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Public Cooperation
and the Merit System
Why for over fifty years has a
merit system of examinations for
public employees been struggling
for recognition? And why have
only three out of our forty-eight
states made it the corner-stone of
government by putting it into
their Constitutions where fickle
legislatures cannot tamper with it?
The leaders of the Democratic,
Republican and Socialist parties
are each at the head of many
office seekers, But who let them
grow up believing that the “public-
office” trough was their trough and
to the victor belong the spoils?
The answer is plain—a public
school system which gives a one
year anaemic course in Civics and
‘thas failed to develop an alert pub-
lic sentiment against attacks on
the Merit System. These Civics
courses give the student but a
limited grasp of the mechanism
and framework of government,
perhaps a casual mention of the
Civil Service Law, but no real en-
thusiasm for this law as the back-
bone of honest government, Why
are these potential voters not told
how the laws are twisted and
turned to suit the tricks of schem-
ing politicians? Why are they not
told that the flouting of the Merit
System has made the spoils of
office the main goal of many elec-
tions at the expense of party
Principles?
Governor Lehman holds the fort
against bills to exempt employees
from examinations. Judge Sea-
bury has explicitly said, “Laws
cannot cure this evil and there is
no panacea but public education”.
This is a terrible indictment of our
public schools. Was there any up-
roar in the public schools and
colleges or in the great public thar
was trained in these schools
when certain senators in the
New York Legislature disre-
garded the Merit System and
brought in bills exempting from
examinations the liquor control
officers? Not a ripple. Yet Frank-
lin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson
and many others expressly planned
a new kind of public school edu-
cation that should have raised
such an uproar. They foresaw
that this. new democracy must
have this perfectly new kind of
public school.
Although the Fathers explicitly
put citizenship first, the teachers
forthwith started off on the wrong
foot and have been unable to
change step since. They fell into
the old rut of European standards,
syntax, cube root, and other frills,
and the political bosses have had
their own way. The Founders
planned that we should be wise
to the tricks of politicians and be
posted on current events. As
Jefferson said: “To know what is
-government
By HON. RICHARD WELLING,
President, Civil Service Reform
Association
going on, and to make, each, his
part go on right.”
Is there any mystery about the
technique to be used by the
schools in fitting future voters to
do their part when they come to
vote? Since Catherine Beecher
and Bronson Alcott over 100 years
ago had some form of student
and merit examina
tions, throwing responsibility on
young folk as fast as their
shoulders proved equal to it, sub-
stituting for teacher's favorites or
teacher's pets tried and true stu-
dent officers, these great principles
of character development needed
in a democracy, though undis-
puted, have been more honored in
the breach than in the observance.
As former Superintendent William
McAndrew says:
“Now, more than a century
and a half after the promulga-
tion of the principles of dem-
ocracy, they have not got into
the schoolmaster’s blood. He
is still fussing with pretty
things, good enough in their
way, such as the gentlemen and
scholars of the days of Queen
Anne used to put their tune
to.”
Student cooperation and prac-
tice in the Merit System have no
place under an old-fashioned mar-
tinet whose old-fashioned discipline
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
September
Public Cooperation and the Merit System
crushes the individual. When the
older countries are taken as the
model for both courses of study
and discipline, we continue at
cross purposes with the plans of the
Founders and the inevitable follows,
an indifferent and uninformed elect
orate.
Under some form of pupil coop-
eration the students should learn
to elect their leaders and give
merit system examinations to
their administrative officers. As
Walter Millard and the National
Municipal League lay it down, ad-
ministrative officers should not be
elected but should be chosen on a
merit examination basis, and of
course this should begin in the
schools.
Forty years ago or more Dr.
William McAndrew required a
large High School class in Civics
to report daily on current events
appearing in the press. This
precisely fulfilled Jefferson's re-
quirement to know what is go-
ing on, especially in local politics.
A program of pupil cooperation
is only half-hearted when this news-
paper reading is omitted. Under the
direction of an alert teacher, after
several years study of current
events, the pupils get a definite
idea of what is going on in city,
state and nation, with a fine am-
bition to clean up any political
mess.
Until the depression came and
the taxpayer's pocket nerve was
hard hit, politicians continued in
power in many places because
they gave jobs and favors with a
lavish hand. They used the public
money to pay pet jobholders, and
defied the law which says all posi-
tions (except a very few that are
policy forming) must be filled by
competitive examinations.
Growing bolder during this
public indifference, the spoilsmen
have now started a national Civil
Service Repeal Association. Here
is what they say:
“This association affords the avenue
for a return to the old order of indi-
vidual merit, in tle making of appoint-
ments . ivil Service Commissions
are costly and increase the cost of gov-
ernment, Such commissions should be
abolished because they do not offer to
the logical (sic!) candidate the means
of appointment to the position be de-
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sires and which, it is known, he can fill
ently.
ivil_ Service prevents executives in
ses from appointin; ‘ons to
ps who have, belpe
party. in power.
Service examinations are costly
and do not bring harmony (sic!) to
form of government, in ai
high cost. Inst it brings discord
to give to those
Bersons qualifed a pusition in, some de
iment of governmental activity,
Peete Civil Service Repeal
has been formed and will conduct vig.
‘campaign for repeal (un
‘Referendum laws) of Civil
the country,
Giation bas its headquarter
Gentle reader, can you beat it!
