Civil Service Leader, 1949 August 16

LEADER

NYC

America’s Largest Weekly for Public Employees

Yol, X—No. 49

Tuesday, August 16, 1949

Price Five Cents

ADVANCF

gaai * cone

PA

ALBANY 1 NY

qi

ATLON BLDG

Tipe ON

Koy

ON

/EST

See Page 9

1,000 DRIVER JOBS ON BUS,

CAR LINES TO OPEN IN NYC:
IMEN ANY AGE; $60 A WEEK

|

DON’T REPEAT THIS

ewsmen Say: Lehman

s. Dulles for Senate;

Democrats

BY A WIDE margin, the State's
litical writers feel that the best
S, Senatorial candidates would

Lehman for the Democrats.
Dulles for the Republicans,
‘B. And by an even wider margin,
hey see 1949 as a Democratic
ear,
‘The newspapermen see a num-
er of other prospective “best”
andidates, however.

j

to Win

‘There are the results of a Don't
Repeat This questionnaire sent to
the political writers on New York
City and upstate dailies and the
news services,

Three Questions

The newspapermen were asked
three questions:

1, As things look now, who in
your opinion would be the best

(Continued on Page 6)

iLabor Relations

iOrder Awaited

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — The Goy-
mor’s executive order on public
nployee labor relations is mo-
@mentarily expected.
The Governor had promised this
rder in negotiations early this
ear with the Civil Service Em-
loyees Association.

Draft Prepared
Tt is understood that a draft
as been prepared and is on the
lesk of the Governor's aides, John
. DeGraff, counsel to the Asso-
lation, has sent to the Governor
number of suggestions providing
teeth” for the pending document.
Vhether or to what extent these
liggestions have been incorporated
in the draft is not known. Mr,
ewey has, however, promised that
it will sit down in conference

with Association representatives
and receive their ideas before the
order is offitially issued.
There:is evidence in some of the
Governor's earlier addresses on
the subject that the labor rela-

tions setup may be one of the most
farreaching and advanced of its
kind in the United States. But
no accurate prediction of its ulti-
mate contents can be made now.

Assn. Demands
37%-Hr. Week for
Institution Clerks

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — “We won't
accept this decision.”

That in effect is the substance
of a letter written to the State

Civil Service Rerainlsiog, by The
Civil Service ployees Associa-
tion, rejecting the Commission’s
decision which had turned down

the 37%-hour week for clerical
employees in State institutions.
The Association has asked to see
the report on which the Commis
sion acted. Association officials
learned that at least some insti-
tutional directors consider it en-
tirely practical for clerical em"
(Continued on Page 3)

U. S. Seeks Clerks,

Men and

The nation-wide U. 8. exam-
ination for filling Clerk eas
in and near Washington,
was opened today eraadag) the
pay is $2,284 and $2,498 for grades
2 and 3, respectively.

Applications will be
for a three-week period.

Clerks to serve in the follow-
ing specialties will be needed:
appointment, correspondence, ac-
counting, time, leave, pay roll,
statistical, test rating, mail, file,
information, proofing, editorial,
purchasing and transportation
rate.

received

Age limits are 186 and 62,

Women

It is announced that there will
be no educational or experience
requirements, but candidates will
have to pass @ written test. In
New York State the tests are ex-
pected to be given at Albany,
Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
Dunkirk, Elmira, Flushing, Glens
Falls, Hamilton, Hornell, Ithaca,
Jamaica, Jamestown, Kingston,
Long Island City, Malone, New-
burgh, New York, Ogdensburg,
Olean, Oswego, Plattsburg, Pough-
keepsie, Rochester, Schenectady,
Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown,
Yonkers, Batavia, Hempstead,

(Continued on Page 11)

A examination to fill Surface
Line Operator jobs in the Board
of Transportation will be opened
soon by the NYC Civil Service
Commission. The opening date

(Continued on Page 8)

Clerk,Grade2,

Test to Open
In October

The practical exhaustion of the
present Clerk, Grade 2, eligible
list, save for some deferments and
revocable declinations, has made
it necessary for the NYC Civil
Service Commission to plan an-
other examination, for the fall.

Although 1,434 appointments
were made from the present Mast.

(Continued on Page 15)

THE NYC EMPLOYEE

Disabled
Vets Thrown
Out of Work

SINCE USING one list for filling
jobs in other titles as well, where
the tests are for comparable skills,
has its trouble sources, the NYC
Civil Service Commission has de-
cided that, so far as practicable,
it will specify the titles of the
other jobs in the examination
notices,

Prospective candidates have
some ground for complaining,

(Continued on Page 14)

House Group Votes $113 Average Raise

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — The
House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee has approved a bill to
increase the salaries of 885,000
Federal employees, outside the

poral service, by an average of

aE aay increases of $125 yearly
would be granted to employees
now making $3,500 or less, and

slightly lower raisés to those get-
ting more. The bill affects all em
ployees now under civil service
and brings under the same rules
25,000 others, The action thus

Strong Units of Civil Service Forum,
FL, ClO, Independents, Approve
O'Dwyer's NYC Career-Salary Plan

Four major groups of NYC em-
loyees last week put their
rength behind Mayor O'Dwyer’s
areer and Salary Plan. Repre-
‘nting the Civil Service Forum,
© American Federation of Labor,
'e Congress of Industrial Organi-
‘tions, and independents, the
‘Our groups assured that em-
yee opinion would swing strong-
with the project when it is
der way, All of them, in line
th the Mayor's request, have
‘bmitted. or will submit ideas
Dr safeguards e suggestions
‘t working out the study,

The size and influence of the
groups gives virtual assurance that
the bulk of employees will stand
with the project.

Leaders Who Spoke

The four groups, and the lead-
ers who spoke for them last week
favoring the plan, are:

Raymond E. Diana, Welfare
Council No, 330, Civil Service
Forum.

