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Official Publication of
The Association of State Civil Service Employees of the State of New York, Inc.
June, 1946
Vol. 15, Number 6
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THE ASSOCIATION
President - = + - Frank L. ‘Tolman
Ist Vice-President - Jesse B, McFarland
2nd Vice-President - - - Leo F. Gurry
3rd Vice-President. - - John F. Powers
‘Treasurer’ - - - Earl P. Pfannebecker
Secretary - - - - - Janet Macfarlane
Counsel = - - = = John T, DeGraff
Exec. Rep.’ - - William F. McDonough
Exec, Secretary - - - Joseph D. Lochner
Field Rep. - - - Lawrence J. Hollister
THE MAGAZINE
Editor-in-Chief - - Thomas C. Stowell
Editor - - Mr. McDonough
Advertising Mgr.- - Patrick P. DeMurio
Art Editors = - - Roger Stonehouse
Nicolas Apgar
Photographer - - - - W. P. Kennedy
Editorial Board—Mr. Stowell, Chairman:
‘Theodore Recker, John Daniels, Toseph
J. Horan, Wayne W. Soper, A. Ranger
‘Tyler.
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This Months Cover
mor Alfred E, Smith State Of-
g—The name of E.
is indelibly impressed on the minds
of all citizens of the Empire State and his
memory lives in the hearts of the thousands
who worked for and with him in State
service, He was undeniably one of the
great Governors of New York State, and it
is fitting indeed that the towering State Of-
fice Building in Albany, for which he laid
the cornerstone, shall forever bear his name.
‘The Governor Alfred E. Smith State Of-
fice Building was dedicated with impressive
ceremonies on Thursday, May 16, 1946, In
recognition of Governor Smith’s place as an
outstanding Roman Catholic layman, it was
appropriate that Cardinal Spellman and
that Bishop Gibbons of the Albany diocese
should have prominent places on the pro-
gram, Governor Thomas E. Dewey spoke
in tribute to his distinguished predecessor
and unveiled the bronze-lettered tablets,
Governor Smith’s old friend and co-worker,
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, spoke feelingly.
All. the living members of Governor
Smith’s immediate family were present, in-
i sand Mrs, John A. Wamer
children — the “Governor's”
grandchildren — Mary Adams Warner and
Emily Smith Warner; Major Alfred E.
Smith, Jr., Mr, and Mrs, Francis J. Quilli-
nan, Mr. and Mrs, Walter J. Smith, and Mr.
and Mrs, Arthur W. Smith.
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183
OUTSTANDING SERVICES
The splendid services of Harold J. Fisher on behalf
of good state service and good employment conditions
for state workers, was made the feature of a Harold J.
Fisher Memorial Award by the Civil Service Leader
in 1945, and the winner of the first award was Dr.
Frank L. Tolman, the present President of the State
Association.
On May 29, 1946, in the presence of a distinguished
group, at the annual meeting of the Civil Service
Reform Association, in New York City, the second
Memorial Award was presented to Mrs. Dorothy Mc-
Laughlin, Principal of the Nurses Training School at
Central Islip State Hospital. The Committee of
Judges consisted of Charles C. Burlingham, Howard
C. Kelly and H. Eliot Kaplan.
In addition to the Memorial award, the Civil Service
Leader presented gold medals for conspicuous service
to five State civil service employees.
The citations appear opposite.
Present at the notification ceremonies (left to right) Mr. Corr, Mr. Bryan, Mrs, Mc-
Laughlin, Mr. Williams and Mr. Rogers. Above them is Mr. Gavit.
FOR STATE RECOGNIZED
HAROLD J. FISHER MEMORIAL AWARD
Mrs. Dorothy D. McLaughlin — Princi-
pal of the Nurses Training School, Central
Islip State Hospital.
She has rendered exceptional service in
the performance of her duties far above and
beyond her normal responsibilities, and has
shown a high degree of leadership in her
profession of public health nursing. Largely
through her persistent efforts in expanding
bedside teaching and ward classes and by
broadening the curriculum and expanding
facilities for both students and graduate
nurses she has added greatly to the educa-
tional advantages in the nursing schools and
in connection with on-the-job graduate
training courses. She was responsible for in-
creasing the number of affiliates so that in
one year alone 375 affiliates representing 13
schools of nursing were able to receive psy-
chiatric training facilities. She directed and
conducted courses for volunteer Red Cross
nurses aids and participated extensively in
community activities sponsored by the Pub-
lic Health Nursing service, the American
Red Cross, Parent Teacher Associations and
others. Because of these other outstanding
services and devotion to duty and in making
the School of Nursing highly recognized in
the professional nurses training field, Mrs.
McLaughlin has been chosen as recipient of
the Harold J. Fisher Memorial Award for
outstanding and exceptional services for the
public welfare performed by a State civil
service employce.
June
MEDALS OF MERIT
Herbert L. Bryan —Senior Statistician, Bureau of
Research and Statistics, State Department of Social Wel-
fare. For unusual services in preparing materials for
the Department of Social Welfare relating tothe work of
the Inter-Departmental Committee on Delinquency, and
for his leadership in the Department’s in-
ing program on administrative use of statistics.
Frank J. Corr, Jr.— Associate Statistician, Division
of Municipal Affairs, State Department of Audit and
Control. For outstanding work in the preparation,
analyzation and practical application of control records
in developing a new system of fiscal control and super-
vision of municipal finances by the State Department
of Audit and Control; and for his immeasurable aid
in planning and supervising the statistical and research
work of the Commission on Municipal Revenues and
Reduction of Real Estate
Joseph Gavit— Associate State Librarian, An un-
sung hero who is rounding out his 50th in the
New York State service surviving the vicissitudes of
successive administrations, he has rendered highly
meritorious service and who has done an excellent job
of building morale and cooperation among government
fcials and employees; who instead of retiring from the
ter a substantial inheritance, preferred to con-
service to the public in advancing the ides
of the merit system and improving the standards of
State servic
tinue h
J. William Rogers — Supervisor of Vocational Edu-
cation, Department of Correction. For his splendid con-
tribution in developing and conducting courses of train-
ing at Wallkill Prison and for the State Department
of Correction, and his initiative in establishing and ad-
ministering the so-called Hobby Shop; for his analytical
veys of the problem of mechanical aptitudes of in-
mates and for his aid to instructors in preparation of
their courses of study in the penal institutions; for his
conducting teacher training ‘classes on his own. free
or his ingenuity and resourcefulness in adopting
surplus equipment for use by State institutions; and in
developing and supervising the vocational auto repair
shop for repairing and overhauling State-owned vehicles
at great savings to the State.
