The Washington times., 1936-04-03
SALARY
WAVE FEARED
BY CLERKS
By J. EARLE MOSER

lnCO eSIdDllSAlSu ASNO6AAA
suitable payment for Government
employment is no mirage.
Although employe organizations
have warned Of the danger Tor
more than a year. particularly
where relief workers at starvation
wages have been used IN WORK
formerly done by classified person
mel, the general reaction has been
to regard such cutrate appoint
ments as mere emergency items.
It was not believed the "reliefers"
were to be actually regarded Is
Government employees.
Such, however, is the fact, &C.
cording to the recent decision OF
the Comptroller General, In which
the Department Of Interior Is
severely rebuked for its action in
taking a WPA stenographer from
her S85 per month job in Seattle
and giving her a berth with the
National Park Service at $l,44O
yearly.
Mr.. McCarl, of course, merely
cites the law as is his custom, and
quotes Executive Order No. TOTO.
which states that negotiations Tor
transfers must be approved by the
head of the workers old agency
and that salaries paid from emerg.
ency funds shall not be increased
until 1t least six months after the
transfer. The President, via the
Budget Bureau, must also assent.
AS the orders provisions were
not needed, and the relief worker
is considered, a full fledged Fed
eral employe, her salary lncrea~
is described as illegal and unau-
thorized." Ironically, she had
served but eight days as a NPA
security" worker.
Pettey Quits FEC
Herbert L. Pettey, secretary OF
he Federal Communications Com
mission, has rendered his resigna'
ton, effective May /, to Chair
man Aiming S. Prall. Stimuli
taneously, it was learned, Mr.. Pet
tey on May will accept an execu-
tive post as associate with Louis
K. Sidney, general director Of the
Loew's-Metro-G Goldwyn-Mayer radio
station in New York city, WIN.
Mr.. Pettey, native Of Kansas
City and graduate Of the Univer'
;ity of Kansas, has been Secre-
tary Of FEC since 1888, and be-
fore that was secretary Of the
old Federal Radio Commission.
During 1882 he directed the radio
campaign of the Democratic ma
tional committee and was mem.
Der Of the commission appointed
by President Roosevelt to study
communications in this country
Te is a few days shy of 81.
As Predicted
AS predicted recently, the "se-
curity' wage is out for those peo-
pie to be employed by the Division
Of Industrial Economics in max
ing the final report on NRA.
Members Of the NRA Lodge of the
Age. called yesterday on DR..
Leon c. Marshall, new chief Of
the new division, and requested
that former NRA workers be hired
exclusively for the project and
that they receive classified sal
aries.
DR.. Marshall, it was reported,
promised that NRA personnel
would be used except where it
might become necessary to hire
experts not to be found anon
former Blue Eaglets, and that
security wages had been dismissed
from consideration.
Convention Talks
Henry F.. Grady, chief Of the
division of trade agreements in
the State Department, will ad-
dress the convention of the Ma
tional League of American Women
Voters, April 20, on aspects of
reciprocal trade agreements, it
was announced today. An interna-
tional trade expert of long stand
ing, DR.. Grady is now serving the
Government under a leave of
absence from the University of
California, where he has been
professor of international trade
and dean of the College of Com
merce since 1923.
Frank Bane, member of the
Social Security Board, and DR..
Martha M. Eliot, assistant chief
Of the Children'S Bureau, also
will speak on April 20. Mr.. Bane
will discuss general features of
the social security program, while
DR.. Eliot is to touch upon maternal
and child welfare services pro-
v1ded by social security. On May
l, Senator T. V. Smith of Illinois,
will tell league members "How
the League Looks to a Legis-
lator."
Jubilee
Yesterday marked the beginning
Of a 10-month observance of the
Golden Jubilee birthday of the
Statue of Liberty, erected SO
years ago in New York harbor
after it's designing by Frederic
Auguste Bartholdi, French sculp-
tor of massive pieces. who died in
1904. Many local communities are
to observe the anniversary of the
symbol of liberty. while on Octo-
Der %. rededication ceremonies
will be held on Bedloes Island
under auspices of the National
Park Service. which administrates
the statue.