The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-14
SERVICE
CONSIDERED IN
D|SM|SSALS
BY J. EARLE MOsER

Considerable comfort to veteran
Government employees is con
tanned in a statement by Lawson
A. Meyer, chief examiner Of the
Civil Service Commission, it was
revealed today.
Mr.. Meyer reiterates the Com
missions intention Of giving
credit for length of service when
ever it becames necessary to re
duce a force containing Civil Serv
ice workers. Answering a request
of AFGE officials for light on the
subject, he said in part:
"The Commission is now con.
sidering the question Of what
modification of the method es-
tabliShed. will be necessary in
order to accomplish . cOrrela-
ton Of reduction Of force pro-
cedure with the new efficiency
rating plan.
"The principle of giving
credit for length Of service in
the process Of selecting en-
ployes for dismissal or reduction,
when the staff must be reduced,
will be maintained"
The workers organization really
seeks, it is believed, to have senior
ity credits included in the newly
adopted efficiency rating plan at
all times, but Civil Service has
previously explained that the pres
ent law allows seniority to be
counted when discharges loom on
the horizon due to staff reduction.
A discussion Of the plan OF
Agriculture employees to establish
a home community composed OF
houses valued at $4,000 to $4,000
that can be paid for in IS to 20
years will be held this evening at
7:30 o'clock in the Agriculture
auditorium.
The news that the National In.
dustrial Recovery Board has voted
unanimously to recommend to
President Roosevelt a centra
transfer agency for emergency
workers lightened the future for
many a perplexed employee. And
the committee Of organized work
ers who made the plea, headed by
Jessica Buck, of NRA, said today
it intends seeking still further rec
concentrations.
In the meantime, Administers
tive Assistant Bradish Carroll, OF
MIRA, today repeated his belief
that employees leave will carry
over after June Is if the unit is
extended by Congress. pointing
out that favorable legislation
would mean extension-not a new
act-so that appointments also
would be merely extensions. In
case extension is passed, he said,
estimates Of force cutting will be
unreliable until 1--WE find out what
we are supposed to do"
Regardless. the accounting di
vision Of NRA was to gather at
$50 a. m. today to sing its swan
song, 1.-THE Death of the Blue
Buzzard," composed by Franklin
B. Hagy, while photo men take a
group picture for the use of mem
bers Of the division in after years
They were to gather around the
huge plaster blue eagle that Gen
era1 johnson formerly had in his
office.
The Bureau Of immigration and
Naturalization will more than
double it's Border Patrol force If
it receives the 1,107, 100 requested
recently Of the Work Relief Ad
ministration. Officials of the bu
reau plan to take on LOO men,
recruited both from CCC camps
and from men of intelligence who
are in good physical condition but
somewhat more advanced in
years; that is, up to IS. The
work would last a year, and those
whose qualifications are sufficient
would be considered for perma
nent employment as vacancies ap
peared later.
Two other projects planned by
the Department Of Labor-unde1
which the bureau operates-are
an investigation of aliens admitted
under various exemptions and
compilation Of index Of imml
grants and of naturalized aliens
Both would mean large staff ad.
ditions, both in Washington and
the field.