Kinne F. Williams — Superintendent of Forest Fire
Control, Department of Conservation, For fine quali-
ties of leadership and industry in organizing and ad-
ministering so ully forest fire control during
the war emergency in the face of some of the worst
forest fire seasons in the history of the State and
during a period of unprecedented shortage of manpower,
transportation difficulties and other war-time problems;
coupled with this he had to assume for a time direction
of the Division of Lands and Forests during the illness
of the Director and in the absence of the Assistant
Director who was called into the American Red Cross
service.
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CIVIL SERVICE SCORED BY
‘The Civil Service Reform Association was organized in New York State in 1877. From its inception it
has been a vigorous defender of the merit system. Its organizers were citizens who rebelled against the
. selfish and destructive philosophy that “politics is a game the prizes of which are offices and contracts” which
prevailed to a marked extent up to 1883 when the first civil service laws were adopted by the Nation and
the State.
The Civil Service Retorm Association drafted the New York State civil service law of 1883 which was
championed by Governor Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, the latter a leader in the Legislature at
that time.
Ever since 1883 the Civil Service Reform Association has spoken out fearlessly as to its findings and
opinions regarding civil. service administration in various jurisdictions. The present officers of the Association
are listed below, and the Association’s annual report, as approved at its annual meeting on May 23, 1946, is
printed in full, beginning on the opposite page.
Civil Service Reform Association
Organized 1877 — Incorporated 1900
Telephone MUrray Hill 25748
67 WEST 44th STREET
NEW YORK 18, N. Y.
RICHARD WELLING, President ROGERH. WILLIAMS, Treasurer H. ELIOT KAPLAN, Secretary
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
RICHARD’S. CHILDS
GEORGE McANENY
ALLEN WARDWELL
HENRY DE FOREST BALDWIN
MRS. DOUGLAS M. MOFFAT
C. C. BURLINGHAM
SAMUEL H. ORDWAY, JR.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
CHARLES BURLINGHAM, Chairman
ALBERT DE ROODE
‘WM. DEAN EMBREE
ALBERT HIRST
NICHOLAS KELLEY
HOWARD C, KELLY
VERNON MUNROE
THOMAS M. PETERS.
GEORGE H. RICHARDS
FRANCIS O. AFFELD, JR.
MASON H. BIGELOW
LOUIS G. BISSELL
RALPH M. CARSON
JOHN K. CLARK
CHARLES W. DALL
LEWIS L, DELAFIELD, JR.
EUSTACE SELIGMAN
KENNETH M. SPENCE
LYMAN BEECHER STOWE
SAMUEL THORNE
ELIOT TUCKERMAN
BETHUEL M. WEBSTER
ROGER H. WILLIAMS
186 The State Employee
Governor Dewey gave us reason
to expect that he would use his
authority to revitalize and modern-
size the state personnel system. He
had scored severely his predecessor's
administration of the state civil ser-
vice, and had pledged himself to
make New York the outstanding
merit system state of the nation. He
had a politically sympathetic legis-
lature. This expectation has not
been realized. While Governor Dew-
ey’s record on civil service legisla-
tion has been good, his contribution
toward improvement of personnel
administration has been meager.
During the past year some plans
for modernizing civil service pro-
cedures which were delayed by the
war have been started toward ful-
fillment. Studies have been made of
possibilities of further mechanizing
operations of the Civil Service De-
partment to give speedier and more
efficient service to operating agen-
cies. The Salary Standardization
Board, established on a temporary
basis during the previous administra-
tion and extended from year to year,
has now been made a permanent ad-
junct of the Civil Service Depart-
ment. The Department has sought
to assist returning war veterans seek-
ing careers in the state service. It
has reestablished the municipal in-,
spection service which, through a
technically qualified examiner, peri-
odically inspects the work of the
municipal civil service commissions
and gives them advice and guidance.
Its Municipal Service Bureau has
assisted the county commissions
throughout the state in preparation
of new rules, classification plans and
roster records; has prepared and dis-
tributed procedure manuals for
county and city commissions, has
promoted several regional training
institutes and regional conferences
for local officials; and has made a
number of special personnel surveys.
Aside from these constructive
steps, many of them under way
prior to 1943, little in the way of
positive accomplishment can be
noted. The State Civil Service De-
partment has suffered from lack of
leadership. It has exhibited conspic-
uous failure to fulfill its obligations
June
REFORM ASSOCIATION —
to the public, and its primary func-
tions and responsibilities. Confusion
and delay, divided and vaguely as-
signed responsibility and low staff
morale have long been apparent.
Confidence in the Department’s im-
partiality has been impaired. Al-
though funds to carry on its work
have been greatly increased in recent
years (Its appropriation is now more
than double that of 1940) the De-
partment has not taken full advan-
tage of these added funds to improve
the state’s merit system.
This failure doubtless results in
part from inability to resist the pres-
sure of some departmental heads
unsympathetic to the merit system
aided by outside political interven-
tion. This can be the only explana-
tion for some of the concessions the
Commission has made to operating
departments, and certain unjustifi-
able practices of the Commission in
administering its own department.
In filling one of its key positions, for
example, that of Assistant Admin-
istrative Director, the Commission
in 1943 appointed a person of in-
adequate experience, obviously in
response to political pressure. In
spite of our protest, the Commission
continued the unqualified incumbent
provisionally far beyond the period
allowed by law. Primarily, we be-
lieve, to enable the incumbent to
gain permanent appointment with
little competition, the Commission
ordered the holding of an examina-
tion during the war period, while
it declined to hold examinations for
filling vacancies in other depart-
ments because of war conditions,
The Commission kept the provis-
ional appointee on the Department's
payroll, and only recently, after per-
sistent demands from the Associa-
tion to drop the incumbent, the
Commission finally did so. Before
doing so, however, the Commission
placed another favored person in line
for appointment to the same position
by re-rating his examination on ap-
peal, after outside examiners had
marked it “failure.” This candid-
ate’s qualifications did not appear
even to meet announced require-
ments for admission to the examina-
tion. A somewhat similar practice
was followed in filling the position
of Director of Classification, another
key place on the Commission’s staff,
Here the candidate had some qual-
ifications for the position. Never-
theless he had been failed in the
written examination by a close mar-
gin, and was finally qualified only
through the Commission’s substit-
uting its own judgment on technical
subject matter for that of an out-
side special examiner,— a practice of
doubtful wisdom and legality.
