ATE EMPLOYEE
Volume 2
March, 1933
Number 3
Honest Respect and Fair Play for State Workers
Governor Lehman has been uni
versally praised for his progressive
This
general recognition of a strong and
proposals on public matters.
courageous hand guiding an intelli-
gent course through a dangerous
period of hysteria and vacillation
was the spontaneous reaction of all
American citizens, big and broad
enough to sense the seriousness of
the economic and political situation.
Tt did not mean, however, that little
minds or selfish hearts had under-
gone such transformation that they
would not rise to an outworn spirit
of criticism and condemnation.
The executive budget now before
the Legislature is undoubtedly the
most carefully prepared budget ever
presented for consideration in this
or any other governmental unit.
Director of Budget Graves
spared no efforts to bring to the
making of the budget every available
resource of experience and informa-
It is based upon facts, intelli-
the
tion.
gently and patriotically considered.
It is scientific and fair to the State
services which it seeks to maintain
for the welfare of the people.
The appropri-
ations containing a scale of salary
reductions which
would not below
$2000 were accepted generally by
citizens and employees as fair. To
suggest greater does
not fit in with fair play for the
public employee group of citizens,
This group was underpaid through
twenty years, fifteen of which were
the most prosperous in the history
of the country, and were therefore
personal service
for all salaries,
reduce salaries
reductions
in no way responsible for any pub-
private losses, It
would be entirely unjust to saddle
upon them greater tax burdens than
lic deficits or
those borne by other citizens, and
unreasonable salary reductions rep-
resent unreasonable taxation though
The cost of
living and the salaries of public em-
under another name.
ployees are but now beginning to
The reduced
salaries again threaten to place the
approach each other.
public worker at a disadvantage with
relation to the cost of living. The
fully anticipated rise in commodity
prices would inevitably throw the
¢
il employees into a struggle for
existence on a basis below ordinary
social levels; and with salaries fixed
in the budget for a period ending
fifteen months from now, the ad-
justment possible with private em-
ployees would leave the state work-
ers without possiblity of relief.
Your Association has appealed and
will continue to appeal for upholding
of the spirit of fairness manifested
by the Governor and the Director of
the Budget in their proposed salary
The members of the
Legislature who are demanding un-
adjustments,
fair sacrifices from State employees
should be appealed to directly by
their constitutents among employees
and the facts about salaries and their
relation to tax savings plainly indi-
cated to them in order that there
may not be any misunderstanding on
the part of the taxpayer or disrespect
aroused by such toward public work-
ers by reason of any misleading
statements as to the compensation
of State workers. The Association
officers and committees are con-
stantly active on this matter. Thou-
sands of letters and wires have
been sent by members of the Asso-
ciation to their representatives at
Albany. This is the direct business
of every employee and all employees
should be active in looking out for
the preservation of efficient and high
class service to the people of the
State and the maintenance of honest
pay for work done, and not leave all
of the work and expense to their
the As-
Let us have the united
active fellow workers in
sociation.
support of all in membership and in
the
Governor and local social organiza-
contacts with the Legislature,
tions as well, so that all will under-
stand the justice and the unselfish-
ness of our efforts for public service.
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only a small part of the Tax Dollar--6}4 cents in 1931.
Of this 614 cents less than 2 cents went for State
salaries. Salary costs in State government have been
exceptionally low for many years. .
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THE STATE
EMPLOYEE
Save the Civil Service
The efficiency and economy of
state functioning depend upon the
character and ability of state officers
and employees, Thirty thousand
of these public servants are under
a form of civil service regulation.
Less than fifty per cent of New York
State employees are in the competi-
tive class of civil service, although
it is readily admitted that the rules
and regulations governing in the case
of this class of civil workers are
the only ones that approach true
civil service principles. For fifty
years New York State’s civil service
department has struggled along with-
out a comprehensive classification or
compensation plan, The whole state
service has suffered because of this
shortcoming. Employees have suf-
fered exceedingly for want of intel-
ligent classification and compensa-
tion planning impossible without
statutory and administrative devel-
opment of the State’s personnel
agency.
To delay longer the complete at-
tention to adequate personnel direc-
tion is to invite eventual demorali-
zation of service through disregard
for a fully accredited plan for the
upbuilding of economy and high
morale in public functioning. True
progress in public service waits gin
the statutory authority contained it
the bill introduced in the Senate by
Senator Joseph D. Nunan and in the
Assembly by Assemblyman Jasper
W. Cornaire—Senate Introductory
No. 726, Assembly Introductory No.
