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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  1.     Section 2. The International President shall
  2. appoint an Education Director over the Education
  3. Department, and such appointment shall be sub-
  4. ject to approval of the International Executive
  5. Board.

  6.     Section 3. Four cents (.04) par month per dues-
  7. paying member of the per capita forwarded to the
  8. International Union by Local Unions shall be used
  9. as the Educational and Recreational-Leisure Time
  10. Activities Fund of the International Union, as pro-
  11. vided in this Constitution.

  12.     Section 4. Three cents (.03) of such per capita
  13. tax shall be used for education purposes and one
  14. cent (.01) shall be used for recreation-leisure time
  15. activities.

  16.     Section 5. It shall ne mandatory that each Lo-
  17. cal Union set up an Education Committee. The
  18. duties of this Committee shall be to promote all
  19. branches of education affecting the welfare of the
  20. individual members, the Local Union, the Interna-
  21. tional Union, and the labor movement. It shall be
  22. the duty of the Regional Director to see that this
  23. provision of the Constitution is carried out.

  24.     Section 6. There shall be established educa-
  25. tional areas throughout the International Union to
  26. which educational representatives shall be as-
  27. signed. These educational representatives shall be
  28. appointed by the President to work under the di-
  29. rection of the International Education Director, and
  30. such appointments shall be approved by the Re-
  31. gional Director(s) in whose area(s) they shall serve.