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LEADER

America’s Largést Weekly for Public Employees

Vol, XI—'

Tuesday, July 4, 1950

Price Five Cents

Hospital Attendant
Among 32 State Tests
That Open on July 8

See Page 8

$60 SUPPLY CLERK JOBS;
SUPERVISORS TO $120

Jobs Teaching

Indians Offer
Careers to'50
College Grads

A college degree is required for
filling jobs as Elementary Teacher
for duty in the U. S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs at $3,100 to start.

The exam is No. 231, There will
be no written test. Candidates will
be rated on the quality and quan-
tity of their training and experi-
ntinued on page 9)

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| Eh A IgE RA.

THE NYC

Parks Group
Defies Order
On Uniforms

A MEMBERSHIP
Department of Parks
American Federation
County and Munici
AFL, held at Wer
adopted a resolution refusing to
(Continued on page 16)

meeting
Local
of

of
924,
State,

tion is being a

ident Truman's veto

military credit bill for pay in-
creases to World War II veterans
in the postal service. The Hou

voted 213 to 72 last week to o

ride thé veto, The bill provides
for $100 pay increases for each|
year of military service, The Pres-

ident said the bill was discrimin-
atory and little more than
“independent bonus,”

State Cleri

Among

Decided,

By F. xX. CLANCY

WASHINGTON, July 3—Con-
ferences have been held by Civil

Service officials on methods of
handling any sudden large recruit-
ment arising from a military

emergency.

A decision was reached on a
general method of meeting the
problem, The LEADER learned,
but no de nnounced
and no statement even
made that a decision had been

ched.

Should
armed for
cially und
would be nece
above 2,000,000,
of civilian jobs in the De
ments of Defense, Army and Navy
would follow, as in World War I
& spokesman said. Increase in ci-

the
i
er new

strength of the
be increased, espe-
legislation that
ary for bringing it
rapid expansion

U. S. Job Expansion Plan

lf Armed Forces

vilian personnel would be expect-
ed in the Air Force, too. The
Treasury Department would be
expected to expand enormously,

‘The present armed strength is
reported as 1,400,000.

The House’ Civil Service Com-
mittee reported out @ bill which
would give nine agencies, includ-
|ing those mentioned, absolute dis~
cretion in dismissing civilian em-
ployees. The other agencies affect-
ed are the Atomic Energy Com-
mission, the National Security Re-
sources Board and the National
Advisory Committee on Aeronau-
tics. The measure is known as the
Security Bill.

Other Job Expansions

Drafting of any large number
of men would require an addi-
tional large increase in the num~
ber of civilian employees, under

Are to Be Greatly Increased

some type of Selective Service set-
up.

One of the effects of the Korean
situation has been the quieting of
eries of economy, because of the
possibility of having to increase
the number of civilian employees.

Unless there is actual war be-
tween the United States and Rus-
sia, officials didn’t expect that the
recent turn of events in Asia
would have any appreciable effect
on recruitment. Harry B. Mitchell
Chairman of the U. 8. Civil Ser-
vice Commission, said that there
had been no change in recruit-
ment policy.

As to having civilians fill jobs
in the armed forces now pe!
formed by officers and enlisted
men, it said that nothing but
the usual outside efforts in that
direction had been noticed.

Increase

meetings of State pre
Satie of The Civil Service Em-

plo: Association the principal
topic of conversation among the
members is a general increase in
State pay

| The Association itself is con-
ducting a study of the pay sched-
Jule in the State, in other govern-
[mental Jurisdictions and in pri-

industry

and has made com-

ical Exams
6 Tests

For Remainder of '50

‘The State Civil Service Commis-}. Other titles include: Architec-
sion has just announced the re-|tural and Specification Writer,
wised list of teste for 136 job tities ing Mechanical and Strue-

: al er and Assistant, In-
fe for the remainder of 1950, Of) dustrial Consultant, Dentist, Den-
these, 82 are open-competitive, the| tal Hygienist, Inspector of Wel-
others promotion. The tests, in-|fare Institutions, Public Health
cluding popular titles, are divided | Physicians, Social Worker, ‘Train-
into four categories: (1) Adminis-|ing Assistant (Social Work), Wel-
‘8 Business, Clerical; (2) En-| fare Consultant, Youth Commis-
gineering, Mechanical, Agricultur-| sion Recreation Program Assist-
al; (3) Health, Education, Wel-| ants erage License Examiner
fare; (4) Legal, Law Enforcement, | and Field Investigator of Narcotic
Many job openings exist in the | Control.
al field for File Clerk,| Pull information regarding ap-
Machine Operator plication dates, salaries. and other

tics Clerk, Stenographer

follow
experience

Insurance
Assistant
ansportation)
Bree Tra
Tnspectay,

Rate
Toll
¢ Clerk and Racing

€xaminer
Collector

pertinent facts will be given in de-

tail in coming Issues of The L
DER. Do not apply for informa
tion or blanks now
The standard géneral require
of the State Commission in
citizenship by birth or nat
allze e li of from 18
to 70 and residence in the State
for at least one year immediately
"preceding the examin

in State Pay

parisons with the cost of living as
well,
Irving Cohen,-research consult-

ant of the Association, has been
gathering facts and figures, The
DER pointed out last week,
the basis of facts he had
aned, that about one-fifth of
ersons working for the State
less than $2,000 a year,
according to the latest data ob-
tainable.
employees themselves are
such arguments with

recounting of their own difficulty

Bigelow Named
To Top Post in
Mental Hygiene

ALBA! July 3- Dr. auton J
T. Bige . has
been appointed by Gov eae Dew-
ey as Commissioner of Mental
Hygiene

Since.
been
sioner of the
ceeded Di

Dr, Bigelow has
Acting Commis-
department. He suc-
Frederick MacCurdy,

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Practical |

Ex- | already

Is Chap ters’ Main Topic

themselves
properly on

in maintaining
their families
present pay.

At the recent meetings of the
Metropolitan, Central and West
ern Conferences of the Associa-
tion, the pay topic was also upper-
most, The Conferences consist of
chapters united in regional s

Newly-elected officers of chap-
ters and Conferences, in discuss-
ing thelr programs, invariably
feature salary adjustment

The Association's activity on the
salary score has been heartily in-
dorsed by the membership.

and
their

Persons with supply cataloging
experience have until Tuesday,
July 11 to apply for an exam of-
fering jobs at the Signal Corps
Center and at Fort Monmouth,
both in Fort Monmouth, N. J., as

(Continued on page 8)

NYC Social
Investigator

Test Reopens
On July 6

The application period for an
exam to fill NYC Social Investi-
gator jobs in the Welfare and
Hospital departments will be re-
opened from Thursday, July 6 to
and including Priday, July 21. Ap-
ply at the Municipal Civil Service
Commission, 96 Duane Street, two
|blocks north of City Hall, just

west of Broadway, opposite The
LEADER office, from 9 to 4 on
weekdays and 9 to 12 noon on
Saturdays. The filing fee is $2.

More than 1,400 places are to
be filled as a result of this test,
The 1950-51 City budget, which
went into effect last Saturday,
provides for 429 new jobs. There
are about 1,000 more jobs, now
filled by provisjonal appointees,
all of whom are to be replaced by
eligibles, The pay is $2,710, but
Welfare Commissioner Raymond
W. Hilliard is seeking to increase
this to $3,000, The $2,710 figure is
now all base pay. Prior to last
Saturday part of it was cost-of-
living bonus.

The Civil Service Commission
has giyen high priority to the
holding of this test and the list is
expected to be ready in Septem-
ber. The written test will be the
sole means of determining final
average:

Those who meet these entrance
requirements may enter the com-
petition:

a. A college degree, or;

b. Two years of college educa-
tion plus two years’ paid experi-

(Continued on page 16)

State Em

For Civil

ALBANY, July 3—Mobilization
of seven agencies of the State
government and thousands of
State employees for home defense
‘as discussed by Governor Thom-
E, Dewey in evaluating the
State's preparation in the inter-
national crisis, Seven of the nine
members of a commission that
would administer home defense
operations, being State officials,
have been alerted, in
preparation { 1y possible mo-
bilization of onal Guard un-
Its.

The

Governor at @ press con-
ference discussed @ blueprint of
o nization for home defense as
authorized by the 1950 State Leg-

islature, which appropriated $10,

ployees

In Dewey Blueprint

Defense

000 for the purpose. The plan in«
cludes the creation of county and
city civilian defense offices, the
local directors of which would be
appointed by the county Boards
3 rs and the Mayors,
alerted are Major
A. Hausauer, the
Chief of Staff and
of the
A. Gaffney
Sta
Commis:

General Ka
Governor's
| Commander
Guard; John
intendent of
tram D. Tallam
Public Works; Thomas W

rector of the Division of Safe
airman Benjamin P, Feins
the Public Service Comes
Health Commissioner
E, Hilleboe and Social
Commissioner Robert T

National

fe
berg of

mission
Herman
Welfare
Lansdale,

_2tATE AND COUNTY NEWS

Stott Re-elected, Offers

Program for Conference

By MARTIN L. McAULIFFE

OXFORD July, 3—Clarence W.
F. Stott of Binghamton was re-
elected president of the Central
Regional Conference of The Civil
Service Employees Association at
its summer meeting heid recent-
ly at the Oxford Inn. Others re-
elected were Mrs. Margaret Fenk,
vice president, and Emmett Durr,
treasurer. Mrs. Florence Drew of

; Binghamton declined renomina-
tion for secretary and Mrs. ts
Butts of Oneonta was elected to
that post.

The Oxford chapter, of which
John Carney is president, was
host to the Conference.

Conlon Master of Ceremonies
Ernest L. Conlon, 4th vice pres-
ident of the Civil Service Em-
ployees was Association, wi

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master of ceremonies at the even-
ing after-dinner speaking and en-
tertainment, Speakers at the din-
ner were Harry G, Pox, treasurer
of the Association, and William G.
Duffy, director of research of the
New York Good Roads Associa-
tion,

The business meeting began at
2:30 P.M., with President Stott
in the chair. Mrs. Drew called the
roll. Thirteen chapters were rep-
resented. Mrs. Drew reported on
the work of the secretary, and
read the minutes of the last Con-
ference meeting. Vincent Kara-
wacki of the Utica State Hospital
chapter moved that the minutes
be accepted as read.

A report on the financial con-
dition of the Conference was
made by Mr. Durr.

Methe Appointed

Mr. Conlon advised the mem-
bers of the Conference to get be-
hind their new officers, to accept
the will of the majority and to
continue to work for the Con-
ference in unity and harmony.

Paul Swartwood of Ithaca sum-
marized the work of the legisia-
tive and resolutions committees
and announced plans for the com-
ing year. He reminded members
of the Conference that resolu-
tions should be in by August 12
and suggested that some resolu
tions which had been tried before,
such as the hazardous pay for T.
B. workers, should be presented
again,

The success of a fund-raising
drive by the Conference was re-
Ported by Mrs. Ann Levine,
chairman of the special commit-
tee on finance.

Charles D, Methe, Mental Hy-
giene Department representative
on the Association board of di-
rectors, who was appointed chair-
man of the Conference legislative
committee by President Stott,
Suggested that money-raising
projects might be even more suc-
cessful if the various Conferences
would restrict themselves to their
own Conferences, and that any
Conference in straitened circum-
stances should channel its pro-

grams through the Association
direct.
Mr. Methe suggested an amend-

ment to the Conference consti-
tution for paying the travel ex-
penses of appointed committee
members on Confere business
at seven cents a mile. The dele-
gates decided to put the question
to their individual chapters.
Recommendations by Stott
After Mr. Durr had reported on
the Conference budget, President

|
Stott outlined a program for the

year, The keynote was an increas-
ingly aggressive drive to spread
knowledge of Conference opera-
tions

Mr. Stott
mendations

1. Creating a Conference infor-
mation service, to inform chap-
ters in the area of what the Con-
erence {s doing and planning, in-
that aren't Con-

made these recom-

2. A Conference public relations
program, whereby the Conference
would make even greater use of
the columns of the LEADER and
also would have a speakers bur-
uu to get distinguished officials
to address sessions. He wanted
each guest speaker to receive a
certificate of appreciation from
the chapter Conference. Another
committee would arrange to have
chapter presidents inform the
membership regularly of Confer-
ence work,

3. Issuance of membership cer-
tifieates to the chapters them-
selves, for display in chapter
rooms,

4. An annual Conference din-
ner-dance,

Resolution Praises LEADER

In reference to the LEADER's
service to the Association, Mr,
“The

Stott said:

LEADER has

Michael L. Porta, as president
of the NYC chapter of The Civil
Service Employees Association, re-
ceived a letter from John E, Holt-
Harris Jr,, associate counsel to the
Association, stating that the As-
sociation is continuing its efforts
on behalf of hearing stenograph-
ers’ pay.

Mr. Holt-Harris asked Mr.
Porta to inform the chapter rep-
resentatives that the Budget Di-
rector had denied the request of
J. Earl Kelly, Chairman of the

Board, for salary reallocation. Mr.
Holt-Harris added that Mr, Kel-
ly fs resubmitting his recommen-
dation and standing on his argu-
ment that pay should be based
on the value of the services to
the State, regardiess of income
received from other services for
transcripts.

“Mr, Kelly feels that the rec-
ommendations that he made are
entirely proper,” Mr, Holt-Harris
wrote. “We ‘the Association)) are
continuing to press for Budget
Director approval of the proosed
allocation.”

Proposed Grading

The renewal of request to the
Budget Director for acceptance of
the proposed grading was made
by Mr, Kelly inva letter to Budget
Director William R. McWilliams
Mr. Kelly recalled that the for-
mer Salary Standardization Board
had allocated Hearing Reporter to
Grade 15, a $3,585 to $4,308, and
Hearing Stenographer to Grade
10, $2,898 to $3,588.

The former Budget Director,
John E. Burton, disapproved this
recommendation, on the ground
that some employees were permit-

Hearing Stenos’ Pay Plea
Being Pressed by Assn.

Classification and Compensation)

ted to sell their transcripts of
minutes, while others were not,
stated Mr. Kelly, who added,
however, that the transcripts sold
are not made on State time.

Mr, wanted permission
to sell minutes withdrawn and
suggested an allocation that would
distinguish between positions in-
volving the sale of minutes and
those outside that category.

Mr, Burton in his letter said
that a careful study has been
made of Mr. Burton's suggestion
but that under the Civil Service
Law the Classification and Com-

nsation Board is prohibited
rom establishing different classi-
fications on the bases involved.
The title, duties and the qualifica-
tions for appointment are the le-
gal crite Mr. Kelly felt, and all

‘itions in the same title must

in the same grade,

Hopes for a Solution

‘The letter continued:

“We regard the ability or fu.
ablilty of employees to sell their
own minutes as a circumstance of
administration which must be
considered and treated apart from
the classification of these posi-
tions based upon their duties and

responsibilities and their training

and experience requirements,

“I know you are aware of the
present disorder which character-
izes the classification and com-
pensation of so many of these po-
sitions and that among them we
do not have equal pay for equal
work,

“It is my intention to meet with
a small representative committee
of these employees in the hope
that some acceptable solution mi
be reached.”

done and is doing a masterful
piece of work for public employees.
coverage of events is quite thor-
ough, Editorial expression is vig-
orous on our befalf, The Civil
Service LEADER is our faithful
advocate.”

A resolution was unanimously
adopted expressing appreciation
of The LEADER's value to the
Association,

Information Dissemination

Mr. Methe remarked that he
did not believe that there is
enough dissemination of infor-
mation about Conference activi-
ties personally by the delegates,

Mr, Stott announced that the
Ithaca chapter, in a revision of
constitution, had changed its
name to the Herman M, Biggs
Memorial Chapter, Mr. Stott also
announced that the Conference
had decided not to hold a field
day this year, but thought such
events should be held in the fu-
ture,

Next Meeting September 16

The next Conference meeting
will be held on September 16 at
Utica in connection with the cel-
ebration of the 40th anniversary
of the Association. In the evening
the delegates, joined by a number
of additional members of the Ox-
ford chapter, enjoyed entertain-
ment provided by the Oxford
chapter. Mr. Pox informed the
Conference of the struggles and

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cial committee.