Philip F, Brueck, Civil Service
Technical Guild.

Stephen S. Gorey and Edward
J. Barry, American Civic Employ-
e¢s Union, ClO,

Henry Feinstein, American Fed-
eration of State, County and
Municipal Employees, AFL,

It was considered doubly sig-
nificant that these organizations
favor the plan because some other
units of the Civil Service Forum
and another CIO union, the
United Public Workers, had reg-
istered opposition to the proposal.

Prolong Talk Delaying Action

Appearing before the two-man
committee hearing municipal em-
ployees, Mr. Diana stated that
“continued prolonged discussion
is only delaying the day when the

present crazy-quilt of municipal
services can be replaced by a
sound equitable reclassification.”
Mr, Diana urged the committee
to proceed immediately, utilizing
suggestions he made, “to insure
completion of the reclassification
survey by January 1, 1950 and
adoption of a career and pay
Plan that will be acceptable to
the majority of the employees,
workable in the interests of prop-
er City management, and efficient

(Continued on Page 16).

taken completes House and Sen~
ate committee work on pay raise
legislation. A Senate committee
has approved a similar bill. Pre-
viously, a bill giving 500,000
Postal employees $150 raises was
approved.

New pay grades proposed by
the bill, sponsored by Rep. Tom
Murray (D., Tenn.) compare as
follows with a similar Senate bill:

Grade I $2,186 to $2,666;
Senate, $81 less.

Grade TI —' $2,384 to $2,864;
Senate, 84 less.

rade $2,600 to $3,080;
Senate, pe:

Grade IV — $2,824 to $3,304;
Senate, $76 more.

Grade V — $3,075 to $4,201;
Senate, small amounts more.

Grade VII — $3,827 to $4,577;
Senate, small amounts more.

Grade VIII -— $4,200 to $4,950;
Senate, small amounts more,

Study Books for Exams

Study books for Patrolman,
Clerk, Stenographer, Mail Handler,
Maintainer’s Helper (all groups in
one book), and books for «ther
popular exams are on ssle at
LEADER bookstore, 97 Duane
Street, New York 1, N. ¥,, two
blocks north of City Hall, just
west of Broadway. See advt., P, 15,

“CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Twenty-eight open-competitive
examinations announced by the
State Civil Service Department,
for which applications will be ac-
cepted until Friday, September
16, offer a variety of oppartunities,
including jobs paying to $7,225.

Four of the
open to non. of
York State. All of them are open
to New York State residents, The
four are Director of Examinations
and Testing, Supervisor of Test
Development, both in the Civil
Service Department; Associate
Education Supervisor (Vocational
Curricujum Development) and
Junior Gas Engineer.

October 22

The 28 examinations will be

held on Saturday, October 22. The

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

A a aa

Clothing Clerks, Accountants,
Doctors, Dentists, Engineers Sought
For Permanent Jobs with the State

fact that the tests will be held
five weeks after the closing of the
application period indicates a need
for early appointments.

Popular Titles Included

One of the examinations tha is
expected to prove highly popular is
that of Clothing Clerk, because
the broad acceptability of a can-
didate and the opportunity to
start a career in State service.
Accounting jobs also are expected
to draw a considerable number
of candidates. Physician and dent-
ist jobs also are included.

The official examination notices
were not ready for distribution
when The LEADER went to press,
but are expected to be ready this
week, It is permissible to apply
by mail, by enclosing a 6-cent

on the genuine

% NO BOLTING DOWN

‘ervine THOR -
AUTOMAGIC WASHER!

$ 12 =

‘WEEKLY

After Down Payment

% NO LANDLORD’S PERMISSION REQUIRED

* US
ye FOR APARTMENTS
Good news indeed!

; IT UPSTAIRS OR DOWNSTAIRS

OR PRIVATE HOMES

Now you pay surprisingly little to enjoy the world’s best
washing at the flick of a switch! The wonderful Automagic
‘Thor brings you a double blessing ... freedom from wash-
day work and really clean clothes.

That's because only Thor has fa~-
mous Thor Agitator Action and the

% NO WRINGER!

marvelous new Thor Overflowing

Rinse, Too, Thor SPINS the water
. you never go mear wringer
or rinse tub! Come in to Gringer’s
for a demonstration today ... we'll

out ..

imstall it right away!

%& NO RINSE TUBS!
%NO HARD WORK!

Hours 8:30 to 7 P. M.

REFRIGERATORS @
TELEVISION @ IRONERS
WASHERS @ RANGES
APPLIANCES @ HARDWARE

29 FIRST AVE.

Corner East 2nd St.
Ghemercy §-0812 - 0013

RADIOS

1733

self-addressed envelope, 9 inches
long or larger, and asking for the
examination notice both by title
and by examination number.

Requirements

The requirements for one of the
tests in the series are:

Clothing Clerk, State Depart-
ments and Institutions. Vacancies
in Willard, Harlem Valley, Ro-
chester, St. Lawrence, Central
Islip, Utica, Rockland and Man-
hattan State Hospitals and at
Craig Colony. Requires high school
graduation and one year experi-
ence handling dry goods in a
store or warehouse, one year of
experience caring for mental
patients or six months’ experience
in handling clothes in an institu-
‘tion or satisfactory equivalent.
Entrance salary $1,840, five an-
nual increases up to maximum of
$2,530. Application fee $1.
[Requirements for other tests P. 8]

List of 28 Exams

‘The salaries listed are those at
which the appointees starts. The
list follows:

No. Title Pay
0330 *Director of Baminations and
Testing . $722)
“Supervisor of Test Devore
ment 6700
“Associate Education Super-
visor (Vocational Sore
Development.
Assistant in Test Geveare
ment . « 3450
Correcti Voca-
tional Instructor Mester Hh
a

