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Show Information In rarHKrniha Thcro are over 2,000 railway corporation cor-poration In tho United fltntca. The number of peraona employed In railway service It about 900,000. Houetun, Tex , has n federal labor union which haa 111 member, and la rapidly Increialng Whcro labor recelvea a Juat ahare ot what It produce, thiro you will find Iiroiperit). Working people with ' money to spend make good btialneaa. Labor union do not want to run thl bualneaa of other fnlka, nor Jo . ttry want other folk to run their. j Atlanta (tin ) building trades un-1 line have organized a building trade council, with mora than a thousand member The bindery girl In Minneapolis have n union mid git (0 n week. In St. Paul the girl nro unorganized and tho maximum wage I (3 per week A Laborer' Protective Union, chartered char-tered by tho A I' of U. has recently been organized nt Indianapolis It purpose la to gather Into one union thoio working men who are not affiliated affili-ated with a regular trado organlza , tlon Tho number of union labels on to- I bacro uaed by Independent factories shows nn Increaee ot 25 000,000 In tha paat six months, n grand total of 219,-740,019 219,-740,019 labels having been used slnco Its adoption. I Peoria, 111 , Is without doubt the best and most thoroughly organized city In the United (Hates oast nf the Mississippi river She haa aome sixty odd trades unions, not less than twenty twen-ty ot which have, during the year 1899, j obtained chirters from tho American federation ot tabor A "graduate" of the barber collego of Mlnncapolla recently recovered damages dam-ages to the extent ot ISO from that college col-lege for not fulfilling their contract. They had agreed tn make the atudent a proficient workman In a given time ! and guaranteed cmployinont'ln n first-1 class hop but failed to carry out tho contract Midi ind Mechanic |
