closed shop. Regarding the apprenticeship question it says: "The more thoroughly a shop Is unionized the greater the difficulty in educating apprentices. It matters little how much proprietors of any institution desire to accomplish in behalf of the apprentice boy, while the boy himself Is surrounded by this union atmosphere, it is an insurmountable barrier to his education." The National Founders' association, it says, must never cease its efforts at organization until its strength and effectiveness ef-fectiveness are equal to or greater than that of the unions. |