The best intellects, the best business men in the societies, meet in the big centres as directors of federations and wholesales, and they get an all-Ireland view of their industry.
But if co-operators--urban and rural--through their federationsinvade more and more the field of production they will draw to themselves the hearts and hopes of the workers and idealists in the nation.
They can be brought into harmony if the samefederations act for both branches of the movement.
The national councils and meetings of national federations would finally become the real Parliament of the nation; for wherever all the economic power is centered, there also is centered all the political power.
Burt; to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press forFederations and Unions, by H.
The four federations have been the results of similar practical impulses.
In the thirties the term "union" was reserved for the city federations of trades.
This was expressed in city "trades' unions," or federations of all organized trades in a city, and in its ascendency over the individual trade societies.
In 1912, stimulated by a dispute on the Illinois Central Railroad and on the Harriman lines in general, involving the issue of system federations, a Federation of System Federations was formed by forty systems upon an aggressive program.
Long before this, about the middle of the nineties, the first system federations were initiated by the brotherhoods and were confined to them only; they took up adjustment of grievances and related matters.
In turn the creation of system federations sharpened the employers' antagonism.
The first symptom of the upward trend was a rapid multiplication of city federations of organized trades, variously known as trade councils, amalgamated trade and labor unions, trades assemblies, and the like.
But in the conventions of the American Federation of Labor the state federations are represented only nominally.
The legislative interests of labor were for the most part given into the care of subordinate state federations of labor.
The latter wished that the General Confederation should be composed exclusively of two federal committees; one representing the Federation of Bourses; the other representing the National Federations of trade.
The Bourses du Travail and theFederations of industries and of trades were, therefore, to pursue independently the activities that concerned them alone.
When it is completed, the General Confederation of Labor will emerge with a more compact and centralized form of organization embracing Federations of industry, on the one hand, and Departmental Unions, on the other.
Another decision taken by the Congress of Lyons was to admit local and regional federations of syndicats.
The first section is formed by the delegates of the National Federations of trades and industries.
The same is true of those Federations in which the syndicats did not cast the same vote.
But it must be remembered that the federations underestimate their numbers for the Confederation in order to pay less, while they exaggerate their numbers for the Annuaire Statistique in order to appear more formidable.
In July, 1913, the Federations of industries and the Bourses du Travail held their third annual Conference in Paris, at which questions of administration and policy were discussed.
At its Congress the Confederation resolves itself into an association of syndicats; the Federations and Bourses disappear and their constituent elements, the syndicats, take their place.
The General Confederation of Labor had adopted at Limoges (1895) statutes according to which the Confederation could admit not only National Federations of Syndicats, but single syndicats and single Bourses.
The manifestos of the Spanish Federations contain excellent expositions of Anarchism; cf.
Within these federations developed now what may be described as modern Anarchism.
Latin federations for the development of the principles of Anarchism, which he did in a number of writings, pamphlets and letters.
Free federations of the communes would constitute free nations.
Practically all of the state federations of women's clubs have legislative committees, and it is usually the business of these committees to codify the laws of their respective States which apply directly to women.
This is true not only of the quasi-federations within the British Empire; it is equally true of the United States, Germany, and Switzerland.
During the twenties and thirties, local labor unions sprang up in all industrial centers and they led almost immediately to city federations of the several crafts.
The village dairies are united infederations to export their produce.
It is indeed only when we come to federations of co-operative societies, and above all to production, with its large number of employees, that the educational side of the movement and its power to promote industrial reform are most seen.
Yet everywhere the instinct of co-operative societies is to federate with others--at least with others of their own particular shade; so that Wholesales and other federations are found more and more in many countries.
There are also a few local federations of stores, mostly for corn-milling and baking.
But, as federations have been formed hitherto, that loss of power and position has either been merely nominal or else has been fully made up in other ways.
Different federationsmay take, and have taken, very different shapes, but, if they are to be federations at all, one thing is of the very essence.
The chief Federations of the world have been formed in quite another way.
This description suits all the main federations of the world, old and new.
We have seen elsewhere what Federation means and how federations grow.
All organizations which become associated in state or national federations inevitably develop a central administration which tends to become more or less of a hierarchy or bureaucracy.
Either the state of facts on which all other federations have been built does not exist in Ireland, or if it now exists, will not, owing to the peculiarities of Irish character, continue to exist.
But unfortunately the arguments by which he assails Irish federalism might be, or might have been, used against all federations whatever.
It was not always easy to avoid feeling very deep anger with the selfishness and short-sightedness shown both by the representatives of certain employers' organizations and by certain great labor federations or unions.
Thousands, with organization as their watchword, have banded themselves into associations and federations under the significant motto, "Lifting as we climb.
Civilizations frequently begin as commonwealths or federations forged in the course of survival struggle.
Their inhabitants could neither combine as federations to secure well-being for all of their own members, nor cease to combine as groups against each other.
There is no satisfactory history of these northern federations available in English.
She was to explain the meaning of the Bureau of Children at the state federations of women's clubs, in lyceum courses, and wherever receptive audiences could be found.
Let that concentration of purpose which you have learned in your clubs and federations be your aid here.
The example of the last Biennial, when woman suffrage appeared for the first time on the official program of the Federation, has precipitated almost an epidemic of suffrage meetings in the State federations and local clubs.
This was the result of a list of forty-four questions sent to presidents of State suffrage associations, Woman's Christian Temperance Unions, Federations of Clubs and leading lawyers, followed up by many letters.
These included Federations of Labor, Granges, Temperance Societies, Federations of Women's Clubs, religious bodies and labor organizations.
That we commend the action of those State Federations of Women's Clubs which have founded departments for the study of political economy and we congratulate those clubs which have endorsed our movement to gain the ballot for all women.
Accordingly, we find both in northern and in southern Greece the experiment of federations of cities attaining much success, and receiving much support in public opinion.
Sidenote: Athens and the Aetolians] It is most significant that these new and powerful federations were formed outside and apart from the leading cities.
Almost at the beginning of the National Conference of the Left Wing the Michigan State delegates and the delegates of the foreign-language federations insisted on the immediate organization of a new party to be known as the Communist Party.
Happy thought: Suspend the federations that have endorsed the Left Wing, and we are safe.
It thus constitutes one of those federations which the Revolution condemned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "federations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