0333 Correction Institution Voca-

tional Instructor areata
0334 Correction Institution Voca-
tional Instructor (Shoemak-
ing and Repairing) ... 2898
Correction Institution Voca~
tional Instructor sted

Peoeiperiote Foreman (Tobac-

36 |to Mr. Ch

Tostitution Fireman .. 2070
Associate Education seep a
BNE weceesesecees 5232
Senior ‘Accountant 4242
Assistant Accountant .. 3450
Principal Account Clerk 3450
Clothing Clerk 1840
Associate Civil Engineer (Re-
Search) .. 6700
Tndustrial

Junior Gas Engineer

poo Carrier Inve:

ay Ligl
orem — $6.93 to $8.19
per day plus a cost-of-living
bonus of 15%
Senior Physician
Senior Industrial
Physician .....
Physician

56
Hygiene
5650

Laboratory Technician (Neu-
ropathology) 2346
Marketing Investigator 3036
Dairy and Food Inspector

*open to residents’ and” non-
residents of New York State.

[Where to Apply, see P. 8.]

What Employees Should Know

By THEODORE BECKER

CAN YOUR temporary job be-
come a permanent job through
some officials, oversight or mis-
take? Suppose you get a provision-
al job and are kept on for longer
‘than the legal period. Or suppose
you are appointed temporarily for
six months. Are you entitled to
known the job will last more than
sik months. Are you entitled to
permanent status and rights on
the basis of these facts?

Remember that the purpose of
civil service selection is to obtain
the best possible appointees for
permanent jobs in accordance
with the Civil Service Law and
applicable rules. Temporary ap-
pointments are frowned upon, es-
pecially since they can often be
made without regard to relative
standing on the eligible list.

Some Willing to Accept

Eligibles lower down on a list
may often be willing to accept
temporary employment which is
Genlined by eligibles higher on the

Promever: there are emergencies
under which temporary appoint-
ments are allowed by law. For
example, when there is no list of
eligibles which a civil servic@ com~-
mission can certify to an appoint-
ing officer, he is allowed to ap-
point provisionals pending the es-

Similarly, there may be a short-
term project requiring services
of appointees for only a few
months. To require permanent ap-
pointments to be followed by lay-
offs when the job is done, is not
considered practicable. In this
ase, temporary appointments, for
® period up to six months, may
be made, but only where the civil
service commission, upon due in-
quiry, concludes that the position
porolved will not continue im ex-
for a longer period.
Need For Inquiry

But what happens if the etvil
service commission does not make
careful inquiry in allowing a six
months temporary appointment?
Does the appointee acquire per-
manent tenure? This issue was
raised in @ court case recently by
@ temporary Unemployment In-
surance Referee. He contended
that there were permanent referee
vacancies when his six-months
appointment was allowed and that
the Civil Service Commission

tablishment of an appropriate list. | tp,

Can Temporary Appointment Be Deemed Permanent?

the job's duration. For these rea-
sons he urged that his temporary
appointment be declared a per-
manent appointment from the day
he first received it.

In the first place, the court
found that the Commission was
aware of the condition — tem-
porary overcrowding of the calen-
dar — which justified its author-
izing the temporary appointment.
The court pointed out that a
special hearing need not be held
where all the facts necessary to
make its determination are al-
ready known to ‘the civil service
commission,

Effect of Non-Compliance
In the second place, the court

had failed to comply: with the
statutory provision regarding “due
inquiry,” this still would not en-
title the temporary Referee to a
permanent job, He had been No. 9
on the list of eligibles certified for
the temporary appointment.
Others higher on the list than he
had declined such job, The letter
of appointment had informed the
Petitioner that “this appointment
is purely on a temporary basis and
cannot develop into a permanent
appointment,

‘The court pointed out that the
non-compliance by the commis-
sion, if it had occurred would have
e effect merely of making the
temporary appointment illegal. It
could not have the effect of mak-
ing the temporary appointment
permanent. Accordingly, it denied
the relief asked for. (Lane y. Corsi,
Appellate Division, June 28, 1949,)

Metro Conference
To Meet on Sept. 10

The Metropolitan New York
Conference of The Civil Service
Employees Association will meet
in the Fire House Lecture Hall, at
Manhattan State Hospital, Ward
Island, on Saturday, September 10
@t 1:30 p.m,

A study book for Dairy and

the next several weeks at The
LEADER Book Store, 97 Duane

Street, New York % The price

failed to make due inquiry as to' will be $2,

said that even if the Commission | 0]

4 Employee
Win Awards
For Ideas

Henry A. Cohen, Chairman
the New York State Employed
Merit Award Board,
nounced the following awards;

$50.00 and Certificate of Me
to Miss Madaline Mooney, Depa,
ment of Health, Albany. Mi
Mooney suggested a procedure
increase efficiency in the issuang
of Embalmers’ and Undertaker,
licenses by reducing the voluy
of correspondence heretofore ro
quired with applicants for »
licenses,

$25.00 and Certificate of M
arles W. Owens, an ej
vator operator in the A. E. Smiij
State Office Building, Albany,

of that building to provide a mo
effective control of loaded trucig

both employed in the Division q

Placement and Unemployment In

surance, New York City, for meth

one of streamling procedural ope
vtions.

Retaining
Oldsters
On the Job

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — Any di
partment head who wants to keeg

036 |on the job an employee over th

age of 70, must get permission i
do so from the State Commissiog
of Pensions. Such oldsters, beyond
the mandatory retirement ag
may be retained only where the
services are so essential that ng
replacement can reasonably

made without jeopardizing th
public service. Application for ex
tensions should not be made

the State Civil Service Commi

sion,
Erie County

‘The Erie Chapter, Civil Servis
Employees Association, will hoif
its first Annual Family Bask
Picnic at Liberty Park, Union
Harlem Rds., Cheektowaga,
Sunday, August 21.

