Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
NEXT CONVENTION
A. F. OF |. WILL Be
HELD IN FL PASO

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 2S.-
The next convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor will be held
in FL PasO, Texas. The call for the
convention was sent out to all affili-
ated unions August Is. Sessions
will begin Monday morning, Novem-
Der IL, in Liberty hall, and viii con-
tinue in session until the business of
the convention is completed.
While it is inappropriate to recount
or forecast the important problems
which lay ahead for consideration and
action of the Ell Paso convention it is
not amiss to call attention to the
following:
Every effort must be made to abol-
ish the exploitation of 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 toilers; cement more
closely the bonds of unity and solid
arity; 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 honor
able 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
interests of the workers; to assert at
any risk the equal rights before the
law of all workers with all other
citizens; to aid our fellow workers
against the effort to entangle the
workers in the meshes of litigation
before the courts in the several
states; to rectify the abuse of the
benefcent injunctive writ; to restore
and make effective in our every day
lives the principle declared in the law
of our republic 1.-THE Clayton law,
''That the labor of human being is
not a commodity or article of COM
merce;" to arouse our fellow work.
ers an dfellow citizens to the danger
which threatens to curb and take
away their guaranteed rights and
freedom; to meet and help solve the
vexatious problems of peace and re-
construction; to emphasize the domi-
mating and determining economic
character of our movement and carry
on such political action as the inter-
ests of labor will warrant and the
trade union movement has directed;
to take into account the results of
labor's non-partisan political activity
and contribution in the political cam
paign now pending and Of recent
years; to withstand and overcome
the bitter antagonism now SO ram
pant to undermine and to destroy the
greatest constructive force in our re-
public, the American labor move
ment, for indeed, now, more than
ever, "These are the times that try
mems souls;" these and other great
questions Of equal Importance, will
of necessity, occupy the attention of
the Ell Paso convention.
Representation in the convention
will be on the following basis: From
national or international unions, for
less than 1000 members, one delegate;
1000 or more, two delegates; 5000 or
more, three delegates; 10000 or more,
four delegates; $4,000 or more, five
delegates; $4,000 or more, six dele
gates; $4,000 or more, seven dele
gates, and so on; and from central
bodies and state declarations, and from
local trade unions, not having a ma
tional or international union, and
from federal labor unions, one dele
gate.
Organizations to be entitled to rep
resentation must have obtained a GER
tiacate of affiliation (charter) at least
one month prior to the convention;
and no person will be recognized as
a delegate who is not a member in
good standing Of the organization he
is elected to represent.
Only bona fide wage workers, who
are not unernbare of M ELIGIBLE tn