The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-04-15
AT. OIL. CALL FOR
CONVENTION WARNS
OF DANGER AHEAD
Meeting in Denver in June to
Plan Nationwide Campaign to
Resist Efforts to Disrupt Organ
lied Labor.


The call for the annual convention
of the American Federation OF Labor
to be held this year in the Coliseum at
Denver Col, was issued bv President
Conners this week SO vital is the con-
vention this wear, with the nationwide
drive against Organized Labor that
every organization entitled to repreSen-
tation is urged to send delegates. ne
seriousness of the situation IS tuly set
forth in the call which is as follows:
ITO All Affiliated Unions. Greeting:
You are hereby notified that IN pur-
s,,ance of the constitution of the Amer
;can Federation of Labor, the 4lst an
mai convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor will be held at the
Coliseum, Denver. Colorado, beginning
10 o'clock Monday morning, June lo'
1921 and will continue in session from
day TO dav until the business OF the con-
vcntion has been completed. 60,
characterization in the convention Will
he On the following basis: from ma
t;0na1 or international unions, tor less
than 1000 members, one delegate; 4,OOO
ar more. two delegates; 5000 or more,
three delegates; 10000 or more, tour
delegates: 32,0 900 or more, tive delegates
"a 600 or more, six delegates; lZo,OOO
0r more. seven delegates and so on; and
from central bodies and state tederat1OnS,
and from local trade unions not having
national or international unlon and
from Federal Labor Unions, one dele
gate.
ORGANIZATIONS to be entitled to repre-
sentation must have obtained certlhcate
of utilization (charter), at least one
month prior to the convention; and no
nerson will be recognized as a delegate
who is not a member in good standr
Of the organization he is elected to rep
resent.
"Onlv bona hde wage-workers, who
are not members of, or eligible to mem
bershiD in other trade unions are eligible
as delegates from federal labor unions.
delegates must be elected at leaSt
two weeks previous to the convention,
and their names forwarded to the secre-
tarv of the American Federation OF La
bor Immediately after their election.
"De1egates are not entitled to seats
in the convention unless the tax OF their
organization has been paid IN tuIl to
April 80, 1921.
1T is of course, entirely unnecessary
here to enumerate all the important sub
iects with which our forthcoming con-
yentiOn will concern itself, but the re-
hinder is not at all amlSS that every
effort must be made to broaden the field
and means for the organization OF the
vet unOrganized workers; to strive to
bring about more effeCtually than ever
better dav in the lives and homes OF the
toilers; to defend and maintain by every
honorable means in our power the right
TO organize for our common defense and
advancement, for the exercise OF our
normal and constitutional activities to
protect and promote the rights and IN
tcrests of the workers. to assert at any
risk the edual rights before the law OF
all workers with all other citizens; to
aid our feIloW-Workers against the effort
to entange the workers in the meshes
of litigation before the courts IN the
several states to restore and make eHec-
tive in our every day lives the principle
declared in the law of our Republic (the
CLAYTON law that the labor OF human
being is not a commodity or article OF
commerce to arouse our tellOW-Work-
ers and fellow-citizens to the danger
which threatens to curb and take away
their guaranteed rights and freedom; to
meet and help solve the vexat1ous prob
lens of peace and reconstruction to
emphasize the dominating and determm-
inc economic character OF our move
ment and to carry on such political action
as the interests of labor will warrant
and the trade union movement has d1-
rected; to withstand and overcome the
bitter antagOniSm now so rampant to I'M
der1nine and to destroy the greatest con-
structive force in our Republic, the
American labor movement, tor indeed
now, more than ever. this is the time
that tries mems souls; these and other
great questions of equal Importance, will
he n
Denver convention.
Therefore, the importance OF ou1
movement, the duty of the hour and fol
the future, demand that every Organlza
ton entitled to representation shall senc
its full quota of delegates to the Denver
convention, June IS, 1921.
Credentials in duplicate are forward
ed to all affiliated unions. The origina
Credential must be given to the delegate
elect and the duplicate forwarded to the
American Federation of Labor office, A
F. of L. Building, Washington, ID. I. -,
The committee on credentials vii
meet at the headquarters of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor six days pre-
vious to the opening of the convention
and will report Immediately upon thu
opening thereof at Denver, hence secre
taries will observe the necessity Of mail
ing the duplicate credentials Of their re
spective delegates at the earliest possible
moment to Washington, D. c.
Under the American Federation O
Labor constitution resolutions of an.
character or propositions to change an.
provision of the constitution can not b.
introduced after the second days session
without unanimous consent.
Under the law no grievance can b.
considered by the convention which ha
been decided by a previous convertic'
except upon the recommendation of tn
executive council, nor will any grievance
be considered where the parties thereto