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hy Did
‘Dwyer Do
hat He Did?

if FANTASTIC political
its in New York City will settle
m into one of the toughest,
it grueling contests the City

witnessed, The only word
ibe it is: unpredictable.
credible happenings of the
months will be eclipsed by
campaign itself.

tw Yorkers are asking: Who
hind O’Dwyer'’s reasoning?
flat, simple answer is: No
was behind it but O'Dwyer
pelf, .
wnsider what a curious criss-
s has occurred in the past
weeks,

Then — Virtually Invincible

O'Dwyer was conceded
all hands, all parties, to be
hilly invincible, were he but
whisper that it was his desire
In to be the candidate. At the
when he appeared in sedate
Board of Estimate hall, and
400 followers, labor men and
iessmen, housewives and so-
tes, that he could™not and
(Continued on Page 6)

By MAXWELL LEHMAN

ALBANY, July 18 — State and
local employees face a formidable
situation next fall and winter.
All the evidence indicates that
they will have to fight hard for
all gains, against strong opposi-
tion; and that they will have to
muster their forces as never
before.

Tough, Hard

In the State Legislature, it is
contemplated that The Civil Serv-
ice Employees Association will
sponsor a battery of retirement
bills, possibly combined into a
single over-all measure. With
the primacy of getting a 55-year
retirement bill, other important
objectives in this sphere will not
be overlooked. It may be ex-

Fights Facing
State and Local Employees

pected that the State will be
asked to make certain additional
contributions so that employee
after a given number of years
could retire under more advan-
tageous conditions, possibly with
full pay at age 65.
55-Year Bill
While assurances have been
(Continued on Page 4)

ALBANY, July 18 — Although
the State Legislature provided un-
employment insurance coverage
for city and county employees in
1948, don’t look for such benefits
until June 1950, if then.

It seems that the reason you're
not eligible — if you're a local
worker — is that no political
subdivision of the state has both-
ered to apply for such coverage
for its employees to the State
Division of Placement and Unem-

ployment Insurance.

Now it’s too late for any city
or county to obtain coverage be-
fore June 1950, although a Div-
ision spokesman said that two
groups, one city and one county.
have. been “exploring the pos-
sibility” of seeking the benefits.

Here is an official explanation:

“Unemployment insurance cov-
erage was extended by the 1948
session of the Legislature to all
Political subdivisions of the State
which elect to provide this cov-
erage for their employees, on the

Jobless Benefits for Local
Employees Lost Till 1950

same basis as it is granted to
state employees.

“Since the division operated on
a benefit year from June to June,
any subdivision desiring coverage
for its employees from June 1949
to June 1950 would have had to
apply before June 1. 1949.

“Having received no official ap-
plications up to the present time.
unemployment insurance benefits
cannot, be extended to any city
or county employees until June
1950,”

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The examination for the popu-
Jar job of Substitute Mail Handler
in the post office will open on
Thursday, July 21. The pay is
$1.24 an hour, or $49.60 a week,
‘and rises 5 cents an hour per year
of satisfactory service, to $1.99 an
hour, or $79.60 a week. The week-
ly pay is computed on the basis
of 40 working hours.

Do not apply until Thursday.

(Continued on Page 10)

THE NYC EMPLOYEE

Single Tests
For Multiple
JobsWeighed

By H. J. BERNARD

BROADLY - BASED examina-
tions, from which appointments
would be made to various titles,
are being considered seriously by
the NYC Civil Service Commission,
The number of examinations could
be reduced one-third or more, their
size increased proportionately.

One of the requirements would
be that the multiple jobs, to be
filled from a single examination,
should pay about the same salary,
If the pay is too divergent, no-
body wants to take the lower~
paying jobs. That’s about what
happened in the single examina-
tion held for filling Transit Pa-
trolman, Construction Officer and

(Continued on Page 6)

By ANNA LEE KRAM

¢ Social Investigator exami-
on held by NYC on July 7
ed a dud and the Civil Service
ission is considering meth-
of salvaging a sufficient num-
of eligibles to constitute a
ble list.

@ number of failures among
Provisionals, by their own ad-
‘on, based on tentative key

answers, Was enormous, averaging
50 per cent in some units of the
NYC Welfare Department, more
in other units, As a result, and
becausé of the large number of
questions that did not test for
the knowledge and skill of the job
itself, a considerable number of
questions will be deleted in the
final key answers, ‘a Commission
informant stated.

ocial Investigator Test
raws Furor of Protests

Hardly had the examination
been over than protests began to
be received. At the ER of-
fices telephone calls Were frequent
from competitors who complained
that the test was not what they
had studied for, did not relate
sufficiently to the duties of the
job, ranged into sociological fields
beyond the level to be expected

(Continued on Page 12)

NYC Career Plan
Hearings to Start

By MORTON YARMON
‘The preliminary hearings in
connection with the proposed
study of NYC jobs from which a
Career and Salary Plan is to be
evolved will begin on Wednesday,
July 20 at 10:30 a.m, in the Board
Room of the NYC Civil Service
Commission, 299 Broadway, two

blocks north of City Hall.
The hearings were ordered by

MBANY, July 18—With Dr.
} M. Schneider of the Social
are Department as chairman,
ominating committee of the
Service Employees Associa~
eld a formal meeting in
Yon Thursday, July 14.

's the function ‘of this com-

EF

oe {0 select candidates for
* Association offices. Candi-
Ate to be presented for these
Gyce Presidency; 1st, 2nd,
hand Sth vice-presidencies;

f Selectin

secretary; treasurer; and execu-
tive committee members of each
State department.

Seek Suggestions

The nominating committee seeks
suggestions from all Association
members. Names of prospective
candidates should be sent either
to (a) Nominating Committee,
Civil Sevrice Employees Associ:
tion, 8 Elk Street, Albany, N.
or So) Dry David M. Schneider,

Box 1740, Albany 1, N, Y¥. Final
deadline for receipt of suggestions
is July 28.

The Committee will meet there-
after and consider all suggestions,
It will then draw up a slate of
official candidates. Dr. Schneider
said this week that the committee
would not necessarily confine it-
self to_a single name for each
office. In some cases, he stated,
if candidates seem to warrant it.
additional names might be sub-

ivil Service Employees Association
ominating Committee Begins Work
g Candidates for Top Offices

mitted to the Association voters.
This was discussed, but no final
conclusion was reached at the
committee meeting. Dr. Schneider
also pointed out that after the
official list of the nominating
committee has been made public,
it is possible under the Associa-
tion’s constitutional provisions for
independent candidates to seek
offices. (Details concerning the
Method of independent nomina-

(Continued on Page 3).

Mayor William O'Dwyer after a
few employee organizations had
expressed objections to the ab-
sence of safeguards, at a Board
of Estimate hearing when the
appropriation for the study was
up for consideration. Since then
the Mayor himself has given as-
surance against any employee's
salary being cut and the joint
committee appointed by the May-
or to hold the hearings has given
additional assurances on pay and
several other important matters,
The committee consists of Bud-
get Director Thomas J. Patter-
son and President Joseph A. Mc-
nmamara, of the Civil Service
Commission.

‘The calendar has been arranged
for the first three hearings. Suc-
ceeding calendars are being held
up because of .the sudden last-
minute demands to be heard,

(Other news of the Career and
Salary Plan, P. 16).

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Game Protectors Beaten Up
In Ogdensburg Fishing Feud

ALBANY, July 18 — The job of
a Game Protector could never be
classified as “soft,” but those
Game Protectors who are stationed
in Northern New York have to be
prepared to receive the sort of
treatment you'd expect to see only
in a blood-and-thunder movie. Re-
cently one Protector was given

the usual gangster treatment —
his face was clawed, his coat
pulled over his head, he was

beaten, kicked
the gutter.
tector recently
cracked.

Enforcing the Law

These State employees were
merely trying to enforce the law,
in this case the law against “gaf-
fing” wall-eyed pike in the Oswe-
gatchie Rive
servation Department,
ms it has indisputable evidence
that a “bad situation” exists —
and can back any of its state-
ments with sworn proof.

“Gaffing” is the term used to
deseribe the act of snatching the
pike on their annual spring spawn-
ing run. The fish come from the
St. Lawrence River, and are
blocked by the dam’ across the

and left lying in
Another Game Pro-
had two ribs

Oswegatchie River. A rope, to

which many hooks are attached,
is lowered into the swarming mass
of pike and great numbers are

taken.
‘Gaffing’ legal

The Conservation Law states
that season on wall-eyed pike is
closed in the spring, that even
when the season is not closed,
gaffing is illegal and that wall-
eyed pike taken from the Oswe-
eee at any time may not be
sold.

The Conservation Department,
however, claims that despite the
law, “gaffing” has been going on,
almost entirely in the open, day
and night. It is during the night,
however, that most of the violence
occurs. According to the Depart-
ment, gangs and syndicates op-
erate along the river and in the
city, of Ogdensburg, through which
the Oswegatchie flows.

Three Are Held

‘Three Ogdensburg citizens are
now being held for Grand Jury
action in connection with an at-
tack on two Game Protectors. The
LEADER has learned that the
Conservation Department is plan-
ning a vigorous prosecution.

The Conservation Department
states that all the evidence it has
“indicates that certain responsible

persons in the City of Ogdensburg
not only acquiesce in, but supper
directly and indirectly th
activities along the river.

The justification given by some
of those involved in this illegal.
practice is that the run provides
the only opportunity to take the
pike which, they say, return to
the St. Lawrence and move into
Canadian waters after spawning.

‘The Department says that facts
do not support this contention.
It has conducted studies for the
Past three years which prove that
only a minute portion of the
spawned pike end up in Canadian
waters and also that the Oswe-
gatchie serves as # spawning
ground for wall-eyed pike from at
least a twenty-five mile section of
the St. Lawrence River.

Law to Stand

“So,” a Conservation Depart-
ment official claims, “in the inter-
est of both fish and fishermen
Gncluding fishermen from Ogdens-
burg), the law will stand. And
as long as the law is on the books
it is the duty of this Department
(and presumably of all peace offi-
cers and citizens as well) to see
that it is enforced. We will do
our best in this respect, even in
the absence of local support.”

MacDonald and McDonough
Laud Cohen, Warwick Chief

WARWICK, July 18—A. Alfred
Cohen, now permanent superin-
tendent at the State Training
School for Boys, received a rous-
ing welcome from 300 State em-
ployees and guests on Saturday,
July 9.

The nt, arranged by the lo-
cal chapter of The Civil Service
Employees Association, served as
an index of the new director's
popularity. Mr. Cohen, who had
formerly been acting superintend-
ent, comes into his position
through channels of civil service,
having passed an examination for
the position in competition with
other candidates.

Prancis A, Donald, chair-
man of the Southern Conference
and president of the Warwick

chapter, said of Mr. Cohen that
“this young dynamic official has
a long record of superior social
work and accomplishment in the
difficult field of human rehabilita-
tion.”

Rey. John Mierop, resident
Protestant chaplain, acted as
master of ceremonies. He cited
instances of Mr. Cohen's coopera-
tion with employees, and des-
cribed the “splendid program he
has set up for the Training
School.”

Representing Sociai Welfare
Commissioner Robert T. Lans-
dale, Willard F. Johnson told
about the open-competitive exam
which Mr, Cohen had passed.
“There were candidates from all
parts of the United States, and

What Happens to Pension Checks
When One Returns to Public Job

It makes a difference whether ,
a former employee, who is re-
ceiving a retirement allowance
from the New York State Em-

ses Retirement System, and

to work for the State

or a political division of the
State, ass' a new employment

that is covered by the same re-
lirement system,

If a retired member of this
System accepts employment with
the State or any political sub-
division thereof, his retirement
allowance stops and he again be-
comes a member of the Retire-
ment System, However, if a
municipality which employs him
does not participate in the State
Retirement System, his retire-
ment allowance is suspended dur-

ing the period of bh s appointment.

Questions about Federal and
NYC cases were answered by State
Deputy Comptroller H. Eliot Kap-
lan as follow:

“A person retired from Federal
service may receive his allow-
ance and also any salary that
may be paid him for service ren-
dered to the State of New York
or any political subdivision there-
of so far as any laws of New
York State are concerned.

‘A person retired from service
in NYC may be employed by the
State, but during the period of
such employment his retirement
allowance is suspended. Such per~
son would not be permitted to be-
come a member of the State Re-
tirement System during such serv-
ice, except in the case of a per-
son appointed by the Governor
with the approval of the Senate.”

we found the right man on the
spot.

William F. McDonough, execu-
tive representative of The Civil
Service Employees Association,
brought greetings from the or-
ganization.

Mr. Cohen was presented with
a two-pen onyx desk set by the
staff, In making the presentation,
Francis MacDonaid said:

“We know Mr. Cohen will make
mistakes. He knows we will make
mistakes. We will forgive him
his mistakes if he forgives us ours.
There are two pens on this set.
Mr. Cohen can use one pen to wipe
out his set of mistakes, the other
to wipe out ours.”

The Guests

Other guests included:

Mayor John F. Schoonmaker of
Port Jervis

John M. Harris, vice-chairman
of the Southern Conference and
president of the Letchworth Vil-
lage chapter;

Frederick S. Appleton assistant
superintendent;

Edward P. Monckton, Catholic
chaplain of the Warwick institu-
tion;

Charles W. Wilson, director of
home life at Warwick;

Henry L. Felch, County Engin-
eer, West, Orange County.
saxophone. Other entertainers
were Mrs, Carl Heinle, Mrs. Ralph
Welch,

Jacob Porter, school bandlead-
er, furnished the music. Mrs.
Francis A. MacDonald prepared
the refreshments. Entertainment
was provided by Mr. and Mrs,
John Logan, employees at the
School, and their son Charles
(who, incidentally, is destined for
a radio career). Mrs. Harriet Wil-
son, manager of the community
store, and Mrs. Thelma Welch,
provided songs. overt Powell,
senior boys supervisor. performed
tap dancing. And the corporation
council of Port Jervis, a Mr. Sil-
vers, played brilliantly on the
saxophone.

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IRVING COHEN
tant, The Civil
Association, Inc,
1 of the current salar-
paid public employees
ies the need for merging
orary Pay adjustments in
nent Wage scales,
published by the Uv. Ss.
jf the Census in its “City
ent in 1948” give the
ture in New York State

jriking Variations

ions in salary payments
yterent cities are striking
in to bear little relation
or reason, Average sal-
id in 70 New York State
wered by as much as $152

tabulation emphasizes

& of uniformity or
in current city payrolls,
between the

average

salaries is shown in col-

Number of Pay

Differential

It’s All Local

tly the historical devel-
of city salaries has follow-

ural bent of local poli-
alin, degree of labor or-
jon, public consciousness,
t of government in differ-
i cities, living costs, and

bently, local salaries are
on the grounds of local
, to examine one of the

fs mentioned above. What
facts? The nearest ap-
made to determining the
expenses of living in dif-
ommunities in New York
fe annual studies under-
by the New York State
ment of Labor to measure
of adequate maintenance
ptection of health for a
oman living as a mem-
family. According to the
dies made by department
tors, a single woman liv-
hher family, needed $2,070
to provide for her essen-

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

tial needs in the
community in 19:
Difference Not Great

What does this study show of
the different living costs between
communities? There was a maxi-
mum difference of $177 a year—
$3.40 a week— between the cost
of goods and services in the high-
est-priced (Poughkeepsie) and the
lowest-priced (Cuba) community.
The following figures summarize
the results:

average upstate
48.