This picnic is in the nature d
a get-together for members, {hei
families and friends. All politic
candidates and department head
have been invited to take part
the festivities.

Many prizes will be given
during the afternoon an devenin
with five $25 U. S. Bonds as tH
feature prizes on the raffle
Prizes also will be given to wit}
ners of all contests conduct
ee dteo the day for young at

Races and games will be hel
for the children and a program 4
entertainment with ice cream.

Giannelli Is Chairman

General Chairman of the affal
is Nicholas J. Giannelli.
Brodbeck and Archie Sickler
Co-Chairmen,

Members of other committ
are:

‘Tickets: Bdward C. Smith, Jol

Molitor, Rob't, Heidenreich,
‘thur Hunt, Ivory Shain, Claren'
Britton, Archie Sickler, Jos¢?
Kraemer, Bernard Feldman, Mé
O'Brian, Catherine Henry, Fray
ces Roach, Esther Husson,
Kocher, Leo Wick.
Publicity: Margaret Meastl
Florence Britting, Stanley Gi}
Anne Puckhaber, Anna Bielef¢4
Kathryn Wise.
Reception: Edward
Joseph Marshall.
Refreshments: Joseph Kraem
Pinn, Raymond Tiffat
Bar Chairman: Louis Bend?

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Published every Tucoday by
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Ine.
fork 7, . 7

Babecrintion Price 92 Per Sear
Individual Copies

Tuesday, August 16,1949

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER «

Page Three _

Encouraged by signs that its
age-55 retirement bill will have a
chance of enactment at the
fext session of the Legislature, The
Civil. Service Employees Associa
tion has made that bill the prime
objective for its 1950 legislative
rogram. The Legislature will con-
yene in January and probably ad-
journ in March or April. The As-
sociation will endeavor to get its
pill enacted early, so that the
employees will get that extra lift
that. comes when good news is
timely.

The additional expense of the
age 55 retirement, compared to
present age 60 optional retirement,
would be shared by employees and
the employer.

Every member of the State Re-
tirement System would be able to
elect optional retirement at age
65, if the bill is enacted.

‘There is a provision in the
present law that allows for age-55
optional retirement, but the ad-
ditional expense must be borne
solely by the employee.

NYC provides an age-55 retire-
ment option, with the sharing
principle involved in the Associa-~
tion bill,

What You Get

‘The retirement allowance under
the State system is based on the
average salary of the best con-
secutive five years of pay. A mem-
ber who would pay the required
contribution would. be credited
by the State or municipality with
1/120 of final average, instead of
1/140 to age 55, an improvement
of 14 2/7 per cent for that period.

The age-55 feature would be
strictly an option. An employee
could come under it, if he chose,
or remain under existing condi-
tions, although the advantage of
the proposed change is so great
that every employee would be ex-
pected to accept the new terms.
Also, the compulsory retirement
age would remain at 70. Nobody
would be required to retire at 55
because accepting the new pro-
vision,

The fraction of 1/120 provides
the possibility of half-pay retire-
ment after 30 years of member-
service, contrasted with the 35
years now prevailing.

How It Built Up

If the employee's annuity ac-
count is large enough, so that it
matches the State’s fraction, the

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

Age-55 Retirement Made
Chief Objective of Assn.

usual case, then the combined
fraction is 2/120, or 1/60. For 30
years of member-service the re-
tirement allowance would be 30/60,
or half pay, more for greater, less
for length of service. Since many

ersons enter State service at age

‘1, at age 70 they’d have 49 years
of service and’ possibility of re-
tirement at 49/60, or nearly five-
sixths of final averabe, or 82 per
cent of full pay.

A provision enacted by the last
session of the Legislature enables
employees to purchase additional
annuity. That is a way of increas-
ing the annuity account so that

it will be as productive as the
State’s budgetary contribution.
The reason why the annuity
account may sometimes fall short
is that the best consecutive five
years of pay, averaged for pension
computation purposes, binds the
State to apply its fraction to that
amount, while leaving the annuity
to earn its actuarial value. If the
annuity has been sufficiently sup
ported by earlier contributions
from salary, because at some other
periods pay fell farther below the
final average than the Retirement
pee anticipated, the disparity
8.

What to Do About
This Broiling Weather?

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — While the
weatherman continues to make it
“hot” for State employees, the

question of establishing uniform
standards for early dismissals in
state offices has been left “up in
the air.”

From all indications, there won't
be any uniform procedures estab-
lished, at least by the State Civil
Service Commission, until” the
middie of September at the
earliest.

Dr. Frank L. Tolman, president
of the Civil Service Employees As-
sociation, has requested the com-
mission to study the present
“anarchy” in State service over
hot-weather time-off and come
up with suggestions for improve-
ment.

A reply, signed by Charles
Campbell, administrative director
of the State Civil Service Depart-
ment, informed the association
that J. Edward Conway, a com-
mission president, is now on va-
cation.

In addition, the commission
won't meet this month and possi-
bly not until the middle of Sep-
tember.

Anyway, the letter said, this
problem has been considered many
‘times in the past, and will be
taken up again at the earliest
moment.

A solution to the question, which
has provided a topic of hot wea-
ther debate for the past month,

iid of Employee Groups
Asked in Westchester: Fight
Against Pay Reduction

“Letters have-been sent to inore
than .75 organized public em-
ployee groups in Westchester
County, soliciting their active sup-
Port of the 2,500 employees of the
County in their fight against the
Pay cut suffered by them on July
ist and against further threatened
Cuts,” Michael J, Cleary, presi-
dent of the Westchester County
Competitive Civil Service Associa-~
tion, announced,

“The employee groups solicited
Yepresent approximately 5,000 em-
ployees of Westchester cities,
towns, villages and districts, as
Well as of New York State, and
Federal employees resident in the
county.”

