The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03

NAAAAAL NNhAAAAAeA- iSt fronts" In denying Stolherg's charges, the commission makes clear tt had found all of the 10 P, A. Q, leaders 1t had Investigated eligible for government enlploy~ ment, but 1t refuses to name the 10, SAMPLE TEN [,
 Anyone familiar with Washington affairs, running down the list of iAl P. A, c,-ers can easily pick out the names of 10 or more persons who have been on tho government payroll during tho war years, 1n- eluded on the list would he;
 DF, Wlll Alexander, former lAb0r advisor in 0PM,
 Mary Anderson, former head 0t the WOmen's Bureau,
 c, N, Baldwin, former Farm Sc. eurlty AdmlnistEatoF.
 Morris l.. Cooke, former techs hlcal adviser to OPM,
 sidney HlllHan, former cos chairman of oPM,
 pr. Frank Kingdom, former Ads visor 0N Civilian Defense,
 James Le Cron, former assistant to Henry Wallace.
 Nelson Poyntor, formerly with Rockefeller and 0WI,
 pr. Robert 0, Weaver, adviser on race relations in owl,
 Aubrey Williams, former Na. tlonal Youth Administrator,
 While 1t may Do an easy matter to infer that any of these 10 or any other 100 P. A, c, leaders are Com. muniSts-and some of them have frequently been called that by eX- peFts-preving it k something else again. This raises interest ln the tests which the Civil Service Com mission applies in determining paa trietie loyalty,
 General policy of the commission iS that persons who have belonged to or followed the party line of Nagis, FaSeiSts or Communists should not be employed by the U, g, government, Furthermore, every ins dividual entering government oIa- ploymont ia required to take an oath to defend the Constitution and w tHhkV HA aAAaNVAV WAaaSA eaSei
 1T, do further swear tor afs hrm) that I do not advocate, nor am I Q member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United states by force or vlo. lenee; and that during such time as I am an empleye of the federal goV- ernment, will not advocate nor become e member of any political party or organization that advocates tho overthrow of the government of the United States by force or vio. lenee,"
 FEW DECLARED DIsLoYAL
 Since July le4o, Civil Service hes conducted investigations on about 22B, B,000 persons, of whom S2,e00 have been declared ineligible for service in federal government, About ll0, or half of DOT cent, have been de. elAred ineligible because there was reasonable doubt as to their loyalty to the United States, Of these, 300 were found to Do pro.Nasi, pro. Fascist or pro-Japanese, and 600 were pro.C Communist,
 The commission admits that there may be others on the government payroll today who are un.Amerieaa, but the commission has not had the resources to investigate every new government employe SO It has eon- eentrated on key personnel In war agencies,
 In making what 1t calls the Com. munist Party Line test, the com. mission has sought to determine if the applicant has bllndly followed Communist doctrine all through It's various shifts-anti-eapltalistic and world revolutionary from 1929 to le36, anti-Hitler from 1885 to Aug. ust 1889, pro-Hitler from then until June l9Al, and violently anti-Hitler, pro-war and pro.AmerieAn after that.
 when 1t can be established that an individual has followed this party line through one or more of it's significant changes" says Arthur 8. Fleming of the commission, then we believe such person has no business occupying 6 government position"
 It follows from thls explanation that the 10 unnamed individuals on the P. A. c. list, investigated by the Civil Service Commission, were re-