Evening star., 1933-06-07
Pleads for Wartime
Emergency Employees
To the Editor Of The Star

| To the Editor Of The Star:
Several times recently have read in
your valuable daily of the action urged
| the Senate selfiShly by officials of the
National Federation of Federal En-
/ ployes to amend some bill or other. to
provide. for themselves mainly, that en-
/ ployes appointed in connection there
with be placed under civil service and
| under the classified act with regard to
/ salary But there is a vast army, un-
! fortunately. unorganiZed as yet. who
see another angle of it and have not
voiced it.
| The act was an emergency one. per-
| hapS not creating permanent ad-
ministration, sponsored and signed by
! a beloved and alert President and passed
| by an alive and sympathetic Congress,
! for the relief of q griefstricken people,
rs a new deal, enabling few outside
| Civil Service to obtain an appointment
J after, perhaps, years of unemployment,
distress and anxiety.
| Then comes along those who have
! enjoyed months. and even years, OF
favored employment as to hours. holl-
days and salaries in the Government,
wives of husbands more than gainfully
| employed, daughters of earning fathers
and Government employees with large
sums of money saved. whose precious
| prove by an enforced vacation, who seek
! to hold their jobs and would seek the
| return of those furloughed, to the ex-
! clusion of myriads of good, honest, well
educated. trained, ambitious, healthy
i and needy men and women who NIL
| the streets of Washington and OF every
| CITY of our fair land Among these
needy are (a) crushed fathers OF
families, (b) saddened widows with de,
pendents, (c) anxious single men ana
/ women. with dependents, perhaps
orphaned by fate, with no one to LOOK
| to for support in utter despair. Inc
! ranks OF this army. venture, IS greater
! than any bonus army
With such conditions as exist TO-DAY,
| II were q married woman with a
| husband earning, I would be mortaliy
ashamed to sign the payroll. l would
| feel my place was chiefly in the nome:
/ Had l but SIS month income, l
would never have left my home a
month ago to seek work in the Nation Is
| Capital.
/ am an orphan. with no one to look
! to for support, but well fitted to take
| care OF myself if, given an opportunity.
who in 1917, when the cannon were
belching death over Europes western
front. and members of the bonus army
were manning them, read on the
movie screens, without clerical forces
at Washington, our armed forces Will
fail" left everything and came here
and remained five years with the Gov
eminent I felt that if the United
States Government could be SO mag
unanimous with its veterans it coulo
do something for its workers in tenn
porary need whose supreme sacrifice.
heretofore unSung, in the influenza ep-
idemic in 1918, in Washington alone
was over 500 young women.
Having permanent civil service
status, after successfully passing over
seven examinations, I certainly have
no desire to break down such factor
for good in the greatest of all Gov
ernments, but there is reason to al
things. am, however, inclined to be-
lieve that the vote of last November elec-
ton was indicative that new deal was
desired, that some new people would
| like a show at some new appoint
ments; that the money, SO long
boarded by a few, be changed from
some pockets to others, to the end
that during this brief life on earth
all may enjoy three meals day anC
at night safe place to stay.
| During the World War civil service
barriers were let down considerably
why Naii ' tiicy DC IeiHpOIaTlly l6t
down now, especially on these bills en-
titled emergency relief?
Could it be thought by the Fedora
Employees Union that civil service rulec
are more vital than human lives?
1t might be well to remind some
that there is more far-reachinf
mandate Of God than any civil servict
regulation. the one to those who, hay
ing the substance of this world, anc
see their brothers in need.
Personally, after years unemploy-
ment, feel like paraphrasing tho
words of the illustrious Patrick HenrI
to Give me job or give me death"
M. TERESA McKENNA.