The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-30
A. F. OF 1. PUBLICITY DEPARTMENTS
 TO BE COORDINATED UNDER ONE
 HEAD TO FURTHER GENERAL INTEREST
Need of R ing Workers With Auth ntic Information Seen by Convention Which Orders Presi- dent to Act.
Especial to The Labor News.)

| NSPS@l0A Io 1hS AAOoT NCWS.J Cincinnati, O., June 3o.-Expansion ot the American Federation of La | bor's information and publicity activ- | iteis and their unihcation under one department under the direction of the president was recommended to the | convention by the committee on pub
 licity and approved by the conven-
 ton.
 The report of the committee indi- cates the already comprehensive
 scope of the Federation's educational
 and publicity activities. Under neu
 impetus, as the result of the convcn-
 tion action, these activities may be
 expanded during the coming year so as to better meet the demand for authentic information and more ade- quately serve the needs of the move | ment itself
 The committee considered together | the material on information and pub licity in the Executive Councils re- port, under the sub-heads, American Federationist, Weekly News Letter, Legislative Committees Report. Speakers Bureau, Information and Publicity Service, History, Encyclo- pedia, Reference Book and Index, American Federationist Index, Mater ial for Debates, and the Labor Press "The extension and the increased effectiveness of the work in this field evidenced in the Executive Councils report is to be commended" said the report
 ''The committee has noted with qualification the increasing influence of the official organ of the A. F. of L. as shown by the growing tendency toward quotation and editorial com kl f 4 periodical press. The American Fed ice, the wider distribution of the monthly reports of the legislative l committee, the establishment of the | Information and Publicity Service, the supplying on large scale of data and literature for debates, the supple | menting of the A. F. of L. History, | Encyclopedia and Reference Book to | bring 1t up to date, the preparation of an analytical index of the Amer ican Federationist to enhance its use | fitness, the endorsement of the La bor Press as "sentine1s on guard throughout the country for the cause of mankind" are all to be heartily commended.
 ''The most discouraging financial obstacles have not destroyed the use fulness of the old agencies, or pre- vented first steps in the establishment of new. But we should be careful to consider these first steps only as beginnings, and should realize that in so vital a matter as the Speakers Bureau, not even beginning could be made
 "The labor movement has always suffered, and is now suffering griev- ously from the lack of research facil- ities, and of an adequate information gathering and disseminating agency. Particularly in the periods in which we are now passing, the A. F. of L. must have an effective agency to se- cure facts and to impart those facts to the public.
 "In response to the earnest appeal of the Executive Council that the convention take such action as will make it possible to place the A. F. of L. Information and Publicity Service on stable, permanent basis and in response to its own sense of the inn perative need for immediate action, your committee makes the following recommendations
 First, that the convention provide adequate funds for the maintenance and development of the American Federation of Labor Information and Publicity Service, through authoriz- ing the Executive Council to levy an assessment of one-half cent per cap ita, when in its judgment conditions make it feasible, and in the meantime through vigorous campaign for vol untary contributions.
 Second, that because of the danger of duplication and waste in a multi plicity of inco-ordinated efforts, all publicity activities be unified in one department under the direction of the president of the American Federation. of Labor"