Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-27
fOs LINTON CALL
Fox AMERICAN FED
IRATION OF LABOR

IA w.
an. D. c, July 9, 1928
t.a.uted Unions, Greeting;
seieby notified that, in par-
- the Constitution OF the
- Federation of LABOR, the
4 So. ..## Annual Convention OF
4 s-.sIeau Federation Of Labor
..# al the City Auditorium,
a oregon, beginning 10 O'Clock
A ~. saIn.ng. October l, 1923, and
Ell - ne in session from day TO
an ..s. tHe business OF the conVeh-
5sr .#a ave been completed.
p.#-..atation in the convention
III - d.. ne following basis: From
! x.r.#.. - International Unions, for
s..-#=r : 100 members, one delegate
/ 60o - mgre. TWO delegates; 5000 or
i ~srg .Hree delegates; 10000 or more,
4 IN #FIeeates: $4,000 or more, five
.sisg4-e,. 1000 or more, six dele
,,ts. Is 900 or more, seven dele
- anu ~ on; and from Central
Xii AID State declarations, ana
nom IocaI trade unions not having a
National ~ International Union, ana
am FEDERAL Labor Unions, one dele
Organizations to be entitled to rep
rs.entat.aa must have obtained a GER
..6cate II utilization (charter), at
east #re month prior to the conven-
rloo. and mo- person will be reeog-
rIzed a. q delegate who is not men,
Der IN good standing of the organlza-
ton he j. elected to represent.
Only bona fide wage-workers, VINO
are not members of, or eligible to
membership in other trade unions are
eligible a. delegates from Federal
Labor Unions.
Delegates must be elected at least
TWO week spreyiouS to the convention,
and their names forwarded to the
Secretary Of the American Federation
of Labor Immediately after their cleo
ton
Delegates are not entitled to seats
in the convention unless the tax of
their organization has been paid in
full To August 81, 1923.
While it is inappropriate to re-
count or forecast the important
problems which lay ahead for consid-
Grafton ana action of the Portland
convention it Is not amiss to call at
tention to the following:
Every effort must be made to abol-
ISL the exploitation hof the labor of
children and to safeguard the child
life of America; to broaden the field
and means for the organization of the
yet unorganized; to organize the wage
working women and girls and see that
their standards of life and toll may be
commensurate with the civilization of
our time; to organize more thoroughly
the unskilled as well as the skilled
tollers; cement more closely the bonds
Of unity and solidarity; to strive to
bring about more etfectually than ever
better day in the lives and homes of
the 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 con-
satuuonal activities to protect and
promote the rights and interests of
he workers; to assert at any risk the
equal rights before the law of all
workers with all other citizens; to aid
our telIowworkers against the effort
10 entangle the workers in the meshes
Of litigation before the courts in the
several states; to rectify the abuse
OF the beneticent injunctive writ; to
restore and make effective in our
every day lives the principle declared
IN the law of our republic (the Clayton
iaw), That the labor of human be-
ing Is not a commodity or article of
commerce. to arouse our fellow
workers and fellow-c citizens TO the
aanget Which threatens to curb and
axe away their guaranteed rights and
freedom; TO meet and help solve the |
'eNaIlous problems of peace and re-
obstruction; to emphasize the domin-
aahg and determining economic char |
actef of our movement and to carry |
On such political action as the inter |
es'S OF labor will warrant and the
staae union movement has directed; |
10 withstand and overcome the bitter
1h'agomSm now so rampant to under
NINE and to destroy the greatest con-
,aueaFe force in our republic, the |
american labor movement, for indeed,
now, more than ever, "These are the
"uies That try mems souls;" these |
anu other great questions of equal
Importance, will of necessity, occupy |
me attention of the Portland conven-
therefore, the importance of our
movement, the duty of the hour and |
Tor tae future, demand that every |
organization entitled to representa-
uon snail send its full quota of dele
sa.es TO the Portland convention,
oclo1er /, 1923.