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B@ieretz, vice president OF the Inter
national Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers; and
WHEREAS the Executive Coun-
Gil, on the basis Of the evidence so
submitted, finds:
4. The Committee for Industrial
Organization is a dual organization
functioning within the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor as such and in its ad-
ministrative activities it is clearly com
peting as a rival organization with the
American Federation OF Labor.
Despite the fact that the final au-
thority in the American Federation OF
Labor on questions OF jurisdiction is
the Executive Council and the con
ventions OF the American Federation
OF Labor, the Committee for Indus
trial Organization has set itself up as
a dual authority, and is now engaged
in an effort to determine questions OF
jurisdiction and to make decisions
which are in direct conflict with those
OF the Executive Council and conven-
tons OF the American Federation of
Labor.
2. The organizations which par
ticipated in the formation OF the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization and
those which now hold membership
therein, are engaged in fostering, main
tanning and supporting this dual move
ment and OF fomenting instruction
within the American Federation OF
Labor.
3. Each OF the organizations here
in named which holds membership in
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
cation has thus violated the contract
which it entered into with the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor when it was
granted a certificate OF utilization, as
follows:
Provided, that the said union
do conform to the Constitution,
Laws, Rules and Regulations OF
the American Federation OF La
Dor, and in default thereof, or any
part, this Certificate OF Affilia-
ton may be suspended or revok-
ed according to the laws OF this
Federation.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization and the unions comprising
it are by the organization campaigns
now being conducted, acting in derog-
alton OF the charter rights OF national
and international unions which are
loyal to the American Federation OF
Labor, and the acts If said Commit
tee and OF the unions comprising it
constitute rebellion against the adj
ministrative organization policies ad-
opted by majority vote OF the duly ac-
credited delegates in attendance at the
two latest conventions of the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor, specifically
with regard to the organization OF mass
production industries as expressed in
the majority report of the Resolutions
Committee adopted by the Atlantic
City convention, 1885, and in the dec
l%aration of organization policy unan-
imously adopted at the San Francisco
convention, 1884, for the organization
OF production industries Gas con
tanned in the Report Of said conven-
ton IN page $500 a resolution and
policy strongly endorsed and support
ed by Delegate John l.. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers in his speech
on the floor of the convention in favor
OF said resolution, in which he stated
that the resolution was not in CON
flict with the constitutional provision
that;
mo charter shall be granted
by the American Federation of La
Dor to any National, International,
trade, or Federal Labor Union
without a positive and clear defini-
ton of the trade jurisdiction claim
ed by the applicant and the chart
er shall not be granted if the jur-
isdiction claimed is a trespass on
the jurisdiction Of existing affilat-
ed unions, without the written con-
sent OF said unions
WHEREFORE, pursuant to its in
herent and constitutional authority and
upon the aforementioned findings Of
fact, the Executive Council orders and
directs that each union affiliated with
the so-called Committee for Industrial
Organization withdraw from and sever
relations with said Committee for In
d~ustrial Organization and so announce
said withdrawal as its choice between
the American Federation Of Labor and
the said Committee for Industrial Or
ganization on or before September 5,
1896.
Amy union announcing its with
drawal from the Committee for Indus
trial Organization or any organization
substituted therefor, by a communi-
cation to that effect addressed to the
President OF the American Federation
of Labor on or before September S,
1886, and adhering to said withdrawal,
shall not thereafter be affected by this
order but will be forgiven its breach
Of its %contractual obligations as ex-
pressed in its charter, and said con-
tract will remain in full force and eff
feet.
ANY union now affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organize
ton, as named in this resolution, not
announcing its withdrawal therefrom
on or before September 5, 1886, shall
thereupon by this order automatically
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