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Show RAILWAY EMPLOYEES TO ' JOIN TfiE TJNTON. Thirty-Eight Thousand Will Affiliate With American Labor Union ' BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 23. President Dan McDonald of the American Labor union has announced that that body will be swelled by the affiliation of 38,000 members mem-bers of the United Brotherhood of Railway Rail-way Employees, with headquarters in Denver. The amalgamation will mark an epoch In the history of labor In the West. President McDonald haft Just received a formal application from President George Estes, president of the - United Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railway Employees at Ban Francisco, Fran-cisco, asking .for a charter of affiliation There is no doubt, says Mr. McDonald! that the American Labor- Union -will grant this charter at an early date. The accession of the brotherhood 'will swell the numbers of the A. L. U. to something over 100,000. a s . |