It is quite true that the public
often distrusts examinations, and
why not if as the late Judge Ord-
way said the Commissioners are
appointed and removed by the
Governor or Mayor, and the Com-
missioners’ duty is to enforce the
law against the very Governor or
Mayor who appointed them?
Judge Ordway believed that some
day even the Commissioners
themselves must be subject to
competitive examinations.
The politicians, of course, find
fault with examinations for as far
as the law has any teeth in it, it
obstructs their spoils system. Un-
der the spoils system, no person
need think of applying for any
position unless he has good politi
cal backing, and (though no ap-
pointing officer will admit it) the
place often goes to the man who
has the strongest pull. The Merit
System is, therefore, strangled be-
tween an apathetic or skeptical
public and a group of greedy pol-
iticians.
To meet this general distrust or
apathy about examinations to de-
termine merit, I must as a former
Civil Service Commissioner testi-
fy that the questions asked bear
directly on the work to be done
and really test the qualities needed
for the place to be filled. The
Public Works, Health, Police and
all other Departments are con-
sulted to make sure of this. The
applicant’s character is also care-
fully checked up and all his for-
mer employers closely questioned:
“Why did he leave? Do you want
him back?”, so that we know
whether he is a man we can trust.
When necessary, practical tests
are added’ to the written examin-
ations. A highway engineer after
giving proof of technical knowledge
must build a section of a street un-
der the supervision of expert engi-
neers.
So also in promotion examin-
ations for those already in the
service, a service rating or effic-
iency record. is marked by an em-
ployee’s imme and
in his final rating this indicates
his personal qualities which may
not appear on the examination
paper. Thus a nimble witted “pen
and ink” man who stands high on
the mere answering of questions
may find his rating much lowered
because he lacks the essential
personal qualities, cooperation, in-
itiative, etc. If the public under-
stood this, it would do much to in-
spire confidence.
When New York City took on
the big job of building the Cats-
kill Aqueduct (an engineering feat
in the class of the Panama Canal),
the cost ran into many millions
and hundreds of engineers and rod
men had to be employed; too vital
a job for political favorites, Ex-
aminations to determine merit
were so carefully planned and well
carried out that one of the ablest
engineers in the country said his
firm would not have known how
to get as fine a set of men by the
usual methods of selection.
Before there was a Merit Sys-
tem of examinations any decrepit
old man if he voted the straight
ticket might get a place as gar-
bage collector, and if his heart or
lungs gave way, or he happened
to lack an arm or a leg, he might
still be a garbage collector for he
could be trusted to vote according
to orders,
What has an office holder’s poli-
tics to do with his work? There
is no Republican way of cleaning
streets; no Democratic way of put-
ting out a fire. There is only one
best way and that is to give the
job to the man who has proven
he can do it,
Many times have I addressed
clubs and groups on the Merit
System and when I ask: “Are
there any questions?”, up go sev-
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September
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Budgeting and the
To the great mass of civil service
employees the Division of the Bud-
get is probably contemplated only as
the medium through which their an-
nual rates of compensation are in-
creased or provision is made for
their promotion in State service.
Of course, this view does not por-
tray fully the diversity and extent
of the “Budget’s” field of duty. Per-
sonal service admittedly is a major
factor in the construction of the an-
nual State Budget. And I use, ad~
visedly the term “construction.” De-
veloping the ensuing year’s fiscal
program requires a step by step ap-
proach, making certain that the foun-
dation of each step is financially firm
and in the best interest of the public
good before proceeding. There are
many other important functions of
the State that require the keenest
consideration. The administration of
State institutions, State-aid to the lo-
calities for education, roads, public
health activities, and social welfare
_work; capital outlays and debt serv-
ice combine to make the State's fiscal
affairs a weighty task. A partial
glimpse at the intricacy of the whole
picture is afforded when one notes
that! State-aid to localities for edu-
cation alone involves the disburse-
ment of more than $100,000,000 an-
nually, This is a vastly greater sum
than the total expenditure for sal-
aries of all State employees which
sum is, in round numbers: about $50,
000,000 annually. Likewise, the other
functions of State government re-
quire the allotment of huge sums of
public money.
All of these large amounts necded
for the conduct of State activities
must be analyzed separately and thor:
oughly, Constant consideration of
the value to the State of any activity,
not only in dollars and cents, but in
the building of public health, morale
and general well being, financial and
otherwise, must be kept foremost in
mind when allocations are made for
the next fiscal period. Invariably
some departments of the State gov-
ernment feel they should have in-
creased appropriations, despite se-
vere shrinkages in State revenues in
times like the present. Consequently,
Civil Service
the Director of the Budget must
carefully weigh each item against the
rest before recommending any distri-
bution of State moneys.
Hearings as to appropriations for
all purposes for the fiscal year to be-
gin on the following July first are
conducted in the fall of the year in
the offices of the Director of the
Budget. Administrative officials of
each department attend with pre-
pared data to substantiate their re-
quests for funds. Present at such
hearings are also representatives of
the Legislature and members of the
budget staff. The Governor directs
this work except when the press of
State duties will not permit. All re
quests are carefully analyzed and ex-
planations of the nature of the work
for which funds are desired are sub-
mitted. After the hearings, the es-
timates are again checked and re-
vised if deemed advisable. Further
contact with the departments is ef-
fected whenever there appears to be
a reasonable doubt as to the need of
providing funds for a specific pur-
pose. Always the intention of the
Executive is to provide adequately
for necessary State functions and to
eliminate all needless requests.
