The labor standard., 1918-04-15
ST. PAUL A. F. OF L.
 CONVENTION CALL
Will Convene Monday Morning, June 1O- Details .of Repre- sentation and Credentials - Hotel Reservations

To All Affiliated Unions, Greeting:
 You are hereby notified that, in pursuance of the constitution of the American Federation of Labor, the thirty-eighth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor will be held at the Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn., beginning 10 o'clock Monday morning, June. 1O,F 1918, and will con- tinue in session from day to day until the business of the convention has been completed.
 Representation
 Representation lin the convention will be on the following basis: From National or International Unions, for less than 4,O00 members, one dele gate; 1000 or more, two delegates; 5000 or more, three delegates; It, ,O0O or more, four delegates; 32,0OO or more, five delegates; 64,O00 or more, six delegates; 128,000 or more, seven delegates, and so on; and from central bodies and state federations, and from local trade unions not hav- ing a National or International Union, and fEonn Federal Labor Unions, one dGles5afa.. Organizations to besentit1ed to rep resentation must have obtained cer- tif1cate of utilization s(charter), at least one month prior to the conven- ton; and no person will be recog- nized as delegate who is not mem- Der in good standing of the organiza- ton he is 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 Labor Unions. .--. -..-
 Delegates must be elected at least two weeks previous to the; conven- tion, and their names forwarded to the secretary of the American Fed eration of Labor immediately after their election.
 Delegates are not entitled to seats in the convention unless the tax of their organization has been paid in full to April 30, 1918. .. .>..:
 It is, of course, entirely unnecessary here to enumerate all the important
  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 unorganized workers to strive to bring about more effectually than ever a better day in the lives and homes of the toilers, to defend and maintain by every az honorable means in our power the right to or ganize for our common defense and advancement, for the exercise of our normal and constitutional activities to protect and promote the rights and interests of the workers; to assert at any risk 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 make effective in our every day lives the principle declared in the law of our republic (the Clayton law) "That the labor of human being l is not commodity or article of com merce," to arouse our fellow-workers l and fellow-citizens to the danger l which threatens to curb or take away l their guaranteed rights and freedom; the tremendous world conflict now being waged and into which our Re l public was ruthlessly dragged; to meet the new problems arising out of the war, and while serving, struggl- l ing and sacrificing for justice and freedom abroad, to safeguard these priceless heritages in our own be- loved land; the maintenance of de- cent standards of life, work and home in war or in peace times; to help l bring about an early yet desirable and permanent peace; how that peace can be secured with the establishment 1 and maintenance of justice, freedom, and brotherhood the world over. These and other great questions of equal will, of necessity, occupy l the attention of the St. Paul conven- tion.
 Therefore, the importance of our the duty of the hour and for the future, demand that every entitled to representa- tion shall send it's full quota of dele !