The Washington times., 1934-01-22
WOMAN LEADER
IS CONFIDENT
Of VICTORY
1WeII-Paid EmpIoye Essential
to Efficient Service, Says
Rep. Virginia JenCkes


.seral employees, Representative Vir-
4. ginia E. Jenckes CD Of Indiana,
a member Of the House District
Committee, declared today in ad-
vocating elimination Of the full
IS per cent pay cut, She said:
eff we are to have a loyal
r and efficient public service,
: then the taxpayers must realize
that our Federal employees must
!. be well paid. The taxpayers
= can then demand the maximum
Of efficiency in public service.
', BURDEN CITED
": 81 am urging elimination Of
Z the Is per cent cut as means
Of increasing the buying Of our
9" employees. Federal employees.
x particularly those in the lower
brackets; are underpaid, and
when the Is per cent reduction
. was made many Of them hardly
were able to exist on their cur
tailed salaries.
81 am confident that the New
Deal will eliminate all or part
Of the cut, and will continue
to be active to restore all Of
( the Is per cent cut"
Jeffers Sympathetic
Not quite so optimistic but just
AS sympathetic toward Govern
ment workers, Representative La
mar Jeffers (D.l Of Alabama said:
81 don't believe the House will
try to restore the entire pay cut
were the Senate to send back
: the independent offices bill in
=. face of a certain White House
=. veto, but I would be very glad
=, indeed to see full restoration of
:. pay made If it could be fitted
I'm the Presidents recovery pro-
gram. 1t would be very pleasing
). to see it put back"
Z. Wel0eman taVOFaD1G
The third Congressman to back
up the cause of Federal employees
'i&oday is Representative Carl M.
-5'Weideman CD of Michigan, rosy
checked. rotund member Of the
House District Committee, who
says:
Economic conditions are rap
ldly improving throughout the
country and I believe them al
ready sufficiently high to jus
: tify immediate elimination Of
the Is per cent pay cut.
~ "As prices go up it is only
;. fair to increase the wages Of
lOng-suffering Federal employees.
We are coming back, and 50
now is the time"
- Schwartz Starts Drive
Samuel T. Schwartz, president
of Charles Schwartz & Son, jew
elers, has started an intensive
campaign toward elimination Of
the Government workers pay cut.
He said:
"Our firm will do everything
I'm its power to bring the lost
pay back to the Government
employees. We have begun .
drive over the radio to that end
and many prominent persons,
2; including sympathetic members
of Congress, will speak. We are
: going to keep hammering away
until the cut is restored. Prices
: have increased and it is now
necessary for the Government
employees salary to go up ac-
x @OOrdingIy.
$ 'T should like for Government
: workers to write to me and tell
how the pay cut has affected
them. The letters will be sub
mitted to members of Congress,
but names will be held conf
DENTAL"
- Ralph L. Goldsmith, general
.ananager of Lansburgh & Bro,
also fell in line with other mer-
chants. He said:
81 would like to see the pay
..sCut restored. 1t is warranted
now with commodities and the
!. cost Of living in general in
aCreasing."
=. Rich Fights Cut
Herbert j. Rich, president and
treasurer of Rich's, Inc, had this
to say:
1--WE are for it. The price of
commodities is rising. The pres
ent prices of merchandise in
shops do not reflect the pres
ent wholesale prices. In the
spring prices will increase from
10 to 20 per cent. Government
employees must get a raise to
meet these conditions. The
average Federal workers pay
didn't increase as in other cases
and they were not deserving Of
the cut"
HERZOG BACKS CAMPAIGN
:. Robert P. Herzog. president of
Sol Herzog & Co., Inc, said:
II believe the pay cut should
by all means be restored to the
level where their pay is on .
par with prices"
Phil A. Cohen, assistant man
ager, Julius LanSburgh Furniture
Co., said: ........,
1--WE are very. much in favor
Of restoration of the Federal pay
cut, Prices will show an in