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New Secretary Undertakes Task to Kntt Knit KnitActivities KnitActivities ) Activities of Over2O Over 20 Agencies ; Seeks SeeksTo SeeksTo SeeksTo To Avert Vet-Union Vet Union Vet-Unton Unton - Row . - ByBAUKHAGE By BAUKHAGE1eus BAUKHAGE 1\eus 1 eus \ ) % eus ' Analyst Ana1ys 4nnyi ( < ond and Commentator Commentalor 1VNU WVU WNTY Service ServJee Union Trost Trust BuildingWashmgton BuildingWashington Building BuildingW Washmgton Washington W shmeton D C CIt CIt CIt It took Hercules just one day to tolean tolean tolean lean the stableshere stables ' \ where \\here here there one wealthy wealthyout wealthyut wealthy9ut out ut not riot too sanitary samtary saintary roan man had kept10 kcpt kept 10000 10 000 oxen At least Jeast that Is the wayI wayl way l I heard it 1t at my father s knee Smce Since Smcemy Sincemy Sincemy my lather father pioneered in 10 Wash ngton ngtonstate ngtonstate ngtonitate state in the early 90s I wish he hewere hewere beyere were here now to witness wltness another anotherWash1ngloman anotherWashingtonian anotherWashinglonian Wash1ngloman Washingtonian doing a Herculean Herculeanlob Herculeanlob Herculeanjob lob lobhlCh which \\hlCh hlCh ' \ hich he hopes to finish fimsh by Scp Sep Scptember Scpember Septeniber tember ember teniber ! 1I II 1 I 1I I refer to Secretary Sch\\ Sch Schellen 5chellen 5chellenaach SchwellenBach ' \ ellen ellenoach oach aach whote whose assignment is to put puthe putthe putthe he the ! department departtiient of labor in 10 order He HeLsn HeLsn Heisn Lsn t gointf goml1 going to have to do much clean clean.ng cleanrig cleaning .ng ng rig . out but he has been tidying tldymg up upso upso upso so that he can bring brmg back under hISlegIs hisaegis his hisegis legIs aegis egis most of a score of procilgal prodigal procilgal1gencles prodigalagencies prodigaligencies 1gencles agencies all having havmg to doHth do \ with \Hth Hth la Ia la)01 Iaor labor \)01 )01 01 \ ) or ' which wmch w xe sce scattered all aU over the theDstrct theDistrict theDistrict Dstrct District ! ! of Columbia and pomts points pomtsJorth pointsnorth pointssorth Jorth north and . vestMost vestMost vest vestMost Most of the labors of Hercules Herculeswere Hercules'ere Herculessere were 'ere ere ' decl decidedly decuY'dly decuYdly "dJy dJy " ' thankless ones and andwere andwere andwere were given him mm for spite because hiastepmother hl hi histepmother stepmother Juno didn dldn t like her her:1usband herusband herlusband :1usband 1usband usband : s extra curn currimlar curriu1ar ular ch Idren Idren.bchwellenbach Idrenbchwellenbach . . . bchwellenbach s job 3ob is 1S thankless thaniciess thanklessenough thaniciessenough thanklessenough enough bu\ bu but bu1t bu < \ it 1t wasn wasnt t g gven ven yen to't to 't t 'tu 'tt ' , u ? { o , t 'c c 'ckt ' S \kt kt \ s ! A ASecretary . . ; , | z s l . / . Secretary Sehwellenbachhim Schwellcnbacli SchwelJenbach Sehwellenbach Schwellcnbaclihim him for spite It ' \ was as given to h m rn mby rnby mby by his ms old friend fnend Harry Truman Trumanbecause Trumanbecause Trumanbecause because tha the President bel be ] e e\ e eed \ \ ed that thatlI1.e thatLike thatike lI1.e lI1e Like [ . Hercules Schwellenbach could coulddehver coulddeliver coulddeliver dehver deliver He was a popular hard hardorkmg hardorkmg hardnorkmg \\orkmg orkmg ' \ orkmg senator He was a popular popularhard popularhard popularhard hard hardorkmg ' \ working \\orkmg orkmg orking judge The requests of ofgoddesses ofgoddesses ofgoddesses goddesses and presidents are com commands comrnands cornmands mands rnands so the judge laid as de do his hisrobe hisrobe hisrobe robe rolled up his sleeves and andstarted andstarted anditarted started in . . . The first thing he found out when whenhe whenbe whenhe he be reached the palatial stables stableson stableson on Constitution avenue was that tak takIDg taking taking IDg ing care of o ( administrative