Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
GEORGE To SUPPORT
LAW To END SPO|LS
OF POSTAL SERVICE

CAMBRIDGE, Ca, Sept. l.
Speaking before the second annual.
Labor day meetings of the South
Georgia Postal Employees associa-
ton here today, United States Sena-
tor Walter f. George, of Georgia,
promised that he would support leg
islation in the next congress look
ing to the abolition OF the spoils
system in the postal service.
The senator deplored laXness in ap-
pointments under the present admin
istration and said that he recognized
the power of the party in authority
"to select for appointment, and to ap-
point, within the limits of the civil
service rules, employees In every
branch of the postal service.
Il have not cautiously objected"
he said, ito the confirmation of ap-
pointment of any person appointed
to the service, and any implication
would be unworthy of your represen-
tative, but the civil service law,
which was intended to promote the
merit system, must be regarded In
spirit as we'll as in letter.
Executive orders removing en-
panied by clear and sufficient rea-
sons. Whether the applicant be a
Democrat or Republican, any rea-
sonable proof tending to show that
the applicant has scored his or her
Endorsement by the payment of
money, or the promise to pay,
whether as expenses or contribu-
tions to a campaign fund will be
sufficient grounds, upon whcih TO re-
sist his confirmation.
President "Ill Advised"
Referring to the postal salaries
bill which was vetoed by Presiden.
Coolidge. Senator George said:
The president in his veto mes
sage of June Z, 1924, characterized
the postal salaries bill as an organ
lied effort by a great body of pub
lie empoyes to secure an indiscrim.
mate increase in compensation The
good president was i'll advised AS
the ranking Democrat on the sen
ate committee of five which con-
Quoted the hearings and framed the
bill, | mphatically declare that your
worthy representatives placed all
the cards on the table. Their just
recommendations, courteously pre-.
scented, carried no implication war
ranting the presidents strong con-
condemnation"
With reference to organized la
Dor and its worth and to the part
labor will play in the coming ma
tional election, Senator George told
his hearers that 1.-The basic right of
labor to organize and to bargain in
an organized capacity with respect
to wages and conditions of service,
has been won against a century of
executive and judicial opposition y
LabOr's Profitable Era
EFF the economic. educational and
moral benefits won by labor, through
would slip back a hundred years.
The test of civilization is more and
more coming to be the measure Of
health, comfort and economic indie
pendence of the men and women who
labor
''In this political year, when some
would turn labor against its friends:
when some would divide, weaken and
destroy the liberal forces in our ma
tional life, let the workers, organ
lied and unorganized, recalling the
years 1914 to 1920 inclusive, ask
themselves when, during a like pc
Rod, American labor was ever more
profitahly employed?
Let the farmers. ask themselves,
when, during a like period, thew
were able to do SO much for their
children and to provide so many