The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-05-07
Representation

Representation
Representation in the convention
will be on the following basis
From national or international
unions, for less than 1000 mem
bers, one delegate; 1000 or more,
two delegates; 5000 or more, three
delegates; 5000 or more, four
delegates; $4,000 or more, five
delegates; $4,000 or more, six
delegates; l2S,00O or more, seven
delegates, and so on, and from cen
trial bodies and state declarations,
and from local trade unions not
having a national or International
union, and from federal labor
unions, one delegate.
Organizations to be entitled to
representation must have obtained
certificate OF affiliation (charter)
at least one month prior to the
convention, and no person will be
recognized as a delegate who is not
member in good standing of the
organization he is elected to rep
resent.
Only bona fide wage-workers,
who are not members of, or elig-
ible 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-
ton and their names forwarded to
the secretary of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Immediately after
their election.
Delegates are not entitled to seats
lin the convention unless the tax of
their organization has been paid
in full to April 80, 1920.
1t is, of course, entirely unneces-
Isary here to enumerate all the i'm
Iportant subjects with which our
Forthcoming convention will con-
Germ 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
Iyet 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 honorable
means in our power the right to or
game for our common defense and
advancement, for the exercise Of
our normal and constitutional ac-
.tivities to protect and promote the
rights and interests of the work
Iers, to assert at any risk the equa
rights before the law of all work
Iers with all other citizens; to aid
our fellow-workers against the eff
fort TO entangle the workers in the
meshes of litigation before the
courts in the several states; tC
make effective in our every day
lives the principle declared in the
law of our Republic Cthe Clayton
law. That the labor of human
being is not a commodity or article
Iof commerce; to arouse our fell
low workers and fellow citizens tC
1.-THE danger which threatens to curl
and take away their guaranteed
rights and freedom; 10 meet anC
help solve the vexatious problems
.of peace and reconstruction to en-
phasize the dominating and deter
mining economic character of oul
movement and to carry on such po
Ilitical action as the interests Of la
Dor will warrant and the trade
union movement has directed; these
and other great questions of equa
Importance will. of necessity, oc
lcupy the attention of the Montrea
convention
Therefore, the importance of oul
movement. the duty of the hour anC
for the future demand that ever!
Organization entitled to representa-
tion shall send its full quota of del
| egates to the Montreal convention
| June Z, 1920.
Credentials.
| Credentials in duplicate are for
| warded to all affiliated unions Tn
| original credential must be givel
to the delegate-elect and the dupli