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Committee.
No personnel layoffs are C,
additional jobs would be proyio
for the various bureaus In the
1857 independent Offices and La
bor- Health, Education and We'll
fare Departments money bills.
Such agencies as the Housing
and Home Finance Agency and
the National Advisory Committee
would be able to hire hundreds
of new employees. Other inde-
pendent agencies, in most cases,
would retain their present num-
ber of personnel or add a few
new jobs.
The Labor Department would
add several hundred jobs. par
Iticularly in its Wages and Hours
Division. There would be slight
increases in various activities of
the Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare.
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NO MERGER-Williams Mas
Isie, president of the National
League of Postmasters, has an
nounced there will be no merger
now or in the future with the
rival National Association of
PoStmasters.
The NAP has announced mer-
! ger talks were in progress. But
Mr.. Massie said that he had
made 1t clear to John Fixa, pres
ident of the NAP, that while
the ideal" solution would be a
merger. there are too many prac-
tical difficulties to overcome for
such a merger ever to be pos.
sible. Mr.. Massie flatly declared
his group never will merge with
the rival group.
JOHNSTON CAMPAIGN-With
the filing deadline less than
a month away-April 5-there
has been no candidate filing
for the seat held by Senator
Olin D. Johnston, Democrat oi
South Carolina.
Indications now are that Sen
ator Johnston, who is chairman
of the Senate Civil Service Com.
mittee, will have no opposition
and viii not have to campaign
for reelection.
This is good news for Fedora
employees for two reasons. First
Senator Johnston has been one
of their strongest friends in Con-
gress. Second. with no campaign
ahead this spring-the election
is decided in the July primary
in this, solid Democratic State
Senator Johnston can devote hi
full time in the Senate in behalf
of Federal employe legislation.
Otherwise, Senator Johnston
would be away from Washington
most Of this years session cam.
paigning for reelection, with the
result that the Senate Civil Serv.
ice Committee would meet rare.
| ly. if at all, on Federal employs
legislation.
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TAX RDEN MAY BE
EASED--Maryland State income
tax officials are urging Gov. Nc
Keldin to sign the bill repeating
the State income tax on non
resident Federal workers who
work in Maryland. Under the
present law, these employees must
now pay Maryland State taxes
in addition to taxes in the juris-
Idictions where they live.
The Maryland Legislature has
Just approved bill repeating
this provision, which has caused
SO much protest from nonresi-
dent Federal employees in Mary
land. And Maryland income tax
officials have Endorsed the meas
ufe. They feel that, even though
the State stands to lose 100000
a year in taxes, it would be
worth 1t to get rid of the ad-
ministrative headaches connect
ed with collecting the nonresi-
dent income tax.
II the bill is signed, it will
become effective on July /.
SHARPLY CRITICAL - The
House Civil Service Committees
civil service report was espe-
cially critical Of the Civil Service
Commissions personnel division,
The committee declared 1t
expected to find an outstanding
example of personnel admins
tration" in the CSC's Personnel
Division. However. the commit
tee declared:
THE survey showed this divi-
sion to be just mediocre, with a
more or less standard organiza-
Itlonal pattern, overstaffed by
some 10 to Is per cent, and with
little or no apparent exceptional
information or knowledge of per-
Isonnel administration. No
evidence was presented indicat-
ing the new procedures or prac-
tlces were being carried out or
experimental on with view to
adoption. Neither was there any
sign of an inclination to develop
new practices or methods of
Operation
1T is believed that this Per-
Isonnel Division, with the advice
and guidance Of other bureaus
Iot the commission, could and
should be the outstanding exam
pile of personnel administration
i'm the Federal Government. To
reach this point, it will be neces-
Isary to recruit new personnel
with different outlooks and
training, and with a demon
Istrated will to attempt to develop
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