The Washington times., 1922-04-09
WORKERS FEAR
GENERAL move
ON employees
Say Nobody's Job Is Safe If
Bureau Shake-up Goes
unchailenged.
DEMOCRATS KEEP UP FIGHT
VIII Try to Force Action on
Probe Resolution Of Sena-
tor caraway.

Charges of junking the civil
service and 9 return to the "spoils
system" were laid at the door of
the Republican Administration last
night by members of the workers
union, and friends of the Federal
employees In Congress. Al
IF the Administrations order
Diminishing the civil service en-
ploycs of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing is permitted to stand
without charges being fned against
these dismissed employees, 1t will
mean that none of the SOC, 900 en-
ployes Of the Government, of which
more than $4,000 are employed in
Washington, have any assurance,
whatever, Of jobs" union officials
declare.
Action OF the administration in
sfine tooth combing" the bureau
for evidence Of irregularities, by a
COMMITTEES of Justice and Treasury
operatives, was characterized by
Federal employees officials as "an
attempt TO justify the Administra-
tion's action, after having put their
foot In It.
Begin Checking Up.
The work of checking the billions
of bonds, money, certificates and
stamps. printed during the war. will
begin this morning at Q o'clock.
Union officials announced last
night that their future action of the
''administration's violation of the
Ctvfi Service law" would await the
outcome of the Departments tnr
vestigation.
IT was reluctantly admitted that
there was no desire TO force the ad-
ministration's hand. .'for fear that a
pat hand might be held in the
bureau shake-up."
Union officials make Il clear that
their chief concern In the shake-up
In the apparent ignorance of the
administration of the Civil service
status OF the thousands of employees
III the government"
eff Il Ia possible for the President
20 Dismiss an executive under civil
service, II win be possrble for d.
vision chief 10 release an employe.
and we are back where we were
twenty-five years ago-f1oundertng
IN the slough of the spoils system"
union officials declare.
Efforts are being made by the
Administration. IL is charged, to
undermine the civil service by first
removing the more lucrative Jobs
in the $4,000 and $4,000 class
making the places subject to ap-
pointment by the President.
Flight just Beginning"
s~The fight TO save the civil serv',
Ice from the Republican spoiismen
IN Just beginning" declared Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi last
night. =,
bsxun TO rue the issuance of the
order throwing the civil service em.
uioyes out of their jobs. In order
that they might ffll them with
Harding Republicans" the Senator
from Mississippi said.
Senator Harrison declared that
the Presidents statement to the ef-
feet that the changes in the Bureau
and other branches of the Federal
s~rvfce were in the interest of eff
. cicency, was ''belied by statements
made upon the floor of the Senate
by Administration spokesmen, In
Guiding Senators New and Moses"
Viewed in the light OF the real
facts OF old men and old women
baine thrown out of their life
work TO make room for Republican
Job hunters, II In the barest and
f1imsiest pretext ever offered by
any administration.
s-rhs real truth Of the matter is
that the Republicans wanted the
fobs. but we propose 10 keep II be-
fore the people and force the issue
A. to whether the administration
can Junk the civil service" Senator
Harrison declared.
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