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The Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.

MERIT

Official Publication of

Vol. 17, Number 1

THE ASSOCIATION

President - - - - Frank L. Tolman

Ist Vice-President - Jesse B, McFarland
2nd Vice-President - - John F. Powers
3rd Vice-President - Frederick J. Walters
Treasurer. - - - - - Harry G. Fox
Secretary - - - - - Janet Macfarlane
Counsel - - - - - John T. DeGraff
Exec. Rep. - - William F, McDonough
Exec, Secretary - - Joseph D. Lochner

Field Reps. - - - Laurence J. Hollister

Charles R. Culyer

THE MAGAZINE

Editor-in-Chief - - Thomas C. Stowell
Managing Editor - - Joseph D. Lochner

Advertising Mgr. - Patrick P. DeMurio

Art Editors - - - - Roger Stonehouse
Nicholas Apgar
Photographer - - - - W.P. Kennedy

Editorial Board — Mr. Stowell, Chairman;
Theodore Becker, John Daniels, Clif-
ford M. Hodge, Joseph J. Horan,
William Livingston, Wayne W. Soper,
A, Ranger Tyler.

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Our Cover
“HEAVEN”

See pages 27-37, inclusive. ‘The
“Angels” on our cover are Cecelia
Vartigan, Education; Edna Walsh,
Theresa Leahy, Elizabeth Mihranian,
all D,P.U,I.; Dorothea Hoffman,
Mary Clark, Elizabeth Cregan and
Catherine Holton, all Correction. Is
there anything significant that four
of the eight “Angels” in our Civil
Service heaven are listed as “Cor-
tection?”

First Quarter, 1948

Iu This Teaue

Features
iAsistion Fares Fight to Saye Civil Service. ai 4
High Spots in Association History Outlined ......0000ccccseunn 8
‘Fo Vote. on Proposed Changes, a7
Impressive Legislative Program Accomplished .......... ovens
County Division Reports....... Peed IO ott) em
Twenty-Ninth Annual Dinner and Entertainment a Success....... 26
“Just One More Chance”... . 28
They're Building It—the New Association Headquarters’... 38

Edétoriale.....

Opposite Eddtortal Page oo... Been hat!il

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and executive offices, Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y. 10c single copy, $1.00 per
year. Entered as Second-class matter, July 19, 1934, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y.,
under the act of March 3, 1879. Letters to the Editor, contributions, news items, applica-
tions for memberships and application for advertising rates should be sent to Executive
Headquarters, Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.

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The question of membership dues
is the chief matter to be considered
at the May 22, 1948 meeting of the
delegates. In the belief that every
member is entitled to all the facts
on the financial condition and needs
of your Association, the following
statement is issued by Association
Headquarters.

This article does not intend to
answer the question, “Why More
Dues?” It attempts to give the infor-
mation on which each member can
reach a just answer. In brief, the
answers are given to the questions
“Where Does the Money Go?”, “Is
Tt Carefully Spent?”, “Can Any
Economies Be Mader”, “What Do
Members Get In Return For Their
Dues?”

Future Needs are carefully con-
sidered in this statement.

Every year since the Association
assumed the leadership in promoting
employee welfare and safeguarding
the merit system, the problems to be
met haye increased. Today the As-
sociation is faced with the vital need
to expand its services in the follow-
ing fields:

Legislation
Attention and action throughout
the year through research, confer-

ences, and the establishment of help-
ful public relations.

Safeguarding Merit Plan

Assurance of appointments on
basis of civil service legal require-
ments—protection of promotion prin-
ciple—extension of competitive class
—fair rating system—equal pay for
equal work—employee representa-
tion before Civil Service Commis-
sion, Salary Board, Classification
Board, Rating Board—improvement
of examination procedures—in-serv-
ice training. These matters affect
each employee at one time or an-
other and staff study and action calls
for expansion of force and facilities.

Retirement Improvement

Half the members of the State
Retirement System are State workers
and half civil service employees of
cities, counties and other subdivi-
sions. The Association has sound
programs for improvement but em-
ployees in all departments and sub-

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divisions must be informed regard-
ing it and the support of citizens and
civic groups throughout the entire
State must be enlisted—publicity and
travel expense incident to advancing
Association program will be very
great.

Services to Individual Members
and Chapters

Scores of chapter problems and
problems of individual members re-
lating to examinations, salary status,
classification status, retirement, va-
cations, sick leave and dismissals
pour into headquarters each day.
This requires expert legal and other
services within headquarters and con-
tacts with department heads, com-
missions, budgeting authorities and
other administrative officials. We
have the knowledge and know-how
but we must have the force and fa-
cilities to clear cach case promptly.
There is great need for expansion of
this branch of service to members.
Headquarters is the clearing house
for every problem of employees and
we wish it to serve fully and prompt-
ly every business day of the year.

Organization

Association members know that
their strength lies largely in the
numbers of public employees who
join together to promote employee
welfare. This membership does not
grow without effort—careful records,
assurance that each receives due
notice and information relative to all
Association and civil service matters.
This requires tremendous office ac-
tivity and every known business ma-
chine to assure economy and fair
play for all members. The Associa-
tion must invest in necessary equip-
ment and every facility which will
assure constantly increased member-
ship.

Publicity

The public must know the facts
as to public employee needs. Publici-
ty through the press, through our
own publications, through the radio,
through special meetings, through
paid advertisements—all of these are
vital to the success of the employees’
program and all of these cost great
sums. The Association needs a
powerful publicity punch to get at-

tention to the needs of public em-
ployees and of the public service.
The investment must be made on an
ever increasing scale in our present
day society—the return on the invest-
ment is the greatest in this field.

Field Services
Our 120 chapters function through
organization. Nothing is so vital
as meetings of members locally in
their chapters where by word of
mouth, question and answer, they
may express their opinions and voice
their needs in a democratic way.
Close contact with Association Head-
quarters demands a competent and
sufficiently large field force to visit
chapters and conference meetings
and to perfect liaison between mem-
bers and officers and headquarters.
Travel is expensive—our needs are

growing all of the time.

Office Space and Facilities

Association headquarters were-out-
grown several years ago. Your offi-
cers and committees and staff want
to meet their responsibilities fully in
carrying out the vital needs of public
service and public employees. Mod-
ern office space and facilities are a
necessity. They too cost more money
today than ever before. We are
hopeful the Building Fund Drive
will supply the office space; opera-
tional costs will depend on adequate
dues.

Court Cases

Sometimes the rights of public
employees can be protected only by
appeals to the Courts. We have ex-
cellent counsel. We must have ade-
quate means to present all court
cases properly and promptly. This is
another investment that pays well in
results for members.

Dollars Go Only So Far

A dollar just goes so far—and these
days it goes pretty fast, but not very
far. During recent years of spiraling
living costs, our members experi-
enced great difficulty in making ends
meet. So did your Association. Its
dollar today buys only 60% of what
it did pre-war. All the services, com-
modities and supplies the Associa-
tion must purchase in order to pro-
tect and promote the welfare and

Merit

interests and otherwise serve its
members have increased greatly in
cost.

Through the organized efforts of
the Association its members gained
relicf through the war emergency
bonuses of 1943, 1945 and 1946, the
overtime pay act of 1947 and the
emergency salary adjustment effec-
tive April Ist this year. The Asso-
ciation needs additional income to
enable it to maintain its standard of
service to its members, and to expand
where necessity demands.

Increased Problems

The growing complexities of mod-
ern day employment requires even
more intensive effort to properly pro-
tect employee interests. During dif-
ficult periods, as the last few years,
the problems of employees necessi-
tates even greater attention. Im-
provement in personnel service tech-
niques, such as machinery for title
classification and/or salary standardi-
zation brings greater responsibilities
and calls for greater assistance to
members from their employee or-
ganization. Prior to the enactment
of the Career Law employees re-
ceived no annual increments. With
the establishment of the Classifica-
tion Division and the Salary Stan-
dardization Board thru the efforts of
our organization, employees have an
agency to appeal to tor proper titles
or for fair pay. Since these agencies
have been created, our organization
has been busy with many new prob-
lems and requests for assistance. The
Association finally secured overtime
pay, and this improvement too,
created many new problems and-
caused additional work and effort to
iron out all the kinks, The same has
been true of all the many improve-
ments in working conditions at-
tained during the past few years,

The Association exists for its
members. It strives to do the right
kind of job for them—in the right
kind of way. ‘The organization has
fought valiantly to meet every chal-
lenge. But it has been handicapped
by lack of funds. The members
should know this—as it is their in-
terests that suffer if the activities of
the Association cannot expand suffi-
ciently to cope with present and
future problems.

First Quarter 1948

‘In spite of the most careful expen-
diture of its funds the Association’s
financial report for the year ending
September 30, 1947 showed a deficit
of approximately $13,000.00 for the
year. This did not include an adldi-
tional $6,000.00 of expenses incurred
during the fiscal year but paid for
after September 30th; actually the
deficit was nearer $20,000.

The 60c. Dollar

Before costs spiraled our dollar
bought 100c worth of services, com-
modities and supplies—now only 60c
worth. It is true, dollars don’t
stretch. Additional services — worth
to our members far more than the
expenses involved—should have been
rendered, but our fiscal condition
didn’t permit it.

The financial condition of the
Association was recognized and con-
sidered by chapter delegates repre-
senting all members at the annual
meeting in October 1947. As a re-

sult the delegates adopted the follow-
ing resolution:

Delegates Act

“WHEREAS, the Association
cannot, with its present dues of
$3.00 per annum, maintain the
services and high standards ex-
pected and required by its mem-
bers,

“NOW, THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Executive
Committee be directed to prepare
an amendment to the By-Laws
increasing the dues in the State
Division to $5.00 per annum, with
a $1.00 refund to chapters, and

“BE IT FURTHER RE-
SOLVED, that such amendment
be drafted to be effective October
1, 1947 and that it be submitted
to the delegates at the meeting
of the Association in March 1948,”
At that time it was expected that

a special delegate meeting would be
held in March.

Dues to Be Acted Upon—May 22

The Board of Directors, meeting
on March 25, 1948, voted to hold the
meeting of delegates on May 22,
1948 to consider the amendment to
the By-Laws to increase the dues in
the State Division to $5.00 per
annum,

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ASS'N FACES FIGHT TO| SAVE CIVIL SERVICE

In accordance with the above res-
olution of the delegates, the Board
of Directors has prepared an amend-
ment to the By-Laws to increase the
dues to $5.00. This amendment will
be considered by the delegates at the
meeting on May 22nd. It amends
‘Article III, Section 2 of the By-Laws
by striking out the word “three” in
line 2 and substituting therefor the
word “five.” The by-law, if approved
by the delegates would be amended
to read as follows:

“The dues of members of the state
division shall be at the rate of five
dollars per annum, of which one
dollar shall be refunded to chapters
as hereinafter provided,”

All members of the Association
should be acquainted with the facts
telative to their organization’s finan-
ces so that their duly elected delegates
may truly represent their wishes at
the meeting on May 22, 1948, For
this purpose this article outlines the
main categories of expenditures,

Personal Services

As in any organization devoted to
everyday service to its members and
to the promotion of a diversified pro-
gram of improvements to working
conditions, a substantial portion of
Association expenditures is for per-
sonnel service,

The staff consists of fourteen em-
ployees and two legal counsels, Two
of the employees are field represen-
tatives who travel throughout the
State assisting members in every con-
ceivable manner. Space does not per-
mit a complete statement of the work
and responsibility of each employee
and it is assumed that most members
are familiar with the many necessary
activities at headquarters and in the
field,

The concensus of opinion among
the officers and members who have
visited headquarters frequently and
are intimately familiar with the situ-
ation is that the Association is now
and has always been understaffed.
Since the termination of World War
TI, three new positions have been
added, but the staff continues to
work under considerable pressure
and much overtime is necessary to
perform only the vitally essential
work,
Tt would -be desirable to add to
the Association’s staff one or more
publicity experts. Many members
complain that the organizations ac-
tivities are not fully publicized and
that many members are unfamiliar
with the many accomplishments of
the Association, They claim that the
program of the Association is not
given sufficient publicity. At present
several employees of the Association
contribute to the preparation of pub-
licity, the President, Executive Sec-
retary, Executive Representative,
Counsel, Assistant Counsel and once
in a while others, They must take
time from their principal duties to
care for this work. Regardless of the
future publicity program of the or-
ganization, investment in an expert
publicity staff would pay big divi-
dends to members. Additional field
service and legal assistance would
also be of great help to all members.

Each position on the staff is classi-
fied on the basis of duties and re-
sponsibilities and given a salary
grade similar to what the job would
pay in State service. Emergency cost
of living salary adjustments, com-
parable to what State workers re-
ceived, were accorded Association
employees. They also received sick
leave allowances, vacation, overtime
pay, and other improved working
conditions as they were achieved
through the efforts of the Association
for State workers, The salary adjust-
ments and other improvements ma-
terially increased the cost of personal
service,

Members of the staff, however, do
Not enjoy any retirement provisions,
except the Executive Secretary, who
is covered to a very limited extent.
Officers have long hoped to provide
a pension plan for the employees as
liberal as the State’s, but funds were
never available, If the Association
is to practice what it preaches, action
should be taken in this matter in the
near future, and of course, this means
an additional expenditure.

Approximately $50,000 was ex-
pended for personal setvice during
the fiscal year ended September 30,
1947, ,

Refunds To Chapters

One hundred and twenty-five offi-
cial chapters of the Association
throughout the State render many
valuable services to members, The
many advantages to members ‘and

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‘ue fee ne crebracen Pe:
fue i¢ chapters have
ey lea explained in detail in
Association publications, and are
well known to informed members.
Suffice it to say that the members,
through the chapters, constitute the
backbone of the organization.

Each chapter receives annually a
refund of one-third of the member-
ship dues the Association receives
from the members of the chapter.
This refund furnishes the chapter
with funds to provide services locally
to its members, and to underwrite
the expenses of its delegates to Asso-
ciation meetings and undertake other
activities on behalf of members.

The chapter organization move-
ment began in 1934. In the year
ending September 30, 1945 about
$9,000 was refunded to chapters.
Then as the movement was acceler-
ated to the advantage of the members
and the Association, naturally the
number of members affiliated with
chapters increased, and the refunds
to chapters increased proportionately.

In the year ending September 30,
1947, almost $34,000 was refunded
tochapters. This was a large increase
in just a couple of years—but it was
a splendid investment for members
and produced many benefits for them.

This increase in refunds to chap-
ters meant that the Association’s
main body retained just that much
less of the dues income. For all
purposes, the increase in refunds
could be considered as a necessary
increase in expenditures.

Publicity

Tt is important that thru some
media our members be kept currently
informed on all matters affecting
their interests and welfare. It is like-
wise vital that the public, as their
employer, be fully informed relative
to the Association programs. As
stated before, it has been strongly
recommended by informed Associ-
ation leaders that its staff be en-
larged to include publicity experts
so that the organization’s activities
and accomplishments, and its pro-
gram may be fully publicized, / not
only in the publications of the Asso-
ciation, but in the public press as
well. To assure the future success
of the organization, regardless of the
future publicity program, it is ad-
visable that this move be made as
soon as the financial condition of the
organization will permit such action.

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‘The future publicity program was
given some consideration at the last
annual meeting, and the delegates
adopted the following resolution:

Committee to Survey Publicity
Facilities
“RESOLVED, that the Presi-
dent be directed to appoint a spe-
cial committee to survey com-
pletely the situation as to publicity
facilities of the Association in-
cluding the magazine “Merit,”
the weekly Civil Service Leader
and the possibilities of the use of
radio, the greater use of the press
from the standpoint of the effici-
ency of present educational and
informational services to mem-
bers,, the public and officers of
government, and
“BE IT FURTHER RE-
SOLVED, that the special com-
mittee so appointed report to the
Board of Directors their findings
and recommendations.”
President Tolman appointed the
following Special Committee to Sur-
vey Publicity Facilities:
Thos. C. Stowell, Chmn., Health
John Daniels, Budget
Theodore Becker, Civil Service
Charles H. Foster, Budget
Harry G. Fox, Civil Service
Clifford M. Hodge, Health
William Livingstone, Civil Service
Earl J. McGuirk, Conservation
Wayne W. Soper, Education
A. Ranger Tyler, Commerce
Philip L. White, St. Lawrence Co.
Fred W, Walters, Mental Hygiene
Tt is expected that this committee
will report at the April 29th meeting
of the Board of Directors, and it is
hoped that definite recommendations
as to the future publicity program of
the Association will be presented at
the May 22nd meeting of delegates
and possibly forwarded to chapters
prior to that meeting.

Civil Service Leader

The 52 issues of the Civil Service
Leader mailed direct to the homes
of the over 40,000 members during
the year ending September 30, 1947,
cost the Association approximately
$33,000. The weekly copies fur-
nished the about 30,000 members
during the year ended September
30, 1946 cost about $20,000. This is
in line with the increases in cost of
printing, distribution, etc. One has
but to review press statements rela-
tive to increases in cost of newsprint,

Merit

printers and pressmen’s salaries and

other items which produce a news-

paper to. understand the necessity for

increased expenditures for any fo:

of printed publicity. :
Merit

During the year ended Sept. 30,
1947, seven 36 page issues of the
magazine “MERIT” (then The
State Employee) was published and
mailed direct to the homes of all
members at a cost of approximately
$25,000. Because of the financial
condition of the Association this
magazine is temporarily being issued
as a quarterly.

All informed officials of the Asso-
ciation are agreed that a publication,
carrying all current information per-
tinent to the interests and welfare of
members, and mailed direct to all
members, is necessary. A first class
publication cannot be produced
cheaply these days. The two publi-
cations furnished our 40,000 mem-
bers last year cost them about $58,-
000. The two publications cost each
member less than 3c. per week.
Really, a small charge for what they
received, Could adequate informa-
tion and. publicity be furnished for
less? Would you be willing to sac-
rifice the effectiveness of your em-
ployee organization to reduce this
already very small expense per
member?

Office Equipment and Machinery

Headquarters office has begun to
look like an antique shop. Consider
the age of the following equipment
which is used daily in servicing the
membership. The Specdamaut ad-
dressing machine, which produces
the address strips for mailing the
weekly Civil Service Leader and the
periodical magazine Merit to the
homes of our over 40,000 members"
is at least 25 years old. The hand
driven graphotype which embosses
the addressing plates is about 20
years of age, ‘The mimeograph ma-
chine was purchased in 1935. The
electric adding machine came in
1939, The postage meter machine
was introduced into headquarters in
1940, ‘The vari-typewriter came in
1940 also. Of cight typewriters, only
two are less than seven years old,
and some should have been retired
long ago.

This equipment is used every day.
Most of it won’t last much longer,
and at present it isn’t efficient. It
should have been replaced before

First Quarter 1948

this. During the war replacements
were not obtainable, but since the
war ended our financial status
wouldn’t stand the strain. It is evi-
dent, however, that much, if not all
of this equipment must be replaced
within the next year or so. This
means a substantial “expenditure—
possibly in the neighborhood of
$8,500.

A start has been made through
the purchase of addressing machin-
ery costing above $5,000 which will
be paid for during the current year.
This purchase became absolutely
necessary and was approved by the
Board of Directors. At present this
new equipment is being prepared
for use in the very near future.

During the year ended September
30, 1947 about $650 was spent
for new equipment. This included
two typewriters, two desks and filing
equipment. Additional desks, chairs,
lights, and filing equipment is
needed badly.

Various Expenses

During the year ended September
30, 1947, expenditures for office sup-
plies totaled about $4,000. Included
in this item were about 1,000,000
sheets of mimeograph paper, the cost
of which raised about 22% since
1944. The cost of envelopes in-
creased 24% during the same period;
mimeo ink 34%, rubber bands and
paper towels 33%; typewriter rib-
bons 35%; twine 80%; pencils 20%;
Index cards 20%, file folders 20°.

Postage, telegraph, telephone and
other communication expenses to-
taled almost $6,500. Second-class
postage rates having increased. Cost
of telegraph services have gone up
considerably, besides the tax. In-
creased service and federal taxes have
upped telephone expenses.

The traveling expenses of field
representatives, officers, employees,
and members of the board of direc-
tors totaled about $7,000. Railroad
fares have gone up. Cost of meals
have skyrocketed. Last year thru
the efforts of the Association, the per
diem expense allowance to State em-
ployees on official state business was
increased, as was the per mileage
allowance for personally owned cars
used on State business. This was a
definite recognition of the increased
expense of travel these days. But
even the present allowances aren’t
adequate to meet actual expenses
incurred.

In this article the main categories
of expenditures made by the Asso-
ciation have been referred to.

$5.00 Today—$3.00 Pre-War
Yes, if the present $3.00 dues in ~
the State Division would purchase
what it did in pre-war days the Asso-
ciation might be able to get along.
But the $3.00 only buys about $1.80
worth of what it did before. $5.00
dues today will purchase what $3.00
did before.

At $5.00 dues per year, the mem-
ber would invest about a cent and
one-third per day in the worker's
organization which is devoted to the
future improvement of his working
conditions, to the protection of his
interests and welfare.

Elsewhere in’ this issue you will
find an article entitled — “TEN
YEARS OF PROGRESS,” It will
give you an idea of the work and
accomplishments of the Association.
You will also find a “Legislative
Report”— both are worth your read-
ing.

Every member should first con-
sider carefully the work, accomplish-
ments, services and necessary costs
of the program of the organization,
and then consider proposed annual
dues of $5.00. Is it not worth about
one and one-third cents per day to
receive continuous representation be-
fore the Executive, legislative and
administrative branches of govern-
ment plus all the other valuable
services the Association offers. Mem-
bers who participate in the grou
insurance save premiums alone eal
year much more than they pay in
dues.

Up to this point we have con-
sidered only past and present costs
and services of the Association. What
of the future?

Never was the opportunity to go
forward as great as now. The Asso-
ciation is recognized by the Admin-
istration as the representative of the
great body of State employees. It can
now present the problems and needs
of the State workers for conference
and determination more effectively
and more promptly than ever before
if it has the necessary staff and
wherewithal,

The biggest fight the Association
has ever waged lies just ahead, It is
the fight to save civil service itself,
Unless we have the means to win
this fight, all the Association has
done will be of little avail.

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HIGH SPOTS IN ASS’N

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Association President. Standing left to right are 3
Lochner, Tolman, DeGraff and McDonough of the Association,
Charles Poletti, the Governor's Counsel, and Kelly and
Schwartz of the Association.

This picture shows Governor Dewey signing the War
Emergency Compensation Law in 1943, in the presence of
Budget Director Burton. Classification Director Campbell,
former Vice-President of the Association ond the late Harold J.
Fisher, then President of the Association.

John A. Cromie, former member of Board of Directors of the
‘Ascciation, and Janet Macfarlane, Association Secretary,
look over with Governor Dewey the first salary check drawn
with the War Emergency Compensation in effect in 1943.

In 1948 Governor Dewey signs law granting increased War
Eoauecal ‘Compensation. Governor's Counsel Breitel, Clifford
C. Shoro, then Association President, and Jesse B. McFarland,
nt Association Vice-President, look on.

HISTORY OUTLINED

The Association approached the
dawn of 1937 with optimism and
high hope. Although by present day
standards, its then membership of
12,085 seems inconsequential, it was
gratifying and impressive at that
time, for it had steadily increased
from a 1930 total of only 600. In
those days, this increase seemed mi-
raculous because, during the 20-year
period following its establishment in
1910, Association membership had
remained stationary at about 500 to
1,000.

President Charlie Brind, now
Counsel to the Education Depart-
ment, and the members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, felt justified in
facing the future with confidence.
The previous year had been the most
outstanding in the Association’s his-
tory, for it had marked the success-
ful completion of the Association’s
five-year campaign to abolish the
twelve-hour day in state institutions.
Although a score or more “8-hour
day” bills had been introduced in the
1936 Legislature, it was the bill
drafted and sponsored by the Asso-
ciation which was passed and signed
by Governor Lehman. This mem-
orable accomplishment raised em-
ployee morale to a new high point
and encouraged the Association to
adopt more far-reaching plans for the
coming year.

Of the officers and memibers of the
Executive Committee who served in
1937, only one remains in office.
“Pete” Mahar was then, as now, the
representative of the Department of

Law. The list, however, contains ~

many names that are well known
to present members, including Bill
McDonough, representing the De-
partment of Agriculture and Mar-
kets, Charlie Campbell, who was
Vice-President and also the repre-
sentative of the Department of Civil
Service, Cliff Shoro, who represen-
ted the Health Department, Harold
Fisher, representing the State Depart-
ment, and John Cromie representing
the Tax Department.

The results of the enthusiasm gen-
erated in those years are now a mat-
ter of history. The extent of the
Progress can best be measured, how-
ever, by recalling Association activi-

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ties and working conditions of that
era,

‘The Association was then known
by the mouth-filling title of “The
Association of State Civil Service
Employees of the State of New
York.” Its principal competitor was
an organization with headquarters
in New York City, whose official
name was “The Civil Service Asso-
ciation of the State of New York.”
In an attempt to avoid confu-
sion of identities, the New York
City organization was commonly
referred to as “The Forum,” In its
publication, “The Chief,” however,
it used both names and confusion
persisted until 1946, when the Asso-
ciation changed its name to “The
Civil Service Employees Association,
Inc.”

Although the Civil Service Forum
never disclosed its actual member-
ship, it probably had, in 1937, a
greater membership among state em-
ployees than did our own association.
The Forum had an extensive legis-
lative program every year and, each
week of the session, it sent ten or
more representatives to Albany to ad-
vance its bills. It was more widely
known than the Association in those
days, because of its ability to publi-
cize its activities in its weekly news-
paper, “The Chief.” The Association
was also faced with competition from
the newly organized State, County
and Municipal Workers of America,
commonly called the SCMWA
(CIO) which was about to initiate
an intensive organizing drive.

The officers of the Association
were undisturbed by this competi-
tion, however, and had unlimited
confidence in the destiny of the
Association. They pointed with
pride to many expanding Association
activities. One was the rapid growth
of employee credit unions. ‘The first
state employee credit union had been
organized in Albany, under the aus-
pices of the Association, in 1935. By
1937, 24 were in operation through-
out the State. Group accident and
health insurance, first offered in 1936
as a service to its members, was mect-
ing an enthusiastic reception and
3380 policies had been issued as the
year 1937 commenced. Today, 13,-

By JOHN T. DE GRAFF, COUNSEL

000 members participate in this
group project and over $1,900,000
has been paid out in benefits.

‘The New York City Chapter, or-
ganized in 1935, was beginning to
attract members in the stronghold of
the Civil Service Forum, Milton
Schwartz and Earl Kelly were the
moving spirits in the New York City
Chapter, which boasted a member-
ship of over 1,000, and printed its
own periodical to keep New York
City members informed of Associ-
ation activities. Other chapters were
organized, or in the process of or-
ganization in some of the larger up-
state cities. At that time, however,
chapters had no official representa-
tion at Association meetings. Al-
though their creation had been auth-
orized by an amendment to the con-
stitution in 1935, the Association’s
annual meeting was a meeting of
individual members. It was not until
1940 that the constitution was a-
mended to give chapters official rep-
resentation by providing for delegates
at the annual meeting.

