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...salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees. By & large it was orderly, but in Paris 1,600 employes of the Central Telegraph office staged a brief protest strike...
Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
Ever since then veterans and government employe lobbies have been busy trying to induce Congress to turn back the new leaf. Little by little, the President gave ground to forestall Congressional revolts. His regulations were liberalized and more & more veterans were permitted to remain on the pension rolls with the result that the first paper savings of $460,000,000 shrank to $300,000,000. But the President managed to preserve the principle of the Economy Act-to keep off pensions those veterans whose injuries & illnesses were "presumed" by old statutes to have been acquired in service if they...
...January under a "gag rule" the House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill providing money for pensions and government salaries in the form the Administration wanted it. But the Senate, where no gag rule prevails, upset everything by voting back the Federal pay cuts and practically all the pension cuts. The House on a second go-round restored two-thirds of the Federal pay cut, and 75% of their former pensions to "presumptives." The bill as passed did not quite wipe out the savings of the 1933 Economy Act, but it did wipe out the principle of executive control...
Retired. Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, 71, bacteriologist; on a $3,300 pension; from the assistant directorship of the New York City Health Department's laboratories; despite vigorous protests from Dr. Williams & colleagues (TIME, March 26). Reason...