Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1966-04-01 / 4. szám
FRATERNITY 3 lations pertaining to fraternals, both in the states and in the provinces, are becoming more strict as time goes on. The Secretary’s department receives new legal regulations ever more frequently pertaining to application forms, certificates, riders, field workers, civil rights laws, etc. Although the National Fraternal Congress of America renders substantial help by informing and advising us of modification and legislation of new laws, the interpretation and study of these new regulations, the pertinent correspondence and the execution of these methods take ever so much more time and work in our department. To this work load must be added the additional work of directing the Canadian promotional and organizational work, all the correspondence, etc. I am happy to report that with my staff, two men in the underwriting office and two women in the secretarial office, we completed the necessary work without much difficulty. We had no conflict with the states or provinces whatsoever. d) Last April New York State called in for a hearing all those fráternak whose by-laws made any reference to race and color. (We had “Caucasian race” in our by-laws.) The Secretary represented our Federation at this hearing and when we presented the foresighted resolution of our 1964 Convention, deleting the word “Caucasian” from our by-laws, our Federation was commended. The other fráternak were asked to do likewise, or else their permits to operate would be denied by the New York State Insurance Department. Since then, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, California and the District of Columbia informed us that similar laws were passed in their respective states. e) We called our Supreme Council meetings at the appointed time, prepared the agenda, the officers’ recommendations and departmental reports, and mailed them in time to our Council Members, along with the official minutes of the previous meeting. f) During the year, we held 53 officers’ meetings. Our Treasurer records the minutes of these meetings which are in his safekeeping. The Secretary accompanied the Treasurer, thus fulfilling his guardian duties prescribed in the by-laws, pertaining to safety deposit boxes containing bonds and securities, on ten different occasions. g) In addition to his duties as managing editor of our official periodical, the Secretary contributed regularly articles and reports dealing with organizational work and events pertaining to our branches, membership and field force. In a number of instances, he reported on our new Canadian work also. h) According to need, we took care of the printing of forms and distribution of supplies requested by the different departments, field offices and workers. Last year the new hospitalization and sick benefit rate book pages were reprinted to fit our life insurance rate book. Now our “life and health” insurance rates are in one handy book for the use of our fieldmen. During the year a number of certificate forms had to be revised and reprinted also. For both American and Canadian use, we renewed
