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Show Caring for Consumptives. There nre now four special methods by which consumptive worklngmen In Hie 1'tilieil Htiifcs are being cured for. In sui h cities ns Albany. Klmlrn nnd Hlnghainion, N. Y . the unions support a nopiiraio pavilion or hospital. In cities like Hartford, New llrlluln and Houlli Manchester, Conn., the workmen work-men contribute Inwards the maintenance mainte-nance of n fund for the cure of con siimpHves. Ihe employers also contribute con-tribute lo those funds. There nre also two minimal siiniilorla (or the treatment treat-ment of tuberculosis owned nnd operated oper-ated by labor unions; olio by the In-ternatlotial In-ternatlotial Tyimgntphicat union and the other by Hie Printing Pressmen and Assistants' union. In Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, lllltioln and elsewhere large cor-IHiratlons cor-IHiratlons and iiiiitiiifncturcrs have agreed voluntarily tn care for all their consumptive employee for a limited length of time. |