Duffy on Roads

Mr, Duffy spoke in the place
of Charles H. Sells, the executive
director of the Roads Association
and former Superintendent of the
New York State Department of
Public Works, who was unable to
attend, Mr, Duffy pointed out
that education, health and all
phases of State welfare depend on
roads,

Mr. Conlon introduced the of-
ficers and the dinner mecting was
adjourned,

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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

Notable Send-Off to Mark

Special Training Course -

The Public
| Employee

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

ployees Merit Award Board

The Nof-So-Cold War and the Association

Tuesday, July 4th, has been set aside as a day of dedi-
cation for all Americans in this tragic year 1950. Men and
54 raat som | WOME who have some part, large or small, in government
ot| remember, perhaps better than others, the profound changes
in the everyday life of everyone, that comes with mobiliza-
tion and a preparedness campaign.

Like eve sane citizen I do not, despair of peace, but
we are committed to sanctions against the aggressor; to
defensive measures or armament aid in large areas of Asia;
to common action with our associates in the United Nations
—all in the effort to stop aggression in its tracks. If fortu-

lege of New Rochelle,
CAROLYN DDDD, 1154 Madison Avenue,
‘Albany: Principal Pile Clerk, Division
of the Budeet

Junior Pile Cleck

By HELEN NOLAN NEIL
ALBANY, July 3 — The State
Public Administration Internship
Program, with the blessings of
Governor Thomas E, Dewey, gets
off to a fast start on Wednesday,
July 5, and there will be sessions
the following two days, all at the
Civil Service Center, 8 Elk Street.
The project will be a year’s ex-
periment in the training of select-
' ed top prospects for recruitment

‘and promotion.

Welcome by Conway
‘The State employees enrolled in
the course consist of 21 men and
10 women, selected on the basis
of qualification and experience,
after screening by two commit-

Division
ment Insuran

the Cily

EDWARD J.
Street, NY
Indusirial
ards,

tees.

Besides the 31 State employees,
30 college graduates or students
were selected for the special train-

Department ot
Beran State wervice ax Stenosraphe
1044. Then Senior Stenogr

Tax Examiner, Tax Examiner
Aciministeative Assistant, Graduat

R
‘Those taking the course will be

Siena, Collese . :
Welcomed on the opening day by ROBERT HENDRICKS, 2 Hurtburt Stret. | nately we are involved not in a total war but in a limited
AR keke Gon ea cena H, ELIOT KAPLAN aan eh tne “hercutive Depart. | conflict, the result on our way of life will still, 1 think, be
vate vil vic conti » * r eo in April 20, rofound.
. The course is being admin- 194- pro ha. +
fuered by. the ‘Training Division a a wreriase 1, HOFFMAN, 11 Aiken Ave- It therefore, appropriate to remember that war cre-
of the State Civil Service Depart-| Were published in last week's Sucre

ment.
Others who will speak will be

LEADER, but the employees are
identified more completely and de- |

ates vast difficulties and dangers for the public employees
and for their Association.

Dr. Charles T. Klein, Director of |5cribed below. Nineteen depart-
Public Employee Training; Mrs,|™ments are represented,

Margaret B. Delehanty, Training | CMARUPS F. BAAR, B41 Xe
Supervisor, and William J. Mur-

ray, Administrative Assistant Di-

First Duty of Public Employees

Departn
gan Slate

The State employees fought a small war for survival
of their own during both the first and second world wars.

rector, all of the State Civil Serv- pag Sor Pgh , They tried equally hard to do all that they could to win the
ice Department. er, Market R u ; two big wars.
Notable Instructors TS tessa PR To a large degree you, your associates and your Civil

The course will deal with the|apan nonorn
structure of the State government,| Avenue. §
administrative, judicial and legis-
lative, the inter-relation of State
government brafiches and the r
lationship with Federal adminis-
trative affairs, Instruction will be
given on these topics by John E.
Burton, vice-president of Cornell
University and who, as State Bud-
get Director, was one of the origi-
nators of the program; Dr. Finlay
Crawford, vice chancellor. of
Syracuse University

Service Employees Association will find the going more dif-
ficult in the near future and in the new Ass tion year.
The United Nations Pacific punitive enterprise will bear
more heavily on us Americans than on most of our associ-
ate nations,

Our first duty as public employees will be to keep the
many and expanding services of the government operations
at full efficieney to win the conflict, Every extra national
effort involves and implies an extra strain on the States
and the municipalities. It will, I fear, be more difficult for

your officers and representatives to hold even the essential
Kaplan, Deputy Sta . DB oeinghy ye Pag are ns we have come to take for granted. It will be even
So feet ea nerd hoe peed Wn Cobeas Pomaival Aoceret Olek, | orteerterdl ant, dante ‘e| harder to keep up with mounting costs of living and in-
Btudenski, professor of economics,| * Devariment. Rater Led ie su | lated salaries in defense industries. It will not be easy to
New York University, and William . A protect civil service from raids and attac It will not be

J, Ronan, director, Graduate Di easy but it must be done if you and the public sery
sion for ‘Training in Public Serv- not t suffer.

ice, NYU.

Discussion leaders will be John
Daniels Jr., Associate
aminer, Bureau of
Charles Foster, business assistant
to the President of the State Uni-
versity, and Milton Musicus,
sistant Director of Busine
agement and Personnel, State Ed-
ucation Department,

te ployee. Association for
CLARKE LE BORUE, 450 Cedar
Head Clerk, Depart

Full Participation in Election Urged

All this calls for action now
time there is special need for a practi
self to your Association «
professional welfare. Ther
for the full exerc

y member™ At this
dedication of your-
the chief instrument of your
is far greater need than usual
e of your Association citizenship,

eve!

List of 31 State Employees aniston, D 5 ator, Principal Clerk, Combat Will you not help the Association find, for the crucial
‘Gaeke Basing of nue 2h ere in 1 9 (Continued on page 4) days ahead, the best possible leadership in every chapter,

in every Conference and in the Ass
means of course seeing to it that the best members are
nominated for office, either by the nominating committee
or by petition, and that from those nominated you select
and yote for the candidate you really believe can best act in
your interest as your trusted representative and agent dur-
ing the coming year.

ociation itself? This

Public: Saslinans liaciael
To Visit Warwick School

WARWICK, July 3—An open| “All of our teachers and cot-
invitation was issued by A. Alfred] tage parents did a splendid job in
Cohen,' Superintendent of — the| planning, building, and arranging
State Training School for Boys,|their exhibits,” said Mr. Cohen.
to all State and other public em-|"Our many visitors were very
ployees, as well as the public gen-| much impressed by what they saw
erally, to visit the school and see|and left the school with a betetr
what kind of work is being done| understanding of the type work
for the socially maladjusted} we are doing. Many of the edu-
youngster. cators and people in the fleld of

‘The open house recently held by| child care were encouraged by the
the school was very successful.| real abilities shown by the boys in
Frederick 8, Appleton, Assistant] our school, New York State can
Superintendent, was the over-all| very well be proud of the facilities
chairman of the day, ably assisted} provided for the boy in trouble.”
by Fred Wall, Director of Educa- He expressed “sincere apprecia-
tion, Charles W. Wilson, Porter | for to the Civil Service LEADER

of Home Life, and Jacob Porter,|for its cooperation and help in
school bandmaster, publicizing the event.”

Wm. E. Byron Active In Albany Affairs

ALBANY, July 3—William E.) merce, This organization {s com-
Byron, Training Assistant in the|Prised of the city’s executi

a er 36 years of age, is promin
‘ Sectio: ce of Per-

Training Section, OMce of Per-|identined with civic and welfare

sonnel Administration of the] activities, Mr B

Jesse McFarland of the | State Health Department, has|president of the
end Moxwell Lehman, | been elected president of the Al-|tian Mi
bany Junior Chamber of Com-!CSEA,

Civil Service Commissioner Alex A.
Civil Service Employees Association.
shairman of the Conference, Dimly visi
dais: Dr, Horry A. LaBurt, head of Cri
Social Welfare Departm:

on formerly
ame Chris-
morial chapter of the

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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

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N.L. Andrews h
Joins Assn.
Legal Staff

ALBANY, July 3—Nigel Lyon
Andrews has been appointed as
regional attorney for The Civil
Service Employees Association in
the Syracuse area, He replaces J.
Norman Crannage, who died a
few months ago. \s

Mr, Andrews is a graduate of
Yale University (A. B. 1942) and
of the Syracuse University Col-
lege of Law (magna cum laude
LL. B. 1948).

During the war, Mr. Andrews
served three and a half years
with the U. 8. Army Air Forces,
Air Transport Command. He was
released from active duty after
service on the Headquarters Staff,
Pacific Division, ATC, with the
rank of captain.

For two years—1948 to 50—he
served as law clerk to Edmund H,
Lewis, senior Associate Judge,
State Court of Appeals. He is a
member of the Onondaga and
New York State Bar Associations.
He is married and the father of
two sons.

Mr. Andrews’ office address is
524 Onondaga County Savings
Bank Building, Syracuse 2, N. Y.
Employees and Association chap-
ters in that area may communi-
cate with him at that address,

Commission for Blind
Opens New Sales Shop

The Commission for the Blind,
State Department of Social Wel-
fare will open on Wednesday,
July 5 a new sales shop in the
New York State Building, en-
trance on 78 Chambers Street,
NYC. The new shop will provide
an outlet for the products of 16
workshops throughout the State,
together with the products of the
blind who work in their own
homes. The State returns to the
blind the full purchase price of
every article sold,

Articles on sale include woven
goods, metal articles, costume
jewelry, dolls, baby blankets, rugs,
and aprons,

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They knew that the conferees
were coming so they baked a cake.

The baking was done for, rather
than by, the Long Island Inter-
County State Parks chapter of
The Civil Service Employees Asso-
ciation, host to the Metropolitan
Regional Conference annual meet-
ing at Jones Beach on June 24.

State Civil Service Commission:
er Alexander A. Falk, a guest of
honor, and Sidney Alexander of
Psychiatric Institute, Confer-
ence chairman, Jointly cut the
cake with a silver knife. A piece
of the delicious confection was
given to everybody present.

The cake was in celebration of
the 40th anniversary of the Asso-
ciation, a sort of life-begins-at-40
birthday cake,

Falk Congratulates Officers

The Conference went to Jones
Beach mostly for a good time and
that was fully attained by every-
body. Incidentally there was some
business to transact. It took only
the minimum time. Officers had
to be elected, but the Incumbents
were all renominated and all
unanimously re-elected: Mr, Alex-
ander, chairman; George H.
Siems, of the Inter-County chap-
ter, vice-chairman; Edith Frucht-
hendler of the Metropolitan Pub-
lic Service chapter, secretary, and
Clyde E, Morris of the Inter-
County chapter, treasurer. Joseph
J. Byrnes of the NYC chapter, in
stalled the officers and Commis-
sioner Falk congratulated them
on their re-election, as well as
making a few remarks to the dele-
gates generally,

In recounting the experiences of
the past year, Chairman Alexan-
der said it had been a very suc

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has ruled in an informal opinion,

He construed Section 985-4 of the
Penal Law.

cessful one and that mucn ground-
work had been done with legisia-
tors from the Metropolitan area
in regard to legislation on the As-
sociation’s program.

He stressed the success of the
Conference educational program,
which included a training course
held in a high school, in which 52
enrolled, 45 of them in prepara-
tion for the high school equiva-
lency exam, The education com-
mittee head, Elizabeth McSwee-
ney, unable to be present, sub-
mitted a written report. She
thanked Virginia Leathem, super-
visor, Training Division, State
Civil Service Department, and
John P, Powers, Ist vice-president
of the Association, for “guidance
and organizational services.”

Preparation for promotion ex-
ams and for entrance exams in
the Attendant title, Department
of Mental Hygiene, Is part of the
Conference program. Parliamen-
tary procedure and public*speak-
ing will be taught, too.

A copy of the educational pro-
gram was sent to Dr. Prank L.
Tolman, president of the Associ-
prec and to each chapter presi-
deni

Porta Discusses Pensions

Michael L, Porta, retiring presi-
jdent of the NYC chapter and
chairman of the Conference pen-
sion committee, discussed the new
age-55 law. He recommended that
the Conference get behind a move
to have the pension fraction un-
jder that law improved. As it is
now, the pension, or part paid by
the State, is based on the average
of 5 consecutive years’ salary, and
|the pension fraction is 1/120,
He recommended that a strong
effort be made to have it increas
ed to 1/100, to equal the N¥C
one per cent Ia
Resolution Lauds LEADER

A resolution offered by Chair-
man Alexander, expressed the
thanks of the Conference to The
LEADER “for its co-operation
throughout the year and for its
vigorous defense of public em-
ployee interests and the merit sy:
tem.” The resolution also asked
that the Association “utilize to the
full the proven editorial efficiency
of The LEADER in seeking a
wage increase for State employees
in 1951."

Michael L. Porta, president of
the NYC chapter, moved for adop-
tion and Arnold Moses, president
of the Brooklyn State Hospital
chapter, seconded the motion, The
resolution was adopted unani-
mously,

Philip Mastridge
State Hospital

of Brooklyn
moved that an

Metro Conference Re-elects
Officers and Frolics at Park

honorarium be given to the secre-
tary, Miss Fruchthendler, and the
motion was carried.

Stanley Polek, Superintendent
of Jones Beach State Park, wel-
comed the guests, E

After the meeting the guests
lunched in the Marine Dining
Room. At the luncheon the cake
was cut. Afterward the guests
patronized the beach and the
amusements.

List of Delegates

Besides Commissioner Falk the

ests were Superintendent Polek,

. Allyn Stearns, 3d vice-president
of the Association; David M.
Schneider, 5th vice-president and
chairman of the Capitol District
Conference; Charlotte Klapper,
Association secretary; Jesse B.
McParland, co-chairman of the
Association's statewide member-
ship committee; Elizabeth O'Ha-
gan, of the Association board of
directors, Harold L. Herzstein, re-
gional attorney for the Associa-
Uon, and Maxwell Lehman, editor
and publisher of The LEADER.

The chapters and delegates who
represented them were:

Armory—Jack De Lisi and Prank
E. Wallace,

Brooklyn State—Arnold Moses,
Philip Mastridge, James Dart,
Lida MacDonald, Henry Girourd,
‘Thomas Conkling, George Lilien-
thal, Charles Pearson and Cather-
ine Sullivan,

Creedmoor—Mrs. Helen C.. Pe-
tersen, Irving Scott, Arthur “Mil-
ler, John Gorton and Virginia
McDonnell,

Central Islip—Michael J, Mur-
phy, Margaret T, Murphy, Helen
M, Clerkin, Alvina Bartel, Joseph
Kleinmeier and Prank Ryder.
Long Island Inter-County State

George H. Siems ond
H. Morris.

Metropolitan Public Service—
Philip Wexler. Mark Jackson,
Kenneth A, Valentine, a member

of the Association Board of di-
rectors; Exlith Pruchthendler, Wil-
liam Allen, Edward Grubnau, H.

M. Olmsted and L. C. Reyna.

Manhattan State Hospital—Mr
and Mrs. Mor

NYC—Michael L. Porta, Joseph
J. Byrnes, Sol Bendet, Al Corum
and Mrs, Elvira Hatt and Ed
Hart.

District 10, Public Works—Paul
Hammond.

State Insurance Fund—James
F. Byrnes Jr. (guest).

Psychiatric Institute — Sidney
Alexander and Biagio Romeo.

Willowbrook State Hospital—
Ada Miller and Rubin Bassin,

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ALBANY, July 3—A_campaign
to repeal Amendment 5—the cel-
ebrated Mitchell bill on veteran
preference—-has been formally
undertaken by the Albany County
Committee of the American Le<
gion.

A_ resolution passed by the
County unit will come up for
action by the statewide Legion
convention to be held in Syra-
cuse on August 10-12,

While Amendment 5 won in
the State, in Albany County it
failed by a large margin, It was
|in this county that the Legion-
naires campaigned most actively
against it. Elsewhere, however,
the Legion was not united against
the measure. Two NYC posts
have only recently been suspend-
ed for their activity in favor of
Amendment 5. A total of nearly
330 organizations — women's, la-
bor, civil service, civie business
and professional — combined to
win passage of the measure. On
the other side were most of the
veteran organizations,

Shomrim Society
Formed in Westchester

At a meeting held at the Yon+
kers Jewish Community Center,
attended by a group of civil ser-
vice employees of Westchester
County, it was decided to form a
Shomrim Society, patterned after
the Shromim Society, NYC Police
Department. Several officials of
the NYC Shomrim were present
to assist in the forming of this
organization. The purpose of this
organization will be religious and
fraternal.

All civil service

enptoyees are
ible as to y are eme
ployed in W cr Couniy,
The next meeting will be held’
at the Center on Thursday, July
6 at 7:30 P.

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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

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Activities of Association Chapters ;

2g Pubic Works “Pilgrim ieee, ese ee, ve rs eet fi Se me, See

‘ways in the district.

