~ To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions,
~ To promote reasonable methods of work,
~ To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry,
~ To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible.)
~ To assist each other in sickness or distress,
~ To secure employment,
~ To reduce the hours of daily labor,
~ To secure adequate pay for our work,
~ To seek a higher and higher standard of living,
~ To seek security for the individual,
~ And by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.