New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
State Auto Association
Complains of the A. A. A.

The postponed meeting of the New
York State Automobile Association
will be held at Utica, December and
5. At the meeting, among other topics
will be discussed:
Licensing of all automobile drivers
Regulation Of pedestrian traffic.
Regulation and Standardization of
gasolene.
Legislation requiring refectors on
motor trucks and buses.
Enforcement of headlight law
Sale of State Barge Canal to United
States government, proceeds to be used
in completion and extension of state
highway system.
A new national organization of and
for autom obile owners free of all COM
mercial entanglements.
This last named topic, in view Of the
American Automobile Association hav-
ing dropped the New York State AS
socation from membership, promises
lively times. Here is the detailed COM
plant of the state body against the
A. A. A:
The American Automobile Associa-
ton has, without proper notice and
without discussion at its annual meet
ings, repeatedly revised its bylaws;
Has unquestionably failed in it's sup
posed functions of legislative service
at Washington, leaving such matters
unattended until prodded into some ac-
tion by the New York State Automo-
mobile associations and clubs taking
the Initiative;
Taken in Clubs Direct
Has advised, sought and accepted,
direct, some clubs Of the New York
fofo Auto ~ A
these clubs representation at one
price; has sought and accepted other
clubs of the New York State Automo-
bile Association, and given these clubs
representation at another price, and
has offered other clubs of the New
York State Automobile Association
representation AZ still an entirely diff
ferent price from that accepted from
the clubs referred to;
Has solicited o.irect members whose
A. A: A. dues had already been paid by
citation and other state automobile as
sociations;
Has accepted complete membership
dues for 1918 from the New York State
Automobile Association for all of it's
members at large and dues from six
teen of it's local clubs;
Has demanded, under date of Au-
gust Z, under penalty Of suspension
within thirty days on failure to pay,
dues for all of the members of the 1870
clubs of the New York State Automo-
bile Association to the American Au-
tomobilc Association;
The executive committee of the New
York State Automobile Association, at
a special meeting held at Albany Aug
ust II last, not only unanimously
rejected these demands of the A. A. A..
but instructed the general counsel to
notify that body that the New York
State Autom obile Association would
not entertain any such Interpretation
of the A. A. A. bylaws as being cor
rest or legal, in view of the facts, and
that any action upon the part of the
a. A. A. under the circumstances which
would seek to suspend or ATTEMPT to
suspend the New York State Automo-
bile Association would be absolutely
illegal.
All New York State Automobile Asso.
Until the beginning of the 1915 fiscal
year all clubs and individual members
of the New York State Automobile
Association automatically became
members of A. A. A. However, at the
time that the clubs of Buffalo and
Rochester withdrew from the tate
association the A. A. A. revised it's
bylaws so that these clubs could be
taken in direct This revision of the
A. A. A. bylaws relieved the New
\ ork state AUTOMOBILE Association and
other state associations of response
bility for A. A. 20 membership of local
clubs and placed the matter entirely in
the hands of the individual club as to