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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt:...districts shall be elected by the rank and file of those districts. (Seconded.) The intent of the motion is to substitute Resolution No. 50 as an amendment. Delegate Farrington, District 12: I rise to a point of order. The motion seeks to direct the respective district organizations as to how they shall proceed in the selection of their traveling auditors. If the motion is adopted it will set aside the district autonomy that has been recognized by the United Mine Workers of America ever since we have had an organization. Just a few years ago the Ohio miners elected their officers in district convention. They, by their own motion, changed their system of election to the referendum method. Do you think for a single instant the Ohio miners would have stood for an International Convention saying they could not elect their district oflicers in a convention? I therefore make the point that the motion sets aside the autonomy of the various districts. Acting President Lewis: The point of order has been raised rthat the motion of Delegate Raney seeks to make provision for the election or selection of traveling auditors, who are the ofiicers of the districts, and transgresses the autonomy of such districts. May the chair say that under the present system of selecting auditors that would be true, because the auditors as now employed are selected by the district executive boards, named by the International President and commissioned, and paid half by the district and half by the International Union. If the International Union, through this convention, decides to pay the traveling auditors in toto for all their salary and expenses the motion of Delegate Raney is in order. If this convention contemplates that the present system of paying auditors will...