May 1 this year finds a far different condition in the labor world than that which prevailed a year ago.
Last May Day we had 550,000 coal miners from the anthracite and bituminous fields on strike; 1,200,000 railroad shop and maintenance of way men were promoting the strike that affected about half their number a month later; the textile workers of New England and the South were facing reduced wages and the miserable conditions of employment that always accompany business depression; the metal trades suffered from similar phenomena of " hard times."...
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