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1. To secure employment of our members in preference to non-unionists; to maintain a spirit of fraternal sympathy with the workers of this and other countries by assisting them when necessary.

2. To use our united efforts to discourage the contract labour and bonus systems, and as soon as possible to abolish these, believing the said systems to be detrimental to the best interests of organised Labour.

3. To enable and provide for the Federation to own, publish and control a newspaper or newspapers.

4. To ensure to members who are proved to have been unjustly treated the support of the Federation.

5. To link up with the industrial organisations of all other countries for the achievement of international solidarity and also for more effective working-class action in time of international conflict.

6. The United Federation will always act with the end in view of securing to the workers the full product of their labour.

The national executive shall consist of general officers and of representatives from each industrial department, the officers to be elected by ballot of the whole organisation and the other executive officers to be elected by referendum of their respective industrial departments.

The United Federation of Labour leaves the matter of registration, or of not registering, or of cancelling registration under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act entirely with each union; but in any case it will oppose registration of any new union to succeed any union which may have cancelled its registration, and will seek for legislation to that effect.

Each union shall have power of internal government, but no union shall involve another in any strike without first placing the matter unreservedly in the hands of its department for decision, and no department shall involve the national organisation in any strike without first placing the matter unreservedly in the hands of the national