1630. This bill was perfected by the
Civil Service Commission, the Di-
rector of the Budget, representatives
of emptoyces, and representatives of
citizen groups.
State employees are virtually de-
pendent upon this bill to protect
them in the stability of their work,
fairness in promotion, and justice
compensation. Every employee
should write at once to the Senator
and Assemblyman mentioned above,
to Senator John J. Dunnigan,
Speaker Joseph A. McGinnies, and
Governor Herbert H. Lehman, tell-
ing them that he urges their ap-
proval of this bill. Do this today.
It is more important to you than
anything else so far as your work
is concerned.
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This bill is designed to amend
the Civil Service Law, making it
mandatory on the Civil Service
Commission to provide a classi-
fication plan, based on duties and
responsibilities, for that part of
the classified service of the State
generally known as the depart-
mental service, and to prepare
and recommend to the Governor
and the Legislature, a uniform
compensation plan appropriate to
such classification.
2. Necessity of Legislation.
The need to develop a con-
sistent plan of classifying posi-
tions in the State service, to show
which ones are alike so that they
can be treated alike, and to show
the proper relationships between
positions that are different, has
been apparent for many years,
The fiscal authorities, the ap-
pointing officers, the Department
of Civil Service, and the employ-
ees must have a common ground
on which they can meet and coop-
erate in working out the various
phases of personnel management
in which each is interested. The
development of a uniform, con-
sistent and equitable plan of sal-
ary scales, fair to the employees
on one hand and to the taxpayers
on the other, is absolutely de-
pendent upon the prior develop-
ment of a proper classification of
positions. This bill makes it
mandatory upon the Civil Service
Commission to develop such a
classification plan and to prepare
and recommend to the Governor
and the Legislature an equitable
compensation plan appropriate to
the classification. Thus, direction
is given to what will ultimately
develope into a sound, sensible,
equitable plan for the payment of
salaries by the State. This law
is essential to the proper devclop-
ment and usefulness of the Civil
Service Department of the State.
The Provisions of this Bill.
This bill makes certain provisions
of primary importance:
(a) it directs the Civil Service
Commission to prepare a
duties classification for that
part of the classified service
of the State generally known
as the departmental service;
it specifically states that this
classification shall not apply
to the employees of the State
institutions, and the employ-
ees of the civil divisions of
the State, ie. counties, cities,
and villages, unless and until
the proper authorities of any
state institution or civil di-
vision shall make formal
application for inclusion in
the classification and com-
pensation plan;
(b) it directs the Civil Service
Commission to develop a
uniform compensation plan
based upon experience in re-
cruiting and upon such data
as the Commission may as-
semble relating to rates of
pay under normal economic
conditions; comparable ser-
vice in commercial and in-
dustrial establishments; and
in other public and private
employments; costs and
standards of living; and the
State's policies, finances and
needs;
(c) it provides for safeguarding
the rights of the employee
both as to his status at the
time his position is classified,
and to the adjustment of his
salary to the compensation
plan when it becomes effect-
ive. It provides for a fair
and impartial plan upon
which salaries shall be ad-
justed when the compensation
plan is adopted and the neces-
sary funds are appropriated;
(d) it provides for the establish-
ment of a system of advisory
boards representative of the
employees within the several
departments, or within repre-
sentative groups of related
employments, to make recom-
mendations to the Civil Ser-
vice Commission, and the Di-
rector of the Budget, upon
matters involved in the ad-
ministration of the Civil
Service Law, and the classi-
fication and compensation
plans;
(ec) it provides that the Civil
Service Commission shall
prepare class specifications
for all classes of positions
and revise them whenever
necessary. Under this pro-
vision, the Civil Service Com-
mission fixes educational and
other requirements as it has
done in the past;
(£) the bill provides no change
in the existing Civil Service
Law as regards the discre-
tionary powers of the Com-
mission to determine the pre-
liminary requirements for
entrance to examinations or
as to promotions,
4. Conclusion.
This proposed legislation will
provide the State of New York
with a much needed tool for use
in developing a progressive and
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
March
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Published by
The Association of State Civil Service
Employees of the State of New York
Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.
OFFICERS
W. F, McDONOUGH.,.
BEULAH BAILEY,
CHESTER A, LEWIS
WILLIAM J. PIERCE.
FRANK 0, BAUER.
CHARLES J. TOBIN.
JOSEPH D, LOCHNER.
