Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — AX FALLS HEAVILY UPON BUREAU HEADS [ARTICLE]

AX FALLS HEAVILY UPON BUREAU HEADS

Commerce and labor Employes Dismissed by Nagel. Washington, Aug 6.—Another great upheaval has occurred in the person nel of the department of commerce and labor as the result of a probe into the efficiency record of employes in that department. The official ax has fallers heavily upon employes in th- 'mmigration service, where considerable 'nefficlen cy was shown to have existed. It has teen directed that a number of such employes in both these tranches of th® service be dismissed and a number of ethers are slated to go Only recently Secretary Nagel at lowed half a score of! employes in the department to resign and reduced up wards of one hundred. Of the more rfcap 800 cases of employes in ‘he Immigration service out side of Ellis Island. New York, it was shown that about 130 of them were ap parently below the required standard of efficiency In a similar manner reductions in salaries were ordered, others “caution ■ ed" and others «han’v admonished tn ’ do better work. , A few immigration inspectors, old : and incapacitated for duty, win be rei duced to the watchmen grade. In the census bureau here about 120 employes have been found inefficient Of this number one dismissal has been ordered eleven were demoted, while the remainder of the cases will be he'd up pending further inquiry