Section 401 of the Act identifies the types of labor organizations
whose officers must be elected and prescribes minimum standards and
procedures for the conduct of such elections. Under that section
officers of national or international labor organizations (except
federations of such organizations), local labor organizations, and
intermediate bodies such as general committees, system boards, joint
boards, joint councils, conferences, certain districts, district
councils and similar organizations must be elected. \16\
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\16\ See Sec. 452.23 for a discussion of the frequency with which
the different types of labor organizations must conduct elections of
officers. See part 451 of this chapter for the scope of the term ``labor
organization.''
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