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 creased attention to economic and other labor research, and to publicity based upon the facts developed. The railway unions now have a research staff of their own, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers have research departments, and independent research and publicity agencies have been formed to serve unions.

The organization of "white-collar workers" has not proceeded as rapidly in this country as in England, but it has made decided progress. There are unions of teachers, bookkeepers, federal employees, clerical workers on the railroads, journalists, and actors. Some of these are extremely successful, although others are still in the early stages of their work.

The Socialist Party has succeeded in gaining the support of part of the labor movement, but neither this nor any of the other radical parties have been able to get the official support of anything like a majority of the unions. A new attempt to induce the unions to enter upon independent political action was made recently by the Labor Party of the United States, subsequently amalgamated with other groups to form the Farmer-Labor