Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-29
CALL ISSUED FOR
A. F. OF L. MEET
ON NOVEMBER II
SESSIONS TO BE HELD IN
BUFFALO, N. Y.
"War Convention" of Labor Promises
to Be Most Important in History
of Federation, With Vital
Problems Confronting 1t.

President Samuel Gompers and Sec
call for election of delegates to the
| thirty-seventh annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor, to
be held at the Auditorium in Buffalo,
N. Y. The opening session will begin
at 10 o'clock Monday morning, No
vember IL, and continue from day to
day until the business of the conven-
tion has been completed.
| Representation in the convention
will be on the following basis: From
national or international unions, for
less than 1000 members, one delegate;
1000 or more, two delegates; 5000 or
| four delegates; $4,000 or more, five
delegates; $4,000 or more, six dele
gates; 12s,000 or more, seven dele.
| gates, and so on; and from central
| bodies and state federations, and from
local trade unions not having ma
tional or international union, and from
Federal Labor Unions, one delegate.
Organizations to be entitled to rep
| resentation must have obtained GER
tificate of affiliation (charter), at least
one month prior to the convention; and
no person will be recognized as del
egate who is not member in good
elected to represent.
Only bona-fide wage-workers, who
are not members of, or eligible to
membership in other trade unions are
eligible as delegates from Federal La
bor Unions.
Delegates must be selected at least
two weeks previous to the convention,
and their names forwarded to the sec
retary of the American Federation of
Labor Immediately after their cleo
tion.
in the convention unless the tax of
their organization has been paid in
full to September 80, 1917.
at is, of course, entirely unneces-
sary," says the call, "to enumerate all
the important subjects with which our
forthcoming convention will concern
itself, but the reminder is not at all
amiss that every effort must be made
to broaden the field and means for
the organization of the yet morgan
lied workers, to strive to bring about
more effectually than ever better
day in the lives and homes of the toll
ers, to defend and maintain by every
honorable means in our power the
right to organize for our common de-
fense and advancement, for the exer-
else of our normal and constitutional
activities to protect and promote the
rights and interests of the workers;
and to assert at any risk the freedom
of speech and of the press and the
equal rights before the law OF every
worker with every other citizen; to
aid our fellow-workers against the
effort to entangle the workers in the
meshes of litigation before the courts
in the several states; to arouse our
fellow-workers and fellow-citizens to
the danger which threatens to curb or
take away their guaranteed rights and
freedom; the tremendous world CON
fiict now being waged and into which
our Republic was ruthlessl " dragged;
the maintenance of decent standards
of life, work and home in war or in
peace times; to help bring about an
early yet desirable and permanent ant
with the establishment and mainte-
nance of justice, freedom, and broth,
erhood the world over. These and
other great questions of equal import
ance will, of necessity, occupy the at
tention of the Buffalo convention"