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months ago, and subsequently the
Civil Service Commission registered
its opposition to the proviso.
Now that this provision has been
eliminated, it seems certain the bill
in its original Senate form will win
the quick approval of Congress. The
Civil Service Commission considers
it a worthwhile measure. 1t will
permit the reinstatement with full
back pay Of all Federal workers who
are found to have been dismissed
unjustly from their jobs.
With the firing proviso elimi-
mated, it now appears likely that a
much milder security dismissal bill
reported by the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Committee may be approved.
This bill would give President Tru-
man the right to grant summary
dismissal powers to a civilian agency
only If he thought it was of vital
necessity to national defense 1t
would not blanket in all agencies
the way the House bill did.
EFFECTIVE DODGE Senate
aides report that the very able and
hard d-working Chairman Bridges of
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee has devised new and effective
way to keep from being button
holed hundred times a day in the
Senate corridors.
The job of chairman Of the
Senate appropriations group keeps
Senator Bridges extremely busy
and his task isn't helped any by the
number of persons who stop him in
the corridors to discuss appropria-
ton matters.
So Senator Bridges often brings
his hat with him to the Senate
Chamber and to committee meet
ings and Immediately puts it on
when he leaves. With his hat on,
he looks just like another citizen
strolling the Capitol corridors, and
he is remarkably free Of Interrupt
tions as he walks to and from his
business.
NEW UPWA CHIEF HERE-Roy
Eldean, the new vice president of
the CIO Union Public Workers of
America, has been selected to head
the unions separate Federal de-
partment in Washington.
UPWA officials concede this is .
move to strengthen the unions Fed
eral membership as we'll as to i'm
prove UPWA'S relations with Con-
gress and the press.
Mr., Eldean is newcomer to
UPWA's top leadership. although he
has served as a member of its execu-
tive board. He is a Government
career employe, having served in the
Chicago post ofiice for % years.
Mr.. Eldean is married, has one
daughter and plans to bring his
family here within the next month
or so, when he takes over his new
duties.
When he assumes his new job
here, Mr.. Eldean will be taking a
leave of absence from the Post Of
flee Department. The fact that Mr..
Eldean, as a Federal employe, al
ready has signed affidavits attesting
to his loyalty has been suggested as
one of the reasons for his appoint
ment. The union evidently feels
his background will discourage some
Of the attacks on its left-wing
policies.
Another important reason for his
election as vice president and ap-
pointment as Federal department
head is Mr.. Eldean's excellent record
in organizing UPWA's membership
in the Middle West. He is president
of the unions Chicago Local 24S.
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY
Ever since last November, the Pub
lie Buildings Administration has
been promising that the return here
from New York City of the Bureau
of Employees Compensation is only
a matter of weeks.
But here it is nearing June, and
BEG employees still have not re-
turned, although PBA has hopes
once more that the return will be
effectuated next month. A wrangle
between PBA officials and the Fed
eral Security Agency, of which BEG
is a part, has held up the return.
Meanwhile, BEG employees are still
on tenterhooks in New York. One
of them sent us a poetic lament