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Show XTOTONS AK3j SMCrUM HpEBOE. vTimtrtLl federated union of New Tork City, repreentlng about 100.000 work- ' ? ?nd ,w?mn of the Eastern me. tropoll. ha taken an active Interest in the Investigation, being made by the mu- . . -niclpaUty. county-and United States Gov. ernment In the Slocum steamboat disas- " ter. A committee of five member was named to co-operate with the Federal official of-ficial in Investigating the disaster and to appear before the Labor and Commerce Department commissioners for the our- PO"of ugpg radical reform In the e- , lection of steamboat Inspectors. In the discussion of the disaster at the Sunday , meeting, after resolution of sympathy to 'I bereaved had been unanimously adopted. adopt-ed. It developed that a committee from th Marine Trades' Council had appeared be- - -fore the Marine Investigating committee a month ago protecting alnt the loose method or steamboat inspection permitted in New Tork harbor and pointing out that ome ocean-bound boat or excursion steamer would probsbly meet Just some uch fate as later befell th Slocum. The -committee urged .the commission to have skilled marine workers named aa InsDeoI tor instead of political tovorltea. ' |