Fraternity-Testvériség, 1943 (21. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1943-04-01 / 4. szám

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TESTVÉRISÉG

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Resolution regarding the postponement of the Convention

In connection with the report of the Administrative and Disciplinary Committee, Supreme Council deliberated in a thorough-going fashion the official communication sent to the Federation by the Office of the Defense Transportation. This communication, dated Jan. 28, 1943, Washington, D. C. (File 612-9), and signed by A. E. Beyles, Executive Assistant to the Director of Traffic Movement, recommends that our Supreme Council “give serious consideration to canceling plans for the meeting this year.” The inter-fraternal conference, held in Bridgeport, Conn., discussed the matter and recome- mended that the Supreme Council of the member fraternals make a resolution concerning it.

SUPREME COUNCIL, wishing to be fully and officially informed about the legal circumstances concerning a proposed resolution of this sort, sent a committee to the Superintendent of Insurance of the District of Columbia. The committee, composed of Supreme Council Members George M. Kovachy, Charles Papp and John Estu, was instructed to present the communication of the Office of Defense Transportation, asking the official opinion concerning the following:

(a) Would it be possible and commendable to postpone our Convention, planned for Aug., 1943, to a more advantageous time?

(b) Would a postponement result in harmful legal consequences or not, in view of the fact that our By-Laws make it mandatory to hold a convention every four years?

(c) Is there any district of Columbia regulation or law, enacted by Congress, that granted our charter, which makes it mandatory to hold conventions every four year?

To these questions presented to the Superintendent of Insurance both orally and in writing, Superintendent Albert F. Jordan gave the following answers:

(a) The circumstances, created by the difficulties due to the war, make it absolutely desirable that, as a patriotic duty, the Convention be postponed.

(b) No harmful legal consequences would result on account of the postponement.

(c) There are no District of Columbia regulations or laws enacted by Congress which would make the holding of the Convention mandatory in 1943, whether the circumstances are favorable and normal or not.

At the same time, Superintendent Jordan issued a written statement, in which he says: “In view of the foregoing, it is my opinion that your organization is justified in postponing, for an indefinite time not to exceed the duration of the war, the holding of this proposed Convention. In expressing this opinion, however, I have in mind that your officers should be extraordinarily careful to protect in all respects the interests of policyholders, and will consider the obligations of their respective offices as being particularly binding upon them during this period.”

After a thoroughgoing discussion of the above mentioned official opinions and recommendations, Supreme Council makes the following unanimous resolution:

(a) ' WHEREAS, the HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA is determined to help the war effort of our country with all the means at its disposal,

and

(b) WHEREAS, a very large number of our members are working in the war industries, whose absence and participation as delegates in a long convention, would be harmful to and weaken the war effort, or who, on this account, would be detained from participation, and

(c) WHEREAS, more than a thousand of our soldier-members are hindered in exercising their right to vote and being candidates for offices, and

(d) WHEREAS, our Federation, in canceling the “War-clause” of the membership certificates, granted an extraordinary advantage to our soldier-members, thus assuming voluntary and very heavy new obligations, which makes the greatest possible ecconomy imperative, and

(e) WHEREAS, our Federation being the only nationwide fraternal which in its name bears the adjective “Hungarian,” we want to pay special attention to the unfortunate fact that Hungary is at war with the United