ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1957-05-08
Home Office Vacation Periods Would
Undergo Change If Referendum Passes
Delegates Urged To Study Matter Before
Voting On Supreme Board Recommendation
BY V. l. Mandich, Supreme President

by w. L. Mandlch, supreme president
In next weeks issue of the zaiednicar you will read
the English text Minutes of the regular semi-annua
gs of the Supreme Board which held in the Supreme
Office of the Society in the last week of March.
Under the provisions bylaws executive Off
and officials permanently stationed the Supreme
Office required to submit their reports the Supreme
Board Similarly, report is submitted to the Supreme
Board by the Board of Trustees which the su-
Office week before the meeting of the Supreme
Board to examine the books records and business the
Society.
The respective officers boards in their reports
NIT to the Supreme Board their recommendations for tho
good of the membership and the Society.
Every report and particularly the recommenda-
tions is discussed thoroughly. following which the
ports are generally accepted and recommendations de-
cded upon. Some recommendations deferred for
study and discussion until the following meetings of the
Board.
One recommendation will be submitted to referendum
of the delegates accordance with bylaws The
mendaon made in my report concerning the question to
be submitted to a referendum, is follows:
At the Sixth Convention in 1943, section Of
the bylaws was adopted, giving our permanently en-
ployed employees the right to organize and become
bers of workers unions Since that time the Executive
Board has the power to negotiate and enter into an
agreement between the employees union and the Gro
attain Fraternal Union for improvement of working
ditions which agreement must be in conformity with
the bylaws of the Croatian Fraterna Union. Since the
last meeting of the Supreme Board the Executive Board
received requests from the unions of which
employees members asking for improvement Of
working conditions and salary increases to meet pres
en conditions and particularly because of the increase
in the cost of living The salary increases and requested
improvement of working conditions were granted in so
far possible considering the condition Of ad-
minstraton fund and the provisions of bylaws.
One demand made by the three unions repre-
senting employees which unable to grant,
inasmuch as it in contradiction with our bylaws,
namely, threeweek annual vacation. We promised the
union representatives that recommendation will be
made to the Supreme Board for the amendment of Sec
ton 112 of the bylaws by referendum, that
poyes who employed certain number of years will
be entitled to three weeks paid vacation instead of two
weeks under the present provisions of the bylaws.
The delegates will vote the referendum during May
Our employees members of three unions. The office
employees have their office employees union the typesetters
their union, and the pressmen also have their
union The representatives of these unions mentioned
above requested third weeks paid vacation union
after three years employment after five years and the
third union asked for the third weeks vacation Is
years employment
1t is desire that all of our employees, including
the executive officers and permanently stationed Off
cas regardless of the department in which they
employed, receive the rights and privileges the
Supreme Board decided that the pertinent section of the
bylaws be changed that the Executive Board has
the power of negotiation and agreement with the
ployes unions and to agree mutually specific
Der of years Of uninterrupted employment prerequ
site for the third weeks paid vacation.
The Supreme Board recommends that the delegates
vote in favor of this change in bylaws to enable the
work the Supreme Office continue without
dscord.
third week of paid vacation will result in no addi-
tiona drain the Administration Fund for the work
in the Supreme Office will be done with the same number
of employees heretofore, and it will give employees
the rights which enjoyed by employees in similar
institutions in the Pittsburgh district.