admmlstrabve matters mattersould matterscould mattersaould \\ould ould could \ keep any labor secretary as asbusy asbusy asbusy busy as Augeas should have becn been becnwIth beenwith beenwith wIth his 3 000 oxen No wonder nobody no nobody nobody body quite dared to try to corral the the20 20 some agencies rightly under the theau.honty theauhority theauthority au.honty auhonty auhority . of the department To ad admimster administer administer mimster minister them would under the thepresent thepresent thepresent present set setup up be an impossIble impossIblejob impossiblejob Impossiblejob job And so they grew up with theIr theIrown theirown theirown own publ pubi c relat ons departments departmentstheir departmentstheir departmentstheir their own statistical stabstlcal services and Ie Ic Iegal Icgal Iegal gal galadVlsors galadvisors advisors adVlsors separate entities enbtles all allgomg allgoing allgoing gomg going their theJr own sweet if sometimes sometimesconfuctmg sometimescorifticting sometimesconflicting confuctmg corifticting vaySo ' \ way vay waySo ay aySo So the first thing thmg that Sch Ech Schiellenbach \ % ellen ellenbach ellenbach bach did was to get together a small smallgroup smallgroup smallgroup group who knew the department departmentwho departmentwho departmentWho who knew organization orgaDlZation andho andsho and \\ho ho sho shoknew ' \ whoknew hoknew knew Washington Washmgton to find out if ifsomethmg ifsomething itsomething somethmg something couldn couidn t be done to kmt knit kmtthe knitthe knitthe the tunct ons of the departlY'ent departlYent department departlY'entmore departmentmore departmentmore ' more closely together so the head headman headman headman man wouldn t hae ha'ie haie ha\ ha ' \ e to sign all the thetravel thetravel thetravel travel orders and decide whether whetherthere whetherthere whetherthere there was enough cnough ice to in the iced icedtea icedtea Icedtea tea in 10 the cafeteria cafetena and attend to toother toother toother other trivia which might better be bedelegated bedelegated bedelegated bedelegatedThis delegated delegatedTIns delegatedThis This TIns TInsas ' \ was \\as as v.as vas . the first step in prepar ing preparIng the old home to absorb its prod prodgal prodgal prodgal gal children When the new seare secre searetary secretary secretary tary arrived arnved in 10 his panneled ofTcehe off ce cc he cehe cche called the staff of the depart department department department ment together and said he knew t that knewthat everone ever ; ) one agreed that there > thenbad therehad had to be a reorganizat on and that thateach thateach tha'each thaeach ' each d vision head also probably probablyagreed probablyagreed probableagreed agreed that his own group dldn didn didnneed didnneed t tneed need to be tampered w th Then h he hevent hevent < vent ent aheadAs aheadAs ahead aheadAs thathe thatthe As this is written wntten it is hoped hopcd that the report of the crew of Invcsbga investiga invcstigators Invcsbgators investigatars tors tars and a s mtlar milaI milar ' study of ot the theextra theextra thiextra extra mural act vities vll1es will be com corn completed cornpleted cornpleted pleted soon so that a comprehensive comprehensivereport comprehensivereport comprehcnsivreport report will wlll be la Ia d on President Tru man s desl desk by the first of oZ Septembel Septemher Septem Septemher her bel ' herReorganization Reorganization Reorgamzatron Touchy ReorganizationTouchy ReorgamzatronTouchy ProblemThe Problem ProblemThe The next step would logically bean be bean bean an executive order from the Presl Press Presldent Pressdent President dent embodying embodymg the Sch\\eIJenbach Sch eIJenbach Schiel3enbaCh ScheIJenbachreport Schiel3enbaChreport Schwellenbachreport ' \ report to make the suggested suggestedchanges suggestedchanges suggestedchanges changes With his war powers the thePresldcnt thePresident thePresident . Presldcnt President " nouldn "ouldn ouldn