Evening star., 1932-08-19
GREEN SEES FRAUD |
IN employees RIFT.
New Organization Granted
Charter of Labor
Federation.

The rift between the National Fed
Grafton Of Federal Employees and the
American Federation of Labor last No
vember was accomplished by the officers
of the former organization through
Misrepresentation and fraud" William
Green, president of the A. F. Of L.,
charged as he granted an offiical char
ter to the newly formed American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees here
last night.
Mr.. Green said he represented the
opinion of labor officials and thousands
Of Government workers who agree in
the belief that the National Federation
OF Federal Employees acted contrary to
interests of its members and rules of
its organization in Withdrawing from
the A. F. of L. without proper attempts
at conciliation. The official version of
the conflict which severed relations be-
tween the A. F. of L. and the largest
Federal workers organization in the
United States was given by Mr.. Green
shortly before he presented to David
r. Glass, president of the American
Federation of Government Workers, the
charter which makes the new group
and A. F. of L. affiliate.
New Group Explained.
Explaining the organization Of the
new National Union, Mr.. Green said:
THE Executive Council of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor has regarded
the attitude of the executive officers
of the National Federation of Federal
Employees as opposed to a return of
the organization to the place 1t for
merly occupied in association with the
organized labor movement and with
the National and International Unions
which compose 1t.
Based upon this understanding, the
Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor, at meeting held
recently, authorized the executive Off
GERS to grant charter to a new Ma
tional Union, recognized as having
jurisdiction over Federal employees and
to function in the field from which
the National Federation of Federal EN-
ployes had withdrawn. This action OF
response to requests made by thou
sands Of Federal employees who had
signed petitions requesting the Execu
tive Council to grant charter to
new National Union of Government
employees.
rs Locals Organized.
Following the decision Of the exec
utive council to authorize the executive
officers to organize a new national
union of Government employees more
than 26 local unions have been Or
ganized and have given assurance that
they will all become a part of new
national union. In conformity with
this action and pursuant to the decision
of the executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, new ma
tional union has been formed, and a
charter of af1liation has been granted
to this new national union according
it jurisdiction over Government en-
ployeS eligible to membership. This
new national union is the only one that
will be recognized by the American
Federation of Labor as clothed with
authority to organize and represent
Government employees not covered by
the jurisdiction already granted other
national and international unions.
From this date the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees will be re-
garded as a seeding organization, with
out standing in the organized labor
movement, outside and separate from
the organized labor movement OF the
Nation. The American Federation OF
Labor will give full measure of sup
port to the new national union thus
formed, and its members will be rep
resented in the councils Of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
New Union Named.
"The name of the new national
union is the American Federation Of
Government Employts. All Government
employees who are eligible to join this
new national union will be welcomed
into membership and we pledge to them
the support and assistance Of the
American Federation Of Labor in all
the efforts which they may put forth
to bring about a restoration of the pay,
the rights and the privileges taken from
them at the last session of Congress,
to secure the enactment of legislation
originated and introduced into Con-
gress for the purpose of protecting and
promoting their economic and social in
terests.
"All the force and power of the
American Federation Of Labor and its
affiliated units will be extended in an
effort to establish and strengthen the
new national union throughout the en-
tire jurisdiction granted it in the
charter ;ssped to 1t by the American
FederationNof Labor"