"Whenever there are combined Shop meetings held, copies of the minutes shall be posted in the respective minute books of the shops attending said meetings. No secret meetings shall be permitted, except in cases of strikes.

"After a Shop Committee meeting, those present shall return to their shops and notify the workers. This should be done in the most effective manner.

"SHOP DELEGATE MEETINGS

"The Shop Delegate meetings shall have a roll call taken, and record any delegate being absent intentionally and not having a representative to act as substitute, shall be fined in accordance with the aforementioned rules.

"The delegates shall elect their Chairman and Recording Secretary and carry on their business as provided for in Shop Committee meetings and Shop Delegate meetings. The dele gates shall use the Branch minute book for their records of minutes and reports, and copies of minutes shall be posted in minute books of shops represented at Delegate meetings. "Note: Executive Board Committees be made up by group representation.

"GROUP REPRESENTATION

"The workers employed in the various departments of Hotels, Restaurants, Clubs, Lunchrooms and other branches of the Catering Industry, shall have group representation on the Executive Board of this Federation. This shall be done after the shop committee system has been drawn up in detail and presented to the membership in printed form; the Shop Committees installed and each shop working this system in a uniform manner. Then we shall install Group Representation. Representatives from the following groups shall be elected to the Executive Board to represent all workers of that department in the City of said Branch and sub-sections.

"GROUP A

"Shall be composed of all Chef Deporties, Pastry Cooks, Bakers, Confisiers, Glasiers, all Commis, Leguminers, Firemen, Casseroliners, Oystermen.

"GROUP B

Captains, Assistant Head waitresses, Waiters, Commis,

Bussboys.

"GROUP C

"Chambermaids, Scrubwomen, Parlormaids, Assistant Housekeepers, Housemaids, Housemen, Valets, Ladies' Maids.

"GROUP D

Bellboys, Captains, Elevatormen, Starters, Coatroom men, Messengers.

"Dishwashers, Glasswashers, Silver cleaners, Pantry work

ers, Useful men.

"GROUP J

Salesmen, Soda Fountain workers, Bartenders, Lunchcounter workers.

"GROUP K

"Barbers, Manicurists, Hairdressers, Shoe Cleaners.

"GROUP L

"Watchmen, Timekeepers, Yardmen.

"GROUP M

"Engineers, Electricians, Firemen, Oilers, Icemen, Helpers.

"GROUP N

"Plasterers, Painters, Plumbers, Steamfitters, Carpenters, Cabinetinakers, Upholsterers, Decorators, Tailors, Silversmiths, Helpers.

"Cashiers, Checkers, Clerks, Telephone workers.

"According to the number of organized workers in any of the above groups they shall be entitled to proportionate representation."

On January 1, 1920, the organization moved its headquarters to its new building, 133 West 51st street. The New York branch also took up its headquarters in the new building where a free employment bureau was placed in charge of John Chastony. The secretary's office is also there. The restaurant and lunch-room workers' branch, secretary, J. Salomka, has offices at 28 St. Mark's place, New York City, and also a free employment bureau. Other branches are Brooklyn, N. Y., secretary, S. Fret, 327 Livingston street; Philadelphia, Secretary, H. Chernow, 218 North 13th street; Atlantic City, N. J., 108 So. Arkansas avenue, Bridgeport, Conn., secretary, D. H. Howell, 382 Wood avenue; New Haven, Conn., 153 Crown street; Washington, D. C., 1008 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W.; Newark, N. J., 49 Bank street. The officers of the organization for the present year are:

General secretary-treasurer, John Assel.

General organizer, Rudolf Sheerbarth.

Executive Board of the Federation.- New York branchF. Lalli, S. Ferrari, S. Cutter, M. Obermeyer, J. Bergen, C. Spagnoli, J. Perrachio, C. Coner, J. Serret, A. Dominico, J. Mackrell, S. Kromberg, H. Hahn, S. Lovie, F. Lasser, C. Tempesta, S. Guanzini, J. Gramola, A. Suchant, J. Fecci.

Philadelphia.- A. Bollenghi, A. Baltera, V. Raviola.

Lunchroom Workers.— J. Feingold, J. Brilensky, J. Haley Brooklyn.-S. Popper, A. Reiss, E. Gassman.

Branch Philadelphia.- Secretary-treasurer, H. Chernow. Executive Board.-P. Dallas, F. Roffino, B. Briganti, F. Holtz, P. Bleeker, P. Totti, L. Giliote, J. Malatesta, C. Maegel, J. Winn, J. Probst, A. Rolleri, C. Berndort, J. Scanzarolli, A. Cairoli, W. Uram.

Branch Brooklyn.- Secretary-treasurer, J. Drimmer.

Executive Board.-A. Demos, J. Antonion, A. Holmes, S. Frey, F. Shultz, J. Anderson, S. Weiss, A. Mueller.

Lunchroom Workers' Section. Secretary-Treasurer, H. Koenig.

Executive Board.- Bodak, Slobodjin, Jery, Pytlar, Greenberg, Wheeler, Budny, Koch, Salomkai.

From all of the foregoing it is quite apparent that this Federation of Hotel Workers is in all respects a revolutionary organization based upon the One Big Union principle, having for its objective the establishment of a new social order, and the seizure of industry.

It is also evident that its propaganda is calculated to stimulate the so-called "class struggle," and to point out the "Principle that the worker has only one enemy, that is, the boss." (See p. 3, October 5, 1919, issue of the "Hotel Worker.")

CHAPTER IV

Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners' International Union of America

The growing tendency to transform trade unions into revolutionary industrial unions which is being affected by diligent and continuous propaganda of Socialists, Communists, I. W. W. and other allied groups, is well illustrated by the record of a conference of Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners' International Union of America which took place on October 25, 26, 1919, in the Labor Temple, in New York City.

On the second day of the conference the record states:

"At two o'clock Comrade Dieners called the meeting to order again. The credentials of the I. W. W. delegation were read. The conference decided to admit the committee and to allow it to take the floor for ten minutes.

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George Speed explained, as the speaker of the I. W. W. delegation, the objects of the industrial union which are recognized by the whole working class movement. There was no debate concerning this point.

"Then a vote was taken on the resolution and the motion of Local Union No. 164, which was the most far-reaching proposals on point 5. (This point dealt with 'Our Attitude on the Question of the Industrial Union.') They were carried, in the following form:

"Be it decided that the Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners' International Union, as an independent organization, resolves to accept the principle of industrial organization but that it, at the present juncture, shall not join any existing industrial union. For the time being, the efforts of the union shall, on the main, be devoted to the organization of the bakery workers; as soon as this work is completed, the organization of an industrial union shall be started." (Page 4 of the official organ of the union known as the "Free Voice.")

This was the first convention of this organization.

There was a proposal to get in touch with the International Federation of Workers in the Hotel, Restaurant, Lunch Room