In January the Executive Budget
is submitted to the Legislature for
its consideration. If passed, the bud-
get becomes law without the Gov-
ernor’s signature. Any additions to
the Budget must have the Governor's
approval.
A prevalent misconception con-
yeys the idea that changes in salaries
always originate in the Division of
the Budget. So far as increases and
promotions are concerned: the initia~
tive may be taken by the executive
officers of the various subdivisions
of the State government. These of-
ficers should logically be considered
as best qualified to render judgment
on the ability and value of their sub
ordinates,
The Director of the Budget may,
if he agrees with the recommenda-
tion of the Department head, raise
the salary of any position. If there
has been a decided change in duties
warranting an increase beyond the
normal salary range of the position,
By HON. ABRAHAM S. WEBER,
Director of Budget, State of
New York
there should be a reclassification by
title of the position. The Civil Serv-
ice Law states that “No person shall
be employed under any title not ap-
propriate to the duties to be per-
formed.”
In a perfect system there should
be close cooperation between the De-
partment of Civil Service and the
Budget as to personnel classification
and salaries. All through the year
the Classification unit in the Civil
Service Department is engaged in ex
amining into the fitness of existing
titles and proposed changes in title.
The Budget Director may avail him:
self of these findings and expert
opinion in considering requests in-
volving changes of this character.
Available funds and the general pol-
icy in effect at the time are the guid
ing criteria affecting the Budget: Di-
rector’s decision, Investigation. to
confirm the desirability and» justice
of changes in salaries of employees is
naturally part of the routine pro-
cedure.
Increases in salary and promotions
involving increases in salary are
based as nearly as possible on merit
and past service and in the light of
additional responsibility, In this
connection, the testimony of the ad-
minstrative officers is readily sought
and highly valued. Certain indices
of potential value are found through
such media as service ratings, per-
sonal service histories, and compari-
sons of the latest duties of the per-
son involved with his past record,
In all cases, the object is to stimu-
late the morale and efficiency of the
service by extending just benefits for
services rendered,
It is, of course, most unfortunate
that the trend of economic conditions
during the past several years should
have been such as to necessitate dis-
turbing the regular course of incre:
ments and salary adjustments which
State employees had been accustomed
to anticipate as reflecting reward for
faithful service and as inspiration
for increased effort and self-better-
ment in the future. At present ‘it is
extremely difficult to foretell what
the situation will be even a few
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Jobs
The having of a job is a start-
lingly important thing. It is actu-
ally in our present political, social
and economic state, the foundation
stone of government. Several days
or weeks without income derived
from a job creates destructive fear
for a family man, dread anxiety
for his wife, and malnutrition and
deprivation of the happiness and
the environment which is the nat-
ural right of childhood and youth.
Jobs-must be permanent—or to put
it in another way—a man must
work at least twenty-five years,
steadily, in order to round out a
moderately successful family plan.
There are apparently no de-
tailed figures as to just what per-
cent of the people work for wages
or salaries—those who depend up-
on jobs. Of the total population,
it must be that at least 75 to 80
percent are dependent upon pay-
rolls.
Here are the people who by rea-
son of their wants buy or are un-
able to buy the goods and services
of the manufacturer, the merchant,
the banker, the doctor, the lawyer
and so on, Whether we believe
that social well-being generally de-
pends upon economic prosperity or
whether we credit this wholly to
religious and moral strength, we
must admit that a fair food, fuel
and clothing supply is a necessity
for all, and we cannot well leave
out of the necessities, medical care.
Professional services are rated
highly by sensible people and those
who dispense, them when asking
even a very nominal money re-
turn ask something beyond the
power of a jubless family provider
to give. All of the ills of the hu-
man body are common to the
jobless as well as the employed.
It is not at this time a question
of a “chicken for every pot”. It
is a question of stable work for
every home maker. A job that he
does not need to be in constant
worry about; one so stable that
he can plan well for his home
and children,
Upon the owners and developers
of the natural resources of the ,
Nation upon the tradesmen, and
upon the professional groups who
are the makers of jobs rests the
problem of the stabilizing of jobs
and through this the stabilizing of
our government itself. We have
not “good” government when
we have a large percentage whe
are in want of necessities. Other
nations are now in process of re-
proving this age-old fact.
The making of jobs and their
stabilization is a scientific matter.
We cannot afford to throw men
out of work because of tempera-
ment or temper, family quarrels,
ruthless..economic:selfishness born
of.speculation’ and gambling or
other forms of employer dyspep-
sia) The employer who risks
madly in order to “corner” a
market, and thus jeopardizes the
stability of income of even a few
heads of families is a public enemy
far more to be feared than the late
Dillinger.
The jobless able and honest man
in need for parents, wife, children,
self or dependents is the greatest
liability society knows. The crim-
inal can be put away, the mentally
and physically unfit can be pro-
vided for, but the healthy, eager,
ambitious young or middleaged
man who has responsibilities but
cannot find the means of meeting
them because he lacks a job, is by
human and natural forces led into
social and political revolts that are
dangerous and destructive.
Life at its worst is a struggle.
At its best it is an adventure,
where working together, not separ-
ately in cut-throat, selfish competi-
tion of unholy ways, we may build
a degree of peace and contentment
and happiness worthy of intelligent
human beings.
