Article 24

Competitive Shop Department

  1.     Section 1. The International Executive Board
  2. shall create a Competitive Shop Department for
  3. the International Union.

  4.     Section 2. The International President shall
  5. appoint a director for the Competitive SShop De-
  6. partment, subject to the approval of the Interna-
  7. tional Executive Board, who is best qualified by
  8. experience and who now is and has been a mem-
  9. ber of the Union for at least two (2) years. The
  10. International Executive Board may remove the di-
  11. rector of the Competitive Shop Department.

  12.     Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Competi-
  13. tive Shop Department to adi in organizing and call-
  14. ing National and Regional Wage-Hour Confer-
  15. ences. National and Regional Wage-Hour Confer-
  16. ences may be called by the director of the Com-
  17. petitive Shop Department after consultation with
  18. the Regional Director concerned, subject to the
  19. approval of the International Executive Board.

  20.     Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Competi-
  21. tive Shop Department to direct the organization of
  22. unorganized competitive shops by making recom-
  23. mendations for assignment of organizers to the
  24. Regional Directors, the International President and
  25. the International Executive Board.

  26.     Section 5. Organizers working on such assign-
  27. ments shall make reports on the progress of orga-
  28. nization to the Competitive Shop Department as
  29. well as to their Regional Directors.

  30.     Section 6. It shall be the duty of the Competi-
  31. tive Shop Department to check all agreements re-
  32. ferred to it by the International Executive Board,
  33. and to make recommendations to the various Lo-
  34. cal Unions for the standardization of wage-hour
  35. provisions throughout given competitive industries.