Another situation has come lately
to our notice which we cite as symp-
tomatic of the Commission’s admin-
istration of the merit principle. In
the latter part of 1943, shortly after
reorganization of the State Civil
Service Commission, its President
announced the vital need for investi-
gating claims of candidates in exam-
inations, a matter often brought to
public attention by this Association,
A new position of investigator was
established to institute a new pro-
gram of verifying candidates’ edu-
cation and experience records. A.
former parole officer of Ulster
County was appointed provisionally,
An examination was held to fill the
position permanently. The ’proyis-
ional appointee failed and had to be
dropped from the Commission’s pay-
roll. Although a substantial eligible
list was established for the position,
no appointment was ever made
thereto and the position was abol-
ished. Eighteen months later the
same provisional appointee was selec-
ted, with several others, as a per-
sonnel assistant at $1,800. Early in
1945 the Commission held an exam-
ination for “personnel aide” at
$1,400, a salary low enough to assure
little, if any, competition, As was
to be expected, the resulting eligible
list consisted mostly of those who
had been appointed provisionally to
the Commission’s staff. On July 2,
1945, about 20 of these provisional
appointees, including the former pa-
role officer, were appointed “per-
manently” at $1,400 each. After
being thus given competitive civil
service status, they were the very
next day promoted provisionally to
higher positions paying $2,400 to
$3,200. The favored former parole
officer was assigned to: a $4,000 posi-
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Dae Bite 3h
STATE ASSOCIATION
MEETS
One hundred and thirty-one delegates convened at Albany, New York at a
special meeting of the Association of State Civil Service Employees, on June
25th. The delegates considered two proposals of overall importance, (1) the
opening of membership to all civil service employees in the sub-divisions of the
State government throughout New York State, and, (2) the establishment of
regional chapter conferences. Both proposals were adopted. The amendment
to the constitution relating to expansion of membership, as adopted, reads:
“All employees in the Civil Service of the State of New York and its
civil divisions, including cities and villages, shall be eligible for member-
ship in the Association.”
The amendment relating to Regional Conferences, as adopted, reads:
“The Executive Committee may divide the State into not more than
five regions, and within each region two or more chapters may, with the
approval of the Executive Committee, establish a Regional Conference.
Every chapter in such region shall be eligible for membership in such
Regional Conference and, so long as a majority of the chapters in such
region are members, such Regional Conference shall be entitled to elect
one representative as a member of the Executive Committee. The Con-
stitution and By-Laws of such Regional Conference must be approved
by the Executive Committee and such Regional Conference may be
dissolved by a two-thirds vote of the Executive Committee of the Asso-
ciation at a regular or special meeting.”
The amendment relating to Re-
gional Conferences was adopted
unanimously.
There was long and serious discus-
sion pro and con as to the expansion
of membership to include all persons
in the civil service of any sub-division
of government in New York State.
The final vote showed 199 for the
amendment to expand the member-
ship and 76 against such expansion.
Now that Association delegates
have decided to extend membershin
to all civil service employees outside
ef New York City. and there is a
rotential membership thus onen of
over 250,000 workers, plans will be
made as to the ways and means of
organizing these new members and
of establishing county units.
Specifically, the employees of the
various sub-divisions of government
have no salary plan comparable to
the Feld-Hamilton Law, no uni-
formly fair rules covering vacation
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and sick leave; protection of tenure
is inadequate. They do not gener-
ally enjoy any of the major benefits
of membership in a large organiza-
tion such as group life and group
accident and sickness plans, current
information through regular publi-
cations dealing with civil service
laws, rules, examinations and all
matters pertaining to employment in,
the civil service, They have no effec-
tive representation throughout the
year before the State executive, legis-
lative and administrative bodies or
before local administrative bodies.
Both State and local employees are
at present interested alike in a more
liberal retirement plan, in the 5-day
week, in overtime pay, tenure, in-
service training programs, and in the
application of merit system principles
throughout the various units of local
and state government.
The way is now open for local
employees to take the first step to-
ward organization of their chapters
in the Association. Later, after the
adoption of the proposed constitu-
tion, the organization of the County
Division and the Chapters can pro-
ceed: rapidly.
Doctor Frank L. Tolman, Presi-
dent of the State Association, ex-
pressed the hope that all State civil
service employees will now contact
their fellow civil service workers to
assist in these initial steps and to dis-
cuss the objectives and the opportuni-
ties of the greater organization.
“Now that the delegates have de-
cided on expanding the membership
of the Association, I am certain that
there will be complete harmony and
enthusiasm in perfecting the greater
organization. The objectives of bet-
ter government require that civil
service employees in our state have a
single means of expressing their re-
sponsibility in government and in
suggesting improvements. The sin-
gle organization is positive and con-
structive in character and ambition
and its sole purpose, in a broad sense,
is to bring about better human rela-
tionships. With such a large body of
public workers with common aims
and serving under the same laws and
rules, it is only natural that they
should seek to add substantially, by
example and practice, to the world-
wide efforts now in progress to ad-
vance socially and culturally,” said
Doctor Tolman.
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The State Employee
Their Effect on
State Employees
New patterns in Social Welfare
which will affect the responsibilities
of 500 state department employees
and 7,000 County, City and Town
Welfare department employees en-
gaged in the State and Local Wel-
fare structure, have been brought
about by the passage of the Ostertag
Law which revises the Social Wel-
fare Law and provides an improved
administrative frame work in which
to operate,
Some 700,000 dependent persons
receive welfare and medical services
at an annual cost of approximately
$170,000,000, thus the law which
simplifies and integrates services to
the needy is of utmost importance.
Highlights of this legislation follows:
Increase in state aid for home re-
lief, old age assistance, aid to de-
pendent children, and assistance to
the blind which stabilizes the locali-
ties’ share of expenditures for these
programs at 20 percent. Formerly
the localities’ share was 60 percent
for home relief, 50 percent for aid to
dependent children, and 25 percent
for old age assistance and assistance
to the blind, The recommendations
of these higher rates by the Moore
Commission gives more funds to the
localities, legislation corrects the
complicated situation of varying rates
of reimbursement and makes possible
better welfare fiscal planning.