Before 1940, the policies of the
Association were established by the
Executive Committee and by the in-
dividual members who happened to
attend the annual meeting, usually
a hundred or less, mostly from
Albany. Association dues, in 1937,
were $1 a year and the staff consisted
of Joe Lochner as Executive Secre-
tary, assisted by one stenographer—
a startling contrast to today’s office
crowded with a staff of fourteen. I
have a vivid recollection of those days
for I had been retained as Counsel
to the Association only two years
before and was just beginning to find
my way around the Capitol. During
those two years in the legislative
halls, I had become familiar with
every known variety of brushoff and
runaround, and, after studying sey-
eral hundred civil service bills 1 had
begun to acquire a bowing ac-
quaintance with the idiosyncrasies of
the Civil Service Law.

As the Legislative session of 1937
opened, the Association bent every
effort to accomplish the objectives
outlined in resolutions adopted at the
previous annual meeting. There were
only seven resolutions, —a far cry

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from the hundred or more that are
presented at every annual meeting
today. The resolutions were —

1, To require the state to pay
moving ex, s of employees who
were transferred from one section of
the state to another, —an objective
that has not yet been accomplished,
although bills to this effect have
several times been passed, only to
be vetoed.

2. To request the Governor to

proclaim May 4th as.“‘Civil Service
Day.”
3. To increase the appropriation
for the Civil Service Department.
Tt is interesting to note that at that
time the appropriation was $200,000.
The Association, in succeeding years,
continued to press this objective and
it is significant that the appropria-
tion for the Civil Service Depart-
ment has steadily grown until today
it amounts to $1,500,000.

4, To extend the competitive class
by classifying as competitive many
positions which were in the non-
competitive and exempt classes.

5. To include in the budget suffi-
cient appropriations so that employ-
ees entitled to commutation would
receive what the law allowed them.
‘The commutation system, under
which employees living outside an
institution were allowed $24 per
month for meals and $8 per month
for lodging, with an additional
monthly allowance of $10 for the
“head of a family” was never satis-
factory. A legislative committee
which studied conditions in state
hospitals in 1934 had reported that
the number of employees entitled to
commutation but not receiving it was
as high as 1450. While this shocking
condition was mitigated year by year,
it was never fully corrected until the
commutation system was abolished
by the extension of the Feld-Hamil-
ton law to state institutions in 1943,

6. Extension of the 8-hour day to
cover all institution employees. The
bill which inaugurated the 8-hour
day was originally limited to employ-
ces engaged in attending, nursing or
guarding inmates or patients. The
state had not, in 1936, been able to
hire the 5,000 or more employees re-
quired to put the 8-hour day fully in
effect. This was not surprising since
the entering salary for Attendant was
$54 per month and other salaries
were correspondingly meager. At
that time, 60% of the employees in
institutions were required to work

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more than eight hours a day, a third
swere required to work at least twelve
hours a day and some 435 were
obliged to work more than twelve
hours a day.

The legislative committee report,
from which these figures are taken
declared, “So widely at variance, one
with the other, is the management
and direction of many of the insti-
tutions investigated, that, to a sub-
stantial extent each may be said to
be operating under laws of its own.”
It_ concluded, “from evidence ad-
duced at the various hearings con-
ducted by the committee, it is evi-
dence that present arrangements for
employees regarding working hours,
commutation, sick leave, salary in-
crements and time service allowance
are generally unsatisfactory.”

7. The most far-reaching objective
of the Association was in the resolu-
tion advocating a “salary incre-
ment” plan. It is almost impossible
today to comprehend the chaotic
and deplorable conditions that pre-
vailed in the state service in 1937.
Senator Eberly Hutchinson expressed
the general opinion when he public-
ly declared that state salaries were
fixed “by guess and by God.”

The need for a salary system had

been revealed as early as 1915 when.

a classification and compensation
study was made under the auspices
of a legislative committee known as
the Horton Committee, but the
plans then developed failed of
adoption.

Again, in 1922, under the adminis-
tration of Governor Miller, a classi-
fication of positions was begun, but
the work was abandoned and no
practical results came of it. In 1930,
the Association was instrumental in
creating another legislative commit-
tee which, in’ 1932, presented the
famous “Griffenhagen Report.”

The lack of a classification and
compensation plan was graphically
illustrated by that report. It pointed
out, for example, that the title of
“Clerk” was applied to 110 different,
kinds of positions, ranging from 4
Junior Stenographer paying $900, up
to a Senior State Accounts Examiner
paying $3,900. A few examples of
salary variations are revealing. Senior
Clerks ranged from $696 to $4,000;
Senior Account Clerks ranged from
$840 to $3,750; Assistant Typists
ranged from $744 to $3,000; Senior
Civil Engineers from $2,700 to
$4,500 and Senior Engineering Aides

from $960 to $2,880. Some positions
paid as low as $540 per annum and
the average salary in the state service
was a little over $1,500. :

Civil Service examination an-
nouncements as to salary ranges were
meaningless, An examination for
Senior File Clerk, for example, car-
ried an announced salary of $1,200.
$2,100. Yet when the list was estab-
lished the only appointments were
at $900 and $960 per annum. Pro-
motions were even worse, Employees
worked as long as five and ten years
without receiving a single salary in-
crease. In one outstanding case,
which the Association quoted effec-
tively, a stenographer worked faith-
fully for fifteen years before receiving
an increase and when an increase
finally came through it was for $25
per annum,

The Griffenhagen report was ac-
companied by an elaborate bill which
was submitted to the 1932 Legis-
lature. Anticipating that the bill
would be adopted, titles in the de-
partmental service were changed in
the budget to correspond with the
titles recommended by the legislative
committee. The reclassification bill
passed the Legislature only to be
vetoed by Governor Roosevelt. With
this veto, confusion became more
confounded. The Legislature had
passed the budget which contained
the new titles, but the bill which
created and yalidated the titles had
been vetoed.

Numerous court proceedings were
commenced in which it was held that
the new titles were valid for payroll
purposes but that they had no effect
on the civil service status of the in-
cumbents. This meant that employ-
ees in the same grade had different
titles and employees with the same
title were in widely different salary
grades.

Under such circumstances, it was
almost impossible to determine the
proper procedure with reference to
promotions, transfers or layoffs.
When, during the depression, some
hundred or more employees of the
Division of Architecture were laid
off, they instituted a court proceeding
which resulted in the reinstatement
of the employees who had been laid
off and the dismissal of an equal
number who had previously been
kept—at a cost to the state of $90,000
in back salaries.

This deplorable and confusing
condition had existed for five years

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when the Association presented the
remedy which subsequently trans-
formed the State service. The entire
January, 1937 issue of the State
Employee—then a 16-page monthly
publication—was devoted to an ex-
planation of what was called “Our
Mandatory Salary Increment Bill”
which, in the next issue, was called
the Feld-Hamilton bill. Months of
hard work had gone into the draft-
ing of this bill. Doc Tolman, single-
handed, prepared the schedules, after
compiling from the Budget a tabula-
tion which showed the number of
employees in every title in the state
service, together with the minimum
salary, the maximum salary and the
median salary for each position.

When the bill was first presented
to the Executive Committee, shortly
before the 1937 session of the Legis-
lature opened, serious differences of
opinion were revealed. Many mem-
bers felt that the Association should
sponsor a simple bill for a straight
10% salary increase, contending that,
while the mandatory increment bill
was sound in principle, it was so
revolutionary in concept that its pros-
pect of passage was remote. On the
initial vote most of the members of
the Executive Committee favored
the simple 10% increase bill. After
an extended debate led by Charlie
Brind, Charlie Campbell and Doc
Tolman, the vote was in favor of the
mandatory increment bill. This was
probably the most important decision
the Executive Committee has ever
made and one which it has never
regretted,

After the introduction of the bill
by Senator Feld and Assemblyman
Hamilton, it received enthusiastic
support from the employees of the
state and immediate backing by
many civic organizations. The only
opposition came from the Civil Sery-
ice Forum which violently opposed
the bill in the columns of “The
Chief” and did everything in-its
power to prevent its passage. After
passing the Assembly, the bill was
referred to the Senate Finance Com-
mittee. Senator McNaboe of New
York City, who was chairman of
the Senate Committee on Civil Sery-
ice, made an ineffectual attempt on
the floor of the Senate to have the
bill referred to his committee. The
purpose of this move was not ob-
scure. Senator McNaboe had, for
many years, co-operated closely with
the Civil Service Forum and had in-

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variably killed any Association bill
that was referred to his committee.

Finally, the bill was reported favor-
ably by the Senate Finance Commit-
tee and it passed the Senate unani-
mously at a time when Senator
McNaboe was noton the floor. When
Senator McNaboe heard what had
happened he immediately moved to
have the vote reconsidered and this
motion was carried. He then took

the floor, spoke against the bill .

claiming that the employees of the
State were opposed to it. Senator
Pitcher, then the majority leader of
the Senate, pointed out that the bill
had been sponsored by the Associa-
tion, whose representatives were in
the galleries, and that the communi-
cations he had received indicated
that the employees of the state were
enthusiastic in its support. The bill
was then repassed, the only dissent-
ing vote being that of Senator Mc-
Naboe. It was signed by Governor
Lehman on June 3, 1937. The report
of the ceremony, in the State Em-
ployee, ended on this prophetic note
—“A new day is dawning in public

service in the State’ of New York,” ~

The misguided opposition of the
Civil Service Forum spelled its death
knell in the State service. As the
benefits of the Feld-Hamilton law
became evident to more and more
employees, the opposition of the
Civil Service Forum was recalled and
its members gradually transferred
their! allegiance to the Association,
with the result that the Forum, to-
day, has barely a handful of mem-
bers in the State service.

The original Feld-Hamilton bill
of 1937 created the Temporary Sal-
ary Standardization Board with
power to allocate positions to the
various services and grades set up in
the bill. It contained no provisions
for classification and no machinery
for correcting existing titles. This
was not an oversight. The omission
was deliberate because, if provisions
for reclassification had been con-
tained in the bill, it would not have
passed. The 1932 bill, which Gover-
nor Roosevelt had vetoed, had been
commonly referred to as a “Reclassi-
fication” bill. The memory of the
chaotic conditions resulting from
the reclassified titles in the 1932 bud-
get was so vivid that the word
“reclassification,” to a member of the
sLegislature, was equivalent to way-
ing a red flag before a bull. Any
bill which included the word “re-

classification” or which could be
designated as a reclassification bill
was doomed to die in committee.

The following year, however, the
Association sponsored the Feld-Oster-
tag bill which created the Classifica-
tion Division and empowered it to

ify titles to correspond with
the duties of the position, By this
time it was generally recognized that
the Feld-Hamilton law could not op-
erate without a classification agency
and the bill was passed with little
difficulty. The only opposition came
from the SCMWA (CIO). which,
at that early date, adopted the policy
of opposing measures sponsored by
the Association eyen though its
opposition was contrary to the best
interests of the employees it pur
ported to represent.

Despite the efforts of the Civil
Service Forum and the SCMWA
(CIO), Association membership
steadily increased to 15,000 in 1937
and 19,000 in 1938. The CIO, which
was backed by a fund reputed to be
in excess of $50,000, became especial-
ly active and had a paid organizer
in every institution and most of the
up-state cities. The first official
recognition of the existence of the
CIO appears in the June, 1938 issue
of “The State Employee.” Under the
title, “Let's Be Reasonable,” the
Association said: (It reads as if it
were written by Bill McDonough):

“The time is here to politely in-
form the CIO of a fact that would
have long since been apparent to any
advised group, namely, that they do
not and cannot render any worth-
while service to State employees and
that they should therefore cease the
collection of dues from State em-
ployees and cease dissension creating
organization tactics.

“There is at hand after many
weeks and months of activity, no
evidence whatever that the CIO has
secured for State employees or aided
in the securing of a single improve-
ment in State service. On the other
hand, the doubts and questioning
they have created by statements is-
sued relative to State employment
matters, and their direct opposition
to certain legislation fostered by
employees through the employees’
own Association—notably the Feld-
Ostertag Bill—really menaced prog-
ress. Is they any reason that State
employees should be deceived by
statements and propaganda urging a
new workers’ organization when

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employees are already efficiently
organized?

“Would it not be foolish for a
farmer to have one idle horse always
running about beside a busy, work-
ing horse? What would you think
of aman who carried an extra empty
Suit case everywhere he went when
he had no use for it? And where
is the logic in having a workers’
organization trailing, duplicating,
and actually getting in the way of
an honest, well organized group de-
voted wholly to good State service
and good working conditions? Can
any worker logically support a fu-
tile effort—a worker's organization
shouting empty promises, running
empty errands, bringing home empty
hands?” :

No better description of the activi-
ties of the CIO in the State service
has ever been written. In the ten
years since it was organized not a
single bill affecting State employees
and sponsored by the CIO has ever
been enacted.

In addition to the Feld-Ostertag
bill, the Association was successful
in passing over a dozen measures
at the 1938 session, including the
six-day week for employees in the
Division of Canals, a bill that re-
quired retirement allowances to be
based on the highest salary received
during any five consecutive years
selected by the employee instead of
the salary received during the last
five years, and a special bill author-
izing group life insurance for an
association of civil service employees,

Under the authorization of this
bill our group life insurance plan
was started in 1939. It met with an
enthusiastic reception and today
nearly 20,000 members hold this
fine low-cost insurance policy.
Since its inception, $2,303,300 has
been paid out in benefits to the
families of Association members.

Two very important bills were
vetoed’ by the Governor. One pro-
vided for sick leave for institution
employees. It was vetoed in 1938
and for several successive years there-
after because of the opposition of
Dr. Parsons, Commission of Mental
Hygiene, and was not enacted until
1941, The second important bill to
be vetoed was the Ostertag bill which
brought employees of the Depart-
ment of Correction under the Feld-
Hamilton schedules.

‘The Civil Service Forum opposed
the extension of the Feld-Hamilton

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Law to the employees of the Depart-
ment of Correction, most of whom

were then affiliated with the Forum,
The Forum sponsored a salary in-
crease bill of its own for Correction
employees and the employees were
divided in their allegiance. This
division was responsible, in a large
measure, for the failure of these em-
ployees to receive the Feld-Hamilton
benefits in 1938. It was not until five
years later, in 1943, that the Asso-
ciation finally succeeded in extending
the Feld-Hamilton law to employees
of the Department of Correction.
The year 1938 was a busy one
for the Association. No sooner had
the legislative session closed than
the Constitutional Convention as-
sembled. There, two proposals of
vital importance to Civil Service em-
ployees were vigorously debated. The
first was an amendment sponsored
by Attorney General John J. Bennett,
which was designed to protect the
pensions of public employees by de-
claring in the Constitution that a pen-
sion is a “contractual obligation
which shall not be diminished or im-
paired.” There was widespread fear
that the benefits of the Retirement
System might be reduced because the
Legislature, a short time before, had
failed to make the annual appropria-
tion required for the operation of
the Retirement System. The Asso-
ciation vigorously supported the
Bennett amendment which, after
passage by the Convention, and ap-
proval by the people, now furnishes
a constitutional guaranty that pen-
sion benefits cannot be reduced.
The other amendment proposed
to extend veterans’ preferences by
giving the Legislature blanket au-
thority to adopt any preference it
might choose to enact, for all vet-
erans, both disabled and non-disabled.
The Association vigorously opposed
this amendment which was killed in
committee, It was, however, revived
on the floor and advanced by an
overwhelming vote to third reading.
One of the most amusing incidents
of the Convention occurred when
Delegate Hamilton Fish proposed

the amendment from the floor. The /
Chairman directed him to put it in/

writing, whereupon he wrote the
proposed amendment on a Western
Union telegraph blank and handed
it to the Clerk for reading. After
the amendment so drafted had been
passed, Delegate Al Smith rose to
his feet and asked that the amend-

ment be read again, stating that, to
him, it seemed confusing in its
phraseology. When the amendment
was re-read slowly, the delegates
recognized, for the first time, that
its phraseology provided for a prefer-
ence for everyone except veterans.
This muddle was finally straightened
out and the amendment was re-
written and again passed by an over-
whelming vote.

In the short period that intervened
before the final vote on third reading,
the Association bent every effort to
demonstrate to the delegates that
such a broad preference could not
fail to destroy the merit system. A
printed memorandum setting forth
the dangerous aspects of the amend-
ment was widely distributed. Gover-
nor Lehman addressed a special
message to the Convention strongly
urging rejection of the proposal and
his stand was supported generally
by the press and scores of civic or-

ising tide of opposition
became manifest, support for the
amendment declined, but the out-
come hung in the balance when the
final roll call started at the comple-
tion of the debate. Under the Con-
vention rules, the roll call was taken
in alphabetical order and the first
votes cast, by delegates whose names
began with A and B, were predomi-
nantly in favor of the amendment.
Then occurred-what many have de-
scribed as the most dramatic moment
of the entire Convention. Delegate
Adrien P. Burke, when his name
was called, made his first and only
speech during the Convention, His
prophetic words will bear repetition,
although a reading of his speech can-
not fully conyey the effect it had on
his listeners,

“I speak as the brother of two
disabled veterans. The veterans’
preference absolutely destroys the en-
tire intent and purpose of the present
constitutional amendment on civil
service. No delegate in this hall dare
stand up and state to me that the
words ‘merit’ and ‘preference’ are
not mutually exclusive terms. You
cannot have a merit system and have
a preference system.

“Do you mean to tell me that the
World War widow whose husband
was killed in action wants the vet-
erans of this State to insist on a
preference against her children?

“Do you mean to tell me that the
Gold Star mother who lost-her son

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in the World War wants the veterans
of this State to insist on a preference
against her other sons?

“Do you mean to tell me that the
parents of the men who fought in
the World War wish one son to have
preference over another son?

“Do you mean to tell me that it is
in the best interest of the people of
this State, with 600,000 youths be-
tween the ages of 16-and 25 unem-
ployed, that they should be foreclosed
from the civil service of this State?

“Do not tell me that there will only
be a handful. Remember, gentle-
men, that on every list there are but
few who are appointed before that
list expires. And that means that if
100 people take an examination and
four veterans pass that examination,
they immediately go to the top of the
list,

“TI want the veterans to be given
every consideration, but to carry this
principle to its logical conclusion, we
should start a veteran in a campaign
with 10,000 votes. Why should not
they have a preference as an elected
official or an appointed official? Why
raid the civil service?”

Many members of the Convention
have said that this was one of the
few speeches to actually influence the
action of the delegates. “After it was
made, most of the delegates voted
“No” and the amendment was de-
feated by a vote of 80 to 61.

‘The year 1939 found the Associa-
tion engaged in defending the gains
it had won in previous years. This
was the year of the famous “Battle
of the Budget,” and the session
lasted until May 20th, one of the
longest sessions on record.

The Legislature cut $9,000,000
from the executive budget and pro-
posed the suspension of the Feld-
Hamilton increments, which had be-
come effective only the preceding
year. Even more serious was the
fact that the itemized executive bud-
get was changed by the Legislature
into a “lump sum” budget.

The constitutionality of the new
budget was challenged and the As-
sociation appeared as amicus curiae
in the Court of Appeals and filed a
brief in opposition to the “lump
sum” budget. We were gratified by
the decision of the Court of Appeals
which held the lump sum budget
unconstitutional and removed this
serious threat to the merit system.
The Association also succeeded in
retaining the Feld-Hamilton incre-

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ments except for employees whose
salaries were in excess of $3,500.

Because of the litigation affecting
the validity of the budget, the State,
when the new fiscal year opened on
July first, was unable to issue pay
checks, The Association arranged
an ingenious remedy whereby a State
employee could apply to any bank
in the State and receive his salary
check upon executing to the bank
an assignment of the amount due
him from the State. This arrange-
ment was made through the National
Commercial Bank and Trust Com-
pany of Albany which obtained the
co-operation of all other banks in the
State and performed these services
for a nominal fee of 25c per pay
check. This service was a lifesaver
to thousands of employees whose
pay checks in many cases were de-
layed for a month to six weeks or
more,

Although 1939 was notable chiefly
for the partial suspension of the Feld-
Hamilton increments and other re-
ductions in the budget, progress was
made in other directions. The Civil
Service Leader was founded and was
offered to State employees at special
rates. The Legislature created the
Fite Commission to study the advis-
ability of extending civil service to
all the cities, counties, towns and
villages of the State. The Associa-
tion’s part in this extension of the
merit principle was recognized by
the appointment of two of its repre-
sentatives to participate in the work
of the commission. Charlie Brind,
President of the Association, was ap-
pointed by Governor Lehman as one
of the members of the Commission,
and Counsel to the Association was
appointed to act as Counsel to the
Legislative Commission which, the
following year, drafted a bill which
was duly enacted and which extend-
ed the merit system throughout the
entire State.

Tt was in this year also, that a
Commission was appointed to bring
about an extension of the competitive
class, It will be recalled that since
1936 the Association had continu-
ously pointed out, through the col-
umns of the State Employee, that
only half of the employees of the
State were in the competitive class,
the remainder being appointed with-
out examination. Governor Dewey,
in his 1938 campaign, publicized this
issue by urging that a much higher
proportion of the civil service should

be in the competitive class, In re-
sponse to this criticism, Governor
Lehman appointed a commission to
study the Davisability of this exten-
sion. Again, the Association was the
only employee-organization to be
represented on the Commission.
The following year, this commis-
sion recommended that all the At-
tendants in the Mental Hygiene
institutions be reclassified as com-
petitive and, in this one step, some

12,000 employees were added to the .

competitive class. The Commission
continued its studies and was about
to recommend certain other positions
for competitive status, but the war
intervened and no substantial exten-
sions have been made since that time.

During the war years that fol-
lowed, the Association was one of the
first to point out that the SCMWA
(CIO) was dominated by Commu-
nists. In the June, 1940 issue of the
State Employee the following edi-
torial appeared:

‘24+2=4

“Earl Browder, leader of the Com-
munist Party in the United States,
on a nationwide hookup, advocates
the formation of “The Yanks Are
Not Coming Committee.’

“The Daily Worker, official Com-
munist newspaper, advocates the
formation of “The Yanks Are Not
Coming Committee.’

“The Civil Service Standard, ‘off:
cial weekly newspaper of the State,
County and Municipal Workers of
America (CIO), announces the for-
mation of “The Yanks Are Not
Coming Committee’ and carries
propaganda articles following the
Communist Party line.

“The SCMWA locals throughout
the State announce the formation of
‘The Yanks Are Not Coming Com-
mittee’ and issue propaganda bulle-
tins following the Communist Party
line.

242=>4

“The Communist Party line, strict-
ly followed by the SCMWA and its
locals, is not limited to the advocacy
of non-intervention in Europe. Its
cardinal tenet is resisting the mili-
tarization and armament defense
program of the Administration and
Congress.”

The sequel appeared a few months
later in “The State Employee” which
reported:

“After “The Yanks Are Not

Coming’ episode, the C.LLO. con-

tinued the same policy of creating

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discord and disunity, but softened
the rough edges of its propaganda
which so obviously associated it
with the Communist Party. The
column in “The Civil Service
Standard’ formerly entitled “The
Yanks Are Not Coming’ was
changed to the title ‘In Defense of
Peace,’ but it continued to hand
out the same line of opposition to

adequate defense measures that
had appeared under the former
title. The organization sponsored
a ‘Peace Rally’ in New York City
at which it adopted the resolution
calling upon the President and the
State Department ‘specifically to
provide expenditures for social
security, not munitions.’

Loyal and patriotic State em-
ployees began to wonder what the
SCMWA meant when it said to
Governor Lehman that it sup-
ported “adequate defense measures’
yet continued to oppose defense
appropriations and the training of
our citizens for defense. The an-
swer finally came in ‘The Civil
Service Standard’ of September 6,
1940, when in its editorial, the
SCMWA again called upon its
members to write and telegraph
their congressmen to vote against
the Burke-Wadsworth Conscrip-
tion Bill, at the same time pro-
mulgating its definition of its ‘de-
fense’ program. The editorial
declared: ‘We have said before and
we repeat that this organization
is and always has been solidly in
support of a real defense program.
We believe, however, that to de-
fend democracy, we must protect
the gains of, labor, increase repre-
sentative government by abolishing
such undemocratic measures as the
poll tax, afford greater opportunity
to youth and security for the
aged.”

Although the SCMWA (CIO)
subsequently changed its name to
United Public Workers —-UPW
(CIO) — it never lost its Communist
fine and it never gained the confi-
dence of state employees. Its mem-
bership has constantly dwindled so
that today it is no longer a factor in
the state service,

During the past decade, the Asso-
ciation has seen a number of other
organizations come and go. One of
the most meteoric was the Uniformed
Prison Officers Association. It started
with a barrage of bulletins and pam-

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hlets and a legislative program for
tHE benefit of paioa mune

Shortly before the close of a
legislative session, it distributed a bul-
letin urging its members to write to
the Assembly Civil Service Com-
mittee requesting a favorable re-
port on its bill to extend the eligible
list for prison guards. In the bulle-
tin, it claimed authorship of the bill,
stated that it was blocked in com-
mittee and that only a barrage of
letters to the committee could get the
bill reported out.

In fact, however, the bill in ques-
tion had been drafted by the Asso-
ciation and introduced at its request.
On the day this organization issued
its bulletin urging a letter-writing
campaign to get the bill “out of com-
mittee,” the bill had already passed
both houses and had been signed by
the Governor. The Association issued
a bulletin setting forth the true facts
and suggested that the name of the
organization be changed to the Unin-
formed Prison Officers Association.
It disbanded a few months later.
Other organizations of the same type
have appeared briefly on the scene,
but few disintegrated so rapidly.

By 1941, Association membership
had risen to 35,000 and its place as a
leading civil service organization was
secure. It was in that year that the
Association sponsored a bill to pro-
tect the civil service rights of all civil
service employees, both state and
local, who were called to military
duty.

During World War I there was no
adequate protection of the civil ser-
vice status of employees who entered
military service. When the war was
over many veterans found that their
right to reinstatment depended on
the good will of the appointing
officer.

The Association, even before the
United States formally engaged in
World War II, successfully sponsored
a bill which gave to civil service
employees the most complete protec-
tion that has been accorded in any
state, The bill, which became section;
246 of the Military Law, did more
than protect the employce’s right to
be restored to his job. It also assured
the continuance of his increments,
protected his retirement status and
all his civil service privileges that
could be protected. It permitted
employees to participate in promo-
tion examinations while in military
camps and gave them the right to

take comparable promotion exami-
nations after their restoration to civil
service,

By its broad comprehensive terms,
veterans were given every possible
consideration, with the result that
the transition from peace to war and
back again has been made with a
minimum of difficulty in all units of
government throughout the state.
This protection was further supple-
mented by a bill passed in 1947
which gave full retirement credit for
the period of military service.

As 1941 came to a close, the Asso-
ciation was primarily concerned with
the drastic rise in the cost of living.
At the opening of the 1942 session, it
proposed a plan under which state
salaries would be automatically in-
creased in proportion to the rise in
the cost of living. It called attention
to the fact that 80% of the employ-
ees of the state then received salaries
of less than $2,000 per annum and
that the law did not permit payment
for overtime work, although overtime
was increasingly required because
vacancies simply could not be filled.

