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Show THE LEGION 13 HIS HOBBY Former National Vice Commander Also Devotes Much Attention to Labor Affairs. Time does not hang heavily for George L. Berry, president since 1907 or uie interna-tlonal interna-tlonal Printing Pressmen nnd Assistants' As-sistants' Union of North America, founder of Pressmen's Press-men's Home, Tenn., and intil recently national vice commander of the American Legion. Mr. Berry hag two hobbles : hia union and his Legion. A veteran of the Spanish-American war, he served overseas in the World war with the railroad transportation corps. He was In Paris, France, when the first caucus of service men, out of which grew the American Legion, was held, and he attended at-tended and was heard from. Being familiar fa-miliar with foreign Industrial conditions, condi-tions, he represented the American Federation of Labor at foreign trade union conferences, and after the war was appointed to the government Industrial In-dustrial commission sent to allied nations na-tions to co-ordinate industrial conditions condi-tions with those of the United States. His Region activities now concern themselves with his role as a national speaker for the service organization, |