)

HAMBURG CHAPTER, Public
Works, held a special meeting
during the June 24 session of the
Western Regional Conference.
More than 150 per diem employ-
ees attended, representing North
and South Erie county, Niagara,
, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua.

Charles R. Waters, District En-
gineer, District 5, expressed his
pleasure at the excellence of the
turnout.

“A tremendous task confronts
us,” he stated, “maintaining the
thousands of miles of State high-

‘THE PILGRIM chapter of The
Civil Service Employees Assovia-
tion will hold its annual dinner
dance at the Hotel Frank in Cen-
tral Islip on Thursday, July 6. The
president is Julia Enos, R.N.; the
vice-presidents, Mildred E. Cur-
rier, R. N. and Gene Hughes.
Madge B. Koernig 1s secretary;
Louise S, Williams, treasurer and
Lioyd W. Hale, chairman of the
executive council.

Retirement System

Albany

AT A RECENT meeting of the
State Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem chapter, Helen R. Banker
was re-elected president for the
coming year. Other officers serv-
ing with Miss Banker include:
vice president, John J. Klein, Jr.;
treasurer, Mary E, Ryan; secre-
tary, Harriet A. Benjamin; dele-
Rogene Rhino; alternate,
Regina McLaughlin,

Rochester

REPRESENTING the Rochester
chapter at the Western Confer-
ence meeting at Bast Aurora, were
Lewrence Riehle,|Melba Binn, president; Lawrence

Willia Barrett,| Culiano, delegate; Mildred Holi-
| day, Lillian Wilson, Joseph Wa-
ters, Charles Rudolf, Newell Per-
ris and Rose Nicoletti.

Michael Murtha, former presi-
gent of Genesee Valley chapter,
was also present.

Mr. Waters, membership chair-
man, reported on total Associa-

“We are much interested in
the many problems faced by the
employees. Better wages and
working conditions are of special

G.
sistant District Engineer, present-
ed 25-year service pins to the
following State Highway employ-
ees: Jacob Bechtel, Alfred Mason,
ig Benthin, A, Bergaman, E.

L. Harrison, M. a McCarthy, A.

ly, “John Holder, Mitchell Luke,
Lio

Blanck, mechanic of the Ham-
burg Shop, the State Certificate
of Merit for his idea of a safety
device for preventing accidents
to power-machine operators,

Final Facts Being Gathered
or Park Ranger Pay Plea

ALBANY, July 3—The Civil Ser-
vice

rounding up the final supporting
facts and arguments in the ap-
peal of Park Rangers, who seek
reallocation to Grade 8 from
.|Grade 5. An open hearing has
been requested of the Classifica-
~|tion and Compensation Division.
Irving Cohen, Association re-
search consultant, is gathering the
i>} factual material. He has con-
ferred with representatives of the
K- | Classification and Compensation
Division. Following that talk he
wrote a letter to the 28 Park
Rangers, asking questions which,
when answered, wil) help their
case considerably. One of the
questions deals with the duties,
concerning which specific details
are asked, and the approximate
.} amount of time spent on the vari-
ous aspects of the duties.
@ Mr. Cohen's letter states that
the title should be reclassified to
"5 | competitive status, especially since
filling the position by competitive
o1:|examination is practicable, and
~|also the jobs are now on a year~-
round basis. The job is compared
to that of the competitive Park
Patrolmen.

Employees Association is

lowing is tr substance of Ci
Limited Partnership subseri
Knowledged by all

in product
‘The general partner te
| residing at Belmont-Plaza

Lexington Ave, & 40th St. New
York City. Limited P thelr aah
contributions, ben eh anh real
fences “(all of which are New ohne!
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tion membership, and on the{

tential Membership.

Mr. Cullano presented a reso-
lution to the conference recom-
mending a study of departmental
rules which vary among differ-
ent State offices, with a view to
future uniformity.

Ray Munroe, former chapter
president, was re-elected presi-
dent of the Western Conference.
As Conference President, he is
on the board of directors of The
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion. He is also serving on a spe-
cial committee to get larger re-
bates for smaller out-lying chap-
ters. The first meeting of that
committee was held in Albany
June 8, He also recently counseled
the Brockport State Teachers
College in the formation of a
chapter.

Civil Service
Albany

THE FIFTH annual picnic of
the Albany Civil Service Depart-
ment chapter was held on Thurs-
day, June 29 at the Crooked Lake
Hotel, in Rensselaer county. There
were games and swimming. Sup-
per was followed by dancing.

‘The committee in charge was
headed by David Magill and Gerry
ay tae | as co-chairman, assist-

by Kaltner, Charles
Wot, Arthur Armer, Ruth Watts,
Ben French, Eleanor Cassiano,
Lucille Hart, Mary McBrlean,
Norma Hampe, James A. Der-
mody, Patricia Walsh, Charles
Rapazzo, Ernest Des Champs,
Jennie Giachetta, Jack Farrell,
Marian Skinner, Russell Kilid-
jean, Marcela Stout, Anna Hayden,
Frank Pekins, Joyce Lewis, and
Marian Brady,

Chemung County

‘THE CHEMUNG County chap-
ter petitioned the Board of
Supervisors to refrain from ad-
justing salaries of all employees
downward in accordance with the
consumers’ price index figure of
April 15, 1950.

In one year, the employees

@ year, A wage cut now would be
contyary to the current economic
trend in this community, the
chapter pointed out.

¢ Board has reserved deci-
sion on the request of a joint
session of civil service and budget
committees,

Representatives of the Board
of Supervisors and the chapter
met to discuss the subject.

Charles R. Culyer was enter-
tained at dinner in Elmira by the
chapter salary committee. Also
attending were several employees
of the highway department,

St. Lawrence County

THE ST. LAWRENCE chapter
elected President Philip L. White,
Police Department, Ogdensburg
and E. Stanley Howlett, Public
Works Department Potsdam, del-
egates to the Association for the
coming year. Jean S. Magee, Pub-
lic Works, Gouverneur, and Mar-
cella Stephenson, Veterans Ser-
vice Agency, were elected alter-
nates,

John Loucks, County Probation
Officer, and Maurice Gardner.

Appointed as a chapter nomi-
nating committee were Jean 8.
Magee, Public Works, Gouver-
neur, chairman; Katherine Pull-
erton, Village Nurse, Potsdam;
Frank Gilmour, County Highway
Department Morristown; Brooks
Warner, Education Department,
Ogdensburg; John Loucks, Coun-
ty Probation Officer, Ogdensburg;
Marian Murray, County Social
Welfare Department, Gouverneur,
and Florence Wood, Deputy
County Clerk, Canton, The com-
mittee will report at the meeting
in Hermon on July 20 at 8:00 P.
M. On the same evening also in
Hermon will occur the wind-up
of the annual finance campaign
under the direction of Glenn W.
Miller, Ist vice president and fi-
nance chairman of St. Lawrence
chapter,

Willowbrook State School

AT THE ANNUAL election
the Willowbrook State School
chapter chose the following to
serve for the coming year: Presi-
dent, Ada Miller; vice president,
James Malone; treasurer, Rubin
Bassin; secretary, Ethel Stevens,

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Progress Reports
On Tests Vital

HE interest shown by the new President of the NYC

Civil Service Commission in instituting an advance
schedule of exams covering a sizeable period is encouraging.
Such a system broadens the base of competition and tends
to attract better qualified candidates. A person looking for-
ward to a career in a public job, if given notice of a test
well in advance, will better prepare for it, The advance pub-
licity itself will attract more candidates.

The State Civil Service Department began listing tests
for the entire 1950 calendar year. It recently issued a com-
plete schedule that includes all revisions.

The NYC Board of Education gives notice of exams well
in advance. Its latest schedule covers some tests for teach-
ing jobs that will open as late as December 18, as well as
others, as listed elsewhere in this issue, that are now open.

Scheduled Progress Reports Needed

President James S. Watson and his fellow-Commis-
sioners, Paul P. Brennan and Paul A. Fino, who are ad-
ministering NYC civil service, are seeing that up-to-date
progress reports on exams are issued. A regular schedule
of such reports, at least once a month, preferably twice a
month, should be established. The State Civil Service De-
partment, on the other hand, has discontinued progress
reports, although they were the finest ones issued. It is
likely to restore them, on the urgent plea of The Civil Serv-
ice Employees Association. Discontinuance was based on the
theory that lists would be established within three months
of the holding of a test, so the final report would be issued
soon enough. But it hasn’t worked out quite that way, judg-
ing from recent examples. The major percentage of lists
may well be issued within three months, but lists with hun-
dreds or thousands of names take much more than three
months, and sometimes nearly a year. The majority of lists
is something quite different from the majority of candi-
dates.

An Obligation to the Customers

In exams conducted by the State and local commissions
under its supervision, candidates pay an application fee. In
the Federal tests they don't. The payment of that fee, plus
the democratic recognition of an obligation to candidates,
makes essential both the scheduling of exams long in advance
and the issuance of timely progress reports on regular
schedule. Civil service commissions must render service of
paramount importance to candidates. A sense of obligation
and responsibility is involved, Also, candidates are the com-
missions’ best customers,

COMM

———
PENSIONS ARTICLES

ENT .*

SS ——

ais The only Firemen who benefit

CALLED MASTERLY
Editor, The LEADER:
You deserve an accolade for hav-
ing excellently performed a sery-
ice for the State employees, in
connection with the S5year plan
for retirement, It was most inter-
esting to see how well this was
understood among those who read
The LEADER, and the contrasting
uncertainty and confusion among
those who do not. Your week-by-
week summaries of the latest con-
cepts developed in connection
‘with it were most helpful, so that
Your readers were always up to
date. For your fine job of educa-
tion you deserve the boundless
gratitude of all members of the
Btate Retityement System for a
materly jo, J. W.

EFFECT OF BONUS FREEZE
ON PENSION PAYMENTS
Editor, The LEADER:

Regarding the bonus freeze aid-
ing Police and Firemen the most,
@ point not mentioned was the
mage that at some future

salary may be reduced, with
Shennuens redietion 2 pe.
especially for those e
Department under the

at present are those who are about
to retire. This is a small percen-
tage of the total. Those to retire
average about 10 more years to go,

Firemen entering at first grade
rating will be paying about $40
more a year and have 17 more
years to go before retiring, ‘They,
plus all members of the 1-B pen-
sion plan, have to get a certain

rate of pay for five years before} Cine,

may retire on one-half that pay,
GILBERT A, PEPE
Engine Company 265, Arverne,

SAYS 43,000 TOOK TEST,
NOBODY APPOINTED
Editor, The LEADER:

In Pebruary, 1949, an examina-
tion was given to 43,000 persons
for the Secretary Grade 5 to 7 po-
sition for the vicinity of NYC
only. I was notified that I was
eligible for the Grade 6. As far
as I know, not one eligible has
been appointed. The U, 8, Civil
Service Commission has just for-
warded word to the effect that no
openings exist in this grade, nor is

re any likelihood in the fore-
seeable future,

MICHAEL DURKAS

‘What Public Expects of You’
Told at Western Conference

EAST AURORA, July 3— The
Western New York Conference at
its recent annual meeting heard
some _ straight-from-the-shoulder
comments on the subject: “What
the Public Expects of the Public
Employee.”

Two of a group of atidresses de-
livered at the summer meeting of
the organization, a unit of The
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion, dealt with this subject. Elec-
tion of officers took place at the
same meeting.

The affair, comprising a busi-
ness meeting, inner, and fun, was
held in the Roycroft Inn, East
Aurora,

The roster of speakers included
Loulse C. Gerry, State Civil Serv-
ice Commissioner; William FP, Mc-
Donough, executive representative
of the Civil Service Employees As-
sociation; Francis A. MacDonald,
2d vice-president of the Associa-
tion; Assemblyman John J. Pil-
lion; John Cooke, chairman of the
Erie County Board of Supervisors;
Charles R. Waters, District Engi-
neer of Public Works District No.
5; Thomas Ryan, State Director
of Public Safety, and John J. Poy,
Assistant Director of Public Safe-
ty.

More Than 300 Attend

With more than 300 in attend-
ance, this was the largest meet-
ing of the Western Conference to
date. Raymond L. Munroe, Con-
ference president, was in charge
of the meeting. The Hamburg
Public Works chapter acted as
host and Joseph A. Crotty, chap-
ter president, welcomed the as
semblage.

Miss Gerry told the group that
the public expected both efficiency
and polite service from the State

employees, With the right kind of
service given, the employee may
expect public recognition, “We do
not need more civil service laws,”
Miss Gerry maintained,-“but we
do need proper enforcement of the
Present civil service law.”
Membership Vital

Mr. MacDonald, who is chair-
man of the Southern Regional
Conference as well as a member
of the Assocaition Board, made
membership his main theme. Giv-
ing the Association's membership
figure at 49,000, Mr. MacDonald
sald, “This is not enough. Every
member should see that all non-
members are thoroughly apprecia-
tive of the work of the Associa-
tion. ‘Free riders’ are a heavy bur-
den on your back, and the sooner
everyone is pulling instead of rid-
ing or dragging along, the easier
will be the journey,”

Asking unity, particularly in the
face of a coming demand for wage
increases, Mr. MacDonald urged,
“Get behind your officers, Assist
them by giving your full cooper-
ation instead of lip service. Then
and only then can we claim the
distinction of being the best civil
service association in the coun-

try.”
‘Blueprint’

Mr. McDonough's theme was
“a blueprint for efficient, economic
government and public employee
welfare.” He called for enforce-
ment of the merit system, revi-
sion of the civil: service law, the
right of appeal with counsel in
cases of dismissal; hearings in
cases where efficiency rating
would deprive an employee of an
increment, more adequate pay
scales, maximum 40-hour, 5-day
week with extra pay for overtime,

further liberalization of the re
trement law, extension of in-serv;
ice training.
Public Relations

Speaking of “Public Relations,”
Mr, Ryan emphasized the duties
of the employee to the public,

“Courtesy is a must,” he mains
tained. “We must at all times cons
duct ourselves with understanding
and dignity, thereby winning the
respect and admiration of the
people with whom we come in

contact,"
New Officers

Officers installed for the fol~
lowing year were: Mr, Munroe,
Rochester chapter, president;
Grace Hillery, Buffalo chapter,
vice-president; Merton L. Wilson,
Newark State School chapter,
treasurer; Mrs. Gladys Murriman,
Thomas Indian School, secretary,
Robert R. Hopkins, Buffalo chap-
ter, was re-elected chairman of
the executive council of the Con-
ference,

Mr, Munroe thanked the outgo-
ing officers: Mrs. Margaret Kelly,
vice-president; Mrs. Alice Wagner,
treasurer, and Rose Nicoletta, sec-
retary.

Mr. MacDonald and Mr, Mc-
Donough conducted a question-an-
swer period on the subject, “What
the Association means to you as @
State employee,” with emphasis
orf wages and working conditions,

Mr. Hopkins reviewed the Con-
ference’s activities within the As-
sociation,

William Lytle, of Ter Bush and
Powell, explained the terms of the
accident and health policy which
most Association members carry.

The dinner was turkey—and by

common agreement an excellent
meal.

J. EARL KELLY, Stote Director
ef Classification and Compensa-
tion, r with his family

for a 41-day Holy
Fro

Public Employees
In State Are Tops,

Hanley Declares

ALBANY, July 3 — As Joe R,
Hanley, the Lieutenant Governor,
is an aspirant for the Republican
nomination for Governor to suc-
ceed Thomas E, Dewey, who has
announced he won't run for re-
election, The LEADDR asked Mr.
Hanley for a statement of his
stand on civil service, Here's what
Mr, Hanley replied:

“T have always been an advocate
of civil service, I believe in the
merit system. I feel strongly that
the State civil service has pro-
duced a better type of public ser-
vant than we could get in any

v way.
“I have supported every meas-
ure for bettering and strengthen-
ing civil service since I went into
the State Legislature, I feel now
that we have the finest body of

ublic service employees in the

jtate, counties and municipalities
in our history.

“In the future, as in the past,
I will do everything in my power
to improve and strengthen the po-
sition of our public service em-
ployees,”

ANNIS NAMED COUNTY CLERK

ALBANY, July 3 — Governor
Dewey appointed Almon A. Annis
of Livonia as Livingston County
Clerk. The vacancy was caused by

the death of Milton R, Zerfass of
Geneseo,

WHAT

EVERY

EMPLOYEE SHOULD KNOW

Can You Be Dropped

Without Charges

By THEODORE BECKER

If you are serving a proba-
tionary period, you know that
you can be dropped at the very
end of such period without
charges. If you are kept in the
job beyond your probationary
period, you can be removed only
on charges of incompetency or
misconduct.

