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Show TRADE UNIONISTS GOOD MONEY RAISERS london, Xo 29.- While the Duke of Westminister and his Influential committee of titled and distinguished jmen ha-.e tieen raisins something lefiS than 150,000 for their half million fund to train British athletes foi the next ! Olvmplc Games at Berlin, the trade j I unionists of the country have, with j out any great effori, raised ovel a quarter of a million dollars for tho I w ives and children of the Dublin I strikers, besides sending them sever-I sever-I ai 9hip loads of provisions and coal At the same time another big fund hu- been raised for the widows and orphans or-phans of the recent Welsh colliery disaster It nil goes to show that while the British people are still willing will-ing to subscribe to funds raised for practical and charitable purposes, such matters as the Olympic games will not Induce tnem to part with their money, even when the plan Is hacked by dukes and other members of the nobHit The raising of the Dublin and 1 Welsh funds, however, is taken in an- J other evidence ot the growing wealth and dose co-operation of the trades unionists of the country Much of the money has come from the won and their organizations, whlh had onlj Just completed a fund of much greater proportions to tverautefl the publication for threo ; ears at least of a dally paper. "Tho t Itlzen." which espouses the principles of trades unionism. |