Evening star., 1953-11-20
End
ToLoose Firing
In Civil Service
Reuther and Other
Officers Reelected
Without Opposition
By james Y. Newton
Stor Stcff CORRESPONDENT


istration Ito put an end to at
tacks on the civil service career
system" and to "give assurance
to Government employees that
they will not be subject to
harassment and indiscriminate
firing.
A resolution adopted unani-
mously by the CIO convention
also asked the administration to
help career employees already
fired Ito find jobs either in
private or public employment"
Trained and specialized en-
ployes whose personal political
views differ from those of policy
making officials" the CIO said,
"are being excluded from posi-
tions to which they have dedi-
Gated their working lives. In
many Government agencies
career. employees have been in
discriminatory treated as if they
were enemies of the very Gov
ernment they have served"
In other situations, the reso-
luton stated, "many additional
thousands have been transferred
TO positions far below their abil-
tiles and training"
Reuther and Others Reelected.
The convention today re-
elected, without opposition,
President Walter P. Reuther and
all other national officers. Mr..
Reuther, now entering his Sec
ond one-year term as head of
six-million member organiza-
tions, was given long standing
ovation by the 700 delegates.
Elected for another term along
with Mr.. Reuther were John ".
Rife, executive vice president;
Secretary Treasurer James B.
Carey and eight other vice presi-
dents. These were Joseph A..
Beirne, Communication Workers;
l.. S. Buckmaster, Rubber
Workers: Joseph Curran, Ma
tional Maritime Union; o. A.
Knight, Oil Workers; Michael
Quill. Transport Workers; Emil
Rieve, Textile Workers; Frank
Rosenblum. Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers, and Jane S
ThimmeS, Steelworkers.
The convention designated the
guaranteed annual wage, under
which, presently hourly paid
workers would be paid like sal
aried employees, the next major
collective bargain goal of the
CIO. Mr.. Reuther said we "will
nail it down in 1855" when pres
ent long-term contracts in the
automobile industry expire.
Threat to Civil Service Seen.
The policy of firing and down.
grading on political whim
fancy and retribution," the CIC
said in the civil service reSolu-
ton. not only threatens the
civil service system but already
has undermined vital Govern
ment services and programs.
1.-The combination of indis-
criminate budget cuts on ar
across-the-board basis, f1rings
and haraSSment of career en-
ployeS, has affected most Fed
eral Government functions. in
cluding scientific research anc
development"
Only belatedly, land after
public protest, has the new ad.
ministration offered some sem.
blance of assistance to those" who
have been discharged from the
public service, the CIO con-
cluded.
/ Had Expected, Opposition.
Before the five-day convention
began 1t was indicated there
might be opposition to re-elec'
ton of Mr.. Rifle, who had helC
the No. 2 spot only since tht
death of Allan S. Haywood earl!
in the year, and possibly to Mr.
Carey.
Mr.. Rifles devout espousal o1
the moral rearmament move.
ment resulted in some early op'
position to him on the grounC
that he "had gone soft on union
ism" Mr.. Carey was criticized
for spending too much of hi
time on affairs of the Interna'
tional Union of Electrical Work
ers, of which he is president
But all of the differences wer,
patched up under the Leadership
of Mr.. Reuther.
Today's election showed tina
Mr.. Reuther had gone a Ions
way in a year toward solidifyinI
(See CIO. Page A-8.)