But can you be dropped from
your job before the end of your
probationary period without
charges? No, not legally, because
you are entitled to a full proba-
tionary period in which to dem-
onstrate to your appointing offi.
cer that you are capable of per-
forming satisfactory service in
the position to which you have
been appointed. Of course, if you
have been guilty of misconduct
or clearly show that you are in-
competent before your probation-
ary period is up, you can be re-
moved on charges,

It is often desirable, for your
own sake as well as in tire inter-
est of the taxpayer, to be removed
from the probationary position in
which you are definitely a failure
before the entire probationary
term has run its course. It is
recognized that the ultimate test
of a candidate's ability to serve
satisfactorily is his performance
on the job. Hence, the power is
given to an appointing officer to
drop an unsatisfactory probation~
er,

Dropped During Term

But suppose an appointing of-
ficer does terminate the service
of an unsatisfactory probationer
before the end of his term with-
out preferring charges. What can
the probationer do?

Tn a recent case involving this
question, the probationer sued for
reinstatement to his job, Serving
& probationary term as a Prison
Guard, he had been dropped with-
out charges, more than two
months before the end of his pro-
bationary period. The prison offi-
clals urged that the employee had
voluntarily abondoned his job, A
referee who took testimony on the
questions of fact raised, found
that the Prison Guard had not
sctually abandoned his job, The

During Probation?

court, therefore, decided that the
employee had to be reinstated for
the balance of his probationary
period.

Dropped at End of Term

However, it appeared that at
the end of such period, the pri-
son officials had formally and
summarily dismissed the employ-
ee again, On this score, the sole
issue was whether or not at the
end of the probationary period
the dismissal of the employee
had been in good faith, The court
pointed out that such dropping
at the end of the probationary
period is a matter within the
discretion of the appointing of-
ficer, provided he acted in good
faith. On this issue, the referee
found that the prison officials
had indeed acted in good faith,
The evidence before the referee
Sustained the conclusion that the
employee's conduct was not such
as to entitle him to a perman=
ent appointment.

Accordingly, the court ordered
the employee's reinstatement on
the books for the balance of his
probationary term but approved
his dismissal at the end of such
term. (Wolf vy, Conway, 276 App.
Div. 798.)

50 CHILDREN GET BOAT RIDE

The Manhattan Employees Wel=
fare Committee of Borough Presi~
dent Robert P. Wagner Jr's office
held its annual boat ride recent=
ly, Fifty children were guests
at Bear Mountain of the 1,800
employees and were sponsored by
the DeWitt Memorial Church, the
Grand Strect Settlement and the
Cardinal Hayes Memorial High
School,

MORRIS BERMAN HONORED

The executive committe of the
Community Councils of the City
of New York awarded Morris Bere
man, chairman of the engineers
ing committee of the Councils,
the organization's award for Dis-
tinguished Service in City Affaire
in recognition of his successful
campaign for faster subway sere

vice in this city, ‘
‘Tuesday, July 4, 1950 ~

* CIVIL SERVICE LEADER,

Page Seven

4 me

STATE AND COUN’ TY NEWS

yeoeninieee —

Three-Fold ‘Opportunity For Higher
Retirement Pay Through Annuity

paid pension and the member-tional annuity account, he'll be

By H. J. BERNARD

ALBANY, July 3 — With the
final year having just begun in
which members of the State Re-
tirement System may purchase
additional annuity, they are con-
fronted with three aspects of
paying more into their annuity
accounts for their own benefit.

In any case it is advantageous
to the employee to build up his
annuity account to the limit of
the law. The only question is, how
much can he afford to do for him-
self? .

These additional or extra pay-
ments do not benefit the State
financially, in fact, the State ad-
ministers ‘the annuity accounts
without charge.

‘The three aspects are:

1, Switching to the new age-
55 law requires paying about 50
per cent more in contributions
from future salary, compared to
the normal rate under the old
age-60 basis,

2. Such switching affords an
opportunity of carrying back that
“increased rate to cover the years
of past member-service. Consider
them as payments the member
would ‘have been required to make
had the liberalized law been in
effect when he became a member.
But he does not have to make up
any of these arrears to gain the
increased pension benefit arising
from switching. If he makes up
some of the arrears he does not
have to make up all of them to
gain the improved pension. The
compulsory increased deductions
from future salary alone oocasion
the State's granting of the in-
creased pension.

3. The payment of 50 per cent,
Mo more, no less, above the nor-
mal (age-60) rate, to increase
the annuity account still more,
permitting employees to be re-
tired at up to 25 per cent greater
retirement allowance.

The purpose of the annuity
contributions by members is to
supply a counterpart to the pen-
sion that the State or local gov-
ernment provides.

ertificat

proved technique for

The employee-

Beard, from (alt, Mr. Reilly, Henry A, Cohen, Chairm
Deputy Executive Secretary of Stat
for merito
alifying sotary publics,
“counties having heaviest registration of notaries,

financed annuity, taken together,
constitute all that the pensioner
will receive, called the retirement
allowance. Uniess employees
watch their own situation care-
fully and act accordingly, the
pension will be larger than the an-
nuity. In that case, for instance,
half pay after 35 years, on at-
taining at least age 60, under the
normal rate, won't be possible.

For those who transfer to the
new age-55 liberalized pension
law, which permits, but doesn’t
necessarily assure, retirement af-
ter age 55 at half pay after 30
years of member-service, it still
won't be possible actually to at-
tain half pay, unless the employ-
ee’s own account at retirement
is large enough to purchase an
annuity equal to the State-paid
pension,

Confronted with the triple op-
portunity, the member should fol-
low this course:

Switch to the new age-55
* plan, by all means, and
Pay the approximately 50 per
cent increase in contributions in
the future, making up much
as possible of the contributions
against past years of service.
The part of the rate quoted by
the Retirement System under the
new law includes not more than
1 per cent of salary for payment
against deficiency, but the pen-
sion increase of 16 2/3 per cent,
obtains in full, even if contribu-
tions for deficiencies don’t cover
all or even any past service.

ys If it is difficult to make

le any payments against de-
ficiencies, and the member has
an additional annuity, he may use
those funds as payment against
the deficlency account,

3 If the member can afford

Ge both to pay off arrears, even
in instalments, and finance ad-
ditional annuities for the future,
he should do both, buying the

additional annuity as soon as
possible, If he pays off all his
arrears under the new age-55

and also bullds up an addi-

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able to retire at more than half
pay, for 30 years of member-ser-
vice, and for more than 30 years,

at a retirement allowance pro-
portionately greater than half
pay.

Pension Gain Stands

While past years of service
create a deficiency or arrears,
they represent no debt by the
employee, nor does he fail to gain
the added pension benefit under
the new age-55 law even if he

doesn’t pay a cent against those |}

arrears. That point is worth re-
peating and remembering.

While the present law regarding
additional annuities was enacted

in 1949, effective on July 1 of
that year, there had been on the
statute books, for about a decade
and a half a prior additional an-
nuity law that didn’t work out too
well, and only after another dec-
ade was the present additional
annuity law enacted.

WHITESTONE, L. I.

New ranch buoses, 2 bedrooms, full bases
Retrigeration.

house.

Flushing 3-7707

J. Earl Kelly

On Holy Year
Trip Abroad

ALBANY, July 3—J. Earl Kelly,
State Director of Classification
and Compensation, will leave for a
4i-day Holy Year trip for Europe.
Mr. Kelly's family is with him,
They will visit France, Portugal,
Spain, and Italy.

Several pending decisions on
matters of primary importance to
State employees were “not quite
completed” when Mr. Kelly left.
On one of these, the matter of a
Proposed downgrading for claims
examiners in the Division of
Placement and Unemployment In-
surance, Mr. Kelly said a decision
would be ready this week.

(Photo on Page 6)

adr.

Adv.

PLAYLAND, RYE. Amusements,
boardwalk, kiddyland, boatin:
bathing, restaurants, picnic groves,
fire works, Rad. trip wkdays: Child
58c, Adults 87c, Sat.-Sun, $1.15.
N. ROCHELLE (25c), HUDSON
PK. (32c), GLEN ISLAND (35c),
LARCHMONT (35c), MAMARO-
NECK (58e), RYE (to PORT-
CHESTER LINE (69c).

Busses Pick Up at Fordham &
Valentine (1 block from Ind,
Sub.); Fordham Rd. & Wash. Av.,
& on So, Bivd.; on Boston Rd. @
Pelham Pkway., Allerton Av., Gun
Hill Rd., Eastchester Rd., Dyre Av,
& City line.

CONNECTIONS to Pelham Manor,
Mt. Vernon, Bronxville, Harrison,
Port Chester, Greenwich and
Stamford. FORDHAM TRANSIT
CO., INC. FOrdham 7-3323-7.

I have made this trip many times
and always spent a very pleasant
day. I suggest you try it—John

CIVIL SERV! EMPLOYEES
will get a SPECIAL DISCOUNT
UP TO 40%. I have just com-
pleted an inspection of the most
reasonably priced
stock of televis-
fons, radios, re-
{rigerators, cam-
eras, silverware,
typewriters and
jewelry. You will
veceive courteous
attention, and
the’ assurance
that every pur-
chase is guaran-
teed. On my recommendation, I
Suggest that you take advantage
of this liberal discount offer and
go today to ANCHOR RADIO
CORP. One Greenwich St. (Cor.
Battery Place) N, Y¥. Telephone
W8Hitehall 3-4280,—John,

i YOU ARE GOING AWAY,
James Devine can make it an
easy, pleasant trip. Many of our
readers have used his service, and

report it is really “DEVIN!
worries about heavy pac
trunks, eribs or anything else that
you may wish to take along, You
can go along with your baggage
if you desire, DAILY TRIPS. are
made TO COUNTRY and SEA-
SHORE. You can depend on care-
ful handling qf your lugagge, and
@ safe, relaxing drive for you and
your dear ones, at a price so low
thet you will be amazed, Don't
wait. CALL JAMES DEVINE TO.
DAY at HAvemeyer 9-1404.—Alice

EARN while you LEARN at MAN-
HATTAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE,
They train you quickly in shor
hand, typing, comptometry, steno-
type, bookkeeping or secretarial
and place you in a part time po-
sition, The Institute is staffed
with competent instructors, Visit
them, They will advise you, MAN-
HATTAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE
NYC, BRyant 9-4181.—Johm

At BONDED, New York's
eldest and largest automo-
bile dealer, you may have a
160 car without cash, take
3 years to pay and at bank
rates only,—even if you're
only a wage-carner, You get
immediate delivery, without
red tape and best of all an
UNCONDITIONAL GUAR-
ANTEE, backed by Bonded
reliable reputation earned
thru over 29 years of selling
and buying cars. If your

credit has been declined elsewhere, come to Bonded;
delivery. Choose from a vast selection at 2 big ouildings:

York: 1696 Broadway (53 St.):

they guarantee
In New

in Jamaica: 139-07 Hillside Ave., just

‘off Queens Blvd. Open evenings till 10. Closed Sunday. Liberal Trade
allowances or cash for your old car, Come in. Get their proposition,

—John

STEINMULLER’S LUGGAGE SHOP at 370 East Fordham Road, in

the Bronx, has in my estimation,

the largest and finest selection of

TRUNKS, BAGS, and CAMP TRUNKS, the regular prices of which
are far below those of competitive shops. I was amazed when MR,

STEINMULLER told me to
announce to the readers of
the Civil Service Leader,
that from now, until the end
of June, he would reduce
everything in stock, an ad-
ditional 20%. tax free. My
advice to you who plan a
vacation or week-end trips
is to go to STREINMULLER’S
at once and take advantage
of his generous offer. Not
only will you save money,
but you can also buy with
confidence, because every
purchase is GUARANTEED
and DELIVERY is FREE.

FREE DELIVERY

. Don’t forget the address, STEINMULLER’S,

370 East Pordham Re ad (Near Marion Ave.) Bronx —John

On my recom-
mendation try
what I have

found to be “A

DIFFERENT
TASTE THRILL!" Melting good-
ness at its best, consisting of
glazed ripe apricots stuffed with
pineapple, luscious Italian glace
figs, plump stuffed prunes, pecan
and walnut-stuffed Iragian choice
dates, crystalized tangy orange
and grapefruit peel and kum-
Qquats.I was, and you too will be
amaved at the refreshing flavor
of these kitchen fresh goodies, Buy
some for yourself, and don't neg-
lect to send a box to your child
at camp. SPECIAL INTRODUC-
TORY PRICE ONLY $1.00 post-
paid, Full refund it not satisfied.
Send check or money order to-
day to E.NAMERDY, 83-75 118th
St. . L. Kew Gardens 15,

FOR THAT ‘DIFFERE: AC
TION, TRIPLE E RANCH,
WURTSBORO. N. Y., in
glorious Catskill’s, only 75 miles
from N, ¥. C. I was there over a
recent week-end and enjoyed
every moment of it. 600 ac
romantic woods, fields,
streams. Dancing, entertainment,
sporting activities. Fine horses,
sunshine, relaxation, comfort,
friendliness, informality, Play
ping pong or pool in the recrea-
ton hall, if you wish. Good fishing,
A delightful pool for a cool dip,
European plan, Mon, to Pri, $2.00
daily per person. Fri, P.M. to Sun,
P.M. $6.00, all sports and enter-
tainment included. Take my tip,
CALL LEXINGTON 2-1683, Make
reservations for a vaca}ion you'll
never Mosgel.—Aliee

STAINED RUGS AND CARPETS
brightened and wed = with
CALIFORNIA CLEANER,

the
new, easy way. I was amazed to
see a shabby, dog stained rug,

sprinkled with this scientifically
prepared granular
powder, brushed
in, and an hour
later vacuumed to
an unbelievable
brilliancy, Cali-
fornia Cleaner will
not harm the fin-
est rug, because it
contains no acid,
and is positively
non - inflammabie. |
It is a remarkable
spot cleaner, for it j
never leaves a i
ring. A 1 Ib. 14 oz,
can is only $1.26
postpaid. I suggest that you send
@ check or money order today to
G. J, deBARCENA, Dept, C, 101
West 58th St., New York i9, N, ¥,
—Alice

LYNWOOD NURSING HOME will
care for YOUR OLD FOLKS while
you are on vacation, and give
them all the comforts of home,
Passing through on an inspec-
tion tour, I was convinced that
the aged must be happy in the
environment of this newly decor-
ated institution, It is fireproof,
has day and night nurses always
ready to give service and f LI-
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OF HOSPITALS. Special atten-
tion given to chronic and conval-
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Page Fight

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER |

A Tested Method that Aids

You in Passing an Exam

It is surprising to many can-
aidates how much aid they get
toward attaining a higher score
in an examination if they are
acquainted with the tested me-
thods of achieving best perform-
ance, Heads of civil service ad-
ministrations themselves have fol-
Jowed a definite technique along

this line, for many of them have|*

risen to their present positions
only after passing competitive ex-
aminations.

rly all of the examinations
are now of multiple choice type,
with four or five optional ans’
for each question, For the Ped-
eral tests the number is usually
four. It would be possible to ob-
tain a seore of 25 per cent, as a
xuess at four possible answers, not
only because of the four choices
but because actual sampling of
candidates deliberately instructed
to guess in mock exams produced
that result.

If one resorts to guessing he is
running # great risk of failing the
test

What to Do at the Start

Bring your admission card to
the test. You won't even get in
without it. Also bring a pen, a
pencil, an er a blotter and a
watch. Often none of these ts
actually necessary, but when even
one of them fs, it may be the
means of your passing,

In most tests. only a pencil is
used. The Civil AService Commis-
sion furnishes it, It contains a
special lead, to blacken in an
answer space between six dots.
‘Th dots are arranged in two
vertical rows, each four dots high,
forming a space in between of
about '_" wide and '%" high,
All the space must be blocked in.
It is better to go a little too far
outside than to fail to fill the re-
quired space with pencil marking,
since too little might prevent reg-
istration by the electric scoring
machine,

Some tests call for an essay,
besides the blocking-in type of
answer, Essays are always rated
to some extent on neatness. And
neatness is more easily accom-
plished if there is an opportunity
to erase, If the essay may be writ-
ten in either pen or pencil, use a
pencil because of the better fac
ities for earsyre.

