The Washington times., 1935-05-10
CLERKS UNION
MERGER PLAN
GAINING
BY J. EARLE MOsER

Federal workers is expected to-
night at the monthly meeting of
District members of the American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes.
The movement originated at the
Department of Labor. Officials Of
the A. F. G. E. admitted today
that there is a contingent at La
Dor that desires consolidation with
the National Federation Of Fed.
eral Employees. This contingent
Is said to be behind a resolution
expected to be introduced to-
Notwithstanding reference in
the Government Standard, A. F.
q. z. weekly, to unions or fedora
tionS not affiliated to the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor. The
references have invariably been
korceful attacks.
The road to amalgamation is
rocky, however, for national Off
GERS of both A. F.. G. E. and N. F.
r. e. have frequently reiterated
opposition to a merger, however
beneficial it might be to the work
erS' cause.
Both sides of the housing con.
geStion argument were to speak
their piece today. Representatives
of real estate interests, Federal
employe organizations and labor
associations, plus Interested in
dividualS, were to appear at the
House Office Building to give
their opinions of the rent control
bill sponsored by Representative
Henry IL Jgen CD, of Penn
Sylv~nia, in a one-day hearing.
Construction of permanent, low
cost, Federal-financed housing will
be asked by Glen Naples, speak
ing for the Central Labor Union
and A. F. G. E., who thinks the
Ellenbogen measure would serve
nicely as a "stop-gap" until suffi-
Gent construction warrants dis
continuance of the rent commits.
sion the bill would set up. Will
liam S. Kinney and Joseph STAINS
field, N. F. F. E. District officers,
will present data compiled by the
recent Agriculture Department
rent survey among its personnel.
The Washington Real Estate
Board, the District Commissioners,
Board of Trade, Washington Com
mittee on Housing, Roger j. Whit
ford, local attorney, and Rufus
Lusk, realty expert, have been in
vited to testify, it was said this
morning.
At the same time, Agriculture
survey figures further revealed
that of the BIT rent increases re-
ported, 153 we're from to IS per
cent, the remainder varying from
IS to IS per cent monthly, during
the last year.
With 1850 reservations received,
the deadline has fallen for addi-
tional seats to the belated birth.
day party that will be rendered
by Department of Justice EN-.
ployes to their chief, Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings, to-
night at the Willard Hotel.
Because of difficulty in finding
q hall sufficiently large, the event
had to be scheduled tonight but
is in celebration of the Attorney
Generals sixty-fifth birthday an
niversary on April 30. For ease
on workers pocketbooks, it has
been kept strictly informal.
Included at the speakers table
will be Attorney General and Mrs.
Cumming, Solicitor General and
Mrs. Stanley Reed, Assistant So
licitor General and Mrs. Angus
MacLean, j. Edgar Hoover, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Investigation.
Director Sanford Bates of the Blu
reau of Prisons and Mrs. Bates,
Will Beardslee, director OF War
Risk Litigation and Mrs. c. U.
Beardslee, his mother, Urey Wood
son, director of the Alien Property
Bureau, Administrative Officer
Joseph Lawrence and Mrs. Lawr-
ence, and Administrative Assistant
Charles Stewart.
William Stanley, Harold Ste
phens, Frank Weidman, Joseph
keenan,, Charles Sweeney and
Harry Blair, Assistant Attorney
General with their wives, will also
be present.
Showing delegates of the League
of Women Voters through the
Civil Service Commission yester'
day, Commissioner Lucille Foster
McMillin explained operation Of
the Fortress of the Merit sys-
tenn" and termed it manufac'
turing plant, saying:
"The raw material with which
the Commission works to pro.
duce its eligibles is not coal,
iron, steel or other insentient
objects, but human beings with
individual physical, mental and
spiritual attributes. This is why
our manufacturing pro cesses
rise into the realm of art, and
why the Commission and its
staff must constantly bear in
mind the social implications
and consequences of our work."
Mrs. Maude Anderson. Internal
Revenue, writes:
GAS you are so active in aid
ing the Government clerks. am
writing to you to request that
you use all your efforts to have
she RamSpeck annual and sick
Sw~va hilIs nreSented on the