Evening star., 1933-07-01
Rate by Mail-Payable In Advance.
.r,h.. ~ the Associated Press.
Black Saturday.

Snree tQOuSdIu CAlPioySS Va SAAN -
eral Government in the District OF Co.
lumbia are today losing their jobs or
are on notice that within a week o.
two they are to be separated from the
service. Many Of these employees nave
riyen the best years Of their lives to
the Government Many OF them are
trained and peculiarly fitted for the
tasks to which they have been as
signed. In the name OF humanity, re-
covery of business and re-employmenI'
the administration is driving ahead with
plans to add thousands OF workers TO
the Government pay rolls. In the name
of all common sense, how can economy
in Government expenditure be accom-
plished BY any such juggling OF jobs?
7. cannot and it will not. Nor Will the
American people be so blind as not 10
understand just what has been going on
in the Government service under the
new deal"
ECONOMY was the pledge Of the DEM
ocratic candidates for ONCE during the
last campaign. Another pledge was
that men and women in this country
should be put back to work. In an effort
to convince the country that 1t was
indeed fulfilling its pledge Of economy,
the administration put through Con-
sress In special session the economy act
and followed 1t. up with budget figures
intended to squeeze thousands OF civil
service employees out OF their jobs. The
squeezing process Is now under way.
The same process Is operating among
Federal employees outside Of the District
Of Columbia.
To fulill the pledge that employ
ment should be provided for the work
ers, the administration has set up re-
forestation camps. ut an expense OF
$3.50 900, 900. 1t has put through
public works program estimated to cost
a. 900. 900 900. 1t has enacted an in
dustrial recovery act and farm re-
lief act. a home mortgage act and sew
ersl other pieces Of legislation which
will require the employment OF large
numbers of persons in the Federal
service, rs we'll as the expenditure OF
large sums of money. No one Will De-
srudae the employment OF thousands
of men and women in such work. But
where Is the economy that the DEM
ocrats pledged?
What Is happening is that some thou
sands of trained Government WORKERS
are being let out, while at the same
time more thousands, many OF them
unframed, are to be employed. II the
administration has the remotest sense
Of fair play and justice it Will see
m IL that the men and women 1t has
70 ruthlessly cut on from their hVeh-
hood be given the first call on these
new Jobs. If the administration ooes
M, do this, if it undertakes to place
in all these new jobs deserving Demo-
Gratis" then the country WILL unoer-
stand that it was not economy WHICH
WAS to be served when the drastic cuts
in the Government departments were
made. It will be clear to the entire
Nation that the "spoils system In us
most virulent form has been revived.
~ President Roosevelt Is anxious TO see
Justice done, he will give orders WITH
out delay that the Government en-
Moves who have been discharged or
retired" under the provisions OF the
rsv law be listed Immediately for re-
.non,ovment in the new services to be
set up.
Once upon . time security in once
was supposed to compensate the Gov
ernment worker for his meager pay
and faithful service. But on this Black
Saturday, the opening OF the new nscai
wear under the administration, security
has been set aside. 1t Is a mere nction'
The boast Of the administration is
that the Government budget has been
balanced, and balanced through the cuts
in the appropriations for the executive
DEPARTMENTS. These cuts have added
thousands OF men and women to the
great army Of unemployed. 1t is
boast that Is likely to rise to shame
the Democrats in the future. The bud
get, of course. has not been balanced,
despite this harsh treatment OF Gov
eminent employees. The retention OF
tine discharged and retired employees on
the rolls would have made little dn-
ference 80 far as the budget is con-
ce-ned.