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Show 1 li MM TIKES v 1 OP lEjf LABI HI WASHINGTON. April 7. Senator T.a Bww Follette intends to establish, by leglsla- Hl 'Ion If he can, the right of government cm- Wmm ployees to organize unions In the same flKw manner that trades arc organized and af- filiated with the American Federation of M Labor. His purpose has been made plain S m In a letter sent to all employees of the M railway mail service bearlnq on the la- sue that lins been raised between such M m employe. of thi Kovernmeni and Post-Hi Post-Hi ffi master General Hitchcock. Second Aa- slstant Postmaster General Stewart and H other officials of the postofflce depart- K H A copy of the circular letter was made II public here today. Accompanying It Is MB h list of questions Fcoklng to disclose whether any employees have been In- tlmldated in any way by the efforts of the postmaster general to prevent the m employees of bronchos of the postofflce Mjj service rrom organizing. One paragraph of Senator La Fol- lctte's letter follows. Mm "The railway m-' clerks have the MM right to organize, lr the officers of the mm department are endeavoring to prevent HI them from so doing by threats of dls- Mm charge such anion Is without legal au- mU thorlty or moral right. If I find condi- MM tkmp In the railway postal service to be MM generally snc.h as 1ms been reported l" shall Introduce and do everything in my MM power to pass a bill to prevent tho con- MM tinuatlon of such un-American practices MM and to preserve to all eovcrnmenl em- MM ployees tho right of petition which be- ,mm longs to every citizen and thn right to MM form or join organizations for the im- Wu provemcnt of their labor ends.' |