Evening star., 1920-07-12
QUERY CANDIDATES
FOR THEIR OPINIONS
AS TO CIVIL SERVICE
Questionnaires on Rec|assifi-
cation to Be Sent to
Harding and Cox.

PRESIDENTIAL candidates Harding and
COX will be sent questionnaries this
week by the executive council of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes. in session today at 1923 New
York avenue. to ascertain their per-
sonal stands on the portions of the
respective party platforms which deal
with the civil service
President Luther Steward of the
federation announced this action
shortly before the national executive
council went into session this after
noon The QUESTIONABLE will be direct
ed particularly at the two candidates
IN order to get their personal ideas as to
reciassification of federal workers, both
In this city and throughout the country
Neither Platform Satisfies.
Members of the executive council of
the federation are not exactly satis-
fed with the planks of either of the
two great parties that deal with the
subject of reclassification and other is
sues of vital interest to government
employees.
In the sessions of the executive
council. which began today. the por-
tions OF the two platforms which are
helng particularly studied follow:
The republican platform says:
we recognize the justice of colIec-
tive bargaining as means of promot-
ing good will. establishing closer and
more harmonious relations between
employers and employees and realizing
the true ends of industrial justice.
,satns, we deny len: the right to strike
rights and interests of all govern
ment employees must be safeguarded
by impartial laws and tribunals.
We renew our repeated declara-
tlon that the civil service law shall
be thoroughly and honestely enforced
and extended wherever practicable.
The recent action of Congress in en-
acting a comprehensive civil service
retirement law and in working out
comprehensive employment and wage
pollcy that will guarantee equal and
just treatment to the army of govern
ment workers and in centralizing the
administration of the new and pro-
gresslve employment policy in the
hands of the Civil Service Commission
is worthy of all praise
From Democratic Platform.
The democratic platform says:
Labor, as we'll as capital, is en-
titled to adequate compensation. Each
has the indefensible right of organi
cation, of collective bargaining and
of speaking. through Representatives
OF their own selection.
with respect to government Sery-
ice, We hold distinctly that the rights
OF the people are paramount to the
right to strike. However, we profess
scrupulous regard for the conditions
of public employment and pledge the
democratic party to instant Inquiry
into the pay of government employees
and equally speedy regulations de-
signed to bring salaries to a just and
proper level
I'VE advocate full representation of
women on all commissions dealing
with women's work or women'S in
terests and a reclassification of the
federal civil service free from dis
elimination on the ground of sex
Five Objects Won.
President Steward. outlining the
work of the legislative committee of
the national federation. covering the
second session of the Sixty-siXth Con-
They were: /. The retirement law;
2. The retention of the S24O bonus
for federal workers for another year;
5. THE reclassification commissions
report is in the hands of Congress
and under pressure which will appar-
emily secure its early attention in the
next session with reference both to
the District and the field; 4. At
temps to prohibit the organization
from afiiiating with the American
Federation of Labor defeated in both
Senate and House, and 5. National
conventions pledge parties to readjust
the wage and salary scales in the
government service.
Besides President Steward, the
members of the executive council in
clude w. +. Junker of Brooklyn. "
Y; Martin J. Leonard of Jamaica
Plain, Mass; Miss Florence Ethe-
ridge of Ninita. Okla; Charles F.
Hutchinson of San Francisco; Charles
+. Nagl of Chicago: S. Tyson kinsell
of Philadelphia; Charles L. Wiegand
of Baltimore; Miss Gertrude NJ Nc
Nally of Washington. D. c.; Clifford
a. Perkins of Ell Paso, Tex, and E. j.
Newmyer of this city