Total Cost

1948 Sept.
Community Population 1948
Upstate 6,024,147 $2040
Buffalo 575,901 2046
Rochester 324,975 2050
Schenectady 87,549 2083
Poughkeepsie 40,478 2084
Cortland 15,881 2021
Norwich 8,694 2016
Carthage 4,207 1989
Gowanda 3,156 1948
Wayland 1,795 1962
Cuba 1,699 1907

The entire subject of city as
well as county salaries, which
show matty of the same charac-

Can Stand Lots
Correction, Facts Show

teristics, deserves further study
and correction.
Ground Must Be Laid

Civil service has been compul-
sory in the municipalities since
1884 by amendment to the New
York Civil Service Act of 1883.
‘The ground should be well laid by
now for equitable and standard-
ized salary wage scales. The need
to adjust and establish city sal-
aries on sound principles is long
overdue. Here, again, the State
Civil Service Commission, which
must approve the actions of the
municipal commissions, and which
has suggested salary scales for
municipalities from time to time,
is in a favored position to rec-
ommend fairer and more adequate
pay scales in the various com-
munities.

Merge Is Essential

As a first essential step in
achieving an adequate and equit-
able wage level, the local employee
and the public-spirited citizen
must insist on the merging in all
adjustments into basic pay scales.

John J. Kelly

Another top-flight lawyer has
been added to the legal staff of
The Civil Service Employees As-
sociation. He is John J, Kelly, Jr.,
who has become associated with
DeGraff and Foy, of Albany, in
the practice of law. Mr. DeGraff
is counsel to the Association and
Mr, Kelly will be an Assistant
Counsel. Mr. Kelly was formerly
associated with the noted aw firm
of Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke
and Whiteside, NYC.

Born in Albany nearly 29 years
ago, the new appointee is the
son of the Director of the Bureau
of Office Audit, State Department
of Audit and Control, Albany.
He is a graduate of Christian
Brothers Academy, got his B.A.
degree at Cornell and is a veteran.
After the war he completed his
law course at Cornell, got his
LLB. degree,
to practice in 1947, At law school
he was editor-in-chief of the
Cornell Law Quarterly, an honor
that goes only to students of high

scholastic attainments, and was
elected to the Order of Coif,

14 nominating com-
members, 13 were present
Week's meeting The full
Ne consists of the follow-

Vi

id M,
Socio} Wel

balay CI eee

n. Nominating Group
s Suggestions by July 28

David M. Schneider, chairman;
Charlotte Clapper; Arnold Wise;
Ivan S. Flood; Harry Fritz; John
M. Harris; Clifford Shoro; Ray-
mond Monroe; Sidney Alexander;
Solomon Bendet; Clarence W. F.
Stott; Beulah Bailey Thull;
Charles Brind, Jr,; John Cromie,

and was admitted |

Jr., Added

To Assn. Legal Staff

| national honorary legal society.

| As for Mr. Kelly's war record,
he joined the 1st Infantry Div-
ision as a 2nd Lieutenant in Feb-
ruary, 1942, He served with the
1st Division in this country, Eng-
land, Africa, Sicily and France.
He was wounded on D-Day while
serving as commander of F Com-
pany, 26th Infantry Regiment.
He was hospitalized from June,
1944 until January, 1947, when he
was retired with the rank of Major.

‘Survey Group

iTo Examine

Chapter Method

ALBANY, July 18 — A study
of facilities and procedures of the
Civil Service Employees «Associa-
| tion chapters is being conducted
by a Survey Committee of the or-
ganization. A field trip is being
scheduled for the first week of
August, to cover chapters in the
western part of the State. Meet-
ings will be called in Binghamton,
Buffalo,"Rochester, Syracuse, and
Utica,

. The Public
' Employee

By Dr. Frank L. Tolman
President, The Civil Service Employees
Association, Inc., and Member of Em-

ployees’ Merit Award Board.

EVERYBODY'S DOING I

he favorite pastime for the Summer Dog Days is pro-
phecy of the American economic future, particularly the

output of real wealth and its probable distribution in wages,
salaries, inventories, plant expansion and profits.

It helps to look ahead if one looks clearly and avoids
hallucinations and mirages. No economic crime is more das-
tardly than to willfully betray our future hopes and poten-
tialities for personal or political profit. To sell America short
in these fateful days is beyond pardon. To think of a
“Democratic” depression as good for Republicans is treason
to the nation.

It must always be remembered that the people can make
or control their future. The people are or can be masters
of their fate. They can command prosperity or they can
through inertia, suspicion and doubt create stagnation and
depression.

Our free economic system is susceptible to every current
of popular suspicion, distrust and even lack of understand-
ing of the forces that make for maximum production and
general prosperity.

To Overcome Crises by Wisdom

To overcome crises by wisdom and courage makes a state
great. To surrender to difficulties is the mark of the little
man or the puny state.

The Association has more than an academic interest in
the economic policy of the nation and of the state. It often
happens that the state itself is the deciding factor as between
good times and bad. It often happens that politics make
difficult a united front by all public agencies against catas-
trophies that might be averted. We must work for a greater,
more efficient and more united Empire State, worthy of
its great past and dedicated to the welfare of all, if we
are to deserve better things for ourselves. We must produce
much in service to earn much in pay. ‘

It is my hope that every public employee may be in-
formed of the economic health of the nation and of the
state so that he may make his particular contribution to
sound thinking on our difficult problems.

I would like him to realize that we have come to a new
period of after-war adjustment. It is not yet certain just
what policies and programs may be required to meet this
new phase, but it is certain that panic and playing politics
will make things worse rather than better.

Economy Sound
_ The experts generally agree that the American economy
is essentially sound. It may need a little tonic and a little
let-down from war-time tensions. Our economy does not
need amputation or general wage-cuts or shut-downs. It
can do more for America and for the world than it has
ever done if it is given the chance. The fatal error is to

ALBANY, July 18 — The pro-
ceeding instituted by Irving J.
Riley, as president of the Assist-
ant ,Unemployment Insurance
Claims- Examiner Eligibles As-
sociation, through their attorneys
Martha Gibbell and Samuel Res-
nicoff, of NYC, was argued in the

needlessly tinker with the works that make the economy go.

Court Hears Argument Over DPUI Test

Supreme Court. Decision was re-
served,

The petitioners seek to stop a
Promotional examination for the
position of Assistant Unemploy-
ment Insurance Claims Examiner
to be held by the State.on July
23. They maintain that there is

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a list for this position, promul-
gated on August 6, 1947, and that
it contains the names of more
than 150 qualified persons,

A new list shall be created only
when there is no appropriate list
existing from which appointments
may be made, the petitioners

The Classification and Compen-
sation Board, the combination
successor of the State Salary
Standardization Board and the
State Classification Board is rolle
ing along smoothly, reporteu J,
Earl Kelly (above), He chairs
man of the new

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Activities of Employees

Ogdensburg

At a meeting of the St. Law-
rence chapter, The Civil Service
Employees Association, held in the
Andrews Street Park at Massena,
Mrs, Mary C. Manning, attendance
officer for the Ogdensburg schools,
was elected delegate for the com-
ing year, Alton Charter, highway
superintendent for the town of
Hermon, was elected the alternate
delegate,

‘The following nominating com-
mittee was appointed to present
@ slate of officers for the chapter
at the July meeting: Welthia Kip,
chairman, county social welfare
department; Kenneth Rogers
Potsdam, department of public
works; Alton Charter, highway
superintendeny Hermon; Jean
Magee, Gouverneur, department
of public works; James Kane,
Canton county highway depart-

and Pierre Malterner, Canton,
chief of police.

The July meeting will be held
in Gouverneur at a date to be
announced, according to the chap-
ter president, Philip L. White, of
Ogdensburg,

Elmira

*Elwin H. Mosher was recently
elected President of the Elmira
Reformatory and Reception Cen-
ter Chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Association, Other of-
ficers elected include: Vice Presi-
dent, Herman E. Cassidy, Treas-
urer, Thomas A. Jones; Secretary,
Ross G. Lewis, Sr.; Executive Rep-
resentative, Prancis W. Crowley.

‘The Executive Council of the
Chapter is composed of: James
A. O'Dea; Earl L. .Platt, Edwin
B. Pickney, Wilbur J. Holt; Leo
'T. Hanrahan, Marie T, Burns;
Edward J. Looney, Edwin O. Up-

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Edward G. O'Leary and
Kenneth R. Whited, tie vote;

Richard C, Savey, Eugene Mor-
rell and Alvie R, Haskins,

Ithaca Chapter

‘The Ithaca Cuapver o« she Civil
Service Employees Association re-
cently held its annual meeting
and election of officers, The sol-
lowing were elected: President,
Mary Anne Zmek; Vice President,
Dr. Kenneth Wright; Treasurer,
Prances Argus; Mrs,

Lawson and Miss Millicent Stev-
ens; Alternates, Miss Bertha Rose-
erans and Mrs. Ruth Burt.

The following are the other
officers of the Ithaca chapter:
; Vice-president, Dr. Kenneth
Wright; treasurer, Miss Frances
Argus; secretary, Mrs. Ruth Burt;
delegates, Mrs. Veda Lawson;
Millicent Stevens, alternates, Ber-
tha Rosecrans and Mrs. Ruth Burt,

Wantagh

A regular meeung of the Long
island Inter-County State Park|
Chapter of The Civil Service Em-
ployees Association, was held on
Monday evening, July 18th, at
8:00 p.m. at the Fire Hall in
Wantagh,

During the meeting various
prizes were announced: first, a
floor model television-radio phono- |
graph; 2nd prize, basket of cheer;
3rd prize, two bottles of Bourbon.
Proceeds after the payment of
expenses will be turned over to
the Welfare Committee.

Farrell to Be Released
From Hospital Soon

William Farrell, president of the
Brooklyn State Hospital chapter
of The Civil Service Employees
Association who was badly hurt
at maneuvers at Camp Smith, is
expected to be out of Fort Jay
Hospital, on Governors Island, in
about two weeks.

A Sergeant First class in the
National Guard, he was riding in
a jeep when the driver lost con-
trol and both were thrown to the
ground. Mr. Farrell suffered a
broken shoulder and collar bone
and rib injuries. He was removed
to the army hospital at West
Point and six days later trans-
ferred to the hospital at Governors
Island, where his many friends in
the Association may address him.

Four Lists Issued

Lists of eligsbies in the following
titles were recently established by
the State. The number of éligibles
is given.

Public Works

Assistant Hydro-Electric Opera-

tor.-No Names
State Insurance Fund

Sr. Compensation Claims Ex-

aminer, Upstate Offices.-6

Tax
Head oe Machine Tran-
sertber.~;
Workmen’s Compensation Board

Assistant Self-Insurance Bx-
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Hard Fights Ahes

For Employees

(Continued from Page 1)
given that the 55-year bill will
become law, such an assurance
can only be affectuated with the
hardest kind of campaigning on,
the part of the employees, as the
total economic to

Ruth Burt; Delegates, Mrs. Veda | P4

municipalities afd counties on re-
tirement, so that State members
of the Retirement System should

not be held back by local units t

of government.

It may even be suggested that
State aid be extended for this
Purpose to municipalities. j

Mitchell Bill

Another formidable fight facing
Public employees is the Mitchell
vet preference bill. While this
measure has successfully been,
guided through two legislatures,
it mow comes before the people as
a constitutional amendment. It
is recognized that a mighty State-
wide campaign must be organized
to assure that the measure will

Files Aids NYC Chapter

John L, Files, recreational
director of the NYC chapter of
The Civil Service Employees As-
sociation, has brought to the at-
tention of members the travel
club vacation services offered by
the New York Journal-American
and the Albany Times-Union.
Members of the Association have
already availed themselves of this
service, he said.

Address Mr. Files for further
particulars on vacation planning
at Civil Service Employees As-
sociation, 80 Center Street, NYC,

Ruth Lazarus Passed

The name of Ruth Lazarus was
inadvertently omitted from the
list of 80 State employees who
successfully completed the State
Civil Service Department's train-
ing institute in administrative
analysis, published in The LEAD-
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employed in the Rochester office
of the Workmen’s Compensation
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TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1949

Hilliard Comes Up
With A Surplus

he ineffable Mr. Raymond M. Hilliard, NYC Welfare
Commissioner, has proudly come up with a surplus —
nearly $10,000,000 from its 1948-49 budget. Nice?

No — it isn’t nice at all, It isn’t nice when one considers
what has happened to relief budgets in this period during
which the surplus accumulated. It isn’t nice when one con-
siders the pay — often miserable pay — of the trained
workers in that department. Mr. Hilliard reports that his
payroll saving alone in this period reached $2,342,552. That
money came out of the hides of overworked, driven, tense,
underpaid, employees. Raymond M. Hilliard unwittingly
provides the strongest argument to prove that salaries in
the Welfare Department could be, should be, can be, and
must be brought up to decent levels. 3

Mr. Hilliard has a record of accumulating surpluses in
his former Illinois job. It seems to us that a relief admini-
strator requires larger motivations than to show how big
a surplus he can accumulate. That surplus can come from
only two sources — the poor and the employees.

These Are the Facts,
Mr. Gerlach!

; is not a proud achievement that among all the com-
| Cae in the United States, Westchester County — prob-
ably the wealthiest — has with undue haste and acclaim
rushed to cut the salaries of its employees.

The publicly-cited reason is an ‘agreement’ with the
employees that their salaries would be tied to the cost
of living index — going up when the index rises, down
when it falls. But the fact is that no public record exists
of such an agreement, and the employee representatives deny
unequivocally they ever made it; and in direct negotiation
with these representatives, the administration carefully re-
frains from referring to any agreement. However, leave
aside the whole question of an “agreement ;” there are some
aspects of the situation which Westchester officials should
weigh more carefully than they have,

First, during a time when other units of government —
City, State and Federal — merged all or substantial parts
of recent pay adjustments into base salary, Westchester
has bumbled along without providing this essential pro-
tection,

®

Low Salary Base, As It Is

Second, the Westchester salary base is unusually low.
On simple economic grounds, it can be demonstrated that
the base requires sharp upward revision.

