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+ Bey ORT GF + UPID ab almc: Leal hTiV.. 2 aS ATIVE’ ONSTITUTTION LL YOUN ENTIO 2. HATIOIAL WARD TS UWEOL ¢ ket on pa Citi s te a ao _ “a re, ee Brother Chairman and brether Delojgates to the Gonventionr= Tt seems hardly sossible that a little over tix months age I ras elected on the Committve to Firht the Copeland "fink took" Bill end tht so much could have happened between then ani non or thot we could have meade the rapid strides thst we have since then in the Rank & Tile movenent, and to establish democracy in our Unions whilst fighting the forces of the ashiporners at the sine time, There were miny times that it seemed like san Ampescibility for us to fight the combinad forces pitted egninst us and conc out of the battle on top, out when I look around me here todny sni gee toe results of our strucrle Ioxuor now that it wes vorth while, Io sitll cirst seal with the wort sone Jurin: tha pest six months in ashiagton poi ths resulte obtained. Upon ny arrivoid dn Gashinrten elon rith erothees Perry ead Tischer and represent tives of the ‘ius en! WUAP vho wore elisa on the Con lind Comnittue ve quickly Jiscovered t ut miny C onetora and Conrpresemen had been misinformed «3 to the situation in th: meritim intustry or else they had no information -n the subject at all, This cnored us clearly Juct wict tha I.5,.U. hod boen doling there + either notuine et cli or spreeding misintornaticong On th: gem: dsy thuit I arrived «tt GC vitol, brottur Tlselen dn Ucltiscre started aulinotehing -ickets to us ond shoce vols mecpore vig to picket 4.0 Depertacnt of vommerce Buildinn. You would have to heve been there to see tnrs looks tnt cams on the faces of some of the government officials when those yivkets aterted ptrzding around the Commerce Building. Some ocanle trie: to tell us thet we coull not °° whet wa were doing — but snyway we kept on doine Lt. As the time urew neor yothe masa murch of the Senmen on the Capitol, Hroticr vooden kopt incroesings the number of sickets fron Jaltimore und one day I counted ever $0 nickets all on viuty at the one tin « by this time 2 Pros Teor hire yp wetreted into the hecrts of soma of th. resetienc ry officlsls in the GC pditol tl tore were really poing te cerr. out our nronize of a mass mrs sue tiey tried to Jo evirything in their cover to discour:pe tis move - this wes partivulesy osoticesble in the comuents of the Peshinirton presa and the threuts corto dmg therein that the C.pitol's police force rovli mest the marchers at the uistrict Line rith uns ani tesr esse In spite of such thrests our slens nent on, om. brother Tinlen sn@ Brothers Mullen finally obtvined the much needed o.rait Vor tia prone. 2ou a all “now the rumiut of thet mrreh -— and Toewn teli wom cbitooo thet the offaats of that denonstrition sre still felt there, rerthousnehy ne sertaio of “ieislds o” the Department of Conauree. This demonstration couples -ith the virorous eamosirn conducted ty ata wba Comuittec, comoriced of members of our Union from Lotn Coasta a tithe the ” cian iment to the "fink vook" Ine rhich result cd in Public Act #25 = 75th Congress, and thich fives the Seamen the option of carrying a certificate of Identification instes.i of tne vicious "fink boos.” i Led mw 4