FIRST CONVENTION Of Australian I.W.W.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 October 1913, Page 1

FIRST CONVENTION Of Australian I.W.W.

Per Notification From E. Moyle, Gen. Secy.-Treas., I.W.W. Australia.

The first Convention of the Australian Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, will be held in Melbourne, Victoria, on Thursday, October 16th.

Several minor amendments to the Constitution are proposed; they do not touch fundamentals, but are aimed at adjusting the Constitution to suit Australian conditions and to provide for the grouping of the workers into six Industrial Departments.

Demits have been sent from the Locals recommending: A levy for organising fund; yearly Convention, and that sitting Convention decide where next shall be held; that Convention discuss ways and means for establishing a paper i . Australia; that Convention consider advisability of inserting a clause aiming at preventing the organisation from regarding its industrial struggles as cases that can be fought and won in the legal courts of Capitalism; that Convention considers the question of either (1) the issuing of a pamphlet giving in detail the construction of the several Departments of Industry, or (2) the extending of the Constitution to meet the above suggested requirements; and other resolutions touching minor matters