[267] _Cf. supra_, p. 84. Also, _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_ (1905), p. 1 [268] Report of the Secretary-Treasurer, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 68. There was no action taken by the convention on Trautmann's suggestion that European propaganda agencies be established. [269] _Bulletin of the Industrial Workers of the World, No. 4_, Dec, 1, 1906. [270] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 110. [271] _Ibid._ [272] Report of General Secretary-Treasurer, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 61. [273] Report of the General President, _ibid._, p. 46. [274] _Cf._, _e. g._, the case of the Tinners and Platers of Youngstown, Ohio, as reported, by Delegate Lundy, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 277. [275] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 287. The following clause was added to the constitution: "Mixed locals. No member of a trade that is organized in his locality is qualified for admission into a mixed local in the same locality, and no member of a mixed local can remain a member of the same after his trade has been organized in that locality." _Ibid._, p. 276. For the discussion of the "mixed local" problem, _cf. ibid._, pp. 276-288. [276] _I. W. W. Constitution_ (1905), art. i, sec. 2 (b), _cf. supra_, p, 98. [277] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 60. [278] Report of the General Secretary-Treasurer, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 62. [279] _Constitution_ (1905), art. i, sec. 2 (a) and art. vii, sec. 4, _cf. supra_, p. 96. [280] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 330. Tridon makes this statement concerning departmentalism in 1906: "This system soon appeared impracticable and as the purely industrialist view was beginning to dominate the membership, it was more and more definitely recognized that the New Unionism should organize from below upward. In other words, the local industrial union, not the department, was to be the basis of organization." (_The New Unionism_, p. 100.) By 1917 the departments had practically vanished from the working structure of the I. W. W. This is shown graphically in the chart diagram of the organization's present structure in Appendix iii. [281] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 463. In September, 1906, the I. W. W. label had been registered in all but three of the states of the Union. _Ibid._, p. 45. [282] _Vide infra_, ch. xiii. [283] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 231. [284] _Ibid._, p. 225. [285] _Ibid._ The amendment abolishing the presidential office was adopted by a vote of 354-1/2 to 253, _ibid._, p. 246. [286] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), pp. 567, 420. [287] _Ibid._, p. 471.