It is not time for the whole
range of employing interests to
pool all of the resources of intel-
lect and power, to congregate all
there may be of scientific facts
and learning pertinent to stabili-
zation of jobs, and finally set up
a gigantic, constructive, social-
economic corporation, if you will,
that will assure jobs and homes
on business-like principles, and
through these governments en-
thused with confidence, and with
progressive ideals, just laws and
ennobling institutions? Such plan-
ning cannot fail to endure and
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If not, we shall certainly have
it by partizan-fettered political en-
tities, and thereby advances will be
hesitating and slow. Every day’
the job stabilization plan is delayed
adds to avoidable human misery.
September
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Forward with Civil Service
The glory of an organization as of
an individual is to lead humanity a
little further along the road toward
peace and happiness. This is not
accomplished by feeding the fires of
selfishness; it is brought about only
by sacrifice and effort of a high or-
der. The civil service system is at
once a shield and a weapon against
the fundamental ills that beset gov-
ernment. Mankind is wise or fool-
ish; moral or wicked; or, indifferent.
The foolish, immoral, indifferent ele-
ment in society, do no building. They
exist for their day parasitically upon
the accomplishment of the faithful
wise and moral workers. The deca-
dence of liberty and of progress be-
gins with the ascendency to control
of the self-seeker—the charlatan in
politics, economics or sociology.
Against special privilege, unfair ad
vantage, political, religious and ra-
cial intolerance, the civil service sys-
tem takes its stand; on behalf of
clean, efficient, progressive govern-
ment it battles continuously.
The civil servant stands side by
side with the military servant in
sacred responsibility and duty to up-
hold and advance his government.
He is a part of the administration
under which he serves. He does not
sacrifice his birthright or liberty.
He does not forego his franchise as
a citizen, but he exercises it in com-
mon with all other citizens. He is
neither above nor below those whom
he serves. There is no one set apart
in America with any divine right to
rule; we rise and fall together.
That we have come to troublous
times, seems not appreciated by some
who profess leadership and is wholly
ignored by others. Has any organ-
ized group in times like these, and
especially if they be workers in the
public service, a call to anything but
serious counsel and wise deliberation
when dealing with political problems.
It is never open season for politics
in civil service. This Association,
truly representative of civil service
ideals and purposes, and constantly
alert and active in promoting good
working conditions and adequate
compensation for salaried workers
; 2 =
in public and private fields, because it
recognizes these things as politically,
socially and economically wise and
necessary, resents deeply as it dis-
avows completely the action of
civil service groups recently as-
sembled at Rochester.
The resolution passed at that
meeting attacking the Governor
of the State because of an official
act in signing the New York City
Economy Bill passed by the Legis-
lature, which act he believed was
in the interest of public welfare,
was indefensible from every angle.
The city and county employees them-
selves have often rallied in impor-
tant ways to help State workers in
these matters, and this Association
has always fought unselfishly for
city and county workers whenever
opportunity has offered. While this
Association opposed the Economy
bill it felt that some of the issues
involved were vital to the ultimate
stability of the civil service system
in New York City and the final
agreement of the Legislature, Gov-
ernor and the Mayor was the result
of more careful consideration than
had ever been given any public em-
ployee problem in this country ar
any time. The Rochester resolution
and the action of the convention in
passing it were a reflection upon the
high standing and the good reputa-
tion for faithful and loyal service
to State and Nation which have al-
ways rested with organized civil
service employees, It must be un-
derstood that State civil service em-
ployees, and reports indicate the same
for the rank and file of city and
county civil service employees, did
not concur in the resolution nor the
political animosities and ambitions
which apparently inspired it.
The action at Rochester is but an-
other warning for civil service em-
ployees to hold fast to the princi-
ples of civil service and not to fol-
low selfish leadership into the
marshes of political partisanship
and intolerance. With National and
State governments beset with the
gravest problems of any time in
their history, it is not good form to
make a banquet of destructive criti-
cism; with want and misery on every,
side and thousands unemployed, it
is time to join in helpful study and
constructive counsel. Surely, there
is no wisdom or justice in unsavory
criticism of a Governor who by ev-
ery act has defended and elevated
the merit system in public employ-
ment, There is no indication or
proof that the interests of salaried
workers have been neglected by Gov-
ernor Lehman in the performance of
his duties, fiscal or otherwise, during
the gravest crisis through which
the State has ever passed. Many im-
provements are needed’in personnel
administration and all recognize this,
but these must be sought in orderly,
intelligent ways.
Organized civil service bodies may
not maintain within themselves the
germs of political, religious or racial
prejudices, if they are to remain true
to their high purposes. The servant
is not greater than the master. But
when he is one with the master as a
citizen himself and truly alive to the
problems that both face, he cannot
fail to justify the righteousness of
his cause and thus in the sunshine of
open and fair counsel and combat at-
tain ends which will contribute to
the common good of.alky
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support of your stand for good
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Institutional Work Survey
The study of the working con-
ditions in State institutions, hav-
ing for its purpose the elimination
of the long day—the twelve hour
and longer working day—of em-
ployees of such institutions, is
now under way. The Legislative
Committee met at Albany on July
11, 1934, for the purpose of out-
lining its procedure. It is ex-
pected to visit every institution
in the State.
