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Show PUDLISH 364 LADOR PAPERS In the United States and Canada-Reach Canada-Reach a Wide Circle of Readers. Ono hundred and clghty-flvo monthly month-ly nnd ono .hundred and sovonty-nlno weekly Journals In tho United States, nnd Canada nre devoted exclusively to tho advocacy of trado unionism, says a writer In Tho World To-day. Theso 304 publications, which number num-ber docs not Include socialist periodicals, periodi-cals, reach n not lnconsldcrablo portion por-tion of tho laboring community and cxorclso an Influcnco in It which Is llttlo suspected. Thero nro In North Amerlcn approximately approx-imately 000,000 working pcoplo organized or-ganized Into trades unions, nnd each of them receives tho official organ of tho craft to which ho or sho bolongs and usually ono or two other labor papers. Hut tho prestlgo of theso journals extends b-ryond tho enrolled membership member-ship of established organizations. They number nmong their subscribers mnny sympathizers and non-union workmen; they aro placed on tho tables ta-bles of reading rooms nil over tho country, nnd for ovory subscriber thero nro probably two readors. It Is no exaggeration to say that they reach G,000,000 readers, perhaps half as many more. |