Our automatic salary adjustment
bill was passed by the Legislature
but vetoed by Governor Lehman,
who expressed his unwillingness to
commit the staté to future automatic
salary increases. Under the terms of
the bill, the automatic increase was to
become effective when the cost of
living rose 20 points above the 1935-
1939 average, and a similar increase
was mandated whenever the cost of
living should rise an additional ten
points.

Although the bill failed of enact-
ment it was, nevertheless, a moral
commitment by the Legislature to
provide salary increases when the
cost of living rose 20%, and it fur-
nished the basis for the emergency
increases which were made the fol-
lowing year when Governor Dewey
took office.

When Governor Dewey was in-
augurated, in 1943, one of his first
acts was to increase the existing $900
minimum salary to $1200, and before
the session closed $10,000,009 was
appropriated for a war emergency
salary increase at the rate of 10%
for employees below $2,000 and
74%, for employees between $2,000
and $4,000,

For the first. time in the history
of the state, a statute authorizing
compensation for overtime work was
enacted. During the war years, our

Merit

state institutions were so handicap-
ped by the shortage of personnel that
they were kept running only because
thousands of employees worked
twelve hours a day and seven days
a week when the occasion required.

The Association’s long campaign
to extend the Feld-Hamilton law to
institution employees was finally put
in effect on October 1, 1943. This
long-sought reform resulted in the
abolition. of the outmoded, unsatis-
factory commutation and time-ser-
vice system and brought about sub-
stantial increases in the inequitable
and grossly inadequate salary rates
that had prevailed in the institutional
service for many generations.

The progress during the past few
years is fresh in our minds and only
major advances need be mentioned.
The war emergency bonus was in-
creased to 20% in the lower brackets
and 10% in the higher brackets in
1945. In 1946, the rates were propor-
tionately increased from 30% in the
lower bratkets to 14% in the higher
brackets and the following year these
temporary raises were merged in the
basic schedules. At the same time,
a basic 40-hour week was established
with provisions for overtime com-
pensation for departmental as well
as institutional employees.

An appropriation of $30,000,000
was required in 1947 to pay oyer-
time compensation and .to incorpor-
ate into the basic schedules the cu-
mulative emergency bonus of the
preceding years. To this was added,
in 1948, an appropriation well in
excess of $20,000,000 for the emer-
gency compensation added to em-
ployees’ paychecks commencing April
Ist this year.

Tt may be instructive to contrast
these appropriations with the appro-

priations made to meet the rising ~

cost of living in World War 1 when
the cost of living rose even higher,
and even more rapidly than it did
in World War II. In 1918, the state
gave a 10% increase to employees
receiving Jess than $1500 per annum
~-nothing to those above that figure.
Th 1919, there was added to this
bonus another 10% bonus for em-
ployees under $1400 per annum, and
a flat $100 increase to employees re-
ceiving between $1400 and $2500.
The cost of these two World War I
bonuses amounted to only $1,275,000,
an interesting contrast to the two-
year total of $50,000,000 for the past
two years.

First Quarter 1948

During the past decade, the Asso-
ciation has brought about the en-
actment of about 200 laws to improve
salaries and working conditions in
the state service, to perfect the
administration of the Civil Service
Law and to liberalize the Retirement
System. In a summary of this type,
it is impossible to accord proper rec-
ognition to our many friends in the
Administration and in the Legisla-
ture who have generously cooperated
in the preparation and passage of
these measures. Special mention can
be made of only a few of the officers,
representatives and committee mem-
bers of the Association whose initi-
ative and hard work have made this
progress possible.

Only hard work, cooperation, mu-
tual confidence and respect could pro-
duce a legislative program such as
that of 1945 when, out of a program
of 60 measures, 40 were passed and
30 signed by the Governor, or the
even larger program of the current
year when a similar percentage
of bills were passed and signed by
the Goyernor.

Brief mention should, however, be
made of some of the more important
advances during recent years, includ-
ing —

The adoption of the basic 40-hour
week with compensation for over-
time in excess of 40 hours;

The creation of the Personnel
Council, a necessary step in the all-
important task of improving person-
nel administration;

The coverage of state employees
under the Unemployment Insur-
ance Law and the extension of
that law this year to employees of
counties, municipalities and other
units of local government;

The creation of the Merit Award
Board which provides cash in-
centives for suggestions leading to
governmental economy and effi-
ciency;

The continued year by year im-
provement and liberalization of
the provisions of the Feld-Ham-
ilton Law; and

‘The restoration, in 1946, of the
four weeks vacation for all state
employees, The last item was more
than a restoration. Institution and
field employees who had previously
received two-week vacations were
placed, for the first time, on an
equal footing with departmental
employees,

The Association has always been

non-partisan, It has never endorsed
or opposed a candidate for political
office, It has not hesitated; however,
to state the facts as it sees them, Its
sppraital of those who hold public
office is based solely on the ability
and the policies of the individual—
without regard to the party with
which he is affiliated. It is fitting,
therefore, that we acknowledge our
indebtedness to the two outstanding
Governors under whom we have
served during the past ten years, a
period which has been almost equal-
ly divided between the administra-
tions of Governor Lehman and Goy-
ernor Dewey.

During Governor Lehman’s ad-
ministration, the outstanding ad-
vances were the inauguration of the
eight-hour day and the adoption of
the Feld-Hamilton law. Less spec-
tacular, but of equal importance, was
the Governor's consistent support of
the sound merit principles advocated
by the Association. The merit prin-
ciple was safeguarded in every new
state agency that was set up. The
concept of a career service was en-
couraged by the advancement of
career employees to the top positions
including, in many cases, appoint-
ments as head of a department.

Attempts by the Legislature to
weaken the merit principle by the
creation of exempt positions and by
the “covering in” of temporary em-
ployees, were consistently thwarted
by the Governor's veto, Literally
hundreds of bills attempting to raid
the Retirement System by giving spe-
cial preferences to individuals or
small groups with political backing
were likewisé vetoed. The Associa-
tion said of Governor Lehman in
the December, 1942 issue of the
State Employee:

“He could have destroyed the
merit system by simply continuing
the laissez faire attitude under
which it was gradually declining,
and the politically selfish would
have praised him. He could have
scuttled educational advances, and
misguided economists would have
hailed his ‘thrift.’ He knew a dif-
ferent kind of thrift. Education
was with him a resource, a neces-
sity to human happiness.

Civil Service employees called
their chief ‘A Civil Service Gover-
nor.’ They and their jobs gained
dignity during his administration.
The human element—the person-
nel of State government—became

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under his administration more
“important than a mile of highway,
or a bridge, or a culvert.”

The past tive years under the ad-
ministration of Governor Dewey
have been notable for the substantial
increases in state salaries, accom-
panied by a reduced 40-hour basic
work week with compensation for
overtime. When Governor Dewey
took office on January 1, 1943, the
average salary in the state service
was in the neighborhood of $1700.
Today, the minimum salary is $1840
for all positions in the competitive
and non-competitive classes. After
five years of service, the lowest
Feld-Hamilton job now pays $2530.
It is apparent that salary rates in the
state service have advanced more
in the past five years than during the
entire preceding fifty-year period.

Of equal importance, from the
long-range viewpoint, is the founda-
tion that has been laid for settling
employee problems by what has been,
called - the “conference” method,
where the Administration and the
Association sit down at the same
table to discuss the problem before a
decision is reached. Governor Dewey,
at the annual dinner in Troy this
year, after generously sharing the
credit with Charlie Breitel and John
Burton, expressed his policy in these
words:

“Tt is, however, fundamental
that the State should, before
launching on a course affecting its
public servants, discuss this course
with the public servants. It ought
to sit down with them and discuss
their point of view as well as the
point of view of the 14,200,000
citizens for whom we all work,
before coming in with a. recom-
mendation. I do believe that we
have devised means by which em-
ployees have a real share in the
decisions.”

Doc Tolman’s views in relation to
the new policy were well expressed
in his column in the Civil Service
Leader, He said:

“There are some labor and em-
ployee organizations that operate
on the principle that management
and the employees are necessarily
enemies, that the war of the classes,
the struggle for power admits of
no truce or any amenities.

Our Association is dedicated not
to war but to peace through fair
conferences:and conciliations. We
hold: that-fair-minds can sit down

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as equals around the conference

table and reach agreement or com-—

promise as fair as any that can be
‘won by conflict and by strike. As
men of good will, employees and
high executives can discuss diffi-
cult problems fully and fairly, iron
out differences and arrive at just
and fair conclusions or compro-
mises.

We owe much to the present
administration, but to my mind the
greatest is the advance in dealing
openly with our employee Associa-
tion. The Association has often
been called into conference before
—too frequently—after major de-
cisions had been made. This year
we were accorded conferences to
reach decisions—a very different
matter. We were given facts and
figures prior to the conferences
and we had full opportunities both
to present our proposals and points
of view, and to fairly and fully
examine counter - proposals and
viewpoints.

We hope, we trust, and we

expect that this policy of open

diplomacy with agreements freely
and openly arrived at, will prevail
through the years as long as the

Association is worthy of the trust

and confidence of its members, of

the people and of the administra-
tion.”

Governor Dewey has shown a sen-
sitive appreciation of the pressing
problems created by the drastic rise
in the cost of living and has taken
prompt action to alleviate present
distress as well as to correct salary
inequities of long standing, Salaries
have been increased and working
hours have been reduced. He has
been alert to the necessity for better
administration and better working
conditions in the public service. The
inauguration of the “conference”
method and improved personnel
policies have raised employee partici-
pation to a new high level which i¢
reflected in increased efficiency and
improved morale throughout the
service. He has, in short, been an
outstanding Governor and a good
boss to work for. No higher tribute
can be paid by any employee.

While the Association. may take
justifiable pride. in its accomplish-
ments during the past decade, it/ has
not and will not become complatent.
Much remains to be done, for the
work of an employee organization is
never completed. ‘While*the sound

foundation of the conference method

has been laid, the structure remains
to be built. To fully extend this
method to various governmental
units throughout the state will un-
doubtedly require the enactment of
the “Public Employee Labor Rela-
tions Act” sponsored this year by the
Association, or legislation along
similar lines.

Even within the state service, we
have made but a beginning. Many
departments cooperate fully, but
some only sporadically, and others
not at all. There are still a few in
high places, like Chairman Maltbie
of the Public Service Commission,
who feel that they must maintain
their authority by oppressing and
intimidating the employees who
work under them, and whose joy in
the exercise of power, for the sake
of power, forecloses the conference
method within their sphere of influ-
ence, Such obstacles to sound em-
ployer-employee relations in public
employment must and will be over-
come.

One of our major objectives must
be the liberalization of the. Retire-
ment System. Of the Eleven-Point
program inaugurated by a commit-
tee headed by Charles Dubuar in
1944, only three planks,—insurance
of retirement loans, reduction of re-
tirement interest on loans from 6%,
to 4%, and liberallization of the Men-
tal Hygiene Retirement System have
thus far been enacted. The major
portions of that program, including
a minimum retirement allowance for
low-paid employees, optional retire-
ment at age 55, 25-year retirement for
certain large groups, increased death
benefits and other similar reforms
remain to be accomplished.

Despite substantial increases in
the State’s salary structure, many
inequities still require and will con-
stantly require correction, A part of
our wage structure is still on a
“temporary” basis. Within the next
year or two, when the State may be
faced with declining tax revenues
and the necessity for adopting new
taxes, further increases will be more
difficult and we may be faced with
serious problems in renewing of
making permanent the present tem-
porary fates.

Special efforts will be required to
extend the competitive class and to
maintain sound merit principles
During the war, thousands of tem

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- Merit

To Vote On Proposed Change

Time permitting at the special
meeting of the Association scheduled
for May 22, 1948, the following
amendments to the Constitution and
By-Laws will be submitted to the
delegates with the recommendations
of the special Committee on Revision
of the Constitution and By-Laws, the
Board of Directors and the Execu-
tive Committee of the County Di-
vision. Some proposals were first in-
troduced at the annual meeting in
October, and others at Board of
Directors Meetings as indicated’

eonee

That Article II, Section 2 of the
By-Laws be amended to read as fol-
lows: (‘The bold face type is new)

“Regular meetings of the Board of
directors shall be held monthly
throughout the year and special meet-
ings of the board of directors shall
be held upon call of the president.
Upon the written request of five or
more members of the board of di-
rectors, the president shall call a
special meeting of the board.”

oe ee

That Article V of the By-Laws be
, amended to read as follows:

Section 1—The standing Commit-
tees shall be as follows: Legislative
Committee, Auditing Committee,
Grievance Committee, Social Com-
mittee, Education Committee, Mem-
bership Committee, Pensions Com-
mittee, Salary Committee, Publicity
Committee,

Section 2—The Legislative Com-
mittee shall keep itself informed on
all proposed or pending legislation
affecting Civil Service Employees
generally, and the members of the
Association specifically. During the
legislative session it shall report on
all legislation at each meeting of the
Board of Directors or of the State
or County Executive Committees.
Tt shall sponsor, and draft, such pro-
posed legislation as the Delegates
of the Association or the Board of
Directors may suggest and submit
such drafts to the Delegates, or, if
the Delegates be not in Session, to
the Board of Directors for approval.

Section 3—The Auditing Commit-
tee shall conduct quarterly audits of
the books and accounts of the Asso-
ciation to coincide with the issuance
of quarterly statements. of financial

First Quarter 1948

condition, income and expense when
issued by the Treasurer. The Audit-
ing Committee may conduct more
frequent audits when desirable or
required by the Board of Directors.
The Committee may make recom-
mendations to the Board of Directors
for refinements and improvements
which it deems to be advantageous
to the interests of the Association
and its members.

Section 4—The Grievance Com-
mittee shall consist of members re-
siding in the City of Albany and its
environs and shall investigate com-
plaints and grievances referred to it
by the President of the Board of
Directors. Except where directed by
the President to adjust a grievance
or remedy an unfavorable condition,
the committee shall report its find-
ings to the Board of Directors or the
Directors Committee at its earliest
convenience,

Section 5—The Social Committee
shall devise ways and means for
developing and improving the social
life of Association members, shall
arrange and be responsible for special
entertainment and amusement of
Delegates during convention. It shall
stimulate the social and mutual in-
terest of members in one another.

Section 6—The Education Com-
mittee shall devise ways and means
for the provision of all types of
education desirable for public em-
ployees, It shall plan and arrange
for courses to be available to Asso-
ciation members at existing colleges
and universities at reduced rates
wherever possible, and for subjects of
particular interest and use to public
employees.

Section 7—The Membership Com-
mittee shall consist of all Chapter
Presidents. It shall be headed by the
Executive Secretary of the Associa-
tion, or, in his absence, by an appoin-
tee of the President. It shall be the
duty of this Committee to develop
ways and means to maintain and
to increase membership in the Asso-
ciation.

Section 8—The Pensions Commit-
tee shall study and research pension
and annuity plans from time to time
and shall recommendations to
the Delegates or Board of Directors

for the improvement and enhance-
ment of employee pension system
through legislation.

Section 9—The Salary Corhmittee
shall study and compute changes in
the price structure and in economic
conditions with a view towards de-
termining when substantial changes
require consideration of legislation
for increases in salaries. It shall sur-
vey salary conditions in private in-
dustry and in other public employ-
ment to determine the equability of
salaries paid in the State of New
York. The Committee shall report
its findings and make recommenda-
tions quarterly to the Board of Di-
rectors and semi-annually to the
Delegates in convention,

Section 10—The Publicity Com-
mittee shall be subdivided into three
sections as follows:

Subdivision (a) —the publica-
tion of Merit

Subdivision (b) —the publica-
tion of newspaper items to be
published in the Civil Service
Leader

Subdivision (c)—the general
and specific programing and
execution thereof of all of the
Association’s activities, aims,
objectives and accomplish-
ments through all media in-
cluding the Press and the
Radio,

This, committee shall edit and re-
view all articles and pictures and
material used for publicity purposes
to determine and use only such as
may be beneficial to the objectives
of the Association membership.

The President of the Association
shall be responsible for supervision
of all material and articles to be
published and shall have final say
as to whether or not an article, pic-
ture or material shall be published.

If desirable, he may appoint a sub-
chairman to carry out the objectives
contained in Subdivision (c) of this
section,

eee

That the Constitution be amended
to provide that the Nominating Com-
mittee present to the Secretary the
names of at least two (2) nominees
for each office of the Association for

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~ IMPRESSIVE LEGISLATIVE

By JOHN E. HOLT-HARRIS, Jr., Assistant Counsel

‘The ever-increasing complexity of
modern government was strikingly
reflected in the tremendous volume
of legislation considered by the 1948
Legislature. In a record shattering
session a total of 2,975 bills were in-
troduced in the Assembly and 2,560
in the Senate, Of these totals, 659
Assembly bills were sent to the Gov-
ernor for action, while the Senate
transmitted 567 bills to the Execu-
tive Chamber.

A recapitulation reveals that of the
5,535 measures considered by both
houses, 1,226 won legislative ap-
proval. Of this total 876 have been
enacted into law by the Governor's
signature. Against that background,
the Association has every reason to
congratulate itself on the success of
its legislative program. The pro-
gram consisted of some seventy-nine
measures, forty-seven of which suc-
cessfully passed both the Senate and
the Assembly. This success is directly
attributable to the long months of
preparation undertaken by the offi-
cers and employees of the Associa-
tion and to the intense interest and
enthusiasm of the Association's Com-
mittees and of the membership as a
whole,

Those who sponsor legislation to-
day imust have more than prepara-
tion and enthusiasm. Successful
legislation requires the cooperation
‘of the administration in power and
of the individual members of the
legislature. This year, with few ex-
ceptions, that cooperation was gener-
ously extended,

It is encouraging to note that
where areas of disagreement devel-
oped, conferences and negotiation
often successfully dispelled the diffi-
culties and reconciled divergent
points of view. As in past years, the
Association endeavored to create a
framework within which problems
arising out of public employment
can be fully and frankly discussed.

The session was not without its
disappointments and failures. Not
‘one major liberalization of the laws
respecting retirement was effected.
‘The veto, in other instances, nullified
proposals which the Association hon-
estly feels are necessary to improve
and extend the merit system. Even

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in failure it must be observed that
the door has not been closed. This
is particularly true in the field of re-
tirement legislation. Past history con-
clusively proves that some proposals
will meet success only after several
years of inability to reach a common
ground. We are convinced that the
foundation has been well laid and
that, in time, a good sound structure
can be built on that foundation.

We extend our thanks to the
Governor, to Frank C. Moore, State
Comptroller, to Charles D. Breitel,
the Governor’s Counsel, to John Bur-
ton, the Director of the Budget, and
to the members of the Civil Service
Commission, together with Joseph
Schechter and Charles L, Campbell
of the Commission staff, and to many
others too numerous to name in the
administration and to the legislature,
for their cooperation in attempting
to solve our problems with us.

Tt is obvious that civil servants are
peculiarly and vitally affected by leg-
islation, Unlike private industry, we
must change our contract, the Civil
Service Law, through the orderly
democratic methods of legislation
and negotiation without resort to the
methods at the disposal of the pri-
vate employee. It is significant to
note that the Condon-Wadlin bill,
enacted in the preceding session, has
in no way hampered the effective-
ness of the Association, This fact
alone augurs well for the future.

Particular attention is directed to
that part of this report in which the
current proposals for amending the
present constitutional provisions re-
specting Veterans Preference are dis-
cussed, ‘These proposals are of para-
mount interest to everyone in the
career service and we strongly urge
that they be made the subject, of
diligent study and concerted action
during the coming year.

SALARY LEGISLATION

The Association’s progress in this
field is marked by the shattering) of
a long and restrictive precedent, This
year, for the first time, the Associ-
ation and the administration held
extended conferences with respect to
state salaries. We were furnished
with all the facts and figures which

we deemed necessary and our own
proposals and counter-proposals were
fully and carefully considered. We
are confident that a new and sound
precedent for future salary discus-
sions has been established. Our con-
viction in this respect is strengthened
by the assurance which the Governor
gave at our annual dinner that the
conferences which preceded this ses-
sion are the fore-runners of future
conferences in the years ahead.

It is of high significance that the
bitterness which was engendered by
our failure to obtain emergency
salary increases in the 1947 session
was nowhere evident this year.
Equally significant is the obvious
fact that our militant campaign last
year was the precursor of this year’s
harmonious solution.

Emergency Increases
(Chapters 139, 585, 586)

The conferences referred to above
resulted in the enactment of three
bills. These bills granted emergency
salary increases to employees of all
state departments, the employees of
the legislature, and those employed
in the judiciary.

By the provisions of these meas-
ures, an emergency salary adjustment
effective April 1, 1948 granted a 15%
salary increase on the first $3,000 of
basic salary, an increase of 10% on
the 4th and 5th thousand dollars, and
an increase of 59% on the remainder
above $5,000. These increases, under
the express provisions of the bills,
are regarded as salary for retirement
purposes. The percentages are to be
computed on the gross salary as of
April 1, 1948 (including any incre-
ment payable on that date) and are
calculated before the value of main-
tenance is deducted. The percentages
are computed on all salaries up to
$12,000 and the total amount of in:
dividual increase is limited to $900.

The membership is undoubtedly
acquainted with the provisions of
these bills through the special bulle-
tins and periodic legislative reports
issued by the Association. For that
reason they will not be discussed in
detail here. We feel that the im-
portance of the precedent created,
as well as the increases themselves,
are ample testimony on the fact that

Merit

_membership, and interest in Associ-
ation activities, are “musts” for every
State employee.

Hazardous Pay (Chapter 596)

For some time past it had been
apparent that the administrative dif-
ficulties arising out of the extra-haz-
ardous pay provisions of the law
‘were presenting almost insurmount-
able problems. The artificial require-
ments by which eligibility for such
pay were determined led to endless
bickering and red tape. In view of
these difficulties the administration
called for a repeal’ of the extra-haz-
ardous pay provisions,

After prolonged study we pro-
posed a compromise solution which
was acceptable to both sides. The law
resulting from the compromise re-
peals the provisions for extra com-
pensation for extra-hazardous duty
but protects employees now receiving
such pay, It provides that any em-
ployee who received $50 or more in
his regular position during the fiscal
year, 1947, as extra-hazardous com-
pensation, and who received some
part of that amount in the last quar-
ter of the year, will have the entire
amount received last year, for a forty
hour-week, frozen into his basic pay.

Because of the complexity invol-
ved in computing the amount of
hazardous pay, it will not be incor-
porated in the payrolls until some
time in June. Thereafter, however,
employees will receive a separate
check for the amount due in the
interval, so that payments will be”
fully retroactive to April Ist. Some
of the provisions of the bill which -
require explanation are as follows:

1, Employees who are now re-
ceiving the maximum for their po-
sition will, nevertheless, have haz-
ardous pay added to their basic
salaries. They will continue at that
tate—above the maximum until pro-
moted to a new position or reallo-
cated to a higher position.

Jesse B. McFarland, Vice President and
Chalom of te liegt, Commies
lohn lolt-Harris, Assistant
sel, study Civil Sentlee. bills se toa

2. Em
April 1, 1948 increment even though
the increment, plus the hazardous
pay, brings them over the maximum
of their grade. This is extremely
important because it was the major
point discussed at the mecting of
institution representatives who spe-
cifically requested that the law be
drawn in such a way that employees
would not lose the increment they
would otherwise receive on April 1,

3. Since the hazardous pay will
become a part of basic compensation,
the emergency bonus will be com-
puted on the higher total, and over-
time compensation in excess of 40
hours will also be computed in the
higher total.

4. The amount of hazardous pay
merged into basic annual salary will
be the amount received last year on
a basic 40-hour work week. ‘This
is done because, if the freezing were
to be computed on a 48-hour week,
the hazardous pay for overtime
would be counted twice. For ex-
ample,—a person entitled to $100 haz-
hour week, received an extra $20 in
hazardous pay for working a 48-hour
week—a total of $120. If the $120
received for 48 hours work were
added to his 1947 basic pay, com-
mencing April 1, 1948, another
20% would be added for overtime,
thereby giving him $144 for haz.
ardous pay for 48 hours in 1948,
instead of the $120 actually received
last year. The law consequently
provides for. adding, on April 1,
1948, the $100 received last year on
the basic 40-hour week. 20°, will

will receive their

$120 this year that he received
hazardous pay last ee This
planation, which will probabl

quire re-reading two or three
before it is understandable, illustrate:
some of the difficulties involved i

ing T.B. patients, for example,
expected to receive new titles and a
higher salary grade. In other cases
where the problem is more difficult
the Association will request hearings.
Despite recent increases in compensa-
tion for Attendants, Nurses and
others engaged in caring for inmates
in our state institutions, we feel that
present rates are still too low and that
the ultimate solution is to reallocate
these positions to a higher grade,
Tt is obvious that, in order to avoid
further dissatisfaction, the adminis:
tration of state institutions will re-
quire delicate and enlightened judg-
ment, Asa general rule, it is felt that
the employees who benefit under the
provisions outlined above, will be
those required to perform work for-
merly designated as extra-hazardous,
Some employees who have not so
benefited will undoubtedly be called
upon to perform such work on oc-
casion without extra compensation,
but it is felt that a careful handling
and distribution of the work load”
involved in this problem should re-
sult in a minimum of difficulty,

igible for pro-

n, it was ne for them to

perform certain periods of duty or
training in each calendar year.

The Military Law, even before the ”

last. war, had provided that public
employees were entitled to thirty
days leave with pay in any year while
roa “Ordered Military Duty.”

¢ Attorney General had issued an
opinion that the only persons entitled
to such pay were those who had no
choice or volition in deciding when
or how such duty would be per-
formed. On the other hand, the re-

“serve organizations of the Federal
forces in writing orders for their
members, permitted a choice of duty
dates and in most cases the orders
were so worded that it appeared that
they were issued with the consent
of the member affected. As a result,
it'was impossible, under the opinion
of the Attorney General referred to
above, for such employees to obtain

» pay during the period of their mili-
tary leave.

The Association drafted a bill,
which has been enacted into law,
which provides that public employ-
ees shall be entitled to a thirty day
leave with pay in any year, to per-
form military duty or. training,
whether such duty or training is
“Ordered” or performed with the
consent of the employee. Although
three bills to accomplish this objec-
tive were passed by the Legislature,
it was the Association’s bill that was
signed by the Governor.

We feel that this measure not only
reaches a just and equitable result,
but will be of vital importance in
encouraging and preserving member-
ship in the various reserve organi-
zations during this extremely critical

. time in our national history.

Armory Employees (Chapter 140)
The Association drafted and spon-

sored seyeral measures on beha!

the civilian employees in the state

armories. The others -will be dis-

cussed under appropriate headings. _

In connection with salaries, this ses-
sion of the legislature, for the first
time since 1924, increased the per
dicm salaries for such employees.

 oanee

Radigan bill which, in addition to
increasing salaries, generally amended
the Military Law with respect to
salaries, titles and working conditions

of employees in buildings under the ©

control of the Adjutant General. We

‘shall continue to work on this prob-

Jem and, by next year, we feel that
there is every chance of successfully
passing this long needed legislation.

