----------------------------------------+--------------+-------------- In this table allowance must be made for those belonging to more than one society, and, of course, not all the depositors or members are workingmen, especially in the savings banks and building-societies. CONSTITUTION AND STANDING ORDERS OF THE INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY OF ENGLAND STANDING ORDERS (1911) _Contributions_ Affiliation Fees and Parliamentary Fund Contributions must be paid by December 31st each year. _Annual Conference_ 1. The Annual Conference shall meet during the month of January. 2. Affiliated Societies may send one delegate for every thousand or part of a thousand members paid for. 3. Affiliated Trades Councils and Local Labor Parties may send one delegate if their affiliation fee has been 15s., and two delegates if the fee has been 30s. 4. Persons eligible as delegates must be paying bona fide members or paid permanent officials of the organizations sending them. 5. A fee of 5s. per delegate will be charged. 6. The National Executive will ballot for the places to be allotted to the delegates. 7. Voting at the Conference shall be by show of hands, but on a division being challenged, delegates shall vote by cards, which shall be issued on the basis of one card for each thousand members, or fraction of a thousand, paid for by the Society represented. _Conference Agenda_ 1. Resolutions for the Agenda and Amendments to the Constitution must be sent in by November 1st each year. 2. Amendments to Resolutions must be sent in by December 15th each year. _Nominations for National Executive and Secretaryship_ 1. Nominations for the National Executive and the Secretaryship must be sent in by December 15th. 2. No member of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress or of the Management Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions is eligible for nomination to the National Executive. CONSTITUTION (As revised under the authority of the Newport Conference, 1910) ORGANIZATION I. _Affiliation._ 1. The Labor Party is a Federation consisting of Trade Unions, Trades Councils, Socialist Societies, and Local Labor Parties. 2. A Local Labor Party in any constituency is eligible for affiliation, provided it accepts the Constitution and policy of the Party, and that there is no affiliated Trades Council covering the constituency, or that, if there be such Council, it has been consulted in the first instance. 3. Co-operative Societies are also eligible. 4. A National Organization of Women, accepting the basis of this Constitution, and the policy of the Party, and formed for the purpose of assisting the Party, shall be eligible for affiliation as though it were a Trades Council. II. _Object._ To secure the election of Candidates to Parliament and organize and maintain a Parliamentary Labor Party, with its own whips and policy. III. _Candidates and Members._