The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-26
OFFICIAL CHANGES
IN THE N. F. of F. e.

Presidency OIL NatlOnal i Cderdtl0n
of Federal Employees. 49, Acting
Presidency Goes TO Interior De
partment.
WASHINGTON, July 2O.-The Ex-
ecuiive Council Of the National
Federation of Federal Employees,
acting in the interim between cleo
tions, has named Luther c. Steward
of Kansas City, special representa-
tive of the U. S. Employment Ser
vice, to fill the presidency of the
Federation left vacant by the depart
ure of II. M. McLarin to join the
Tank Corps in the United States
Army. The other six vice presidents
in turn were advanced one grade
and the vacancy thus left in the
case of the seventh vice president
was filled by the election of John
S. Beach, of the Interior Depart
ment, President of Federal Employ
ees Union No. 2, of Washington, D.
c..
President Stewards government as
signment is now in the East. and
he will be able to give active SER
vice to the Federation at the Ma
tional headquarters at Washington.
Mr.. Beach has been designated by
ha
President until the election which
will take place at the annual con-
vention of the Federation at Chi
cago, September 9.
Mr.. Steward, the new President,
was elected first vice president of
the National Federation of Federal
Employees at its convention in Wash
ington last September, and was
chairman of its delegation in the
A. f. of l.. convention at St Paul
last month. He is graduate of the
Hordham School of Law, in New
York City, and has been in the Gov
'rnment service for % years. Dur
ing that period he has served as
chief of division in" the Civil Service
commission, in the Railway Mail
Service, as Inspector in charge and
assistant Superintendent Inspector
in the Immigration Service in Tam
pa, Florida, New York, Eagle Pass
IAN Antonio, and Ell Paso, Texas
and Los Angeles, California; as act
ing commissioner at San Francisco
and as assistant superintendent at
Ellis Island. A year ago he entered
the Employment Service of the U.
S. Department of Labor.
Mr. Steward, who is an ardent
trades unionist, believes that mo
organization ever had a more sub
stantial reason for its existence than
the National Federation of Federal
Employees" "And with 100000 fed
aral workers to draw upon for mem
barsship," he says, 81 am convinced
that it is destined to become one
of the greatest instrumentalities for
social justice in the history of this
country. Already, under President
McLarin's leadership, the National
Federation. which has been in exis-
tence as National but ten months,
has grown to 100 locals in all parts
of the country, and membership
of $4,000. Our National convention
this year, which will be held in
Chicago in September, will show ii
much larger growth, for new mem
bers are coming in now at the rate
of 1000 month.
Our primary purpose, of course.
is the betterment of the conditions
of the Government worker, but in
working to that end we shall dem
onstrate our value as a great in
fluence for efficient administration
and the Standardization and improve
ment of administrative methods"
Acting President Beach, who comes
to his office from the position of
chief of the Miscellaneous Section
in the Disbursing Office of the Pen
sion Bureau, is graduate of De-
GarmO institute, Rhinebeck, New
York, and has been in the Govern
! ment service since 1890. From the
Division of Vital Statistics in the
Census Bureau, he was transferred
to the Washington Pension Agency,
and thence to the Bureau of Pen
sions. His connection with Federal
Employees Union No. dates al