(Chapters 89, 165, 166, 167,
169, 170, 297)
Miscellaneous Salary Legislation

There is a common misconception
that the vast majority of state em-
ployees are covered by the salary
schedules in the Feld-Hamilton Ee
There are many large groups, in-
cluding the employees of the legisla-
ture and judiciary, whose salaries are
administered on a different basis.
Among these groups are the em-
ployees in institutions and agencies
under the direction and control
of the Department of Education.
Salaries of such employees, for many
years, have been regulated by out-
moded and antiquated salary plans,
most of which were based on a vague
grading system under which the
higher paid jobs were all included
in a so-called “plus” category. The
Association’s program included seven
bills designated not only to provide
salary increases for these employees,
but also to modernize the existing
salary schedules,

Since the detailed provisions of
these bills can only be of interest to
certain special groups-who are now
familiar with their provisions, they
will not be listed in detail here.

In general, these bills increased
salaries and amended classification
and salary schedules for employees in
State Colleges, in the Indian Schools,
in the State College of Forestry, in

the New York State Maritime Acad-/

emy, in the Agricultural and Tech}
nical Institutes, and at the Batavia
School for the Blind. In addition fo
the institutions listed, the Association

_-endorsed another measure which

substantially’ increased basic salaries
in the Division of State Police.
_ Cornell Employees (Chapter 200)

‘The salary problem at Cornell
differs from that in other institutions

if
I

in wording and purpose
to the existing Feld-Hamilton Law,
This year the Education Law was
amended to make certain changes
in that salary schedule and to incor-
porate into basic salaries the emer-
gency increases which these em-
ployecs have heretofore been granted,

The administration of the Cornell
salary plan is, we feel, still defective
in that it permits discretion in the
granting of increments under the
plan. Our bill to remedy this situa-
tion failed to pass although it was
advanced to third reading in the
Senate before being recalled, to Com-
mittee. An investigation of the situ-
ation reveals that increments are, for
all practical purposes, granted auto-
matically at Cornell to clerical and
‘maintenance personnel, but that the
discretion vested in the University
has been employed by its administra-
tion to deny increments to employees
in the professional services. The Cor-
nell Administration contends that de-
nial of increments does not indicate
that the services of the employee are
unsatisfactory but that the persons
who do receive increments have per-
formed a sort of “Super-satisfactory
service.”

The Association feels that the
granting of increments at Cornell
should be predicated on the same
ground as that prevailing in the state,
namely, satisfactory service, and we
will continue our efforts to change
the Cornell salary plan to reflect that
view.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Employees of Political Subdivisions
(Chapter 844)

At the preceding session of the

| legislature the Association was suc-

cessful in its campaign to extend
Unemployment Insurance coverage
to employees of the state.

We are happy to report that in this,
the first year in which membership
in the Association has been open to
employees of the political subdivi
sions, an Association bill of vital in-
terest to those employees has been
passed by the Legislature.

The Halpern-Gugino Bill extends
Unemployment Insurance coverage,
on exactly the same basis as it is now
granted to state employees, to em

Merit
‘government. We feel that this is

milestone in the history of working
conditions in the lic service and
is a further recognition of the prin-
cipal that public employees, like
those in private industry, are entitled
to the benefits of enlightened social
legislation.
The Association has already insti-
tuted a campaign designed to encour-
age the political subdivisions to elect
this coverage for their employees.

ARMORY EMPLOYEES

This group of state employees
were excluded from the coverage of
the Unemployment Insurance Law,
as enacted last year. The civil service
status of these employees has never
been clear. The military law states
that they are in the military service
of the state and subject to the dis-
cipline inherent to all military organi-
zations. The constitution, however,
in its definition of military service
‘is not broad enough to include ciyil-
ian employees in armories. We feel
that the provisioins of the military
law placing these employees in the
military service are clearly unconsti-

\ tutional. Furthermore, in the defini-
tion of the two branches of the Civil
Service of the state, armory employ-
ces are not included in the unclassi-
fied service. We contend, therefore,
that they are, ipso facto, in! the classi-
fied service and so are entitled to the
unemployment insurance coverage
afforded to other state employees.
However, the bill under discussion
was drafted and presented to the
legislature with the idea of specifi-

cally stating that armory employees ~

are entitled to the benefits of un-

employment insurance coverage.
The Governor, on April 6, vetoed

the measure without explanation.

FELD-HAMILTON
AMENDMENTS
Increment Credit For Temporary
and Provisional Service.
(Chapter 272)

At the preceding session of the
legislature an Association bill reme-
died an inequitable situation of
long standing. Under the prior law,
4 person employed on a temporary
or provisional basis who received a
Permanent appointment to the same

First Quarter 1948

for
us to renew it. The bill passed this
year extends those provisions until
‘April 1, 1949.

INCREMENT CREDIT —
TEMPORARY OR
PROVISIONAL SERVICE —
D.P.U.1. (Chapter 613)

Although this measure effects only
one group of employees, it is dis-
cussed here in detail because it again
demonstrates the efficacy of the con-
ference system.

During the war large numbers of
state employees were transferred
from the Division of Placement and
Unemployment Insurance to the
United States Employment Service,

Their rights on this transfer were °

protected by the so-called Condon
Law. However, no provision was
made in that law which would
mit a non-federalized employee, i
an employee entering state service
from the U.S.E‘S., to retain the in-
crement credit which he had earned
in temporary or provisional capacities
while an employee of the Federal
government,

Tt was manifestly inequitable to
grant this benefit to returning state
employees but deny it to employees
who had done exactly the same work
as the state employees, but who had
not formerly been employed by the
state.

When these non-federalized em-
ployces were reached for permanent
appointment, it appeared that the
Ciyil Service Commission had no
alternative but to order their appoint-
ment at the minimum salary for the
position. The first permanent ap-
pointments were made before the
legislature convened.

Ata series of conferences in which
the Association, the Civil Service
Commission and the administration
of D.P.U.I. participated, it_ was
agreed that the matter of permanent
appointment at the minimum rate
would be delayed long enough for
the Association to attempt to pass a

appointment: of si
employee to the same or a s
position in D.P.U.I, thus p
federalized and non-federali:
ployees on a par with respect to

retention of increment credit eari

in federal service. The bill also ex-
tends the date for holding qualifying
examinations for the non-fed
employees to March 31, 1949, 1
extending the provisions of the

ent Condon Law which would tg 3
otherwise expired on March 31

this year.

FELD-HAMILTON
EXTENSIONS (Chapter 26)
The Association’s program
cluded bills to extend the Feld-Hai
ilton law to cover employees in
revolving fund of the Public Servi
Commission and to Inspectors
the Labor Department. Both bills
successfully passed the legislature
and the bill affecting the Labor De.
partment employees was enacted into
Ta

Ww. "
The Governor vetoed the revolving
fund bill. This yeto is a bitter dis
appointment to the employees in-
yolved and to the Association. We
feel that its passage was necessary
in order to correct a long-standing
abuse. The Public Service Law pro-
vides for the creation of a revolving
fund to which the ‘state originally
contributed the sum of $300,000. The -
fund is constantly replenished by
assessments made against utiliti
examined by the Public Service Com-
mission. These assessments, in the-
ory, are levied as a charge against
the utilities for services performed
by the Commission’s employees,
These employees are subject to the
Civil Service Law and to the admin.
istration of that law by the Civil
Service Commission. They have been
denied the Feld-Hamilton benefits —
solely because of Chairman Maltbie's
negative and repressive policies. Al-
though this will has been twice ve-
toed, we predict that it will soon be
enacted into law — despite Mr. Malt- _
bie’s congenital objections.
RETIREMENT LEGISLATION
The Association’s program in re-

a
e ceallbel At ab: Gress obtain Satire
ment credit without cost for the

period of time spent in military
service, the law required that the
employee must return to state service

et Haw and its eats

which materially liberalize
j, were passed, is indicative of
e problem presented in this field
the tremendous amount of work
to be done,
‘The Association has held year-
round conferences with the Comp-
iller’s office in respect to retire-
ment. The officers and Committees
have presented numerous proposals
all of which were designed to allevi-
misting conditions, We feel that
these proposals received careful con-
sideration and we understand the

of the major reforms we have sug-

ested. The problem is not insoluble
on obviously requires a good deal
of further thought and effort on the
part of the Association and the ad-
ministration. We intend to continue
our.conferences with the Comptrol-
“ler and his staff and to urge our
proposals upon the administration
ind the legislature.

INSURANCE OF LOANS
(Chapters 425, 426)

Tt will be recalled that two years
ago, the Association was successful
in passing a law providing for life
insurance on loans to members of the
Retirement System. The provisions
were temporary in nature and would
have expired on April 1 of this year.
‘This insurance was further extended
by two bills on the Association’s pro-
gram, the. first of which continues

_ the provision for insurance until July
1, 1948, which is the effective date
of the recodification of the language
of the Retirement Law.

The second law continues until
March’ 31, 1950 the life insurance
provisions on loans to members, Such
insurance is an important step in
providing for the security of the
survivors of state employees who die
in service.

RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR
MILITARY SERVICE
(Chapter 742)

A problem with which the Asso-
ciation and the Retirement System
have been greatly concerned during
the past year centered around the

service within 90 days after discharge

that he was jeopardizing his rights,

strict wording of the law could’not be

within 90 days following the date of
his discharge from military service.

Numerous cases arose in which vet-
erans had been denied this credit. A
typical case involved a veteran who
applied for reinstatement within the
ninety day period but was requested
by the appointing officer to permit
the temporary employee who had
filled the position on a war duration
appointment to continue to the next
payroll period. The veteran, unaware

and anxious to accommodate his
temporary replacement, consented.
As a result he was not reinstated
until the 99th day, and under the

granted pension credit.

Another typical case arose when a
yeteran applied for reinstatement
within the required period but
through inadvertence did not -haye
his name placed on the payroll until
the 91st day.

As a result of conferences concern-
ing this matter, an Association pro-
gram bill extends the 90 day period
to one year. This extension will
blanket in all known cases where

‘the difficulty arose and will insure

that veterans formerly denied these
benefits will obtain them.

This law also extends the defini-
tion of military service to include
service on or before July 1, 1948. It
also extends such retirement ‘credit
to employees of political subdivisions
which elected to join the. system
during World War II.

CORRECTION SYSTEM
OPTIONS

The Association again this year
passed its bill which would permit
members of the Correction Retire-
ment System, now closed to new)
entrants, to exercise options similar
to those now in effect for members
of the Employees Retirement System.
The Correction System differs fram
other systems in that members make
no contributions to purchase annu-
ities. Unfortunately, the bill was ve-
toed on the ground that the cost of
granting such options at this time
would be prohibitive.

BC

Certain ayes at Cornell
versity, by their failure to exerci the
option granted in the Retirement
Law to perfect membership in’ the
system within the prescribed time,
found that they were no longer
eligible for such membership. ‘

The Association’s bill to extend the
time during which such employees
may join the system successfully
passed the legislature and was suet
by the Governor.

RETIREMENT BENEFITS —
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION
(Chapter 495),

The Association in cooperation
with the Retirement System, en-
dorsed a bill which authorizes the
Comptroller to. pay members of the
Retirement System benefits on ac-
count of accidental disability pending
the determination of such members’
rights to Workmen’s Compensation,
The bill provides that the system,
in the event that the employee’s
injury is found to be compensable,
shall be reimbursed out ane unpaid
installments of any compensation
which may be due,

This measure will materially speed
up procedures and should prevent
the unfortunate delays which now
often ensue when an employee is
injured in service.

MUNICIPAL POLICEMEN
AND FIREMEN (Chapter 595)

A measure endorsed by the Asso-
ciation allows municipal policemen
and firemen who are now members
to elect to contribute for retirement
after 25 years of service. The law
removes a time limit which would
have cut off such elections after July
1, 1948.

MISCELLANEOUS

For some time the Association has
urged upon the administration the
passage of a bill which would permit
members of the Retirement System
to make additional contributions in
order to increase their final retire-
ment allowances. Such a bill was
introduced again this year and failed
of passage. We are confident that
it will be adopted next year.

While our major retirement pro-
posal failed of passage, our efforts
have brought closer the day when
they will be adopted,

We hold that a minimum retire-

Merit

is an al
essential and must be enacted. —

solute e:

soon. We feel that there is every
equity in our proposals to have the
employer and the employee equally
divide the cost of an election to retire
at age 55. We maintain that em-
ployees should be permitted to make
additional contributions to the retire-
ment system for the purpose of pro-
ducing increased annuities. We still
contend that certain types of em-
ployment are so hazardous and
arduous that provision should be
made for the retirement of employees
engaged in them after 25 years of
Service.

These and other liberalizations are
necessary in order to provide a mini-
mum standard for future pensioners
and present employees.

recent Federal Income Tax Legis-
lation permitting an extra $600.00
exemption for persons over 65 will
do much to alleviate the financial
condition of persons who are now
retired from State service. The asso-
ciation is supporting its own and
other bills in Congress to provide a
more liberal exemption for pen-
sioned employces,

CIVIL SERVICE BILLS

Tt was indicated at the outset of
this report that extremely significant
eevelopments in the veterans prefer-
ence field begar during the past
session, The Association, at the time
the preference amendment was pro-
posed, vigorously opposed the move.
After a long campaign, the prefer-
ence was carried by some 34,000
votes. This year the first attempts
to modify the present preferences
were made. The ultimate outcome
of these proposals will affect the
future of every Civil Service worker-

MITCHELL-VAN DUZER BILL

The Association has always con-
tended that the present absolute pref-
erence in appointment, promotion
and retention is inequitable and
gravely jeopardizes the entire merit
system, We have always contended
that a percentage preference is the
only fair way to acknowledge the
fact that veterans lost valuable op-

tunity for education or experience
Pr State service during the war, and,
at the same time, provide an oppor-
tunity for qualified non-veterans to
compete, The Mitchell-Van Duzer
Bill abolishes the present absolute
preferences and substitutes a per-

First Quarter 1948

In passing it should be noted that ©

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mark which he has attained on the
examination for original entrance
into service. A non-disabled veteran
receives a similar 5 point credit for
original entrance. On promotion ex-
aminations, a disabled veteran who
passes is credited with 5 points and
a nondisabled veteran receives a
2% point credit. The preference
granted under the bill may be used
only until the veteran has cither
entered service or secured one pro-
motion by using his percentage
credit

With: respect to this latter pro-
vision, it appears obvious that most
veterans who intend to make State
setvice a career are already in the
service and many of them have al-
ready started up the promotion
ladder. One of the most important
features of the Mitchell-Van Duzer
bill is contained in the provision that
the preferences granted under it are
only available once. This means that
if the constitution is amended in con-
formity with the terms of the bill,
@ new entrant can continue to use
his percentage preference until he is
appointed, after which time he has
no further preference. By the same
token a veteran already in State ser-
vice may use the preference granted
until by virtue of the use of the
credit, he has received one promotion.
After this time, he competes for
further promotions on complete par-
ity with non-yeterans.

We submit that the Mitchell-Van
Duzer bill is the only proposal which
can be justified in a system where
the predominant consideration
should always be given to merit and
fitness and to those two attributes
alone, This bill has already received
strong backing from other Civil ser-
yice groups, and even, more impor-
tant, from the veterans themselves.
We urge that every member of the
Association, veteran and non-veteran,
carefully consider the bill and give
it his wholehearted support at the
next session of the legislature and
when it is submitted to the electorate.
It will be necessary, since the pro-
posal inyolves a constitutionalamend-
ment, to have-it passed by two
consecutive sessions of the legislature.
Tf the bill again passes in the 1949
session it will be submitted to the
people in November 1949.

Tt also. proposes to extend t
disabled’ veterans’ preference |
inal appointment beyond the
expiration date for an additional
year period. In’ short, the
modification of the present pre!
ence which this bill provides is
abolition of the promotion preference
for non-disabled veterans at the
when the termination date in t
present law is reached. ‘

We feel that the Condon-Aus
bill retains all the provisions which
haye already done much to wreck
havoc with the merit system. We
further feel that its provisions with
respect to the abolition of the pi
motion preference are unfair.
seems to us that experience
shown that the non-disabled veteran,
both under the present preference
and under the proposed modifica-
tion contained in the Condon-Austin
bill is prejudiced unduly. ,

There is one salient fact which
should be clearly understood. Neither
of these bills is a “Legion Bill” or an
“Association Bill.” Both are backed
or opposed by veterans. Non+vetei
ans are in the same position. The
Association feels it has the responsi- ~
bility of fully acquainting its mei
bership with the provisions of both
bills and intends to discharge that
responsibility during the coming year.
Tt further feels that, in its role of
guardian of sound merit system pri
cipals, it must support the Mitchell-
Van Duzer proposal and report
unfavorably on te Condon-Austin
measure,

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE LABOR
RELATIONS ACT

We haye already pointed out that
the provisions of the Condon-Wadlin
law have in no way affected our
activity or efficiency. The fact re-
mains, however, that the State, since
it has seen fit to: employ restrictive
measures with respect to grievances
in public employment, must meet its
obligation to provide a method by-
which disputes in the public service
may be peacefully resolved, The
Association’s proposal in the form of
the Desmond-Davidson bill, offered
a formula for erecting a framework
for such negotiation. The bill failed
of passage in this session of the legis-

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employee the Civil Service Law relating to
the job from which he was dis- examinations, eligible lists iad pro-
Er passed the legislature but motions. No substantive changes

‘not’
to know about the problem. are made but the law is nov

We do feel that the solution which
offered was a fair and workable
We further recognize that the
dministration needs time to study
‘consider the proposal. We are
onfident that this | bill, or some bill
lesigned to perform the same func-
ate will become part of the law of
the “State in the not too distant
ature. The Association plans to do
verything i its power to bring such
law into being.
MERIT AWARD BOARD
2 (Chapter 239)
Inder the sponsorship of the Asso-
ion, the Merit Award Board, until
Year, was a temporary part of the
te government. In the light of
"experience with the Board and its
functions during the past two years,
we felt it had amply justified its ex-
istence, At this session we proposed
a bill to make the Board permanent
‘and that bill was favorably consid-
ered by the legislature and the Gov-
ernor, The Merit Award Board is
now a permanent part of the Civil
Service administration of this State,
and a great power for the advance-
ment and improvement of the Merit
System.
Tn passing we must congratulate
the three members of the Board, Clif-
ford Shoro, a past President of the
“Association, Henry A. Cohen, who
has long been an active Association
member, and our own Dr, Tolman,
for the splendid work they have
done. ~

CIVIL SERVICE APPEALS —
POWER TO REINSTATE
Under the present law, the Civil
Service Commission is empowered to
hear appeals by employees from dis-
missal or other disciplinary action
instituted by an appointing officer.
‘The law does not, however, give the
‘Commission the power to reinstate
>the employee in the position from
which he has been discharged in the
event that it finds that the dismissal
‘was unwarranted. The only provision
made in such cases is for a transfer
of the vindicated employee to another
department. We contend that under
_ the present law a successful appellant

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was vetoed by the Governor. We
strongly feel that the Commi:
should shouldér its responsibility to
uphold the Merit System and we feel
that by this veto some of its power
to do so is lost.

The Commission must decide
whether it will function as apologists
for the present system, or whether
it will squarely meet its obligation
even at the risk of offending an ap-
pointing officer. A strong Commis-
sion is one of the best guarantees of
a sound system. This bill would have
added to the strength of the Com-
mission and we feel it should have
been approved,

ARMORY EMPLOYEES

The legislature passed the Asso-
ciation bill which provides that Ar-
mory employees should have the
same vacation and sick leave allow-
ances now granted to employees in
the departmental services. For 20
years these employees have been re-
quired to work a 7 day week
throughout the year and are accorded
al4 ay vacation under the Military
Law although, by administrative
action they haye been granted a four
weeks vacation during the past two
years. We have already pointed out
elsewhere that we feel that they are
not in the Military service, but in the
Classified service of the State and
are therefore entitled by law to the
same benefits as their fellow em-
ployees. Unfortunately, full recogni-
tion of that principal has not yet
atrived because the Governor has
vetoed this legislation.

OTHER CIVIL SERVICE BILLS
(Chapters 294, 43, 70)

Five Association program bills
affecting Civil Service were passed
by the legislature. One repealed cer-
tain obsolete provisions relating to
promotion in the City police for
Years ago a bill obviously ines
to make one person eligible for pro-
motion in a city police force passed
the legislature and was signed by
the Governor. It resulted in a law
which was in complete derogation
of good Civil Service administration.
Our bill has wiped this measure from
the books.

demonstrated that removals in the
Division of State Police are already

deal more readily omer

those who read it.

The Association endorsed a bill
which provided for a court review of
removals in the Division of State
Police. This bill was vetoed by the
Governor. The Lawrence case has

the subject of court review and the
veto was undoubtedly predicated on
the fact that recourse to the courts is
already available to troopers who are
unjustly dismissed from their posi-

tions.

MISCELLANEOUS
(Chapters 173, 670)

An Association bill enacted into
law provides that employees in
institutions may be paid for loss or
damage to personal property result-
ing from damage by inmates or by
fire upon simple certification by the
Comptroller and approval by the
Superintendent of the institution.
Payments authorized under the bill
are limited to $150 and its provisions
are retroactive to March 1, 1947,
‘The bill is designed to eliminate the
present necessity for filing of compli-
cated claims and the occasional ne-
cessity of recourse to the Court of
Claims to recover small amounts. It
was also necessary to make its pro-
visions retroactive to include employ-
ees of Manhattan State Hospital and
others whose claims had been cut off
by the Statute of limitations.

On Election Day last year at one
State institution the employees were
informed that they would not be ac-
corded time to yote during working
hours. Employees in private industry
and in political subdivisions of the
State were accorded this right by Sec.
200 of the Election Law, Our bill,
which successfully passed, now guar-
antees to all public employees an
allowance of two hours during the
working day to permit them to go
to the polls to vote,

Examined in retrospect the Associ-
ation’s legislative year wae an ex;
tremely successful one, reater
number of our bills passed Leen
any previous year. Far more im-
(Continued on Page“45)

Morit
tion of civil Sais
‘of the local units of government
throughout the State of New York is

proceeding at a fast pace. Charles
R Culyer, Field Representative of
the Association, has visited employee
groups in every county in the state.
Thus far the following Chapters of
the County Division have been offi-
cially approved by the Board of Di-
rectors and are functioning day in
and day out for the benefit of em-
ployees of local units of government
of their particular county:

Broome’Chapter, Chemung Chap-
ter, Clinton Chapter, Franklin Chap-
ter, Herkimer Chapter, Jefferson
Chapter, Niagara Chapter, Onon-
daga Chapter, Orange County Chap-
ter, Otsego Chapter, Rockland Chap-
ter, St. Lawrence Chapter, Schenec-
tady Chapter, Steuben Chapter, Suf-
folk Chapter,’ Ulster Chapter, West-
chester Chapter,

Mr. Culyer reports that as a result
of organizational work now being
carried on, it is expected that em-
ployecs in the following counties will
request approval of Chapters in the
near future: Erie, Cattaraugus, Nas-
sau, Sullivan, Tompkins, Chautau-
qua, Columbia and Essex.

Expect 10,000 Members

The goal of the County Division
by January 1, 1949 of 30 County
Chapters and 10,000 ‘membership
looks possible at the present time.
The paid membership of the County
Division as this publication goes to
press is approaching the 5,000 mark.

Requests for organization come
in from city, county, town, village
and school district employees. Many
of the groups have never heretofore
been organized—others have organ-
izations which are interested in affili-
ating with the Association. Many
police and fire officers are joining/the
Association with their local groups.

Requests for attendance of Mr.
Culyer at meetings of employees to
explain the program and services of
the Association are received at Asso-
ciation Headquarters every day. Mr.
Culyer includes these meetings on
his itinerary and gives the groups
first-hand information and answers
a vast variety of questions relative
to the Association and to specific
accomplishments which organized

First Quarter 1948

County Employee Problems

What are the problems about
which county employees are most
concerned?

First, salary; in some cases, local
pay is pitifully inadequate. ~

Then come the problems of classi-
fication—employees don’t always
know what their jobs actually are,
and have to work at all kinds of
tasks they didn’t dream of when
they entered these positions.

Sick leave, vacation rules, and day-
to-day working conditions are far
from uniform, and in some cases
actually “scandalous” Mr. Culyer
has found.

Only rarely is decent machinery
found for the handling of grievances.
Substantial Achievements

Even though county organization
is new, there have already been sub-
stantial achievements.

In Broome County, for example,
appearance of the Association rep-
resentative before the Board of Su-
pervisors resulted in a $250 annual
across-the-board increase in pay for
almost 1,000 county employees.

In Batavia, Association interven-
tion resulted in $200 raises for 160
employees.

In Syracuse, the Association’s On-
ondaga Chapter won a $250 across-
the-board pay increase.

Tn Franklin County, the employees
gained entrance into the Retirement
System.

The Westchester County Chapter,
especially active, has made a great
variety of gains, and has a wage plan
tied in with the cost-of-living index,
considered one of the most progres-
sive wage plans in the nation.

The Program

The program of She County Di-
vision to improye the working con-
ditions of employees of local units
of government includes:

1. Adequate salary schedules.

2. Fixing of wages and hours of non-

teaching school employees.

Salary increments for local public
employees.

|. Forty-hour working week for local
employees who now work longer
hours.

Saturday closing—a 5-day week.
3 Retirement system liberalization.
Time and a half for overtime work.

sy

sey

tem membership to county emp
~ who don’t belong at a
10. Pension credit for
11. Uniform annual aes
12, Uniform leave for sickness and re
3, SEL leave crt or ral
1 leave credit for military service.
14. Employee representation on. local.
personnel boards and committees.
j. Hearing and court review on di
missal.,

. Right to counsel at formal hearing)

. Unemployment insurance coveraj
for local public employees.

. Civil Service Commission to make
immediately available notices and
results of examinations, ©

). Exemption of pensions from Federal
income tax.

Organization Needed)

Prior to 1946, the Association was
composed wholly of State employees:
Up to that time the Association was
known as “The Association of State
Civil Service Employees of the State
of New York.” After long consid
ation, the organization decided to
corporate other groups of public em-
ployees. This decision resulted from ~
several major considerations. Most
important of these were:

a) The constant and increasing
number of requests received from.
local employees for assistance and for
organization;

(b) The vital need of organiza-
tion of these employees as revealed
by the antiquated working condi-
tions that existed in most local units
of goverriment and the lack of at-
tention to employee needs;

(c) The abies increased effec-
tiveness of an organization both as
to size and influence from the in-
clusion in its ranks of local employ-
ces;

(d) The possibility of improving
the functioning of the Merit System —
generally by helping to improve it
on the local level.

Members of the Association should
encourage any local individual or
group of employees who are inter
ested in the Association to contact
Headquarters, Every assistance pos-
sible will be given to local employees
to organize and improve working
conditions locally as to their salaries,
hours of work, vacations, grievance
procedure, and other improved
working conditions,

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*

.» Toastmaster
DR. CHARLES A. BRIND, Jr.

