To be separated from his job is a Government jobholder's most terrible nightmare. A marriage of two jobholders doubles the terror, for there is a still unrepealed section of the Economy Act of 1932 which stipulates that if man and wife both work for the Government, one of them should be fired rather than another employe in case of any reduction of personnel. Small complaint have Government jobholders against their boss, for most of them drew pre-Depression pay till April 1933, then took a 15% cut for a few months, now have...
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