Evening star., 1934-05-18
P. 0. SUBSTITUTES
PRESENT DEMANDS
200 Part Time Workers Ask
House to Pass CeIIer
Bill.

approximately 200 members of the
National Association of Substitute Post
Office Employees, representing seven
cities, called at the House Office
Building early today and prepared to
visit the White House this afternoon
10 present their demands that the
Celler bill be passed by Congress and
approved by President Roosevelt.
The men came here from New York,
Brooklyn, Cleveland. Toledo, Phlla-
delphia and Baltimore and were
stitutes residing in Washington.
On Capitol Hill, they called upon
members Of the Committee on Ex-
penditures in the Executive Depart
ments, of which Representative John
j. Cochran of Missouri is chairman
and then split into groups to call
upon their own Representatives u
Congress.
Would Fill Vacancies.
The Celler bill would authorize the
Post Office Department to fill the
$1,000 vacancies In the postal service
that have accumulated in the last
four years.
About 80 members Of the delegation
from New York checked out Of theil
hotels after midnight last night anC
walked the streets for about three
hours when the two where they hao
made reservations refused to register
five colored men included in the group
About half of the men had retired
at the Everett Hotel. where they be-
lieved that one colored man in the
party had been given accommodations
When the second group arrived. in
cluding four more colored substitute
letter carriers, the Logan Hotel re-
fused to accept the quartet and the
entire group refused to register.
They reported their predicament to
the group at the Everett, who learned
then that their one colored companion
had been refused room. Whereupor
the entire group checked out. In q
search for a place to spend the night
in a group their search was futile
About o'clock this morning, several
colored employees of the Government
we're called and they furnished the
colored substitutes places to sleep
The white delegation then found beds
at another hotel
Go to House Building.
Their loss Of sleep, however. de-
layed their plans for the forenoon
Shortly after $50 o'clock the men
assembled at Pythian Temple. l0l2
Ninth street, and from there moved
in a group to the House Office Build
ing. They were led by Albert Gott-
heb of New York, president, and
Aaron A. Bechtel of Philadelphia
secretary.
Meanwhile, other organizations oil
postal employees were called upon to
accompany the substitutes to the
White House this afternoon Patrick
O'Neill. secretary Of the United Ma
ton Association of Post ONCE Clerks
and Arthur Pier, secretary of the
Postal Workers Of America. a CO.
operative organization embracing all
post Office workers unions, con-
ferred with the substitutes and helped
arrange an interview with one of
President Roosevelt's secretaries.
At 2:15 o'clock the men were to
assemble at South Capitol and B
streets, move west on B to Third
street. thence to Pennsylvania avenue
to West Executive avenue, to disband
beside the White House.
The mass lobbying activities today
were the second attempted by the
postal substitutes since the first of the
year. On January "a a larger dele
cation came to Washington and pre-
sented their demands for relief to
Congress and at the White House.