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Keowee Courier
Walhalla, Pickens, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina
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New Georgia Agricultural Commissioner Eugene Talmadge fires all employees from the prior regime in Atlanta on June 26, fulfilling his campaign pledge; market bureau director Felix E. Boswell resists, but Talmadge claims legal right to end contracts.
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A dispatch from Atlanta under date of June 26 says:
Personally notified or beyond reach of personal notification, every salaried employee of the Georgia State Agricultural Department under the recently closed regime, is out of a job, Eugene Talmadge, of McRae, installed in the office of the Agricultural Commissioner on Saturday, announced today.
Commissioner Talmadge notified all office employees of their removal Saturday in accordance with his "clean sweep" campaign pledge.
"If I am unable to reach all of the salaried field men in time for delivery of discharge notices," the commissioner said, "they will know about it anyway, for there will be no more checks. I’m going to sign none for them, and the jobs won’t be worth much without pay."
Felix E. Boswell, director of the bureau of markets under the retiring administration, refused to accept his dismissal. Commissioner Talmadge, however, declared he had legal authority for the belief that a State employment contract extended beyond the fiscal year is without force.
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Atlanta, Georgia
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June 26
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Eugene Talmadge, new Georgia Agricultural Commissioner, dismisses all salaried employees from the previous administration as part of his clean sweep campaign pledge, notifying office staff directly and ensuring field workers learn via stopped paychecks; Felix E. Boswell refuses dismissal, but Talmadge asserts legal authority to void extended contracts.