The Washington times., 1937-05-22
By ]. EARLE MOSER

backfired on the Social Security
Board.
Charges of the usual union dis.
elimination, bolstered by some
what new issue of religious dis
elimination, have been leveled by
the Baltimore Ssh Union at the
Baltimore personnel office. Wash.
ington officials are now trying to
straighten the fuss out.
The charges are the second
major offensive of the Baltimore
organization, which is even more
militant than the Ssh union set
up here and which has been quietly
Spurned in it's efforts to become
affiliated with the A. F. G.. E.
They are based on the diSmissalS
of four employees recently, all of
whom were members of the Balti-
more union and two of whom were
officers. Early this month they
were called before H. Norman Mil.
burn, Baltimore personnel director,
and, according to the union, were
given the choice of resigning
within "a hours or being dismissed
with prejudice.
Reasons given, 1t is charged,
were that the attitude of the
quartet was improper" but that
Milburn refused to explain what
he meant nor would numerous
subordinate supervisors whose
recommendations for the dis
charges had been held strictly
confidential by Milburn.
Taking up the fight with
Washington, the Baltimore union
has been after Frank Bane,
SSB's executive director, to
straighten out the situation, ask
ing that the four be reinstated
to their jobs and that new policy
be inaugurated in Ssh to allow
employees the right to discuss all
matters" with the administration.
To date. Bane has held that
the dismisSals should stand, but
has indicated that Ssh might be
willing to set up a policy to pre-
vent the alleged union and racial
discrimination. He suggested that
the situation might be straight
ened out by compilation Of eff
cheney ratings by supervisors,
which would be reviewed by the
personnel office and followed by
a personal interview of employees
under fire as an additional check.
The union has Spurned this sug-
gestion, however, pointing out that
some supervisors base ratings on
their antiunion prejudices, that
"the personnel director is afflicted
with the same prejudices," and
that "the personnel interviews
were merely for the purpose of
notifying employees of their dis
missals, not for the purpose of
hearing their side of the story"
The discharged workers are Ber-
nard Shultz, Isidore Gordon, Ralph
Balm and William Sumpf.
The Baltimore Ssh organization
attacked Civil Service and Public
Health Service some time ago for
allegedly disqualifying employees
who had come considerable dis
tances to accept jobs by unusually
strict physical examinations. The
charges never brought adequate
explanations from Civil Service,
but on the other hand the union
discontinued pressing them after
several blasts.
EVENTS TO-DAY:
Dance and exhibition of native
products, Iowa State Society,
Shoreham Hotel, 8 p. m.
Dance, General Accounting OF.
flee Lodge No. 8, A. F. G. E..
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 p. m.
Excursion to Greenbelt and
other housing developments. So
cial Security Board Washington
Union, leaves 1712 G st. N. W.,
2 p. m.
One Of the prettiest and most
popular of the attractive women
brought into the service when
Federal Housing Administration
got under way is a May bride.
Teresa Helen Michlun, it Is
learned, was recently married to
Donald Mehrling Won Bosch at |
st. Paul's Rectory. The bride is
the daughter of Bernard Wallace
Of Andover, Mass, while
Mr.. Won Bosch is the son of Mrs.
Ella Won Bosch of Baltimore.
The couple will make their nome
at 1928 First St.. N. W., Takoma
Park, D. C.
NOTICE-Each day The Times
publishes photos of Government |
employees well known to their col.
agueS, with accompanying hi.
ographical sketches. Those in.
terested in such pictures, espe-
cially members of organizations,
should contact this desk before
BIS p. m, or telephone District
1000, branch 210. News items, in.
cidentally, may win a prize.
Officials of Labor Lodge No. IL,
A. F. G. E., have announced their
complete ratification" of the re-
cent rebel action" in which six
liberal units defied National Presi-
dent Charles Stengle and his al
legged inertia by announcing they
would conduct a nationwide
campaign" against looming Fed
eral economy.
A committee of ~ has been
to work in conjunction
with the other rebel" lodges, and
includes Ted Luther. Richard
Shaw. Boris Yane, Ed Hollander,
Francis Dodd. Robert Grcenberg, !