*

GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY
*

Presentation by
GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY

of the Civil Service Leader's
"Harold J. Fisher Memorial’ Award and Medals to:

Silver Cup Award: William E, Hannan
Medals: Francis X, Disney
Charles J. Finnick
Re. Sn Martin P, Lanaban, Jr.
Bese Harry C. Smith
ee, George J. Syrett

Presentation of Joint Merit Award of $250 to:

Harry E, Dobbins, District Forester
Grant M. Powell, District Forester
ay Herbert A. Lane, Forest Laborer

j New York State*Merit Award Board represented by
_ Henry A. Cohen

*

PROGRAM OF ENTERTAINMENT
*

DANCING UNTIL TWO >

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Dinner and
“Fun-Fest” took place on Thursday, February
26, 1948, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel”
Hendrick Hudson in Troy.

“(The DeWitt Clinton and Ten Eyck *
‘Hotels in Albany were being picketed on.
that date by union employees on strike.).

Social Committee
JANET MACFARLANE

Chairman, Mental Hygiene

CATHERINE V. CANNY
Steuben County

MARGARET FENK
Utica State Hospital

MATTHEW FITZGERALD
Bureau of Motor Vehicles

GEORGE HAYES
Taxation and Finance

RAYMOND HECKEL
Metal Hygiene

JOSEPH J. HORAN
Commerce

JOHN J. JOYCE
Audit and Control

PAUL D. McCANN
| Correction

ANN QUIRK
Health

ELIZABETH SCHIFFERDECKER
| Public Works

ROBERT J, SHILLINGLAW
| Public Works

WILLIAM K. WILSON
Education

Merit
poe Time to wake up, my dear. The show’s about
to begin.

Girl: (Comes to, rubs ¢yes, yawns) I don’t know what
makes me so ‘sleepy.

Devil: (After a slight pause) It’s the altitude, honey.

Girl: (Looks around, then to Devil) Where are we,
Meph?

Devil: Why, this is Heaven.

Girl: You mean . . . really Heaven?

Devil: Well, as near as you can get to Heaven in the

~ Hendrick Hudson,

~Girl: [don’t like it. It’s not pretty like it is down home.

~ Devil: Heaven always was an unattractive place. Now
it's colder than ever. (Devil gets up).

Girl: (Shivering) It certainly could be a lot warmer.

Devil: (Pays no attention to her movement (I told you
to bring your coat. What'd you do with it?

Girl: I left it outside when I was trying on them golden
slippers.

Devil: Them golden slippers. Honey, if I’ve warned
you once I’ve warned you a thousand times, fancy
clothes will be the salvation of you. We'll get your
coat later, Get up and move around. You'll get
warm.

Girl: (Gives him a look but gets up) What part of
Heaven is this?

Devil: This is a herein (‘hearin’) room.

Girl: What's a herein room?

Devil: That’s where they give applicants the business.
From herein they cither go up or down. (Aside) Did
Fred Allen tell one of his writers to go to Hell?
Somebody’s been fooling with this script.

Girl: (Comes to him) Oh, Meph, dear, it was sweet of
you to bring me along on one of your business trips.

Devil: Glad you appreciate it. (Puts arm around her)
If you're not too good maybe I'll take you along some
other time, If I haven’t got too much work to do,
maybe someday we can raise a little Hellion. (She
snuggles against him) Getting warmer? (She nods,
her expression what a girl devil feels like when

( everything is heavenly. The Devil, in the midst of
her reverie, suddenly walks away, chuckling).
Girl: (Coming out of her dream, snorts) What's so
funny?
Devil: (exuchias) The fuel situation. I warned them
about switching to oil up here.
*.* Girl: I don’t get it.
ifis4. Devil: Don’t you see, honey? We've been a little short
" on oil ourselves. So I arranged a small diversion
Project, a
Girl: Oh, you mean fussin’ and feudin’? Is that why
we came up here?
Devil: Oh, no. This is some other business.
Girl: Tell me what it is. I love business. And big
businessmen. Like you . . . and those fellows from

the Department of Commerce in Albany. Remember
them? Weren't they devils? t
Devil: (Condescending) They thought they were.
* Girl: (Laughing) Oh, I had so much fun with them,
And you were SO jealous. _
Tevil: Honey, sometimes you sound surprisingly like
‘a woman. Maybe I better tell you why we're here,
Sit down. It’s quite a story. (She sits on throne. He
‘ioves to her side and sings.) e

. DEVIL’S SONG
(Tune—“The Gentleman Is a Dope”)

When I was a very young guy,

Several million years ago,

I got the silly notion

That Hell was the place to go,

But I've changed my mind—I'm all wrong—
‘And I'm sure that you'll agree

‘That Hell's no place for the Devil—
Heaven's the spot for me.

CHORUS:

For tonight it is reported
You can take the Devil's word
That Hanley, Joe, from down below
Is bringing up his herd,
When Joe gets into Heayen,
With Jack and Frank and Oz,
There'll .be more Hell up in Heaven
Than in Hell there ever was.
Saint Peter asked the boys up
To guard the angel's door—
You'd think that ol’ Saint Pete ‘ud know
Those guys would ask for more.
With that crowd here in Heaven,
I'm stickin’ round because
There'll be more Hell up in Heayen
‘Than in Hell there ever was.

Assistant:
They're somebody else's problem—
Why are they your concern?

Honey, if they should become my problem
I'm the one that would burn.
Now they'll be here before long—
T pity Saint. soy oh geet
Suppose those hould ostracize
Saint Pete 'n’ hire mel

If that should ever happen,

I'm going back to Styx—

There'll be no peace up in Heaven
With those guys pulling tricks.
What a/ Hell of a place this'll bel

(At close of Devil's song, music is heard off stage,
singing of angels, and Devil and his Attendant assume
more or less permanent positions near Gate, Angels
enter, singing spftly. Fanfare and enter St. Peter. Peter
and Angels sing.)

(Tune—“Uncle Remus Says”)

Old St. Peter, Good St. Peter, Our St, Peter says—
Old St. Peter, Good St. Peter, Our St. Peter says—
St. Peter: {

Gather round me all my Angels

Before you go to work—

Just Lee ESE SARC

what I've say.
hel you PAN nen be doing today:

Merit

* That's what our ‘St. Peter said,
‘That's what our St,
If they've been honest, good and wise,
Well n measure them for halo size.
St, Peter:
‘We'll scan their records in our book,
Before we give them our New Look.
And if we find they lived by trick, -
‘Then down we'll send them to St. Nick.
Angels: r
‘That’s what our St. Peter sai
That's what our St. Peter said:
‘And if we find they lived by trick,
We'll send ‘em down to old St. Nea
St. Peter:
When at our gates they first appear
‘And ask to be allowed in here,
+ Just tell them to sit down and rest,
Because they gotta take a test.
Angels:

‘That's what our St. Peter said:
‘That's what our St, Peter said:
‘We'll tell them to sit down and rest,
Because they gotta take a test.
St. Peter:
‘An application each must file
In perfect Civil Service style,
So we can see how qualified
‘They are in Heaven to abide.
Angels:
Q ‘That's what our St. Peter said:
That's what our St. Peter said:
Yes we must see how qualified
‘They are in Heaven to abide,
St. Peter:
A few newcomers soon will knock
And ask us to our gates unlock,
So to your stations everyone—
think we're gonna have some fun.
Angels:
‘That's what our St, Peter sai
‘That's what our St, Peter said:
Now to our stations everyone,
Cause soon we're gonna have some fun.
St. Peter:
‘And that, little Angels,
Yes that, little Angels,
And that, little Angels,
Is how we do our work.

Angels:

That's Heav'a’s Civil Service:
That's what our St. Peter says.

(After song, Angels climb up on cloud. Peter sits on
Royal Throne and speaks to his Attendant, who has
remained quietly in background during song. Female
Gate Attendant can also be seen.)

Peter: (To his Attendant after having counted Angels
very dramatically) No word yet from Sadie? (Atten-
dant looks at Angels who turn to each other and
sadly shake heads, “No.”)

Peter: (Continues) Seven years and still no word.
(Shakes head discouragingly). Well, what earthly
creatures are luled to appear today to prove that
they deserve admission to Heaven?

Attendant; (Consulting large book) Your Majesty,
today we are to be graced by a recently departed

First Quarter 1948

il ps yesa and Your 2 aiesg ah
sae ae politicians in the great State of
ticians, you say—why
admit that we have on occasion allowed a few
leggers, kidnappers and even bank robbers to
thru our gat it politicians!

Devil: (Aside to audience) Maybe this i is turning into
a hell of a place after all!

Peter: Well things are bad all over. Perhaps we have
been a little aie lately. What are the names, per
chance, of these politicians?

Attendant: (Consulting book) They are listed in the
great book as follows: Joe R. Hanley, Oswald Heck,
Frank Moore, John Burton, J. Edward Cou a ad
Newton T. Bigelow.

Peter: Does the book show what positions these men
held on earth?

Attendant: Yes, Your Majesty. Hanley was Lt. Goyer-
nor. Heck was Speaker of the Assembly, Moore was
State Comptroller, Conway was President of the Civil
Service Commission, Bigelow was Chairman of the
Salary Standardization Board, and Burton was Direc-
tor of the Budget.

Peter: (Shaking ‘head ruefully) And to think we are
getting them all at one time. Does the book show sj
what caused their (hesitates) departures?

Attendant: Yes, Your Majesty. The great book venta
that Joe Hanley was suddenly stricken while trying —
to figure out Section 394 of the State Retirement Law.
When they reached his side he was still whispering
something about dividing 52 weeks by $3,784,682 and
still having enough left over for a pound of butter.
(Sadly) Those were his last words.

Peter: What happened to Frank Moore?

Attendant; Moore ran into trouble with some of the
Counties. When Buffalo went Democratic last No-
yember, Erie County lost its nuisance tax. When he
heard that about his own home town, Moore gave up
the ghost.

Peter: What about Burton?

Attendant: Burton—oh yes—here it is. The great book
shows that he caught Everett Mulvey giving an
increment td a temporary File Clerk in the Mental
Hygiene Department. Burton passed away while
they were digging him out of the ceiling.

Peter: And what about Ozzie Heck?

Attendant: The book gives just one word—malnutrition.

Peter: Better let me see that book a minute. Let’s see
now—Newton T. Bigelow—the record shows that
Bigelow received a reply from the Civil Service De-
faa only three days after he had written them a

ter. The shock got him just as he was opening
the envelope.

Attendant; What about mide Conway?

Devil: (Aside to audience) The shock finished him too.

Peter: Well, they sound like a pretty desperate bunch
of characters to be looking for jobs up here i in Heaven.
Even if we accept them, what jobs can we give them?

Attendant: Well, they were all political wizards while
ue were on earth.

Peter: Ignorance is no excuse. Lf'they're cing mae

vest Sel State. Well, give them their heavenly Civil

‘Service application blanks as they enter. ‘We'll check

their efficiency ratings later, Right now we'd better
see what sort of training and experience they’ve had.

~ After all, they'll have to be classified before they can

be measured for their halos. Alright, send them in.
(Enter Hanley, ee Moore, ‘Conway, Burton and

~ Bigelow).

(Tun

SONG: BY GROUP
“Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City”)

Politicians:

‘We are the boys who ruled in'old New York State,

‘We all have come to Heaven for to stay.

We'll file our application—and then we gotta wait

For heavenly Civil Service to give it O. K.

If they're as slow up here as in New York State,
Outside the gates we'll stay for many a day—

We'll ask for reclassification up here at the Pearly Gate,
But just like our Earl Kelly, St. Pete's gonna hesitate.
Tr'll take some time, so rest awhile, is What he'll say to us—
We've done about as much as we can do—

We've done about as much as we can do.

Peter:

You boys are just the victims of a system

Like that which you set up down there on earth.
Conway and Bigelow thought they had a real gem—
‘Now you can see how much their red tape’s worth.
You'll’ find reclassification takes a long, long time—
Your fondest hopes we probably will wreck—

Only thing to do is to sit down and stew

‘And hope that you don't get it in the neck.

Politicians: Who me?

Devil: Could be. ts

Politicians: Not me! Not me! Not me!
Devil: ”

No reason boys for all of you to be blue—
Up here you haven't got a single chanco—

- Doc Tolman has the cards stacked up against you—

He sent a wrecking crew up in advance.

You'll find the Civil Service workers are in control—
Your hopes to get in Heaven have gone bust.

If with me you'll come, you'll have a lot of fun,

And all your talents won't be gathering dust.

Politicians: That right?

St.

Peter: Could be.

Politicians: Ah me, Ah me, Ah me!
All:

Now you can sce how tough it is to get in—

"The Pearly Gates ain't swinging very wide.

We never looked for trouble like this when we arrived—

We thought it would be a cinch for us to get inside.

Maybe our plight will serve as a real lesson

To those who down on earth may still abide.

Now when asked for reclassification down there in Albany,

The board may go to work at once, not wait for eternity,

If through Heaven's gates they hope to pass, and angels
really be, _

‘They gotta treat ‘em right in Albany—

That's right—

‘They gotta treat ‘em right in Albany!

Peter: So you boys are from the Empire State, eh?

How were things down there when you left, Judge
Conway?

Conway: I can only speak for my own Department,

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Your Majesty, but I must say that everything in the

Burton: Oh come now Conway, after all—a joke is a

joke. Why from what I hear they had to throw out
those labs two File Clerk lists ese over 93% of
the candidates had died from old age by the time you
published the lists. Why my Budget Division, al-
though I'll admit we do make mistakes occasionally,
was the only Department that was in good working
shape when we left (although that guy Mulvey was
still throwing increments all over the place the last
time I saw him). You boys will have to admit that
the budget balanced perfectly this year.

Hanley: Hell, John Burton, you never did pay the

$3,000,000 that you owed to those poor employees
that got reallocated during the year. Why if you paid
your debts that budget would have had more red in
it than Henry Wallace. (Aside) For a guy over fifty-
seyen, I sure deliver some pretty nifty punch lines,

Bigelow: Well, you can’t deny that my Salary Board

had a big year. Why we raised more people this
year than Papa Dionne. If you, Burton and Conway
there, had just gone along with us on those increases
we recommended, you’ would have spared us from
all that undeserved criticism they threw at us, After
all, that Salary Survey had a lot of good points to it,
Right, Ozzie Heck?

Heck: Yeah, Bigelow, so has a porcu; ple got a lot of

good points, and if you're not careful they'll usually
get you in the end. Look at the mess you got me
into by juggling all those employees’ salaries around.
We had to go and decide what kind of a raise to
give all those legislators. It was too much for me.
T’m darn glad to be here. (Shivers), Everybody was
telling everybody else in the Assembly to go to Heck.

Devil: (Aside) They're not that polite in the Senate,
Burton: The trouble with you guys is that you can’t

say no to anyone. Here, let me explain how it’s done.

BURTON SONG
(Tune: “No, No, a Thousand Times No!”)

‘There was a pretty young steno—
Her typing was neat and was clean—
But she needed a new shiny ribbon
To put in her little machine,
Her boss knew exactly how much ribbons cost,
‘And he thgught I would fall for his game,
So he padded his budget for sixty-five cents,
But they heard me in Brooklyn exclaim:

CHORUS OF POLITICIANS
No, no, a thousand times no—
Ribbons/are needed, we guess—
But no, no,/a thousand times no,
T'd rather dic than say yes.
There's a guy in State Service who's loco,
his department should work,
But he ecitleet that the joint couldn't function
Without twelve hundred bucks for a clerk,
So 1 set aside fifteen thousand to hire
‘An expert to study his need.
‘Then I found that by spending ten thousand each year
T could save that clerk's sal-ry indeed,

~ CHORUS:
No, no, a thousand times no,
fe musn't spend to excess.

Merit

if DALES tS boduee br Hevvens ;
‘And St. Peter needs halos and things,
Till insist on the cheapest of halos,
. ‘And vate eel sett round peal wings.
for it won't eaven for people like me,
AE thd: folk "eierear@ kspby) andsgay. Well, hello there, boys—it’s Bood to x
When the angels need zithers to play do, re, mi— ~ here. I (coughs) didn’t expect that neal
Till jump on a cloud, and I'll say: in the same direction. How are you all? Ai
CHORUS getcing gc good service and proper treatment? Anyi
I can do;

Oh-

, no, @ thousand times n
We're earls hete\we confess) : Hanley: wae Tom, so far we haven’t been classified
But no, no, a thousand times no— for our new positions. By the way, what positio:
Damned if Tl ever say YES, ma haye you made application for?
(During song, all others start to fill in applications) Peter: (Telephone rings, answers, turns to Dewey ant
Peter: Well, my dear, he’s taught me a lesson. Remind It’s for you Governor (Dewey answers)
me to say no to his application. (Telephone rings.) Dewey: Hello. Well, hello there, Nice to hear from you

Peter: (Answering phone) Hello. Yes, this is St. Peter again. How are things down there? That's
paints (Brusquely) Well, what is it? (Condescend- What's that? She’s going to sing in Madison Square
ingly) Oh, I’m sorry sir, didn’t recognize your voice. Garden Friday night? Well, that’s fine Harry. Just
Yes sir, yes sir, of course we will. Anything you say before the main fight, ch? Yes, we'll be listenin, walk
sir. After all, you're running things up here now How are the piano lessons coming? Good. Wi
you know. Yes sir, I'll sce that everything is rear- thanks for calling, Harry. We'll be looking for yo

ranged to suit you. Yes sir, yes sir, alright sir—what  ~ Up here in November. Goals Harry. (Puts phone
was that, sir? Oh yes sir, I'll have someone tell
Elliott to charge $1.25 for the Christmas trees next
December. Yes sir. Goodbye sir. (Continuing) Phew!
But what was I saying about not letting politicians
in here. He was a Rate and what a politician, Moore: Well, boss, vias about it? What jobs do y
Well, have you bers completed those application think we're qualified for?

blanks yet? “We'll have to get you classified for Devil: (Aside) ‘When he asks the question that way,
your new jobs, you know. sehen Tosi: any: bedi ieee C
Y 3 wey: Well, boys, we could all apply for exempt posi
goureye! never could understand these damn appli- eA thee all, Conway’ had\ovér 90°, of tesjobs
I th t class before he left,
Gate Attendant: Excuse me, Your Majesty, but there is. Conways Newt wat a canme, Governore-that not
another applicant who has just arrived. He states fair. Just because Bill McDonough hopped all over me~
Haat hus name i Toma Ee Dees and hat boys on that point is no reason why you have to keep

r :

ee rubbing it in. Why we just couldn’t get enough good -
Peter: Have him fill out an application the same as the applicants to fill all those New York State jobs on a

others, permanent competitive basis. :
Gate Attendant: Oh he has one already filled out, Your Burton: Why didn’t you draft some of that slave labor.

Majesty—all signed, sealed, notarized and everything. that Doc Bigelow used when he was getting those
Peter: (Aside): This guy will have my job inside of figures together for the Salary Survey last year?
two weeks. (To all) I wonder what caused his de- Bigelow: Now cut that out, Burton. Phil Haggerty did
parture from the earth? a swell job on that Survey. You fellows in the Budget
Devil: (Aside) He probably smelled MacArthur's corn- were the ones that upset the apple cart, If someone
cob pipe—that’s one of those corny lines. would j just hide all those red pencils on you maybe
Peter: (To Gate Attendant) Alright, show him in. we'd be able to get things done. ; 3
(Dewey enters—does not sce Hanley, Heck et al., who Dewey: Well, we can’t afford any more mistakes like
have placed hands over hearts and bowed reverently. Bees aS re oe big ri ethos kor boys. Pu S
Dewey gives Peter false smile and then sings). periph Sraaeponet est

DEWEY SONG Moore: Well, if there were any mistakes down below,
(Tune: “It’s a Grand Old Flag”) the Comptroller’s Office wasn’t the guilty party. Let
Tims and at 4 ay : me tell you about that Retirement System of mine,
Who is still fying high,

I'm the one that you're all waiting for. MOORE SONG
1 was captain of (Tune: “Fussin’ and Feudin’”)
"The team they loved— I've labored many a year, Retirement to improve!
T ran the whole second floor; In New York State, where workers rate
‘And when things got tough and they ‘The best of things in life.

got in the rough, Tsneeded unt grocatanas equipments: mechanized
I was always there standing by, Retirement checks now are mailed out early; «
Should old acquaintance be forgot? It's all. been
They'll admit I'm a grand old guy. We love the employec—our information's free.

First Quarter 1948 ee: 31
AT THE ANNUAL DINNER

1. The Devil—Miles Heberer, Com-
merce; Devil's Assistant — Margaret
Kennedy, State.

2. Governor Dewey presenting The
Leader's Harold J. Fisher Memorial Cup
to Dr. Charles F. Gosnell who is accept-
ing it on behalf of

3. Association Prosident Frank L. Tol-
man, Governor Dewey and Civil Service
Commission President J. Edward Conway.

4, Association Counsel John T. De-
Graff and Director of the Budget John
E. Burton.

5. Headquarters Guests—Mrs. Joseph
D. Lochner, Mrs. Laurence J. Hollister,
Mrs. Williom Barrett, Mr, Barrett, Miss
Helen McCue, Fred J. B
O'Hagan.

6. (Seated) Mayor John J. Ahearn
of Troy, Conservation Commissioner
Perry E. Duryea, Henry A. Cohen, Merit
Award Board, Governor Dewey.

7. Mrs. Henry A. Cohen, Michael
Russo, el Cleary, Francis A. Mc-
Grath, J. Allyn Stoarns, Ivan S. Flood;
(standing) Joseph D. Lochner, President
Tolman.

8. Frank M. Gonsalves, Frank E, Wal-
lace, George Fisher, James A. Deuchar,
Clifford Asmuth, Carl R. Fellows, Wm. S.
Fredenrich, Robert Middlebrooks, Josoph
E. Uhl, Theodore E, Bopp, Seymour
Ellenbogen.

9. Jules Dulce, Charlotte Morse,
William Pfeiffer, Kenneth Stahl, Mrs.
John Joyce.

10. Mrs. Herbert C. Campbell, Miss
Anne Lowry, Mr. Campbell, Miss Ruth
Myton, Commerce Commissioner Harold
Keller, Miss Jane H. Todd, Miss H.
Louise Van Allon, Alfred J. Worsdoll, Jr.,
Mrs. Miles Heberer,

11, Supt. of Stote Police John E,
Gaffney, Kathleon Graco, Allen J. Good-
rich, Lillian Rosse, Dr. Harry La Burt,
Chairman Mary Goode Krone, Personnel
Council; Paul E. Lockwood.

12. Phillip C. Hagerty, Mrs. Hagerty,
Milton Musicus, Theodore Becker, Mrs.
Harry G. Fox, Association Treasurer Fox,
Mrs. Louis Liuzzi, Mr. Liuzzi.

13. William McWilliams, Mrs. Me-
Williams, Director Burton, Mrs. Burton,
R. Scott Craig.

14. Henry LaBarba, Mrs. Ellis T. Riker,
Mr. Riker, James Decker, Francis Kelli-
her, George W. Hayes.

15. Prosentation of Medals by Gover-
nor Dewey—(Standing) Charles J. Fin-
nick, Conservation; Maxwell Lehma
The Leader; Francis X. Disney, D.P.U,
Martin J. Lanahan, Audit and Contro
Governor Dewey; Harry C. Smith, Public
Works; George J. Syrett, Labor.

16, Executive Representative William
F. McDonough, Assembly Majority
Leader Lee B. Mailler, Dr. Tolman, Mrs.
Charles A. Brind, Jr., Mayor John J.
Ahearn of Troy, Toostmaster Charles A.
Brind, Jr.

ieutenant Governor Joe R. Han-

il Service Commission President
J. Edward Conway, Mrs. Harold J.
Fisher, Assembly Speaker Oswald D.
Heck.

: time till she can retire,
‘Without fussin’ and fightin’ no more.

Tf I'm reclassified
‘And land a iob up here,
Til ask Saint Peter, the head bookkeeper,
Tf he won't soon retire.
Then I'll be boss Comptroller
Of all the heavenly dough—
Till get retirement for cops and firemen
Just like I did below.
‘Then at the close of day
Tildream of home and say
CHORUS,
‘Workin’ for New York State's like fightin’
Sometimes it gets to damned excitin’
But when the goin’ gets tough and you're feelin’: blue,
Retirement’s got somethin’ for you, and you, and you.
Now take Gran'ma, dear ol’ gran’ma,
Why'd they have to shoot poor gran'ma?
But gran'pa didn’t mind it—
‘ She worked for the State, and he knew
Her death was accidental,
Gran'pa collected on her services—
‘That's how my system will preserve us.
Tt was a hell of a system 'till-it was revised,
But now it is HUMANIZED.

Hanley: Speaking of jobs, Chief, that Merit Award
Board certainly did a job on us down below, didn’t
it? Remember that one from that employee at Sing
Sing Prison who suggested that the State should rent
a big armory and go into the wholesale junk business?
Gee, that was a great one!

Moore: Yeah—and then one of the inmates at Auburn
wrote in and said he’d be willing to let them have
the bars off his cell window as the first contribution.

Heck: (Thoughtfully) I had an uncle once that had so
much iron in his blood that when he diced my Aunt
didn’t bury him, she junked him. Golly, maybe she
could have made money on him.

Dewey: Well, Cliff Shoro and the rest of that Merit
Award Board thought that the idea was worth some-
thing, I guess. What did they pay for that suggestion,
ra abot $150.00?

Burton: Oh, no, Chief—that just got a Certificate. The
big money winners have to really have a good sug-
gestion. You know, something that will save the

« state maybe a thousand dollars or more, and will
‘only cost about two million dollars to put into
practice,

Bigelow: You mean like that one for improving the
elevator service in the State Office Building so that
there wouldn’t be such a jam up every morning and
every night at five o'clock?

Burton: Yeah, that was one of the big money winners.

Dewey: I don’t recall that suggestion offhand, John.
What was there to it anyway?

Burton: Well, everybody in the Mental Hygiene De-

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~ floor at five o'clock. So Fi
suggestion to the Merit Award Bee to correct
Seton He got a couple of hundred bucks for it it

Dewey: What did he suggest, John? £

Burton: Osborne suggested that instead of having the
people wait on each floor for the elevators, they
oughta have the elevators stay in one place and let
the building move up and down.

Hanley: Even Doc Tolman and Henry Cohen, the
other members of the Board, liked that one. They
convinced Cliff Shoro that it was worth two hundred,
and Cliff went for it hook, line and sinker. Gee, I
wish I could think of clever ideas like that.

Moore: How about that one that Bob Hopkins, Chair-
man of the Western Conference, sent in to the Board?
You know, that one about eliminating the milk
shortage during the crisis upstate last year?

Peter: That sounds as if it might have been an interest-
ing suggestion, What was it?

Moore: Well, Hopkins wrote to the Merit Award Board
and suggested that the way to avoid another milk
shortage was to have all the fellows in the State Legis-
lature spend every week-end on a farm and give the
poor farmers a helping hand with the cows,

Heck: That wasn’t as crazy as it sounds, Some of those
boys in the Assembly have got plenty of pull, you
know. i

Dewey: Yes, that’s true, Ozzi¢. And with some of those
State Senators around the farm, there’d be plenty of
bull to keep the cows company.

