Author: A. M. Sakolski

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781333747633

Excerpt from The Finances of American Trade Unions We can easily see that to work successfully, this fiscal arrangement not only requires uniformity of membership dues and benefits in all locals, as with the Community of funds system, but necessitates, as has already been inti mated, approximate uniformity in the quality, skill and earn ings of the membership.22 It has therefore been adopted by few unions, the great majority adhering to the plan of main taining a central fund by taxing the members of each local organization a fixed per capita amount at regular monthly or quarterly intervals. We have already seen that the form of the revenue charge differed somewhat in the oldest organizations. In the Typo graphical Union and in the Journeymen Horseshoers, it consisted of a small percentage of the receipts of local unions; while in the Iron Molders, a fixed sum was levied upon each local, proportioned to the number of delegates that each was entitled to send to the general convention. Both of these methods, however, proved unsatisfactory, and were early replaced by a periodic per capita tax, levied theoretically upon the individual members, but paid directly out of the funds of the local unions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.