Third, while it is true that total Westchester pay may
have in recent years approached a parity with pay in other
comparable jurisdictions, it is equally true that the present
slash cuts the average below that of other comparable juris-
dictions.

Summing up: Little attempt has been made to consider
whether the basic pay structure is fair; but a $75 yearly
pay cut is ordered on the basis of an adjusting formula
which has become outmoded and rendered obsolete by the
action of other units of government in stabilizing employee
pay.

lt would seem that County Executive Herbert C. Gerlach
has here a responsibility to come forward with a progressive
wage policy to assure the County employees and their
families of security against pay cuts of this nature. May
we remind Mr. Gerlach of a speech, made only a year ago,
in which he said:

“T recall the days of salary cuts, when employees still
remained loyal to the County-and continued to render loyal
and faithful service, I remember the war years when many
positions were not filled, and those who remained took over
additional duties and responsibilities.

Mr, Gerlach has not already forgotten?

The Westchester action will bring sorrow upon the em-
ployees, and from it the County can expect to garner no
Btate-wide good will, no national encomiums. cm

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The NYC
Employee

(Continued from Page 1)
Bridge and Tunnel Officer jobs.
The BTO jobs paid the very least,
and if anybody accepted it while
Correction Officer or Transit Pa-
trolman vacancies@gere still open,
that'd be news.

One examination, in the opinion
of Samuel H. Galston, Director of
Examinations, would suffice for
filling such jobs as Social Investi-
gator, Court Attendant, License
Inspector, Investigator, Inspector
of Markets, Weights and Measures,
Probation Officer and others. Even
the Patrolman (P.D.) and Fireman
(F.D.) examinations gould be com~
bined, he feels. That was done
during the war when the non-
competitive examinations for
Temporary Patrolman and Tempo-
rary Fireman were held.

‘The requirements would then be
the same for both jobs. Now they're
sqmewhat different, especially as
toheight (5’8” for Police, 5'6%2”
for Fireman).

All that would be for the future,
if at all, and wouldn't affect the
published Fireman list nor the
Patrolman application period that,
opens December 1,

Training is the Key

“The key to satisfactory per-
formance is the training period,”
said Mr. Galston. “When we hold
a Patrolman examination, for in-
stance, we do not certify to the
Police Department that the eli-
gibles are ready to work a beat,
only that they possess every re-
quirement for being trained to be
capable Patrolmen, Since the en-
trance pay is the same, and the
rise to the top of the grade is
accomplished in the same period
of tree years, the two tests,
which are for similar skills, could
be combined.” 4

One advantage of common ex-
aminations for filling multiple
titles, which he didn’t mention,
would ~be total absence of even
semblance of a grievance be-
cause alist already established is
declared appropriate for fiilling
jobs in another title, or in multiple
other titles. Under the proposed
plan the “appropriate” use of a
list would become unnecessary.

Practice Growing

The practice of using one list
for several purposes is growing in
NYC, an indication that Mr. Gal-
ston’s combination idea may
thrive. The Commission recently
adopted an amendment to its
regulations, to put not only all
future candidates, but everybody
else, on notice that the broadening
of eligibility is the vogue. Griev-
ances arise when persons say that
they'd been waiting a long time
for a particular examination to
be held, only to discover that some
other list is to be used for filling
the job they want.

“Had I only known,” is the tenor
of the gripe,

In examinations for technical,
scientific and professional jobs the
present confinement of the list
to filling positions in the single
title would be followed, as in hir-
ing doctors, lawyers and dentists.
Even the nursing specialties would
still retain their individuality for
filling vacancies, with no trans-
positions.

The question would arise, in the
broadened examinations, whether
or not the minimum requirements
would be raised. There is no pre-
sent intention of raising them, In
the Police, Fire, clerical and some
other examinations, no formal
experience or training 1s necessary
to entitle one to compete. In other
examinations, including those of
Investigator of one type or an-
other, there are minimum ex-
perience requirements, and such
minima would be retained, How-
ever, one departure would be that
a college degree, while not re-
quired, would be acceptable in
lieu of some, if not all, of the re-
quired experience,

Human Side of Test

One woman who showed up at
Julia Richman High School to
take the NYC Social Investigator
examination brought her year-old
child with her, She'd intended to
let her husband take care of their
darling, but he took sick, The Civil
Service Commission had the
woman take the test in a room all
by herself, except for a special
monitor for her alone, and the
presence of the child to watch
mamma. It was a new experience
for the child, the
mother snd the
Bt se Commission.
Women : Only Women

rake Te: ook the test in
Take Test (ot tien senhool
and some of them were pregnant.
Men and women took it in Stuy-
vesant and Seward High Schgols,

Pregnant

Mr. Galston. made the .rounds

Lb ong Repeat

(Continued from Page 1)
would not run — then, no man
could have stoad against him.

Why This Way?

Why has it happened this way,
when his re-election could have

been so cleanly in the bag? Why
has he gotten involved in the
Frank Hogan fracas, affronting a
sensitive man? Why has he given
to many political leaders, and
other prospective candidates, cause
for personal bitterness, by per-
mitting hopes to soar, only to
become shrivelled and soured?
Why has he permitted himself
the luxury of so many different
Positions, so that the City was
never truly aware of what he
sought? Why has he taken a gilt-

edged “insurance-policy” election

and run it into a dogfight?
These are questions which not
his enemies, but O’Dwyer’s friends
and objective observers of the
political scene are asking.

Why It Will Be a Hard Fight

It will be hard campaign. Up
to the last minute, the Mayor's
intimates tried to get Liberal
Party support for him, but failed.
Six weeks ago he could have had
that support; and he could haye
had it, too, if he had preferred
to run for the U. S, Senate on the
basis of his campaign against the
Taft-Hartley Act.

In 1945, O'Dwyer's total vote was
1,125,359, Of this total, the Ameri-
can Labor Party contributed 257,-
929. If you eliminate those ALP
votes, O'Dwyer's total is only some
20,000 more than the total garner-
ed by his opponents. And that was
an election which neither of his
opponents could win, and every-
body knew it. His GOP opponent,
Jonah Goldstein, was a former
Democrat who didn’t fool any Re-
publicans and didn’t drag any
Democrats with him, Newbold Mor-
ris, his No-Deal opponent, was a
stalking horse put up by La-
Guardia for the deliberate purpose
of helping O'Dwyer win.

Fusion Win Possible

Today, there is a feeling in
anti-O’Dwyer ranks that victory
could be possible. It is of record
that Newbold Morris is a good
vote-getter, It is important to
Tom Dewey to win. The Liberal
Party, now in fusion with the
GOP, wants to roll up an impres-
sive record. There is a feeling
among many Democrats, which
cannot be described as warm to
O'Dwyer; and these Democrats
can't be expected to plunge in
with warm heart to get him re-
elected. As the Newbold Morris
group senses the remote possibil-
ity of victory, more money, more
effort will go into the campaign.

How Far Has He~Slipped?

Six weeks ago O'Dwyer was in-
vincible. A deep political query is
this: How fur nas O'Dwyer

make the public foreet,
ling pre-campaign peri
He may have haq
reason for doing it
come out in the coy,
campaign.

The ALP

The ALP is deeply
split. It is considered nq
the bounds of probabif
O'Dwyer will accept supy
so-called right-wing of
wing political party, 1
darkly hinted that the

pecially promoted with yy
clusion in prospect.

torial candidate is

the Liberal Party
O'Dwyer is not? Herberf
man may decide to run,
probability now

this, let it be added, is
itself — a story of fi
magnitude. (For that
worthwhile to digres:
the political history of

will make interesting —
interesting — histori
They Want Pe
Supreme Court Judge
Pecora has been bes!
the race for the U.

would certainly have
final choice as the
with

chieftains have already
Pecora begging him to
Senate run, With Leh
running, O'Dwyer-Pe

a strong ticket from ag
litical boss viewpoint —
is Irish Catholic, Pecort
Protestant, But Pecora
telling those closest to
not too sure he wants (q
the relatively easy life

preme Court judge in
make the difficult 5

But neither has he s

ficult time for the polit
New York City, Bu
it will be unpredicta

of the three schools, noted that
at the two “co-ed” exams there
was a generous male representa-
tion, of which he was glad, but
counted only 3,143, although 4,580
were notified to appear.

NYC needs the eligibles badly,
and it doesn’t appear as if there'll
be many more than 1,110 on the
list, finally, unless the final key
changes the tentative one, The
key answers have to be finally
adopted before anything can be
said officially about the prospec-
tive number of eligibles. Yet Mr.
Galston himself will take some
papers selectively this week, and
use them as samples on which
to base a ratio, assuming the
tentative key answers won’t be
changed, He will come up with an
estimate of the number of candi-
dates who passed. If it’s more than
1,000 he'll certainly be glad, as
he’d like to avoid having to hold
another Social Investigator ex-
amination in the fall, particularly
as rapid sequence of examinations
in one title tends to attract mostly
those who failed previous tests
for the same job,

Weights May Be Different

The Commission reserved the
right to weight the questions so
that some answers would count
more than others, Under the equal
weight plan one would have to
get 63 questions right, to attain
the pass mark, The literal pass-
mark is 70 per cent, but 69 and a
fraction is accepted as the sub-
stantial equivalent of 170, since

the fraction puts one higher than

the failure mark of 69.4
62 questions right wll
failure, as less than 69-¥
mal

68.82).

Therefore the maximil!
one may get wrong, 2
27, but wait for
answers! Things will be

The unequal weightin

would pass, on the
basis, proves too small,
mission is after as larde
possible,

THUMBN|I
SAMUEL H. GALSTON

°o, vaminations, hé#t!
reer with NYC as an I
Weights and Measures
out No, 5 in an exami
which 3,000 competed: #
members bristling Clem

as head of
and Meas

scales, seized

in the City Hall plaze
Gaynor to behold. Al!
ment, young Galston, |!
CONY (774), was given 4
test on scales, which
the other appointees /#!
Gaynor asked the bus
late Jim Walsh, if the §
had been trained. “
answer, “Then train'e”"
months and let me. hn
sult," the Mayor order
guess the result and «lt
Galston. thinksysa, hie!
on-the-job-trainings

_ CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

jy THEODORE BECKER
YOU filled out your

ere required, If you were
ntious, you searched your
and memory to present

the first place, most exam-
announcements call for
minimum training and ex-
ye, If you sell yourself
by failing to specify all
qualifying experience, you
never get to take the exam-
It is, therefore, very im-
{ that you describe your
nce fully on the applica-
form.
of the things to guard
; is @ common tendency to
that certain experience you
nad is either not significant
sn't have to be reported
ye you have already set
enough qualifying exper-
This attempt at interpret-
the requirements is danger-
because what you consider
ying May not be so con-
by the civil service ca-
ws and vice versa,

Work Experience Rated

work experience may also
Wen a rating and thereby
your final average mark
rank on the eligible lists,
ber that civil service ex-
cannot give you credit
nce which you do not
ie in your papers. ‘They can
you on the record only.
n employment are not con-
n your favor. So make
record is complete,

only time the examiner
ond the record is when
oks through the eyes of an
higator, But it is not custo-
for civil service agencies to
we ratings on experience as
wult of investigations, The
more often the case.

fore, don't overdo it, Ex-
ation may be construed as

result in disqualification,
What You Can Do

Here are some of the things
you can do to avoid the difficult-
jes involved in filling out your
application and making sure that
what you claim as experience can

be verified:

1, Read the announcement care-
fully, including the general in-
structions to candidates, if any.

2. If you believe you are qual-
ified, fill out the application and
cite all your experience, even thas
portion which you may not con-

sider qualifying,

3. Maintain a file containing
documents, such as letters of ref-
letters of appointment,
reports,
and

erence,
service record ratings,
etc,, showing the length
quality of your service,

4. Maintain a copy of your
‘This
will make it much easier to fill

application for reference,

out future applications.

Understating and Overreaching
The affect of failure to describe
experience fully on an applica-
tion is illustrated by a recent
court case involving salary credits
for a teacher in the New York

City public school system,

The Court denied the teacher
salary credit for experience which
he had failed to mention prev-
jously in connection with fixing
his initial salary, Furthermore,
the Court deprived him of some
other salary credits when it dis-
covered that the Board of Educa-
tion had improperly allowed the
same, Pointing out that the Board
may not have been able to reduce
the credits, if the teacher hadn’t
raised the issue of salary credits

himself the Court stated:
“In view, however,

it has done.”

col. 1),

This is comparable to the pro-
of some civil service
agencies which provide that when
a candidate appeals from a rating,
his entire paper is opened up for

cedures

review.

of plain-
tiff’s assertion of a claim of ad~
ditional credit, it would seem that
he has opened up the entire ques-
tion as to the proper amount of
credit to be allowed him, and thus
permitted the court to compute
the proper credit de novo, which
(Strum v. Board of
Education, 3-28-49. N.Y.L.J. 1106

Civil Service Reform Report

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
at Employees Should Know

an attempt to defraud and may

Asks Grievance Review Board

A call for public employee griev-
ance machinery highighted the
annual report of the Civil Service
Reform Association.

The Association again urged re-
organizing the State Civil Service
Commission by vesting administra-
tion in a qualified personnel direc-
tor, with a commission appointed
withuut regard to political affil-
{ations whose function would ue
confined to determining policies,
conducting investigations of op-
eration of the law, and similar
broad responsibilities, A similar

Public Service
Chapter, NYC,
Begins Meetings

The Metropolitan Public Serv-
ice Chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Association met Friday
evening, July 15 in the hearing
room of the*Public Service Com-
mission at 233 Broadway, NYC.
The newly-formed group elected
Kenneth A. Valentine as tempor-
ary chairman and Edith Fruch-
thendler as acting secretary.

A constitutional committee was
also elected to draw up & con-
stitution that will be presented
at the chapter’s next meeting for
ratification. On the committee
are Joseph Holt, Mark Jackson,
Edward Block, Amadeo Carmina
and Miss Fruchthendler.

A nominating committee was
also chosen to draw up a slate
of officers. Serving are Joseph
Wigman, Mr. Jackson, Sadie
Hirsch, George Wagner and Philip
Wexler,

TEACHER LOYALTY TEST

ALBANY, July 18 — Teachers
and public school employees in
New York State must be investi-
gated annually by the boards of
education to determine if they
have committed disloyal acts or
are members of’ subversive or-

ganizations,

general committee on ar-
ments of the Central New
Conference field day pledged

bilo Administrator of the County
York; State Tax Commission, ‘To
hown Heirs at Law, Next of Kin
inbutees of eaid Marle Melford
Sroerally known aa Marie B, Char
wel. If any there be, If living
uy of them be dead to thelr hus-
wives, if any, distributecs, heira
Aid next of kin, Executors, Ad-

ha
‘notrument in writing dated the
ot May 1049 relating to both
Yersonal property, duly proved aa
Wil” and ‘Testament of Marie
sng, generally known se Marie
lit, deceased who was at the time
Mais resident of Notce Dame du

‘coutata County, Province of

PORE, you and each of you are
y8OW cause before the Surrogate’s
gle County of New York, at the
the County of

day of August,

unto affixed.
Honorable George

Surrogate of our
~ New York, at
fine im the year of our Lord
209 thousand “Nine hundred and
orty-nine,

Clerk of the Surrosate's Court
a ‘a

hae Potitionses

re Street» t
OG MMe Mare ortl vier | aac

7

success.