Procedure Regarding Answers

When you're given the signal
to start, begin reading the ques-
tions in numerical order and im-
mediately a those you feel
confident you can answer cor-
rectly, Skip the doubtful ones,

Once having answered a ques-
tion in this speedy phase, don't
read the question again and don't
change an answer, Psychological-
ly, your first impression is usual-
ly right

Questions
are those
for. however
more time.
skip these Is
numerals in

to skip deliberately
involving arithmetic,
imple, they require
The fastest way to
imply to look for
the context of the

question, If they're there you
know you're dealing with arith-

tie, so don't read the question.
When all other questions have
been answered, except those with
numerals in the answers and those
for which you are unable to pro-
vide a ready answer, the next
stop is to read arithmetic

arefully. Give special
involving a decimal
are always some ot
these) and proceed with the an-
awers, If any computation is nec
essary, a sheet of scratch paper
has been provided. So, if you re
ceive no serateh paper, get ready
to tackle mental arithmetic.
Watch Out for ‘None of These’
The computing formulas are

«
point

cases of decimals there is almost
no numerical change involved,
just the movement of a decimal
point, such as “Multiply .0001 x
.01,” Whether or not there is ne-
cessity for computation, the cor-
rect answer is always one of the
multiple choice answers. However,
in some tests there appears as one
of the multiple choices this an-
“None bf these.” Remember
ometimes that’s the right
answer.

Following the arithmetic, tackle
the remaining group of unan-
swered questions. All questions
should be answered, No answer is
counted the same as @ wrong an-
swer, so in choosing an answer
you can lose nothing. Fill in the
answer space on one oblong for
each question, In this way you
may pick up an additional correct
answer, and it may be the one
that means the difference between
passing and failing.

It isn’t necessary to mark either
the question or sheet to identify
any previously omitted answers.
The blank spaces between the dots
reveal the unanswered questions,
As the dotted oblongs are num-
bered, it is simple to identify the
corresponding question, That's one
reason why it's better to follow the
routine just described than to
read all the questions through
first, before answering any, Then
you'd really need notes to identify
the postponements,

Question Types Analyzed

The form of Federal test ques-
tions has become standardized
There are two principal types, or
a combination of the two, The
English used in many questions
is not necessarily the kind usual-
ly heard or read. And the number
of words appearing in a question
runs usually from 40 to 80. The
questions contain three, four or
five thoughts, While all the
thoughts are, of edurse, related,
there is frequently a closer rela-
tionship between certain of the
thoughts, Thoughts Nos. 1 and 4
may tend to form something like
a single thought, and_ thoughts
Nos. 2 and 3 likewise, The num-
ber of words in each multiple
choice answer is fewer than in the
questions,

The general idea is that the one
or more thoughts in the answer
are to be found among the more
voluminous thoughts in the ques-
tion, though the words and
phrases differ as between the
question and answer. And not all
of the thoughts in the question
are necessarily in the answer, The
words are spelled correctly and
the grammar is right; if the Eng-
lish is out of the ordinary, this
may be only an added demand on
your comprehension.
Comprehension Vastly Important

It is important at all times to
understand a question fully. Many
wrong answers result not from
inability to do a problem or se-
jlect the correct idea but to failure
of comprehension of what's actu-
ally asked, One type of recurrent
question, for instance, asks what
NOT to do. For instance, the
query, put in a question of 60 or
80 words and in four or five
thoughts, all in one sentence, may
ask what is the best way NOT to
wind a watch. In answering, the
alert candidate looks for two op-
posite answers in the multiple
choice answers. Then he runs back
quickly over the question to see
if it calls for an affirmative or a
negative answer,

Questions do not usually relate
to any extent to a particular job
or department or law.

The Formula Summarized

In almost all tests the time fac-
tor is important, Some tests, in
fact, ave not even of the so-called

never unduly involved, In the

Edueaian heace :

completion type, but determine

To Seek Supervisors

he fall the NYC Board
110 Livingston
2,.N. ¥., will in-
ions for license ag su-
r of education of physical-
ly handicapped ‘except sight and
hearing). Application blanks will
not be tssued until then,
Applicants must meet eligiiblity
requicements by February 15,
1951, unless military leave regula
tions apply. Questions regurding
acceptabilily of college courses of-

During
wation,
1, Brooklyn
ap
pervi

vite

fered in the 1950 summer session
should be addressed to the license
committee before tomorrow (June
28)

The salary is $6,000. Age limits
are 25 to 40, except for former
regular appointees,

Five years of teaching classes in
health improvement, orthopedics
or homebound children, or a com-
bination of these 1s required; also
@ baccalaureate degree, plus 30
semester hours of approved grad-
uaALe Courses,

how many questions the candidate
can answer correctly, tnder con-
ditions that make it practically
impossible for any candidate to
answer them all. The non-com-
pletion type test is rare in exams
for public jobs, but that doesn’t
eliminate the necessity of saving
time, So the answer to the puzzle
ist

1, Read each question, start-
ing with the first, and register
the answer to each question as
soon as you're satisfied you un-
derstand the question and know
the answer, except mathemati-
eal ones.

2, The questions remaining
are now the ones that stump the
candidate, or matematical ones.
To these he may devote more
time, but if he hasn’t moved
quickly about answering the
ready questions, he may not
have enough time for answering
the delayed ones.

The mathematical questions are
most bothersome to candidates
who don't read carefully. The
question may be phrased with
complexity, but that’s a fair part
of the test, since besides wanting
to learn if the candidate knows
the arithmetic, the Federal Gov-
ernment is interested in deter-
mining if he has quickness of
comprehension in reading. A cor-
rect answer in a fully-answered
paper is proof of both skills. If
one lingers over a simple problem
in mental arithmetic, he loses val-
uable time,

Assured

In rare instances a@ question
may be poorly worded, obscure or
contradictory. If so, the candidate
should note the number of the
question and within a few days of
having taken the exam, protest in
writing to the appropriate Civil
Service Commission, The Federal
Government's practice, when con-
vinced that a question wasn't
clear, suitable or fair, is to give
each candidate credit as if he had
answered the question correctly.
Other commissions may strike out
such a question entirely.

Nothing should be written on
the examination paper except the
marks for the answers, unless one
is instructed otherwise; if any
seratch paper is to be used, the
Commission will supply it; if none
is supplied, then either none is
expected to be used, or the candi-
date will be informed as to what
blank parts of the examination it-
self may be used for computa-
tions. If scratch paper is used, the
monitor will state whether or not
it’s to be turned in with the ex-
amination paper.

Sometimes candidates are told
by the Commission to bring a
blotter to the test, but a blotter
would be needed only in an essay
type test, since @ pencil must be
used for answering the multiple
choice type questions. Since near-
ly all tests are multiple choice,
few candidates ever bring blotters.

Square Deal

3 Public Employees
Win NYU Fellowships

Three government employees
are among the eight recipients of
fellowships awarded by the Grad-
uate Division of Public Service at
New York University, announced
Dr. William J. Ronan, director
of the school. They are: Dorothy
D, Angelus, Municipal Research
Assistant, State Department of
Audit and Control, Division of Mu-
nicipal Affairs, Research and Sta-
tistics; Alfred Shapiro, Housing
Assistant, NYC Housing Authori-
ty, and Winifred Herb, secretary
at the Bureau of Public Debt., of
the U. S. Treasury Department.

The fellowships carry $800 to
$1,800, The fellows are taking @
full program of courses and will
engage in the field research pro-
Ject on @ current problem,

Auto Machinist Test Closes

Successful candidates for job:
for NYC Auto Machinist, applic:
tions for which closed on Wednes-
day, June 21, will receive an
annual salary of $4,000, figured on
an hourly rate of $2, and auto
chinists work only 250 days a

ar.
On July 1, holders of the title
will receive an additional $100 9
year, bringing their hourly pay to
2,05, said Henry Kaufmann, pres-
ident, Local 432A, State, County

™

and Municipal Employees Union,
APL,

-_—

‘CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Nine

EXAMS FOR PUBLIC JOBS

FEDERAL

2-21-6 (50). Supply Cataloger
and Supply Catalogue Clerk, GS-5
and 6, $3,100 to $3,400 to start,

and Supply Cataloger, GS-7 to 12,

New Jersey, and also in New York
State, including NYC. No written
test. (Last day to apply, Tuesday,
July 11.)

230. Cotton Technologist, $3,825
to $6,400 to start. Optional
branches, cottonseed, fiber, gin-
ning and textile technologies. No
writen test, Most of the positions
are in Washington, D. C., Clem-
son, 8. C., Stoneville, Miss,, Col-
ege Station, Texas, and Mesilla
Park, New Mexieo. (Open until
further notice.)

231, Elementary Teacher, $3,100
to start, Most of the positions are

in the West, Midwest and the] 2:

South, in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. No written test. (Open
until further notice.)

EDUCATION

‘The NYC Board of Education
has opened 19 license examina-
tions for which applications may
be obtained and filed until Mon-
day, October 2. Titles follow:

Academic subjects ‘(English
and social studies), first assistant.

Costume design and illustration,
teacher and substitute.

Interior decorating, teacher and
substitute,

Junior High Schools

Business training and common
branches, teacher,

English and common branches,
teacher and substitute.

General science and common
branches, teacher.

Handcrafts, teacher and substi-
tute.

Health education and common
branches (women), teacher.

Hebrew and common branches,
teacher and substitute,

Home economics
teacher and substtiute,

Mathematics and
branches, teacher,

Music and common branches,
teacher and substitute.

Orchestral music and common
branches, teacher and substitute,

Social studies and common
branches, teacher. Besides the
above there is a test open for
library teacher and substitute.

Applications may also be ob-
tained, but until Monday, October
9 for these tests:

High Schools

Home nursing (women), teacher

and substitute,

(women),

common

32 State

Tests

Open July 8

Of the 32 exams the State will open on Saturday, July 8, 16 are
open to residents and non-residents of the State. In the list pub-

lished herewith the exams without residence restrictions are marked
Ke

with an asterisk (°).

Nine of the positions are in the nursing service and are free of

residence restrictions,

Do not attempt to obtain information or blanks from the State

Civil Service Department before July 8, The last day to apply will | Pl

be Friday, August 11, The tests will be held on Saturday, September 16.
of Exams

List
The following lists the exam

entrance salary:

OPEN-COMPETITIVE
2136, Supervising Tuberculosis Roentgenologist ..

2495, Pathologist, Erie County*
|. Senior Pharmacist .....+
|. Pharmacist

Medical Technician

. Senior Scientist (Botany) *

Senior Scientist (Geology)*

}. Gas Meter
. Gas Tester

Tester .

. District Ranger ........
. Lineman, Village of Groton,
. Lineman’s Helper,

Village of Groton, Tompkins County ,.....

. Principal Editorial Clerk .,

. Senior Medical ‘Technician .

Criminal Hospital Attendant .
. Consultant Public Health Nurse’ 5
. Consultant Public Health Nurse (Cancer Control) *
. Consultant Public Health Nurse

(Communicable Diseases)* ...+6...sseeererere
. Consultant Public Health Nurse

(Educational Supervision)" ...
. Consultant Public Health Nurse (Hosp!
. Consultant Public Health Nursing (Obstetrics)* .
. Consultant Public Health Nurse (Pedtatries)* .
. Consultant Public Health Nurse (Physical Therapy)*
Consultant Public Health Nurse (Rheumatic Fever) *
Associate Curator (Entomology) *
. Senior Curator (Archaecology)* .

. Senior Scientist (Entomology)

. Assistant Heating and Ventilating Engineer
. Junior Heating and Ventilating Engineer

| Industrial Foreman (Woodworking) UNWRITTEN
. Assistant Game Research Investigator .

. Junior Librarian, Larchmont, W

serial number, the title and the

jursing.

Stenography
tute,

(Gregg)
(Pitman) substi-

Junior High Schools

Substl, Board of Education,

has an-
nounced the tentative list of ex-
aminations to be given during
the fall term of 1950.

“This is not an official Ist and

Fine arts and common branches,| applications will not be received

teacher and substitute.
Individual

until the official dates are out

announcements for|in the fall,” the Board said. “The

each of the above examinations.) purpose in releasing this tentative

giving qualifications, may be ob-

tained by sending a large, self-| who are interested so that they
addressed and stamped envelope |

to The Board of Examiners, In-|

formation Division, 110 Livingston
Street, Brooklyn 2, N. Y.
The Board of Examiners, NYC

statement is to inform persons

may take courses during the sum-
mer term, or otherwise begin
their preparation.”
‘The exams follow
Examinations to be open to mon and

women unless otherwise epectfied,
t—teacher
s—eubstitute
regular
HIGH SCHOOLS
Acudeniic subjects (English and social
dies), first w
Blind. teaches
Costume design
Home nursin
Interior decorating, ¢ and.»
iological selences,

fund #
Laboratory assistant, physieal eclences, F

and Mostration, ¢ and »
t and «

operating, t and

‘hiical eubject textiles (men),

ining and com
and vocational counsellor
English and common branches, t and «
Fine arts and common branches, t and «
General seience and common branches, 6
afte, and «

(women), &
Hebrew and common branches, t and @

'
Mi common branches, ¢ and #
ral music and common branch:

Orthopedieatly. a

Sight conservation. t
OTHERS

of Child Guidance, assistant

rn
vacation playgrounds
ation playgrounds

tiv
ten, ¥
1

vation, evening

‘ot ty
Physieally Darul
viewally
supervisor

ap:ped
and acoustically handicapped),

fother than the

found axsintant,

tion

(Continued from page 1)
ence. Only for some of the jobs is
experience required, but for all of
them the college course must have
included or been supplemented by
24 semester hours in education, of
which 12 semester hours must
Hektd been in elementary educa-

ion.

Most of the positions are locat-
ed in Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi,
Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Territory
of Alaska, California, Nevada, Ari-
zona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah
and Colorado. The rest of the po-
sitions are located in North Caro-
lina and Florida. No positions ex-
ist in any State, Territory, or Pos-
session not mentioned,

Description of Work

Appointees will, under general
supervision, serve as teachers in
Indian schools. These schools do
not follow fully prescribed courses
of study. Instead, teachers are
provided with guides and profes-
sional help to aid them in organ-
izing a teaching program. Empha-
sis is placed upon free and spon-
taneous use of English, group dis-
cussions, and other informal proc-
esses. Teachers in Indian schools
associate constantly with Indians,
and must have a full appreciation
of the Indian viewpoint and In-
dian culture, including native arts
and crafts, music, and religious
ceremonials, They are expected
not only to be teachers in the
usual sense, but to be active par-

ucational leadership, They must
be conversant with problems of
rural economy and eager to cle-
vate and dignify rural life.

Living and Working Conditions

Most of the Indian schools are
located in isolated rural areas
with meager resources, where the
land has been seriously depleted
by overgrazing, recurring droughts,
and improper farm practices.
They are often at some distance
from the nearest white commu-
nity, and in some sections where
the Indians themselves do not live
in villages, the schools are some-
what remote from human habita-
tion, Therefore, ability to adjust
to association with a limited num-
ber of people in such isolated sit-
uations is essential to success in
these positions. In some Indian
boarding schools, the children are
housed in groups of 20 to 25 in a
cottage dormitory unit. The chil-
dren, under supervision, care for
the unit's housekeeping and pre-
pare their own meals, Classroom
teachers in these schools have
quarters in the unit and exercise
general guidance over the stu
dents’ dormitory living.

In most cases, furnished quar-
ters are provided for al) appoint-
ees by the Government. A fur-
nished apartment or cottage is
available for teachers in most of
the day schools at an average
monthly rental of $30, including
utilities, At boarding schools the
living quarters are limited, and as
@ result, only one furnished room

ticipants in the community in
which they work and exercise ed-

is usually available to unmarried
appointees, at a monthly renta) of

Candidates who completed the
State tests for Employment In-
terviewer and Assistant Unem-
ployment Insurance Claims Ex-
aminer did so with mixed opinions
as to the severity of the test
questions.

Those taking both tests were
iven a combination question

kiet containing 150 questions.
All NYC candidates were tested at
Brooklyn Technical High School,
Combination candidates were sep-
arated from those taking only
one of the tests.

Some thought that there were
surprisingly few sent off to com-
bination testing rooms, in NYC

Clerical and Other Cataloging Jobs

Offered by U.S., $

(Continued from page 1)
well as elsewhere in New Jersey,
and in New York State,

The position of Supply Catalog-
er and Supply Catalogue Clerk,
GS-5 and 6, pays $3,100 to $3,450
to start, while that of Supply
Cataloger, GS-7 to 12, pays $3,825
to $6,400.

The exam is No, 2-21-6 (50),
Porms required to be filled out are
Nos, 57 and 5000-ABC.