On July’ 10th, at a conference
with Senator Michael J. Kernan,
of Utica, chairman of the Legis-
lative Committee, and Assembly-
man Harold C. Ostertag, of Wy-
oming County, vice Chairman,
President W. F. McDonough of
the Association, discussed the im-
portance of the survey, and left
with Chairman Kernan and Vice
Chairman Ostertag, the following
statement containing suggestions
and ideas which it is hoped will
be helpful to successful accom-
plishment by the Committee.
While the matter of shortening
the hours of service is of first im-
portance in the survey, this pro-
posal is so closely related to all
of the other factors connected
with institutional work, that re-
lated questions must also be given
consideration.
Conferences with Chairman Ker-
nan have since been held by Presi-
dent McDonough and President
Colesanti of the Hospital Em-
ployees group.
Employees in State institutions
can have faith in this survey.
They must support the Legislative
Committee. They can point out
any matters for improvement, or
any ways of improvement. They
. are free to write to Senator
Michael J. Kernan, State Capitol,
Albany, N. Y., or to this Associa-
tion. We will gladly turn over
petitions, letters wires or any
communications that are received,
to the Committee and ask for
their consideration,
The outline of suggestions pre-
sented to the Committee follows:
“This Association has urged for
many years that the long day in
state service be abolished, that fair
and adequate wages be paid to
workers, and that insofar as the
state can aid that good home and
social conditions be made possible
to its servants.
“It is estimated that about eight
thousand institutional employees
work twelve hours out of each
twenty-four. The wages paid to a
very large number of these em-
ployees is low even for a maxi-
mum eight hour day.
“Your committee is faced with
one of the most important tasks
delegated to any Legislative Com-
mittee ever appointed, in that you
are to deal with questions of vital
importance to salaried people as a
whole, within and without public
service, and you are also to deal
wth social and moral questions in-
volving the relationship of the
State as an employer to matters
involving living conditions of its
employees.
“We beg to suggest to your
Committee that the whole institu-
tional service be carefully sur-
veyed to obtain the physical facts
concerning each group within the
institutional service, and finally a
complete picture of conditions,
and we submit herewith a pro-
posed form of such census which
would give in detail the necessary
information upon which to base
estimates of costs attaching to a
revision of working hours, of
health and pension safeguards, and
of living and home conditions.
“We submit that in considering
the reduction in number of hours
the following facts be studied
carefully:
a. That present trends as to
hours of work in industry and
private employement generally,
are by reason of the grave econ-
omic considerations all toward
a lower than eight hour maxi-
mum, and, therefore, that there
should be no arbitrary holding
to this maximum and that in any
cases where groups of institu-
tional employees work less than
eight hours such should not be
disturbed unless to bring to a
lower maximum to meet con-
ditions elsewhere.
b. That the wage question,
where considered, be studied in
the light of living costs and the
low scales now prevailing, and
that consideration be given to
adjustment upward; and that the
question be considered as to
whether higher scales would not
be more economical and more
uniformly just than commuta-
tion allowances. Also the mor-
atorium on salaries now in ef-
fect with reference to statutory
increases and time service allow-
ance shouuld be considered with
reference to recommendation for
prompt restoration of former or
better than former scales.
c. That the question of uniform
sick leaves and health vacations
consistent with good health poli-
cies now in effect in some de-
partmental services and private
services be studied and fair
recommendations along this line
made,
d. That the question of proper
classification of work and titles
be noted at all institutions and
that a practice frequently com-
plained of whereby persons are
employed under titles which do
not describe their work or per-
mit honest recognition of faith-
ful workers within a class be
recommended for change to a
plan which will recognize effi-
ciency ratings based upon a just
plan that will not destroy wage
scales and which will promote
initiative and good work, The
adoption of a plan of rewarding
efficiency with promotion is
strongly recommended.
e. That the matter of according
to employees of institutions a
competitive civil service status
based upon qualifying examin-
ations or a reasonable term of
good and faithful service, be
studied, There is abundant
promise of better employment
practices both as to selection,
Promotions, wages, and retire-
ment in the sound policies of
competitive civil service law and
rules than under the non-com-
petitive classification which ap-
plies now to so many institu-
tional groups,
Continued on Page 10
10 THE STATE EMPLOYEE September
Institutional Work Survey, Organization
Continued from Page 9 Strengthened
f, The question of employment
of temporary relief, or “work-
for-board” employees should be
noted, This plan seems wholly
unsound from the standpoint of
a wise state policy or as an ex-
ample to private employers.
It is capable of much abuse. If
the State has work to do it must
in justice to maintenance of de-
cent living conditions and living
wage scales generally, arrange
its budget so as to employ suf-
ficient workers and reward them
with fair scales of pay.
g. The matter of handling and
preparation of food is recom-
mended for study. The cost
per capita for food at institu-
tions is kept at a very low fig-
ure. It is vital to the health of
workers that they be supplied
with good food or with the
wages which will permit obtain-
ing such food, The right prep-
aration of food served to work-
ers in institutions ‘is of as much
importance as the quantity of
food itself, This matter should
be given ‘careful attention if the
State is to provide the food and
have fesponsibility for its prep-
aration,
“The Association respectfully
urges that if possible all of the
institutions of the State be visited
by the Legislative Committee or
one of its members, that such vis-
its be conducted so as to observe
the natural conditions both as to
work, working hours, environment
of workers, while at work, environ-
ment of workers while at meals,
environment of workers as to sur-
roundings, living quarters, oppor-
tunities for recreation, study, self
improvement, family life, etc.
