The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-07-30
Wednesday, July 28, 1920.

VI lIlc NOlh IL NuSBo
and E. Johnson of the Piledrivers.
The delegates were obligated and
seated.
The Legislative Committee, to
whom was referred the revision of
the constitution and bylaws, was
directed to report next Wednesday
night.
Important Information
The following communication was
received from the A. F. of l.. and is
self-eXplanatory:
Washington, D. c., July 20, 1920.
To the Secretaries of National and
International Unions, State FEEDER
ations of Labor, City Central
Bodies, Local Labor Unions, and
Organizers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor:
Dear Sirs and Brothers: There are
presented to you herewith for your
consideration and action a number of
matters which came before the For
tieth Annual Convention of the
American Federation of Labor re-
Gently held at Montreal, Can. They
are matters which vitally affect the
welfare of the American trade union
movement and which merit the full
est consideration of it's membership.
Acting on Resolution No. IL by
the Miami (Fla.) Central Labor
Union to bring out the fullest pos
sible voting strength of the Ameri-
can labor movement, the Committee
on Education strongly recommended
that all trade unionists whether
men or women, where woman suf-
frage obtains in any degree, be
urged to enfranchAse themselves by
registration, payment of poll tax
wherever that out-worn requirement
has not been repealed, and the meet
ing of any other required qualifica-
tions." The convention approved the
recommendation.
The exercise of citizenship as a
duty must not be neglected nor dis
regarded, and it is doubly essential
now.
Acting on Resolution No. 16 sub
mitted by the Union Label Trades
Department of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, the convention
recommended that organizers be in
structed when visiting central bodies
and local unions to devote on each
such occasion a part of their talk
to union labels, shop cards and work
ing buttons, and to urge central
bodies and local unions to appoint
committees to secure information and
keep it posted in meetings, designat-
ing where union label products can
be purchased, and that such instruc-
tions be given at least every four
months.
This duty applies not only to
organizers and central bodies but to
every local union and every mem
ber thereof.
The convention adopted the recon-
melldation of it's Committee on State
Bodies and adopted Resolution No.
80 recommending that all state fed
erations of labor be requested to
advocate and urge the passage of
legislation providing for the widest
and fullest publicity as to the actual
cost of manufactured articles, and
ether commodities offered for sale.
The convention concurred in the
recommendation of it's Committee on
State Organization and adopted
Resolution No. So condemning and
disapproving the plan of organiza-
ton miscaled the american Plan"
and urged that all affiliated organ
izations give all support possible to
resist the attempt of employers to
disrupt the trade union movement by
the introduction of this so-called
"A!nerican Plan"
That which its advocates call the
"A.heiican Plan" of organization is
nothing more nor less than the en-
ployers or company organization of
the workers.
The convention adopted Resolution
No. 80 urging the international
unions to give more rigorous observ-
ance to Section of Article ii of the
Constitution Of the American Feder-
ation of Labor which provides that
local unions be instructed to join
chartered central labor bodies, de-
pal tments and state federations of
labor in their vicinity where such
exist.
International unions were urged
through Resolution 70 to assign or
ganizers to the work in Detroit,
Mich, and by Resolution No. 8 to
render all possible assistance in the
organizing campaign in the Province
of New Brunswick, Can.
The convention adopted Resolu-
tion No. 81 discussing the necessity
of maintaining effective standards
that will be of practical value in
giving vocational training and read
ing in part as follows:'
Resolved, That we favor inten-
sive instructor training courses or
ganized for the purpose of assisting
men and women from the trades to
become efficient instructors in voca-
tional schools and that we recon-
mend cooperative understandings
between State Boards for Vocational
Education, the Committees on Edu-
cation of the State Federations, the
City Central Bodies, and the several
trades that may be now or in the
future will become interested, where
by sufficient instructor training
classes may be organized to meet the
needs of vocational schools for prac-
tical instructors; and further, be il
"Resolved, That the American Fed
Grafton of Labor again urge upon
State Federations of Labor the neces-
sity for providing, preferably through
State legislation, for the appoint
ment of advisory committees to ad-
wise with State Boards for Voca-
tional Education and local boards of
education in the administration of
vocational education, and that these
advisory committees include repre-
sentatives of employers, employees
and the public schools"
The convention adopted Resolution
No. SO urging support in securing
and enforcing legislation for the in