Evening star., 1952-11-10
Labor Department
Offers Relatively Few
Job PIums for 6. 0. P.

The jobs Of comparatively few
of the Labor Departments 1000
employees will be affected when
the Republicans take over Wash
ington next January. BY and
large, Labor offers fewer political
plums to the victorious, Eisen-
hover forces than most depart
mentS.
An official estimated that less
than per cent of the depart
ment's employees would be subject
to replacement when the new
administration takes over. This
would place the number under
70. The rest are civil service
employees, a number of whom are
holdovers since pre-New Deal
days.
The biggest plum, of course, is
the secretaryship, now held by
Maurice j. Tobin, former Demo-
cratic Governor of Massachusetts,
Mr.. Tobin was not available to
discuss his plans. But he un-
doubtedly will return to his home
State where he has maintained
a residence all during his four
year tenure in the cabinet. It is
expected Mr.. Tobin will run for
high Office again in Massachusetts,,
perhaps for Governor or the Sen
ate. He has kept his political
fences in good repair.
Tyson's Staff to Go.
Most of the casualties of the
Eisenhower triumph will be in the
Secretary's Office and in the Office
of Solicitor William S. Tyson
Mr.. Tyson and his whole staff of
about 80 lawyers are subject to
replacement. It is the only bureau
of the department which is not
under Civil Service.
The Labor Department has an
undersecretary and four assistant
secretaries. Undersecretary Mich
ael j. Calvin and one of the as
sistants, Philip Kaiser, who ham
dies international labor matters.
are sure to be replaced. Two of
the other assistants are Ralph
Wright of the AFL, and Robert T.
Creasey of the CIO. They were
appointed on recommendation of
the two labor organizations.
Whether they will leave, probably
will be up to them personally, or
to the AFL and CIO. The fourth
is James E. Dodson, assistant sec
retary for the budget and man
agement. career man.
Bureau Chiefs Removable.
Most of the chiefs of the de-
partment'S nine bureaus can and
probably will be removed. This
may apply also to some under the
level of bureau chief, although a
majority of the deputies were said
to have career status.
However, Commissioner Evan
Clague of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, one of the departments
three large bureaus, may stay on
the job if he chooses. He serves,
under the law, a four-year term
of Office. His second term has
two years to run. Mr.. Clague was
appointed by President Truman
after he had been picked from a.
panel of names by the American
Statistical Association and the
American Economics Association.
In that it is customary for all
presidential appointees to submitI
resignationss upon "a change. at
the White House, Mr.. Clague
probably will submit his. Whether
or not it will be accepted is a.
matter of conjecture. His job is
really that of chief Statistician for
the Government, and in the past
incumbents have survived ad-
ministration changes. In fact, Mr..
Clague is only the sixth person to
serve since the Office was created
in 1884. He is the only non-civil
service employe of his bureau.
Half Employed Here.
Of the 1000 employees of the
Labor Department, about half are
employed here. The rest are in
the field. There will be more
casualties in Washington than
there will be in the field.
The three largest bureaus are
BIS with 1000 employees; the
Wage and Hour and Public Con-
tracts Division with 1900 and the
Bureau of Employment Security
with 1900. The last named bureau