Laws of 1946:
Chapter 200—Provides through
the selection of optional plan, for
Cities to become Public Welfare Dis-
tricts administering all types of relief
and assistance. Abolishes the cum-
bersome and aged system of “Settle-
ment” whereby the length of resi-
dence, the location, and many other
factors had to be determined as well
as the burden of billing the State or
the district for the recipient's care.
This one feature will relieve the Wel-
fare Districts of a great burden and
June
Improvement in the Social
Welfare Law
free the time of many employees for
use in the larger and improved pro-
gram, é
Chapter 201—Abolished Boards of
Child Welfare but provided for
transfer of funds, functions and per-
sonnel to the County Welfare De-
partment where, prior to this ab-
sorption on April Ist, 1946, there was
no personnel engaged in this pro-
gram,
Chapters 537 to 541 inclusive—En-
ables the following cities to become
city public welfare districts: North
Tonawanda, Lockport, Jamestown,
Middletown, White Plains, thus in-
creasing their activities and their
staff.
Chapter 999—Provides for state
aid to counties and cities that operate
tuberculosis hospitals or tuberculosis
departments of general hospitals, al-
lows localities to retain their institu-
tions or, with the approval of the
state, to transfer them to the state.
Reduces from 100 to 50 percent the
charge to the county for care pro-
vided by state tuberculosis hospitals.
Chapter 298—Establishes responsi-
bility, through the State Youth Com-
mission for the supervision of day
care centers for children of working
mothers. The state bears approxi-
mately one-third of the cost, of this
service,
Chapter 461—Provides for estab-
lishment of special classes for delin-
quent children and grants special
state aid.
Chapter 632—Appropriates $35,-
000 to State Education Department
for employment of school lunch su-
pervisors, stenographers and clerks,
for supervision and promotion of the
school lunch program.
Chapter 501—Provides that a per-
son who employs, recruits, transports
and brings into the state, ten or more
out-of-state migrant farm or food
processing workers who are residents
of the United States, shall register
with the Industrial Commissioner
and submit facts on wages, housing,
working conditions and such other
data as the Commissioner may pro-
scribe.
Veterans Legislation—Numerous
laws were passed for the benefit of
the Veteran, the major provisions en-
compass: Removal of one year resi-
dence requirement for receiving Vet-
erans’ assistance. Providing for burial
of veterans and of specified relatives
if the deceased had insufficient funds,
allows $200 instead of $100 as here-
tofore. Increases allowable cost of
headstone for grave from $75 to
$100.
Chapter 326—Authorizes public
-housing authorities to pay up to $100
to a family toward the most of re-
moval of families of low income
from buildings to be cleared for a
housing development.
In addition to the above, by legis-
lative resolution the Ostertag Com-
mittee is continued to February 15,
1947, and as a result of its continued
activity will undoubtedly make rec-
ommendations designed to improve
state and local services in the fields of
foster care of children, adult institu-
tional care and hospitalization, Also,
by resolution, a joint legislative com:
mittee has been created to make a
survey and study of social, educa-
tional and physical problems of indi-
viduals afflicted with cerebral palsy.
The Commissioner of Social Welfare
is a member of this committee. Its
recommendations will no doubt in-
crease state activity on behalf of those
of our population so afflicted,
Asa result of the above described
legislative action, New York State
civil service employees have been
given increased and additional re-
sponsibilities through the improve-
ment and extension of state and local
services,
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That Strike Problem
Like Spring, strikes are busting out all over the
country with the result that labor relations are the
number one national issue of the moment.
A special problem is presented by strikes against
government which the people generally believe to be
contrary to the public interest and destructive to the
civil service system. Cal Coolidge was supposed to
have settled the problem for all time years ago in the
Boston Police. Strike.
The problem is not simple. When a city takes
over the private transit companies, are the prior rights
of the organized employees thereby abridged? When
city employees in the labor class organize in a C.L.O.
or AF.L. union, to obtain a living wage, have they
the usual rights of industrial unions to bargain collec-
tively and if need be, to strike? If a municipality locks
out some or all of the workers, what is their redress?
These are borderline cases. It may be well to con-
sider first and chiefly State Civil Service workers who
are protected in their jobs by the Civil Service Law and
who are represented by a Civil Service Association with
a no-strike pledge in its constitution.
There are certain important special characteristics
of public employment which, to my mind, are decisive
in reaching a sound decision on their problems. I think
we must first ask the question “What is Government
and for what purpose does it exist?”
In a democracy, ultimate power remains with the
people. Government is a tool the people use to ac-
complish essential ends. The welfare of the whole
people is the end and object of Government.
It follows that the Public employce is likewise the
seryant of the entire people of the State, and is dedicated
to the promotion of the common welfare. It is there-
fore evident that a strike against the State is a strike
against all the people of the State and plainly against
the public interest.
How does public employment in Government differ
from private employment in industry? Government
operates under restricted powers determined by law. It
is not a free agent. It does not have free bargaining
power. It has only those powers and those moneys
conferred by the people through laws and appropria-
tions enacted by the representatives of the people.
In the field of employee relations, the Civil Service
Jaw sets the general framework and establishes the
machinery to carry out the provision of the law. The
Civil Service Law and rules are to the public employee
what the labor contract is to the private employee with
the difference that the Civil Service Law cannot be
amended except by law, and the Civil Service rules
cannot be changed except by action of the Civil Service
Commission approved by the Governor.
The Civil Service Law is the Magna Charta of the
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Public Employee. It provides not only the rules and
procedures under which the public employee works
but the great principles which inspire his activities and
which keep his morale high. Among these principles
are the following:
The best qualified and able persons available shall
serve the State.
Merit and fitness shall determine appointment and
promotion,
Public service is a career.
Equal pay for equal work.
No discrimination with basis of sex, race or politics.
Public service is a public trust. Fidelity to that trust
is the highest obligation of every public employee and
must outweigh any personal consideration.
The obligation of the State to its employees involves
recognition of the employee as a full partner in the
Government. It involves recognition of him as a person
with certain inalienable rights among which are the
rights to freedom, to growth, to reasonable security,
to advancement as he earns it, to make his job im-
portant both to the people of the State and to himself.
