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Show SHEEP SHEARERS TO ESTABLISH SICK FUND BUTTE. Mont.. Aug. i. Th. sheep shearers In national convention here today to-day adopted a reaolutlon to establlah for the first time In tha organisation a sick and funeral fund. President M. C. Forrest read his annual an-nual report. He urged more binding rules In regard to admission Into tha union ; recommended aa an experiment that each business ajrent be allowed to handle a small atock 'of tools and extraa at each plant from which he could aupply tn membera, and auggeatad that the convention con-vention conalder tha question of attike benefit; advlaed th members to confine themselves to booking with union men only: recommended that th. convention set the shearing prtcea In Atiaona, Idaho and eastern stock ysrda. aa well aa In California, Nevada, Wyoming. Utah. Or- . . egon and Montana; favoraed that all egon and Montana; favored that all goods they purchase bear the union label; conaldered tnat the preeident of the sheen shearera ahould be authorised to attend tha annual meet Ing. of the wool growers In Montana. Idaho and Wyoming, and recommended the matter of the McNa-mara McNa-mara brothers to tha consideration of tha delegates. |