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Show Qompers Pledges Aid Providence, It. I. The American Federation of Ijibor will stand firmly bolilnd the textile strikers of New Knd-alnd Knd-alnd In their fight against wago reductions reduc-tions and lncroased working hours, Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, fed-eration, declared hero Sunday, uddess-tng uddess-tng a meeting of several thousand persons. per-sons. "Come whut may," said Mr. Gnjnpors, 'tho United Textile Workers of America can count on tho American Federation of Labor to stand behind them to1 the fullest oxtent of t power, and tho American Federation has a membership of 5,000,000. The American Ameri-can Federation of Labor will exert every ev-ery effort to help tho textile strikers to at least got bread during their ntruggle." |