Fair dealing on both sides will prevent any inclina-
tion to resort to strikes or to lock-outs. As long as the
administration of the Civil Service Law remains fair
and honest and intelligent, the question of strikes in
Government Service will be purely academic.
The Association of the State Civil Service Employees
recently reaffirmed the no-strike pledge. It proposed
to further clarify and strengthen its appeal to reason
rather than to force in the new constitution now being
drafted.
FRANK L. TOLMAN,
President,
Still Waiting
The Association is urging the Budget Director to act
promptly to extend additional pay for hazardous and
arduous work to the many positions which apparently
come under the provisions of Chapter 302 of the Laws
of 1945. Thus far decision has been announced only as
to positions in the tubercular service.
Admittedly it is a difficult job to select fairly the
positions which should be especially provided for. There
are, however, positions in the institutions which seem
just as well defined as to hazard or as to arduousness
as are the positions in the tubercular services for which
the Budget Director has provided additional pay. Some
of these services stand out clearly — the disturbed wards,
the regress wards, and the admission service in state
hospitals, for instance. Civilian employees in many
positions in the prisons are also very much interested
as to this additional pay.
(Continued on Page 192)
The State Employee
Whe Letter. Box
Craig Colony
Sonyea, N.Y.
June 3, 1946
Dear Sir:
For some time now the old controversy has raged
regarding the number of hours required the office
employees to work each week. It has been repeatedly
pointed out that there are severe differences between
the various Departments, and among even employees in
the same Department.
Little has been said or written of the hours worked
each week by the multitude of non-office employees:
the nurses, attendants, farmers, groundsmen, firemen,
etc., etc. Does not he or she deserve the same consider-
ation as the office employee?
May I therefore request that The State Employee,
the officers of the Association, and the members at large
do all in their power to obtain for all State employees a
uniform work week, preferably 40 hours.
Yours, sincerely,
John K. Welch
The program of the Association includes definite
action to seek by all proper means the establishment
of a 5-day 40 hour week for all employees now
working on a 48 hour week schedule.
The 5-day 40 hour week seems to fit in naturally
with economic developments, and there is real hope
that this plan will be adopted by the State of New
York.—Ed.
Ozone Park, N.Y.
June 4, 1946
Dear President Tolman:
Congratulations for your splendid editorial in the
May issue of the STATE EMPLOYEE. I was partic-
ularly interested to note that the establishment of the
five day week is now a definite objective of the Associ-
ation.
‘The creation of the five day week, is, undoubtedly,
the foremost desire of all State employees at this time.
Whatever you can do to hasten the accomplishment of
this much needed reform, shall certainly merit the
gratitude of all concerned.
It is rather difficult to attempt to understand the
reason for such continued prejudice and opposition to
this measure, which is now so widely accepted in many
other fields of activity. More power to your efforts, and
good luck to you; now—and always.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas A. Loughran
June
Albany, N.Y.
June 5, 1946
Dear Sir:
T have just now seen a copy of The State Employee
with the “page spread.” Certainly this is high honor —
something I never expected. Please be assured of my
appreciation.
Gratefully,
Allen Eddy
Albany, 5 June, 1946.
Dear Sir:
On the 12 July 1944 I entered the U. S. Army Trans-
port Service on a leave of absence under Sect. 246 of .
the Military Law, which grants leave of absence to State
Employees to enter the Merchant Marine.
On the 2nd of October 1945 I was discharged from
said service and returned to duty on November 1, 1945
with the Executive Dept., Division of State Police, being
assigned to Troop C, Sidney, N. Y.
On the 21 of December 1945 I was returned to duty
in Army Transport Service and ordered to New Orleans’
for duty ‘prior to being ordered to San Francisco, I
resigned from the Division of State Police on the 22nd
of December 1945 and left for New Orleans on the 2nd
of January 1946. ‘
I trust that I have given sufficient information for
answering the following question.
Té in the event that I wished to be reinstated to
the Division of State Police do I have any rights to a
leave of absence as I did when I first left. Please be
aware that I resigned after I was re-appointed to Army
Transport Service.
I expect to be in New York until about the 20th
of June at which time I will be sailing for Europe. I
would greatly appreciate any thing that could be done
by your office as to answering that question for me.
Sincerely,
Howard G. Poppe, 3rd Officer
U, S. Army Transport “Gen. R. Howze”
c/o Bethlehem Ship Yard, Pier 1
Hoboken, New Jersey
OUR COUNSEL WROTE MR. POPPE:
“Under section 246 of the Military Law, service in
the Merchant Marine is declared to be military serv-
ice, and every public employee is entitled to a manda-
tory leave of absence for the duration of such military
service. The fact that you entered military service for
a second time after previously being discharged,
makes no difference and your rights upon your second
entry into military service are the same as if you had
entered for the first time.” — J. P. DeG.
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Albany, N.Y.
May 13, 1946
Dear Sir:
State employees of the Albany area who responded
to the recent American Red Cross drive for funds by
contributing $16,224.59 —115°% of the quota set for
them — should be highly commended for their gener-
osity.
Much credit is also due Mrs. Anne V. George, of the
Department of Agriculture and Markets, Assistant
Chairman of the State Employees’ Division of the drive,
and the following departmental chairmen:
Eugene F. Gorse, Department of Agriculture and
Markets; Robert B. Haner, Department of Audit and
Control; Gerald Dorman, Banking Department; Miss
Dorothy Smith, Department of Civil Service; Miss Anne
Lowry, Commerce Department; William Tinney, Con-
servation Department; Miss Nora Kearney, Correction
Department; Dr, Lloyd L. Cheney, Education Depart-
ment; Edmund Schreiner, Health Department; Ray-
mond Harris, Insurance Department; Victor T. Holland,
Labor Department; John A. Hartigan, Law Depart-
ment; Paul O. Komora, Mental Hygiene Department.
John J. Cousins, Post War Public Works Planning
Commission; Murray G. Tanner, Public Service Depart-
ment; Henry Cohen, Public Works Department; Walter
Going, Department of State; Leonard Requa, Social
Welfare Department; Norman Gallman, Tax Depart-
ment; Miss Ann E. Hogan, Executive Department; Col.
Frederick A. Thiessen, Division of Military and Naval
Affairs.
