| Show i Our Weekly Washington Letter I i From Prom Our Special Correspondent IM G i s d i I USES RADIO tHO CUTS I EXPENSES E XII W WASHINGTON Sept 6 The 5 The Postoffice department announces that it is its telegraph billsby bl bills by extending Its use of the radio ser ser- vice flee It Is necessary to have 15 16 rad mad io lo Bt stations between New York and San Fran Francisco to keep in with the air mall mail service and while using it for that purpose the department Is also using it to send out administrative tive orders handling requisitions for tor supplies reports from inspectors etc LIST 0 OF OI It RAILWAY Y UNIONS WHICH ARK tiu ON STRIKE AND ND THOSE WHICH ARK ARE n AT WORK The similarity of the names of the railway labor organizations s sometimes some sometimes some some- me- me times result in both as to the specific organizations and as to i their affiliations The five Brotherhoods which are arel arelIn in no way part of or affiliated with the American Federation of Labor are as follows 1 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 2 Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen 3 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and 4 Order of Railway Hallway Conductors 5 Switchmen's Union of North II America The first four of these are often orten I referred to as the Big Dig Four o o or the Train Service None of these organizations is on strike I The following organizations known the as Unions and now out on strike are members of the Railway Hallway Department of the American Federation of Labor 1 International Association of f 1 Machinists 2 Amalgamated Sheet Metal MetalWorkers Workers Yorkers International Alliance l I 3 Brotherhood Hallway Railway Carmen of America 4 International Brotherhood of I Electrical Workers 5 b International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship ShIll Builders and Helpers of America 6 International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths Drop Forgers and Help Help- ers erL t Among the more Important of the other railroad organizations which are lre members of the American Federation Federation Fed lied of Labor are the following 1 United Droth Brotherhood of Maintenance 1 of WJ Wa and ana Railway Shop borers which 01 of did lid not lot of go gf out on silks pending a reh aring of a redo on In wales ales order ordered l b b the Labor Board of July 1 1 2 Brotherhood of Rail Railway war and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers Express and Station 3 In International Brotherhood of Firemen and 4 Brotherhood Railway Signalmen SignalmEn Signalmen Signal Signal- men of America 5 b Order of Railroad I I. M MAILING CONCERNS USING USING US US- I II I ING N. N NEW W 8 TO EXPEDITE ALL ALI U U. 8 fl 1 MAIL l The department is in stalling many labor saving saYing devices for large concerns whose mall mail runs Into thousands and tens of thousands of letters a day These time and la labor labor la la- bor saving saying devices are installed for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of expediting the handlIng handling handling handl handl- ing of malls mails In increasing numbers numbers num num- bers hers the large business houses trust companies mall order concerns d department de de- stores and other large business business bu bu- siness houses trust companies malt mall order lorder concerns department stores and other large largo mailers malleIs are InstallIng Installing installing Install Install- ing these machines For Instance there Is a meter or permit machine which imprints imprint upon mall mail which U is issued under a permit the registration to that ef et feet l' l Each ach one ono of ot the these e machine la Is numbered and each euch meter Is numbered number number- ed ell and both numbers are Imprinter imprinted upon the mall mail as It U goes the machine When the let let leL tors have gone through through through-ithe the the meter Is exhausted and automatically automat rally looks itself It will not 1101 again function until It Is taken to the postoffice postoffice postoffice post- post office and reset When a firm f for r Instance desires a machine that will wit handle letters It deposits with the postmaster a sum equal to the stamps that would be required for tor those letters and Is given the machine machine machine ma ma- chine with will the meter which Is set for that n number u m bEt of letters and is III sealed In the presence of two p postal posta stal official t. t Another labor saving caving device I is I. that of stamps put u uIn up In coils colls to be used b by large mailers mailer i Heretofore large concerns have haye purchased pur put chased coos calls of ot un cancelled stamps stamp which were placed laced on outgoing ma maby mall mail by stamp stump fixing filing machines The These large bundles of ot matt malt ver very vert frequently frequent frequent- ly Iy were delivered at durIng during dur dur- ing lag rush hours and had to be ru run through canceling machines which caused dela delay not only of that ma mall mail but of ot all mall Under the new device device de de- vice the large rge purchasers of ot stamps stamp will buy pre-cancelled pre stamps so BO the that when their malt mall reaches the flee It U U is ready for tor Immediate dis- dis patch atch J ENGINEERS NOT WANTING W. DEMOCRATIC TIMES TUmS The American Association of Engineers Engineers En En- reports an improvement o of employment conditions all aU along th the line This is a tribute to Republican management for tor things were not going going go go- ing well seventeen months ago when the Republican administration undertook undertook un un- the responsibility of restoring restoring ing business to normal conditions Business was at a stand building abandoned freight rates rate too high to keep our products movIng moving move Ing foreign competition in goods a menace and we were threatened with a deluge of immigration which would double or treble our then serious ser sere lous ious unemployment problem Out o othis of this Republican efficiency and wIse wis leadership has made possible sue such reports as this of the American En Building highway and municipal municipal pal work show the greatest strength says the Ithe report Experienced me meIn men In architectural and structural fields field are at a premium and positions pa pay good salaries Evidently the engineers of Amer Amer- lea are aTe not hankering for the good goo old Democratic days |
