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Vol XXI. No. 6. CHICAGO, JUNE, 1917. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year Toledo Convention. The next Convention of the United Association will be held in the progressivc city of Toledo, Ohio, beginning Monday. August 13, 1917. The CALL for the Convention has been published previously in this Journal, and has been sent to all our Local Unions, who are now preparing themselves to send their delegates to this Convention. We believe it is hardly necessary to say that one of the greatest duties that our Local Unions are called upon to perform is in electing and sending representative men, who are well versed in the needs of their Local Unions, as well as that which is necessary for the further advancement and progress of our general organization. The coming convention of the United Association will be one of the most important in our history, especially during these world epoch-making times. It is not only the legislation that will be enacted for the further advancement of our organization, but at this particular time when we might say the whole world is engaged in warfare and which it is stated and is apparent that the present conflict is to advance and maintain permanently a universal democracy throughout the world. This is the time that we believe conventions of labor should be held, so that we will be in a position to take an active part and consider and map out the proper policy to carefully guard the achievements that have been accomplished for the workers, and to lend our every aid in furthering the great democracy of the world, referred to. There may be very trying times in store for us during the progress of the present world conflict, and it will be our duty to provide for all difficulties and obstacles that we may be compelled to meet during the next few years. Therefore, it will be seen by our Local Unions that it will be necessary to have delegates that are students of the present economic situation, and especially those that are well versed in matters pertaining to the welfare of our organization and the labor movement in general, sent to the coming convention. In order to facilitate the work at the General Office, knowing as you do that in ordinary times there is a great volume of work to perform here, and at present during the preparation of a convention, which is threefold, the Local Unions will be of great aid to us if they will read the call for the convention and study same, and note the questions affecting the eligibility of delegates to the convention, as well as the representation accorded Local Unions, and by doing this it will save us a great deal of unnecessary work in answering constitutional questions that are very easily explained by reading the call for the convention, because in the call these constitutional questions are placed there for the benefit of the Local Unions that they may ascertain at a moment's notice what is expected of them without giving them the trouble of perusing the constitution. In order to facilitate the work of the convention we would earnestly advise the Local Unions to pay great attention to that part of the constitution which states that all resolutions that the Local Unions desire to present to the convention must be at the General Office at least ten days before the convention, because it is necessary to have this number of days in order that we can have these resolutions printed in book form so that they can be presented to the delegates that they shall know just exactly what is coming before the convention, that they may be posted in order that they can make intelligent arguments for or against the different propositions. Our Local Union No. 50 of Toledo, Ohio, is very busily engaged making preparations for hotels, halls, etc., for the convention, and the delegates, which information will be given to our Local Unions through the columns of this Journal in the July issue. The matter of transportation for the delegates to and from the city of Toledo, Ohio, will be left to the delegates themselves to choose the nearest and best routes over any road that they see fit to travel. The General Office will send to the delegates through their Local Unions sufficient advance money to bring them to the convention, and will then pay them the balance of their expenses before leaving Toledo, which is the usual practice that has always been carried out at previous corventions. For the further information of our Local Unions, and which concerns submitting resolutions, we desire to say that the constitution states that no resolutions will be allowed to be presented to the convention unless they are here at the General Office at the time stated above unless by a four-fifths vote of the convention. The reason for this is to expedite matters by having the resolutions presented before the convention so that the different committees will be appointed on time, to whom these resolutions will be referred for action, so that they will have them ready for immediate action when the convention convenes. The laws committee and credential committee will meet ahead of the convention in order to facilitate matters and be ready for work the moment the convention opens, and in order to save a great deal of unnecessary expense that would otherwise be incurred if this work was hel over until the beginning of the convention. It would aid the General Office in expediting their work if the Local Unions would send their resolutions to the General Office, or have them here at the General Office not later than two weeks before the convention, as it will take some time to have them printed in book form for the use of the delegates. In order that our Local Unions will thoroughly understand the law as to the eligibility of delegates the constitution particularlv states that, "A member before he is entitled to be a delegate to any convention of the United Association, must be a member at least one year of his Local Union. and must be six months in continuous good standing. The representation of the Local Unions must be figured from their good standing membership, and Locals must be in good standing at least three months prior to the convention." We know that our Local Unions are cognizant of the fact that this will be one of the most important conventions in our history, and that they will see to it, as they have done in the past, to send their bestposted men to the convention that the progress and advancement that we all desire for our organization shall be accomplished at the Toledo meeting. DEATH OF VICE PRESIDENT It is with the most profound sorrow and regrets that we are compelled to chronicle in this Journal the death of our esteemed colleague, Brother Bert Cone. Brother Cone was Tenth Vice President of the United Association, representing the Southern District, and lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and was Secretary of the Steam Fitters Local Union No. 614 of that city. Brother Cone was brought here to Chicago by his brother, Mr. Ralph Cone, member of the Painters Union of Chicago, to seek aid from physicians here for his affliction. He was only in Chicago two weeks when he died on May the Sixth, Nineteen hundred and seventeen. His good wife reached Chicago from Memphis, Tennessee the morning that he died, which was an extremely sad mission for her. Everything was done, however, that human ingenuity and scientific application could do to cure Brother Cone, but to no avail. Vice President Cone was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he was apprenticed to the steam-fitting trade and traveled considerable in his time. He joined the United States Expeditionary Forces and went to the Boxer uprising in China, and afterwards served in the Spanish War in the Philippine Islands, and was mustered out of the Army as first sergeant with great honors, holding two United States medals for service in the Philippines and in China, also one as a first-class gunner in the Artillery. His efficiency and ability was not only appreciated by the United States authorities, but the same ability and earnestness was aiways manifested and appreciated by his fellows in the great Labor movement, as he always took an active part for its advancement from the time he became a member after his apprenticeship was served. He has |