Devil: (Aside) Now we're getting back to a state of
udder confusion again.

Dewey: Well, all in all that Merit Board is doing a
pretty fine job. And speaking of jobs, maybe we'd
better get our own straightened out. After all, that’s
what we're here for,

Hanley: Careful boss. You ended that last sentence with
a preposition. You know what Doc Spaulding, the
Commissioner of Education, always told you about
that stuff.

Dewey: We don’t have to worry about Spaulding any
more. He’s the one that’s doing the worrying now.
Those darn school teachers have him running around
in circles. He'd probably be glad to be up here with
the rest of us.

Peter: (Aside) Bank robbers, kidnappers, bootleggers
and maybe even politicians—but school teachers,
never.

Conway: You made/a few mistakes yourself derabeleg!
Chief.

Dewey: Why what do you mean, Judge?

Conway: What about that new Veteran’s Bonus Bureau
that you set up in North Albany? I understand that
it’s right over a fertilizer plant.

Dewey: (Aside) Well, the place will have an air about
it, anyway, /

(Continues to Conway): Don’t worry about that
Veteran’s Bonus Bureau. They've already started
both day and night forces working on those millions
of applications, By the time the warm weather comes
that work will fairly shrink.

Merit

Devil (Aside) Now he ought to be able to speak plainer
thar that.

Peter (To Angel who has come down off platform) Yes,
my dear, what is it? (Angel whispers to Peter, who
says to Dewey): Governor, the girls would like to
sing a song for you and your friends.

Dewey: Maybe we could do one together.

SONG OF DEWEY AND ANGELS
(Tune—“You Did”)

Dewey: Who made the folks all love us?

Angels: You did,

Dewey: Who made them think well of us?

Angels: You did.

Dewey: And in November, when things were looking grim,
Who mile the specthes, that cured the dle and swept
us in
‘Who has the smile that very few do?

Angels: Who has that certain style like you do?

Dewey: If given one more chance, I’m sure I could come
thruoo000000.

Angels: We don’t need three guesses, we'd choose you.

Dewey: Four years ago I was alert, kid.

One Angel: Who almost lost their shirt like you did?

Dewey: If I could try once more, I'm sure I could come
thruoo000000,

‘Angels: We don't need three guesses, we'd choose you.

Dewey: Well, that was very nice of you girls. Doc
Tolman could have used you very nicely at some of
those Association dinners he arranged for.

Hanley: Watch it, Chief, there you go ending a sentence
with a preposition again. Remember about Doc
Spaulding,

‘Dewey: Oh relax, Joe, not even Jim Farley or Paul Fitz-
patrick can bother us now. (Phone rings and Peter
answers.)

Peter; Yes—What’s that name again? John Gaffney.
Oh yes, he was head of the State Troopers. Hold on
a minute and I'll see if I can locate him for you.
(To Attendant): What position have we got John
Gaffney in now?

Attendant: (Consulting book) Chief Chauffeur. He’s
driving a car for a former Trooper named Roman
Laurence, or something like that,

Peter: (Still on phone) Driving for Roman Laurence?
Gaffney is on the road’ this week. Maybe you can
pick him up on that new 7-way radio he installed.
(To Dewey, et al.): Well, we still haven’t classified
you fellows yet.

Dewey: How about making me track coach? Then all
these fellows could act as my assistants again and
we'd be all set.

Devil: (Aside) When Heck goes over that first hurdle,
we wanna be there.

Peter: Well, we could try that. (To Dewey): Did you
ever run much?

(Pause)

Dewey: Gosh, he oughta know better than to hand me
a straight line like that.

Gate Attendant: Excuse me, Your Majesty, but three
characters are demanding immediate entrance. Their
names are Robert Taft, Earl Warren and Harold
Stassen. Here they are now.

(Enter Taft, Warren and Stassen who sing)

TRIO

(Tune—‘The Blue Tail Fly”)
All:

First Quarter 1948

Chorus:

Taft:

Chorus:

They might pick me, but I don’t care—
They might pick me, but I don’t care—
They might pick me, but I don’t care—
Our Tommie’s gone away.

I'm a fav-rite son in Ohi-o
With all the boys but Brother Charlie.
When:the Democrats get too tough out there
Till brush ’em away like a Blue Tail Fly.

They might pick me, but I don’t care—

They might pick him, but we don’t care—
They might pick him, but we don't care—
Our Tommie’s gone away. i

Warren:

I'm a big dark horse from away out West
Where all the folks vote for me.

I tickle the Elephant and Donkey too
When I brush away the Blue Tail Fly.

Chorus:

They might pick me, but I don’t care—
‘They might pick him, but we don’t care—
They might pick him, but we don’t care—
Our Tommie’s gone away.

Stassen:

I'm a travellin’ man from Mihnesota—
I challenge ‘em all to a big debate,
When they deal in grain or spec-u-late
Til brush ‘em off like a Blue Tail Fly.

Chorus:

Chorus:

Ditto (Then all repeat Chorus)
They might pick me, but I don’t care—
They might pick me, but I don't care—
‘They might pick me, but I don't caro—

(Sccing Dewey for the first time)
Why! Our Tommie’s RIGHT UP HERE

(Trio walk over and join Dewey)
‘Abe Lincoln used to sing this song

‘A long, long time ago. i
And if Abe could win, then why can't we—

At least it's worth a damn good try. +

Herbert didn't win, but I don’t care—
Alf didn’t win, but I don’t care—
Even Tom didn't win, but I don't care—
Our Maiter’s gone away.
(Trio put arms over each other's shoulders)
We're all for one, and one for all—
We're all’ Re-pub-li-cans.
We'll ride that elephant tandem style,
‘And make the Donkey's blue tail fly.

Chorus:

Henry migh run, but we don't care—
Harry might run, but we don't caro—
Eleanor might run, but we don’t care—
Since our Master's gone away.

Dewey: Well, fellows, I appreciate your sentiment but—

DEWEY SONG
(Tune—“IfI Had My Life to Live Over”)

If I had my life to live over,
Td never lose out again,
And I'd still want to roam
Round that little white home
On that new porch my days I would spend.
Td greet you when you came a-calling,
And talk over old times and new—
IE had my life to live over
T'd always be thankful to you.

Dewey: Well, it’s nice to see you boys again. Aren’t
you a little off your course up here though? I mean,

35
“i iow that you had depart from down

Hanley: ‘ou always did say that Stassen and Taft were
“out of this world,” boss.

Dewey: Quiet Joe, that wasn’t exactly what I meant.

Warren: We were just passing through on our way to
Philadelphia, Tom.

Devil: , I always knew that Philadelphia was a
deed town, but I never knew that they moved it up

ere.

Taft: That’s right, Governor it looks as if we're going
to have a lot of fun at that Philadelphia convention.
(Hopefully) By the way, MacArthur hasn’t checked
in up here yet has he?

Peter: No, no word yet from Doug or Sadie either, (Taft
looks glum and shakes head).

Stassen: With you and Ike Eisenhower out of the pic-
ture, it looks as if either Earl or Bob or myself will
be sitting on Harry Truman’s new porch after
November.

Dewey: Gosh, I sure wish I could join you boys on that
Philadelphia trip. You know, I didn’t do bad in 1944,
and I’m a lot smarter now than I was then.

Warren: Well Tom, we'll have to be going. Are you
sure you won't be joining us?

Dewey: You're a little late boys. I’m booked up here for
quite a while I guess. (Looks pleadingly at Peter)
Any chance of getting back down to earth for just
one more crack at Pennsylvania Avenue?

Peter: (Slowly) Well, I don’t know. It’s a bit unusual.

(Gate Attendant approaches)

Gate Attendant: Your Majesty, we have just received
word that Earl Kelly, head of the Classification
Board is leaving the earth. He probably will want to
reclassify all of these fellows personally. -

Peter: And us too.

Dewey: Gosh, if Kelly has to reclassify us, we waste
another 5 or 10 years waiting for a reply. What do
you say, Peter—how about that reprieve so that I can
join these three boys?

Peter: Well, I know haw flong it takes that Classifica-
tion Board to act, so maybe ..

Dewey: You mean that you people have had trouble
getting anything out of Earl Kelly’s gang?

Peter: Have we! Where do you think Sadie’s been for
the last seven years?

Hanley: Well what about it, Peter? I’ve got another
30 or 40 years left in me. After all, if Tom moves
down to the White House, I might get a chance at
that office of his onthe second floor.

Peter: That's a very unusual request. I'll have to talk it
over with my seraphic secretary. What do you think,
dear?

PETER AND ANGEL SONG
(Tune—“In the Garden of Tomorrow”)

Angel:
In politicians’ breasts, you know,
Hope springs eternally—
‘That's why they think the next big show
For them means victory.
Peter:
Should we listen as they ask us
For another chance on earth?
Angel:
If we do they'll make a big fuss
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Telling voters what they're worth.

June is when they'll meet their first test—
Delegates then nominate.

Oh, we wouldn't want to
Ever be the ones who
Held them back in '48.
Peter:
Now I don't know just what to do—
I've heard their argument
‘And though they've knocked upon our doors,
‘They don’t seem heaven bent.

Washington's where Tom would like to
Hang his hat a year from now.

IE he does, then Joe R. Hanley
As Governor could make his bow.

Why not listen to their pleading?
Let them go back through the gate.

No, we wouldn't want to
Ever be the ones who
Held them back in '48.

Dewey: (To politicians) You know boys, I think Peter
is weakening a little bit.

Moore: Well, Chief, isn’t that what you wanted?

Dewey: Frank, all I want is . . .

(Tune —“Just One More Chance”)

Just one more chance

To prove that I'm the one they hope for,
That all would go and”cast their vote for—
Just one more chance.

Just one more chance

To prove that I can run and carry,

A few more states than even Harry—
Just one more chance.

T've learned the meaning of repentance

1 lost the game in '44,

But I'm sure that I can make it

If you'll let me try once more—I'm asking
Just one more chance.

And if I fail to make expansion,

T'll spend my days up at the mansion,
Just one more chance.

Bigelow: Gosh Governor, after that, I think maybe we
can convince them to let us alll have one more chance.
What about it?

Peter: I’m convinced—go back to earth but win this time,
okay girls?

FINALE

(Tune—‘It Was a Real Nice Clambake”)
Girls:

(To Politicians)

You didn’t make the grade, boys—

You didn't have the stuff—

Your friends, /they were

(Boys—enthusiastically): True

(Girls): Enemies?

(Boys—a little doubtfully): Few

(Girls): Experience?

(Boys—sadly): Not enough,

(Girls): Don't look so sad, you're going back home—

You should be feeling fine.

Come on, cheer up, be gay, boys,

We'll inyite you again some time.
One of the Boys:

When I'm back on State Street,
Sittin’ on my cushion,
T'll haye something on my mind

Merit

More than button pushin'—
I'll be working both day and night
For every state employee.
Perhaps if I'm good till November,
T'll be Tommy's favorite boyce.
Chorus:
Perhaps if I'm good till November,
T'll be Tommy's favorite boyee.
Gee!
St. Peter:
T've great respect for candor—
‘That's something hard to find.
I'm happy to see, professional
You fin'lly made up your mind.
Now let me sound a small warning note
To look before you leap—
You'll find that folks will judge you
By the company that you keep.

(Sadie enters. The Angels exclaim.)

Peter:
(To Sadie) Sadie, what's kept you?
Sadie:
Remember seven years ago you sent me
Back to the classifier?
L ain't really done no wrong
Or I couldn’t sing this song
Fitten fer an angel's choir.
Chorus:

tten fer an angel’s—

Fitten fer an angel’s—
Fitten fer an angel’s choir.

Sadi

hey got me in a room and examined me good,
Till I couldn't even stutter,
hen they let me set for a million days,
Cause they were in a mood to putter
Chorus:
Fitten fer an angel’s
Fitten fer an angel's
Fitten fer an angel's choir.

SADIE’S SONG
(Tune—“I Wanna Get Married”)

Everything is ready for the hearing—

the brief is 8 years old in one more weck—
‘The employees are dead or out on pension—
Earl Kelly it scems is playing hide and seck
And here I'm standing waiting, starry-eyed,
When will I get to be reclassified?

CHORUS

I wanna new title, I wanna get set,

I wanna make more pay, get more of that green hay,
1 wanna quit eaten spaghett.

‘They say that Civil Service is what you make it,

I know I've got what it takes,

But Kelly won't take it.

I wanna get settled, 1 wanna live well,

I wanna start cooin’ and spending my life doin’
‘The things J. Edward Conway can’t spell.

1 wanna cottage small where a railroad never stops-
I wanna sleep in pajama tops—
I gotta get classified.
2.
Yesterday I went to see Newt Bigelow,
But Hagerty very gently closed the door.
T told him I just had to get much more pay,
But out I came without a penny more.
L need someone to share this hour of bliss—
Please call the Governor up and tell him this:

CHORUS
3.

I wanna new title, I wanna get set,
I wanna make more pay, get more of that green hay,
I wanna quit eaten spaghett—
Let others take exams—I want an exempt one,
I'd like a deputy's job or Lockwood's position.
I wanna get settled, I got a passionate craze,
‘Tho’ Burton is so good, you know it feels no good
to-wait 7 years for a raise.
They say the thrill you get when they raise that take
home pay
Pays off on Election Day—
I wanna get allocated.
Devil:
I've kept silent long enough—
This angel's lying
While they were classifying
She tried to get her job EXEMPT. . .
She can’t deny it!

(The whole company is astounded. Peter goes to
Sadie, who has cringed away from the Devil, and lifts
her up. Seeing this everybody turns bravely to the Devil)
Chorus: Don’t be a drip—Get out!

St. Peter, seeing that everybody else is brave, gets on
the bandwagon. Devil cringes, turns suddenly facing

: (Screaming) Uncle Tom! Save us!

Chorus: No No Go Go No No Go Go No No No No
No—GET OUT! (But that doesn’t deter anybody.
The Attendants drag the Devil and his Attendant out.
Gradually everything settles back to normal.)

All: (Starting very softly). To Audience

‘This was a real nice clambake-

We're mighty glad you came.

‘The vittles you et

Were good we bet,

We wish we could say the same.

Your applause was warm—

Your laughter was good—

And we are feeling prime,

This was a real nice clambake,

And we all had a real good time,

We said it afore and we'll say ita

We all had a real good time!
YIPPEE!

(CURTAIN)

They’re Building It The

New Association Headquarters

“Talk” is easy. But “action” is what
really counts, There is a group of
members in each chapter that are
“acting” to assure the success of the
building fund. That group is the
Building Fund Committee. Members
of these committees are not merely
rendering “lip service.” They are
working hard and- merit the appre-
ciation and cooperation of every
Association member. Help them in
their work and pat them on the back.
They are unselfishly giving their
time and effort on your behalf.

For the sake of the “record” the
names of members of the Building
Fund Committees of the Chapters
throughout the State are printed
herewith. In some cases the building
fund committees do not include the
chapter officials who are likewise
“acting” to put the building fund
“over the top.”

Department of Agriculture and Mar-
kets, Albany Chapter: Elizabeth F. Gleason,
Charles W. Noxon, Alice D. Reilly, Spen-
cer Duncan, Dorothy Van Derzee, Perley
Eastman, Margaret E. Nial, Kathryn J.
Devine, Florence Van Noy, Mildred M.
Baxter, Lucia C. Damarell, Eleanor M.
Holmes, Isabel G. Fitzpatrick, Rhoda Green,
Dr. C. E. Safford, and Dorothy J. Smith.

Capital District Correction Department
Chapter: William J. Deere, Marie Loughlin,
Helen T. David, Werner A. Kosters, H.
‘Agnes Maloney, John J. Young, J. Stewart
Burton, May H. Raymond, Nora Mechan,.
Lorinda V. Day, Vera Weissenburger, Sarah
E. Wessels, Helen Upjohn, Charles Mullady,
Margaret King, Catherine Kosters,

Capital District Armory Chapter: Ran-
dall W. Vaughn, Anthony J. Stangle, Wil-
lard G. Walsh, Willard G. Landsberg,
Charles W. Jacobic, John L. Trumble,
Francis W. Morey, Howard W. Coonradt,
William W. Gregory,. Charles L. Moore,
and Frank D, Salmons.

Education Department Chapter: Lewis
Binns, Samuel Clements, John W. Albert,
Lloyd L. Cheney, Hazel Abrams, Ward
C, Bowen, Ethel Lansing, James O. Hoyle,
Mary S. Lindsey, Lillian D'Armit, Wayne
'W. Soper, Walter A. Le Baron, Agnes A.
Wall, Catherine La Rosa, William K, Wil
son, Edward S. Mooney, Hugh M. Flick,
John G. Broughton, William N. Fenninger,
Forrest Benjamin, William MacLean, How-
ard F. Konig, Dr. H. V. Gilson, Maric
Tracey, Irwin A. Conroe, Laura MacDowell,
John Connery, Ida M. Cohen, Mary R.
O'Brien, Mary Nerf, Ada Rixen, Samuel
Bohlin, Katherine Bender, Ralph D. Flem-
ing, Florence Boochvever, Martha Kern,
Marguerite Vine, and Arthur F. Ahr.

James E. Christian Memorial Health

38

Department Chapter: George Fisher, Betty
Slick, and Ellen McManus.

lic Works No. 1, Albany Chapter:
John D. McNamara, James B. White, Earl
Ingraham, Murray Sarr, Lowell Slocum,
Howard Green, Hurt Bean, Edith Near,
+P. Albertine, J. J. Murphy, Lawrence
O'Neill, Harry Maynard, Frank Finn, O.
Fortier, T. Burke, Frank Barber, John
Bennett and Frank Sand.

George T. Gilleran Memorial Public
Works Department Chapter: Virginia Wes-
sle, George Pearson, May Kelley, Charles
Scholtes, William Zeh, Carroll E. McCoy,
Edward Grennon, Raymond Klein, Cletus
Benjamin, Lenore ‘raver and Joseph La

leur.

Department of Social Welfare Chapter:
Eleanor C. Buchholz, Gladys L. Brown,
Edward Groeber, Harry Lohre, William
Stodart, Morris Weiner and Rendle Fussell,

Department of State Chapter: Louise
Kelly, Isabel Pattinson, Ann Farrell, Sadye
Rosen, Mrs. Margaret Burgess, Mrs. Helen
Nolan, Maetta Hazelum, Joseph J. Maloney,
Viola Zimmer, Mary Johnston, Joseph A.
Thaler and Rita Pickett.

State Department of Taxation and Fi-
nance Chapter: Henry LaBarba, John Hag-
gerty, Anne. McConville, Margaret Hussey,
Vivian Quarfordt, Matthew Dempsey, Ed-
ward Conroy, George Walsh, Alice Allen,
Gerald Ryan, Agnes Sullivan, Francis Ka-
vanaugh, Thomas Fealey, Martin McNulty,
Rita Lemieux, Hilda Strisower, Irma Phil-

pot.

Buffalo Chapter: Virginia Lotkowiak,
Robert Henks, James Wolcott, Leland Har-
rison, Martin Rowends, Mary McBride,
William Burke, Terrance McShane,
Blanche Norris, Germaine Hopkins, Bert
Wallace, Arthur Lesswing, Rita Kenny,
Leroy Hardy, Thelma Pottel, Celeste Rosen-
kranz, Aletha S. Kloepfel, Robert Hopkins,
Albert H. Ferguson, Norman. Stighmeier,
Genevieve Martin, Edward Schilke, Mar-
garet Donohue, Walter Bell, John Evanko,
Helen Wayne, Margaret O'Neill, J. Milford
Diggins, Marie A. Keller, Henry Lapp,
Justin Strunk, Frank English, C. Bartlett,
Jane DiAddario, Albert C. Killian, Peter
Juran, Katherine Stall, Otilia Busczkowski,
Edwin A. Keller, Joseph Midgley, Margaret
A. Miller, Regina Reidy, Mary Herbster,
Miss M. ‘Agnes Cassidy, Herbert Ashley,
and Michael Regan.

Ithaca Chapter: Mrs. Ruth Burt, Mrs.
Veda Lawson and Mrs. Mabel F. Ford.

New York City Chapter: Edwin C.
Hart, Jacob Ciering, J. Jennings Mahron,
Matthew McAvoy, James A. Dermody, Jane
Kiernan, Arthur H. Johnson, Carol Schloss,
Bernhard C, Riffel, Lucy Porcelli, Solomon
J. Heifet, Mrs, Elvira Hart, Alvin E. Bloom-
quist, Lt. Col. Leo Heyman, Foster A.
French, Harry A. Kisver, S. G. Ashkenazy,
Edward A. Kenny, Ruth Shaefer, Sol Ben-
det, Margaret Shields, Frank Newman,
Martin Vulpis, Francis J. Conlon, Salvatore
Anastasio, Helena Dickinson, Mrs. Marie
Doyle, William Teitelbaum, Carmelo In-

gegnieros, Benjamin Ungarten, Edward S,
Jackson, Kenneth A. Valentine, Joseph J.
Byrnes, Charles O’Boyle, Nora McAuley,
George A, Mortimer, Irene Dwyer, Kenneth
H, Brunjes, Mary O'Keefe, Nicholas Opol-
nick, Gregory T. McAllister, Leonard Aster,
Vera Burchnell, Joseph Pittari, John R.
Woods, Max Lieberman, Miss. Kathleen
York, Joseph Gil, John A. Masterson,
Walter J, Nolan, Jacob Crystal, Raymond
Corry, Vincent J. ‘Tyman, Thomas C. Bruns,
Max Lourie, Elizabeth Hixon, Harold J
Rourke, Fred Mayo, Ralph Ferruzzi, Mary
O'Callahan, Antonia Leshkowich, John J.
Dougherty, Nestor Aymong, John Dauer,
Edward Croft, Morris Perlman, Samuel
Bloom, Frank Wahman, Eric Singer, Vera
Engel, Joseph Klein, Hyman Feinstein,
Irving Sandler. :

Oneonta Chapter: Mary C. Volweider,
Ruth Stearns, Clarence Bull, Margaret
Wells, Ruth Howland, Harold H, Wedge,
Ellis H. Whitaker, J. Curtis Stewart, Ale-
thea L. Wilsey, James M. Terpenning,
Herbert Torrey, Agnes Williams, Gladys
Butts, Gordon Beams, and Lucille Brooks.

Rochester Chapter: Lucille Pennock,
Roger Travis, John’ J. Walsh, John D.
Smith, Charles Rudolph, Margratta Ban-
trell, Lawrence Cavanaugh, Newell Ferris,
Blanche Tillim, Madalyn Lauer, Charles
Gerling, Ruth Lazarus, William G. Gaffney,
G. S: Peters, Gertrude Newberry, Mallon
Kennedy, Glenn Huggins, Claire V. Ken-
delen; “Arthur Wasserman, Eleanor Gleas-
hon; Josephine Goddrich, Mary Pixley,
Donald Lyons, Samuel A. Frazette, Lester
A, Fanning, Olga Johnson, Vera O'Reilly,
Henry Hall, De Wain Feller and Mary
Sweeney.

Utica Chapter: Ethel Ehlinger,M. Ade-
aide Morgan, Angeline Cardinale, Joseph
Blase, Charles A. Hughes, Frank T. Ware-
ing, and Murray Shanahan,

Long Island Inter-County State Park
Chapter: George H. Siems, Marie A, Owen,
Katherine Cermes, Emanuel Somol, Clyde
H, Morris, Robert A. Donaldson, Michael
Sabia, Samuel Askoff, Elizabeth Carman,
Fred Pedersen, James L. Biggans, and
George E. Caffrey.

Southwestern Chapter: Leight J. Batter-
son, Oscar R, Lindberg, De Forest A. Mat-
teson, Robert C, Remington, John L. Burch,
G. Clair Phillips, John J, Phalan, Earl F.
Holdridge, Earl H. Brandt, Albert W.
Bergamon, Gerald J. Boyer, and Harold
Wadsworth.

Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Chapter: Angelo Donato, Thomas McGov-
ern, Le Roy Lemko, and Ruth Fowler.

Saratoga Spa Chapter: Adrian L,
Dunckel.

Attica State Prison Chapter: Lawrence
Slocum, Kenyon Ticen, Lawrence Law, N.
Waggoner, E. Schmidt, A. Meyers, and
Roland Clark.

Coxsackie Chapter: Harry Fritz, W.
W. Rice, Adelaide Zackary, Frank Foley,
Ray Morohn, Richard Prendergast, Howard
Pillsworth, J. M. Van Deusen, Edward

Merit

Feigel, Viola Dimmick, Thomas Hender-
son, Thomas Ladonsky, Francis Sullivan,
Russell Bedford, and Ervin Keinath.

Great Meadow Chapter: Frank B. Egan,
Leo M, Britt, Richard Woodward, James
Flannigan, Robert Leonard, Benedict
Kirkpatrick, John Mack, Asa Darling, Wal-
ter Fisher, and Leonard Havens.

Napanoch Institution Employees Chap-
ter: William A. Paterno, Harold Butler,
Arthur Draw, Le Roy Sherwood, and
Stanley Lawrence,

Mattewan State Hospital Chapter: Harry
Phillips, Albert Carr, Fred Haight, William
McCarroll, and Rocco Ferrone.

Sing Sing Prison Chapter: Arthur
Brown, Frank Leonard, Walter Smith,
William Feeley, Fred Rickert, and Ceasaer
Merone.

Westfield State Farm Chapter: Anna
G. Allen, Clyde Valien, Mary Kain, Fran-
ces Edwards, and Ruth Robinson.

Wallkill Prison Chapter: L. Frisco, J.
Kazmir, W. Ahearn, C. Irvine, W. Denno,
C. Doolittle, C, Braur, N. Henzel, J. Wicks,
E, O'Mara, V. F. Sutherland, E. Melville.

Woodbourne Prison Chapter: Ra
Johnson, Don Harvie, Victor Higgins, Vin-
cent Mancusi, and Richard Corcoran.

State College Chapter: Marguerite
Grant, Kathryn Fish, J. H. Bruckner, Ar-
thur Davies, James Watt, J. M. Briggs,
Ira Fowler, Fred Horton, Paul Swartwood,
John Liddell, and R. E. Matson.

Geneva Chapter: Bette Cullinan, Karl
Breitfeld, Jeanne Smith, Campfield,
Viggo Jensen, Peter Gigliotti, James Hef-
feron, Mildred Wharton, Josephine Mur-
phy, Roy Bergstresser, Robert Larsen, John
Shannon and Grant Stevens.

Hudson Valley Armory Employees
Chapter: Donald B, Heath, M. R. Borszio,
R. F. Woerner, W. S. Bennett, A. W.
McDonald, L. N. Greene, N. A. Carilli,
C, H. Outhouse; A. W. Aldrich, F. W.
Fanch, Ji.G. McCullough, S. A. Abraham.

‘New York State Armory Employees of
Syracuse and Vicinity Chapter: Le Roy
Short, Mauro J. Sciancalepre, Paul Brady,
William X. Daley, James P. Riffe, Joseph
E. Uhl, John C. Bell, Ward E. Brown,
William F. Gallagher, and Cornelius P.
Holleran. .