Restaurant, near Binghamton,
As if

@ musical trio

a
hour will ensue,
The field day, to

and many other features,

'3| stated that the general committee

has one obligation; to offer to
members and guests a good time
with excellently prepared food.
To this end the Conference has
obtained one of the finest caterers
in the area to serve not only a
buffet. supper Saturday night fol-
lowing the business meeting, but
also food af the outing to be

held. on Sunday,
Mp. Launt points,

give earnest to this
pledge, the State employees of
the Binghamton area are already
responding to the efforts of the
icceasora | committee with the most gratify-
ing enthusiasm according to @
statement from Mr. Launt. The
day before the fleld day, which

st] will take place on August 14, a
raved, | TeRUlar meeting of the Conference
will be held at Saxon’s Restaurant
in the afternoon. A buffet sup-
per will be held in the evening,

(electric guitar,
accordion and drum), two dance
numbers by the talented Yvonne
Goundrey and a barber shop
uartet. Dancing and a social

be held at
Pine Plains at the Chenango Val-
ley State Park, will begin at 11
am, Mr. Launt announced that
guests will have an opportunity
of enjoying the facilities of the
State Park, such as swimming,
boating, golfing, horse back riding

ntral Conference Field Day
ill Be Conducted on Grand Scale

the chairman of the Conference,
Clarence W. F, Stott, that every
member of the committee would
exert the utmost possible effort
to make the affair an outstanding
Albert E. Launt, chair-
man of the committee and presi-
dent of the Empire State Civil
| Service Club which is sponsoring
the event, presided at the meet-
ing, which was held at Saxon's

should a member or friends buy
tickets to both the Saturday night
and Sunday affairs, they may ob-
tain them for $3.75, whereas the
printed price for the supper is
$1.50 and the dinner next day is
$2.50 or a total of $4.

Mr. and Mrs, Curtis Gardner,
1216 Chenango Street, Bingham-
ton, represent the subcommittee
on housing and transportation.
It is recommended that those who
desire such accommodations
write to them. Stuart H. Ander-
soh is the treasurer of the two-
day event, When mailing money
orders or checks, make them pay~
able to Stuart H. Anderson, He
Mves at 71 Frederick Street, Bing-
hamton, All requests for infor-
mation should be directed to Mr.
Launt at the Binghamton State
Hospital or Mr. Stott, R. D. No, 3,
Binghamton.

Members of the general com-
mittee who were present were
Mr. and Mrs. Launt, Edward
‘Strong, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson,
Mrs, Maroa Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs,
Frank Bell, Mr. and Mrs, Gerald
Reilly, Mr, and Mrs. Stott, Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Gardner, Mr.
and Mrs. C, Albion Kenworthy,
Paul H, Swartwood, Stanley Pot-
ter, Mrs. Minnie Parker and Mr.
and Mrs, Harold E. Boyce.

FINGERPRINT
INSTRUCTOR -

All phases of fingerprint identi-
fication. Established school in
Manhattan.

Pull or part time. State edu-
cation, experience, salary. Box

plan had been voted down by the
Legislature,

Declaring that “short-sighted
attempts to use the civil service
as work relief for political work-
ers in whatever political party may
be dominant are still made al-
most daily,” the report deplores
the tendency to except positions
from competitive tests, stating:
“Aside from limiting career op-
Portunities, the existence of ex-
cepted positions occupied by per-
sons who have not had to meet
competition on their own merits
establishes @ partisan political at-
mosphere which cannot fail to
affect their co-workers and sub-
ordinates.” The Association again
recommends that all civil service
commissions in the State be di-
vested of authority to except pos+
itions from competition,

NYC a Generation Behind

ing: “If the City is to rid itself
of the problem induced by several
thousand provisionals, often po-
litically sponsored employees, it will
have to revise its policy either
by denying increments to all but
permanent personnel or by per-
mitting provisionals to stay at the
salary levels they have attained
in provisional status when they
accept: permanent appointments.”
Seeks Wide Survey

The report urges, as a first step
toward putting the New York City
civil service on a sound basis that
@ comprehensive scientific survey
of the salary schedules, duties and
responsibilities of all City posi-
tions be made, Pointing out that
no real classification study has
been made since before World
War I, that the present classifi-
cation system is outdated and the
pay plan inadequate, arbitrary
and inequitable, the Association
“In most phases of civil service| advises “that the City obtain the
administration, New York City —/services of outside, technically
the world’s synonym for modern-| equipped experts in this feld on
ity — is a generation behind the}an advisory, consultative basis,
times,” states the report. | working in constant, close contact
Criticizing the Municipal Com-| with the City’s own staff. A reas-
mission of NYC as well as the|onable sum appropriated for such
State Commission for too many a survey would be a sound invest
exceptions from competition and|ment which would pay huge div:
too many provisional appoint-|dends in ultimate savings and
ments, the Association deplores|improved morale in the service.”
the City’s penny-wise, pound-| The Association hails the passage
foolish policy of paying perman-|by the 1949 legislature of the
ent, competitively appointed em-|Mitchell-Van Duzer proposal, mak-
ployees, on certification from civil|ing fundamental changes in the
service eligible lists, less than it|veteran preference provision of
had paid the provisional incum-! the State Constitution, if approved
bents of the same positions, stat-' by the voters on November 8.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

The Substitute Clerk and Sub-
stitute Carrier written examina-
tion to fill post office positions
in New York, N, Y., (Manhattan
and The Bronx), where there are
600 vacancies, and Brooklyn, Long
Island City, Jamaica, Far Rock~
away and Staten Island, where
the total vacancies are consider-
ably fewer, will begin this month.
There will be multiple examina-
tion dates, as the candidates are
expected to number 20,000. This
imposes a heavy load on the Sec-
ond Regional Office of the U. 8.
Civil Service Commission, but
Director James E. Rossell has
massed his forces to cope with
the largest examination that will
be held this year.

The examination is open to men
and women,

There is time to apply for this
test only until 5 p.m. today \Tues~
day). The application blank must
actually be on file by that time
at the Regional Office, 641 Wash-
ington Street, Manhattan. Take
Seventh Avenue subway local to
Christopher Street,

Three Year List Life

It is expected that many who
apply for the Clerk-Carrier test
also will compete in the Mail
Handler examination, to open
July 21, The announcement
of the Clerk-Carrier examination
cousisted of the printed form used
throughout the United States for
this examination, and included
the statement that mail handlers
are appoined from the Clerk-Car-
rier register, which is true only of
small post offices, where there
are not as many as three Mail
Handler jobs, but does not apply
in NYC, where a separate exam-
ination for Mail Handler is held.
But the duties of newly-arpointed
Carriers may be the same as those
of newly-appointed Clerks.

The register of eligibles result-
ing from the Clerk-Carrier ex-
amination will have at least as
long a life as the lists that are
about to be supplanted by. the
new lists, probably more, or three
years. Those on the present Clerk-
Carrier lists, of whom there are
many, will have to take the new
Clerk-Carrier examinaticn, and
pass it, to remain eligible.

Old Lists to Be Killed

A note contained in the official
examination notice set forth:

“The registers to be established
from this examination announce-
ment will cancel and supersede
the registers established as a re-
sult of the announcement No, 2-17
(1948). Eligibses on the old regis-
ter who wish to rezcive further
consideration for appointment to
this position must file applica-
tion under the terms of Announce-
ment No, 2-50 (1949).”

The last-named announcement
number is that of the current
Clerk-Carrier examination,

The pay is $1.29 an hour to
start. For a 40-hour week that
totals $51.60. After a year of
satisfactory substitute service, in-
cluding time served as special
delivery messenger, the basic rate
js increased 5 cents an hour each
succeeding year to $1.79, or $71.60
@ weel

Requirements Listed
Requirements follow:
Residence. — Applicants must

actually reside within the delivy~
ery of the.post office named or be
bona fide patrons of such office.
Persons employed in the post of-
fice will be considered bona fide
patrons of the office.

Citizenship, — Applicants must
be citizens of or owe allegiance
to the United States,

Age. — Applicants must have
reached their eightecntn birthday
but must not have passed their
fiftieth birthday on the closing

Clerk-Carrier Test
Set for This Month

tions, These age limits do not
apply to persons entitled to vet-
eran preference, Age limits will
be waived for war service in-
definite employees who un the
closing date of this examination
are serving in positions which
would be filled trom the eligible
register resulting from this cx-
amination, and who could norm-
ally be expected to have com-
pleted 15 years of Federal service
by their seventieth birthday.
These age limits will also be
waived for war service indefinite
employees who on the closing
date of this examination are serv-
ing in positions which would be
filled from the eligible register
resulting from this examination
and who could not be expected
to have completed 15 years of
Federal service by their seventieth
birthday. However, the names of
eligible war service indefinite em-
ployees in the latter group will
be entered on supplemental lists
which will be used only after ell
other eligibles have been given
appropriate consideration. An eli-
gible on the suppiemental list
may be accorded a competitive
status only in the position he
held on the closing date or one of
lower grade for which the list is
appropriate.

- Height and Weight. — Male and
female applicants must be at least,
5 feet 4 inches in height without
shoes, and male applicants must
Weigh at least 125 pounds,

Wasver. — The height, weight,
and age requirements are waived
for honorably discharge veterans.
These requirements may also be
waived for non-veterans who are
presentuy, or who have been em-
Ployed in the position of Sub-
stitute Clerk-Carrier and who have
demonstrated their abilities to dis-
charge efficiently the full duties
required of probational employees.

Physical Requirements, — Arms,
hands, legs, and feet must be suf-
ficiently intact and functioning in
order that applicants may per-
form the duties satisfactorily. The
distant vision of applicants for
the position of Substitute Clerk
must test at least 20/30 (Snellen)
in one eye, eyeglasses permitted.
Distant vision of applicants for
the position of Substitute Carrier
must test at least 20/30 (Snellen)
in one eye and 20/50 (Snellen)
in the other eye, glasses permitted.
For either position applicants
must be able to read Jaeger type
No. 4 at 14 inches, They must
be able to hear ordinary conver-
sation at a distance of 12 feet,
each ear, with or without a hear-
ing aid.

Applicants will be disqualified
for appointment if they have a
irremediable or incurable defect
or disease which prevents efficient
performance of duty or which
renders them a hazard to them-
selves, fellow employees, or others.
Remedial defects or curable dis-
eases will not exclude a person
from examination, but proof that
such conditions have been rem-
edied or cured must be received
during the life of the eligible
register before persons otherwise
disqualified may be considered for
appointment.

Waiver. — Certain physical re-
quirements are waived for hon-
orably discharged veterans pro-
vided such veterans are physically
able to discharge efficiently ‘the
duties of the position without any
undue hazard to themselves, fel~
low workers, or others. These re-
quirements may also be waived
for non-veterans who are pres-
ently or who haye been, employed
{n the position of Substitute Clerk-
Carrier and who have demon-
strated their abilities to discharge
efficiently the full duties required
of probational appointees and
without undue hazard to them-

date for acceptance of applica-

selves, fellow employees, or others,

Open-Competitive Lists
Issued by New York State

SR. LIBRARIAN, (0.C.),
Public Library, Erie County

Non-yeterans
. Bratt, T., Clarence Ctr - 88800
. Vogel, D., Tonawanda ..82900
Breen, M., Buffalo .

‘Townsend, J., Orehrd
Swyers, A., Buffalo .

pReNe

MUSEUM EXHIBITS DESIGNER
(0.C.), Education Department
Non-veteran
1, Cummings, V., Buffalo ..86500
ASSISTANT GAS ENGINEER,
(0.C.), Public Service Commission

STATE

Open-Competitive
Last date to file on all the follow
ing State exams is Friday, August 12.
Written tests will be held on Sep-
tember 17.
287. Senior Psychologist, West-
chester County, $2,910 to $3,970
plus bonus of $720. Fee $2.
0169. Housekeeper (reissued),
Tompkins County, $.71 per hour,
Fee $1,
9195. Case Worker, Erie County,
ae Plus $500 bonus for 1949.

0196. Draftsman, Cheektow-
aga, Erie County, $2,700. Fee $2.
$0197. Laboratory Technician,

Erie County, $2.100 plus $500
bonus, Fee $2.

0198. Supervising Tabulating
Machine Operator (Remington
Rand), Erie County, $2,700 plus
$500 bonus for 1949. Fee $2.

0199, Case Worker, Essex Coun-
ty, $2,160 to $2,520. Fee $2. ,

@209. Case Worker, Rockland
County, $2,633.85 to $2,922.15.
Fee $2. r

0284. Assistant Director of
Nursing (Psychiatry), Westchester
County, $3,180 to $3,900 plus $720
bonus and salary differential of
$240 per year. Fee $3,

0290. Junior Librarian, Scars-
dale, Westchester County, $2,500
to $3,400, plus 10% cost-of-living
bonus. Fee $2. This exam open
to residents and non-residents of
New York State.

0291. Library Assistant, Tuck-
ahoe, Westchester County, $2,000
to $2,700 plus $300 cost-of-living
adjustment. Fee $1. Open to res-
idents and non-residents of New
York State.

0306. Case Worker, Chautauqua
County, $2,340 to $2,760, plus $252
cost-of-living adjustment. Fee $2.
9307. Fire Driver, Fredonia,
Chautauqua County, $200 per
month. Fee $2,

0308. Tax Account Clerk,
Chautauqua County, $1,620 to
$1,920 plus $252 cost-of-living ad-

Justment, Fee $1.
309. Case Worker, Tompkins
County, $2,200 to $2,500. Fee $2,
0310, Junior Laboratory Tech-
nician, Tompkins County, $2,000
to $2,300 plus emergency com-
pensation of $200. Fee $1.
0311. Senior Laboratory Tech-
nictan, Tompkins County, $2,400
to $2,709, plus emergency com-
pensation of $200. Fee 2.

0312. Senior Nurse, Tompkins
County, $1.18 per hour. Fee $2.

0313. Assistant -Directer of
Nursing, Grasslands Hospital,
Westchester County, $3,180 to
$3,900 plus emergency compensa-
tion of $720, Fee $3.

0314. Assistant Director of
Nursing, Tuberculosis Division,
Grasslands Hospital, Westchester
County, $3,180 to $3,900, plus
emergency compensation of $720
and salary differential of $240
per year. Fee $3. .

0315, Bookbinder, Department
of Purchase and Supplies, West-
chester County, $1,950 to $2,250
plus emergency compensation of
$720. Fee $1.

