The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-26
STATE LABOR men
TO CONVENE
New Jersey Federation Will
Hold Sessions At Trenton
August 90 and 81
OFFICIAL CALL ISSUED
ALL TRADES UNIONS ENTITLED
TO REPRESENTATION ARE IN
vITED TO SEND DELEGATES
on THE BASIS SPECIFIED

O4N LII D61GS10 1<Olp lL0
The following call to the twenty eighth
Annual Labor Congress has been sent
out
Newark, N. ]. June %, 1906.
To the Trades and Labor Unions Of New
Jersey:
Greeting--The Twenty eighth Annual
Convention Of the New Jersey State Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor Will be nelu III the As
eseinbly Chamber, State Capitol, at Tren-
ton. y. j., commencing al 1U:o0 a. NJ,
Monday, August ~, and concluding on
Tuesday, August Il, 1906.
Every local i'll the state organized on
trade union principles and when Is aI1ll-
Iatel with tile national or International
UNION OF its craIt, OF the A. r.. OF L., is
urgently requested to be fully repre-
sented py lis most active and ossI quaA-
ned members.
The ann Of the State Federation OIL
Labor is the establishment anu promo
Ton of local trace and federal labor un-
IONS and central labor 5oales, aud the
combination Of all such ia National and
Interna aonal Trades Unions, the state
teGeratio and the American Fedora
tion ot Labor, for the purpose OIL alu4ng
and assisting each other, and securing
State and National legislation in the ln-
terest OF the wage-workers, and innuenc-
ing public OPINION by peaceful and Jaw
full melhods III favor oI organized labor.
No question OF partisan pohtlcal char
acter can be received or acted upon by
the congress, but the political battle-cry
recently adopted by the American teder-
alton of Labor Will be placed before the
delegates Tor earnest consideration. One
OF the most important matters now CON
fronting the labor movement, vitality al
tectlng Its every interest, requiring wise
counsel, deliberate Judgment and unsel-
fish action. is that inspiring watchword
sent forth by the Executive Council of
the A. +. of L. as follows: THAT we
will stand by our friends and administer
a stinging rebuke to men or parties whQ
are either Indifferent, negligent, or hos
tile, and, wherever opportunity affords,
secure the election of intelligent, honest,
earnest trades unionists. with clear, un-
blemished paid-up union cards in their
possession"
Workingmen organize in local unions
for local purposes; local unions unite il
national trade unions for national trade
purposes; they then federate in the
American Federation of Labor IN order
to combine all labor forces nationally
local unions also unite in local centra
bodies for the purpose of combining al
local labor forces, and the same loca
unions should unite in the State FEEDER
alton with view of combining labor
forces within the State for State pur
poses. The State Federation of Labor
contains the largest possibilities of bene
fit to the movement in general, BY
strengthening the weak points within ths
State. agitation for the various forms
of union labels and union cards, by fos.
tering and promoting short hour move
matter of State legislation. Almost al
labor legislation secured is the result Of
the earnest efforts of the State Fedora
ton. An important field of work in legis
latiye matters, in which the State Fed
GRAFTON has exerted great influence, i:
its ability to defeat the passage of anti
labor laws. 1t can and does exercise s
| most powerful opposition to measure.
detrimental to the interests of labor, al
we'll as exercise influence in favor oi
the passage of the measures which they
desire, and We urge the necessity of al
labor unions helping us to continue this
work in the future. We are the only
organization that maintains a watchfu
care over the workers interests at the
Legislatures sessions. "a
-sAll trade unions entitled 10 represen
tation are invited to send delegates IL
the convention. The basis of represen
tation is: Two delegates for every bona
fde trade. federal or wage labor unioi
of fifty members or less; from so mem
bers to 100. three delegates, and one adj
ditional delegate for every additions
LOG members or majority Fraction
thereof and one delegate for each Cen.