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Eight Hours
For the first time in the history
of Albany, a Senator of the State
Legislature, Hon, Thomas C. Des-
mond, of Newburg, addressing a
gathering of this Association at
Chancellor's Hall, Albany, on March
Ist, 1933, raised his voice in behalf
of improved working conditions in
the institutions of the State caring
for the mentally defective, the pris-
oners, and the other wards of the
State. Some of the remarks of
Senator Desmond, the sponsor of
Senate Bills, Prints Nos. 171 and
172, providing for a maximum eight
hour day in state service, are given
below. Senator Desmond is to be
highly commended for his humane,
yet wholly business-like stand for
the labor principles involved in these
bills, Said Senator Desmond:
“New York State ought to be a
model employer. Far from being a
model employer, New York State
condones conditions in the case of
its institutional employees which are
very unsatisfactory indeed. In these
days, when so many of our fellow-
men and women are walking the
streets looking for work—one and
three quarters millions of them in
this State alone—it seems incompre-
hensible that the State should com-
pel its employees to work twelve
hours a day, and in many cases
seven days a week,
“There are pending in the Legis-
lature two bills on this subject in-
troduced by me, Senate Print No.
171 and Senate Print No. 172. All
that is sought is that except in cases
of emergency, no New York State
employee shall work more than eight
hours in any one day. It is not
asked that they have a five-hour day,
a six-hour day, or the seven-hour
day, but the generally recognized
eight-hour day which has become
almost a matter of course in private
employment, Naturally, the question
arises “If these bills are so just, why
are they not adopted promptly?”
One of the arguments advanced to
me is: “Desmond, if every one of
these employees quit, I could give
you ten people for every job tomor-
row.” To any intelligent man or
woman, that is no argument at all.
My answer is: “You may be able to
fill the positions and you can no
doubt in these distressful times, get
people to work fourteen or fifteen
hours on any kind of a position,
and under worse conditions, and for
less pay, but certainly that is taking
advantage of human want and repre-
sents social injustice.” Another so
called argument is that we would
require one-third more workers in
the groups affected and that there
are no available housing accomoda-
tions for such additional employees.”
So far as living accomodations are
concerned it is not at all necessary
that such employees live at the insti-
tutions, A good many of them do
now, but in the last few years there
have been great economic changes
in this State and with the develop-
ment of roads and automobiles it
has become easy for employees to
live away from their places of em-
ployment. This argument is not at
all conclusive,
The strongest argument put for-
ward against the maximum eight-
hour day proposal is the expense to
the State. Of course, this is a pow-
erful argument during these times.
It is estimated that there would be
an added expense of about six mil-
lion dollars. I believe that New
York State should provide proper
working conditions including reason-
able hours of work for its employees
no matter what it costs. I have
been an employer myself, Before I
retired from business to enter public
service, I had nearly 4,000 men em-
ployed and had to meet a very large
weekly payroll. I feel that I know
something about matters of employ-
ment. I would not think of asking
any man or woman to work twelve
hours a day, or seven days a week,
the way New York State is doing at
present, I could not tolerate similar
conditions as a private employer, and
I do not believe the State of New
York should tolerate them,
“My advocacy of these bills is a
part of my general social philosophy.
I am one of those who do not des-
pair of the so called machine age
of civilization. I happen to be an
engineer and I favor labor-saving
devices and the advancement of
science; and along with that must
come higher and higher wages and
shorter and shorter hours of em-
ployment. The general average of
hours of employment throughout
this country ought to be a whole
lot less than the eight-hour day.”
Veteran Preference
in State Service
When the matter of preference for
veterans in State service is discussed
calmly and disinterestedly by public
workers, veterans within and without
the service, and citizens generally,
there is common agreement that any
such preference should be confined
to those who were actually disabled
in the war. A great many young
men and women have reached ma-
turity since the World War. These
are as worthy citizens as those who
lived during the war period. They
never had an opportunity to take up
arms. They have every right to as-
pire to civil service. Should the
need arise they too will embrace
military service. Military service is
a patriotic privilege, as well as duty,
Civil service is a patriotic privilege,
also, and every generation must be
free to engage in it, This Associ-
ation takes no sides against veterans
when it opposes all proposed legis-
lation to give preference to any ex-
cept the disabled veteran.
