So, yeah, the affiliates are going to be a little lighter in the pocket starting right away. The delegates approved raising the per capita tax to 65 cents per month per member.

A little financial crunching: the per capita tax had been 61 cents. But that was made up of 53 cents that was permanent and a temporary 8 cents that was put in place after the Federation’s last convention; the 8 cents had to be made permanent here.

Then, when the CLCs and State Federations started rumbling at the start of the convention, the Executive Council met Tuesday morning and approved an additional 4 cent hike in the per capita that would go directly to a special fund that would deal with “(1) the financial distress that some state and central labor bodies will face because the disaffiliated unions will no longer be members of those bodies, (2) raids by the disaffiliated unions on AFL-CIO affiliates; and (3) the adverse impact on trade and industrial departments.