The union times., 1943-07-31
COMPTON CHALL LENCED BY UNITED LABOR
Hayes and Danaher Winl State Loses
By ROBERT B. BICKEL

The Labor Department of the State of Connecticut sank a bit deeper in the mire of intellectual ity this week with the resignation of Mrs. Christine C. Beeck, of Stony Creek, director of the Mini mum Wage Division of the Depart ment.
 She quit the Department, which has been in state of increasing demoralization since former Com missioner Joseph M. Tone left, be- cause she felt her usefulness as public servant has been greatly curtailed by the administration of Commissioner Cornelius J. Danaher.
 ''We ought to have other wage
 orders going through" she told
 THE UNION TIMES, when asked
 to specify the reasons for her
 resignation.
 Now is the opportune time to put through wage orders, but the Labor Department does not seemed to be interested in the matter. We should have minimum wage order for pub lie housekeeping and for office work CTS. There has been no wage order since June 1, 1942, when the mer- cantile standards were set"
 Although she would not go into her reasons for quitting her post, colleagues in the Labor Depart ment, who dare not let their names be used for fear of reprisals, stated that she was the object of special in the campaign of abuse being directed against the effective and efficient employees brought into the Labor Department under Tone.
 Deputy Commissioner John T. Hayes, who is administrative head of Wage Division is charged by workers in the department with giving most of his time on his $6,000- year-job either to sitting around do- ing nothing or to bullying the per Sonnel.
 Some of the employees in the exOnerate Danaher of the blame for the bullying cam- paign by stating that he is too busy reading his little books or taking his afternoon nap to really know what is going on.
 "When the truth comes out 1t will be dynamite" declared a responsible worker.
 Another employe said in all sin cerity:
 With all this leaving of responsible an investigation should be made of the State Labor Department" "
 Hayes goes about the department that due to his efficient handling of the Division of Medi- ation and Arbitration he has been for the diminished of cases brought to the division nowadays.
 Workers in the department state that the real reason is that the divi- sion has been so mismanaged that both the workers and the employers have no faith in it.
 When Mrs. Beeck announced her resignation last week, she offered to stay with the Department 30 days in order to help "break in" whoever was going to take her place. Hayes brus- quely told her to get out by the end of the week.
 Commissioner Danaher told THE UNION TIMES this week that he didn't know who would succeed Mrs. Beeck. He also said he didn't know why she was leaving, and when asked if she was a capable employe, said: ''She was on the civil service, and her resignation is her own business. Any of my workers can resign any time they want to-"
 Mrs. Beeck is the third key mem Der of the Labor Department picked by Joe Tone who has quit under the present Commissioner. Like Morgan Mooney, former deputy commissioner, and George >McDonough, her dissatis- faction grew out of the gradual de- of the Department.
 The retiring director of the Mini mum Wage Division stated that she had no employment at mind for the present, but in the Fall would try to get war plant job to do work with
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