The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-14
Session to Be Held in Cincinnati in June to Arouse Workers to Attempts Being Made to Take Away Their Hard Fought for Rights.

The call for the annual convention ot the American Federation Fedora ton ot Labor, which will be held in Cincinnati, O., beginning on June I2, was issued this week and local or ganizations entitled to representation instructed to elect their delegates and attend to their tax assessments to ensure their being seated. By new arrangement reduced rates, one fare and one-half have been arranged for providing $50 delegates attend the meeting, as stated i'll the call which Is as follows:
 To All Affiliated Unions, Greeting:
 You are hereby notified that, ill pursuance of the Constitution of the American Federation of Labor, the 42nd annual convention of the Amer ican Federation of Labor will be held at Freeman Avenue Armory, Cincin- nati, Ohio, beginning 10 o'clock Mon- day morning, June I2, 1922, and will continue in session from day to day until the business ot the convention shall have been completed.
 Representation in the convention will be on the following basis: From national or international unions, for less than 4,ooo members, one dele gate; 4,ooO or more, two delegates; j; 8,ooo or more, three delegates; 10000 or more, four delegates; 32,ooo or more, five delegates; o4,ooo or more, delegates, and so on; and from cen tral bodies and state federation5, and from local trade unions not having d national or international union, and from federal labor unions, one dele gate.
 "Organizations to be entitled to representation must have obtained certificate of affiliation (eharter), at least one month prior to the conven- ton; and no person will be recog- n1zed as delegate who IS not a mem Der III good standing Tn the OrganiZa- tlon he IS elected to represent.
 Only bona lde wage-workers, who are not members of, or eligible to membership i'll other trade unions are eligible as delegates from federal la bor 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 ,eats in the convention unless tlfe tax of their organization has been Npaid in full to April 30, 1922,
 'NNhile 1t IS inappropriate here to recount or forecast the important problems which lay ahead for con sideration and action ot the June con- vention 1t Is not amiss to call atten- ton to the following: Every effort must be made to broaden the field and means for the organization of the Nyet 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 organize for our common defense and advance ment, for the exercise of our normal and constitutional activities to pro- tect and promote the rights and in terests of the workers; to assert at any risk the equal rights before the law of all workers with all other citi- zens; to aid our fellOW-Workers against the effort to entangle the workers in the meshcs of litigation before the courts in the several states; to restore and make effective in our every day lives the principle declared in the law of our republic curtailment of buying power to this extent would not effect so much the actual necessities of life but would fall upon practically every industry from that of the moving picture the ater to the operation of our mines It would not decrease the sale oi wheat, but it would work havoc upon the growers of avacondas and even oranges
 The saving wage, then, rather than