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Meet Our State Civil Service Director
William G. Coleman was born in
Callao, Mo. He attended the University
of Missouri, where in 1937 he took his
B.S. degree in Public Administration.
In 1939 he received his M.A. in Poli
tical Science, also at the University of
Missouri. He did further graduate work
in Political Science at the University of
Chicago in 1939-1940.
Mr. Coleman was Merit System Su
pervisor in State Government of Mis
souri in 1940-1941 and directed the
installation of a Merit System of Per
sonnel Administration in the depart
ment of Public Health, Welfare and
Employment Security.
In 1941-1942 he was Merit System
Supervisor in the State of Louisiana.
From 1942 to 1946 Mr. Coleman
was an officer in the U.S. Naval Re
serve, performing personnel work in
connection with the classification and
assignment of enlisted personnel. He
was released from duty on March 5,
1946 as Lieutenant USNR and reported
for duty as Oregon’s Civil Service Di
rector on March 8, 1946.
W illiam G. Coleman
Mr. Col'eman has a splendid back
ground for the work in which he is
engaged. He has a pleasing personality
and an intense interest in his work. We
wish him every success.
Senator Wayne Morse Predicts
More Organization
Lack- of organization has caused the
nation’s white collar workers to suffer
more than any other group in the lower
pay brackets, Sen. Wayne Morse (R.
Ore.) said.
Speaking at the first annual con
vention of the Office Employees Inter
national Union (AFL), the Oregon sen
ator said he believed organization of of
fice workers would spread in the near
future to several millions "who today
do not share any equality of collective
bargaining benefits w i t h industrial
workers.”
Considering what he termed standard
of living legislation pending before
congress, Morse said "the same reac
tionary forces which have all along
fought the organizing of white collar
workers and workers generally are again
opposing a minimum standard of liv
ing for low-paid workers which the
pending 6 5 cent minimum wage bill
seeks to provide.”