0316, Bookkeeping Machine Op-
erator, $1,800 to $2,280 plus em-

-

to $2,250 plus emergency com-
pensation of $720. Fee $1.

0318. Intermediate Account
Clerk, Eastchester, Westchester
County, $1,800 to $2,300 plus em-
ergency compensation of $500.
Fee $1.

0319. Intermediate Account
Clerk, Mount Pleasant, Westchest-
er County, $1,800 to $2,400. Fee $1.

0320. Information Clerk, Grass-| \_

Brooklyn

U. S.—641 Wasny
Tel. WAtkins 4-100,
Btate—Room 2
BArclay 7-1616. sta
302, State Office 5;
for county jobs.
NYC—96 Duane
COrtlandt 7-8880.
NYC Education
2, N. ¥.
New Jersey—ciyy
1060 Broad Street,
of State agencies.
Boge exams
employ, usually in p
NY

State both issues ang
all applications be py
The U. 8. also issues
that applications be

of that date is not

applying for an applid
but a 6-cent stampa
should be enclosed »;
the State and should

ergency compensation of $720.| dress above).

Fee $1. . The NYC and sme open every day, except
0317. Junior Social Case Work-| Sundays and holidayj™mpm. and on Saturday from

er, Westchester County, $1,950|9 a. m. to noon. Times is open every day from

8:30 am. to 5 p.m, a
How to Get Th
reaching the U. &
in NYC, follow:
State Civil Service|
IND trains A, C, D,
Avenue line to Brod
Brighton local to Ci
U. S. Civil Servig
Christopher Street sta

=

WhéApply

ok 14, N. ¥, (Manhattan)
putside of New York, N. x.
New York 7 N, ¥., Tel.
pany 1, N. ¥., and Room
fy, Same applies to exams

N. ¥. (Manhattan), -Tel.
LEADER office.
ly) —110 Livingston Street

on, State House, Trenton;
camden; personnel

ose already in government
is, aS 5)
ations by mail. New York
; by mail and requires that
jinight of the closing date.
biions by mail, but requires
closing date; a post-mark
F postage is required when
is. Civil Service Commission
pe, 3%@x9 inches or larger,
fing application blanks from
to the Albany office (ad-

not red

kndays and holidays.
nes that may be used for
We Service Commission offices

Civil Service Commission—
ts Street; IRT Lexington
f Fourth Avenue local or

Seventh Avenue local to

lands Hospital, Westchester Coun-
ty, $1,440 to $1,820 plus emergency
compensation of $720. Fee $1.

0321. Junior Librarian, Tarry-
town, Westchester County, $1,740
to $2,400 plus 30% emergency
compensation. Fee $1.

0322. Probation Officer, Chau-
tauqua County, $2,340 to $2,760
plus cost-of-living adjustment of
$252. Fee $2.

0249. Senior Special Tax In-
vestigator, Department of Tax-

0257.
ing Department, $4,241
annual increases to $5
0266. Associate
alyst, $6,700, plus five Mm.

ation and Finance, Ss
five annual increases #. 4:
Preferred maximum 9
years, Certification f
ing eligible list ma:
males. Fee $4.

Bank Exanigt

to $8,144, Fee $5.

ssistant Director of La-
arch and Statistics, De-
of Labor, $6,700 plus
1al increases to $8,144.

. Senior Research Analyst
fans’ Affairs), Executive De-
$5,232, plus five annual
s to $6,406. Fee $5.

EXAMS FORUBLIC JOBS

(Criminology), kadai rig five;

annual increases to $6,406. Fee Hi

$5.

0270. Senior Economics Re-
search Editor, Department of
Labor, $4,242, plus five annual
increases to $5,232. Fee $4.
$0271. Research Assistant (Vet-
erans’ Affairs), Executive Depart-
ment, $3,450, plus five annual in-
creases to $4,176. Fee $3.

0272. Insurance Research As-
sistant, Department of Insurance,
$3,174, plus five annual increases
to $3,846. Fee $3.

0273. Senior Tech-
nician, Department of Commerce,
$4,110, plus five annual increases
to $5,100. Fee $4. Open to res-
idents and non-residents of New
York State.

0274. Planning Technician, De-
partment of Commerce, $3,450,
plus five annual increases to
$4,176. Fee $3, Open to residents
and non-residents of New York
State.

0275. Senior Building Construc-
tiony Engineer, Executive Depart-
ment, $5,232, plus five annual in-
creases to $6,406. Fee $5.

0276. Junior Civil Engineer,
$3,450, plus five annual increases
to $4,176. Fee $3.

0277. Mine and Tunnel Inspect-
or, Department of Labor, $3,174,
plus five annual increases to $3,846.
Fee $3.

0278. Radio Technician, $3,174,
plus five annual increases
$3,846. Fee $3.

0279. Assistant Locomotive In-
spector, Conservation Department,
$3,484, plus five annual increases
to $3,174. Fee $2.

0280. Junior Engineering Aide,
$2,070, plus five annual increases
to $2,760. Fee $2.
$0281. Highway General Main-
tenance Foreman, Department of
Public Works, $7.56 to $9.76 per
day, plus cost-of-living bonus of
15%. Fee $.50.

0282. Principal, School of Nurs-
ing, Department of Mental Hy-
giene, $4,242, plus five annual in-
creases to $5,232. Fee $4.

Senior Research Analyst

0283, Assistant Director of

Cayuga County
Employees Win
Assn. Charter

AUBURN, July 18 — The first
annual dinner and charter presen-
tation of Cayuga Chapter was held
recently at Sunnyside Inn, Auburn,
The event was attended by more
than 100 members and guests of
Cayuga Chapter of The Civil
Service Employees Association.
Alyce Bogart acted as Chairman
of the Committee in charge, as-
sisted by Chester Nodine and Steve
Androsko,
Cusick Chief Speaker

The principal speaker was As-
semblyman Charles Cusick who
stated: “I believe in the right of
Public employees to form ind be-
come members of organizations
such as is represented here to-
night. I am pleased to see the
representative employees from all
parts of Cayuga County, including
the City of Auburn, gathered to-
gether to enjoy a social occasion
at which they will be presented
with the charter for Cayuga Chap-
ter by The Civil Service Employees
Association. I know from my ac-
quaintanceship with those present
here tonight that this chapter will
do a good job in representing civil
employees and their problems. I
congratulate your officers and
committee on this splendid show-

ing.
Culyer Presents Charter

The charter for Cayuga Chap-
ter was presented by Field Repre-
sentative, Charles R, Culyer, rep-
resenting the Association, and in
@ short talk Mr, Culyer stressed
the importance of organization
and membership at all levels of
employment in Cayuga County,
with the idea of giving full and
complete service to the members.
Entertainment was furnished by
The Thropsters, a quartet con-
sisting of Mark Downing, Bruce
Pierce, Payson Derby and Robert
Burtless. Mrs. Burtless acted as

Non-disabled Veteran
1, Wegener, A,, Staten Isl 77950

accompanist and Earl Crandall,

Clerica

(Continued from Page 5)

251. Pill, P., Bklyn .... 77920
252. Allalouf, M., NYC
253..Quinn, J., Albany
254. Cutler, T., Bklyn ..
255. Saladis, J., Staten Isl 77800

92 Armory
Employees
Win Pay Rise

ALBANY, July 18 — J. Earl
Kelly, Director of Classification
and Compensation for the State
Civil Service Commission, has an-
nounced salary increases for 89
employees of the State Division of
Military and Naval Affairs, re-
troactive to April 1, 1948, as the
result of° a classification survey.
The survey, made at the re-
quest of The Adjutant General,
covered the State Arsenal in
Brooklyn, the New York National
Guard headquarters in New York,
and The Adjutant General's Of-
fice in Albany. It was undertaken
for the purpose of comparing the
jobs with others in the State serv-
ice and defining them in terms
of standard job titles. The Div-
ision of Military Affairs is not
under the jurisdiction of the Civil
Service Commission.

Some Increases $500
The survey revealed that a
number of employees were re-
ceiving salaries lower than those
paid for similar work in other
State departments. Application
of regular State salary standards
resulted in pay increases for 14
employees exceeding $500 per
year. In additional 25 employees
received increases ranging from
$200 to $500 per year. No em-
Ployees received a cut in salary

. -77800

member of, the chapter, sang.

because of reclassification of his
Position. $23

List:

. Lucas, N.,
. Fuca, M., Bki.

. Barber, S,, Schtd
|. Milicich, P., NYd
|. Perlmutter, J., Bi
. Klein, M., Bklyn
Degnan, G., Queed
. Berger, J., Butlald

. Weisblum, M., NY
| Karezewski, F.

. Stoutenburgh, 4
B,, Bkiy4

}. Woods, A. F
. Feinstein, M., 3!
. Taylor, E., NYC
. Corbett, ;

This ends the list
abled veterans, Next
veterans,

. Anke,
Genk BY
State Departmen
Institutions airs!
Disabled V et*@ix.

1 Maillue, B., Buftall
2 Reidy, J., Syracl™
3 Britt, W., N¥C_.
4 McCormick, W.,
5 Kirschenbaum, 4

Quade, J., Bronx .

-84460
13) 4

NY

Cc

. McCaffrey T.
. Judge, W., Elmir oN.

. Jones, D., NYC Brin, S,, Bklyn ......

. O'Neill, P., NYC s, J., Elmhurst ....82220
. Bonk, A., Bu‘tslineciani, J., Bronx ...82150
. Diez, A., Bklyn Mitirker M, Bronx .....82010

nen W., Bklyn .
Kearney, R., NYC .
Fegan, D., Bronx
Fabhaio, A., Albany

ntos, G., Hornell .
D: Bonis, V., NYC .
archello, C., Buffalo. .78440
Hhomas, N,, Vorhesvle. .78090

. Bergen, J., LI son, L,, Albany, .

. Sealy, L., B , F, Jamaica .....

. Reineck, H., Ald er, J., Queens Vig.77600
Lanteri, J., Bil vusher, E., Bklyn ..77460

. Rosenthal, J., Be

, J. Rochester ., .75150
Greenberg, E., NYC ...75150

C., BroMBDamond, J., N¥C 174940

¥, R., Richmnd Hl. .74870
174660

Caputo, R,, Albany .

'S completes the list of dis-
Yeterans, Next week, non-

cif Veterans.)
o,, FILE CLERK
©.) State Departments é&
__ Institutions
3 ae Disabled Veterans
* » Wis NYC 92570
W., BEY BSschenbaum. A, Bkyn 90690

ued by State

3 Nielson, L., Bklyn .....87660
4 Day, R., Richmnd Hl ..84640
5 Heizmann, L., L I City. 82530
6 Keil, R., Lancaster....77940
7 Jasphy, ML, Bklyn. 17230
8 Bleiberg, J., Bklyn ....75680

Non-disabled Veterans
9 Altrowitz, T., Bklyn ....96050
10 Graiser, S., Bklyn
11 Kahn, L., Bklyn
12 O'Bhien, J., Utica .
13 Ciora E., Bklyn ..
14 Roeckel, C., Bklyn .
15 Capece, N., Bronx .....92320
(Continued next week!

‘Pool’ to Fill
650 Clerical
Jobs in State

ALBANY, July 18 — 250 perm-
anent positions in State depart-
ments will be filled at placement
pools to be held July 19 and 21
in the Assembly Chamber in the
State Capitol, President J. Ed-
ward Conway of the State Civil
Service Commission announced.
The names will be drawn from @
recently established list of eli-
gibles who passed an examina-
tion held last February.

Also scheduled for the Assem~-
bly Chamber is a pool for place-
ment of file clerks on July 26 and

and Finance are to be filled,

‘and appointing officers at a cen~-

appointment forms are filled out,
and 90 per cent of the paper work
involved | in

to| Morris Pal are temporarily trans-

28, An estimated 409 vacancies
in the Department of Taxation

Placement pools provide a means
of bringing together both eligibles

tral meeting place, Mr. Conway
said. Eligibles are interviewed,

making placements

Nursing (Cancer), Department of
ealth, $3,450, plus five annual

increases to $4,176, Fee $3.

Rochester
Chapter's
Activities

Hrere are some of the activities
of the Rochester Chapter of The
Civil Service Employees Associa-

tion.
Dept. of Labor

Bill Gaffney of the Industrial
Relations Department not only
seems to know all that’s going
on in his office but is most co-
operative in submitting something
interesting at a moment's notice
to the writer of the Rochester
Column — such willingness makes
him very popular with this re-
porter.

So he says: he and William
Taylor are spending the summer
covering the migrant Labor situ-
ation in 8 counties of the
Rochester area. .. . Herbert Tar-
rington was recently appointed
Supervisor of the Rochester Office
of the Bureau of Industrial Safety
Service. . . . Joan Fitzgerald,
former secretary of the local
chapter, has resigned, also Harry
Pease. . . . Frank Darling and

ferred to Mountain areas for
seasonal work, Frank to Albany,
Morris to Binghamton. ... Marie
Fitzgerald has returned to work
following a recent illness. . «.
And the Compensation Board
moved to the B & O Building on
June ist where District Admin-
istrator is said to be lonesome
for his old cronies in the Labor
Dept.
Tax

Chapter President Bill Hardies
is preparing for his new duties
by vactioning at Fourth Lake.
Past President Ray Monroe has
already spent part of his vacation
on his brother’s farm at Schenec-
tady.

Rehabilitation

On June 4, the entire staff at-
tended the wedding of Joyce
Leege and Norman Muir in the
Methodist Church in East Roches-
ter. The new tredsurer of the
Rochester Chapter, Melba Binn,
attended the annual meeting of
the Buffalo chapter recently.
Melba also plans to change her
marital status later this year.
More anon.

Employment

Sincere sympathy is extended
to John Burke of the Commercial
Division in the loss of his father.
» . . Guy Slover, Interviewer, is
ill in the Memorial Hospital of
Cuba, N. Y. He isn’t expected to
return immediately. . . . Fred
Bell, manager, is a proud grand-
pa... . The annual office picnic
was held in June at the St Pauls
Exempt’s club, with James Bald-
win in charge. A similar picnic
was given by Vivian Shafer of the
Industrial Women’s Division in
the beautiful garden of her Brock-
port home to a few of her office
associates, The interviewing staff
has been depleted by ten people
who have been loaned to the
Unemployment Insurance office to
ease the load in handling the
thousands of insurance claimants.
About 50 are taking the training
course for the pending Assistant
Interviewer Exam. This action
was instigated by Hugh Lee and
carried out by the local chapter.
And now to Vacations: Connie
Turner and Anne Weiser of the
Service Division went to the
Tapes Convention in New Orleans.
Helen Speidel of the Commercial
Division took a five-week cruise
to South America. Antoniette
and Teresa Izzo are at Conesus
Lake, Billy Wilson at_Oak Point
on the St. Lawrence River, Mike
Tyner in the Adirondacks, Jim
Baldwin week-ending at Le Roy—
So goes the hottest summer in 98
years with Bill Fitzpatrick griping
because he can’t do as much farm
placement work as usual what
with the peas and strawberries
burned up intead of frozen.