Robert Foley, Division of the Budget; Edward F.
Reeves, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; Samuel B.
Viner, Division of Parole; Sgt. Raymond B. Adams,
Division of State Police; John Fardy, Division of Stand-
ards and Purch fiss Rose Marcus, State War Coun-
cil; Clark Wilson, The Assembly; Fred Forbes, The
Senate; John Tobin, Bill Drafting Commission.
Ralph C. Craig, Unemployment Insurance Division;
Miss Aileen Ahern, State Insurance Fund; Raymond
Cannon, Court of Appeals; John $. Herrick, Supreme
Court, Appellate Division; Miss Frances Humphrey,
Supreme Court, and John J. Clark, Court of Claims.
Governor Dewey is extremely proud of the fact that
State employees have once again demonstrated their
willingness to give overwhelming support to this great
cause. Iam grateful to you for the publicity you have
given this drive in your fine publication, “The State
Employee.
Very truly yours,
William L. Pfeiffer
Chairman
State Employees Division
1946 American Red Cross Drive
Edétoriale
(Continued from Page 190)
All employees who hope for consideration appreciate,
of course, the statement of the Budget Director to the
President of the Association of State Civil Service
Employees, on November 24, 1945, that as soon as the
allowances in any service are decided upon such allow-
ances will be retroactive to October 1, 1945, The em-
ployee is thus assured that he will lose nothing in the
long run by the delay. This is an important point, but
it does not satisfy the conscientious worker who knows
he is and has been performing especially hazardous or
arduous duties for years, that this fact is equally well
known to his immediate superiors, and who feels that
he needs the money now.
The following is that part of Section 42 of Article 3
of the Civil Service Law covering the hazardous or
arduous pay differential, It is reprinted here in answer
to the many inquiries regarding it:
“No person holding a position or employed in any
department, bureau, commission or office to which this
article applies and for which a definite salary or com-
pensation has been appropriated or designated, shall
receive any extra salary or compensation in addition to
that so fixed. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
section, additional compensation may be authorized
when in the opinion of the director of the budget, the
duties to which an employee is assigned are more
hazardous or arduous than those normally performed by
an employee with the same title. The director of the
budget is hereby authorized to increase the compensa-
tion otherwise payable to such employee by the per-
centage which in his opinion compensates such employee
for the duties to which he is assigned. ‘The increase in
compensation shall in no event exceed ten per centum
of the compensation otherwise payable, and shall have
effect only with respect to services thereafter to be
rendered... . cseueueee Payment of such addi-
tional compensation shall not affect the position or
grade of such employee with reference to promotion or
transfer and such additional compensation shall cease
if such employee is transferred or assigned to duty for
which additional compensation has not been author-
ized.”
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HUDSON RIVER HOSPITAL
VETERANS INSTALL OFFICERS
John Livingston, of Hudson River State Hospital, who died in
1944, was signally honored by the veterans of the Hudson River
State Hospital staff on May 17, 1946, when they named their
newly organized American Legion Post, the John Livingston
American Legion Post.
Never in the history of any organized effort to secure better
working conditions, has an employce group had a more sincere or
capable leader than John Livingston. For many years as a worker
in the ranks, as leader of his own Hospital Association Group, as
President of the Association of Employees of the Department of
ntal Hygiene, and as Vice President of the Association of State
I Service Employees, John Livingston devoted all of the time
he was not engaged on his duties as a civil service employee to
improving the working conditions in State institutions, and
throughout State service.
His efforts aided materially in bringing about the abolition of
the abhorrent twelve hour day in all of the institutions of the
in 1936, the adoption of the Feld-Hamilton L: pases of
sick leave and vacation periods to institutional employees, the
establishment of group life and group accident and sickness plans
helpful to State workers, and the ge
sonnel administration in State service,
al improvement of per-
Edward M. Britt, Commander of the new Post, W. F.
Donough and Joseph D, Lochner of the State Asse
and a score of speakers praised John Livingston a
behalf of State employees, and with regard also to his continuous
olicitude for the many veterans of Hudson R
who served gloriously in both World War T wi
a Captain and in World War Il
his work on
Louis Albert, Raymond
ff,} Leonard Peluso, Stanley
sckpr,
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Arthur Marx, Edward
. Britt, Commander.
Attention! Attention!
Beginning with the next issue, “The State
Employee” will run a. special column giving
State employees an opportunity to secure author-
itative answers to pertinent questions relating to:
EXAMINATIONS
ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
GRIEVANCES
PROMOTIONS
OF ABSENCE
STATE
SERVICE IN GENERAL
This will be an activity of the Education Com-
mittee of the Association. Queries should be
dressed to David M. Schneider, Chai
Education Committee, Room 156,
Albany, New York.
By Isabel Beardsley
What’s the difference between
a snack and a lunch? The dic-
tionary makes no great distinction
between these two words but the
nutritionists do. According to
them a snack cannot take the
place of a lunch. The former
might be a chocolate bar or a
couple of cookies, which are all
right in themselves but do not
constitute an adequate lunch.
Their contribution is mainly cal-
aries whereas a good lunch should
give balance to the day’s meals;
have variety and appetite appeal;
overcome fatigue and renew en-
ergy. A lunch suitable for one
person may be different from the
lunch needed by another, varying
with the activity of the individual.
Age, work, health and body build,
even the season of the year, all
affect the kind and the amount
of lunch needed. Whether work-
ing in a factory, going to school,
or doing housework at home, a
well planned lunch is essential.
If lunch is carried, its foundation is
usually sandwiches. During the present
scarcity of wheat, these may be made
of rye, corn or oatmeal bread with any
of the innumerable spreads ranging
from liverwurst to raspberry jelly. Add
a raw. vegetable, such as carrot strips,
celery, lettuce or cabbage slaw; then a
beverage—cold milk or a thermos of
hot cocoa, and top it off with fresh
fruit—an apple, banana, orange—and
your meal is not a snack, it is a well-
balanced lunch which will revive your
spirits and keep your mind off your
stomach for the rest of the working day.