Apply to the U. 5, Civil Service
Commission, — 641 Washington
Street, New York 14, N. ¥., in
person, by representative or by
mail; if by mail, do not Include
return postage. Applications also
may be obtained from the Execu~
Uve Secretary, Board of U. 8. Civil
Service Examiners, Headquarters,
Signal Corps Center, Fort Mon-
mouth, N. J. Pilled out applica~
tions should be sent only to the

Bxecutive Secretary at the address | Grad

just given.
There will be no written test.
Candidates will be rated on the

extent and quality of their train
ing and experience. -
For employees whose service
meets prescribed standards of ef-
ficiency, the entrance salary ts in
creased by the amount shown in
the table below, following the
completion of each 52 calens
weeks of service for the GS-5-|
grades, or each 78 calendar weel
of service for the other grade:
until the maximum rate for

Es is reached.

rade = Start Tne, Max.
GS-5 $3,100 $125 $3.
GS-6 3,450 125 4.
GS-7 3,825 125 45°
GS-8 4,200 125 4,
GS-9 4,600 125 5.
GS-10 5,000 125 5.
GS-11 5,400 200

GS-12 6,400 200

Experience is required for the
various grades as follows:

le Gen, Spee, Total
GS-5 3 none 3
GS-6 3 % 3
GS8-7 3 1

3,1 00 to

Gs-9 3
GS-11 3 3 6
GS-12 3 3 6

Substitutions Allowed

1. Study successfully completed
in a residence school or institu-
tion above high school level mi
be substituted for the required
General Experience at the rate of
1 year of stich study for 9 months
of experience,

2, Study successfully completed
in a residence schoo! or institu-
above high school level may
Substituted for the required
Specialized Experience, provided
that such study included an ayers
age of at least six semester hours
for the equivalent) a year in the
subjects of engineering, the phy-
seal selences, or technical sub-
jects, closely related to an appro-
priate commodity area, at the
rate of 1 year of such study for 6
months of experience up to a

| maximum of 1 year of Specialized

Experience,

$6,400

3, Graduate study in an acered-
ited college or university in engi-
neering, the physical sciences, or
technical subjects closely related
to an appropriate commodity
area, may be substituted for not
more than one additional year of
required Specialized Experience at
the rate of 1 year of such study
for 6 months of Specialized Ex-

perience,

Specialized for General Experience
Specialized Experience in excess

of the required minimum may be

substituted, year for year, for the

required General Experience.

Nature of Work

The objective of the Govern-
ment cataloging programs is to
identify, classify, and describe
items of supplies used by various
Government agencies to provide a
standard reference language or
terminology to be used by persons
engaged in the operating func-
tions connected with the processes
of supply,

BArclay 7-1616, State Office Building, Alban;
302, State Office Building, Buffalo 7, N. ¥,

for county jobs. ?

Where to Apply for Jobs

U, $.—Second Regional Office, U. S. Civil Service Comm:
641 Washington Street, New York 14, N, ¥. (Manhattan) Tel, W.
4-1000 and at post offices outside of New York, N, ¥,

STATE—Room 2301 at 270 Broadway, New York 7, N. ¥,,

1, N. ¥., and
ie applies to

NYC—NYC Civil Service Commission, 96 Duane Street, New ¥
1, N. ¥, (Manhattan), Tel, COrtlandt 17-8880, Opposite Civi)

LEADER office,

NYC Education (Teaching Jobs Only)—Personnel Director,

ee monnion, 110 Livingston Street, Brooklyn 2, N. ¥.; Tel. MAin

How to Get There—Rapid transit lines that may be used for

reaching the U, 8, St
in NYC, follow:

and NYC Civil Service Commission offices

State Civil Service Commission, NYC Civil Service

IND trains A, C, D, AA or CC
Avenue bne to Brooklyn Bridg
Brighton local to City Hall,

U. S, Civil Service

to Chambers Street; IRT

Lexington
BMT Fourth Avenue local or

Commission—IRT Seventh Avenue local to

about 10 per cent of all candi-
dates. It seemed surprising, be-
cause figures on the tofal number
of candidates given out by the
State Civil Service Commission
indicated that about 90 per cent
had applied for both tests,

Effect of Law Suit?

Many were apparently discour-
aged about taking the Assistant
Claims Examiner test by reason of
a lawsult in the Albany County
Supreme Court in which a stay
against holding the exam was va-
cated under a stipulation that the
Claims Examiner list would not
be promulgated until some time
in the indefinite future, Ms
while the petitioners will argue
their plea for a promotion exam
for filling the Assistant Claims
Examiner jobs,

The number of questions con-
cerning specific sections of the
Unemployment Insurance Law
was extremely small. Most ques-
tions called for opinions on cer-
tain hypothetical situations as-
sumed to have occurred in dis-
trict offices. The subjective nature
of these questions threw some
candidates off their guard, They
had been boning up on the law,
especially the phases concerned
with seamen’s reciprocal treaties
between the States and so much
of the G, I, Bill of Rights as deals
with benefits to unemployed vet-
erans.

Discrepancy Noticed

The announcements had said
particularly that these were the
things that job aspirants would
need to know.

Some disgruntled candidates,
while admitting that subjective
questions are @& good means to
probe one’s judgment in handling
district office matters, thought
nevertheless that the testers were
cutting it too fine,

Every question, including, of
course, the disdained hypothetical
ones, had five multiple choice an-
swers. In some cases, any or all
of the five could have been con-
sidered correct! As to other ques-
tions, all five answers were pos-
sibly incorrect,

All in all, many of this type of
question related to imaginary
events in which there was an ut-
ter lack of imagination, There
seemed to be no point calling for
wise judgment,

Matter of Opinion

For example, a somewhat stand-
ard situation frequently arising in
the district offices ran something
Uke this:

(Q) Assume that you are an
employment interviewer, An un-
employed person comes to you for

assistance, He uses a great many

DPUI Exams Prove Easy;
Questions Stress Opinions

words in describing the cizeum-
stances of his predicament.

Answer 1. Would you permit
him to tell you his story im com-
plete detail?

Answer 2. Would you compel
him to listen to you in complete
beg ytd

nswer 3. Would you require
are to Pe ety %

nswer 4. Would you be abru,
with him? ss

Answer 5. Would you tell him
that you just simply have no time
to listen?

Who can tell whose opinion is
right?

But every experienced competi-
tive test candidate knows that the
key answer always sticks on sub-
jective questions.

One common complaint. con-
spicuous by its absence after this
particular test, was the one about
the questions being “tough.” No-
body, it seems, thought that. If
anything, both tests seemed sim-
ple, All those interviewed thought
they passed; it was just a matter
of determining the magnitude of
the percentage. But an oral inter-
View, counting for a weight of
half, has to be passed by those
who survive the written test

(Continued on page 10)

Experts on U. 8. civil service
look forward to expansion in the
social services and the Depari-
ment of Defense, including the
Federal Security Administration.
Other branches of the Pederal gov
ernment also are expected to pro-
vide an increasing number of jobs
This expectation agrees with the
general job outlook for the Fed-
eral service as expressed recently
by Chairman Harry B. Mitchel)
of the U, 8, Civil Service Commis-
sion,

Expect Postal Job Improvement

Fears about shrinkage of job
prospects have been based on
economy measures, either planned
or adopted. Few of those measures
which haven't gone into effect are

expected to succeed, because of
the pattern of enlargement of
Federal service to the public. Re-

cent reductions in force have been
largely in the Post Office, apply-
ing to “temporaries,” The postal
situation is expected to right jlself
in six months,

‘The Second Regional Office of

Jobs at $3,100 Teaching
Indians in West and South

$10 to $18 a month. Living quar-
ters available for appointees will
of necessity limit the number of
dependents who may live with the
appointee, Where the only avatl-
able housing is that furnished by
the Government, the Department
of the Interior has responsibiilty
for determining the number of
persons who may be accommodat-
‘ed in any one unit.

A person employed at a station
where private medical ais is not
obtainable will be furnished any
available Indian Service facilities
at a reasonable cost.

Basis of Rating

No written test is required. Ap-
plicants’ qualifications will be
rated on a scale of 100, and will
be judged from a review of their
experience and education given
in application Form 57 and their
answers to the supplementary
questions to Form 57 (see items
5 and 6 under ‘How Apply” on
page 5), and from any additional
evidence secured by the Commis-
sion,

Salary is based on the standard
Federal workweek of 40 hours, Por
employees whose work is satisfac-
tory, the entrance salary of 100
is increased periodically by $125
until the maximum basic salary of
$3,825 for Grade GS-5 positions is
reached. A 25-percent addition to
salaries is paid for positions in
Alaska,

There is an opportunity for a
Nmited number of qualified teach-
ers to advance after 1 year of ser-

vice to the position of head teach=
er at grade GS-7, for which the
basic entrance salary is $3,825
the maximum basic
$4,575,

All basic salaries are subject to
a deduction of 6 per cent for re-
firement benefits.

Applicants must be citizens of
or owe allegiance to the United
States and must not have passed
their fortieth birthday on the date
of filing application, This age lim-
it does not apply to persons en-
titled to veteran pref nee,
Apply to the U, S. Civil Service
Commission, 641 Washington
Street, New York 14, N, Y., in per-
son, by mail or by representative;
if by mail, do not include return
postage, Send filled-in form to the
U. S, Civil Service Commission,
Washington 25, D. C.

Bibliography Compiled
For Social Investigator

‘Those who are preparing for
the forthcoming NYC Social In-
vestigator exam may consult the
selected bibliography which the
Municipal Reference Library has
prepared, The material has been
divided into specific sections, such
as social work, social case work
public welfare and social irit

Previous civil service examir
tions are also on file,

The library is open from 9 to 5
on weekdays and 9 to 1 on Satur-
| days. It is located in Ronm 2230,
Municipal Buildin;

Applications fo:
be received by NYC
Thursday, July 6 to F

U.S. Job Prospects in
NewYorkCalledGood

{the Commission, covering New
York and New Jersey, has called
off temporarily a series of exam
for jobs in post offices, mostly in
outlying stations, but hopes to re-
institute the whole exam pro-
gram in six months
Faster Eligible Lists

Meanwhile the Regional Office
doesn't expect to announce any
popular exam until Septembe

but is concentrating on closing th
gap between the announcement
date of exams and the date that
the register of eligibles is estab-
lished, Recently, in line with Com-
mission policy, and in an effort to
comply with recommendations of
the Hoover Commission, the
gional offices have
period considerably, so that
in general well below 90 days
The Junior Management
sistant exam Is to receive
play in the Second U. 8, Civil
Service Region (New York and
| New Jersey?, when it opens, prob-
| ably in October, At the same |i
Continued on page 12

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coven. “SERVICE LEADER

STATE AND COUNTY ‘NEWS

Two . DPUI Exams

(Continued from page 9)

Candidates for Employment In-
terviewer jobs had read in the
official announcement: “Candi-
dates must have a good knowl-
edge of modern personnel meth-
ods and techniques in interview-
ing, counseling, position classifi-
eation, job analysis and place-
ment. In addition, a basic knowl-
edge of industries or occupations.”

CPA Was the Clew

At the exam they faced some-
thing like this:

Q. You are an Employment In-
terviewer with a job to give. It
calls for a person to keep a set
of bookkeeping books, write
checks, prepare financial state-
ments and do other related chores,
in a small business. You have for
a consideration these job appli-
cants:

1, Sadie Schwartz, 30. High
School graduate. Studied book-
keeping in high school.

2. Milton Cohn, 28. Business
school graduate. Kept all records
in his father's bakery.

2. Aristide Baccigalupo, 24. Two
years high school, In charge of
three financial clerks: operates
all business machines; keeps a
full set of books; five years’ ex-
perience.

4. John Jones, 36, College arad-

uate; accountant; six years’ full
charge bookkeeper in large corp-
oration.

5. Schuyler
CPA, age 30.

Most personnel technique ques-
tions were of about this degree
of dificulty.

How Many Days in a Year?

Assistant Claims Examiner ap-
plicants may have familiarized
themselves with sections of the
laws relating to unemployment
insurance because they read in
thei oficial announcements:
“Candidates must have a thor-
ough knowledge of the provisions
of the N. Y. State Unemployment
Insurance Law, and familiarity
with interstate agreements and
Federal law relating to veterans
readjustment allowances and un-
employment allowances for sea-
men.”

Apparently whoever wrote the
annotincement was not the same
person who wrote the test ques-
tions.

As to arithmetic and law, this
is a fair sample of the questions:

Q For which of the following
time periods fs a totally unem-
ployed veteran entitled to receive

Van Rensselaer,

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100 days: 4. 250 days; 5, 365
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established between May 13 and June 14, 1950. Some of these lists
may be deemed appropriate for filling positions under other titles,

but similar duties, The figure at the end of each title represents
the number of eligibles on the list,

.}and March 15. The number at

OPEN.
Aquatic Biologist, Division of Fish
Asst. Director of Personnel & Office
Assoc. Educ. Supervisor (Industrial
Bank Examiner, Banking Department

Jr. Architectural Draftsman, Public
Jr. Physician, State Departments

Personnel Administrator, State
Sr. Architectural Draftsman, State

. Historian, State Departments a
. Personnel Administrator, State

Principal Stenographer, New York
Agri

Guidance Supervisor ...........

U. L Hearing Representative .....
Educa
Chief, Bureau of Industrial Arts

Associate Public Health np hag i
Medical Records Librarian
District Health Officer ..
Principal Clerk (Payroll) .
Senior Photofiuorographer

Business Officer
Principal Stenog:

Senior Business Officer ..
Head Purchase Clerk .

Chief Clerk (Purchase),

Senior Clerk (Purchase)
‘Taxation an

Income Tax Bureau
Tax Examiner ..-.
Charles L. Campbell,

The following lists were es-
tablished between. February 15

the right of each paragraph re-
fers to the total number of eligi-
ble on each list.

Associate Civil Engineer (Re-
search), Public Works, 2.

Bath Attendant, Sarotaga
Springs Authority, 35.

Canal Structure Operator, Pub-
lic Works, 40.

Chief, Bureau of Health Ser-
vice, Education Dept., 2.

Dental Hygienist, State Depart-
ments é& Institutions, 12.

Institution Fireman, State De-
partments & Institutions, 40.

Motion Picture Inspector, Edu-
cation Department, 35.

Motion Picture Reviewer, Edu-
cation Department, 16.

Farm Products Inspector, Agriculture & Markets’
Guidance Supervisor, State Departments & Institutions .
Institution Photographer, State Institutions

Medical Records Librarian, Department of Health .
Office Machine Operator (Key Punch—I.B.M.)

Photofluorographer, Div, T. B. Control, Health Dept. .
Laybe pare State Departments & Institutions ......

. Education Supervisor (Guidance) . .
: Education Supervisor (Industrial Education) -

. Office Machine Operator (Key Punch—lB.M.) .
Photofluorographer, Div. of T. B., Health Dep
. Physician, State Departments & Institutions .
PROMOTION
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Senior U. I. Hearing Representative

Chief, Bureau of Trade & Technical Education
Director of Industrial Education ......-.
Health

Principal Stenographer, Setanta sta

Senior Architectural Drafisman ||. ). 1...
Siate
Principal Stenographer, New York Office ..
State Insurance
New York Office ...

Principal Purchase Clerk, New York Office .
Principal Stenographer, New York Office .

Administrative ‘Director, ‘sent’ the ‘list
all appointing officers for use in filling vacancies.

~COMPETITIVe
and Game, Conservation..... 3
Admin., State Depts, 3

apps Education .

Works .
and Institutions

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Departments

nd Institutions .

Departmen:

Principal Stenographer ............. SERRE CRT TS “4

Principal Clerk (Purchase), Cones ition 2

Principal Purchase Clerk, Long Island ‘State Park Comm. 1
Correction

tion

Comm. Disease Control .

Fund

d Finance

Sr. Office Machine Operator (Key Punch—LB.M.),

of Safety, Executive, 9,
Safety Field Representative
(Fire), Div. of Safety, 10.
Safety Field Representative
(Police), Div. of Safety, 6.
Sr. Industrial Hygiene Engi-
neer, Labor Department, 2.
Sr. Research Analyst (Veter-
ans’ Affairs), Executive. 3.
~ Supervising Dietitian, State De-
partments & Institutions, 7.
Promotion Lists
Commerce
Senior Business Consultant, 6.
Correction
Correction Institution Education
Supervisor (General), 19.
DPUL

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(Addressograph), 3.

Senior Office Machine Operator
(Mimeograph), 1.

