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Show 00 UNEMPLOYED TO HAVE CONVENTION New York, July 21. There is to be a national convention of the unemployed unem-ployed In Washington In September. 1 J. Eads Howe, the millionaire "hobo," and his national committee of the unemployed un-employed are in session this week, laying plans for the big national meeting. meet-ing. Among other things the committee has decided to make an appeal to President Taft for the use of the senate sen-ate chambers ln Washington for the sessions of the convention. The main business of the convention conven-tion will be to formulate demands on congress for Immediate labor legislation. legisla-tion. Among these demands are the shortening of the workday, a minimum min-imum wage scale and the establishment establish-ment of national employment bureaus and free transportation for the workers. work-ers. According to a circular, these demands de-mands are made, "In order that the lives of millions of unemployed may be sustained until the establishment of the industrial republic." |