United labor bulletin., 1910-12-29
a METAL WORKERS UNION
Proposed for Closer Affiiiation Of the
Metal Trades Unions.

Brothers and Fellow Workers. Greet
ing: The proposition as outlined in this
letter is of vital Importance to the or
ganizations affiliated with the National
Metal Trades Council. We are affiliated
and federated, but this is not unionism.
We all stand for the same principles,
VIZ: Shorter hours. better wages, bet
ter shop conditions and the closed shop.
We have fought for these principles
on craft lines, and have been in many
instances defeated.
On the otner hand, our opponents, the
capitalistic class. the Trust. the Corpora
tions and Manufacturers in their fight
against organized labor are not divided
on craft lines. The National Metal
Trades association, the Citizens Indus
trial Alliance and other bodies are well
organized They know that in union
there is strength.
We are divided; let US be united.
Let us be united on broad principles
for the welfare of the rank and file of
the Metal Trades.
Our proposition is to amalgamate the
different national and international or
ganizations afiiliated with the Metal
Trades Council into one organization to
be known as the International Metal
Workers Union"
How to do this
We propose that you endorse de-
mand that our National Metal Trades
Council issue a circular to be sent dur
ing the month of April, 1911, to each
local union of all national and interna-
tional organizations affiliated with the
Metal Trades Council. That said cir
cular call for the election of delegates
to delegate convention to be held in
the city of st. Louis, No. during the
month of August, 1911, for the purpose
of amalgamating the national and inter
national organizations affiliated with the
National Metal Trades Council into one
organization to be known as the Inter
national Metal Workers Union"
Delegates to this convention shall be
elected by the local unions of the differ
ent organizations during the month of
May, 1911.
Local unions shall be entitled to one
vote for the first hundred members or
fraction thereof and one with more than
300 members, shall be entitled to two
delegates. No local union shall have
more than two delegates. Two or more
local unions of the same craft or of diff
ferent crafts, located in the same city
or district may unite in sending one del
egate. Two or more local unions of the
same craft or of different crafts, located
on the same railway system, may unite
in sending one delegate
All local unions organized before JAN
uary the first, 1911, shall be entitled to
Local unions shall be entitled to one
vote for the first hundred members or
fraction thereof and one additional vote
for every additional one hundred men,
bers or majority fraction thereof. Where
two delegates are sent from one local,
such delegates have to agree on the d.
vision of their votes.
Where two or more lodges unite in
sending one delegate, the number of
votes shall depend upon the total mem
bership of such lodges, one vote for the
first hundred members or fraction there
of and one additional vote for each ad-
ditional one hundred members or ma
jority fraction thereof.
No member shall be eligible to act as
a delegate to this convention who has
not been a good standing member OF his
lodge at least three months prior to the
election of delegates. Delegates to this
convention must be working at the trade
and have worked at the same at least
six months prior to their nomination.
This shall not apply to salaried officers
whose time is fully occupied by their
organization. Organizers of the A. F. OF
L. or any State Federation of Labor are
not eligible as delegates to this conven-
ton.
All expenses in connection with this
convention shall be borne by the differ
ent national and international organiza-
tions Of the Metal Trades Council pro
rata Of membership.
The expenses of the delegates shall
be paid by the local sending them. Gre