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Show Democratic Chairman Recalls Days Of Republican Persecutions The years when civil servants and scientists were under attack by Republicans were recalled this week by Democratic National Na-tional Chairman Paul Butler in a speech to party members. Mr. Butler traced the role of the nation's civil servants and noted the effect of our scientific progress of the McCarthy-led attacks at-tacks on scientists several years ago. Mr. Butler said: "In the past 75 years many great, outstanding people have served as Civil Service Commissioners. Commis-sioners. They deserve the recognition recog-nition of all of us for their contribution con-tribution to the strength and soundness' of the merit system today. The fact that, despite serious threats and breaches, the system rebounds and survives sur-vives asa keystone of our democracy democ-racy is a tribute to these Corn- service must be protected from the inequities of a salary and pay system which is not competitive com-petitive with comparable nongovernment non-government employment, or that fails to keep pace with a spiralling spiral-ling cost of living. "The limited advances that have been made in increasing the pay of scientific and technical techni-cal personnel must be but the beginning of our work on this problem. The insecurities arising from vetoes and threatened vetoes ve-toes of pay bills do not work to the advantage of sound employee em-ployee morale. "In just recent months we have begun to realize the full loss to government service of valued government employees whose employees whose morale was shattered during the years of the cruel numbers game. The first earth satellite was not put into orbit bv Americans missioners. "Today, as chairman of my party, I am confident that when the responsibility of filling vacancies va-cancies to the Civil Service Comr mission again falls on a Democratic Demo-cratic president after the 1960 elections, that President will never make Civil Service Commission Com-mission appointments a mockery of the very system the Commission Commis-sion is established to protect. "But, whether under a Democratic Demo-cratic or Republican President, I am sure the Republican Chairman Chair-man will agree that any President Presi-dent and any cabinet basically relies on federal employees who must see that the vast and complex com-plex responsibilities of the day-to-day operation of our federal government are carried out efficiently, effi-ciently, fairly and with the utmost ut-most intelligence that can be applied to the execution of policy. pol-icy. "Morale of any sound career "CIA Chief Allan Dulles has shocked us with the scope and extent of Soviet accomplishments in the arena of worldwide peaceful peace-ful economic penetration and competitive world trade. These cold facts make the era of the numbers game an era when the loss must be counted in terms of the United States' position in the struggle with Communist imperialism. The scientists and foreign economic experts who shunned government careers may actually be the extra effort we needed in our missile program or our struggle on the technical assistance front. "The personnel loyalty-security programs of our government must never again become the instrument in-strument of false political retaliation retali-ation The numbers game must never again have welcome and eager players. The impact of the (Continued on Page 8) Democratic Chairman Recalls Days Of Republican Persecutions (Continued from Page 1 ) false picture painted with the smear brush strokes of government govern-ment employees and government service did inestimable damage in frightening young men and women away from government service. "We must strive for achievement achieve-ment of a security program whose sole orientation is not that of just seeking safeguards to make it impossible for loyal and competent scientists to leak information; but rather one that "Finally, the goals we seek in undergirding government employee em-ployee morale must rest on the recognition that the highest standards of behavior and ethics must be established and maintained main-tained by the top officials in every agency. The faith and respect re-spect of our citizens in the integrity in-tegrity of their government are esential. I am confident that the vast majority of government employees em-ployees knows this and recognizes recog-nizes the importance of impeccable impec-cable ethical standards. For any J 1 1 J 1 1 superior 10 Dreacn uus coae is one of the most serious threats to morale of employees. "It is to the men and women of our government career service serv-ice that the real credit goes for the growth and promotion of the Civil Service Merit System." recognizes the full sweep of the true meaning of security and provides the flexibility in security se-curity measures that permits the steady interchange and flow of scientific knowledge and personnel per-sonnel to and from our government, govern-ment, and back and forth within government agencies. "We must strive constantly for the improvement of the procedural proce-dural safeguards within our employee security programs, expanding ex-panding them to include the full protection of fair procedures. Ways should be found to extend to applicants for federal positions posi-tions a measure of fair hearings when questions of security suitability suit-ability arise in their application. "The opportunity for advancement advance-ment and promotion, for every civil servant, regardless of race and color, religion or national origin, must be rigorously protected. pro-tected. The built-in safeguards against any direct or implied discrimination dis-crimination must be constantly tested and surveyed. The prejudices preju-dices and slights possible in the delicate problems of promotion are among the most complex in any personel system. No organization organi-zation can maintain morale and efficiency when the evils of prejudice enter into the picture. |