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Show LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN1 CONVENTION BEGUN HOUSTON, Tex., May 8. Probably the most pressing question to come before the triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen i ml FnRlnemen. which opened hero today is that of tho proposed amal-mntlon amal-mntlon with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Loco-motive Engineer. The latter brotherhood brother-hood passed a resolution favoring such amalgamation at lt.s Cleveland convention conven-tion last year, and the decision now devolves upon the firemen. Further Issues before It nro proposed pro-posed alliance with the miners; participation parti-cipation in political campaigns, th; attitude of the b'rdthorhOOfl toward th- decision and practices of the United States Railway board; co-operative buying and distribution, erection of a brotherhood building, and establishment establish-ment and maintenance of a tuberculosis tubercu-losis sanatorium, and establishment and maintenance of a labor press Previous conventions have lasted I about five weeks, but an effort will be made to conclude the business of this I gathering within a month. |