Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-16
Circular Sent Out To
Warn Employees In
Campaign
RULES ARE VERY STRICT
AGAINST POLITICAL WORK
Any Coercion Promptly Punished.
Even Laborers Are Included.
Naval Station EN-.
ployes

Postmaster Pratt has received n
circular from the Postofiicc Depart
ment which clearly outlines the lin
its of political activity imposed on
Federal officials. The circular has
direct bearing on the Postoffice De-
partment but the quotations from
The general law will be of particular
interest, as Hawaii now has large
number of employees in Federal de-
partments. The circular follows:
CIRCULAR RELATIVE TO .POLITI-
CAL ACTIVITY IN THE FED
ERAL SERVICE.
Office of the Postmaster General
Washington. ID. c., June g, 1907.
Order No. 1879.
To Officers and Employees of the
Post Office Department and the Pos
tai Service:
Attention Is directed to the follow
ing orders of the Postmaster Gener-
lal:
Washington. ID. c., June 6, 1907.
Order No. 4O7.
Under date of June 3. 1907, the
President amended Rule of the Civ
II Service Rules to read as follows:
No person in the Executive civil
service shall use his official author
ity or influence for the purpose of In
tcrfering with an election or affect
ing the result thereof.
Persons who by the provisions of
these rules are in the competitive
classified service, while retaining the
right to vote as they please and to
express privately their opinions on
all political subjects. shall take no
active part In political management
or in political campaigns. 81 I'M
1t is hereby ordered that all en-
ployees of the PostofIice Department
and the postal service shall govern
themselves accordingly.
Washington. ID. c., March 30, 1908.
Order No. 1921.
The attention of all officers and
employees of the Postofiice Depart
ment and Postal Service is directed
to the following letter addressed ia
the President by the Civil Service
Commission:
THE President.
1.-THE Commission in recommending
punishments for violations of Sub
division of Civil Service Rule / has
heretofore been guided by the fact
that the rule was one only adopted
In June, 1907: and that while the
Presidents instructions prohibiting
political activity on the part of com
petitiye classified employees have
been public ever since 1902, yet In
actual practice the effective and
thoroughgoing enforcement of the
Presidents instructions in this con.
nection has only dated from the
adoption of the rule In June last
which gave the Civil Service Com.
mission the right to investigate and
report on charges of improper politi.
cal activity on the part of those In
the competitive classified service. Fol-
this reason the Commission has here.
toforc been lenient In recommending
punishments. But n sufficient time
has now elapsed for us to assume tina,
the. civil Service Rules are under.
stood throughout the service, and W,
believe therefore that the time has
also come for n somewhat greater
degree of severity for the penalty in.
flicted, at least in aggravated cases
We recommend therefore that tn,
several Departments be requested tt
publish to their employees In tho
competitive classified service the fact
that any man violating the provision,
of the rule in question renders him.
self liable to punishment by removal
We desire that the subordinates IN
the several Departments be acquaint
ed with this recommendation. SC
that In the event of any misconduct
by them in the future the Commits,
sion may feel Mt liberty to recon-.
mend their removal
eve have the honor to be. yer,
respectfully,
John C. BLACK,
HENRY y. GREENE.
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