Article 27
Education Department
39. Section 1. Education shall be a mandatory part
40. of the business of the INternational Union and of
41. each Local Union, particularly education in labor
42. history, labor problems, the objectives of the In-
43. ternational Union and the problems of the Interna-
44. tional Union, its members and their families.
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- Section 2. The International President shall
- appoint an Education Director over the Education
- Department, and such appointment shall be sub-
- ject to approval of the International Executive
- Board.
- Section 3. Four cents (.04) par month per dues-
- paying member of the per capita forwarded to the
- International Union by Local Unions shall be used
- as the Educational and Recreational-Leisure Time
- Activities Fund of the International Union, as pro-
- vided in this Constitution.
- Section 4. Three cents (.03) of such per capita
- tax shall be used for education purposes and one
- cent (.01) shall be used for recreation-leisure time
- activities.
- Section 5. It shall ne mandatory that each Lo-
- cal Union set up an Education Committee. The
- duties of this Committee shall be to promote all
- branches of education affecting the welfare of the
- individual members, the Local Union, the Interna-
- tional Union, and the labor movement. It shall be
- the duty of the Regional Director to see that this
- provision of the Constitution is carried out.
- Section 6. There shall be established educa-
- tional areas throughout the International Union to
- which educational representatives shall be as-
- signed. These educational representatives shall be
- appointed by the President to work under the di-
- rection of the International Education Director, and
- such appointments shall be approved by the Re-
- gional Director(s) in whose area(s) they shall serve.