Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-04
EMPLOYEES
TO CONSIDER SPLIT
Vote on Quitting Federation
of Labor Called After Row
Over Classification.
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ton board will have the last say as to
what amount of wages shall be paid
All the work of wage boards and the
time taken in hearings will have no
erect on the personnel classification
board, as the latter's decision will be
final. 1t is believed the intention is
eventually to eliminate wage boards.
THE Bureau of the Census recently
issued a classified index of occupations.
For instance, it divides some trades into
from rs to more than 100 classifications.
It is understood that the wages of each
classification Of trade will be fixed
by the board and, therefore, cause q
disruption of all trades. The Executive
Council sees great danger in such legis-
lation and recommends that the con-
Vention take o firm stand against pas
sage of the proposed BILL"
Adding further emphasis to the
extraordinary proposal contained In the
Executive Councils report" said Mr..
Steward, was the fact that the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Employees
to which organization personnel classi-
fication has from the outset been the
most vital issue, and within whose
jurisdiction are to be found more than
30 per cent of the employees who could
possibly be affected by classification
legislation, was neither given an oppor-
tunity to be heard by the Executive
Council nor even notified of the coun-
ellis intention.
"A reading of the section quoted
from the executive councils report
furnishes conclusive evidence that the
person or persons who wrote IL lack
even an elementary knowledge, not only
of the legislative history of Federal
personnel measures the present status
of Federal personnel classification laws
but also the effects of proposed legisla
ton"
President Steward immediately got
into touch with President Green and
pointed out to him that the councils
report on the subject constituted a
violation of the autonomous rights of
the National Federation of Federal
Employees, and that the executive conn
ellis report on the subject of the pro-
posed classification bill had violated
every principle upon which representa-
tive government depends in that neither
hearing nor notification had been ac-
corded the organization most vitality
affected President Green stated that
he was unaware that the matter COM
planned of W. in the councils report
that it had I'm prepared by EMPLOYEES
of the American Federation of Labor
h.
ject, and that he had been given IN
understand that it was entirely &C
ceptable.
Explains Position of Unit.
In explaining the position of the Ma
tional Federation Of Federal Emuloves
President Steward said:
The essence of personal classification
in the Federal service Is the payment of
adequate rates based upon the work
performed with the establishment of
suitable systems OF increase and promo
ton
The National Federation of Federal
Employees from the date of its incep-
ton has advocated personnel classified
ton as the foundation upon which the
securing Of proper pay and working con-
ditions for the Federal service must of
necessity be erected Personnel cIassi-
fication is also highly important from
the standpoint of proper administration,
THE issue was not of our choosing
Everything possible was done To avoid
it The decision having been rendered
by the convention, its conclusions seen1
TO be unacceptable. A careful study of
the entire situation indicates clearly
that a continuance of affilia ton to the
American Federation of Labor by the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes will mean simply this: That we
Shall be contributing Of our time. Of
our effort and of our money, to uphold
an institution that is not only working
against our best interests. but doing SO
in an arbitrary and unintelligent man
ner. q
AFTER exhaustive study of the entirs
situation with all of its implications ne
unhesitatingly recommend that She
National Federation Of Federal EN-
Moves withdraw its affiliation from the !
American Federation Of Labor and
f,nction In the future as an indie
pendent unahiliated organization"