“The Association recommends
that employees be questioned di-
rectly and officially by the Com-
mittee and also privately and that
they be made to understand and to
feel that they are free to c: ise
and to suggest as to conditions
with the thought of improving any
that are not satisfactory. The con-
structive criticism of employees
should be a part of the Commit-
tee’s report,
“The Associ suggests that
Superintendents and Stewards be
consulted as.to all points perti-
nent to a\ complete study of the
employment practices and needs
of institutions, and that their
recommendations be obtained as
to hours of service, wages, food,
sick and vacation leaves, commu-
tation, living quarters within insti-
tutions, family life and like im-
portant questions, and that their
opinions on these subjects be pub-
lished as a part of the Legislative
Committee’s report together with
the opinions of employees in all
groups.
“We earnestly recommend a
prompt carrying on of the survey
and a gathering of facts which will
permit a favorable preliminary re-
port to the Governor in October as
called for in the Legislative reso-
lution,
“It is suggested that your Com-
mittee obtain the services of a
person ‘now attached-to an institu-
tion or formerly attached to an in-
stitution, as an employee in one of
the largest groups, who thorough-
ly understand the workings of an
institution to be present at hear-
ings or visits to institutions and to
point out and advise regarding all
details,”
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The State Employee, the official
press organ of, State employees,
will now be sent regularly direct
to members. Thus the policies
and activities of the Association
will be outlined and discussed and
the facts come as a personal re-
port to each member rather than
by the way of the general distri-
bution which has prevailed in the
past. This arrangement has been
made possible through important
additions to the equipment and
facilities of the Association Head-
quarters in the State Capitol at
Albany.
Gradually but certainly the As-
sociation has by reason of its pro-
gressive and constructive attention
to improvement and up-building
of public personnel taken its place
among the leading worthwhile or-
Ganizations in the Nation, The
united support of State employees.
will aid it in its great program.
Organization
Helps Again
The organization and promotion
of the State Employees’ Recrea-
tional Club, Inc., by this Associa-
tion was a happy event. The
Recreational Club, through its pro-
gressive and unselfish leadership
has supplied this year a vacation
center at The Orchard House, on
beautiful Lake George which
center has attracted State em-
ployees from all parts of the
State,
Vacations are economic necessi-
ties, The worker needs rest and
rehabilitation in order that he may
conserve his health and his earn- -
ing power that is dependent there-
on, and the State is interested in
vacation and sound hours of em-
ployment because of the economic
loss everywhere noted where
health and energy factors as they
relate to quality and quantity of
work are not considered. The As-
sociation hereby gives a “big hand”
to the Recreational Club, Inc, for
its fine and successful third sea-
son of promoting good health and
good morale in State service,
September
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
11
Budgeting and the Civil Service
months ahead, to say nothing of a
year hence. The hope of all is that
improvement in business conditions
will be accelerated at an early date
and that the State will soon regain
the income status of moré prosper-
ous times. When this time does
come, it seems proper to expect that
a well developed compensation plan,
comprehensive enough to do full
justice to public workers, may be
evolved,
Primary consideration in the case
of new positions is given, first, to
the need for creating such positions.
Inquiry is made to discover the rea-
sons for contemplated increases in
personnel. Sometimes new services
are mandatory through newly en-
acted legislation. Often, changed
conditions in some special phase of
industry or agriculture make it ad-
visable for the State to add to its
personnel to safeguard the interests
of its citizens. If it is determined
that the State would be served by
adding the new duties, then the ques-
tion of increases in personnel arises.
Should the added functions be too
many for the existing staff to handle
without detracting from other duties,
the only alternative is to recommend
inclusion in the Budget of an ade-
quate number of additional em-
ployees to take care of the increased
work. The aim of the Budgeting of-
ficials is to cooperate fully with the
Civil Service Department in assur-
ing a highly efficient personnel and
compensation scales to reward such 2
type of service.
Compensation of the new positions
is fixed in accordance with past es-
tablished procedure in similar cases
for like work as well as scales ap-
plying in private employment, Where
the positions created call for particu-
lar training and duties not readily
comparable with others in the State
service, the annual salary is deter-
mined after intensive investigation
of the duties of the position has been
made and expert advice both within
and without the department has been
secured,
Recognizing that selection and ap-
pointment under Civil Service are
closely related to budgeting for per
Continued from Page 5
sonnel, it is proper to point out that
before his ascendency to the govern-
orship, Governor Lehman wrote an
article for the Atlantic Monthly of
November, 1932, wherein he clearly
epitomized the principles upon which
Civil Service stands. He said: “I
favor the operation of civil service
because I realize that it provides con-
ditions that are infinitely better than
those we should have were it elim-
inated. If there were no civil serv-
ice we should return to the old prin-
ciples of ‘To the victor belong the
spoils.” With every change in ad-
ministration there would undoubtedly
come an almost complete change in
departmental personnel. We should,
obviously, have a purely political
government rather than one based
upon efficiency and permanent or-
ganization. It would lead to corrup-
tion. It would be unfair to a great
body of loyal and hardworking pub-
lic servants, and it would inevitably
break down morale’ and efficiency.”
