During the campaign, Harrison had promised to enforce the civil service law that protected the job rights of government workers.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The president then announced that the post office would,once again,be protected by the civil service laws.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The civil service system would stop them from giving federal jobs to their supporters.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

And it set up a civil service committee to enforce the new law.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Harrison won. And he named Roosevelt head of the federal Civil Service Commission.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Cities began to give jobs to civil service employees instead of political appointees.

VOA: special.2011.04.25

I'm a civil service employee." "What time do you got on your watch?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The public began to demand laws to clean up the civil service.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Roosevelt fought hard to keep politics out of the civil service.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

So,President Harrison suspended the civil service laws that protected postal workers.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

They refused to act on the civil service proposals.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

President Arthur again appealed for civil service reform.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Civil service reform, however,was an important issue.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

He approved of Roosevelt's civil service reforms.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

"We have also reduced people's vulnerabilities by increasing civil service pay, by settling arrears,all of which have contributed to corruption,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

An estimated 30,000 people marched through Athens Thursday in a second wave of protests against civil service pay cuts and a freeze on pensions worth $6.5 billion.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11