Unemployment Insurance

Teresa Kiegan goes to Max Ran-
ney’s ranch on picnics. Roberta
Kiefer climbs up behind her hus-

The Sanitation Man medicals
will start tomorrow (Wednesday)
at the NYC Civil Service Com-
mission, 299 Broadway. Three
hundred candidates will be ex-
amined between 8 a.m. and 12:30
p.m., and 600 more each day
through Friday of this week. A
similar schedule will be followed
until August 17, Then, after a
five-day breather, the physicals
will start on August 22.

‘The exams will be under super-
vision of Paul M. Brennan, head
of the Commission's Medical-
Physical Bureau, who will call
candidates as he receives written
ratings from Director of Exam-
inations Samuel H. Galston, in
batches of 1,000.

The following are the official
physical regulations and stand-
ards of the physical part of the
Sanitation Man examination:

PHYSICAL REGULATIONS
1,‘The physical examination is
competitive and therefore under
no circumstances are reexamin-
ations ever granted regardless of
accidents, injuries, sickness, or
other misfortune.

2. No resting is allowed between
tests nor between trials in a test.
3. Candidates having entered
into physical examination must
continue to conclusion at same
session of examination. Failure
to do so, regardless of accident,
injury, sickness, or any misfor-
tune, must result in complete
withdrawal and elimination from
the competition.

4. Candidates are charged with
the simple responsibility of carry-
ing their own cards, Any candi-
date found with the card of an-
other competitor is subject to dis-
qualification.

5. Agility—3 trials. If candidate
still has 0 per cent after three
trials, fourth chance shall be al-
lowed with no credit exceeding
40 per cent, which mark shall be
given for any successful jump on
the fourth trial of 5'6” or better.

6. Abdominals. Three trials. If
no weight has been lifted, fourth
trial shall be allowed with the
330 pound barbell only.

7. Dumbbells. Three trials. If
no weight has been lifted, fourth
trial shall be allowed with the
40 pound only. 0 per cent shall
be given for a trial to candidate
(1) who employs the quick drop-
away lift.

8. General. The regulations ap-
plying to these examinations are
not limited by the above enumera-
tion. Any usual or reasonable
rule or decision to insure fair
competition is deemed to be part
of these regulations,

9. The dumbbells assigned for
use in the Dumbbells Test weigh
40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 Ibs.

10. Any candidate who, having
completed Test I, has not achieved
@ score of at least 20 points, can-
not pass the physical examination,
even if he were to attain 100 on
the other tests. He has therefore

Sanitation Man
Physical Rules

Two Questions Deleted
In Sanitation Man Key

‘The tentative key answers in
the Sanitation Man examination
have been made final by the NYC
Civil Service Commission with
two changes. Questions 12 and
21 were stricken out.

Cae eee

petition at this point. Any candi-
date who, having completed Test I
and Test II, who has not accumu-
lated a score of at least 108
points, is for the same reason
failed and eliminated from the
competition at this point.
PHYSICAL STANDARDS

Competitve Physical Examination
—70 per cent Average Required

TEST I
Strength (Abdominals)
With his feet held down, while
in a supine position, candidate
must assume a sitting position,

carrying up a barbell behind his
neck.
Pounds Per Cent

10 wee . ++ 100

60. 90

50. 80

40. 10

30. 50

No weight . 0

TEST It
Strength (Dumbells)

A candidate by sheer muscular
effort, one arm at a time, must
raise dumbbells from a stop po-
sition at shoulder to full arm
vertical extension.

Both Hands Combined
Per Cent

TEST UI

(Agility)
Candidates must toe line with
feet and take off with both feet

at one time.

failed and is eliminaed from com-

Distance Per Cent
8/2 or better + 100
8/0 or better 96
7/10 or better 92
7/8 or better 89
7/6 or better . 86
7/4 or better . 83
1/2 or better 81
7/0 or better 18
6/10 or better 15
6/8 or better 12
/ better 68

64
60
55
50
45
40

0

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__ CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

mn:

FEDERAL NEWS

UNAPOC Asks Wires
To Congressmen on Pay

“No delay,” was the watchword
of the United National Associa-
tion of Post Office Clerks, of
which William C. Ambrust is
president.

“Prolonged hearings will impair
action during the present session,
said Mr, Ambrust. “We hope for
continuous hearings with no de-
lays. Wire and write the mem-
bers of the House Post Office and
Civil Service Committee for im-
mediate action on H.R, 4395, H.R.
4495 and H.R, 4595. Wire and
write the members of the Senate
Post Office and Civil Service
Committee for immediate action
on 8. 1772,

“The House Rules Committee
has granted a Rule on H.R. 3191,
the Lesinski Bill, granting an in-
crease in benefits to Federal em-
ployees injured on duty and pro-
vided further benefits in amend-
ing the Federal Employees Com-
Pensation Act. Minimum benefits
of $112.50 per month are pro-
vided in the bill and additional
benefits to widows and children,
‘Two hours of debate has been al-
Jotted. Wire and write your Con-
gressman for his active support
of H.R, 3191,”

‘The progress report on legis-
lation in the Senate was pub-
lished in The LEADER recently.
The report on legislation in the
House follows:

H. R. 87, The Miller bill grants
credit to veterans in ‘the postal
service for time spent in the mil-
itary service toward salary pro-
motion, It was favorably reported
by the Miller Subcommittee and
reported by the full committee.
An amendment was included that
would grant credit to all veterans
entering the postal service on or
before July 1, 1950, 8, 689, re-
ported on May 31 by the Senate
Committee, is the companion bill
to H. R. 87.

H. R. 3383. Introduced
Chairman Murray at the request
of UNAPOC, this bill was re-
ported out unanimously by the
House, An amendment was of-
fered and accepted to make the
provisions of H. R. 3383 applic-
able throughout the entire Fed-
eral service. There was no op-
position to the bill, The bill pro-
vides that either standard or day-
light saving time shall be used,
depending upon whichever time
is observed where night work is
performed.

U. S. to Fill Jobs in NYC
As Information Specialist

Information Specialist positions
will be filled in the U, 5, Depart-
ment of State's office in NYC
from the new Administrative Of-
ficer Register. Information Spec-
jalist was one of the 16 specialties.

‘The same register will be used
for filling Information Specialist
positions, Grades CAF-13, 14 and
15, for departmental positions in
Washington,

Of the 1,397 applicants, the
U. S, Civil Service Commission
stated that 786, including 331
veterans, passed so far, The exam
is continuously open.

» examination was for writers,
producers and broad-

casters, Pay ranges from $7,432

to $10,305.

Applicants must bave extensive
administrative experience signifi-
cant to the position for which
they are applying. In the case
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done in advising an agency head
on informational policy and plan-
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communication, radio, press, mag-
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At 8:30 a.m, applications will be
ready at the Second Regional Of-
fice of the U. 9, Civil Service
Commission, 641 Washington
Street, Manhattan. The Seventh
Avenue subway local takes you
near to the regional office, at the
Christopher Street station. The
Varick Street bus gets you there
even closer, The office choses at
5 p.m. It is closed on Saturday
and Sunday. The application
period is expected to end on Tues-
day, July 26, Applications would
have to be in the Commission's
office by that date.

Apply by Mail, Too

It is possible to get an applica-
tion blank by mail by addressing
the Commission at the Washington
Street address, The postal zone
number is 14, New York, N, Y¥.
Do not enclose return postage. Do
not mail your request for a blank
before Wednesday, July 20,

- The examination will include a
written test for the first time.

Jobs are in the same post of-
fices for the Clerk-Carrier ex-
amination, applications for which
close today (Tuesday), These post
offices are New York, N. Y. (Man-
hattan and The Bronx), where
most of the vacancies are), Brook-
lyn, Long Island City, Jamaica,
Far Rockaway, Flushing and
Staten Island.

18 to 62 Age Limits

Age limits are 18 to 62, waived
for veterans and also for incum-
bent employees in the title who
don’t have status and meet pro-
spective service rules, The jobs
will be for men only, in practice, as
the appointing officer would have
the right to designate sex, and the
work involves heavy physical tasks.

Residence in the post office
territory is required, or patronage
of that post office, if one lives in
the delivery zone of some other
post office. Patronage includes
having a business that uses the
Post office for which the applicant
seeks a job, but doesn't include
his employees.

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Examinations for positions of
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CAF-T through CAF-15, will be
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cepted for about three weeks, Pay
ranges from $3,727 to $6,235. Ap-
Plications for the higher grade
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of candidates for a $2,710 job,
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could be termed best, since altern-
ative answers were equally valid
and sound, if not more so.

Although the Commission had
been tripped up on a notice ap-
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alternates presented in the multi-
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final key gave prohibited altern-
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the same troublesome old notice
somehow slipped into the Social
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idea was that never again was a

“best” answer to be required and
the Commission thus deprived of
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correct answers. The denial is in-
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by the terms of the Social In-
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even three alternatives are equally
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On the basis of the test, The
LEADER estimated that an eli-
gible list of only 1,100 would re-
sult, which forecast was made
before the protests began to
in against the subjective nature
and the impracticability of the
exam, as well as the off-side ten-
tative key answers. It so informed
Samuel H. Galston, Director of
Examinations, who, however, ex-
pected a larger list, but said that
@ sampling would be made of
question papers, as batches of a
thousand at a time were rated,
and a reliable index could then be
obtained. This sampling is to be
performed.
Conflict With Authority

One subscriber wrote to The
LEADER that he had prepared
for the test by studying from a
book published by Arco, He cited
Question 22 in the test, which
described unemployment insurance
as (A) financial aid administered
by the federal government from
contributions of employers and
general tax funds, or (D) financed
by employer and employee and
administered "by the individual
States according to their respective
laws, plus other alternatives.

“The Commission's tentative
answer in The Civil LEADER is
(D), although the employee does
not finance unemployment insur
ance,” he wrote. “I had answered
(A), and the Arco book supports
that.

“Also, page 4 of the Arco book
states the best picture of family
composition and relations is ob-
tained through home visits. Ques-
tion 69 was: ‘Interviews usually
take place in the client’s home be-
cause (A) the worker can get a
better understanding of the situ-
ation by seeing the client in his
own home surroundings and (C)
most public welfare offices do not
provide sufficient interviewing
space to accomodate all the work-
ers and their respective clients.’
Remembering what I had studied
in the Arco book, I selected (A),
although (C) is announced as
correct.”

Tough Examining Field
The field is admittedly a difficult
one in which to conduct a satis-
factory test, because the examina-
tion tends toward subjective ques-
tions, answers to which can't be
definitely proved to be right, so
that somebody's say-so has to be
accepted, but a person who dis-
agrees with a reputed expert may
show more common sense and
deeper understanding of the reali-
ties, No answer is opinion solely.
The Commission admits weak-
ness in such types of tests arising
from opinionated questions and is
expected to delete any questions
that it considers subjective, rather

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than unfairly insisting on any one
answer as being the “best,” when
in fact nobody alive can prove
that it’s the best.

pour /they are not sufficiently familiar,

in a menner that menaces the
Prestige of the Commission.

The Commission has been ad-
mittedly overburdened with ex-
amination work, and some inex-
pert results testify to the fact, it
admits, but now, with the load
being reduced, ft expects to do

and besides put all ex-

| amination papers through an offi-

cial inspection sieve before they
are approved for printing. This
might involve some reorganization
of the examinating function, by
instituting a supervisory control
at the Commissioner level.
A. F. of L. Group Protests
Sidney Bengeldorf, president of
Local 1193, American Federation
of State, County and Municipal
Employees, A. F. of L. said the
examination was the most unfair,
ever given by the Commission.
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tions did not concern welfare work
and did not constitute an intelli-
gence test, either.
“Thus a department,” he said,
Teferring to Welfare, “with an
acute shortage of help, finds it is
without the means of staffing it-
self because of a competitive exam-
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Seeks Wider

In Me efforts to reduce the num-

ervation that eligibles in one title
may be appointed to positions in
other titles. This latitude has al-
Ways existed. 'sne NYC Civil Serv-
fee Commissiot

appropriate for filling
the other title or titles.
However, at least one Jaw suit
has resulted, and, lest there be
more, the Commission is putting
all future candidates on notice.

An addition voted recently by
the Commission reads:

“Eligible lists: The term of
eligibility of each list is fixed by
Jaw at not less than one year and
not more than four years.

“The Commission reserves the
right to certify any eligible list as
appropriate for positions other
than that for which the examina-
tion was held.”

President Joseph A. McNamara,
of the Commission, said that the
addition was “clarifying” and
added nothing new.

Life of List

‘The one-to-four-year life of the

Older Men Want
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Supreme Court. One of them, Pat-

type of work in the Parks Depart-
ment, was three months over age,
as of the filing date, while Dennis
Twomey, a Structure Maintainer,
was six months over age. Their at-
torney, Samuel Resnicoff, says that
the Commission exceeded its pow-
ers under Section 25-a of the Civ-
il Service Law in setting the age
limit because the work was not of
such a strenuous and vigorous na-
ture as to constitute an exception
to the rule that if a candidate is
otherwise qualified age shall not
be held against him.

The Twomey case was decided
against the petitioner by Supreme
Court Justice Hammer. The other
one is yet to be argued,

Earliest Candidates
Get the Best Marks

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limit of 70 years for NYC exami-
nations in which no specific maxi-
mum age is specified imposes some
exactions. Suppose a candidate is
65 years old and there are medical
and physical tests to pass. Even
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satisfactorily in the medical,

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the other? You should have seen
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ing grandmas in the recent Rail-
road Clerk physicals. . . . In
general, the group in the lowest-
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sists of persons who applied at
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Use of Lists

list is covered by Section 14 of
the Civil Service Law. “The term
of eligibility’ shall be fixed for
each eligible list at not less than
one year and not more than four

” In practice, since the term
of eligibility is not usually “fixed”
by the Commission, it becomes
the maximum, or four years. The
question whether or not a Com-
mission could decide on a maxi-
mum list life of less than four
years, although more than one
year, after the list has been offi-
cially established, and especially
after appointments or promotions
have been made from it, has not
been decided by the courts, al-
though the State Civil Service
Commission last year seemed to
think that it could be done, The
effort, however, applicable to pro-
motion tests, was abandoned, The
NYC amendment doesn’t change
this aspect. It is unquestioned that
upon establishment or promulga-
tion a list’s life could be limited
below four years, though not be-
low one year. Fairness, though not
Jaw would make it advisable to in-
clude any warning of a short-life
me in the examination notice it-

‘The more important considera-
tion in the insertion entitled Eli-
gible Lists, made by the NYC
Commission, refers to the right
to certify one list for filling vacan-
cles in another title, and the
usual resolution would be adopted
authorizing the specific extension
of scope of eligibility.

sideration a plan whereby sub-
stantial improvements may be
made in the existing sick leave
allowance. Plans have been con-
sidered to eliminate much of the
absenteeism now present among
its employees, and the Commis-
stons to Mr. Woods for a
solution to this problem.