Subsequently, Governor Lehman in
his official capacity has many times
publicly defended the rights and
principles of the Civil Service Sys-
tem. In acting on bills passed by the
Legislature of 1934, the Governor
upheld the principles which he has
so clearly enunciated by refusing to
approve exceptions to the Civil Serv-
ice Law in the appointment of em-
ployees of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board. He also refused to
jeopardize the welfare of certain
civil service employees by refraining
from approving a bill that would
have permitted the employment of
outside architects on State construc-
tion work, The Governor went a
step further and approved a bill pro-
viding for reduction (when reduction
was necessary) in class, rank or sal-
ary grade only in the inverse order
of original appointement. This sup-
port of civil service is helpful in bud-
geting as well as in admitlistration
of the State’s activities.
Obviously, the pleasing thing for
any Governor to do would be to
raise salaries. The condition of the
State treasury is of course not of
his making so far as capacity to pay
taxes is concerned. The budget must
under the law show a balance be-
tween income and expenditure. When
income lags there must be increased
thought to economies which would
not be necessary in periods of great
business activity. The Governor has
emphasized many times, and the
great mass of employees readily un-
derstand, that economic and social
welfare of salaried groups demand
that stability of employment and
wise retirement provisions be recog-
nized as of first importance in deal-
ing with personal service matters and
these are budget considerations that
have been a constant care of the
Governor and the Division of the
Budget. Reduction in personnel and
in salaries has been followed only
as a last resort, while the retire-
ment system has been safeguarded
at all times,
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September
Public Cooperation
and the Merit System
Continued from Page 4
eral hands and one man says: “I
came out top of the list, the com-
missioner called me up for a talk
and that’s the last I heard of it
till I learned that the third on the
list got the job. I was baffled.
How could I believe the Merit
System was on the level?”
To restore confidence in the face
of these hard facts I give you
Mayor Gaynor’s rule. It had be-
come a custom for a department
head to select any one of the three
highest on the list, but the top
man was so often passed over be-
cause, because, becausel!!, that
Mayor Gaynor required every one
of his 23 department heads to
write him a letter telling why he
passed over No. 1 on the list.
During his entire four year term
of office he received not more than
a dozen such letters. Think how
this one act of the Mayor helped
restore public confidence.
That part of the American gov-
ernment service which is outside of
the Merit System may be counted
upon to be comparatively ineffi-
cient.. When the public is made to
suffer because of arbitrary and ex-
cessive charges for gas or tele-
Phones or other public utilities,
the suggestion is made that gov-
ernment ownership or government
operation will afford the only pos-
sible relief. But one recoils from
a remedy that inevitably calls to
mind the inefficiency and expense
of government work that is not
under the Merit System. We must
have an organized public opinion
demanding that the spoils system
shall give way to the Merit Sys-
tem before we extend government
ownership or operation.
What can voters do to bring
about more efficiency in public
office? They can unite to put in
office men and women who are
pledged to the Merit System and
they can work to get the law
inbedded in state constitutions
where successive legislatures can-
not tamper with it. There is noth-
ing gloomy in the outlook. We
simply have never fairly under-
stood and squarely faced the sit-
dation.
Better Training A
First Consideration
The Association is proud of its
initiation and promotion of the
policy of aiding State workers to
increase their efficiency and to
keep abreast of advances in edu-
cation and science and the de-
velopment of State activities.
It sees in this project alone suf-
ficient merit to justify support of
organized efforts on the part of
public workers.
More and more in the present
and immediate future will the
people turn to control of their na-
tion’s resources and the carrying
on of services essential to society.
This is the only course left to the
people to circumvent selfishness in
human nature whén this seeks to
become predominant, and still pre-
serve and promote the genius and
the nobility and the dignity of that
same human nature.
The Association’s present $400
educational fund is being spent in
a study of ways and means of
offering to institutional workers
the opportunities and advantages
which will be helpful to them in
their work and in their lives gener-
ally. It is a big problem. It wil!
require help on the part of State
workers as a whole and a degree
of effort and patience upon the
part of the individuals at the in-
stitutions who entire this plan
directly. No investments pay such
large or satisfactory dividends as
those made in practical and cul-
tural training.
The Association's Committee on
Education is tireless in its efforts
and boundless in its vision and
unselfish devotion to the better-
ment of State service.
Investment of the State
Retirement System
by FRANKLIN B. HOLMES,
Director.
As of March 1 of each year the
entire list of securities of the New
York State Employees’ Retire-
ment System is published in the
report of the Insurance Depart-
ment,
The Comptroller by law has
charge of the investments for the
Retirement System. This is as
provided in Section 57 of the law.
The entire fund and every
transaction in detail is under the
supervision of the State Insurance
Department. This is also provided
for by law. The State Insurance
Department examines into the
actuarial soundness of the Sys-
tem and reports to the Comptrol-
ler relative to the same.
The State by law can invest
its own money only in federal,
state, county, city, town, village,
water districts, school districts,
etc, bonds. By law the Retire-
ment System funds can be in-
vested in only the same securities.
To date the Retirement System
has not lost one cent of its invest-
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Worthy of His Hire
The coming months will bring
much needed attention to stabili-
zation of employment in industry
and business. Already strikes and
arbitration have emphasized the
importance of the question of work
and wages. If the matter of
stabilization of employment at
wage scales bearing a direct re-
lation to the living costs attaching
to a decent standard of living for
all, is attacked unselfishly it can
and will be solved.
