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 labor movement, including those which demand merely part-time work, may be listed the following:

Economic and engineering research and counsel,

Publicity and editorial work,

Accountancy,

Labor law and bill drafting,

Labor banking,

Work in the cooperative movement,

Teaching in labor classes and schools,

Labor health work.

Work like economic research, law and accountancy can only be done through professional connection with unions; some of the other occupations, such as teaching or lecturing may be done through extra-official agencies for labor education which have sprung up in various important centers.

In any such work, the intellectual will do well to adhere to certain practical maxims of action, He must, of course, have a broad understanding of the movement and a large amount of sympathy with its aims. But he should not for a moment make the mistake of assuming, as a professional man, any of the duties or responsibilities of labor leadership. The