The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-01-18
Organizing Drive
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lective bargaining in the modern pro-
duction ndustries-challenge every
vestige Of the trade union spirit that
built up the American Labor move
ment.
There are more than 100000 un-
organized workers in manufacturing
industries today; there are some 25,-
100000 unorganized in all industries.
Each one of these workers needs to
understand what the trade union can
do for him, needs to join union and
learn to act with his fellows through
collective bargaining.
1t is a colossal task of education
education for membership, for respon-
sibility, for constructive action.
Yet, | repeat, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is equal to the task.
We have among our leaders and our
active members the ability, the wis
dom born of experience, the new ideas
for new era; in word, the genius
TO undertake this giant task and carry
it through.
To organize these workers who as
yet have no voice in their wages or
conditions, to give them chance to
share the wealth they create, to make
them staunch and loyal trade union
lists with full understanding and
power to act-this is our task.
No one union or central body, State
federation or international can ac-
complish this alone. But by coordin-
ating our efforts, by focusing our
thinking and action, by planning to
use all our resources it can be ac-
complished.
That is why the Federation has de-
cided, with the help of international
officers and those locally concerned,
to hold series Of regional confer
ences to inaugurate this campaign.
The Building Trades, Metal Trades
and Union Label Trades Departments
have endorsed this plan.
The conferences will be held in the
first half of 1910 and will reach every
affiliated organization east Of Texas
and the Mississippi. Delegates from
every State Federation, Central Labor
Union and Local Union in this area
will be invited to attend for Satur-
day and Sunday conference.
The tentative schedule Of meetings
is as follows:
January, Dallas, Texas-Southwest.
Early February, Philadelphia, Pa
Middle Atlantic States.
Mid-February, Detroit, Mich.-Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana.
March and 8, Atlanta, Ga-South-
east.
March (second week., Hartford,
Conn.-New England States.
April, Chicago-lllinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Missouri.
Extensive preparations are under
way for the Atlanta Conference which
will be attended by some 5000 rep
resentatives from all the Southern
States. President Green will address
this conference.
These conferences will bring to-
gether trade union representatives
for two purposes:
/. To lay out plans for organizing
and educating the unorganized, these
plans to be carried back home and put
into action.
2. To assist unions in carrying on
their activities, in securing facts for
collective bargaining, in handling
cases before Labor Relations Boards
and Wages and Hours Boards, in
dealing with problems under Social
Security, in promoting legislation.
Leaders from State Federations will
address the conference, and persons
competent to discuss problems of So
cial Security, Labor and Wage Board
problems.
The outstanding success of con-
ference of this type held in New Eng
land last spring, attended by $50
union delegates and the recent con-
ference in Utah of representatives
from II States, has led me to inagur-
ate this series Of meetings as the
,1oDpipo Ground for new Orpanizincr