There is considerable diversity of type among the
national (or international) unions. The Typograph-
ical International, for example, is a strictly craft
union. The United Mine Workers, on the other
hand, includes every worker — all the coal workers,
skilled and unskilled, who want to join the union.
The latter type becomes more common in the fields
of industry where there is a great concentration of
capital and ownership.
The American Federation holds an annual con-
vention composed of representatives apportioned on
the following basis:



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1. Fiamnadaiial and mternatianal unions^ for
leas than four thousand members^ one delegate; ei^t
thousand or more, three delegates; sixteen thousand
or more, four del^ates, and so on.
2. From central bodies^ state federations, national
departments, federal labor unions, and local unions
having no national or international nnion, one dele*
gate each ; provided, however, that local and federal
unions in any one city may unite in sending (me
delegate.
The current management of affairs is in the hands
of the president and the executive counciL It is the
duty of the executive council: (1) to watch legis-
lative measures directly affecting the interests of
working people and to initiate whenever necessary
such legislative action as the convention may direct;
(2) to use every possible means to organize new local
and international unions; and (3) to secure unity
of action in trade disputes without interfering with
the right of each trade to manage its own affairs.
