To discourage piecework, to encourage apprenticeship and a higher standard of skill, to cultivate a feeling of friendship, and to assist each other to secure employment.

To aid and assist all organizations to uphold the dignity of labor, resist oppression by peaceful and honorable means.

To hold it as a sacred principle, that union members, above all others, should set a good example as true and faithful workers performing their duties 2 to their employer with honor to themselves, and to their organization.

We resent the principle of open shop association, and will continually strive for the enactment of legislation which will enable us to achieve our objectives.

Realizing that a blow at one organization is a blow to all, therefore, it shall be out duty as union members to purchase union-made goods and patronize union shops and business establishments whenever possible to do so.

So with these aims and principles in mind, we, the Carpenters of the vicinity of New York District Council affiliate ourselves into an organization that shall be known as Local Union 608 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution of the United Brotherhood.