Mr,. Cleary, whose organization
includes more than 1,500 county
employees added that the letter
{s being sent out in accordance
With the instructions of his As-
Sociation’s membership and was
&ccompanied by statistical mater-
ial and other data.

Cites High Costs

The letter set forth:

“A great mass of evidence prov-
ing that county salaries were only
qual to or less than salaries paid
by the Federal Government and
by New York State and City, has
been presented to the County Ex-
*cutive and the Board of Super-
Visors, Despite this, and without
Moral or technical justification,
the 2,500 employees of the county
have had inflicted upon them a
Pay cut, with all the painful im-

Plications which the words con-
a the family of every sal-

aried worker — and more are
threatened.

“We all know that local living
costs, transportation, telephone
and other utility rates are in-
creasing, other local salaries are
being raised, farm and factory
incomes and dividends are rising,
corporation incomes are being
reported at new highs and a
County Debt reduction of $39,000,-
000 in 13 years is being widely
publicized,

Cuts Called Unjustified

“The result of the adoption by
county leaders.of unjustified pay
cuts as a policy, can affect every
public employee in Westchester
and beyond. The extension of
this policy by individual members
of the Board of Supervisors will
act as a‘pay depressant upon every
local employee, its adoption by
our State Legislators may affect
every State employee, and even
Federal employees may be af-
fected if our Congressmen be-
come innoculated with the same
easily absorbed germ.”

“The public employee groups
being appealed to for support are
located in Bedford Hills, Bronx~
ville, Chappaqua, Croton, Dobbs
Ferry, Eastchester, Elmsford,
Greenburgh, Harrison, Irvington,
Kahonah, Larchmont, Mamar-
oneck, Mr. Kisco, Mt. Vernon,
New Rochelle, Oscawana, Ossin-
ing, Peekskill, Pleasantyille, Port
Chester, Rye, Scarsdale, Tarry-
town, Thornwood, Tuckahée, Val-

is much more difficult to reach
than most people believe, the
letter added.

The Association doesn’t think
so. Simply follow the Federal sys”
tem, Dr. Tolman suggests, of mak-
ing a formula that when heat and
humidity reach a certain point,
employees automatically get the
rest of the day off,

Top Priority
Given DPUI
Exam Papers

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — The As
sistant Interviewer exam, for po-
sitions in the State Division of
Placement and Unemployment
Insurance, should receive top
priority and be graded with the
utmost rapidity. This request has
been made of the Civil Service
Commission by The Civil Service
Employees Association.

The Commission has indicated
that it will do all in its power
‘to expedite the grading of Assist-
ant Interviewer papers and the
establishment of the resultant
eligible list. Some 17,000 papel
must be processed. The Associa-
tion has indicated its appreciation
of the Commission's decision to
speed up the work,

Merit System Basic

Referring to the revelation in
the New York Times that political
appointments were common in the
DPUI, Dr. Frank L. Tolman, Asso-
ciation president, this week said:
“Political appointments and civil
service appointments can’t mix.
Any attempt to make political
appointments in the competitive
branch can only result in harm to
clean civil service and clean poli-
tics, Maintenance of the merit
system is basic.”

Fact-Finding
Group to Meet
In Westchester

Representatives of the West-
chester County Competitive Civil
Service Association conferred Fri-
day, August 12, with Herbert C,
Gerlach, Westchester County Ex-
ecutive, on the emergency com-
pensation merger proposed for
Westchester County employees, in
the amount of $720.

Speaking for the Association
were Michael J. Cleary, president,
Westchester County Competitive
Civil Service Association; Anne
H. McCabe, Ist vice-president,
Teonard Mecca, Association Di-
rector, and J, Allyn Stearns, chair-
man, Board of Directors.

“An amicable discussion was
held,” said Mr, Stearns, reporting
on the meeting. He also revealed
that Mr. Gerlach had suggested
another meeting, in which Asso-
ciation research experts would be
included, to seek data for or
against the proposed merger. The
meeting is scheduled for early this

halls, White Plains and Yonkers, week, i

The Public
Employee

By Dr. Frank L. Tolman

President. The Civil Service Employees
Association, inc., and Member of Em»
ployees’ Merit Award Board.

YOU ARE THE BOSS

IT SHOULD be more than a pious notion or a dogma
spoken with tongue in cheek that the Association exists
for you, works for-you and all its members and that ,the
real control rests not in the hands of the officers or directors,
but is your hands, if only you exercise your franchise as
a member.

I wrote last week of the importance of selecting officers,
representatives and delegates who have the wisdom and
the wish to represent you before the Administration and
the Legislature honestly and ably. =

Today I wish to call your attention to thé methods pro-
vided in the Constitution by which you may control the
policies of the Association and its representatives.

How to Get Action on Ideas

Through your delegates to the annual meetings of the
Association early in October, you may have your ideas
as to anything the Association should or should not do
presented, discussed, and approved or disapproved by the
delegates. If approved, the officers and counsel must do all
they can through legislation, or conference, or otherwise,
to put your ideas into effect.

Every important policy of the Association requires strong
support by the membership to have a chance of success. You
at home can do a better job in securing the interest and
support of your Senators and Assemblymen than can we in
Albany. But to obtain that interest and support, you must
feel that you are one of the 46,000 active leaders of the
Association, and you must “know your stuff.” If you help
form the policy, you will be able to help sell it.

Not Too Early to Start Now

It is none too early to begin to think and to discuss some
of the major problems and amendments of the Association,
Just to start you thinking, I repeat a few of the major
questions that come to me every day, and on which I need
your help and advice.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the merit sys
tem must fight to survive. It’s more honored in the abuse
than in the observance. What can and what should the
Association do to protect and to develop the merit and
fitness principles in government in the appointment and
in the promotion of public employees?

