Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1935, Page 6

Many Risk Their Lives in Alcohol Division, Al- though Unpaid. BY ROBERT B. PHILIPS, JR. How would you like to risk your life for nothing? That, precisely, has been the oppor- unity Uncle Sam has afforded scores of his 900 payless workers in the Treasury Departmment Alcohol Tax Unit since December 1, 1934. In return for the difficult and often dangerous task of uncovering illicit alcohol sources, effecting the arrest of liquor tax dodgers and prosecuting the cases, the unsalaried workers get —nothing. Their incomes gone, they have become dependent upon the credit of merchants, tke aid of friends and such odds and ends of extra work as they can obtain. Some Look to Relief. Naturally, these workers are not openly eligible for Federal relief, while there is a chance Congress will give them back pay and reinstate them in the Government service. But it is not unlikely that with their re- sources exhausted, their friends and storekeePers unable to help further, a few families have been forced onto charity rolls. A quixotic, situation, with active Federal agents, many of them vested with police powers, at the same time receiving outside financial aid because the only thing they can get from the Government is the power to do it favors. Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau has been before the Treasury Appro- priations Subcommittee of the Senate this week, fighting for the rights of the payless hundreds. He has advanced the argument that the present workers should be given full status, because they know the work, in which it would take new men months to become efficient; that the method whereby the 900 were dis- qualified, would demoralize the civil service employes as a group, if they believed they could be similarly ruled out by congressional action, and that there are hundreds of cases in various stages of investigation which would collapse if the present force of men was eliminated. Hints of Misery. Since it is not considered proper for cabinet officers to argue senti- mental reasons before the Senate, he did not go into the misery suffered by the workers and their families in the last three months. His attitude did indicate, however, that dur- ing that time, when they were crowd- ing their families into smaller apart- ments, patching up old clothes, borrowing from friends and even cut- ting rations for their children to a minimum, the 900 turned in an en- forcement record which made him desirous of keeping them in the serv- ice. The 900 have, as a whole, fulfilled their duties and taken the usual risks as if the pay envelope was full twice a month, rather than non-existent. ‘There has been some slight interrup- tion of morale, one of the division chiefs pointed out, because the men occasionally find a day or two of out- side work. In New York, for exam- ple. several did not show up at the office during the first couple of days of the recent blizzard. They had jobs shoveling snow. Two Spurned Bribes. Two other men were offered bribes by an illicit alcohol dealer in Syracuse recently. They were proffered $250 & month each, as a regular salary, to overlook the shipments of alcohol they had detected in movement. The man who offered the bribe was not only indicted for ta xevasion, but the grand jury returned an indictment against him for offering a bribe to a Federal officer. The pair, living from hgnd to mouth, await a chance to send him to jail for offering them money they sorely needed. Realizing the workers cannot pos- &ibly hold out much longer, Secretary Morgenthau is pressing for their im- mediate relief by congressional action. If nothing is done, he says the Gov- ernment will lose more money by in- efficiency and disruption of normal procedure than the back pay would cost. —_— Pulaski Day Approved. The Couzens bill authorizing the President to proclaim October 11 each year Gen. Pulaski's memorial day in commemoration of the death of the Revolutionary War hero, was passed yesterday by the Senate and sent to the House. 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