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ee le. a acer + Smee tiane ~ ee ees Ce er] as aes ee Mr. Telszsos 7 ms O - Df SE Glavia : , Ladd ; leho Mr, Roseai ' / Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Coffey Wir, Hendon Mr, Kramer i _ oe 2 - Toh ee A we 1 irre a * S oy kee wee ees A ey aie Par4 Pe cote Q ashe er” at 8 ont ~ ee . to 4-30 Le tet # 9 nt a ee ayia Toa . . . x r. : . * GPO Carries’: Mr Nee to Congress. tu, 7! By JOHN F. CRAMER - oo Sp ‘ Employes of Government Printing Office will ge to Congress this week to ask for a pay ratse—-ana thereby hangs a little story. Since 1924, pay at the GPO has been governed by a law known as the Kiess act, It sets up a procedure for adjusting pay disputes. Tt makes the Joint Congressional Committee on Printing the final “a Ma 10g i 20 ie _ arbiter, ou . _ ; é The printers got one ralse in 1JZb. And they got the equivalent uced with- iF ef another several years ago when their hours were red - > gut a corresponding slash in pay.. Soe — In both cases, however, the raises were granted by the Public Printer. In Helther was it necessary to appeal to the Joint Committee. ; -. So in taking the present case to the Committee the printers are setting a precedent. It will be the first real test of the appeals machinery. ‘They expect to file a brief this week. It will ask a basic rate of $1.52 an hour @s against the present $132. That's an increase of approximately 15 per cent. “After the printers file their brief, the law gives the Public Printer 10 days a in which to reply. Then it will be up to the Committee to call an open hearing. There are nine separate crafts at GPO, Committee Chairman Sen, Carl Hayden (D, Ariz.) has ruled that each must argue ita case individually. For that reason, the hearings may take quite s while, What They’re Saying o No he can help it?” .. . Sen, Truman recent iaue Oj/ American | Wagazine}: “Washington haa become a city where a large proportion of the population makes its living, not by taking in another's washing, but by un- reeling one another's red tape.” . +. The Citizens Emergency Committee: “4 dollar of Government economy finances just as much war aa a dollar of either Yazes or bonds”... At War Department: “What I like about Secre- y, tary Stimson—he doesn't let the generals rush him.” ; ify Mt. 3 Dindneent . ; ad Jimmy’s Determined . / I Insiders say Jimmy Byrnes still is determined that his new Office of Eoo- Poo. ; ‘Homic Stabilization will be a very small office... tal wi G | Biddle who agld President op the ides 9 sh Fe GARG of Tas at SE one insider puts it. ,.. Corrington Gill, ex-WPA big-ghot an ' ty RUnintetre ive officer for Civilian Defense, now ia doing a statistical |. $b for Army's Services of Supply. One rumor has.a much bigger job waiting |- fiir him. And by an odd coincidence, his boss in Services of Supply ts Liput. sot RECORDED a" a fat wm stat Be Pies ke le THES Gen. ar. ie who used to be Mr. Gil's subordinate ta a | 177 0x7 91008 ay ae purr WASHINGTON NEWS _ —s a | a Page 4