Every Association member was deeply disappointed in our
failure to obtain the 55-year retirement liberalization despite
our utmost efforts. We must not fail next year. Is the bill
we fought for last year good enough now in the light of
the more liberal New York City retirement bill? What
changes, if any, would you advise?

Higher Pay for T. B. Work

Employees in T. B. wards and hospitals have a special
salary schedule. Should appointment to a T. B. job be strictly,
a promotion, subject to competitive promotion examination,
and should an appointee receive the increase in salary on
appointment? Is it fair to ask him or her to wait, if the
increase is really recognition of hazardous employment?
Should the career law be amended to provide an end to the
waiting period for salary increase on j¥omotion, reclassifix
cation or reallocation, similar to the practice mandated by,
the Court in the Demarco case?

Other Ideas to Consider

Should we continue to oppose the extension of the exempt,
labor and non-competitive classes, and to urge reexamination
of all such positions now specified in the rules of the Civil
Service Commission?

Should we continue to press for fair and uniform rules
for hot weather closing, or skeleton staffs in all State
agencies?

More next week.

37%-Hour Week Asked
For Institution Clerks

(Continued from Page 1)

Ployees in other State depart-
ments,

The Association asks a hearing
before the Commission, and the
likelihood is that such a hearing
will be arranged, when J. Edward
Conway, Commission President,
returns from his vacation.

Most institutional jobs are on a

cweek,.. with .48: hours of

actual work, including overtime,

The question has been raise
Whether other employees won’
want the 372-hour week, if the
office force gets it. The Associa
tion feels that uniformity should
prevail for all office employees of
the State, and that if other em-
Ployees thereafter should seek the
37%4-hour week, those cases should

be examined.on their own merite,

a
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

Senior-Level State Clerk, Steno
And Typist Promotion Tests Open

A new series of State promo-
tion examinations is now open.
Three of the titles — Senior Clerk,
Senior Stenographer and Senior
Typist — for inter-departmental
and intra-departmental use were
discussed last week in detatl, and
the List of all 17 titles in the series
was given.

Wednesday, September 2 is the
last date to apply. All written
tests will be held on Saturday,
October 1.

Following are abstracts of all
17 examination notices for the
$2,346 jobs:

9112. Senior Clerk.

9113. Senior Stenographer,

9114, Senior Typist.

9123. Senior Clerk (Mainten-
ance) (Prom. $2,346, plus five
annual increases to $3,036, Fee
$2. Candidates must have served
one year in Department of Pub-
lic Works as cletks, stenographers,
typists or machine operators in
grade G-2 or higher. Written
test October 1, (Closes Wednes-
day, September 7),

9124, Senior Clerk (Purchase),
(Prom.), $2,346, plus five annual
increases to $3,036, Fee $2. Can-
didates must have ‘ved one year
in Albany Office, Department of
Education as clerks, stenograph-
ers, typists or machine operators
in grade G-2 or higher. Written
test October 1. (Closes Wednes-
day, September 17),

9125. Senior Clerk (Purchase),
(Prom,), New York State College
of Horestry, Syracuse, $2,346 plus
fiveMannual increa; to $3,036,
Fee $2. Candidates must have
served one year in the above-
mamed college as clerks, steno-
graphers, typists or machine op-
erators in grade G-2 or higher.
Written test October 1. (Closes
Wednesday, September 17),

9126, Senior Clerk (Purchase),
(Prom.), $2,346, plus five annual
increases to $3,036, Fee $2. Can-
didates must have served one year
in the Department of Health (ex-
clusive of the Institutions and
the Division Laboratories and Re-
search) as clerks, stenographers,
typists or machine operators in

grade G-2 or higher, Written test
October 1. (Closes Wednesday,
September 7).

9131, Senior Clerk (Vital Statis-
tics), (Prom)., $2,346 plus five
annual increases to $3,036, Fee
$2. Candidates must have served
for one year in the Department
of Health (exclusive of che In-
stitutions and the Division of
Laboratories and Research) as
clerks, stenographers, typists, or
machine operators in grade G-2
or higher. Written test October 1.
(Closes Wednesday, September 7).

9132. Senior Stenographer
(Law), (Prom.), $2,346, plus five
annual increases to $3,036. Fee
$2. Candidates must have served
in the Department of Law for
one year in a position the grade
for which is G12 or higher. Writ-
ten test October 1. Performance
test December 3, at which can-
didates will have to take dicta-
tion at rate of 110 words per
minute. Minimum pass mark on
performance is 75 per cent. Com-
bined average of written and per-
formance tests must come to at
least 75 per cent. (Closes Wednes-
day, September 7).

9161. Senior Clerk (Estate Tax
Appraisal), (Prom.), $2,346, plus
five annual increases to $3,036.
Fee $2. Candidates must have
served in Department of Taxation
and Finance for one year as
clerks, file clerks, stenographers,
typists, or machine operators, in
grade G-2 or higher. Written
test October 1, (Closes Wednes-
day, September 7).

9122, Senior Clerk (Compen-
sation), State Insurance Fund,
(Prom.), $2,036 plus five annual
increases to $3,036. Fee $2. Writ-
ten test October 1. Candidates
must have served in the Fund for
one year in a position the grade
for which is G-2 or higher, must
have one year’s appropriate cleri-
cal experience, (Closes Wednes-
day, September 7).

9130. Senior Clerk (Underwrit-
ing), State Insurance Fund,
(Prom.), $2,346 plus five annual
increases to $3,036. Fee $2. Writ-
ten test October 1. Candidates
must have served one year in the

Pund in a position the grade for
which is G-2 or higher, must have
one year of office experience in
clerical procedures involved in
underwriting of Workmen's Com-
pensation Insurance, (Closes
Wednesday, September 7).