ou1dn t have to a ask ack < k the theI thepleasure thepleasure pIca pleasure sure of congress But President PresidentTruman PresidentTruman PresidentTruman I Truman doesn t want the changeshe changes changeshe changeshe he makes to be temporary affairs affairsLIke affairsLike affairsLike LIke every other president sInce sInceGrover sinceGrover sinceGrover Grover Cleveland he has requested requestedpowers requestedpowers 'powers powers ' to reorgan ze the govern government government government ment and never has congress of offered offered offered fered a carte blanche gohead go \head head ihead ' \ iheadSuch iheadSuch headSuch Such a bill is pending pendmg in m congressnow congre congress congressnow s snow now Ho\\ Ho However Hoever \ \ ever if the suggest ons onsmade onsmade onsmade made by Secretary Schwellenbacn Schwellenbacnwere were considered reasonable they theym theyn.i theym m n.i ni . ght be put into 1OtO a bill and passed passedIn passedIn In any case they will probably be bepresented bepresented bepresented presented before the other measure measureauthorlzmg measureauthorizing measureauthorizing authorlzmg authorizing wider pres dential dentlal au authonty authority authonty thonty thority is considered consideredIn In the meantime meanbme labor itself IS IStendmg istending istending tendmg tending to cloud the atmosphere m in msofaI insolar insofar sofaI solar ' as acceptance of any efforts effortsto effortsto effortsto to restore rcstore full tree free collective bar bargaining bargaining bargaining gaining which the no strike pledge pledgeand pledgeand pledgeand and \ anous arlOUS arious wart me restrctlons restrictions restrctlonshae restrictionshae restrictionsha\e restrictionsha e ! ha\e ha e hae \ % virtually suspended The pub publie public publie lie lic is getting gettmg very irritated lrntated with VIO VIOlatIOns vioIations violations latIOns Iations of the no strike pledge and andhat andwhat " , hat many feel to be union umon demands demandschich demandswhich " , hlCh chich whether or not they appear appearfall appearfair appearfair fall fair ' as between beteen bet " een labor and manage management management management ment do not take the ihe consumer mto into mtoconslderatlon intoconsideration intoconsideration intoconsiderationMuch conslderatlon consideration conslderatlonMuch considerationMuch Much of the anhgonism anhgomsm is due to tothe tothe tothe the feeling fcellOg of the menho men \ who \\ho ho stho resented resentedstrikes resentedstrikes resentedstrikes strikes \ while thile \ hlle they were m in the serv servIce service service Ice Sch\\ Sch Schellenba Sehwellenbach Sthvellenbach \ ellenba ch managed to tosmooth tosmooth tosmooth smooth out one of the toughest vet veterans veterans veterans erans versus ur ons troubles tho the thecourtry thecourtry ! cour courtry try everItnessed ever \ witnessed \\Itnessed Itnessed vitnessed \ back in hIS hIShome hishome hishome home state of Wash ngton after the thelast thelast thelast last \ war tsar ar He adm ts there is no nodoubt nodoubt nodoubt doubt that such antagonism antagomsm e exists existsno existsno .lsts lsts .lstsno . no \ \ ' . We may as \ well ell face fdce it Jt he hesa hesa hesai sa ) s 5 But he thnks th nks he can handle ItOne itOne it itOne One hab t which Sch\\ellenbach Sch ellenbach Schaellenbach Schellenbachwants Schaellenbachwants Schwellenbachwants \ wants to break up and t is as assumed assumed assumed sumed the Pres dent wants him to tobreak tobreak tobreak break up is having havmg labor disputes disputesleap disputesleapfrog disputesleap leap leapfrog frog right into mto the lap of he heWhIte heWhite heWhite WhIte House Some of the old 1 ne nelabor nelabor nelabor labor department departmcnt officials used tc tcwnthe tcwrithe tcwrithe wnthe writhe e\ e e\ery e ery eery etery \ ery time a long hot tele ide telegram idegram telegram gram grament \ went \\ent ent ent out such as some oi 01 oithose 01those