The Washington times., 1937-06-07

Meeting, Inter.Union Council
(ousted A. F. G. e. lodges. SOS
Seventeenth st. N. W., 8 p. m.
Meeting, Michigan Washington
Democratic Club, 1899 New House
Office Building, 8 p. m.
SPORTS sPARKERS-Michel
and Green, G.. A. o., for getting
their teams only two hits in q
recent Softball game. .Altieri, Blu
reau of Engraving and Printing,
for three hits recently against
Procurement Division. Bocher,
Hole right fielder, for a perfect
batting day with two singles and
a two-bagger against Railway Mail
Service.
A. F. G. E.-Senator Pat Nc.
Carran's acceptance of an invita-
ton to speak Thursday at the
rebel" mass meeting on economy
would seem to leave the high COM
mand in q peculiar position. =.
McCarran has ever fought for
Government employees, now spon-
sors a bill to raise their pay, and
the high commands spurning OF
a movement with which he seems
in sympathy has some clerks won
dering the angle brings a mo
comment" answer from headquar-
tiers at the Washington Loan and
Trust Building-acroSs from Civil
Service on the other hand, the
high command has stated that it
never at any time pooh.poohed a
drive against economy, only against
q mass meeting, which is felt to
be of no use in actually getting
desired results and might make
some legislators quite peeved If
somebody spoke out Of turn.
NOTTCE-Each day The Times
publishes photos of Government
employees well known to their col
leagues. with accompanying bio
graphical sketches. Those inter-
ested in such pictures, especially
members of WaShington's numer-
GUS organizations Of all types,
should contact this desk before
Sis p. M, or telephone District
1000, branch 210, between 2 and 6
p. m. News tips, incidentally, may
win a cash prize.
Sponsored by the Interior De-
partment's Office Of Education, a
program yesterday over the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System por-
trayed the struggle which led to
the inclusion of the Northwest
Territory within the United States,
accomplished by the Ordinance
of 1887.
The broadcast, entitled "An
Army Of Peace" was written by
DR.. and Mrs. Harold G.. Calhoun,
aided by script writer's Of the Edu-
cational Radio Project.
Attacks on the Civil Service
Commission for one policy or an
other are fairly frequent these
days. But it isn't new. Theodore
Roosevelt, when he was a Civil
Service Commissioner in 1889. had
his troubles as well.
Once the indomitable r. r.
aroused the enmity of a District
newspaper. according to the Civil
Service Commission News, and the
paper managed to obtain a letter
written by Roosevelt in longha I'D
which could hardly be read. On
Tuesday, August 81, 1889, the pa
per published facsimile of the
letter under the title, Gould He
Pass an Examination for q Posi-
ton as Copyist?"
1t is said RooSevelt's only com.
ment was that he had not applied
for such a position but that those
who did apply would be tested in
a practical manner.
FEDERALISMS - May retire
mentS at Engraving and Printing
include Theodore J. Moseley, Mary
F. Madigan, Mrs. Mary L. Thomas,
Matthew B. Mahany, John B.
Marshall, Mrs. Eva P. Rothrock
and William F. O'Donnell. Nose
ley led the list in service with 81
years. Mahany having two less. .
the AK has fallen on the Committee
Against False Economy, but the
rebel A. F. G. E. lodges are dis
tributing a folder entitled, stop
That AK" the folder declares
some of the evils of economy will
be lack of promotions, mass lay
offs, undertaking, undermining
OF pay scales, destruction of
morale. chronic overtime, impair
ment Of efficiency and plenty Of
burroughs among officials to be
barred from the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor by the A. F. G. E.
suspensions is w. w. Richardson,
chief OF personnel at General Ac-
counting, whose job 1t Is to make
the current staff slices at Richard
N. Elliott's agency. N. F.. F. ELS
rap at the Vinson brass hat" bill
would seem justified after an in.
Spection of the QuartermasLer
Depot at Philadelphia at that
spot, uniformed officers are in
charge Of many duties, with a fore
man second in command il a
visitor asks a technical question,
the officer usually must ask the
foreman for the answer. A. r.
G. E. has added two lodges as 1t
slices seven; groups in Tacoma,
Wash, and the D. C. Sewer De-
partment having been granted
charters. Lee Somers, A. F. G.
E. editor, left for Vermont Satur-
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