The Washington times., 1923-03-24
FEDERAL UNION
CELEBRATES
VICTORY
Rehabilitation Dinner" to
Top OFF Successful Pay
Revision Campaign.

The ''reclassification dinner" which
win be given tonight at the New
Ebbitt Hotel by Federal employees
unions in Washington will celebrate
the achievement Of four years
legislative campaign by the National
Federation Of Federal Employees. As
sembled with the members Of the
organisation and their friends AZ
guests Of honor will be Brig. Gen.
| II. M. Lord. director OF the budget
and chairman Of the personnel classl-
3icatiOn board: Judge w. w. War
wick. alternate chairman, and the
other members and alternate mem.
bere Of the board created by the
classification act for the purpose OF
administering it's provisions. Among
| the other guests viii be members OF
the Congressional joint commission
for reclAssificatio national officers
of various organizations who sup
ported the Federal employees pro.
grams, and the national officers OF
the National Federation Of Federal
Through the provisions Of the
classification act the organized Fed
eral employees, according to their
officers, expect TO see the Federal
civil service put upon q businesslike
basis. The act is based upon princi-
| pies Of fair compensation for work
| performed, with incentive for ad.
vancement, according to efficiency.
It VIII do away with the existing
statutory salary rates which repre-.
aent standards OF seventy years ago
and viii open up the way for adjust
ment or salaries, and also transfer
Of employees, according to the best
requirements Of the work to be per-
formed.
Began with Federation.
The history OF the Reconsideration
campaign in any active form is
almost the history of the National
Federation OF Federal Employees, It
was pointed out at the headquar.
ters. Although there were local
unions In existence before the re.
classification campaign began.
among them being two of the ten
local unions now existing in Wash.
ington. 1t was with the organiza-
ton Of the National Federation OF
Federal Employees. combining these
and all other unions OF federal en-
ployes throughout the United States.
that the reclassificaion campaign
began. The National Federation
was organized in washington In Sep
TENDER, 1917. In a convention of del
egates from existing locals who
were called together by President
Gompers Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
Reclassification Of the federal civ.
II service was established as the
chief feature Of the organization's
program when the present national
president. Luther c.. Steward, then
OF the local OF Kansas City, Mo-,
became the head of the organiza-
ton.
Having had twenty.odd years Of
Government service, beginning In
the Civil Service Commission and
including the Railway Mail Service,
immigration Service and q wartime
assignment In the United States
Employment Service, President
Steward had throughout that time
cherished the idea Of a new en-
service, the chief essential OF which
should be a rehabilitation Of all
positions in the service.
Has Made Great Growth.
During the five and a half years
since the federation was formed 1t
has grown from q group of sixty
local unions to an organization
which reaches literally around the
world, geographically. and numbers
27O locals. The membership In these
locals represents every branch of
the civil service in every State in
the United States, as well as In
continental and insular possessions.
The officers Of the local unions
Of Federal employees who con-
stitute the committee which Is
holding the dinner tonight are: Miss
Inez Cook, president Of the War
Department Local; Clarence Fl. Nc
Ginnis, president Of the Navy Yard
Local; J. Franklin Meyer, president
Of the Bureau OF Standards Local;
Miss Belle Trouland. president
Local 1o5, Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing; J. e. Borland, presi-
and Printing; Miss Roberta Lind
sey. president Treasury Department
Local: Roy B. Holmes, ST. Eliza
beth's Local; j. @. A. Braden, Sec
retary.treasurer Local No. 2; Cor
bin Birch, financial secretary Local
80, of the District Government.
National officers who will be in
attendance at the dinner are
Luther c. Steward, president:
Charles L. Wiegand, second vice
president, Of Baltimore; Gertrude
M. McNally, of Washington, third
vice president; s. Tyson Kinsell,
fifth vice president. Of Philadelphia,
and James Pc McKeon, Of Wash.
ington, national secretary treasurer.
The other national executives arc
Vice Presidents John Fitzgerald. of
New York; w. c. Carpenter. Of
Spokane, WASH; M. ]. Hines, OF
Leavenworth, Kansas; w. T. Scully,
of st. Louis, Mo-: l.. J. Tierney, Of
st. Paul. Mimi, and Lee r. Whit
ney, Of Milwaukee, Wis.
Among the speakers at the din
ner will be Brigadier II. M. Lord,
Judge w. w. Warwick, Lewis r.
Merriam, associate director Of the
Institute of Government Research;
Matthew VOL, vice president Of
the American Federation Of Labor;
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee; Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair. of the Democratic
National Committee: Miss Marian
Parkhurst. secretary OF the Won
ems Committee for Reclassifica-
tions OF the Civil Service; Miss
Roberta l.. Lindsey, and Luther c.
Steward. DR.. J. Franklin Meyer
will be POSTMASTER.