9120. Senior Clerk (Billing),
State Insurance Fund, (Prom.),
$2,346, plus five annual increases
to $3,036. Candidates must have
served for one year in NYC office
of Fund in position the grade
for which is G-2 or higher, must
have one year’s appropriate cler-
ical experience. Fee $2. Written
test October 1, (Closes Wednes-
day, September 17).

9121, Senior Clerk (Cellection),
State Insurance Fund, (Prom.),
$2,346, plus five annual increases
to $3,036. Fee $2. Written test
October 1. Candidates must have
served one year in NYO office of
the Pund in a position the grade
for which is G-2 or higher, must
have one year’s appropriate cler-
ical experience, (Closes Wednes-

day, September 7).

| 9128, Senior Clerk (Safety),
State Insurance Fund, (Prom,
$2,036, plus five annual increas
to $3,036. Fee $2. Written test
October 1. Candidates must have
| served one year in the NYC of-
"fice of the Fund in a position the
grade for which is G-2 or higher,
must have one year’s experience
in office work connected with
‘safety service. (Closes Wednes-
| day, September 7).

9136. Senior Stenographer
(Medical), State Insurance Fund,
(Prom.), $2,346 plus five annual
increases to $3,036. Fee $2. Writ-
ten test October 1. Performance
test December 3. Dictation speed

‘of 100 words per minute required,
Candidates must have served for
one year in NYC office of Fund,

in position the grade for which
is G-2 or higher, must have one
year of medical stenographic ex-
perience, (Closes Wednesday, Sep-
tember 7),

(Where to Apply, see P. 8)

Fred Walters Asks Age 55
Pensions in Mental Hygiene

An age-55 retirement plan for
employees of the Department of
Mental Hygiene was advocated
this week by Frederick J. Walters,
former president of the Mental
Hygiene Association and incum-
bent 3d vice-president of The
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion, He fs employed in Middle-
town State Hospital. He said
that the strain of the work per-
formed in the Mental Hygiene
institutions and the continuing
necessity of recognizing the haz-
ard, especially with the term-
ination of hazardous pay for new
entrants, made retirement liber-
alization imperative.

“In the case of hazardous pay,
which is eliminated for those en-
tering the service, or who did not
receive it before even if they are
employees of long standing, we

had to fight hard to keep what

Activities of Employees

Harlem Valley Hospital
The Harlem Valley Hospital
chapter elected the following offi-
cers: President, Willis O, Markle;
vice-president, Lawrence Rourke;
retary-treasurer, Anna M. Bes-

trustees, Edward Sheldon,
Seaman and Gilbert Beck.

Manhattan Hospital

‘The chapter will act as host to
the Metropolitan Conference in
the near future, Among the im-
portant discussions at the Confer-
ence meeting will be the non-
citizen situation and lberalized
pensions for Mental Hygiene and
other State department employees,
All employees are cordially invited,

Recently the chapter voted
unanimously for the renomination
of John M. Harris as Mental Hy-
giene Representative, and the
nomination of Baigio Romeo of
Psychiatric Institute,.as Associa-
tion 5th vice-president. Both are
very able men with the interests
of Mental Hygiene employees em-
beded deep in their hearts and

minds, the chapter resolved.

The physical therapy depart-
ment, under the able supervision
of Mr. DeMaria and assistants, is
rounding out a fine program for
a field day. September 8. The po-
lice and fire departments have
challenged the shops to a tug of
war and the challenge has been
accepted,

‘The non-resident car-owner em~
ployees are still wondering why
Commissioner Robert Moses
doesn't see fit to supply them with
free Triborough Bridge passes, as
be does to resident car owners,

The many friends Anna K. Hal-
pin made while employed as
Housekeeper in the female home
were present at a party tenderd
her recently. Miss Halpern has re-
tired with a record of 40 years of
State service. She received the
hearty good wishes of the em-
ployees. Dr. John H. Travis, Di-
rector of Manhattan State Hospi-
tal, presented her with a 25-year
service pin, and also pins to Mag-
gie O'Neill and Mrs. Anna Brown
for service with the State. All the
employees wish them a pleasant

retirement and all good

OO STATE CLERK ...

( POSTAL MAIL HANDLER ..
‘STENOGRAPHER

O U.S. CLERK ..
© STATE TYPIST -
PRACTICE MATERIAL

Books May Be Purchased at Room 500.—By Mail, Check
Here Wanted aad Send. Cash, Check or Money Order (Plus l5e
For Handling) to:

MERIT ENTERPRISES

177 Broadway, N. Y. 7, N. Y.

SUPPLEMENT ..........

CO, 7-8033

The employee members and of-
ficers of the chapter extend their
deepest sympathy to Patrick and
Martin Graghty on the recent
loss of their sister, Mrs. Anna
Doyle.

It is good to see the smiling face
of Elizabeth McSweeney back with
us again, after an illness,

There were four new members
welcomed last week — Drs. David-
son, Clauss, Kusch and Harlow.
Congratulations.

If you think it’s hot outside, try
working in a hospital laundry for
@ few hours,

Civil Sevice Chapter

The fourth annual clambake,
sponsored by the Civil Service
Department Chapter, Civil Serv-
ice Employees Association, will
be held Sept. 15 at Brookside
Park. Highlights of the program
will be announced next week by
William Kelsey and Marion Var-
ley, co-chairmen,

Bids fo Be Opened
For Reconstruction Jobs

ALBANY, Aug. 15 — Bid pro-
posals on seven projects providing
for repairs and alterations to vari-
ous State owned facilities will be
opened by Bertram D, Tallamy,
New York State Superintendent
of Public Works, at the State
Office Building om Wednesday,
August 17.

