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the first Wednesday in March, June, September and Decem- 

 ber. The executive committee of the township, county, 

 state or national union should have power to call a special 

 meeting any time for some specific duty of the members, or 

 of any class of the executives. 



5. The referendum should be used whenever possible on 

 all important matters, changes or policies affecting the mem- 

 bers, and the recall of all officials should be provided for 

 when incompetency, inefficiency, neglect of duty, misman- 

 agement or misrepresentation is sufficient cause. 



6. All should pay a membership fee and then quarterly 

 dues, those for women, and males under 21, being less than 

 for adult males, and they should be adequate for organizing 

 and all necessary running expenses for all divisions of the 

 union. 



7. The union should build, buy or lease all necessary 

 elevators for handling their wheat, but they should be ac- 

 quired as necessary implements and not as money makers 

 for stockholders. A graduated assessment on wheat raised 

 in the delivery district should be made to acquire the ele- 

 vator and buy wheat, and then only a margin charged on 

 wheat delivered to cover operating expense, leaving the in- 

 terest to be added to the minimum price as overhead expense. 

 Where other grains are raised and are unionized they should 

 take a joint ownership and management in the elevators. 



8. All officers and agents who handle the union's money 

 should be put under bonds, and reports required at regular 

 intervals, and books audited by competent parties regularly. 



9. At the organizing meeting the three officers presi- 

 dent, vice-president and secretary-treasurer should be 

 elected for one, two and three years respectively, dating 

 from the next regular annual meeting, which should be one 

 of the regular quarterly meetings, say the December meeting^ 

 and then the vacancy filled for three years at each succeed- 

 ing annual meeting. These three officers should constitute 



