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The objectives of this council shall be to promote and protect the interest of our membership, to encourage the apprenticeship system and higher standard of skill, to reduce the hours of labor, to secure adequate pay for our work, to elevate the standard of our craft, to cultivate a feeling of friendship among the members in procuring employment, to protect our members by legal and proper means against any injustice that may be inflicted upon them and improve the moral, social and intellectual conditions of our members and all working people.