Armory Employees Chapter, Metropoli-
tan Area: Charles J. Smith, Fred Held,
Biogio Miccio, James Clifford, John J.
Pugliese, John Martin, Marty Ambrese,
Robert E. Pate, Charles Anderson, Joc
Ackerman, Jack M. Delisi, Henry Clark,
Martin J, McKenna, James J. Cassidy, Fred
Hoeferlin, William S. Court, Herman A.
Johnson,’ Edward J, Moore, Sidney Bate-
man, Adrian J. Jacques, William A, Dem-
arest, Edward Lattanzio, James Weissman,
Ben $, Carey, David Joyce, Edward Pfaff.

Mount Morris Tuberculosis Hospital
Chapter: John Barrett, Charles Cottone,
Mildred Grover, Grace Longhurst, Helen
Shores, Fletcher Sliker, Harry Westler.

Ray Brook Chapter: Albert McClay,
Vivian Fayre, Mary Reilley, Bill Langus,
Frank Witkowski, Eunice Cross, Martha
Fecuira, Albert Bersch, and Arthur Mac

in.
State Rehabilitation Hospital Chapter:
Joseph Cooney, Caroline Lamb, Ray Easton,
J. W. Townsend, Julia V. Reilly, Julia C.
Reilly, Olive Phillips, Caroline Earl, Mary
rmick, ‘Nora Quelch, Frances Part-
ridge, Lilly Shaw, and Rose Comerata.
Buffalo State Hospital Chapter: Harry

First Quarter 1948,

B. Schwartz, J Kieta, Marion Spell-
man, Fred Newland, Vincent Roarke, Mar-
garet Crowley, Marie Donovan, Bertha
Gannon, Leon Lewandowski, Katherine
McGowan, Thomas Loughlin, Anthony J.
Mahoney, Fred Conley, Reba Golden, Mary
L. Brown, Helen ‘Taravella, and Mary T.
McNella.

Central Islip State Hospital Chapter:
Frank Walsh, Lynn Dickson, Minerva De-
laney, Mabel Gilmartin, Georginia Wood,
Hannah Donlon, Lovetta Shaughnessy,
Marie McAdam, Alvira Bartells, Michael
Convery, Michael Brennan, Sam McMinn,
Donald Bellefeuille, William Leach, James
Fraser, Elizabeth Murphy, Elizabeth Reilly,
‘Andrew Morrow, Henry Schneider, Kath-
ryn Ely, William Meech, and Patrick
Murphy.

Craig Colony Chapter: J. Walter Man-
nix, George Northrup, B. Bedford, Glenn
Green, Sam Cippola, Willard Brooks, Helen
Carr, Bill York, J. F. Chichester, J. F.
Beurelein, John Hughes, Claudia McCarthy,
Emma O'Brien, Margaret Duffy, Louise
Little, Lucille Mackey, Helen M. Hurley,
Nellie’ Zukaitis, C. M. Jones, Laurena
Andrews, Thomas Bolton, Irwin Tucker,
and Warren Shamp.

Harlem Valley Beate Hospital Chapter:
Anna Bessette, Laurence Rourke, Paul
Becker, Irene Mason, Willis Markel, Pauline
Woodin, Evelyn Parsons, Gordon Carlile,
Rita Vogel, William Rice, Marvin Angel,
Bessie Smith, Lucy Cutolo, Victor Camp-
bell, Beatrice McGrail, Helen Murphy, Mil-
dred Sloan, and John Polulich.

fudson River State Hospital Chapter:
Mae E. McCarthy, Howard R. Chase, Dr.
Albert Lafleur, Grace de Cordova, Mary
Jane Freer, Sally Galbraith, Louis Garrison,
C.G. Nuhn, Theresa Bouyea, Mary O'Don-
nell, Elizabeth V. Ryan, Dave Jones, Jo-
hanna Williams, Ada Smith, John Burke,
Wilson Burke, Arthur Marx, Katherine

Keyes, Alice Docinck, Russell Murphy,-

Frank Cox, Victor Burgicl, A. Eitzen,
James Dingman, Aaron Decker, Edward
Britt, Donald Holden, Charles Veith, George
Magee, John Whalen, Julia Beck, Ruth
Van Anden, George Brown, George Beam,
Edith Chase.

Kings Park State Hospital Chapter:
Walter McNair, Constance Fox, Patrick
O'Rourke, Francis Ward, Fanny , Lule,
John McNair, Janet Speirs, Robert Steen-
son, William’ Reilly, Mary Reynolds, Bar-
tholomew Montefusco, Theresa Fritz, Paul

* Morin, William Barnes, Josephine Hoover,

Charles Meury, Elwood DeGraw, Irene
Sullivan, John Hoover, Richard Gilmer,
Emma Medwig, Edward Doughlas, Leon
Zawelski, Carroll Brown, Mary Reynolds,
Samuel McDaniels, Martha Wray, Mary
E, Dougherty, Frances Moten, Charles Car-
roll, Edward Foley, Anna McVeigh, and
Mary Lee Munro.

Letchworth Village Chapter: Hiram
Phillips, Roy Roby, John Harris, Jean Slinn,
Mina Hardt, Mary Hackett, Mary Perini,
Lillian Bodnar, Emilienne Ellsworth, Lois
Fraser, Henry. Sikorski, Lillian Babcock,
Mildred Abrams, Doris Rose, Mary Nied-
zwiecki, C. Philip Clouet, Arnold Hadden,
Ellen Lillico, Lyda Blanton, Mabel Badgett,
Harvey B. Hammond, Louise Spicer, Lela
Leonard, Rudolf Hommel, Arva Marvel,
Russell Charleston, Ernest Babcock, Dor-
othy Thiers, Nan D. Scales, Margart Bab-
cock, Barbara Ricker, Ruby DeBaun, Vir-
ginia Simmons, Charles K. Markle, Ar-

Frances Trought, Marie Comeau, Anna
Cox, Grace Wurreschke, Agnes McKenzie,
Helen Hogg, Helen Grant, Myrtle Mc
Gregor, Ambrose Margiotta, John Bennett,
Ellen Farrell, Gladys Davis, Robert Phillips,
Daniel McNulty.

Marcy State Hospital Chapter: Edna
Golden, Winifted Moffatt, William Jackson,
Donald Pultz, Howard Austin, Stuart Coul-
trip, Kenneth Livingston, Richard Buck,
Glenn T. Brennan, Fred Conroy, Roger
Eurich, Alma Steinbacher, Florence Traux,
Walter Kerr, Albert Cahill, George H.
Enos, Frank Pizer, Michael Zdeb, Frank
Wojcicowski, Richard Leonard, Jack Owens,
William H. Lawrence, Joseph Mezza, Paul
Rhodes, George Murphy.

Newark State School Chapter: Merton
Wilson, Melanie Purdy, Eva Welch, Edna
Van De Velde, Bernice McCaffry, Albert
Martin, Elmer Hartnagle, Glenn Fitzgerald,
Lois Tolner, Alice Walsh, Floyd Fitch-
patrick, Charles Harding, Benn Townley,
William Verbridge, Mary Popeck, Etheleen
Hannegan.

Pilgrim State Hospital Chapter: Fran-
cis Neitzel, Lee Donohue, Neva Schoon-
over, Louise Williams, Madge Koerning,
Dr. J. B. Lewis, Lloyd Hale, Leslie Lunder-
man, Aldege Belanger, Carroll Arth
Helen Arthur, Wesley Remond, Jennie
Henebray, John Schoonover, Katherine
Avery, Kathryn Elliott, Nettie Corbett,
Eva Hunter, James Leslie, Ercilia Schilling,
Preston Windus, Harold Wilson, Gene
Hughes, Joseph Mitzen, Frederick Kuhl-
man, Kurt Rheinhart, Eleanor Lunder-
man, Charles Burns, George Little, Ed-
ward Schultz, Alexander Kane, Leon Cor-
bett, David Bryan, Charles Mahoney,
Gladys Slight, Charles Thurston, Louise
Anderson, and Harold Abel.

Rochester State Hospital Chapter: Mar-
garet Ashby, Grace M. Charlton, Cathryn
E. Donlon, Ralph W. Englehardt, Harold
Feldman, Frank M, Glover, Louise Graham,
Charles F, Greene, Elizabeth M. Heagney,
Elmer ©. Henry, Charles M. Howell,
Czerny P. Hubbard, Arthur La Londe,
Ann Liberti, John A. McDonald, Marion
Muntz, Robert E. Nugent, Claude Rowell,
Joseph Scott, Mary Sullivan, George G.
Walzer, Harold Westling, Jerry Zugelder.

Fort Stanwix Chapter: N. Fifield, T,
Sampico, G. Kritzer, D, Wendt, M. Fair-
brother, L. Pardee, L. LaDuke, S. Dis!
J. McLaughlin, H, Smith, I. Patterson, 1,
German, J. Levinson, H. Hicock, L. Brown,
A. Johnson, M. Coe, G. Regner, F. Ear-
waker, Dr. Ralph L. Swanson, H. Shachoy,
E. Anson.

St. Lawrence State Hospital Chapter:
Helen Pierce, Clarence Stevens, Wilfred
Landry, Ernest Richardson, Clarence Kerry,
Charles Mitchell, Adeline Richey, Clarence
Linson, George Robertson, Carl Premo,
Irene Holmes, Daniel Cordick, Margaret
Ritchie, Florence Harper, Margaret Creigh-
ton, Eldred Edgerton, Blanche Spillman,
Rose King, and Matthew Roshirt, Sr,

Syracuse State School Chapter: Gladys
Holmauist, Mary Potter, Rosemond O'Neill,
Helen Jackson, Helen Herriman, Wilhel-
mina Miller, Roy Forward, Catherine Egan,
Evelyn Tiernan, Irma Twomey, Florence
Goulet, Edna Zube, Charles J. Ecker.

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A Housing

Can 40,000 Association members be served adequately
from two small rooms in the Capitol, loaned to the
Association by the State many years ago when the Asso-
ciation was small and its activities limited?

Can a staff of 14 operate efficiently in two rooms
originally planned for a single person, the President and
a part-time Secretary?

Can visiting members be welcomed properly and their
intimate problems be discussed properly when there is
neither quiet or privacy, but only constant interruption
and a roar of machines?

Can important staff representatives function efficiently
when they have no desks, no personal files, and even no
place to hang their hats?

The answer to all these questions is an emphatic—

NO.

At the last annual meeting, delegates representing
our 40,000 members throughout the State recognized
the vital need and went on record as to the remedy.
They voted:

“That the Association dedicate itself to an intensive
effort during the coming year to provide a suitable
building for its Headquarters in the City of Albany;

“That the President appoint immediately following
the meeting a Special Building Fund Committee
whose duty it shall be to study and arrange plans
for raising the money for such a building, and

“That the delegates pledge full support and assis-

tance in carrying out any and all plans of the
Building Fund Committee to the end that a build-
ing suited to the traditions and prestige of the
Association be provided at the earliest possible
time.”

The purpose of the new headquarters is to serve
YOU and every member. The success of the Head-
quarters Building Fund now depends upon the support
of EVERY member. Reports on the growth of the
Fund have and will be issued periodically until the
end of the drive on May 22, 1948. These reports show
how each chapter is supporting the Fund. It has been
suggested that based on the final report, a scroll be
attractively prepared containing the names of the Chap-
ters which have supported the drive 100%, and that
this scroll be framed and illuminated and placed on
display in the new headquarters as fitting testimony
to the chapters which have made the new quarters
possible. Possibly something of this sort will be done.

Every member, for his own as well as his fellow
worker’s sake, is urged to give wholchearted support
to the Headquarters Building Fund effort.

Problem

Through support of the Headquarters Building Fund,
YOU help to protect and promote YOUR own welfare
and interests.

SUPPORT YOUR HEADQUARTERS
BUILDING FUND
Opposite) Elditorial) Page

Adequate Headquarters Needed

YOU, and every member, have a
big stake in the future of the Asso-
ciation, in its ability to protect your
interests and promote your welfare.
Your job is important to you. So is
the organization which works every
day to improve your working con-
ditions—salaries, retirement, hours
of work, vacations, promotonal op
portunities and so forth. Upon the
success of this organization depends
to a considerable extent your future
happiness and welfare and that of
your loved ones.

YOU, as a member, own your
Civil Service Association, YOU, with
your fellow members, have equal
title in all its property. YOU wish
it to represent your interests fairly
and efficiently. To do this the Associ-
ation must have the necessary stafl
and ‘equipment and the ROOM for
both staff and equipment. In other
words, The Association’s HOUSING
PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED.

The space occupied by your Asso-
ciation Headquarters is about the
same as it was twenty years ago. In
the same time its staff has grown,
as has its membership and activity,
from one to twelve, plus two field
representatives, Lack of space greatly
handicaps. efficiency of operation.
Who suffers? YOU and every mem-
ber.

At the last annual meeting more
than 300 delegates of all chapters
unanimously approved a Building
Fund Campaign. They have visited
present headquarters and are person-
ally acquainted with the need. These

elected representatives have put our
40,000 members on record.

Following the delegates direction,
President Tolman appointed the fol-
lowing capable Special Building
Fund Committee:

Dr. Charles A. Brind, Jr., Ch:
man and former Association Presi-
dent,

Harry G. Fox, our Treasurer

Harry Fritz

Robert R. Hopkins, Chairman of
the Western Regional Conference

Arthur Marx

Francis A, McDonald, Chairman
of the Southern Regional Conference

Victor J. Paltsits, Chairman of the
Metropolitan Area Regional Con-
ference

Robert K.  Stilson,
Schenectady Chapter

Clarence W., F. Stott, Chairman of
the Central Regional Conference

John McNamara

Joseph D, Lochner, Executive Sec
retary, was appointed secretary to the
special committee.

The Special Building Fund Com-
mittee labored hard and brought
forth a plan to raise funds that has
been enthusiastically accepted
throughout the State.

Many interesting and worthwhile
suggestions have been received from
members relative to the make-up of
the new proposed headquarters. The
new quarters will be planned with
the primary objective of better and
more service to members. It is ear-
nestly hoped that the proceeds of
the building fund will enable the

President,

purchase of a building large enough
to provide some revenue to meet
operating costs of the building, pos-
ibly through rentals until the space
is needed for expanding Association
activities. Certainly every member
would like to see the Association
have rent-free headquarters for the
future.

‘The person who first said “money

talks” must have tried to purchase
real estate. The degree of success of
our building fund drive will deter-
mine just how adequate and fitting
the new headquarters will be. The
fundamental needs to assure efficient
service to members are: (1) Suffi-
cient business office space; (2) A
machine room to house addressing,
postage, duplicating and other ma-
chinery; (3) Executive office and
consultation rooms where members
may privately discuss their personnel
problems; (4) Small Meeting and
Conference Rooms for use of com-
mittees; and (5) Storerooms, All of
the above are lacking in the present
headquarters.
Many members and delegates who
it present headquarters for the
first time are pleased at the buzz of
activity on their behalf, but rather
disappointed by the physical set-up
and appearance. Adjacent to the
State Capitol are headquarters of
several state-wide organizations. In
comparison with the headquarters
set-up of these organizations, many
members expressed the belief that
their present inadequate headquar-
ters deters the prestige and impor-
tance of their Association.

ira
Welfare Dept., 112 State St., Albany
‘Ma: ‘Mahon

Treasurer! Public Serv-
ice Dept., State Office Bidg., Albany
Secretary: Eileen Dailey, Reti it Sys

CENTRAL NEW YORK

REGIONAL CONFERENCE,
Clarence W. F. Stott, RD 3,

Vice-Chairman: Margaret M. Fenk, 1223
York St., Utica 4

1. Florence A. Drew, 18 River-

Treasurer: Emmett J. Durr, Ray Brook

State Hospital, Ray Brook
METROPOLITAN,
REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Chairman: Victor J; Paltsits, 60 Old Midate-
town Rd., Pearl

Vice-Chairman: Jobo Lh Mop, Creedmoor
State Hospital, Queens Lol

Treasurer: Clyde’ H. Morris, ‘Long Island
State Park, Babylon, L. i,
Socrotary: Mra. Marie S. Lauro, Banking
Dept., 270 Broadway, New York City
SOUTHERN: REGIONAL CONFERENCE,
Chairman: Francis, MacDonald, State
‘Training School for Boys, State School,
Orange County,

Vice-Chairman: Harry W. Phillips, Mat
wan State Hospital, Beacon

Trea Rangwald 'H. Brusie, Wassaic
State School, Wassaic

Secretary: Mrs. Josephine M. Criscuolo,
State ‘Training School for Boys, State
School, Orange County

WESTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Chairman: Robert R. Hopkins, 78 Wilton
Parl Buffalo

shairm: \wrence Law, Attica

Prison, Attica

Secretary: Mrs, Dorothy Monroe, State

School for the Blind, Batavi

Treasurer: Mrs, Alice Wagner, 112 8. Clin-
ton St., Albion

ALBANY CHAPTERS

DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
‘ALBANY

President: Foster Potter, State Office Build-
_ ing, Albany:

Vice-President: Fred J. Frone

Secretary: Katherine P. Quilty

Treasurer: G, Wesley Callan

DEPARTMENT OF
AUDIT AND CONTROL CHAPTER,
Presi rank Conley, State Office Build-

Vico'Brecidonty Frank Cox
Secretary: Ethel Myers
Treasurer: Andrew Bogard
CAPITAL DISTRICT
ARMORY CHAPTER
Broudent, Willen 6. Bretearichy New Soot-

land Ave, Armory, Alt
vprmorg Gors Telana Z. "Anderson, ‘State

Armory, Gloversville
Secretary-’ Randall W. Vaughn,
New Scotiand Ave, Armory, Albany

CAPITAL DISTRICT
CORRECTION DEPARTMENT

President: Miss Agnes Dowd, State Office

Treasurer: Miss Marie Loughlin
CIVIL BERVICE DEPARTMENT
President: Theodore ‘Becker, Hoy Bldg, 39
lent: A
Columbia St,, Albany

42

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT CHAPTER

Temporary Chairman: Mildred O. Meskil,
112 State St., Albany

Temporary Secretary: Gordon H. Stedman
CONSERVATION, DEPARTMENT
CAPITAL DISTRICT CHAPTER

President: Earl J. McGuirk, 488 Broadway,

Albany
Mcrae leit Rosine Mullarkey
jecretary: Helen Barry
Treasurer: Joseph Leniioa
NEW YORK STATE
ahs de Tae OF eae
. CHAPTE!

PU.
ir AE Dr Shee, 42 N. Peal St,
Vice: wreutdent: J Joseph Redling, 42 N. Pearl

Secretary: baits Elisabeth 8. McKaight, 1279
‘broadway, Albany

Treasurer? Bart Dunn, 42 N. Pearl St,
Albany

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT CHAPTER

President: Albert B. Corey, Education Build-
ing, Albany

Vice-President: Mary B, Brewster

Secretary: L. Emilie Ruchti

Treasurer: Jane L. Bartelle
JAMES E, CHRISTIAN MEMORIAL

;ALTH DE! HAPT!

Presidents Frank J, Sraith, 33 Columbia St,
Kennedy Garage, Albany
Vice-President: John R. Clark, State Office

DIVISION OF
LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH
BANY CHAPTER
President: Baile Murdick, State Health

New Scotland Ave,, Albany
Vice-President; Dr Charles Grithn
Secretary: Miss Elaine L, MacArt
Treasurer: Mrs. Virginia D, Johnson
ALBANY CHAPTER
DIVISION OF PAROLE
Wm. E, Flanigan, 547 Broadway,
Albany
ice-President: Thornton F. Biaauboer
Secretary: Clarence Packman, Jr.
Treasurer: Miss Margaret C. Haggerty
ALBANY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
CHAPT!

President: John F. Miller, State Office

juilding, Albany.
Ist Vice-President: William Gundlach
nd Vice-President: Arthur Lamborn
Secretary: Frank Mahan
Treasurer: Frances Barker

eG UBLIC BUILDINGS CHAPTER
fis) Blaster Stata ORs

Vice President? Willem A. Allen

Secretary: Frank P. Bridgeman

Treasurer: Estelle M. Brady

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
ANY ER

ALB. CHAPT!
President; Cassis Kans, Gtate Office Build/

‘Assistant Marjorie Madigan
Treasurer: Edward Brady

PUBLIC WORKS #1,
ALBANY CHAPTER
President: Charles A. Van Der Voort, 853

GEO. T. GILLERAN MEMORIAL
PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. CHAPTER
President: John Cox, State Office Building,
Albany "yy

2:
a

Vice-President: Mary Jane Wilson
Secretary: Charles Hail
Treasurer:

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE

CHAPTER
President: Dr. ane ‘M. Schneider, 112
State St., Albi
Ist Vice-Precident: Mrs, Marjorie Roberts
2nd Vice-President: Mandel Swartz
Secretary: Miss Frances Hartman
Troanurer: Harold Davis
DEPARTMENT OF STATE CHAPTER
President: Edward L, Gilchrist, State Capi-
tol, Albany
Vice-President: Katherine Sheehan
Secretary: Anne S, R. Adams
Treasurer: Isabelle M. O'Hagan
STATE DEPARTMENT OF
TAXATION AND FINANCE CHAPTER
‘Administration,

Vice-President: Arnold
Secretary: A:
Treasurer: Louis Vella
MOTOR VEHICLE CHAPTER
President: John C. Collins, 504 Central Ave,
ny,
Vice-President: Matthew W. Fitsgerald
Secretary: Mrs, Alice Ws
Treasurer: Percy Capeau
EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM
CHAPTER

President: Thomas, Wehmeyer, 256 Washing-
ton Aver, Albany
Secretary: Jean McLaughlin

CITY CHAPTERS
BINGHAMTON CHAPTER
President: Ernest L. Conlon, ABC Board,
208 ‘Pree Sldg.s Binghargton
Ist Vice-President: Frank W. Bell, 425

Robinson St., Binghamton
2nd Vice-President: C. Albion Kenworthy,
3. Chenango St., Binghamton
Executive Secrotary: Albert E, Launt, 68
Davis St., Binghamton
Secretary: Mrs. Florence A; Drew, 18 River-
side St., Binghamton
Treasurer: Stuart H. Anderson, 1 Seminary
Ave., Binghamton
BUFFALO CHAPTER
i Miss Rovemary Fores, State Col
lege, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffal
Jet Vice-President Roy Abel) Fublie “Build:
, State Office Building, Buffalo
Secretary: Miss Berdena Dolberg, State Col-
lege, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo
Recording Secretary: Miss Agnes R. Kinney,
Division of Parole, 282 Delaware Ave,
Buffalo
Treasurer: Miss Grace Hillery, State Insur-
ance Fund, Walbridge Building, Buffolo
HORNELL CHAPTER
President: Charles Maher, Dept, of Public
Works, 30 W. Main St,, Hornell
Vice-President: C, W. Landon
Secretary: Judith Schreck
Treasurer: William LaShure
ITHACA CHAPTER
President: Mrs. Mabel Ford, Biggs Memoris!

Hospital,
Vice Presents Men Mra, Ruth Burt

Secretary: Mary Anne Zmek

Treasurer: Tracey Tobey

NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER
President: Michael L. Porta, Room 905, 40
Centre St,, New York City

Ist Vice-President: Wil

Preside

Secretary: K. A. Valentine
etiieth Joseph W. Byrnes
ONEONTA CHAPTER
President: Mrs, Gladys A. Butts, Contervs
tion Dept., 140 Main St,, Oneonta
Vice-President: Herbert Torrey,
Folks Hospital, ta

Homes

Merit
Sti,
jce-P resident: Lillian M. Wilson, State Em-

ployment Service, 32 State St., Rochester
Secretary: Ann Stutz, State Insurance Fund,
65 Broad St. petsiertend
Treasurer: Lucilie Pennock, Dept. of Agri-
culture & Markets, 65 Broad St.,
Rochester
SYRACUSE
Pitt Doris ere Dept. of Labor,

214 §, Warren St., Syracuse
tat Viee-Breeidants Mls Catherine Powers,

meyer, State Insurance Fund, Syracuse
Secretary! Miss Ida. Meltzer, ‘Workmen's
fiepcp ken Guba)
Treasurer: Jc Mercurio
‘Tax paces

UTICA CHAPTER

President: Edward J. Riverkamp, Tax Dept.

231 Bleecker St., Utica

ViceEreeldent: Chatles Hughes, D.P.V.
ica

Ella E, Weikert, Tax Dept,

Treasurer: Sophia Perry, State Employment
Service, Utica

CONSERVATION CHAPTERS

SARATOGA SPA CHAPTER
President: ‘Thompeon R: Temple, 26 Madison

aa anos

Vice-1 Schrade, Saratoga
Gplicas Authority; Baratousi@ocings
Secretary: Adrian L, Dunckel

Treasurer: Hazel Folts

FOREST PROTECTION CHAPTER

President: Arthur H. Walsh, Conservation
Dept., 62 North St,, Middletown

Lut Vice-President: Peter. Sarnecky,, Monroe

2nd Vice-President: I. F, McCowan, Norwich

Secretary: Aaron Van De Bogard, Mt,

‘remper.
Treasurer: Daniel O. Showers, Tannersville

GAME PROTECTORS CHAPTER
President: James Welsh, Box 613, New-

urgh,

Vice-President: Arthur Christ, Coram, L. I.

Secretary: Norris Sutherland, 19 Prospect
8t,, Williamson

Treasurer: Ralph Mayo, 47 Utica St., Lock-
port

LONG ISLAND INTER-COUNTY
STATE PARK CHAPTER
President: Geo. H. Siems, Woodward Ave.,

Wantagh
1st Vice-President: Fred Pedersen, 81 E.
‘Valley Stream Bivd,, Valley Stream
eviews Broeitertieee Michael Sabia, 606
range St.,
Financial Secretary: Clyde H. Morris, 507
Orange St., Be
Corresponding eorataryel mayer E B. Good-
win, 27 Emerson Ave., Baldi
Recording Secretary: Neues D, Miller, 49
Willow Place, Bs
Treasurer: Emanuel Sorat,

76 Rosebud

‘Ave., Merrick
NIAGARA FRONTIER CHAPTER

Treanurer: Chatles W. Van Buskirk

SOUTHWESTERN CHAPTER
President: Noel F, McDonald, Red Hor
Vice-President: Bart Holdridge, 105 2nd St,

ittle Valley
pe Mis Mary C. McGuire, 24 Penn
‘Ave,, Salamanca

Treasurer: Arthur J, Roscoe, Red House

PALISADES INTERSTATE, PARK

President: Angelo J. Donato, Highland Falls
ico. dent aaa ern, RFD
1, Orangeburg

Secretary: Miss Nellie Gunn, Fort Mont-

gomery
Treasurer: Frank Woska, 77 Clove Ave.,
‘Haverstraw

First Quarter 1948

EDUCATION CHAPTERS
VETERANS’ VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

President: Veterans’ Vocs
ara, Fakes. or Dads,

Teor,
Secretary: Hermit Eckert
qT ‘Donald

ATTICA STATE PRISON CHAPTER
President: Lawrence R. Law, 18) Prospect

Attica
Vice Senden Howard Strange, 195! Ex-

AUBURN PRISON CHAPTER
President: Carmen Colella, + uburn State

CLINTON PRISON CHAPTER
President: Reginald L, Stark, Clinton Prison,
Ds

annemora
Vice-President: Harold Corcoran
Secretary: John Wa. ner
Treasurer: Frank Kaufman
COXSACKIE CHAPTER
President: James ‘J. Walsh, P. O. Box 200,
‘West Coxsackie

Vico Presidents Wilbur E. Quinn
Secretary: Viola Dimmick
Treasurer: John Longthon

DANNEMORA STATE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER

Dannemora

Herman E. Casddy, 217
Seoratary: Pater “M. Calabrese, 728 West 3rd

3
Carey, 504 Maple Ave.,

‘reasu!
Elmira

GREAT MEADOW CHAPTER
President: Frank B. Egan, Great Meadow
Prison, Comstock.
Vice-President: Asa Darling
Recording Secretary: James Flanigan
Financial Secretary: Benedick Kirkpatrick
Treasurer: Kenneth Bowden
NAPANOCH INSTITUTION
EMPLOYEES CHAPTER
President: Harold Butler, Napanoch Insti-
tute, Napanoch
Vice-President: Arthur Drew
Secretary
Treasurer: Stanley Lawrence
MATTEAWAN STATE HOSPITAL
APTE!

