The obstacles that Hoover did not comprehend, Ching recorded in his memoir, were that Gompers had no standing in the affairs of any company except to the extent that AFL unions had organized the workers, and that the federation's focus on craft unionism precluded any effective organization of the mass-production industries by AFL's affiliates.

Believing that preparations were being made for an invasion from Kenya, he discussed the federation's ability to repel an attack with his defence chiefs and plans were set in motion.

The majority of the federation's members were syndicalist and remained unaligned with either party, while a minority affiliated with the SPA in 1910.

In late 1986 the two tag-team specialists Tanaka and Diamond were teamed up to form “ Badd Company ", where they held the federation's tag-team titles four times., a move that paid off pretty soon as the two won the CWA / AWA International Tag Team Championship, beating Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on December 15, 1986.

In Belgium, the capital, Brussels, is administratively one of the federation's three regions, and is the only city subdivided, without the other regions ' provincial level, into 19 rather small municipalities, which each have an elected — formally appointed — Burgomaster ( i. e., Mayor, responsible to his / her elected council ); while Antwerp, the other major metropolitan area, has one large city ( where the boroughs, former municipalities merged into it, elect a lower level, albeit with very limited competence ) and several smaller surrounding municipalities, each under a normal Burgomaster as in Brussels.

On 7 April 1919, the CFI transformed themselves into the Fédération Française de Football with Jules Rimet being installed as the federation's first president.

Adams also wrestled in Missouri, competing in Mike George's World Wrestling Alliance promotion ( formerly Central States Wrestling ) and had brief stints in Georgia in Southern Championship Wrestling ( where he won that federation's heavyweight title in 1988 ) and Florida before going into promoting his own matches late in the year under the brand L & A Promotions, with Tom Lance as his business partner.

It is doubtful that such exclusions will be made final, considering the federation's desire for accession into the European Union, with an official bid being submitted in the eve of 2010.

The idea was pushed by the federation's general secretary Henri Delaunay and under union sacrée, the competition was declared open to all clubs, amateur and professional, though professionalism in French football at the time was non-existent.

Rousselot serves as a vice-president of the French Football Federation and is also a member of the federation's Federal Council.

Breaking with the federation's strictly Christian ideology of the past, the newly adopted Declaration of Principles stated it would henceforth be guided by " either a spiritual concept based on the conviction that man and universe are created by God, or other concepts that lead together with it to a common effort to build a human community united in freedom, dignity, justice and brotherhood.

It was followed by a Stamp Day issue on March 21, 1959, which omitted the federation's name and was inscribed " CF " along with " Dakar-Abidjan ".

The IAAF agreed with the Greek federation's ruling.

Politicians with roots in the federation include Conservative Party Member of Parliament Jason Kenney, who had previously been the federation's CEO.

She helped with the AFL-CIO's electoral efforts in the 1996 federal elections, and helped with the federation's 1996 push to increase the minimum wage ( a program called " America Needs a Raise ").

The main settlement in the parish is Sandy Point Town, the federation's second largest settlement, with a population near 3, 000.

Adams also wrestled in various other independent promotions, including the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ), in which he won that federation's Heavyweight Championship twice in 1994, and briefly with Jim Crockett's 1995 version of the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ).

Prior to the competition the players had agreed to a bonus scheme with the TTFF, where the players would share 50 % of the federation's income from the World Cup.

In UEFA competitions, the team is referred to as FC Salzburg so as not to interfere with the federation's corporate sponsorship rules.

In 1935 the members of the federation elected the known literary historian Heinrich Spiero their new president and under his auspices the federation's journal was improved and the number of members rose to 80, 000 by 1936.

The federation's vision is to ' Nurture, Promote and Sustain a thriving Chess Community, Aspiring and Achieving Sports Excellence for Singapore ' and its mission is to ' Promote Chess for All and Nurturing Singaporeans to realize their talents for Community and Nation '.

* In 1939 the Banovina of Croatia was created as an autonomous province within Yugoslavia, and a new provincial federation carrying the present-day football federation's name was established.

After the war, he decided not to join the newly founded Finnish Workers ' Sports Federation, but wrote articles for the federation's chief organ and criticized the discrimination against many of his fellow workers and athletes.

In total, 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples live within the Russian federation's borders.

Whereas the council of citizens served as an ordinary assembly, representing the people of FRY, the council of republics was made equally by representatives from the federation's constituent republics, to ensure federal equality.

In the federal treaty of 1815, the Tagsatzung prescribed cantonal troops to put a contingent of 2 % of the population of each canton at the federation's disposition, amounting to a force of some 33, 000 men.

Ultimately both ended up joined as the German federation's Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein.

The " federated units " in the table below have inherent governmental authority in the federation's constitutional system, while the " other units " are delegated authority by the federal government or are administered directly by it.

The three officers and the vice presidents form the executive council, which is the federation's governing body between quadrennial conventions.

In 2010, the federation's international council passed a resolution calling for a global ban on uranium mining because of the dangers it poses to health and the environment.

After Field failed to win the country's independence from Britain on the federation's dissolution in 1963, Smith took his place in 1964 and, running on an election promise of independence, led the RF to a clean sweep of the 50 largely white-elected " A " roll seats in the May 1965 general election.

One of this federation's constituent republics, the Russian Federation, was declared the USSR's successor state on the grounds that it contained 51 % of the population of the USSR and 77 % of its territory.

The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college for the federation's President and Prime Minister.

The National History Museum located near the Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has a replica of the federation's flag.

The General Assembly also decides on the federation's policies by adopting resolutions.

The federation's total membership in 1908 was 600, 000.

For IFAP he travelled regularly to London, Paris, Rome, New York, occasionally to Africa and Latin America, and represented the federation's interests at the United Nations.

It is a state federation's responsibility to organize and implement activities for state-wide campaigns.

However, despite the federation's success, it could not compete against Jim Crockett Promotions and the WWF.

Watts would end up selling the UWF to Crockett on April 9, 1987, and many of the federation's top names went on either to the NWA, WWF, or WCCW.

He had lobbied for the creation of an AFL-CIO committee to examine changes in the workplace, pioneered the federation's communication efforts ( including the construction of a television studio at AFL-CIO headquarters ) and led the campaign against NAFTA.

Sweeney also promised that more attention would be paid to these bodies, which the New Voice ticket saw as important in supporting locallabor actions and enlarging the federation's political capabilities.

Sweeney called for a major expansion of the federation's role in organizing by: spending $ 20 million a year on hiring and training thousands of new organizers ; mobilizing over 1, 000 college students for summer organizing ; creating a " Sunbelt Organizing Fund " to sponsor organizing in the South and Southwest ; and establishing a separate Organizing Department.