The Washington times., 1935-08-26
POSTAL CLERKS
MEETING AT
GETTYSBURG
By J. EARLE MOSER


burg, Pa, will be host until late
Friday to approximately 1,5OO
delegates and visitors who have
gathes11II. f- io7 the national conven
ton of the United National Asso
citation of Post Office Clerks.
Representing a total member
ship of more than $1,000, the dele
gates are to plan the organiza
tons legislative policy for the
next IL months, select officers for
the year, hear a number Of ad
dresses by prominent figures ana
at the same time enjoy several en-
tertainment features.
The high point of the conven'
ton will be Wednesday, when the
organization will hold pat NC
Carran Day." in honor OF the
doughty Representative who sue
cessfully led the pay restoration
fight for Federal workers. Mr.
McCarran is scheduled to make
an address, while tomorrow the
delegates will hear w. w. Howes,
first assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, and his deputy, Vincent
Burke.
Representative Harry L. Haines'
chairman of the Democratic dele
CATION from Pennsylvania, was to
speak today.
It is expected that the present
array of officers will be reelected
for another term. Led by PreSl-
dent John J. Barrett, they include
James r. O'Mally, of st. Louis,
first vice president; Patrick j.
O'Neill, secretary; Fred D. SulIl-
van, of Chicago, treasurer; Owen
Stevens, of Indiana, chairman OF
finance, and Timothy Callahan,
Boston, chairman of the advisory
board.
According to President Barrett,
the achievement of a 40-hour week
in addition to pay restoration
probably will cause the organiza-
ton to devote the next two years
toward improving the working con-
ditions of Post Office substitutes
and to achieving classification for
clerks in third class post offices.
The "UNAPOC," as it's members
term it, is included in the National
Legislative Council of Federal EN-
ployes' Organizations, a group
composed of the NFFE, the Ma
tional Associations of Rural Letter
Carriers, Postal Supervisors and
Post office LaborerS, and the Ma
tional Federation Of Post Office
Motor Vehicle Employees. The
legislative council has grown from
a membership Of 100000 to more
than 1876 900, due to increasing in"
terest by workers, it was said
today.
Tonight the Park Police branch
of local No. 2, NFFE, will meet at
ITO Fourteenth st. N. w., while
Wednesday will witness a gather
ing of the Agriculture branch of
the local at the same place. Also
on Wednesday the Navy Yard
union, No. $50, will gather at the
Southeast Library, Seventh Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue, South
east.
Over the signature Of Comp
troller General J. R. McCarl, Gen.
eral Accounting Office has decided
to create an accounting and book
keeping division, affecting about
1900 workers, and including part
OF the audit divisions accounting
section, and parts Of it's review
unit, difference sheet unit and
supplemental settlement unit. For
merly connected with Agriculture,
George Darlington Denit is to
head the new division.
Just a year ago, DR.. Charles
F. Marvin had retired after so
years of service for the Weather
Bureau, 81 of them as chief. He
was 76 John Finnerty, attorney
for John Donovan against NRA,
denied he had advocated strikes
for Government employees. Pro
Spective tearing down of the Food
Administration Building, at Eight
eenth and c Streets Northwest,
would leave about 5000 workers
in that area without a lunch
cafeteria, it was charged. . With
46 straight wins under it's belt,
the NRA baseball team had
crushed Benning's athletic club,
9 to 0, as the District of Colum-
bia championship series started
=. Gilbert Hyatt. postal authority,
said the recent Donovan case
showed Federal workers in real
need for a court of appeals.
Civil Service took over the activi-
ties of administering retirements,
effective on September /.