The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-21
EDITORIAL NOTES

The first general organization of la bor unions in America was effected at a meeting held in Baltimore forty seven years ago today, with delegates in attendance from sixty cities of the United States and Canada. The Ma tional Labor Union was the name adopted for the body, which, at this convention, formulated the first de- mand for an eight-hour day. ConVen- tions were afterward held in Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York and PhiIadel- pIia, and in 1872, at Columbus, O., the union nominated a candidate for pres ident of the United States. This po- liticaI move caused the disruption of the union, which, in 1889, had assumed the name of the Knights of Labor. In 1881 the movement fas revived and 8 convention was held in Pittsburgh, which resulted in the founding of the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada. In 1886, at a convention held in Columbus, a more perfect plan of organization was adopted, and the title was changed to the American Feder- ation of Labor. The first of the great unions now affiliated with the fedora tion was the International Typograph- ical Union, instituted in 1850. The hat makers were the next to organize, and the iron molders and cigar makers soon followed the example.
 Visitation Nuns, whose benevolent work is carried on in every part, of America and Europe, will celebrate to- day the festival of the founder of their order, St. Jane Frances de Chantal. The member of this order devote their lives to the alleviation of sickness and suffering, and their name indicates their mission-to visit the i'll and needy in their homes. The order was found- ed three centuries ago by the Baroness E<raT7 Ia Ch2 nfQJ lIndor the d1 rection and supervision of St. Francis de Sales Tn 1927 the order was sane tioned by the Pope, and soon spread over Europe, and afterwards to the United States and Canada. Teresa Labor was resonsfble for the introduce ton of the order in America about | century ago.
 St Jane Francis de Chantal, whose memory is revered to-day by her spir- itual daughters, was born at DiJon' France, in 1572. From her youth she was a devoted Catholic. and it is re- lated that when Protestant sought her hand in marriage she denounced her suitor as 'an enemy of God and His church. She became the wife of Baron. de Chantal, and had three children, two of whom died. Her husband was ccidentally killed by a friend while hunting. Her relatives and friends urged her to marry again, | but she resisted their appeals and de- termined to devote her life to religious work. She became acquainted with St. Francis de Sales, and placed her self under his direction.
 When she bade farewell to the world her son and her venerable fath- CT gave way to grief. The boy, then about fifteen, swept and begged his mother to remain, and at last flung himself across the door. When she left the embrace of her disconsolate father she had to leave the house by stepping over the prostrate body of her son. For moment she hesitat- ed, then religious fervor triumphed over mother love and the importuni9 ties of relatives, who, no doubt. told her that Hwornan's place is in the home.''
 For thirty years she 1abored in building up the order she had found ed, and when she died in 1641 eighty seven houses of the Visitation were l left as her monuments.
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