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’ THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Again We Say—
Safeguard Your
Retirement System
Students of social and economic
problems seem entirely agreed as to
the great value of insurance of vari-
ous kinds, The New York State Re-
tirement System provides for the ap-
plication of “insurance” principles to
the old age problem. By thrifty sav-
ings on the part of the worker dur-
ing producing years, and thrifty in-
vestment in a wise employment pract-
ice by the State, the State and the
employee by mutual consent provide
a fund which supplies the worker
with the necessaries of life in non-
productive years and relieves society
of an almsgiving responsibility which
is expensive and degrading.
It is not too much to say that the
retirement system which its founders
planned along truly sound and hon-
est lines has been changed and re-
vised in some respects along un-
desirable lines, Amendments to care
for this or that individual or group
now stand out as discreditable ven-
tures in selfishne: There seems no
doubt but that in the light of econ-
omy and justice these will be wisely
cared for in some future revision,
The important thing today is to
prevent further weakening of a plan
which in its true form is replete
with social and economic justice.
There are now pending bills provid-
ing special benefits which are not in
accord with sound retirement pract-
ice. This Association disapproves
of all such special legislation. It
has protested the passage of this
legislation, and will ask the Governor
to veto any such bill passed. The
impropriety of special gifts to cer-
tain individuals is fully recognized
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by the State Pension Commission,
which commission is also protesting
approval of the measures. You can
add your word of disapproval by
writing to your representatives in
the legislature and to the Governor.
The following are reference numbers
of measures in question:
Appropriation Bill, Page 525, Part
2, in “Pension Accumulation Fund”
item the sum of $15,955.35, This sum
represents special benefit for benefi-
ciary of employee.
Senate Print No. 242; Assembly
Print No. 163, appropriates $5,000
for beneficiary now receiving $184.60
per month. This is special benefit.
Senate Print No. 604; Assembly
Print No, 881, appropriates $6,753
for beneficiary of Supreme Court
Judge.
Senate Print No. 761; Assembly
Print No. 880, appropriates approxi-
mately $30,000 for beneficiary of de-
ceased employee.
Senate Print No, 1091, special ben-
efit of about $1000 during life of in-
dividual.
Senate Print No. 1092, special in-
dividual benefit similar to above.
Senate Print No. 1181, ‘special ben-
efit to beneficiary carrying appro-
priation of about $13,000,
Senate Print No. 1383, special ben-
efit for beneficiary of Supreme Court
Justice amounting to $8,340.
Assembly Print No, 2005, provid-
ing special benefit. .
(Note: The detailed information
given above was furnished on re-
quest by the State Pension Commis-
sion,
There are now pending the fol-
lowing bills, favored by the Associ-
ation because of the principles in-
volved:
Senate Print No. 32; Assembly
Print No. 16, allowing retirement at
age 55 instead of 60, with 1/60th of
final annual salary instead of 1/70th.
Annual cost estimated by Pension
Commission at $200,000.
Senate Print No. 769; Assembly
Print No. 987, allowing use of any
five years salary in computing retiré-
ment allowances.
Senate Print No. 31; Assembly
Print No. 14, allowing beneficiary
ordinary death benefit of one year’s
salary instead of one-half as at pres-
ent. Annual cost estimated by Pen-
sion Commissioon as $108,000.
Perhaps no bill introduced during
the Legislative session of 1932
caused so much unfavorable com-
ment or stronger protest on the part
of employees than the bill which
would have revised the retirement
system plan by requiring the em-
ployees to contribute three per cent
of their salaries to the payment of
the obligation assumed by the State
Save the Civil Service
Continued from Page 3
up-to-date method of personnel
administration. It will be of in-
estimable value to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission in recruiting
and other personnel processes, in
protecting the rights of employees
and in building up an increased
efficiency in the service. It will
be of utmost value to the fiscal
authorities in the preparation of
budgets and the appropriation of
funds. It will ultimately produce
for the taxpayer, greater value
for his dollar.
This bill, as introduced, has the
general approval of the Civil
Service Commission; the Civil
Service Reform Association, the
Director of the State Budget, and
the Legislative Committee of the
Association of State Ci
ice Employees.
at the time the system was estab-
lished. This bill has been introduced
again this year by Senator Charles
J. Hewitt and is Senate Print No.
1261. When he vetoed this bill last
year, President Roosevelt, as Gov-
ernor, said in part: “I am vetoing
this measure because it is one of the
most unfair, unjust, discriminating
Pieces of legislation sent to me by
the Legislature.
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Increased duties, longer hours,
threats of salary slashes, and the
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do not diminish the spirit of loyalty
and devotion of State employees to
their daily activities in the service
In addition to this
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good citizen that our Government,
National and State, is forging for-
ward
of the people.
its tre-
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a grasp of the needs that promises
victory for American initiative and
in the solution of
intelligence that will be reflected in
spiritual and material well-being
never before dreamed of.
