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Show UNIQUE PHASE OF LABOIIJIONISM Postoflicc Clerks of Western Cities Organize Under Auspices Aus-pices of Federation. IS FIRST INSTANCE OF KIND IN OUR HISTORY New Movement Is Said to Have the Approval of Labor Leader Gompers.- . CHICAGO, Aug. 27. Representative po8tofncc clerks from Blx or tho principal cltiea of the West met in convention horo today and formed a National union under tho ausplceec of the American Federation of Labor. The organization, which will be known as tho National Federation of PoBlofTioe ClcrkB, is tho first National labor union in America to bo composed exclusively of Government omployocs. Delegates were present from Milwaukee, Louisville, Nashville, Salt Lake City. San Francisco and Chicago. Several othor cities, it is said, will be represented in the movement as soon as it Is fairly launched. All of tho branches that sent delegates to tho convention are now chartered by the American Federation of Labor as local unions, and tho movement to start the National federation Is said to have the approval of Samuel Gompers and his associates In the oxecutive council. Formal application for a National charter was. forwarded to Washington tonight. to-night. The new organization Is based on strictly trade union lines, and tho lenders In the movement declare thnt within six months at least twenty local unions will bo formed, all working in accord ac-cord with tho regular labor movement. The objoct of the federation is said to bo to seek the adjustment of grievances griev-ances that the postoitlco clerks assert exist, by having the American Federation of Labor aland sponsor for remedial legislation, which they, ns Government employees, are prohibited from attempting attempt-ing to influence. Officers elected were. President. E. D. Goltra, Chicago; secretary, J. F. Pfeirer, Milwaukee; treasurer, John F. House. Nashville; National organizer, H. . J. Caveny, San Francisco. The noxt convention con-vention will bo held in Indianapolis. |