Choosing an adequate lunch at a
restaurant and at the same time keep-
ing within the food budget is another
thought-provoking task. Human beings
cannot live on minerals and vitamins
alone and proper nutrition can only be
maintained in the long run by the
daily habit of consuming natural foods
containing adequate amounts and kinds
of nutrients. A well selected diet pro-
motes efficiency in both mind and
body. One hot dish—perhaps scram-
bled eggs—a slice of whole grain en-
riched bread with butter or fortified
margarine, a vegetable, raw or cooked,
a glass of milk, and fruit suggest an
adequate lunch for the average office
worker. Many eating places have them-
selves recognized the advantage of
better balanced meals and have im-
proved their menus. A careful read-
ing of the average menu will usually
suggest a variety of food combinations
which will make an adequate lunch
for an adequate worker.
HWS YOUR HEALTH
CIVIL SERVICE SCORED
(Continued from Page 187)
the Personnel Council. It seems
clear that the primary purpose of the
Commission is to enable the favored
employees to serve temporarily in
higher positions and to retain them
there permanently with little, if any,
competition, excepting among them-
selves. The Association has urged
the Commission to set aside these
questionable appointments and to
hold genuine competitive examina-
tions for filling the places if they are
deemed essential.
The Association has protested to
the Commission against other meth-
ods of applying the civil service
tules to accomplish by indirection
what may not be countenanced as
within the spirit of the merit system.
The Commission has sought to ex-
cuse its questionable actions by un-
convincing .rationalization and has
not yet taken steps to correct its mis-
takes of performance and omission.
A glaring example of failure to
comply with the constitutional merit
provisions is afforded by appoint-
ments made to the Division of Vet-
erans’ Affairs. Although this Divis-
ion was established in May, 1945,
most of the positions in the Division
have been filled, and are still filled,
on partisan political considerations.
Many of these employees have been
serving more than six months, yet
the State Civil Service Commission
has failed to pass on the qualifications
of the appointees, as the law re-
quires. It is common knowledge
that many of these appointees are
clearly unqualified, are over-paid for
the limited work they perform, and
have been neglectful of their duties.
‘This matter was first brought to the
attention of the Civil Service Com-
mission in October, 1945, and more
recently to that of the Governor who
was urged by the Association to re-
quest the Commission to apply the
civil service rules to the Veterans’
Division. Although the Association
again brought this matter to the
attention of the Governor and the
Commission in April 1946, the Com-
mission’s duty of passing on the
qualifications of the appointees even
up to this time has been ignored by
both the Governor and the Commis-
sion., The appointees have been long
serving in clear violation of the State
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The State Employee
Constitution and the Civil Service
‘We
It is our belief, based on similar
experience in the past, that applica-
tion of the Civil Service Law to the
State Veterans’ Division will result
in the appointment of better quali-
fied persons on an impartial basis,
considerable savings to taxpayers in
elimination of useless jobs, more
economical expenditure of the Div-
ision’s funds, and better service to
War veterans.
Last year we brought to public
attention the tendency of the Civil
Service Commission to except many
positions from competitive examin-
ation, This trend has continued dur-
ing the past year. This Association,
therefore, made a special study of
such exceptions granted by various
administrations during the last twen-
ty-five years. This study, which was
submitted to the Governor for con-
sideration and corrective action,
showed that 140 positions were ex-
cepted from competition during the
three-year period from January 1,
1943 to December 31, 1945. This
total is far in excess of any previous
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ee unwarranted exceptions, the
Commission has approved many ad-
ditional exceptions since December
31, 1945. It appears either that the
Commission has little confidence in
its own capacity to apply the com-
petitive merit system of selection, or
that the state administration under
political pressure is concerned in cre-
ating additional patronage. It is high
time for the Commission and the
Governor to apply the spirit, as well
_as the letter of the Constitutional
mandate of competition on merit
and fitness.
The New York City Service
It is still too early to appraise the
attitude of the new administration
in New York City toward the civil
service merit system. Mayor William
O'Dwyer, who was a beneficiary of
the merit system in his early career,
must appreciate the value of a sound
personnel career system based solely
on demonstrated merit and fitness.
Indication of his general view of the
needs of the City service may be re-
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will lay the groundwork for a sound
classification of positions throughout
the City service based on the prin-
ciple of equal pay for equal work.
Te will assure all City employees of
fair and equitable treatment. Many
of them are justifiably dissatisfied
because their salaries are relatively
inadequate for the responsibilities
they assume. Without an inventory
of the City’s personnel needs which
a proper survey would provide, it
is virtually impossible for the fiscal
authorities to determine whether the
demands of public employees for
salary adjustments are reasonably
warranted,
In view of the many difficulties
with which the Municipal Civil Ser-
vice Commission has been confron-
ted by war conditions, it has met its
responsibilities reasonably well. -In
the handling of troublesome prob-
lems relating to war veterans, which
have challenged the patience and
resourcefulness of the Commission,
it deserves special credit. Most of
them haye been satisfactorily solved
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» Public Employee Relationships
The Association has observed with
growing concern the failure to pro-
vide adequate machinery for the
handling and redress of public em-
ployee grievances. This has resulted
in attempt to transplant to the public
service some of the labor practices
in private employment, many of
them of doubtful tolerance in the
public cervice.
When the Mayor appointed a spec-
ial committee to study labor relation-
ships in the Board of Transporta-
tion, the Association urged -him to
request his special committee to con-
sider the over-all problem of public
employer-employee relationships in
the entire City service. Only in this
way may we be assured of a uniform
policy of basic employee relation-
ships in all City departments and
agencies. In this connection the As-
sociation subscribes to the principles
and recommendations made in the
report of the National Civil Service
League on employee organizations
in the public service issued in Feb-
ruary, 1946, and commends the re-
port to the City officials for their
consideration.
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Facts
The law in relation to overtime
has confused some employees, par-
ticularly in view of the added vaca-
tion period to be paid for in part in
cash instead of in time off. The fol-
lowing facts will clarify the law:
1. Overtime in excess of eight
hours per day or six days per week,
is allowed, and has been allowed
since April 1, 1943. Such overtime
can be paid only from unused appro-
priations and must be authorized by
the Superintendent and the Director
of the Budget.