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Committees and
Counsel Busy
This is the busiest year that the
Association has ever experienced.
Committees, officers and counsel are
called upon for almost constant con-
sultation and conference with refer-
ence to the scores of bills and ap-
propriation items of major and min-
or importance to employees.
The Nunan-Cornaire Classifica-
tion-Compensation bill is by far the
most important pressing matter so
far as permanent improvement as to
stability of work, promotions in serv-
ice, and reasonable and equitable
compensation for all employees is
concerned, It is not a temporary
measure such as the annual appro-
priation bill. Of course, this latter
is of vital importance now, but what
employees should seek most is per-
manently just treatment of positions
and of compensation so that these
matters would be handled internally,
without the play and counter-play
of thoughtless hysteria or selfish
political consideration from year to
year.
That payments as pensions or al-
lowances of any kind to special in-
dividuals constitute raids upon the
State treasury cannot be denied.
These raids mislead as to the real
purpose of an acturarily sound re-
tirement system and bring the plan
into public disrepute. The bills listed
in another column of The State Em-
ployee and all others like them are
unfair to all citizens and to all pub-
lic employees. J
Demotions in state civil service
should be made upon seniority basis.
The Association urges the approval
of Senate Intro. No. 1552 introduced
by Sentor Ross, and Assembly Intro.
No. 2111 introduced by Mr. Sargent.
go hand in hand with any rules of
the Commission to protect employ-
ees in this matter. Demotions
should be subject to review by the
Civil Service Commission and safe-
guard the employee who has rend-
ered long and faithful service from
personal or political injustice. It is
the hope of the Association that the
Civil Service Commission will evoke
a rule in this matter even prior to
any legislation.
Conferences have been had by
Counsel with the Director of the
Budget and leaders of the Legisla-
ture with reference to assuring that
in proposed reductions under the
Governor’s budget the value of
maintenance, will be upon a_ basis
more nearly approaching the truc
value than the one-half year’s salary
suggested in the budget.
Counsel and committees are en-
deavoring to secure legislative
amendment to protect from budget-
ary reductions those employees who
have been otherwise reduced during
the present fiscal year, or who may
be reduced during the next fiscal
year to the extent of proposed bud-
get reductions.
While it was felt by this Associ-
ation that reductions in State salaries
should be confined to the fiscal year
beginning July Ist next, the Govern-
or and Legislature believed that in
order to carry on essential state serv-
ices in the face of depleted revenues
during the present fiscal year the
cuts should take effect April Ist.
Accordingly the Senate has passed
Senate Bill Print No. 1100 which
reduces by the graduated percentages
contained in the proposed budget the
salaries of state officers and employ-
ees within the period from April Ist
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The Association
Making Fine Growth
Outstanding in its progressive ac-
complishment and constant attention
to the employee welfare, the Associ-
ation is now well ahead of all previ-
ous years in membership at this date.
Nevertheless, it is apparent that
many workers who have not joined
are indifferent to the vast amount
of work that is being done for them.
The Association works for all State
employees. It does not single out
those who are members. It is ob-
vious, however, that since all share,
all should bear the membership du-
ties and contribute their membership
fee.
No Association can carry on
the important and required activities
to function properly for thirty
thousand employees without a great
deal of day to day expense. Your
Association is printing, mailing, car-
rying on correspondence, maintaining
permanent counsel, office assistants
and engaging in activities vitally es-
sential to every State employee, and
secking to do it out of the small fee
of one dollar. This is possible only
when all employees share in the bur-
den. If some withhold their mem-
bership support, the expense must
fall others. Surely no State
worker is so unprogressive that he
on
cannot support by annual dues an
organization which has proved itself
so useful and so unselfish as this As-
sociation of State Civil Service Em-
ployees of the State of New York.
The value of having an exper-
ienced lawyer appearing before the
Legislative Committees, the Gover-
nor, and contacting individual mem-
bers of the legislature, and depart-
ment heads, such as the Counsel for
this Association does, is indispensi-
ble, Unless you contribute the an-
nual dues of one dollar to the As-
sociation you enjoy the benefit with-
out paying for it. It is vital to you
and to all employees to have this
service,
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
This is more than an appeal for
membership, it is an appeal to your
sense of justice and fair play. If
you are already a member, please
take active steps to help in organiz-
ing your local group. We actually
need the united support of all in
order to contintie the fine program
which is under way for employee
betterment,
Your Advertisers
Deserve Your
Patronage
Wide-a-wake business men are
now becoming alert to the value of
advertising in the columns of a paper
that reaches a working group with
an annual income of over $45,000,000.