Will public workers be con-
sidered as entitled with other
groups of wage earners to stability
of employment and adequate
wages? The answer rests with the
workers themselves. If they or-
ganize intelligently and completely
they will receive every considera-
tion that other workers do. If
they rely upon political pull, per-
sonal, religious or racial favoritism
and go it the lone wolf way, they
will find themselves as they have
in the past the unfortunate victims
of an inefficient system of classi-
fication, compensation and promo-
tion,
This Association calls again to
the attention of state workers the
fact that the department of Civil
Service and the Division of the
Budget are not equipped to func-
tion, and are not functioning in a
way to assure sound or just treat-
ment of salary scales.
In arranging the State budget
so as to provide for the carrying
on of State activities just as in
planning for sound private enter-
prise, the question of just and
adequate wages for the men and
women who do the work comes
by divine and patriotic right first.
The ills of the depression are
wholly due to a disregard for the
human element in business, in
industry, in agriculture and in
public service.
The services which the people
have decreed shall be done through
State departments and by workers
selected through their civil service
system are in their results such
as the people would have were the
services to be secured by private
endeavor. In private employment
the workers and their families have
suffered and now suffer, frequently,
because of an indisposition to de-
termine fairly what the character
of work required demands of
ability and training, and what
living costs are, and failure to fix
flexible standards of pay to meet
changes in these living costs. This
is the duty of the employer con-
sulting the while with his workers.
It is the duty of the people as the
employer of their State servants,
and it therefore becomes the direct
concern of the Governor to adopt
a wise and just plan of classify-
ing all work and of fixing ade-
quate and fair scales of pay.
No system of rewarding workers
is or will be satisfactory where the
workers are not represented in
discussion of wage scales. It would
be a right and progressive step for
the Governor to adopt in his bud-
geting for personnel the plan of
consulting employees directly
through their organizations as to
all personnel administration
matters. This should be a policy
of the State as clear-cut as any es-
tablished by it.
This Association has addressed a
communication to Governor Leh-
man asking that he adopt as a
policy of his administration the ap-
pointment of an employee commit-
tee which shall be consulted at all
times on all matters relating to
personnel administration.
This proposal is made in the
earnest belief that it will result in
economy, good will and increased
efficiency of state functioning.
We ask that local organizations
of State employees and individuals
throughout the service write Gov-
ernor Herbert H. Lehman, Execu-
tive Chamber, Albany, N. Y.,
urging this recognition of State
employees, and the appointment by
him of a committee of employees
to serve in this capacity.
Civil Service and Education
State employees are urged to
read the article written for this
magazine by Richard Welling and
to pass it on to their citizen
friends. That you may know
something of the ability and
standing of Mr. Welling, we quote
the following from “Who’s Who”:
Richard (Ward Green) Welling:
Born in Rhode Island, 1858; grad-
uated from Harvard with A. B.
in 1880; practiced law in New
York City since 1883; President of
Tenement House Building Com-
pany; original member City Re-
form Club, 1882; organizer of City
Club, good government clubs, Na-
tional Municipal League; Commis-
sioner of Municipal Civil Service,
1910 to 1913; Vice President of
Civil Service Reform Association;
officer and director in various cul-
tural and reform associations;
served in Spanish-American War;
in command of Montauk Point
Naval Base, 1917-1919, where he
successfully applied “discipline by
consent”; Fellow (member of)
Academy of Political Science,
National Education Association,
National Social Study Association,
etc, Episcopalian, Clubs: Union,
Century, City, Harvard National
Arts; author of Self-gdvernment
Miscellanies, 1914.
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C. D. GROVER, Prop.
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
September
Federal Service
The success of the “New Deal”
is threatened by the policy of
selecting workers at present re-
ported dominant in Federal serv-
ice. No public work can be suc-
cessfully or permanently main-
tained except the employment
policy recognizes fully and com-
pletely that public servants must
‘be chosen fairly from the whole
body of citizens under a free, frank
system of selection based solely
upon the merit and fitness ascer-
tained as far as practicable by
open, competitive examinations.
The political, religious, racial or
personal yardstick is un-American,
undemocratic, uneconomical and
unfair. It breeds jealousy, hate,
discord, inefficiency and dis-
honesty. It is as wholly dis-
‘credited as the lowest vice in the
human calendar. It promotes com-
munism, anarchy and revolution
just as certainly as any like unjust
and selfish policy in dealing with
human beings promotes these
terrible scourges.
Does President Roosevelt con-
done this policy? We do not be-
lieve it. But the responsibility
rests with him. President Abra-
ham Lincoln once said the spoils
system was becoming a greater
menace than the Rebellion. Noth-
ing is more foreign to the spirit
‘of the New Deal than disregard
for the Civil Service system.
Clean Movies
Every good citizen feels a lively
interest in the movement upon the
part of churches of all denomin-
ations to make it clear that the
shameless disregard for public de-
cency and good taste on the part
of the makers of moving pictures
should cease. They would like to
see this campaign carried into the
field of magazines and books as
well, and doubtless this will occur.
In the moving picture and publish-
ing field, the desire to pander to
immorality and gaudy cheapness
has been strengthened by the
money that such ventures always
attract. Greed and selfishness
have scorned the feelings of moth-
ers and fathers. Only united
effort can turn them back. What
a’ sorry spectacle the good people
would present if they had no
churches or schools or organiza-
tions with which to battle collect-
ively for that which is good and
worth while and lasting in society!
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Cannot Afford to Be
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this the ONLY State-wide
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September THE STATE EMPLOYEE
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