Article 25

Research Department

  36.       Section 1. The International Executive Board
  37.   shall create a Research Department for the Inter-
  38.   national Union.

  39.       Section 2. The President of the International
  40.   Union shall appoint a director for the Research

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  1. Department who shall be selected from the Inter-
  2. national Union, if possible, and who is competent
  3. and qualified by previous experience and training
  4. to do such work; but such appointment shall not
  5. be considered final until it is approved by the In-
  6. ternational Executive Board at their next meeting.
  7. It shall be mandatory that the International Re-
  8. search Department shall be kept informed of
  9. changes in rates, working standards and so forth
  10. by all Local Unions.

  11.     Section 3. It shall gather and keep on file in-
  12. formation on wages, hours and other conditions of
  13. employment and any general information about the
  14. automotive, aerospace and agricultural Implement
  15. industries.

  16.     Section 4. It shall gather and keep on file any
  17. other information which the International Execu-
  18. tive Board, Regional Directors, Local Unions,
  19. Wage-Hour Councils or any other subdivision of
  20. the International Union may require from time to
  21. time.

  22.     Section 5. It shall send to all International Ex-
  23. ecutive Board Members, International Represen-
  24. tatives, Local Unions and Wage-Hour Councils a
  25. periodic bulletin on problems of general Interest
  26. to the members of the Union>

  27.     Section 6. It shall submit to the International
  28. Executive Board Meetings, a regular report on gen-
  29. eral conditions in the automotive, aerospace and
  30. agricultural implement industries which are of
  31. importance to the International Union.

  32.     Section 7. It shall submit a complete and thor-
  33. ough report to the Conventions of the International
  34. Union on the automotive, aerospace and agricul-
  35. tural implement industries and the International
  36. Union.

  37.     Section 8. It shall supply Wage-Hour Councils
  38. with financial reports of employer(s) in their in-
  39. dustry and such other material as they may request.