Evening star., 1954-10-20
Office promised

private NE.
The employe leaders contend
that, as long as an employees
private affairs have no direct
bearing on his Federal job, the
Government does not have a
right to snoop in his affairs.
The unions want the order to
apply only to an employees Of
fetal conduct in connection with
his Federal job as a means OF
dealing with or preventing cor
ruption and malfeasance in Gov
ernment. They want the order
changed so that no agency
could possibly interpret it as
shopping investigation into
private lives.
The Federal Communications
Commissions recent dos and
don'tS" to FEC employees regard
ing their after hours activities
has employe leaders worried that
other agencies will take similar
actions. FEC officials said the
warning had been issued as a
result of the administrators
employe conduct program.
Employe leaders also are con-
eerned over the administrators
action in trying to keep the en-
ploye conduct investigation pro-
gram a deep secret. In fact. the
program was kept a secret for
nearly four months until dis
closed by The Star several weeks
ago.
CAREER CONDITIONAL
PROGRAM-President Eisen-
hover now is expected to
issue the executive order on
the new career conditional
appointment program around
the end of the month. A
target date of October Is
had been set but the pro-
posed draft of the order could
not be finished in time.
This means that the new ca
reer-conditional program will go
into effect around January /,
since it will take about so days
from the issuance of the presi-
Dental executive order for the
Civil Service Commission to put
the regulations into effect. Hun
dreds of thousands of indefinite
employees will receive career or
career conditional appointments
under the new system.
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VETERANS PREFERENCE
ATTACKED-The National AS
ISOLATION of Federal Career En-
ployes, at a special executive Ses-
sion this week, called for the
repeal or modification of vet
erans' preference in Government
employment.
The career group declared
that "A true merit system in the
Federal service cannot be main
tained as long as veterans, with
even one year of Federal serV-
ice, retain retention rights over
all non-veteran employees" It
said it would ask the new Con-
gress to change the law so that
non-veteran career employees can
receive greater job protection
rights.
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KAPLAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
j. Lawton, the Democratic men,
ber of the Civil Service Commits
sion, has made a strong appeal
on behalf of the Kaplan Com
mittee proposal for co-ordinat-
ing civil service retirement with
social security.
In an address before the con-
vention of the Retirement Fed
Grafton of Civil Service Employees
one of the few employe groups
which has not yet expressed
opposition to the plan-Mr.
Lawton said the proposal would
result in greatly increased family
survivorship benefits for Fed
eral workers and their families
as we'll as increased pensions
for employees when they retire.
Taking an indirect slap at the
various Federal employe unions
which already have gone on rec
ord in opposition to the Kaplan
Committees recommendations to
Congress. Mr.. LaWton declared:
Don't allow yourselves to be-
come panicked at the sounds of
the words social security and
to fancy you see ghosts under
the bed. There is nothing sinis.
ter about those words. There is
no reason to think that social
security constitutes a threat to
civil service retirement.