PUBLIC SERVICES IN UNITED STATES
REFORM INTENDED COMMENT BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. President Roosevelt sent Congress l recomendations tv an eminent comI mittee on public service reform with | the object of eliminating the tradii tional spoils system. If adopted, the ■ recommendations will include classl- ' lied public service for all jobs except I policy-making and those requiring Senate confirmation. ’ Mr. Roosevelt said: “We have been • rather laggard in extending the public service to the higher positions requiring initiative, imagination, and flexibility. We ought to achieve for them independence and security which assures conditions for the best Governmental service.” The newspaper columnist, Mr. Westbrook Pegler, told the House Judiciary Committee to-day that under the Federal labour laws the Government drives men into a union and does not give them protection from union bosses. The Government refuses to take any steps to protect unwilling members of labour unions. Elections of union officers were crooked and farcical, accounts were juggled, and known criminals maintained office by manipulation and terrorism.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 5
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