Assoc, Examiner of Methods &
Procedures, 2,

Industrial Hygiene Engineer, 2,
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Tuesday, July 4, 1950

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Eleven

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

From left, Emmett Durr, Centrat
ciation vice-president;

dent; Mrs. Morgaret Fink, vice-president:
if

token ot

Conference treasure

the Conference’

Ernest L. Conte
Mrs. Gladys Butts, Conference secretary; Clarence W. F. Stott, Conference presi-
Charles D. Methe, Mental Hygiene Department representative
4 Horry G. Fox, treasurer of the A

summer meeting at Oxford.

Sol Bendet, the new president
of the NYC chapter, Civil Service
Employees Association, has out-
lined an 8-point program for the
term of his fellow-officers and
himself:

1. General membership meet-
ings of the chapter will be held,
at a place large enough to accom-
modate up to 2,000 (The chapter
has a membership well over 3,000,
largest in the Association.)

2. Active participation by the
chapter in Association elections.

3. An effort to have the Associa-
tion back a bill giving State em-
ployees the opportunity of a
jJointly-financed method of health
insurance, like the Health Insur-
ance Plan for NYC employees,

4. Co-ordination of chapter ac-
tivities in the Metropolitan area
through the Metropolitan Region-

Civil Service Employees Asso-

jectation, The picture was

Something Different In Communiques

ALBANY, July 3—A new differ-
ent type of communique has been
issued by the executive personnel
of the Civil Service Commission.

It's @ proclamation diffuse with
ar Ye" and of administra-
tive format. Its content is a chal-
lenge to the department employ-
Soft Ball team, one of the
eight in the current Albany State
League. The game will be pl
tonight at § P.M. (Tues. June
at a private sports field in Rens-
under the following condi-

tions:
“Brass Hat’ Roster

(1) There shall be no “Ringers”
allowed on either team,

(2) The “Brass Hats” shall se-
lect the umpire in return for
which they do hereby convenant
to furnish’ at the si
one keg of beer g
be better than 4.24

(3) All arguments at the con-
test to be decided by Marquis of
Queensbury rules, which specifi-
arm-
or rabbit punches in

cally provide for no gouging,
breaking,

Captain of the “Brass
HW have sole authority
to close the contest at any time
after five rounds, and declare
the winner.

(5) At least
tators shall be
cheering section

51% of the spec-
organized into a
for the “Brass

Hats
(6) All other details to be set-

the “Brass Hats” by
Kerwin, Manager, who is

vith given power of attorney
to do anyth
the “Bra

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Conway,

Captain

“Brass Hats” Roster—
(Notice: Anyone caught trying
to proselyte any member of
this squad will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.)

" Conway, Captain
‘Al” Falk, Coach
Charlie’ Campbell,
of the Keg

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Fields

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Quee| nsbury Rules
Kelly, Counselor to the

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Tuesday, July 4, 1950

FEDERAL NEWS

Affiliated Postal Employees at the Hotel Statler, NYC, protested the orders of the
from left, David Silvergleid, pr
‘esident New York Letter Carriers; William C, Doherty, president,

pos
Post Office Clerks: Philip Lepper,

| Association of Letter Carrie
port Employees: Morris Klein, pre:

Santos Patrick % Fitzgerald, pr
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More than 3,000 postal employ-
ees of Greater New York gathered
at the Hotel Statler protested the
recent postal service curtailments,

Congresswoman Edna B. Kelly
and Congressman Jacob K. Javits

JOB PROSPECTS

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1949 totalled 7,000; last year 20,-
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and include those for the central
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Page Thirteen

FEDERAL NEWS

ITS THE LAW

Court Halts Loss of Jobs to Vets in Reducion in Force

VETERANS with an efficiency
rating of Good or better are pro-
tected by at least two statutes
against loss of their jobs, or re-
duction in rank or pay, when
reduction in force orders are is-
sued by the Administration, U. 5.
District Court Judge Irving R.
Kaufman held. He granted a
temporary injunction to two vet-
erans, William N. Reeber and
Harry G. Gilbert, enjoining the
Veterans Administration and the
U. 8S. Civil Service Commission
from removing them from their
present positions or reducing them
in rank or pay.

Administrative appeals are be-
ing processed by the two veterans.
The injunction safeguards their
rights should the administrative
appeals go against them, Then
they could apply to court for a
Permanent injunction, Without
the temporary injunction they
would be left without court
remedy, Judge Kaufman held

The defendants claimed that
they tried to find positions else-
where in the Federal service for
the two veterans, but found that
the men lacked qualifications for
such positions as were open, The
veterans claim that the mere fact
that their rating was Good was
proof that they were fit to hold
other positions. This was practic-
ally the only issue of fact in the
case,

Protection of Law Upheld

The main legal question was
whether veterans have an abso-
lute preference against job loss,
when reduction in force is ordered,
if they're efficiency rating is Good
or better, as against all non-vet- |
eran employees, regardless of
length of service in either case,
The Court answered the question
affirmatively, citing the Act of
Congress, 1912, Section 648, Title
5, on which the claimants prin-
cipally relied, and also the Vet-
erans Preference Act of 1944, Sec-
tion 861, Title 5, to which they
also referred in their brief, sub-
mitted by their attorneys, Rogge,
Fabricant, Gordon and Goldman,
Murray A. Gordon and Jeorome J,

Bornstein were of counsel to the
plaintiffs,

Judge Kaufman cited a decision
of the Supreme Court of the
United States that held that job
safeguard to veterans with a rat-
ing of Good or better was abso-
jute. Judge Kaufman added that
the Veterans Preference Act of
1944 enlarged veteran preference,
hence he overruled the contention
of the U. 8. Attorney's office for
the Southern District of New York
that the later law modified the
earlier one,

Senate Committee to Hear
Pension Tax-Exemption Plea

By CHARLES SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON, July 3 — The
prospects of getting some action
on exemption of public employee
retirement allowances from Fed-

eral income taxation are bright-
ening, The battle that has been
going on for years is expected to
make headway before the Senate
Pinance Committee, scheduled to

SENATOR IRVING M, IVES

Name proposed should properly
be considered under the Tax Law,
and not the Social Security Law.
Senator George's promise was
contained in a later letter to Mr.
Van Name.

Another advocate of tax ex-
emption of pensions of retired
public employees is Senator Irv-
ing M. Ives (R., N. Y¥.), who
wants a specific $2,000 exemption.

meet on Wednesday, July 5.
Senator Walter F. George (D.,
Ga.), chairman of the commit-

subject before the
when it considers the tax bill
| passed by the House last week.
That vote was taken under the
rules that precluded amendment,
but several proposed amendments
are expected to be offered to the
Senate committee. One of them,
| originated by Ralph L. Van Name,

Retire
no tax law or
thereto shall provide
income tax exemption less than
the maximum under the Social
Security Law. That maximum ex-
emption is now $1,800.

Tn previous correspondence with
Mr, Van Name

Lehman (D., N. Y.) had written
that any change such as Mr. Van

Car Driver Candidates Face

Tests at Wheel,

In recognition of the growing
yolume of traffic and the increag-
ing driver hazard in New York
and New Jersey, the Federal gov-

ernment will be more particular | chauffeurs

about the safety records and per-
formance of the drivers it hir
said James E. Rossell, Directa
of the Second Region of the U.

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Por some time a practical road

test has been given before the ap-
pointment of truck drivers and
in Federal agencies.

The test is designed not merely

to judge the ability of the driver
to handle the vehicle but primar-
ily to find out whether he can
drive safely. In emphasizing that
the requirements for all drivers
will be more rigid, Mr, Rossell
pointed out that the Second Re-
gion plans to hold additional)
training conferences for road test |
examiners to insure the best ad-
ministration of the test

In addition, Mr. Rossel stated,
no drivers will
future examinations in Pederal
agencies in this area until a check
has been made of their accident
and arrest records,

POSTAL EMPLOYEES ACTIVE

The Post Office Players of the
|New York Post Office rec
performed for the Morgan's
|tion Sick Benefit Fund and at the
Annual reception given in honor
of retired postal employees. They
|frequently entertain hospitalized
| veterans and children, and are al
ways on the lookout for amateur
talent within the Post Office De-
partment. Address Joseph A, Pol-
lack, 1995 Creston Avenue, New
York 53, N. ¥,

, eeteeecenemeenconen

Apply for federa) exams in p
son, by representative or by mail,
to U. 8, Civil Service Commission,

| 641 Washington Street, New York
14, N. Y, If. by mail, do not in-
| elude return postage, Applic

y representative, but not by mall,
| excepting the New York, N. ¥.

post office. Hours are 8:30 to 5:00;
| closed Saturdays,

tee, has promised to bring the
committee

| Secretary of the NYC Employees
ent System, provides that
any amendment
pension

both Senator
George and Senator Herbert H.

be approved for|

“Data submitted to me by The
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion of New York State and the
NYC Employees Retirement Sys-
tem show clearly the hapless po-
sition of many Government pen-
sion recipients,” Senator Ives
said.

Basis for Appeal

The argument against denying
tax exemption to such pensioners
is based largely on the discrimina-
tion prasticed against them. Ex-
emptions are granted to pension-
ers under the Railroad Retire-
ment Law, a Treasury ruling
makes old-age and survivor in-
surance benefits under Social Se-
curity exempt, and members of
the armed forces retired for medi-
cal reasons also benefit.

The smaliness of so many pub-
lic pensions is an added argument
in favor of exemption,

Rallying Cry

The same tax treatment for re-
tired government employees as
for industrial pensioners,” is Mr,
Van Name's rallying cry,

U. 5. Opens Exam for
Cotton Technologist
Jobs to $6,400

The U. S. Government needs
Cotton Technologists in four op-
tional branches: cottonseed, fiber,
ginning and textile.

The pay is $3,825 to $6,400. The
positions are in the Production
and Marketing Administration of
jthe Department of Agriculture.
| ‘They are located in Washington,
D. C., Clemson, 8. C., Stoneville,
| Miss., College Station, Texas, and
Mesilla Park, New Mexico. Vacan
eles in other locations and de-
partments may be filled from the
exam, which is now open and
for which no closing date has been
announced.

Applicants must have a bachel-
or’s degree in one of the branches
or four years of experience in
cotton technology. In addition,
candidates must show experience
in cotton technology of from one
to three years, for jobs in Grade
| GB-7, $3,825; GS-9, $4,600; GS-
11, $5,400; GS-12, $6,400. The
three years apply to the last two,

Candidates must not have
passed their Gist birthday.

Apply to the Second Regional
Office, U. 8. Civil Service Com-
mission, 641 Washington Street,
New York 14, N. Y., in person,
by representative or by mall; if
by mail do not include return
postage. Send filled-out form to
the U. 8, Civil Service Commis-
sion, Washington 25, D, C.

LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS

tions|New York Fire Department was
may be obtained in person or |held recently at the

from first and second class offices, | memorial services.

_ | |

The regular monthly meeting of
Post 930 Ladies Auxiliary of the

Hotel Mar

tinique. Emma Dowd conducted |

The annual dance was held
jon Saturday, June 10, at Jamaica
Hall

At the next meeting the election

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NEW YORK CITY NEWS

Bellevue Nurses’
Grievances Settled

After a series of conferences
dating back to the middle of
February, an amicable settlement
has been reached between the
NYC Department of Hospitals and
a group of nurses at Bellevue Hos-

pital who threatened to quit

hazardous conditions to patients

were not alleviated.

‘The nurses made fve requests,
all of which were agreed upon by
Commissioner Marcus D, Kogel in

advance of the deadline:

1, Separation of contagious and

Non-contagious cases in wards.

2. Alleviation of overcrowded

conditions,

3. Channelling of the flow of

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TB patients to Bellevue into other
hospitals,

4. Notifying other TB hospitals.
that patients could not be trans-
ferred to Bellevue unless there
was room for them in the chest
wards,

5. Written notice to all city
hospitals that these improvements
would go into effect immediately.
Great relief of overcrowded con-
ditions will take place this sum-
mer when two 300-bed hospitals
will be opened, the James Ewing
and the Francis Delafield Hospi-
tals in Manhattan, the department
expects, There will be an immedi-
ate transfer of 225 patients from
the Cancer Institute to the James
Ewing Hospital, and those 225
beds will be filled by tuberculosis
patients now at Bellevue,

The nurses’ demands would all
have been met eventually, said
Dr. Morris A. Jacobs, General
Medical Superintendent at the De-
pagtment of Hospitals. ‘We were
moving as fast as possible, The
only problem was time.”

WOMEN SEEK RAISE

The Women's Correction OMm-
cers Council is seeking a pay
grade for Correction Officers of
$4,000 minimum to $5,000 top. It
seeks a 40-hour week, more
Correction Officers (Women) and
a Lieutenant rank to provide pro-
motion opportunities,

“It sent a letter to the Board of
Estimate, expressly stating its re-
If] quests.

COUGHLAN HEADS GROUP

The following officers of The
Greater New York Park Employees
Association were elected for 1950;
President, Gerard Coughlan; Ist
vice-president, Ann Travers; 2d
vice-president, Roy D'Alto; secre-
tary, Helen C. Hogan; treasurer,
Gilbert McCormick; sergeant-at-
arms, Richard Neumann; trustees,
Arthur Siebrecht and Annie Healy.

i EXAMS INITIATED
‘Three exams that the NYC Civil
Service Commission decided to
\]| hold are for filling jobs as Inspec-

tor of Smoke Control, Grades 3
ljjand 4, and Senior Dietitian
(School Lunch). No dates have
been set for receipt of applica-
tions.

¢ names and
re unknown and
inquiry 99 ascer
f hervin and the

Iso

You and each of ya

show cause betore wate
we York County, held atthe, Hall of
ix, in the County of New York, on
Lith day of Jaly, 1950, at balf-past
o'clock in the forenoon of that day,

Of | why. the accouat of

Public Administrator of

ceedings of ‘The
‘the County of
von,

caused the seal of the Surro-
ate's Court of the said County
of, Mew York to be hereunto

witss, HONORABLE WIL

LIAM T. ‘COLLINS, a Burrogate

of our eaid County, at the Coun-

ty of Now York, the 20th day of

the year of our Lord one

ui nine hundred and fifty,
LIP A. DONAHUE,

(Seal)

Clerk of the Surrogate's Court.

ad.

hag been Gled in this department this day
3 ]and that 4 appears sheretrom. that auch

Secretary

Sidney Deputy

url, Stale,

ni | Rome, eb

Patrolman
Medical Test
Continues

‘The NYC Civil Service Commis-
sion is calling 8,350 candidates to
the Patrolman (P. D,.) medical
tests on schedule. The last day will
be devoted to examing those who
obtain postponements,

The tests are being given
under the direction of Paul M.
Brennan, head of the medical-
physical bureau, at the Commis-
sion’s office, 299 Broadway.

The written test was taken on
Saturday, March 25, by 21,736, The
8,350 represent those who passed,
constituting 37 per cent of the
candidates,

After the medicals are com-
pleted the competitive physical
La be given in Van Cortlandt

Par!

The eligible list will be issued
after the physical test is com-
pleted. This might not, be until
the end of the year. It would not
be ‘promulgated earlier than Janu-
ary, 1951,

FINAL KEY ANSWERS

The following are the final key
answers in the Patrolman test:

1 ; 2, A; 3, B; 4, D; 5, B;
6, 7, A; 8, A; 9, C; 10, A; 11, C;
12, C, or D; 13, C; 14, rao
15, B; 16, D; 7E, C or D; 18,

9, 21, B; 22, D; 23, %
25, C; 26,

A;
B;
B;
B;
D;
B;
Cc;
A;
D;
B;

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NYC, are helping civil service em-
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and women are not aware that
their vision is impaired until they
have had an examination by a
competent optometrist. Powell Op-
ticlans examine eyes and provide
proper glasses at a low fee. Civil

The proposed reclassification of
Inborers in the Department of
Water Supply, Gas and Electrici-
ty, on which the NYC Civil Ser-
vice Commissions held hearings,
is dead,

Water Commissioner Stephen
J. Carney, who at first was dis-
posed to favor the project, came
out against it when he learned
that the majority of the men op-
posed it.

Several unions opposed the re-
classification, holding that it
would deprive men of their

COOKE HEADS LEGION POST
The Water Department Post
1008 of the American Legion held
its installation of officers at Web-
ster Hall recently, The new
commander is Harold D. Cooke,
Emil J. Kuenzler is adjutant and
Irving Pullman finance officer.

The Retiring Commander, Gene
Bauman, accepted an_ appoint-
ment on the County Committee.

