l mills, and foundries. The decision
on the matter of membership in the district would rest, first with
the local economic units that united to form the district, and
second, with the industries immediately concerned. The purpose of the
organization would be to link together those economic units that were
most dependent upon one another, and that therefore had the most
interests in common.

b. When formed, the organization would apply for recognition to the
divisional organization of its particular industry. If the district
comprised manufacturing industries, it would apply to the divisional
organization of the manufacturing industries; if the district
comprised coal mines, it would apply to the divisional organization
of the extractive industries. It would be to the interest of the
divisional organization to recognize only such district organizations
as did not involve the divisional organization in jurisdictional
disputes.

c. After securing recognition from the divisional organization, the
district organization would be the judge of its own membership, and
would be in a position to add such local economic units as were to
its advantage in pursuit of its general policy.

d. The control over the affairs of the district would be in the hands
of a district committee, elected directly by the workers of the
district, each group of workers voting by ballot in its own shop.

A. When the elections for membership of the district committee were
held, the members of the plant committees, or of the shop committees
where there were no plant committees, would be the candidates. By
this means, only those of recognized standing in a local group could
become candidates for the higher offices. At the same time, the local
group, when it elected to local office would be nominating for higher
office.

B. When a plant committeeman was elected to the district committee,
his position in the plant committee would be filled by special
election.

e. The district committee would be a large body, consisting of at
least one representative from each of the plants or shops in the
district.

f. The routine work of the district committee would be handled by the
district executive committee, picked by the district committee from
its own membership, and responsible to it as a board of managers.

g. Each distr