We ask you as a state employee to
mention The State Employee when
you are making purchases in future
and to tell the merchants of the ad-
vantages of advertising in YOUR
magazine. They can call Albany
3.4610 for full and
special low rates. Also, make it a
point to patronize the merchants who
advertise herein and tell them that
you read their ad in The State Em-
ployee.
particulars
Education Leads the Way
This Association in cooperation
with the State Department of Edu-
cation is affording to State employ-
ees in the City of New York an
exceptional opportunity to broaden
their lives and to improve their im-
mediate working conditions through
the spending of some spare time in
study of one or more of some
twenty courses offered. The estab-
lishment of a library in the State
Office building, 80 Center Street,
New York, has also been taken up
by Dr. W. C. Smith, Chairman of
this Association’s Committee on Edu-
cation. Dr. Smith will be glad to
aid in various practical ways to-
ward the development of study pro-
grams at State institutions or offices
throughout the State. Write Dr. W.
C. Smith, P. O, Box 48, Capitol
Station, Albany, N. Y.
7
The Association’s Basket
Ball League Finishes
Successful Season
ther desirable and health-
ies carried on by the As-
sociation in cooperation with the
Albany Municipal Recreation pro-
gram, the basket ball league proved
a fine medium for recreation and
healthful exercise to a large number
of young State employees. The sea-
son closed March 8th with the team
standing for the second half as fol-
lows:
Team W.L. Pe,
Agriculture and Markets 7 1 .875
Architects . > + 6 2 .750
Health Laboratory 5 2 .714
Public Works Lab. 4 3 571
Tax and Finance. 4 4 500
Public Works Admii « 2'°5° 286
Health Administration.. 1 6 .143
Highwaysier..0.0u..s. 00 157 = 125
The Public Works Administration
won in the first half of the season
and in a play-off defeated the Agri-
culture and Markets team, and there-
by established themselves as the vic-
tors of the season.
Workmen’s Compensation
for State Employees
The Workmen’s Compensation
Law applying to private employment
was enacted in 1918, State Employees
were not given the benefit of this
act until 1924, Since that time pro-
vision has been made in the annual
budget to care for necessary medical
treatment, workmen's compensation
awards, etc., for state employces.
Governor Lehman’s budget as pre-
sented to the Legislature contains
item to care for estimated expendi-
ture for the next fiscal year. In-
timations that this item would be
eliminated as an economy measure is
disconcerting to all who wish to
see the State maintain fair employ-
ment practices in its treatment of
civil employees. Without such an
appropriation in the budget bill, it
would be improper and impossible
for the State Insurance Fund to
make payments to State employees
who are unfortunate enough to meet
with accidents during the next fis-
cal year. The State would there-
fore deprive its own workers of pro-
tection which it requires private em-
ployers to supply for their em-
ployees.
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Support Your Association
State Civil Service Employees have in this Association the
only State-Wide, All New York State-Employee
Association Now Organized.
The Association is now Ten Thousand Strong and grow-
ing daily in membership.
MOTTO: Action — Not Words!
Program of Progress
Economical and Efficient State Service.
Upbuilding of Civil Service System.
Sound and Equitable Salary Plan for all.
Stabilize and Safeguard the Retirement System.
Fair Hours of Employment for all.
Establishment of Respect for Public Service and Public Servants.
Organization
Headquarters in State Capitol, Albany, Always open for State Employee Welfare
Permanent Counsel employed for watchfulness of Employee Interests
Active Committees composed entirely of State Employees
Constant contact with Association representatives in every Department, Insti-
tution, and Division Office in the State Service
Regular Monthly Publication devoted to State Employment Matters
Weekly Bulletin issued covering State Employment Information
Broadcasts, News Items, Correspondence, Special Bulletins Issued as needs of
State Employment Require
At the Service of State Employees at All Times
DUES—One Dollar Per Year. No Salaried Officers.’
No Expenses Except Those Actually Required to Maintain Services Listed.
The Association Exists for all State Workers — All State Workers Should
Aid in its Support Through Membership and Otherwise.
SEND MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR 1933 TO ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS, ROOM 156 STATE CAPITOL .. OR HAND TO YOUR
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE. Carry your membership card at all times
