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33 eluding coils, segments, and contacts of all kinds. Gutting, grinding, making and cabling of carbon, brass or copper brushes.

"The making, assembling, repairing, testing and inspecting of all telegraph, radio-telegraph, telephone, radio-telephone apparatus, both manual and automatic, annunciators, musolophone, dictaphone, dictagraph, and all other calling or communicating devices.

"The making, assembling, repairing, testing, inspecting, laying out, wiring and drilling of switchboards, panel boards, distributing centers, charging and control boards, both manual and automatic, switches, fuses, fuse-blocks, cutouts, circuit breakers, and other safety devices of all descriptions.

"The wiring, assembling, testing, repairing, and inspecting of all electrical thermostats, stoves, ovens, irons, heaters, urns, and other heating and cooking apparatus, either open coil, sheath wire or casting, vacuum cleaners, washing and burnishing machines, lamp sockets, head lights, and spot lights.

" The wiring, inspecting, repairing and testing of automobiles, street, elevated and subway cars.

"The casting, pasting, trimming and burning of plates, compounding, assembling, charging and making of accumulators and storage batteries, both primary and secondary, and all electrical work in connection with ignition systems.

"The making, assembling, repairing, testing, inspecting and calibrating of all electrical instruments, vibrators, vibrating machines, medical batteries and violet-ray apparatus.

"The making, assembling, repairing, testing, and inspecting of car switches, limit switches, floor stops, door locks and other electrical devices for elevator* and hoisting machinery, and in case of units where impractical to move they shall repair same on job, it being definitely understood that men who are employed in shops and doing what is known as combination electrical installation, repair and maintenance work come under the jurisdiction of the inside electrical workers."

Government.— 1. General officers are: President, secretary, treasurer, eight vice presidents and nine elective members of the executive council. The president is the chief administrative officer, with comprehensive powers. The vice presidents are organizers. The executive council is a trial and audit board.

2. Local unions: Subordinate; laws and regulations imposed by the international brotherhood. 3. Convention: Biennial; enacts legislation and elects general officers for 4-year term. Constitutional amendments by initiative and referendum.

Qualifications for membership.— "Any electrical worker of good moral character not over 55 years of age nor less than 18 and of good sound health and not afflicted with any disease or subject to any complaints liable to endanger life, who has worked for four years as an electrical worker, and who is competent to command the general average wage, is eligible to membership in this brotherhood as a journeyman member, provided he passes a satisfactory examination * * * and is found to be qualified in all respects.

"Any electrical worker who is not able to qualify as a journeyman member but who is otherwise eligible may be admitted as an apprentice, provided be has worked three months at the trade."

Applicants not meeting physical and age qualifications become nonbeneflciary members.

Female members: "Any female engaged in the manufacture or operation of any electrical apparatus or device may become a member of a local union. Local unions composed of male and femule electrical workers shall be classified and chartered as local union, class B."

Apprenticeship regulations.—"Each local union shall provide ways and means for governing their apprentices and helpers, either by admitting them as members or registering them so that they will be under the jurisdiction and control of the local union and not subservient to any other organization. All apprentices one year or more with electrical experience in the local union shall upon application through his local union be initiated in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

"Each local union shall adopt its own apprenticeship system as the peculiar conditions of each district may require."

Agreements.—Negotiated by local unions to cover separate branches of the trade, except where several branch locals are employed by one concern, when joint agreements may be made to include all employees.