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British Labor Men Here Today On Tour. To Visit Industrial Centres And Report Conditions To Home Organizations. Sent By The Daily Mail. Sir Percival Phillips, Correspondent, Here After Trip To The Orient, Will Join The Party. Eight representative members of British Trade Unions will arrive on the Carmania today to tour the Eastern part of the United States and study industrial conditions here as guests of the London Daily Mail. Sir Percival Phillips, correspondent of the Mail, who left the Carmania in Boston and stopped here last night at the Hotel Pennsylvania, said that the purpose of the Mail in sending them to this country was "to give them an opportunity of informing themselves at first hand regarding working conditions, hours, wages and the use of up-to-date machinery in representative American industrial establishments." The visitors would spend a day or two in New York, he said, after which they would inspect the General Electric Company at Schenectady, the Ford and General Motors plants in Detroit, the steel mills of Pittsburgh and of Gary, Indiana, the hydroelectric plants and other industries at Niagara, and possibly include in their journey in Chicago. The party is under the charge of Fenton McPherson of the Daily Mail and of William P. Mosses, J.P., formerly Secretary of the United Patternmakers' Association and also of the Federation of Engineering and Ship Building Trades. The members of the party, none of whom has been a trade unionist less than fourteen years, will report back to their representative unions upon their return to England four weeks hence. The visitors are: E.H. Gill, ironworker, of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Ship-builders; S.S. Ratcliffe, J.P., machine-man, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union; T. Murray, patternmaker, of the United Patternmakers' Association; W. Wareing, fitter, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union; J. T. Kay, molder, of the National Union of Foundry Workers; C. Wilkinson, turner, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union; A. Browning, blacksmith, of the Associated Blacksmiths' Society, and A. A. Wildman, tool turner, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Sir Percival completed recently a tour which included Australia, China and the Malay States.

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