oithose those addre addressed < sed to John Lewis while whiletbe whilethe whilethe tbe the coal strike was going golOg on wh sth \ h ch chwere cl clwere cbwere were signed by Pres dent Roosev Roose\ Roose Roosee Roosete Roosetebut \ e t tbut tbut but dictated dJctated by the War Wdr Labor Laborboard Laborboard Laborboard board which labor and management managementhad managementhad managementhad had snubbed These old timers fel1 fell fel1that fellthat tellthat that many of the questions couldhave could couldhave couldhave have been settled with the ma machmery machinery rnachmery chmery chinery whichalread whichairead which alread airead } ) ex cx sted With within within 10 in the department departmentOf Of course the War Labor board boardwhich boardwhich boardwhich which has had all the tasks com compllcated complicated cornplicated pllcated plicated by the \ war tiar ar to perform will willdIe willdie willdie dIe with wlth V VJ J Day DayVows DayVows Vows VOW8 V OW8 Impartral Impartial ImpartralLabor ImpartialLabor ImpartialLabor Labor DepartmentOther Department DepartmentOther Other separate separdte agencies dealmg dealing dealmgWIth dealingwith dealingwith WIth labor111 labor ' \ will \\111 111 continue The United UnitedStates UnitedStates UnitedStates States Employment service and the theapprenhceshlp theapprenticeship theapprenticeship apprenhceshlp apprenticeship and train tram ng rig pro pro- program program program - - gram are as-c as c - no v part of the War Man Manpoer Manpower Manpower po\\er po er power \ \ comraiss commlSs commiss on Social securitjis securityis security securIt securItis is run by the social security secunty board boardIf boardIf boardIt If the movement to create a ne\\ ne nedepartment ne nedepartment newdepartment \ department of welfare . . succeeds .ucceeds ucceeds thIS thISne thisne thisne ne v set up might conceivably ab- ab absorb ab.sorb absorb - . . sorb social security secunty and also th thchildren thchildren < children s bureau now under the la In labor Inbor labor bor department'I departmentThe department departmentThe 'I I 'IThe ' The I'at Iat I ' at onal Labor Relation Relations Relatloni Relationsboard Relatloniboard ; board whichadmm whichadmin which admin admm sters its quasi quasijudicial judIcial funct ons under the Wagner Wagneract Wagneract Wagneiact act now- now nowindependent - - independent mdependent would h\vE h vE hivi hvEits hiviits hiviits ' \ its housekeep ng done by the de departmentthat departmentthat department partment-that partment that - that is its financing financmg per personnel personnel personnel sonnel and such matters would bE bEunder bunder b < under the secretary of laborS laborSnce labor laborS Snce S nee nce Schwellenbach Schellenbach Schaellenbach Sch\\ Sch ' \ ellenbach has been lr ir lroffice iroffice noffice office he be has talked to a whole strini striniof stnn ; of labor men and a whole string strmg 0 o 0management omanagement omanagement management men tooI tooI too tooI I am not a labor ofTcial olTcial off clal hisais hE hEsa hEsays sa says ) s I am a publ pubi c officIalThat officialThat official That pretty \ well tell ell sets up hs ha h s a posi pOSl position tlon tion and as Isa I sa d it makes his Job 3ob Jobso 3obso so tar far as the lobbies of labor ane anc anemanagement ancmanagement management go about as thankles thanklesi thanklesias ! Congresfeels as the labors of Hercules Congres feels that the labor - dep-irtment dep irtment dep"lrtment deplrtment depirtment " i isupposed Isupposed isupposed supposed to look atter after labor mtcr inter mtcrests interests ests ellenbactis and what Judge Sch ellenbact ellenbacis is shoot ng at is to have it operat operate operatewith ( with the impartiality lmpartJaJty ! ofa of a COUI eouit t eouitBut But 1 i is chiefconcern chief concern now is to con consoIJdate consolidate sobdate soIJdate solidate under one head all govern goveni government governmerit ment merit activities |