2, Payment for unused vacations,
holidays and pass days was author-
ized by a law passed last year for the
fiscal year commencing. April 1, 1944,
and ended March 31, 1945. This
law has been’ renewed for another
year on the same terms, and provides
that any employees who fail to re-
ceive their full time off during the
fiscal year ending March 31, 1946,
will either receive additional time off
between April 1, and September 1,
1946, or will be entitled to overtime
compensation therefor which must
be paid on or before October 1, 1946,
3. There is no provision in the
law for paying overtime compensa-
tion for vacations, holidays or pass
time accumulated prior to April 1,
1944. Any such accumulation is to be
taken care of by allowing additional
time off. The only way in which the
accumulation can be cut down is by
persuading the fiscal authorities to
apply such time off as may be al-
lowed, to accumulated overtime in-
stead of to the authorized vacation
period.
4. Unused vacation, holidays, and
pass’ time accumulated during the
fiscal'year commencing April 1, 1946,
if the present law is renewed for next
year, as it probably will be, become
payable in 1947.
5. These overtime provisions are
not applicable to departmental em-
ployees. They are applicable only to
employees in institutions in the De-
partments of Correction, Social Wel-
fare and Health, and also employees
of the State School for the Blind at
Batavia and the Division of Canals.
The State Employee
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MORRIS
June 197
Inu Memoriam
The Association notes with sorrow, and with sincere sympathy for the rela-
tives and friends, the death of the following members, as reported from
Jan. 1st, 1946 to April 17, 1946
Name Department Title
Wolfson, Dr. Leo Mental Hygiene Physician,
Hall, Fred Painter
Meluch, John Attendant
Kluttz, Mary Head Teacher
Hally, Edward J. Attendant
Clonan, Daniel = Attendant
Jones, William $ Attendant
Hyatt, Chauncey . £ Plumber
Schaller, Rosalia Attendant
Doelger, Peter ~ Watchman
Gaigeczka, Peter A. J Nurse
Trask, Grace A. Attendant
Geer, Donald Attendant
L’Heureaux, Arthur Audit & Control Jr. Examiner Expend.
Page, Arden E, Agriculture & Markets Investigator
Waugh,. Howard R. Deputy Secretary
White, Hawley Conservation Patrolman
Burns, William D. Correction Guard
Hallheimer, Jonas Courts Attendant
Peterson, Roy Executive Troop Sergeant
Richey, James A. Prin, Stores Clerk
Loveys, George R. Exec. Assistant
Geiler, William Y. Inspector
Cullen, Thomas J. Insurance Deputy Sup’t.
Finkelstone, Morris - Examiner
Hughes, Harold S- State Insurance Fund Hearing Representative
Hennessey, Richard ae i Examiner
Miller, Leopold Social Welfare Supervisor
Sheehan, John J. Public Works Asst. Sup’t. Construction
Lyons, Nathan General Maintenance Foreman
Siebert, Edward Foreman
Donovan, Fred Foreman
Donegan, John V. Asst. Civil Engineer
198 The State Employee
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Amazing Sickness and Accident Policy
COSTS ONLY A FEW CENTS A DAY
Look at these low Semi - Monthly Rates
PRINCIPAL SUM $500.00
Classification
Employees with Annnal Monthly Regular Coverage
Salary of Benefit Males Females
Less than $600. $ 30. $ 45 $ 65
$ 600. but less than $1,000. $ 50. $75 $1.05
$1,000. but less than $1,200. $ 60. $ 90 $1.25
$1,200. but less than $1,600. $ 75. $1.10 $1.55
$1,600. but less than $3,500. $100. $1.45 $2.05
$3,500. but less thon $5,000. $125. $1.80 $2.60
$5,000. and over $150. $2.20 $3.10
IMPORTANT NOTICE Group Plan Accident and Sickness Insurance
If you are not a member of The Association of State Civil S:
your dues to a representative or by sending it to the Association, ‘Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y. Membership is n
sary for the continuance of insurance and dues must be paid within 60 days from the effective date of your policy or it
of necessity be automatically terminated.
Employees of the State of New York, join now by pa
eis J Vow — AT PRESENT LOW RATES - WRITE
C. A. CARLISLE, Jr. 423 state si, Sehorectedy. N.Y.
USE COUPON BELOW OR PENNY POST CARD
TER BUSH & POWELL, INC,
423 STATE ST., SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
Date......
Accident & Sickness Insurance.
MY AGE...
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| WORK AT..............
MY NAME IS. .2.22...ccecsoteeee
MY DUTIES AR
: Without obligation please send me all the facts about this low cost broad form
GET CASH When Disabled Due to Accident or Sickness
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wh the VUreld Over
And you will not find a better or more successful organization
of workers than your own ASSOCIATION OF STATE CIVIL
E EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INC.
FOR THIRTY-SIX YEARS ITS POLICIES, PROGRAMS AND
LEADERSHIP HAVE BEEN OUTSTANDINGLY PROGRESSIVE
AND UNSELFISH, AND THUS POSITIVELY, AND.
BY VIGOROUS ASSAULT UPON INACTION, INDIFFERENCE
AND INEFFICIENCY IT HAS WON THE CONFIDENCE OF
ITIZENS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
VERNORS, LEGISLATORS AND ADMINISTRATIVE HEADS
HAVE LOOKED TO IT FOR LEADERSHIP IN PROGRAMS
FOR BETTER AND BETTER PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
AND FOR FAIR PLAY FOR STATE WORKERS.
THE ASSOCIATION HAS NOT FAILED THE PEOPLE, THE
CHOSEN LEADERS OF GOVERNMENT, OR THE 50,000
STATE WORKERS.
NEW YORK STATE LEADS IN EFFICIENCY OF ITS GOVERN-
MENT AND IN ATTENTION TO GOOD EMPLOYMENT CON-
DITIONS IN NEW YORK STATE SERVICE.
THE ASSOCIATION LEADS IN POINTING THE WAY TO
GREATER EFFICIENCY AND TO INCREASED BENEFITS 10.8
STATE CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES.
AND A DUTY — YOU HELP THE STATE AND YOU HELP
YOURSELF BY JOINING WITH YOUR FELLOW WORKERS
IN _THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL ORGANIZA-
TION OF PUBLIC WORKERS IN THE WORLD.
The Association of State Civil Service Employees of the State of New Yor
Incorporated
Organized in 1910 —present membership 29,000 — located at the seat of State government, 2
— dues $3 per year — less than a cent a day — weekly and periodic publications — grou
life and accident and sickness insurance with payroll deduction — legal and expert advic:
and representation before executive, legislative and administrative departments through-
out the year — officerred by working State employees who know New York State problems.
[SEZEEESESSELELEEL ERE EEE!