It is understood that Mr. Woods
will have full power to act on labor
matters. The Board of Transpor-
tation now deals with some twelve
‘unions,

Under the Rapid Transit Law of
New York State, the employees of
the Board of Transportation are
under civil service,

A release from the Board this
week stated:

“No one group of civil service
employees can be granted sole
and exclusive bargaining rights
since the Constitution of the State
of New York provides that all ap-
pointments and promotions in the
civil service of the City shall be
made according to merit and fit-
ness, to be determined wherever
practicable by open competitive
examination. The Board of
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ever, the Board is pleased to con~
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tempt to bring about solutions
for the best interests of all. It_
hopes the appointment of Mr,
Woods wiil bring his about.”

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List of Fireman Eligibles

The LEADER continues this
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NYC Fireman (F.D.) eligible list,
in the order of probable appoint-
ment, This listing, prepared by
The LEADER, is the only one
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@ candidate actually stands on
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as supplied by the Civil Service
Commission, does not take into
consideration the effect of vet-
eran preference because veteran
preference claims have not been
cleared,

The list below assumes all vet-
eran preference claims granted,
and other investigation satisfac-
torily passed, Count down from
the number at the head of a
paragraph to ascertain probable
appointment order not specifically
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Douglas Olsen, Joseph Jenkusky,
Edward Nowak, James Hattum,
Gilbert Ospovat, Thomas Brown.

1,151, Edward Fenk, Henry Del-
percio, James Ronayne, Christo-
pher Fox, Gerard Ecker, Alfred
Matthews, John Tedesco, Peter
Salvaggi, James O'Neill, Harry
Kogan, Stanley Greene, Frank
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Sanitation Holy Name
Society Assists at Mass

The Holy Name Society of the
Department of Sanitation, Brook-
lyn and Queens, held its 18th an-
nual corporate Communion Mass
and breakfast. Members of the or-
ganization assisted at Mass at the
Church of St. Stephen — Sacred
Hearts of Jesus and Mary, in
Brooklyn,

The Mass was celebrated by
Bishop Thomas E, Molloy, assisted
by Monsignor Leo A. Arcese, Spirl-
tual director of the Society, ahd;
Monsignor Alphonso Arcese, pastor
of St. Stephen’s Church:

After Mass, William F. McGuirk,
grand marshal, and Eugene T.
Price, president, led the procession
to the Hotel St. George for break~
fast, The Department Band led
the first and second divisions,

while the Drum and Bugle Corps
Jed the third and fourth divisions.

gether many discriminating men and wo-
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The final date to file for Public
Health Nurse has been extended
to Wednesday, August 31, by the
NYC Civil Service Commission. As
the Department of Health is ur-
gently in need of nurses, residence
and apply-in-person rules have
been dropped. Qualified citizens
living in any part of the country
will be accepted, and applications
rey both be obtained and filed by
mail,

There are 500 jobs in the De-
partment of Health,

The job pays $2,400 to start,
with opportunities for promotion
to Assistant Supervising Public
Health Nurse. Written tests will
be held some time in the middle
of September. If enough non-City
residents apply, exams will be set

Tes te , - tied ,

Health Nurse Test
Closes August 31

up wherever necessary.

Applicants must have been
graduated from an accredited
school of nursing, and must have,
or be eligible for, » New York
State Registered Nurse license.
Maximum age is 36, but time spent
in military service may be de.
ducted from his age. Minimum
requirement completion by Sept.
ember is acceptable.

To apply by mail, send a self.
addressed, 6-cent stamped No. 10
envelope to the New York City
Civil Service Commission, 96 Du.
ane Street, New York 7, N. y,
Send the filled-in form to the
same address, Be sure to enclose
the $1 filing fee when returning
the application.

‘The exam is No, 5775,

Welfare St. George
Society Holds Meeting

The final meeting for the sum-
mer of the St. George Association,
Department of Welfare, was held
at the McBurney YMCA,

Mary J. Harrar, president of
the chapter, paid tribute to the
late Rey. A. Hamilton Nesbitt, ex-
ecutive secretary of the National
St. George Association.

‘The chapter's spiritual advisor,
the Rev. John Shade Franklin,
gave the invocation and acted as
master of ceremonies. He intro-
duced Mrs. Ruth Whitehead Wha-
ley, Director of Staff and Com-
munity Relations, Daniel Green,
Administrator of Social Services
of the Red Cross, the guest speak-
er of the evening; the Rev, Ker-
mit J. Nord, First Presbyterian
Church, Mineola, and Mrs. Ida
Wicht, Assistant to Manhattan
Borough Director.

‘The presidents of other Chap-
ters, who attended with delega-
tions, were Dorothy Fraga, Con-
solidated Edison; Edward A. Groh,
U. S. Post Office; Harry Hauser
and Walter Davidson, Telephone
Employees, NYC.; Theodore W,
Lebath, Nassau County Employ-
ees, and Ludwig H. Finke, Nicholas
DiRicco, Department of Hospitals,
and Gustay Mayburg, Marine and
Aviation.

Sam Gilchrist, 1st vice-presi-
dent of the St. George Associa-
tion, and Edmay Dilday, past pres-
ident were welcomed,

A play was presented by the
Chelsea Players, entitled “The
Dickey Bird.” It was written by
Harvey O'Higgins and Harrivt
Ford, directed by William Hor-
gan, with Florence Aster as Stage
Manager, The cast included Ann
Valerie, Rita Tessely, Frank Wood-
ruff and Rosemarie Kallack,

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LEGAL NOTICE

§TATE OF NEW YORK — INSURANCE
DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, I. Robert E.
Dineon, Superintendent of Tnsurance of
the State of New York, hereby, cortify
pursuant. to law, that the Hardware In-
(emnity Insurance Company of Minnesota,

is, Minnesota, is duly licensed
the business of insurance in

this state
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ment of State, at the City of

Albany, this first day of July,

one thousand nine hundred and

forty-nine,
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Reforms Are Asked
In Hospital Dept.

The American Federation of
State County and Municipal Em.
ployees, AFL, has submitted to the
Board of Estimate requests it said
were for necessary improvements
in the Department of Hospitals,
They follow:

1, 40-hour week for all em.

ployees,

2, Extension of contagious
bonus to all employees in con-
tagion.

3. Competitive civil service stat.
us for all employees,

4. Extra compensation for night
work,

5. Free uniforms for all em-
ployees.

“The department,” says the AFL
union, ‘is plagued with the caste
system. Certain groups of em~-
ployees receive better treatment
than do others, the result being
a continuous discord in the ranks
of many employees.”

Joseph Cannon, president, Joint
Board of Hospitals, made the plea,

John C. Laffan Retires
From Transit Personnel Job

John C. Laffan, of Flushing,
has retired on pension yesterday
from the position of clerk in
charge of personnel of the Board
of Transportation. He will be
57 years of age next Sunday.
Starting as an office boy at $300
a year in 1906 with the Municipal
Civil Service Commission, Mr,
Laffan had never worked at any-
thing other than civil service per-
sonnel in which he is a recog-
nized authority.

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~

There will be 26 promotions to
tenant and 164 appointments
of Fireman, but the effective dates
will depend on how successful Fire
mmissioner Frank J. Chad is

tions
precast veteran claims can be
jeare

ome Civil Service Commission
js waiting to hear from the Bud-
get Director Thomas J. Patterson
ft hasn’t as much advance in-
formation on it as has the Fire
pepartment, which has no doubt
about budget certificates for the
full 190, including the Lieutenant
promotions.

The Commission is endeavoring
to clear enough preference claims
through the U. 8. Veterans Ad-
ministration to certify 200 names
from the new list, which has been
published but not yet promul-
gated. As soon as the 200 are
in the clear it will be promul-
gated. As soon as promulgated
the department will be notified.
As soon’ as notified the depart-
ment will request the certifica-
tions,

Tt is expected that the Fireman
certifications will be made be-
tween August 10 and 15, which
would enable appointment effect-

ive on September 1, If the cer-
tifications come on or after Sep-
tember 1, then the appointments
will be effective as of August 15.
The promotions to Lieutenant are
expected to be made effective as
of August 1; if that can’t be
accomplished, then August 15
would be the date for those eli-
gibles, too.

There is an existing list, with
30-odd names, for Fireman ap-
pointments, and it would be pos-
sible to make these appointments
right away, but not practical,
since any group of appointments
requires many shifts of assign-
ments, and the whole operation
will be performed for the 164 at
one stroke.

Chief of Department Peter Lof-
tus was granted a leave of ab-
sence, with pay, for 64 days, from
last Thursday, his leave to in-
clude his vacation, to study the
organization of the fire depart-
ments of the principal cities in
Ireland and the British Isles, and
familiarizing himself with their
methods and technique while
operating at fires, During his
absence, Deputy Chief of Staff
and Operations Edward G. Con-
way, Headquarters Staff, will be
Acting Chief of Department.

eOllraae conferences between
William O'Dwyer, Budget
Di tor Thomas Patterson and
Henry Feinstein, president of New
York City District Council No.
37, American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees,
(AFL), efforts to make promotions
from eligible Usts before they ex-
pire are gaining momentum.

An immediate result of these
conferences is the probability that
all existing eligibles for promo-
tion of Masonry and Carpentry
Inspectors in the NYC Depart-
ment of Housing and Buildings
from Grade 3 to Grade 4, will be
promoted by action of the Board
of Estimate at its meeting on
July 24; Budget Director Patter-
son has agreed to recommend this

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LEGAL NOTICE

Germany, — Nikdasstrasse
Kondler, residing at Bocas de inoro. Rep
Pi Edmund Kandler, residing at
Locan del Toro, Rep. Panama, the next of
hin and heirs’ at law of Erna Kandler,
tecoased, send greeting:

Whereas, Hermann Entrup, who resides
Mi 355 Hast 88th Street, Borough of Man-
battan, the City of New York, has lately
‘plied to the Surrogate’a Court of our
Cobuty of New York to & certain
hnewrument im writing, dated the 19th day
ot January, 1949, relating to both real and
Hevonal property, duly proved se the last
nd testament of Erma Kandler, de-

‘who was at the time of her death
‘ resident of the City of New York (at
176 "Bast, Ost Streck, Borough of Man-
Aiton). the County of New York.

‘Therefore, you and each of you ure cited:
ty mow cause before the Surrogate's Court
‘ our County of New York, at the Hall of
lecordy, in ue County of ‘New. York, on
{he 28na day of July, one thousand ‘nine
Niro and forty-nine, at half-past ten
lock tm the forenoon’ of that day, why
sald will and testament should not be
\Wted to probate as a will of real and
onal property,

4 Yeotimony ‘whereof, we have, caused
18 seal of the Surrogate’s Court

a the said County of New York

be hereunto affixed. Witness,

te Honorable "William. ‘Colline,

8.) Surrogate of our sald County of

Rew York, at sald county, the

10th day of June, in the year of

our Lord one thonsand nine hun
dred and forty-nine.

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Promotions Before Demise
Of Eligible Lists Are Closer
After Feinstein Sees Mayor

action to the Board, and Mayor
O'Dwyer has indicated his ap-
proval. .
Eligible Lists Ending

Mr. Feinstein stressed the need
for removing the proposal from
the District Council’s general list
of requests now being studied be-
cause of the approaching expira-
tion of these eligible lists, This
is the second group of Inspectors
in the Department of Housing and
Buildings that will have obtained
promotions in the making of which
the entire promotional lists are
used. Early this month the whole
list of Housing Inspectors, Grade
4, was used as a result of the
efforts of the District Council.

Pending in this same department
and now before the Budget Di-
rector, after conference with the
Mayor, is the promotion to Clerk,
Grade 5. Policy as to the extent
of other promotions soon will be
forthcoming.

The District Council has also
effected a change of policy con-
cerning promotional opportunities
for Inspector of Masonry and Car-
pentry, Grade 4. Hitherto only
those Inspectors whose duties in-
cluded supervisory work could be
promoted. Under the new plan all
Inspectors are promoted to the
next higher grade, whether or
not their duties cover supervisory
work. This is in line with the
Council's efforts toward reclassifi-
cation of the entire inspectorial
service, in this department, to the
next higher grade without exami-
nation, thus SUMAN, the title

. | Inspector Grade

Inspector Pay

Mr, Feinstein pointed out to the
Board of Estimate at the budget
ard | Bearings the inadequacy of salaries
paid to Grade 2 Inspectors whose
duties and performance safeguard
life, health and property through-
out the City. They are charged
with the responsibility of inspect-
ing all construction from founda-
tion to roof.

Endorse Career Plan

Department of Housing and
Buildings Local No, 824 has en-
dorsed the District Council’s sup-
Port of Mayor 0’) er’s Career-
Pay study and will participate in
hearings on the plan beginning
July 20, to be held in the Civil
Service Commission Board Room,
299 Broadway.

‘The Uniformed Fire Officers As-
sociation has sponsored, and
Councilman Sharkey has intro-
duced two bills which would have
wide effect on City employees.
One of these measures assures
any employee in the uniformed
forces that if he is injured in
line of duty, he will receive the
same medical and other protec-
tions and benefits after retirem-
ment as before. The bill affects
six departments.

The second measure is for ad-
ditional pension credits, in line
with present salaries. In the Fire
Department, for example, men
who stay longer than 20 years now
get $50 for each additional year.
This is based on 1/60 of the fire~
man’s pay of $3,000. But, the
UFOA contends, where a man is
now paying into the retirement
fund on the basis of $3,800 a year,
he should get 1/60 of that, ‘he
bill was proposed by Fire Chief
R. A. Denehan.

The executive board of the
UFOA lauded Council Majority
Leader Sharkey for his staunch
support, calling him “a friend of
labor and of the civil sérvice em-
ployee.” It is expected that both
bill will obtain a sympathetic
hearing in the Council.

The text of the two measures
follows:

Injured in Line of Duty

Sec. 1, Chapter 40, title B, sec-
tion B40-10.0 of the administra-
tive code of the city of New York
is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new subdivision (c) to
read as follows; (c) Any mem-
ber of the uniformed forces of
the fire, police or sanitation de-
partments or any employee of
the department of parks, water
supply, gas & electricity, docks
or public works who shail retire
and who while a member of the
uniformed forces of the fire, po-
lice or sanitation departments or
an employee of the departments
of parks, water supply, gas and
electricity, docks or public works,
was entitled to the protection
and benefits provided for by sub-
divisions (a) and (b) of this sec-
tion, shall continue to receive the
protection and benefits therein
provided for after retirement, (2)
This local law shall take effect
immediately.

