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^members on the books and at the end
^ f the insurance drive they had 105
’members all paid up and 83 signed up
Eor the insurance program, an increase
21 members. He feels their chapter
‘Qualified too soon, however, because
afive or six have approached the chapter
ToH membership and insurance and now
1 tannot come in without the medical
Examination. He stated* there is an ele-
ment in the -state attacking the insjir-
Ance program because it does not' take
rin all °A the employees, but so far he
jhad not been able to contact fariy of
Ehe g ro u p to learn just why they op-
JIpose the program as set up. He ‘said ¿it
-had been suggested that we change'our
^Constitution and by-laws • to permit' a
Anew type of membership which would
^be purely a membership to facilitate
-the insurance program; that the chap-
t ter could be constituted ?a
cnap-
ter and be handled through the execu
tive pffice;/that it would have no vot-
^injS rights and no pafticipation in funds
which may come- back from the in
surance company; that a charge simi-
-lar to our initiation1 fee be made to
"those people -on the basis of carrying
the cost of the executive office and
handling the'insurance— could be M.OO
or $5.00. He said he didn’t see why. the
p ^n had bogged down.* ais it waiitoo
good for anyoneterpass up.'
Mr. Cameron wished to present a
resolution in this respect but it was
pointed out that it was past deadline
set for introducing resolutions ¿and the
council would have I to vote On it. It
Was suggested that Mr. Cameron read
his resolution which was as follows: I
BE IT RESOLVED: That the Gen
eral Council instruct the Board of
Directors to provide for a new type
of membership so all State Em
ployees can participate in the
Group Life Insurance program;
whereby, a fee to cover adminis
trative cost be paid and insurance
granted any state employee Who
is not a member of the O.S.E.A.
but otherwise qualified.
In further discussion it was asked
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