The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-17
FEDERAL JOB
HOLDERS START
AN ORGANIZATION
Will Be Ready for Congress
When It Convenes Again
in Fall.

Washington, July 16.-The executive
council of the National Federation oil
Federal Employees, representing sever
geographical regions of the United
States and lo2 local unions, has beer
called to meet in Washington Monday
and will probably be in session through
out the week. The meetings will be
held at the headquarters of the fed
Grafton at 1923 New York avenue.
The major work of the council will
be the development of the organization
policies in view of the action Of the
last Congress on measures affecting the
civil service. Redistribution of the
entire civil service, with the Nolan
minimum of So day as the basic prin-
ciple, is expected to be declared the
first goal of the organizations efforts,
and toward the attainment of this end
100000 membership drive has already
been launched by Secretary Treasurer
E. ]. Newnyer.
1t is proposed by thus strengthening
the organizations own lines to make
possible nationwide educational cam
paign to convince Congress that the
only way to secure adequate and effic-
lent public service is to adopt fair and
busineSs-like policies with reference to
the government workers.
Secretary Newmyer has prepared for
the council diagram of the localities
where there are government Offices all
over the country thus far incompletely
organized, with the numbers of en-
ployes in each and the service in which
employed, so far as ascertainable With
this map of the field before them, it is
expected that the council will be able
to develop unusually successful plans
for an intensive membership drive and
legislative campaign.
The local unions, according to Score
tary-T Treasurer Newmyer, will be urged
to send out speakers to meetings of
other organizations wherever possible,
and all other available means will be
utilized to bring before the general pub
lie the need of Redistribution of the
government service in the interests of
the individual members of the public
as well as of the publics employees.
THE necessity for local individual
efforts to Supplement- the national eff
fort with reference to legislative work
is emphasized by the object lesson of
the postal employees" said Secretary
Treasurer Newmyer. THE public final
ly realized, and Congress thereupon en-
acted, Redistribution to relieve the
long-accumulated needs of the postal
workers. But the public realized, and
Congress realized because the postal
workers situation was made known to
them through direct information from
the postal workers themselves
Our members must do the same
thing must work harder, in fact, re-
membering the years of organized effort
teh postal employees had to give to their
task, notwithstanding the fact that they,
the letter carriers esnecia1ly Come in
contact with every citizen in the coun-
try, and each letter carrier is himself,
by his uniform, constant reminder of
the fact that he is performing public
service of an indispensable character
which obviously should be well paid
for s'''@rA'''' -
I'VE are asking our locals to see to
it that every organization in their local
tiles is informed, through speakers at
meetings and by communications of
various sorts, of the need of reclassifi-
cation in the public service if the pub
lie service is to maintain its morale and
improve is efficiency"