The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
ALPHABET JOBS
. CHANGE TYPE
Of WORKERS
By ]. EARLE MOSER

According 10 observers, CIle
personnel of the Government serv-
ice in the Capital is showing an
increasing tendency to split into
two distinct types, depending upon
whether the employe is under
Civil Service or on the roll Of one
CT the numerous emergency agen-
cies.
The advent of the alphabet
units has meant the invasion OF
an entirely new brand of worker,
usually fresh from college or still
attending, whose ideas have not
conformed themselves to the con.
serVative pattern generally adopted
by the permanent employe on
Civil Service rolls.
Emergency workers are contln-
ually fomenting. They have to be
doing something in addition to Of
flee routine. If nothing else is
doing they start militant union,
as happened at NRA, or a new
paper, as at Hole, or Young
Democratic movement, as at FILA.
The collegiate theory Of keeping
the pot boiling is continually ram
pant.
An official at the Department
OF Labor explained the trend by
saying that a Civil Service rating
is probably the answer, pointing
out that permanent employees
usually assume that Government
service will be their life career,
while emergency folk nine times
in ten are using their current
posts as stepping stones to some
other ambition-frequently poll
tics.
Bradish Carroll, the NRA Of
fetal who is now trying to place
most of the curtailed Blue Eagle
workers in other jobs, when asked
for an opinion, said:
ut seems to me, particularly
over here at NRA, that the
emergency units have usually
attracted an industrial type of
worker, a type that in the past
was more interested in industry
than in actual Government
work."
There is still third group, the
washington temporaries." I'm
able to get Civil Service standing
because of Capital residence, a
large number of Westinghouse
have drifted from agency to
agency in temporary rolls, getting
one appointment within few
days or weeks after being dropped
from another. Many are AAA.
These. also, maintain noncon-
sentative attitude, and their event
ual employment future is prob
lematic.
The United National Associa-
ton of Postoffice Clerks will be-
gin it's annual convention August
26 at Gettysburg, Pa, with John
j. Barrett, president, welding the
gavel. Officers of all local and
State branches, and members at
large, have been asked to forward
resolutions for the gathering to
James T. OMalley. first vice
president, in the mailing division
of the st. Louis General Post
office.
The group is a member of the
National Legislative Council of
Federal Employe Organizations,
prominent in urging passage of
beneficial laws during the cur
rent congressional session.
Walter A. Dorrell, Statistics,
Interstate Commerce, recently re-
turned to his desk from trip
through the Allegheny Mountain
section of the South, on which
he was accompanied by Mrs. Dor
rell. While on the tour they
visited Edward B. Blizzard, long
an employe of I. C. c., who now
makes his home at Franklin,
w. Va.
Edward L. Bennett, with Civil
Service since 1917, has been Off
cially named as chief of the
commissions editing and recruit
ing section, succeeding the popu-
lar DR.. Thomas A. Griffin, re-
Gently retired. In addition to Of