Evening star., 1936-11-25
SIX RESOLUTIONS
PASSED BY ALL.
Maintenance of Standards
of U. S. Employees Urged.
D. c. One-Man Cars Hit.
By JOHN c. HENRY,
gtafY Correspordent of The Star


ployment were approved by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Convention
today.
The resolutions, in order Of ap-
proval, follow:
i. That non-civil service employees
be used in the postal service only in
emergencies.
2 That the fair labor policy of the
postal service be extended to all Gov
ernment service.
3. That the civil service retirement
law be placed in the hands of an in
dependent administrative agency.
4. That the United States Employees
Compensation Commission be COM
mended for its administration of the
law.
s. That 30-year optional retirement
and widows annuities be authorized
In law.
6. That the Executive Council CO.
operate in pressing all legislation
for higher Government employment
standards.
7. That custodial employees be re-
moved from purview of the classifica-
ton act Of 1928 and be placed under
prevailing schedule Of wages.
=. Resolution went to the ex-council
with approval. while the others
received blanket approval.
One Man Cars Here Hit.
The convention also approved a
resolution offered by Frank j. Cole
man Of the Washington Central Labor
Union condemning use Of one-man
street cars in the District.
Labor's family troubles may be drop
ped in the lap of the Federal co-ordi.
nator of industrial cooperation with
undercover instructions from the White
House to bend every effort to effect
some worthwhile cooperation in the
labor movement.
Gossip to this effect was travelling
about the convention today while
George L. Berry, the Federal co.
ordinator, was speeding his way back
to Washington.
In close attendance upon the con-
vention for 10 days. Berry left Tampa
last night. On the previous night
he had split the vote of his Pressmens
Union on the controversial issue Of
approving the suspension Of 10 mem.
ber unions OF the Committee for In.
dustrial Organization.
Guarded IN his comment yester-
day, Berry said that his optimistic
nature leads me to believe some ad.
justment of this dispute will be
found" The right man." he added
might be able to bring the factions o1
gether. Whether that right man
Is George Berry the co-ordinator de-
clined to admit.
Has Talked With Green.
Closely associated with Lewis
through their activities In labor's
non-partisan league, Berry also has
been in frequent conferences with
Green during the convention sessions
here.
Reported among The compromise
proposals which Berry may discuss
further with both sides is one Of the
council resembling the suspensions
and having the C. I. o. unions return
to the federation In a newly created
department. Lewis would head such
q department and the industrial Or
ganization drives would continue with
support of the full federation.
Several obstacles, however, loom
Immediately in the way Of acceptance
of such a plan. Among them the
jurisdictional jealousies which are the
real root Of the present split.
Meanwhile George M. Harrison,
chairman of the Executive Councils
three-man Peace Committee, which
was directed by the convention to
stand by for further attempts to ne
gotiate a reconciliation with the Lewis
group, disclosed that the committee
will make direct appeal to the c.
!. o. leader within a few days for
conference in Washington next
month.
If the c. I. o. leaders will meet
with US, am confident we can reach
some agreement" Harrison said.
This fight has gone on long enough,
and it Is no credit to either side If
we can't find basis for settlement.
I'VE certainly are going to inform
the G. I. o. oficially Of the conven-
ton action. That's the only fair
thing to do after this ostrich trial.
] expect to be in Washington about
December II, and I would like to
arrange meeting around that date. u
Hutcheson Checked Drive.
Remarking how the extremists in
the federation leadership had been
steered of their insistence for out
right expulsion of the c. I. o. unions,
Harrison added weight to the theory
that it was really William L. Hutche-
son. president of the Carpenters Un-
ion. dictator Of at least 5000 con-
vention votes and Lewis most bitter
personal enemy, who had checked the
expulsion drive just as it was getting
under way on the eve of the conven-
ton opening. Arriving late the night
before the first session. Hutcheson told
reporters he saw no need for expul-
sion, since the G. I. o. unions already
were out in fact.
=, The very next day the expulsion
4 movement slowed down to end ur
with the half-war -half-peace decision
ss1of Monday night.
e Few post-mortem comments were
heard at the convention yesterday
although Charles P. Howard, secre.
tary Of the G. I. o. and president oil
the International Typographical Un'
ion, fired blast at the federation
leadership from his Tampa hotel. No
in attendance at the convention
Howard told reporters that the con-
vetion action had started the fedora.
= ton toward its own destruction"
=, Informed of this remark, Presiden
Green said:
II don't agree. I feel we have lef
the door open for peace. It Is m!
hope the c. I. o. will recognize tn
truth of that fact"