Referred to the Committee on
Finance.

Pension Bill

Section 1, Section B19-5.0 of
the administrative code of the
City of New York, as last amended

Fire Dept. Legion Post
Protests Loss of Vote

New York Fire Department Post
930, American Legion, protested
the disfranchisement of its 2,829
members at the New York County
Convention of the American Le-
gion, because of the refusal of the
New York County Board of Tel-
lers to count the 114 votes of this
Post in the election of delegates
to the State Convention and the
election of some county officers,

Post 930 has appealed to the
State Department of the American
Legion.

68-Year Old Sweeper
Wins Courtesy Award

Edward O'Donnell, of Totten-
ville, a 68-year-old Sweeper won
the third $25 cash prize to be
awarded in the Sanitation De-
partment’s courtesy contest, Com-
missioner William J, Powell an-
nounced.

ALAN LADD -BETTY FIELD
MACDONALD CAREY - AUTH HUSSEY
BARAY SULLIVAN - HOWARD DA SILVA

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FIRE LINES

JOSEPH T. SHARKEY

by local law number fourteen for
the year ninteen hundred forty-
one, hereby is amended to read as
follows:

Bi9-5.0 EXTRA SERVICE
PENSION CREDIT—a,. Except as
provided in subdivisions a and b
of section B-19-4.0:

1, A member after twenty years
of service, upon completing such
period of service, may continue in
the service. In such event and
upon retirement for service, there
shall be added to his annual serv-

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Sharkey ‘Friend of Labor’

BASE PAY OR COMPENSATION
OF SUCH MEMBER for each
completed additional year of serv-
ice, during which years such de-
ductions shall have been made,
Any such member upon com~
pleting 25 years of service, shall
have such deductions made at
the rate of 5 per cent, in which
event and upon retirement for
service, such additional amounts
also shall be added to his annual
service pension for the years dur=
ing which deductions shall have
been made at the rate of five
per cent.

(2) A member who shall have
elected to contribute on the
basis of retirement after 25 years
of service, upon completing such
period of service, may continue
in the service. In such event
there shall be added to his an+
nual service pension upon retire~
ment for service (the sum of 50
dollars) AN ANNUAL INCRE-
MENT IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL
TO ONE SIXTIETH OF THE
ANNUAL BASE PAY OR COM-
PENSATION OF SUCH MEMBER
for each completed additional year
of service, during which years such
deductions shall have been made
at the rate of 5%. (b) The annual
service pension (increment) IN-
CREMENTS which may be grant-
ed or paid to any member under
the provisions of this section shall
in no event exceed (five hundred
dollars) TEN,

2. This local law shall take ef=
fect pursuant to the provisions
of section 16 and 17 of the City
Home Rule Law,

ice pension (the sum of 50 dol-
lars) AN ANNUAL INCREMENT
IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE
SIXTIETH OF THE ANNUAL

Note—New matter in capitals,
old matter in ( ) brackets,

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NYC Career Plan—
Simple Explanation

Of What It Will Do

What will the proposed NYC Career and Salary Plan.do?
A simple explanation was issued last week by Thomas J.
Patterson, Budget Director, and Joseph A. McNamara,
President of the Civil Service Commission:
The proposed objectives of the study for a Career and Salary
Plan are;
1,
2,

The salary of no employee will be reduced.

The cooperation of all municipal agencies, employee and
civic organizations will be invited,

. To study the present Career and Pay Plan in order to
evaluate its worth as such, with the express aim of estab-
lishing one that is real, appropriate and as vital as any
such plan now in existence based on the principle of equal

ay for equal work,

. To establish a uniform standard of specifications for the
measurement of work performance by a complete statement
of all requirements of every position,

. To outline each position in terms of monetary value and
promotional opportunity,

. To publish job specifications for the information and guid-
ance of administrators of all city agencies and for a proper
employee comprehension of work to be performed. Such
publication will also assist prospective city employees or
employees seeking promotion so that they may direct their
training and preparation along specific lines,

. To establish a future machinery for an adequate continuing
study of the Career and Pay Plan especially in connection
with the problem of out of title work,

‘Fo suggest corrective or necessary legislation.

. To weigh the necessity of and to make recommendations
thereof relative to revisions in the present pay plan.

. To weigh all.recommendations in the light of the necessity
for proper City management, the welfare of municipal em-
ployees and efficient and adequate job performance,

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Community,
Child Aid

Groups Back
Career Plan

In addition to most of the civil
service employee organizations,
the important ciyic groups
throughout the City have joined
the plea for a thoroughgoing NYC
‘Career and Salary Plan, as pro-
posed by Mayor William O'Dwyer.

Two new groups which have
aligned their forces for reclass-
ification are:

The Citizens Committee on
Children of New York City, Char-
lottee Carr, president;

‘The United Neighborhood
Houses, Helen M. Harris, execu-
tive director,

Seek Improved Services

Both organizations point to the
need for reclassification as a basis
for the improvement of public
services in the City. In her
letter to Mayor O'Dwyer, Miss
Harris wrote:

“The United Neighborhood
Houses is heartily in favor of your
Proposal that the Board of Estim-
ate appropriate $150,000 in order
to have a study made which may
lead to a revision of the classifica-
tion system in the civil service
of the City of New York. We feel
that reclassification on a sound
basis will greatly implement the
improvement of the City’s serv-
ices to its citizens. This is es-
pecially true, we think, as it would
affect the social service staff of
the Department of Welfare. You
may recall that I spoke to you
about our concern with regard
to the situation in this Depart-
ment a few weeks ago.

“I hope that the Board of Es-
timate will take favorable action
on this matter in the near future.”

AFL Council President Stresses

Sincerity of Caree

Editor, The LEADER: | bi
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= scene ca

Your advocacy of the study on =
which a NYC Career and Salary
Plan is to be based. as expressed
in your editorials, succinctly and
honestly states the realities and
Properly implies the benefits that
could result,

It is implicit that any reclass-
ification of titles and equitable
grading would establish promo-
tion ladders of inestimable ben-
efit to City employees and the
public at large through better
services induced by encouraged
and contented personnel.

Such a vast complexity as the
NYC job structure, the neces-
sity of defining the duties of the
positions closely and evaluating
the fair salary scales for each
grade, is nothing that can be ac-
complished overnight, As you
e, it requires study. Anything
less than a thorough job would
defeat the high objectives held
by those forward-looking groups

HENRY FEINSTEIN

that are solidly backing Mayor
William O'Dwyer in his determin-

Schedule of Speakers

Here is the calendar of speak-
ers before the reclassification
hearings, as prepared by the
Municipal Civil Service Commis-
sion. Later calendars will include
other groups which have applied
to the Commission for the priv-
ilege of giving their views.

July 20

David A, Owens, President, Civil
Service Watchmen’'s Council No,
368,

Thomas J. Bannon

John E, Adams
Alvin Albarino, Bus.

and Allied Craft

James V. Barry, Business Rep-
resentative, Pavers and Road
Builders District Council.

Jacob L. Goldberg

William J. Marino

July 22

Milford M, Stern, president,
Uniformed Pilots and Marine En-
gineers Association,

Benjamin Janer, Chairman,
Committee or Classification and
Salaries, Association of Municipal
Chemists of City of New York.

Dr. Milton Kover, president,

Society of Dentists, Department
of Health,

William P, Mulligan, president
Associated Court Clerks of the
City of New York.

Edwin Beer, chairman, Courts
Chapter, UPW-CIO,

Michael Gregg

Alfred Ayvazian, president, So-
ciety of Municipal Radiographers,
Bellevue Hospital X-ray Dept.

July 27

Abraham Sinorofsky, Bureau of
Excise Taxes, Investigation Unit.

Albert Schor, Official Court In-
terpreter, Uptown Magistrates
Court,

William Lyons, _ Secretary,
Bridge Tenders’ and Operators
Mutual Aid Society, Dept. of Pub-
lic Works, Bridge Operation, Civil
Service Forum Council No. 31,

Adam C, Smith, president,
Queens Auto Engineman Council
No. 194,

Gerard Coughlan, president,
Greater New York Park Employ-
ees Association (Forum).

Ernest Zundel, NYC Park De-
partment Employees Local 924,

Philp F, Carolan, -

Study

ation to institute an equitable
and comprehensive Career and
Salary Plan, one that should be
a model, as former Governor
Herbert H. Lehman has said, for
other cities, as well as States, and
thus become a nation-wide yard-
stick,

As against the extensiveness of
the undertaking, and the time
needed for a real achievement,
there is narrow-minded and ill-
advised criticism, based on the
folly of supposing that the work
can be accomplished in a jiffy,
and capitalizing on employee
eagerness for overnight improve-
ments, The scope of the work
is the measure of the time re-
quired,

It is well that the Mayor has
selected John T. DeGraff to head
the study, for he’s well exper-
jenced in State classification and
salary problems, It is a compli-
ment to the Mayor that he has
selected Mr, DeGraff and recog-
nized the necessity of a con-

the problem and staunchly resist-
ed being stampeded by agitation.
The Salary and Career Plan is
the objective, the end to be
achieved. It doesn’t exist, natur-
ally, except as an objective. To
accuse the employee proponents
of the study of approving some-
thing in advance of its existence
is sheer demagogy. What the sup-
Porters of Mayor O'Dwyer's un-
dertaking are enthusiastic about
is his determination to achieve
@ model Plan, To say or insinuate
that it will result in wage cuts
is to doubt the veracity of the
Mayor, who promised that there
would be none, and who has
granted more and larger salary
increases, and promoted many
more thousands of employees,
than any other Mayor in NYC
history. No responsible employee
organization would join in an at-
tack on the Mayor's motives ana
integrity and brand as yes-men
those who have confidence in
the Mayor and Mr, De Graiff,

HENRY FEINSTEIN,

President, NYC District
Council, American Fed-
eration of State,
County and Municipal
Employees, A. F, of L,

scientious and expert solution of | »

EDITORIAL

Safeguards in NYC
Career-Salary Plan

4 fal week, hearings start before a 2-man committee

pointed by Mayor William O'Dwyer, to determine \
safeguards the employees seek in the forthcoming Cap,
and Salary Plan.

The inclusion of such safeguards is entirely proper, a
The LEADER is pleased that from the outset both 4
Mayor himself and John T. DeGraff, appointed to conq
the study, appreciate and urge the necessity of safeguard

For one thing, the employees have the personal Suaran
of the Mayor that not a single salary will be cut as a rog
of the survey. This is the broadest guarantee, to
LEADER'’s knowledge, ever made prior to such a stud
and it assures that the basic principles of the Careey an
Pay Plan can result only in good for City workers,

The LEADER firmly believes that an employee committ
should work closely with Mr. DeGraff from the very
ginning, and that this committee's views be consulted oo
stantly on policy matters. Mr. DeGraff was the first
suggest such a committee.

Thirdly, the pay standards of per diem employees m)
be protected, 4
The survey will be the greatest forward movement
the direction of improved government that this City hy
seen in many, many years. And with the protections guara;
teed employees, it will, proceeding as its sponsors enyisid
it — become the most enlightened action of its kind evg

takenin the United States,

The Career and Pay Plan deserves the wholeheartd
support of every New York City employee. It will do
task that has needed to be done for 40 years, provide af
ditional securities and incentives on the job; and for th
first time, give to the City of New York a mature, mode!
personnel system.

DeGraff to Take Over
After Preliminary
Hearings On Career Plan

By PHILIP FINE will be given full opportunity

‘The calendar of hearings on em-| be heard, up to a maximum
ployee safeguards in a study from| 20 minutes,”
bes ead fae ec umn ne The pone gia calls for speak

eve non-s

the basis of waiting until the end| pearanees and favare ny fan
to hear spokesmen of the largest} full allotted time would provi
, Said President Jeseph A. hor 0
SioNnehars, of the NYC. Civil eres? five minutes, the Coq
Service Commission. In general, pis eesteteree hearings, the

kesman would be. expected N

fo tel all that organization | 22°¢r,#%@ Preparatory to Mr.
has to say, he revealed after re-| Gia stepping in, to perform {
celving requests from seven ap-| has with the. elassifice’ion
Plicants to address the hearing|o¢ Career Salary Plan un
on behalf of a single union local.|former Governor Lehman. 4
seesioas, £9 wind wy fy tour week | CER a
+ | whic] improve ani stabiliz
The deadline for requesting per-| State salaries through promotiol
mission to speak was last Friday.|al grades and has been closd
DeGraff to Get Report connected with all improyem¢n

‘The hearings will be conducted |in classification and pay in |
jointly by Budget Director Thom-| State for years,
as J, Patterson and President} Gets Batch of Form Telesra
McNamara. The civic associations an « hea
and other non-city employee ‘If we get through Pike
groups and individuals who sought | {ngs in four weeks we'll ete
permission to speak received polite | *Wo ® week, otherwise we'll
letters of refusal, Mayor O'Dwyer | UP the frequency of hoarint’ |

iad been consulted on whether| ®% not to overrun that gee
or not the non-employee indiy-|clared President peerbat :
iduals and groups should be heard |Resday and Friday mornings !
and the result is said to reflect| ‘he, present, plan for hearings
his preference. The opportunity| ,,Qh¢ question that arose, it
to speak will be afforded to the| With employees who wanted
others at hearings on the nature herah So-atart bo P pope
Of reclassification of City titles} Of o0q° nam SO inet iy wd
and modernization of the salary| *' itt a ir day's WOH
structure, to be held finally by| through with their day's |
the Board of Estimate. President McNamara got é

After the preliminary hearings|Pundred form telegrams, |
are completed by Messrs. Patter-| t#ining that request, bearins,
son and McNamara a report will| ferent senders’ names and iC)
be prepared, containing recom-|'ifying each sender as a0
mendations. A copy of the min- parse of the Compéroller tl
utes of the hearings, and of the| President McNamara salt 7
report will be supplied to John| Since appearance at the
T, DeGraff, the Mayor's choice] Would take little time, any
to head the study from which the | Partment head would be gi
Career and Salary Plan is to| let the employee off long on’
emerge, Mr. DeGraff would de-| {0 address the hearing, err
glde whether or not others than Teeete S CuNES DS

ity employees ani eir rep-| (64ve. nit
resentatives would be heard at}, “If an employee reno
any further hearings he would] t, tepresent a grout 1",
conduct on the substantive aspects. | Scheduled to speak, Til ft
Civic Groups Welcome to Attend | 0,” Promised Pres!

“The civic groups are welcome| Namara,
to attend, and everybody will be
admitted, up to the capacity of
the Board Room,” said President
McNamara, in discussing the pre~
liminaries. “The hearings will
be conducted on a high plane.
No demonstrations: will be per-

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NYC civil service, expert Cy
of court cases al arp
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mitted, Every accepted speaker! The LEADER, every week.