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Show Ten years ago tho Aioer'ca' Federation Feder-ation of Labor the most p erfu rep-rcsentatlvo rep-rcsentatlvo body In the l,i 1 od Stntcs, comprising from two-turds to three-quarters three-quarters of tho forces of organized laborhad la-borhad perhaps i'00,000 members. President Gompers, at tho last nunual convention In Now Orleans, announced that the organization In eleven months to October, 1002, had ndded 1100,000 to Its membership, a figuro greater than Its total enrollment In 180S, and nearly equal to Its membership In 3809. Tho present membership, In 1003, of tho American Fcdcintlon of Labor being, lot us say, 1,000,000, and assuming that tho Independent organizations bnvo at least held ihclr own since 1000, wo have a total for tho United Stntea at the present tlmo uf about two millions, as against about 1,000,000 for Great BrltuUi uud li eland. |