CH R
President: Harry Phillips, 28 Spring St.,

Beacon
Vice-President: William Hayden, Matteawan
State Hospital, Beacon
Secretary: Walter’ Hurst
SING SING PRISON CHAPTER
President: Fred W. Koopmann, Sing Sing

Vice-President: James Adams
Secretary: Fred’ Riekert
Treasurer: William Feeley
WALLKILL PRISON CHAPTE!
President: Edward F. Melville, Box G, wall:

tat Vico President: Eugene J. Sullivan
nd Vice-President: Vincent F. Sutherland
Secretary: Bernard J. Kiernan

Treasurer: All ly

WESTFIELD STATE FARM CHAPTER
President: Everett H. Quinn, Westfield State

‘WOODBOURNE PRISON CHAPTER
President: Ray Johnson, Woodbourne State

Vice Presidents Doo Harvie
Secretary: Vincent Mancusi
Secretary: Richard Corcoren
Higgios

Treasurer:

STATE COLLEGE CHAPTER
President: Mise Helen B. Musto, 203 W.
Seneca St., Ithaca
View President! J. H1. Bruckner, RD 1,
Secretary: A. Davies, Van Rensselaer Hall,
aioe ies,

‘Trearurer: J. Watt, 307 Stewart Ave., Ithaca

‘E CHAPTER
Preident Raynor W. Wallace, Lets Ags
iture & Technical Institute, Farming:

Vice-President: George Silvera

Secretary: Mrs, Lucia Mulligan
Treasurer:, Ernest Beckwith

GENEVA CH

|APTER

President: Alvin Hofer, RD 2, Phelps

Vice-President: Kart Breitfeld, Lewis St.,

Secretary: Esther Baumgartner, Castle St.,
Geneva

Treasurer: Bette Cullinan,
Gen

William St,
eva,

EXECUTIVE CHAPTERS

thouse, Peekskill
Vice-President: Wilfred 8, Bennett, Middle-

Secretary: Robert H. Wolters, Peokalail
Treasurer: Arthur W. McDonaid, Mt. Vernon

MID-STATE

ARMORY EMPLOYEES CHAPTER
Acting Serene Byron A. Chrisman, State

N. Y. 8. ARMORY EMPLOYE!
Preidnt: James P, Fusion, Sta had
ames P, Furlong, i
Genesee 8t., 5;

‘reasurer:
217 Cedar St., Oneida

ARMORY EMPLOYEES CHAPTER
METROPOLITAN AREA
President: Frank Gonsalves, 71 Regt. Ar-

mory, 105 E, 33rd St., New York City

WESTERN NEW YORK
ARMORY EMPLOYEES CHAPTER
President: George A. Labes, State Armory,

‘on

Vice-President: Clifford G, Asmuth, State
ester

Secretary: Joseph F. Kenney, State Armory,

falo
Treasurer: Milton E. Klein, State Armory,
Buffalo y
HEALTH CHAPTERS
ot EAT WICE. C CHAPTER
pen, State Institute,

2 Theodore Stor
603 2 N. Oak St., Buffalo
‘Mrs. Margaret

MOUNT MORRIS
TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL CHAPTER
President: Mrs. Cecelia Connor, State Hos-

pital; Mount
Vice-President: Joseph Mauro
Secretary: Miss’ Ruby Bryson
Treasurer: Mrs, Cora Bryant
RAY BROOK CHAPTER
President: Emmett J. Durr, State Hospital,
Vice President: Clyde P

resident: erry

Secretary: Albert

Treasurers Themen MeDoaala

43

MENTAL HYGIENE CHAPTERS
BROOKLYN STATE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER

President: William J, Farrell, Brooklyn State
‘Hospital, 681 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn
Vice-President: Lida C, MacDonald
Seoretary: Katherine I. Collins
Treasurer: George Farrell

BUFFALO STATE HOSPITAL CHAPTER

STATE H HOSPITAL CHAPTER
Presidents Michael J. Mi 4 Central Islip
tate Hospital, Central
Vice-President: Donald J. Bellefeuille
Seoretary: Mrs. Catherine Ely
Treasurer: Mrs. Elizabeth Kleinmeier
CRAIG COLONY CHAPTER
President: J. Walter Mannix, Craig Colony,

‘Sonyea

Vice-President: George Northrup

Secretary: Beulah Bedford

Treasurer: Glenn M. Green

CREEDMOOR CHAPTER

Berea een a Jokes aa Maret Greedmonc
State Hospital, Queens Vill

Vice President: Charlee A. Kimble

Secretary: Helen C. Peterson

Treasurer: Kenneth J. Roseboom

HARLEM VALLEY STATE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER

President: Paul O. Becker, Harlem Valley
State Hospital, Wingdal

Vice-President: Willis Markle

Secretary-Treasurer: Mrs, Anna M. Bessette

GOWANDA STATE HOSPITAL

CHAPTER
President: Frederick Milliman, Gowanda
State Hospital, Helmuth
Vice-President: Gunnard A. Nelson
Secretary: Priscilla Harvey

Treasurer: Herbert L. Meyer

HUDSON RIVER STATE, HOSPITAL

1
State Hospital, Kings Park

Vice-President: Walter McNair

Secrotary: Emma Medwig

Treasurer: McDermott

LETCHWORTH VILLAGE CHAPTER

President: Hiram Phillips, RFD, Stony

Point
Vice-President: Roy Roby, RFD, Stoay

nt
Corresponding Secretary: Mina Hardt,

‘Thiells

Treasurer: Jean A. Slinn, Thiclls
MANHATTAN STATE HOSPITAL
CHAPTE!

President: John Wallace, Manhattan State

Hospital, Ward's Island 35, New York
Ist Vice-President: Dennis J. O'Shea
Robert Martin

Ulrich
Bnd Vice-President: Alfred Whitaker, 6c.
Nichols!

NEWARK STATE | pene CHAPTER

President: L. Soper, State School,
$29" Church B St, Newark

Vice-President: Merton Wilson

44

President: Frank Neitzel,
pital, Brent

eaerenta Charles D. Burns

jecretary: Koernig

Treasurer: Louise S. Williams
ROCHESTER STATE HOSPITAL

EMPLOYEES CHAPTER.
J. Gerald Zugelder, 71 Sherwood
Rochester

Elinora Ayrault, State
Hospital, 1600 South Ave., Rochester
Secretary-Treasurer: Miss Howell
ROCKLAND STATE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER
President: Fred Seminara, Rockland State

President: Herbert Jones, $05 Expense Bt.,

e

Vice-President: Owen Jones, Rome State
‘School, Rome

Secretary: Mrs, Helen Mahoney

Treasurer: Mrs. Ruth C, Stedman

ST. LAWRENCE STATE HOSPITAL

CHAPTER

rgesens Moesie Etecces Ot, Lawrence] State

SYRACUSE STATE SCHOOL CHAPTER

President: Frederick J. Krumman, State
School, Syracuse

Vice-President: Felix Munn

Treasurer: James McEneny

Secretary: Mrs, Marie Jones

UTICA STATE HOSPITAL CHAPTER

President: Margaret Fenk, 1223 York St.,
Utica

Vice-President: Vincent P. Karwaski, 2009
Louis St., Utica

Secretary: Gertrude Payne, State Hospital,
Utica

Treasurer: John W. Kauth

WASSAIC STATE SCHOOL CHAPTER

President: Nelile Innocent, tate School,

Vice Predident: Frank Barnish

Secretary: Adeline Foley

Treasurer: Rangwald Brusie

WILLARD STATE HOSPITAL CHAPTER
Hresdosts, Kae Edward N. Limner, State Hos-
Vice President! Francis Peltz

PUBLIC SERVICE CHAPTER
PUBLIC SERVICE
MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTORS
CHAPTER
President: Joseph J. Lettis, 89-17 219th St.,
‘Queens Village, L. I.
Vice-President: William H, Selisbury, 240
le Ave., Syracuse
2nd _ Vice-President: cecnetine F, Shea, 43

ane Haas Ice Lang, 569 W.
184th St,, New York City 3:

PUBLIC WORKS CHAETERS

Breeldent: Peter Miller, P.O. Box: 6, Hudeon
Vice-President: Asthut’§
Secretary: ‘Parsons
Teper tek Donald Weaver

GE CANAL CHAPTER
Presidents © George J. Eddy, 334 South St.,

Vice-President: Thomas J. Welsh, Box 111,
‘Wynantskill
Secretary-Treasurer: Otho Burkhart, Gasport

Bornheimer, Ly
ViegPresidents Joba Dui, $08 Hood Ave,
Secretary: Joseph Grieves, Minneto

EASTERN UNIT BARGE CANAL
President: William Beebe, 33 Brunswick

Vice Presider Wesley Ne 2 Fifth St.
2 ary, d
Waterford

EAST CENTRAL UNIT BARGE CANAL
President: R. H. Peters, 1410 Kellogg Ave.,

itica
Vice-President: Harold Bennett, RFD 5,
‘Rome

Secretary: M, B. Atkinson, Whitesboro

WEST CENTRAL UNIT BARGE CANAL
Vice Presidents J Wicbele,
'ice-President: jebele,
Secrorary-Troamrert"L. W. Below, Be. Boz

307, Rochester

WESTERN UNIT BARGE sCoN
President: Otho Burkhart, Gas}
Vice-President: Ralph Beebe, 13 Monroe St,

Secretary: A. W. Lilley, 9 Beattie Ave.,
tareih Gece Eddy, 334 South SI
a ys ts,
‘Lockport

pSHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER
George) Haaley;//349)/ Lord) 8)

 nkitl
Vica-Presidents’ William X, Beaty SE
Central Ave., Silver Creek, N.
Sec, & Treanureri Hermon 8, Dea "6 Pull
man » NL.
ate CHAPTER
President: Arthur TH. Laitten, c/o State

ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS
CHAPTE)
President: Ralph Swalm, 121 Sprague Av
Middletown, N, Y.

Vice-Preeidents Jacob G. Sayer, 6 Crescent
iddietown, N.Y.

, Box 214, Otisville,

Treasurer: J, Heater, RFD 3, Middletown,
‘New York
PUBLIC WORKS
DISTRICT #2 CHAPTER
President: John R. Rosrykiewicr, Dept, Pub-
ic Wka., 109 No. Genesee St., Utica,

New worl

Vice-President: Edward W. Perry
Secretary: Evelyn F. Bell

Financial Secretary? Lilian H, Peckinarn
Treasurer: L, Lavern Cheney

President: Dominic Man

Rochester,
Vice-President: Joh, Gallivan
Treasurer: John Wurme

Secretary: Marie St. La

President: Frederick G. “Fox, Box 551

tn View Prodden iam V, Close
nd Vice-President: V, Roach
Secretary: Hazel D. Pvaish
Treasurer: F, A, Fetter
ST. LAWRENCE STATE
PUBLIC WORKS CHAPTE!
resides) eee Baraiend:| 452 (08% St

Vico-Freside
Ogdensbury
Secretary: HH. "Fitzgibbon, 819 Knox St.,

Ogdensburg,
Treasurer: Roy f i eictart 332 Linden &t.,
Ogdensburg, N.Y.

aris Fitzgerald, Box 21,

DISTRICT #10

William
Vice President: EG. Dean
Secretary: Margaret Esposito
Treasurer: D. A, Weaver
NEW YORK STATE
BRIDGE AUTHORITY CHAPTER

President:
Se Aloysius H. Curran, 15 So. Sixth
8t., Hudson, N. ¥.

Merit

"THOMAS INDIAN SCHOO!
UROGUGIS)

President: Michael Brennan

Vice-President: Celia M. C. Latosi

Secretary: Helen Cross

Treasurer: Gladys Murrman

peor hnces hee) SCH

(OOL, CHAPTER

‘ATE SCHOOL)
President: Francis MacDonald
Vice-President: Ralph H Joos
Treasurer: Michi

1 J. Fitzgerald
Jocophing 'M- Criseuolo
NEW HAMPTON CHAPTER
President:
Hampton, N. Y.

INDUSTRY CHAPTER
President: Clifford B. Hall, Industry, N.Y.
Vice-President: George Wolts
Ss Mildred: Finch
Treasurer: Louis Jasnau
OXFORD CHAPTER—(W.R.C. HOME)
President: Mrs. Margaret Dutcher
Vice-President: Reba Claire
john Wallace
John Carney

COUNTY CHAPTERS
BROOME CHAPTER
att, ‘Tyler, Court House, Bing-

HEMUNG CHAPTER
President: ‘Gienn Fr Culver, County Highway

‘Mra, Jessio Hungerford,
Office, Eimii

a

Francis J. Jurisik, 520

Elmira

Sed Vice-Pres lent; Miss Isabelle Jennings,
Welfare Dent 409 Fairway Ave., Elmira

Secretary: E. Paull, Maintenance &
Comnraction 228 Lake St., Elmira

Treasurer: Mrs, Marion Goldsmith, County
‘Treasurer's Office, 230 Lake St., Elmira

JEFFERSON CHAPTER

President: Sheldon G. Stratton, Welfare
Dept., Watertown

Ist Vice-President: George B, Daniels, Pub-
lic Works Dept., Watertown

And Vice-President: Mra, Evelyn C. Kellog,
‘St, Case Worker, Children's pivialon!
Watertown

Std Vice-President: John A. Ward, Probation
‘Watertow'
faryi'Bire, Agnes Bence, Welfare Dept,
Watertown,
Treasurer: Mrs, Doris Clark, County Clerk’s
Office, Watertown
ONONDAGA CHAPTER

Presidents Vernon A. Tapper, Dept of Parks,

. 109 N, State St., 8:

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER
Predidenti Guorge Flach, P.O, Box 73,

Earl Boyce

joris Earle

George W. Rude

ROCKLAND CHAPTER

: Gerald Byrnes, Greenbush Rd,

#1, Orangeburg, N.Y.

: rd A. Benson,

ST. LAWRENCE CHAPTER

President: Philip L, White, 928 Caroline St.,
Ogdensburg, N.Y.

{at Vice-President: Elmer , Jenkins, Carl.

tnd Vice President: Frank R, Gillcon, Mor-
riston, N.Y.
Jed Vice-Presic

nt: Stanley: Hosolett, Pots+

dam, N. ¥,

4th Vice-President: James E. Kane, Can-
ton, N.Y,

Secretary: Mrs. Mary Manning, Ogdensburg,
lew York

Treasurer; Miss Jane Wallace, Ogdensburg,
‘New. York

First Quarter 1948

les Davis, Box 4, New”

SUFFOLK CHAPTER
President; F. Bianco, P, ©. Box 516, Babylon
Vice-President: Williem J, Burns

ident: B, O'Donnell

Vice-Preeidentt A: Becea
Vice-President: L. A. Walker
Secretary: R, Rubino
Treasurer: H, Ruland

ULSTER CHAPTER
President, A. Foster WisHeld, 170, Ten
3 ve

jroec] Kingston
Vice-President’ fred L, Van Deusen
‘ice-President: James P, Martin
Financial Secretary: Robert Baylor
Recordi

ling Secretary: Eatel
Froanuret! Bred Paulus

WESTCHESTER Cl

HAPTER

Bree tens tees eit SEG ses 827)
White Pi

Chairman Board of Directors: J. Allyn

Stearns
CLINTON CHAPTER
Previdenti Frances peeeney) County Wel-
fare Office,
Lat Vice- Preatent Edward Lavigne, Gurro-

nd. President: Elsie Milliete, County
Welfare Office

Sta Vice-President:
Sheri

Ogilman Bourgerie,

Secretary: Tperthe Pinsonnault, County Wel-
fare Office

Tresnurer: Mildred Reeves, County Clerk's

FRANKLIN CHAPTE)
President! Alvin J. MeKee, 73° Constable
it, lone

ice-President: Fred A. Wright, Court

House, Malone

2nd Vice-President: Mrs. Anna Hinman

Secretary: Miss Lucille Le Roux, Court
‘House, Malone

Treasurer: Mrs, Bernice Earl

CHAPTER
John J. Graves, Fire Dept.,

‘reasurer: Mrs, Frances Warren

NIAGARA CHAPTER
President: Howard Kayner, County Court

louse, Lockport,
1st Vice-President: William Leyden, Wel

artment

and Vice Presidents Clarence Salmons, High-
way Department

‘3rd Vice-President: Charles Daboll, Sana-
torium

Secretary; Anna Ziehm, County Clerk's

4
Treasurer: Winfield Mang, Sheriff's Office

HOLT-HARRIS
(Continued from Page 24)

portant than this, is the fact that sig-
nificant precedents have been created,
The passage of the Mitchell-Van
Duzer bill should be regarded by all
Civil servants as one of the most
important pieces of Civil Service
legislation since the enactment of the
Feld-Hamilton Law. All told, the
membership has every reason to con:
gratulate itself for its untiring efforts
to improve the Merit System and in
so doing to improve working con-
ditions fy every public employee,

A MESSAGE
TO STATE
EMPLOYEES:

Why not syphon some of
your additional paycheck
money from the spending

stream into non-inflation-
aty Government Securi-
ties?

You will be storing up
future buying power when
you inctease your payroll
savings deductions for
U. S. Savings Bonds, and
you will be reaffirming
your faith in the American
way of life by becoming
larger shareholders in the
Bteatest free enterprise on
earth, The United States
of America.

(Signed) Wm. L. Pfeiffer
Deputy State Comptroller

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THEY'RE BUILDING
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Utica State Hospital Chapter: Mildred
‘Agne, John W. Kauth, Rose McKenna,
Vincent P. Karwacki, George Cook, Har-
old Besse, Kathryn Szczesny, Virginia
McDonough, Flora Zane Wright, Hilda
McGuire, Louise Johnpoll, Adolphe Des-
groisiellier, Watkin Perry, Genevieve Max-
well, Frances E. Hackett,

‘Wassaic State School Chapter: Herbert
Nelson, Thomas Ahearn, Frank Barnish,
Rangwald Brusie, Helen Sweeney, Mary
Yegella, Thelma Carl, Margaret Grogan,
Edna Barth, Clarence Crawford, Madeline
Davis, Beatrice Harrison, Ethel West, Jack
Dempsey, Adelaide Tripp, Stella Warren,
Alice McCrystal, Charlotte Burke, Annic
Wilson, Laura Remsberger, William Shaef-
fer, Alvin Sedore, Ruverner Ward, Ludwig
Haferkamp, Edwin Hammond, Gilbert
Smith, Rose White, Carl Sabo, Margaret
Flanagan, Minnie Andrews, Mildred Doty,
Maude Minogue, Adeline Foley, Nellie
Innocent, Dorothy MacDonald,

Columbia County Public Works Chap-
ter: Peter Miller, Arthur F. Spath, Charles
Parsons, and Donald Weaver.

Public Works District No. 2 Chapter:
John R. Roszykiewicz, Edward W. Perry,
Lillian H, Peckham, L. Lavern Cheney,
Walter ‘T. Hayes, Arthur T, Madison,
Llewellyn Jones, Carl Davies, Fay C, Hul-
bert, Fitzhugh Vogan, Werner Brown,

. Louetta G. Keller, Lester H. Krich, Joseph

e ce Harry F. McQuade, and Evelyn
Rochester District No. 4 Public Works
Chapter: Charles Dinnelly, Bert Goyette,
Walter Phillips, William Bristow, Joseph
Martin, Driher, Frank I. Fuller,
Charles MacKenzie, and Harry Bailey.

District No. 8 Public Works Chapter:
William F. Close, H. B. Armstrong, J. A.
Brady, D. V. Z. Bogert, J. Edelstein, J.
F. Miller.

District No. 10 Public Works Chapter:
W. A. Greenauer, J. McAree, R. Watts,
Henderson, M. Hammond, E. Kennelly,
E. Maher, D. C. Dezendorf, J. hates
George Burt, C. Pearsall, F. Hirsch.

New York State Training School Chap-
ter: Beatrice McDonald, William J. Con-
nally, Julia Johnson, Isabel McKenzie,
Frank Miller, Harriet Kendall, Bertha
Boice, G. Z. Adducchio, Charles Tiano,
John Deyo, Harry King, and Marylynn
Pierce.

Oxford Chapter: Stuart Holdridge,
Sylvia McGowan, Raymond Barber, Wil-
liam Miles, John Carney, Mildred Man-
warren, Lillian Gray, and Ralph Mowry.

Niagara Chapter: Paul Pils, Alice Gam-
mon, Joe Police, Agnes Judd, Madalyn
Rosenbaugh, Ethel Redhead, Arthur Bar-
ger, Renetta Rausch, Forrest Maxwell, Eliz~
abeth Doyle, William Ackerson, and Grace
A. Brett.

* Wetterhahn,

Suffolk Chapter? William F. Reylek,
Edna A. Mills, Henry D. Newton, June
Sposato, Alice Parks, Julia Smyrski, Jessie
Dahl, William J. Burns, and Henry C,
Ruland.

St. Lawrence Chapter: George Bros-
soie, Yale Gates, William S, Mead, E,
Stanley Howlett, Roy W. Countryman,
Ruth’ Venier, Elizabeth P, Whalen, and
Nona G. Dunn.

Steuben Chapter: Catherine V. Canny,
William M. Groesbeck, William G. Look,
Jean A. Curry, George M. Crippen, Harold
L, Richardson, Harold McGuire, Helen
Manning, and Cora E. Kittle.

Ulster Chapter: Rosemary Jones, Edwin
Thomas Hart, William F,
Miller, Harry Seitz, and Harry Sweeney.

Westchester Chapter: Wesley Dennis-
ton, Bernice McKibben, Lester Conkling,
Theresa M. Irving, Margaret M. Luongo,
Francis I. McGrath, Viola Berg, Julia
Dugan, Anna De Salvo, Esther Huzarsky,
Anthony Grasso, Mr. Dowdell, Anthony
Idarola, Joseph Petrillo, Anthony Paradise,
Charles B. Henry, George W. Gordon,
Michael A. Russo, Eugene F, Ash, Mar-
garet M. Hughes, Mary E, Brichter, Doro-
thy Baker, Mary De Nardo, Helen F.
Turner, Ralph Anderson, William J. West,
Rachel E, Rux, Karl Reichlein, Merrill
Shoemaker, Reed Ferris, Delos J. McKins-
try, Ruth Irwin, Wilbur F, Curran, Michael
J. Cleary.

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inclusion on the official ballot. Pro-
posed by the Social Welfare Chapter.
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‘That the Constitution be amended
to provide that any regional confer-
ence, once admitted to the Associa-
tion, continue to enjoy full rights of
Tepresentation on the Executive
Committee and Board of Directors
until the charter of such regional
conference is abrogated and an-

nulled. Proposed by the Central
Conference.

That Article VI of the Constitu-
tion be changed to read as follows:

(The bold type is new)

“Section 1. County executive com-
mittee. The power and authority to
transact business relating to employ-
ees of the political subdivisions of
the state shall, except as otherwise
provided herein, be vested in a

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porary, provisional and war duration
appe.ntments were made and com-
petili ¢ examinations were necessar-
ily deierred to give veterans full op-
portunity to compete for positions in
the public service. Today nearly
10,000 competitive positions are filled
by employees who, without examina-
tion, hold temporary or provisional
appointments of one kind or another.
The following table, contained in
the last report of the Civil Service
Commission demonstrates the prob-
lems that face us and the efforts that
are still required to extend the com-
petitive principle “as far as prac-
ticable.”

State Employees Under Jurisdiction of
State Civil Service Commission

Total
Unclassified... ad 562
Exempt .... : 1,348
Exempt Labor .... 4,895,
Non-Competitive 9,191
Competitive (total) 42,746
Permanent 436
‘Temporary.
eligible list e575
Temporary: ling can-
vass of eligible list...... 1,188
Temporary—military sub-
stitute pr war duration.. 1,445
Provisional... 6,712
Other temporary 390
‘Total employees 58,842

Hundreds of non-competitive em-
ployees, at Dannemora, Matteawan,
Westfield and Albion, for example,
can and should be placed in the com-
petitive class.

‘Vhe list of what must be done in

he

ny,
ae

future years could be extended indefi-

nitely. The improvement and ex-
pansion of in-service training, em-
ployee operated cafeterias in our in-
stitutions, the constant improve-
ment of personnel administration
and civil service examination tech-
niques are but a few of the many ob-
jectives that could be emphasized.

Progress during the past ten years
has been spectacular in its steady
growth, yet no one adyance, by itself,
can be said to be spectacular. Ad-
vances have, nevertheless, been made
without strikes or threats of strike.
Progress from year to year has at
times seemed painfully. slow, but
when viewed in retrospect, over a
period of ten years, it has been re-
markably rapid. A’ state job today,
taking into consideration all its as-
pects, including salary, working con-
ditions, vacations and pension rights,
is infinitely more attractive than
it was in 1937.

The Association itself faces the
urgent necessity of expanding its
services to meet the growing respon-
sibilities placed upon it. We need a
new building to house our activities.
It is imperative that the dues in the
State Division be increased this year
to a minimum of $5. Such an in-
crease is absolutely essential if the
Association is to maintain its present
services and further incfeases will
doubtless be required in the future
as Association services expand to
meet the ever-growing needs of its
members.

During the past ten years, the
Association has steadily increased in
size and effectiveness. Its member-

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government. Today, it has 125 chap-
ters,—108 in the State Division and
17 in the newly created County
Division. Its membership now ap-
proximates 43,000 and is expected to
approach 50,000 before the end of
the year. Of these, nearly 5,000 are
in the rapidly expanding County
Division, which is little more than
a year old.

The progress of the Association is
a convincing demonstration of the
need for an effective, democratic
employee organization in the public
service. What has been done repre-
sents only a fraction of what remains
to be done during the coming years.
The officers and the members of the
Association “however, have every
reason today, as in 1937, to face the
future: with confidence,

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