ELECTRICAL INSP. STUDY
‘Those who wish to prepare for
the forthcoming NYC open-com-
petitive examination for Electrical
Inspector, Grade 3, will find study
material obtainable at the Muni-
cipal Reference Library, Room
2230 Muncipal Building, Manhat-
tan, The Library ts open from 9
to 5 on weekdays and 9 to 1 on
Saturdays.

Laborer Reclassification
In Water Dept. Is Dead

| rights under the Labor Law to the
rates of pay prevailing in private
industry.

The unions are prosecuting
their complaints in prevailing
rate cases, Decisions in such
cases are made by Comptroller
Lazarus Joseph, and appeals by
dissatisfied employees are taken
to court.

In some instances compromises
are reached through agreements
with the City, engineered by Bud-
get Director Thomas J, Patterson.
There is a division of opinion
among employees as to the value
of the agreements to the em-
ployees, compared to the Labor
Law benefits. The international
organization of the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees considers
such agreements menacing to
workers,

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to a record number of diners,
ESTHER BROMLEY ELECTED
BY CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE

Mrs. Esther Bromley, former
NYC Civil Service Commissioner,
has been elected treasurer of the
National Civil Service League.
Mrs. Bromley had served eight
years as a member of the Com-
mission, Mayor William O'Dwyer
failed to reappoint her at the end
of her term on May 195

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After a couple of months as
NYC Civil Service Commissioner,
Paul P. Brennan, of Brooklyn,
said that he's delving right into
the problems and is even worry-
ing Dow about the huge task of
administering the new veteran
preference law that goes into ef-
fect on January 1 next,

Tells of Civil Service Cases

President Brennan was confi-
dential secretary to Supreme
Court Justice Anthony J. DiGio-
vanna and had served the late
Supreme Court Justice John H.
MeCooey in the same capacity. In
those Jobs, en BA Mr. Brennan, he

especially for ‘Justice McCooey,
who, when assigned to the Ap-
pellate Term, would get as many
as 30 cases at a time to decide.
Quite a few cases concerned civil
service, Commissioner Brennan
remarked,

He recalled that he-drafted and
fought for some civil service bilis
in Albany, regretfully admitting
that the results were none too
successful. One of them sought
to attain tenure for judges’ secre-
taries who had served at least 10
years in that capacity but who
would face loss of job on the
death or retirement of the judge
for whom they worked. He ran
against the obstacle that these
were exempt jobs and couldn't be
made permanent. But he did
think that men within a year or
so of retirement possibility, for
whom a board of judges could
find duties, should be retained,
and still thinks so,

Vet Preference Problem

“We're busy now on the prob-
lems in connection with veteran
preference,” said Commissioner
Brennan. “The new law will create
quite a task for us, as applica-
tions will have to be revised to
include statements of whether the
new preference has been used,
since it may be used only once.
Also, after the first of the year,
the eligible lists will have to be
rearranged, so that disabled vet-
erans get 10 extra points and non-
disabled veterans 5 points in open-

Catholic ¢ Guild Breakfast
Hears Talk by Wagner

Robert FP. Wagner, Jr., President
of the Borough of Manhattan,
was the principal speaker at the
eleventh annual corporate commu-
nion breakfast of the Catholic
Guild of his office, at th
Statler, The Guild re
munion at St, Andrew's Roman
Catholic Church,

Other speakers were Monsignor
Joseph A. Nelson, pastor of St.
Andrew's Church and Moderator
of the Catholic Guild; the Rev.
John J. Driscoll, the Rev, Vincent
A. McCarthy, and Hugo E. Rogers,
special counsel of the Traffic Com-
mission and former Borough Pres-
ident. James A. Driscoll was toast-
master,

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books for the Stationary Engineer
exam. The library is in Room
2230, Municipal Building, Cham-
bers and Centre Strects, and is

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plans to see that the new prefer-
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NYC.”

Takes Things in Stride

Asked if he'd heard about the
adverse criticism of his appoint-
ment, made by the Civil Service
Reform Association, he said “Yes,”
and even had a copy on his desk
of the letter the Association sent
to the Mayor protesting the ap-
pointment, because the new Com-
missioner didn’t have a civil ser-
vice background.

“They hit me on the head be-
fore I even had time to take my
hat off,” he remarked. “Why do
they have to be in such a hurry
to get out the hammer? They
could have waited to see how I}
make out here. I've been told that
I'm sitting on a keg of dynamite,
but I'll take things in my stride.”

Likes Job Already

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ham University in 1925 and three
years later from Fordham Law|
School. While a student at law |
school, he taught history and civ-|
les at Loyola High School. After
being admitted to law practice in
the year of his graduation he got}
a job with the law firm of Mc-
Cooey and Conroy and two years
later was a member of the firm.
The senior member of the firm
was the same Mr. McCoocy who
became Supreme Court Justice.

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Presentation of the posthumous
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The NYC Employee

NYC Park Dept.
Defy Moses on

(Continued from page 1)
accede to Park Commissioner Rob-

ert. Moses’ order that they buy
uniforms.
Ernest Zundel, business man-

ager of the local, said that “the
recent order attempting to burden
the employees with the cost of a
$90 uniform to boost esprit de
corps is unfair and will not be
complied with, unless materially
modified.”

The resolution recited the re-
cent salary increases that mem-
bers of the NYC Board of Esti-
mate voted themselves and other
officials, and added that “the best
that the employees got was sym-
pathy.”

COST-OF-LIVE bonuses be-
eame frozen in the permanent pay
scales of NYC employees last Sat-
urday.

Employees will be required to
waive any claims to a change in
@tade based on pay scales above
civil service grades. The waiver
forms will be distributed through
personnel offi and bureau
chiefs,

THE BOARD of Transportation
has completed negotiations and
executed memoranda of
standing with six labor organiz
tions covering wages and working

conditions for employees of the
Board during the next two years
ending July 1, 1952. These memo-

randa are in addition to the agree-
ment executed with the Transport

Workers Union last week at City
Hall |
Phe memoranda, effective July

commendations
§ Fact Finding

1, carry out the r
of Mayor O'Dwy

Board granting n ll-cents an
hour increase to the hourly paid
employee comparable increases
for ann! aid employees in
operating ties, a third week of}

ars of service,
each yea

vacation after ten yi
8 instead of 7 holid
set up grievance pre
provides for a study by industrial |
engineers of a program for achiev-
ing a 5-day, 40-hour w It is
estimated these changes in pay

and working conditions will cost
approximately $13,200,000 a year.
The

unions involved were the
ated Association of Street,
4 Railwway and bar oe
Coach Employees of America
Civil Service Forum; the pis
tee of Signalmen and Trainmen,

an deration of Municipal
Workers;

nsit.
Federation of State,

The American
County and

under-}

edures and|

Employees
Uniforms

Municipal Employ and the
Brotherbood of Locomotive Engi-
neers,

THE Uniformed Fire Officers
Association will begin voting soon
to fill four vacancies on the ex-
ecutive board, The election Is be-

ing conducted by the American
Arbitration Association,

Last day for receipt of nomina-
tions is Thursday, July 6, The va-
cancles are one each in the Chief
nd Lieutenant ranks and two in
the Captain rank,

NEW OFFICERS have been
elected by Local 632, Department
of Water Supply, Gas and Elec-
tricity, of the American Federa-
tion of State, County and Munici-
pal Employees, They are Murray
Blum, president; James P. Pinner-

ty, vice-president; William J.
pug treasure: Joseph E.

t, financial secretary; John
5 O'Rourke, recording secretary;
James 8. McCormack and John L.
Hartter, delegates to NYC Council
$7 (District); Morris A. Miller,

James Herel and Henry Ansorge,
Delega.es to Central Trades and
Labor Council!

THE DEPARTMENT of Sanita-
tion’s 1,000.1 American Legion

| Post installed Joseph Lennon as
new Commander, Installation offi
cer was Justi thew J. Diserio
of the Domestic Relations Court,

and a former deputy commissioner
of Sanitation,

SANITATIONMEN’S Local 111-
A, APL, has condemned the pro:
posed use of relief recipients and

the

Department to ‘appoint
Sanitation w

Stanley Krasowski, local
president the use of relief

a “rank failure”
>. He said sanitary
e poor because of
ent personnel

Sanitation Men's Eligibles'
| Association also announced its op-
| position to the plan,

THE
preme Co
jon Thurs

recipients
eral y

EW YORK County Su-
will hear arguments
July 6, on a petition

to rescind the promotions of 96
eligibles on the Pire Lieutenant
list. The suit is being brought by
| Frederick against. the
|NYC Civil Commission
and the Fire Commissioner, He al-
leges the 96 eligibles were granted

disabled veteran preference on the

UFA Points Way to Rise
In Revenue for NYC

The “Uniformed Firemen'’s As-
sociation, through President John
P. Crane, has requested a pay-

roll tax on non-resident employees
of indus NYC. In a@ letter
to Mayor William O'Dwyer, Pres-
ident Crane said:

The total transient popula-
tion of the City of New York runs
some two to three million people
daily over the number of residents.
Of this two or three million ap-
proximately 540,000 are employed
in the City of New York and there-
fore are dependent upon the s
vices given by this city to insure
them a source of employment,
‘These services, which tnclude fire
protection, police protection, and
health protection, are essential to
their well-being and to their nec-

essary continued employment.
Therefore it is our feeling that
Since the residents of the City of

York and since

our business

people contribute well over a bil-
lion dollars for the maintenance of
all these service
ple who come }
and whose daily well-being is de-
Pendent upon the City of New
York and the people of the City
of New ¥« hould contribute
something toward the cost of gov
ening that city

Therefore it is our recommen-
dation to you and to the Governor
of the State of New York that leg
islation be adopted providing a

payroll tax to be placed against
the payroll and collected by the
employer of all people residing
outside the city and state of New
York, this tax to be a 2 per cent
tax applied against the payroll of
all employees within the State of
New York who reside outside the
state. The money, so collected, 1s
to be given to the communities
wherein the individual is employed
for use of that city or community
to meet the cost of government.
We estimate that within the City
of New York alone this should pro-
vide the City of New York with an
added income of approximately
$15,000,000, sufficient when cou-
pled with the $7,000,000 or $8,-
000,000 collected on insurance, to
nt all city employees another
0 a year from now, if necessary
tion were adopted,

leg

Social Investigator

(Continued
ence within the
or;

The test is open to both men
and women, There are no special
age requirements, though ages 18
to 70 apply through the operation
of education and retirement laws.
Physical requirements are not
tringent,

from page
past five

»
years,

basis of Veterans Administration
certificates which did not show
that a medical examination had
been given within a year of the
application for preference, Some
eligibles received disabled veteran
preference without the required
VA certificates, he also holds.

FIVE HUNDRED Patrolmen
were sworn in last week by the
Police Department. They were

taken from the current Patrolman
eligible list. The oaths were ad-
ministered by Vincent Finn, chief
clerk,

THREE NEW open-competitive
examinations have been ordered
by the NYC Civil Service Com-
mission, They are Inspector of
Dock and Pier Construction,
Grade 3; Tractor Operator, and
Water Tender.

TWENTY-FIVE NYC Civil Ser.
vice Commission examinations
drew applications from 4,126 men
and women during June. The most
popular open-competitive test was
that for Auto Machinists for
which 984 applied. Applications
were received from 301 for the
Battalion Chief (F. D,) promotion
exam,

DR, HERMAN P. MANTELL
has been elected president of the
Council of Jewish Organizations
in Civil Service, Other officers in

clude: Theodore Rosen, 1st vice-
president; Herbert Marks, 2d vice-
president; George Ellenoff, treas

urer; May Martians, recording sec-
retary; Irving @hallop, correspon-
ding secretary.

DeBEVOIS, of
the Queens Borough President's
office, has won the 1950 Pictorial
Photography Contest held by the/|
Mayor's Committee on Athletics.
Tt 350 entries.

Seim,.a fireman of the

CHARLES M.

15th Division, 39th Battalion, was
second; Floyd W, Ward, a motor-|
man for the IND, was third; The |
dore W. Donaldson, of the Depart-
ment of Marine and Aviation, and/
John D. Gunn, of the Depart of
Sanitation, were tied for fourth.

The Board of Transportation
was first with 1,227 points, andj
the Fire Department second with

710 points,

EDWARD J. MORSE
re-elected president of

has been
the Fire.

man Eligibles Association, Other
officers elected were: Ralph Jen-
sen, vice-president; Ed Cleaver.

John Carl, secretary
chairman, and James
eant-at-arny

treasurer;
Jim Wrynn
McGivney, 5

THE Maintenance Man_Eligi-

bles’ Association will meet Friday
July 21, Its first meeting was held
two weeks ago when Ben Reich-

bach was elected pro-tem
tary.

secre-

FRANK A. SCHAEFER,
tary of the NYC Civil Service
Commission, has been elected
Commander of the Major W.
Arthur Cunningham Post 1243 of
the American Legion. He succeeds
Arthur M. Reid. Other new offi-
cers of the civil service post in-
clude: 1st vice commander Gerard
J. Brinkman; 2d vice commander
Milton Sokolow; 3d vice comman-
der Harold F. Barrett; adjutant
Daniel J. O'Connor; personnel
adjutant Patrick Devine; service
officer P. C. Abraham Levin; fi-
nance officer C. Arthur M. Reid;
judge advocate P, C. Raymond T.
Palme chaplain Ferdinand
Fuchs; historian John J. Keegan;
sergeant-at-arms Angelo Mallio,

Bxecutive Committee: Joseph C,
Finn, Joseph Milan, Roger Sulli-
van, Eugene Zuccaro, Frank J,
Qlancy, Michael Waldron, Charles
B, Wagner.

PROMOTIONS must be made
on the basis of relative and not
absolute merit and fitness, Su-
preme Court Justice Benjamin F, |
Schreiber ruled in ordering the
Board of Education to fill three
positions by promotion despite its
objections to the fitness of eligible |
employe The positions are Di-
rector, Assistant Director and
Chief Attendance Officer, Bureau
of Attendance.

pcre.

ST EXAM CLOSES

for the U, 8, In-
nist exam closed on

Priday, June 23,

Court Woighs Vet's Right

When Job Is

Decision on the bid of Gordon
E. Conrad, disabled veteran, for
reinstatement as Veterans’ Assist=
ance Officer in the State Civil
Service Department has been re-
served by Supreme Court Justice
Bookstein, in Albany, following
the filing of briefs.

George A, Raaz and Herman N.
Harcourt, Assistant Attorneys
General, appearing for the Civil
Service Commission at Special
Term of the Albany County Su-
preme Court, argued that Mr.
Conrad’s application should be
dismissed because he was not en-
titled to a hearing. His job was
abolished,

Responsibility Contested

“A hearing is accorded a veter-
an only where his removal is
sought 4s a disciplinary measure,”
Mr, Radz told the court. “Mr,
Conrad was not removed because
of inefficiency or misconduct,”

Mr, Radz pointed out that un-
der Section 22 of the Civil Ser-
vice Law, a war veteran is en-
titled upon abolition of his ¢ivil
service position to be transferred
to any branch of the service and
to any position he may be fitted
to fill

“No distinction is made between
non-disabled veterans and disa-
bled veterans,” Mr, Radz said. “In
interpreting this provision of
Section 22, the courts have con-|

Abolished

, ton and transfer to another pos
| sition unless he can prove the ex-
istence of a vacant position. It
is not the duty of the employment
officer to seek the job but for
the veteran to seek such a job
himself.”

Legality Challenged

Anthony Feeney,
Mr. Conrad, argued that his cli-
ent could not be discharged
except for incompetency or mis=
conduct upon a hearing.

Mr, Conrad was appointed to
the Veterans’ Assistance Officer
Position without a competitive ex~
amination. It was one of two such
positions, one in N¥C and the
other in the Albany offices of the
Commission, Because work in the
NYC office had slackened, the job
was abolished by the legislature
early in 1950. On March 24, Mr,
Conrand was notified his services
wouldn't be needed. The Civil
Service Commission announced
that Orland Marett, a combat
veteran of Brooklyn, who had
held the New York office position
for 18 months prior to Mr. Con-
rad’s appcintment would be as-
signed the one remaining post in
Albany.

attorney for

J. J, BURNS HONORED
Staff! members of the 15th Dis-
trict of the Attendance Burcau of
the Board of Education presented
John J. Burns with a gold wrist

sistently held that a war veteran|watch as a memento of his 40

whose civil service position is
abolished is not entitled to reten-

pars of service.
a pension,

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Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records, 1918-2015

Collection ID	apap015
Total components	6990
Items available online	5101
Last indexed	2025-10-14

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Civil Service Leader, 1950 July 4

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Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records, 1918-2015

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