The projects:

Hawthorne — Construction work
for conversion of section of stables
to office unit, Troop K, State
Police barracks.

Newark — Repairs to terrace

roof, Building No, 35, Newark
State Schoo. --. 9.

little we did,” said Mr, Walters,
“Only those employees who re-
ceived extra pay for extra haz-
ardous work prior to last year
continue to receive it, and only
the same amount, not as a salary
increase. The newcomers don’t
get the extra pay at all,

“The inequality of pay in Ment-
al Hygiene institutions is a ser-
ious handicap to morale. In the
same ward, with five employees,
three may get the better pay,
two not. The opportunity to ob-
tain correction of this inequality
is greatest this year and should
be pressed to the utmost,

“An effort will be made to ob-
tain the age 55 retirement plan
for all State employees, We hope
the campaign succeeds,

“Certainly we really need the
more liberal retirement plan in
the institutions, where the em-
ployees wear out faster and where
they are subject to developing
the same ailments as the patients
whom they attend. The earlier
retirement therefore would be a
humanitarian opjective, as well
as a simple act of justice.”

Promised Promotion
Exams fo Open Soon

The State Civil Service Com-
mission is preparing to hold pro-
motion examinations for filling
Positions as Junior Examiner of
Methods and Procedures and As-
sistant Examiner of Methods and
Procedures. A training institute
for prospective candidates was
held and the promise made that
examinations would follow.

A copy of the proposed notice
of examination has been for-
warded to appointing officers for
comment. The deadline for receipt
GE FHSS ORRORS is Thursday, Aug
ust 18.

PHOTOGRAPHY
INSTRUCTOR

ha
| part time. State educhtion.
}} detailed experience and eal-

ary.
I BOX 929

Civil Service Leader

97 Duane Street, NYC

Tell advertisers you saw it in
The LEADER. That helps you—
for these advertisers offer you bar-
gains that aid in keeping down
the high-cost-of-living. And it
helps us help you—with more sat-

price it’s bee: sin started
Einanetan'e teat

Career Man
Named Liquor
Commissioner

John I. Grey, of Belfast, N. ¥,
; @ civil service career worker, hag
| been appointed a commissioner of
; the New York State Liquor Au.
| thority by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
to fill the vacancy created when
Albert H. Meyer declined another
five-year term,

In 1933 Mr, Grey became a fo.
visional investigator for the au.
thority. Two years later, after
qualifying in a competitive exam.
ination, he was given a permanent
civil service status, Later he qual.
ified for promotion to senior in.
vestigator and supervising investi«
gator.

El'gibles fo Appeal
Decision on DPUI List

Attorneys for a group of eligibles
on the open-competitive State list
for Assistant Unemployment In.
surance Claims Examiner, who lost
their attempt. in the Supreme
Court to have the State Civil
Service Commission use the list
and cancel a motion examina-
tion, announced that. an appeal
would be taken,

The petitioners are headed by
Irving J. Riley and Albert Corum,

Justice Schirick ruled against
the Riley group. He said that the
Commission was not arbitrary in
deciding to hold a promotional
examination,

All of the eligibles have been
on the list sitice August 6, 1947,
‘The Commission has made a num-
ber of regular appointments from
the list.

The group is being represented
by Attorneys Martha Gibbell and
Samuel Resnicoff of NYC. The at-
torneys contend that the rights
of the eligibles are being com-
pletely disregarded by the Com-
mission, as the eligibles success
fully passed an examination and
de qualified to fill existing open-
ings.

Steady Saving
helped us get
our grand new
television set

\\\/

51 Chambers Street
Just East of Broadway

5 East 42nd Street

best off Fitth Averwo:
Current Dividend 2% por ss
Member Podarel Depend tmarense Corpor

‘Tuesday, August 16,1949

__ CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Five

STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

EDITORIAL

J. Edward Conway
Has Grown in His Job

UDGE J. EDWARD CONWAY, President of the State

Civil Service Commission, feels that passage of the Mit-
chell veteran preference bill is important to good civil
service administration and to the advance of good govern-
ment in New York State. He has placed the strength of his
position behind the measure, saying “it will assure the fairest
possible distribution of public jobs among disabled veterans,
non-disabled veterans, and non-veterans. If the people ac-
cept the Mitchell bill this fall, the task of assigning positions
in line with the merit system, at the same time considering
‘a person’s service with the armed forces, will become
immeasurably fairer. The Mitchell bill deserves the fullest
support of all voting residents of this State.” _ =

President Conway has been growing in his job, and his
words and actions have, with experience, shown increasing
value. The ability to grow is one of the important qualities
of an administrator, particularly in so sensitive a post as
that of Civil Service Commissioner. _ -

The Judge has been serving in an interim appointment
since February, when his first term expired.

During the past two years the State Civil Service Com-
mission has shown improvements in many areas. This news-
paper knows that the Commission is far from perfect, and
has not hesitated to point up what we deem to be its faults.
But this does not derogate from the Commission’s positive
accomplishments. Here are some: ,

Relations with public employees are at a high level. Prob-
lems are thrashed out over the table. Actions affecting public
employees are not the result of whim or fiat. 4

Probes into some of the more disturbing aspects of merit
system violations — as for example in Lackawanna and
Utica — have been prosccuted. We can hope that this por-
tends even more vigorous action of this kind, and in more
areas, both State and local. Z

In service training, formerly a languishing child of the
Commission, has grown healthy. Its value as a positive tool
to the employees and to the State is now recognized.

Technically, the Commission has made enormous strides:
the grading of examinations has been much expedited:
information is easier to obtain; new experiments, designed
to better personnel and to improve the governthent service,
have been instituted; the Commission’s calendar is public,
so that its actions can’t be accomplished in secrecy.

Despite faults that can be mentioned, the Civil Service
Commission under President J. Edward Conway has made
notable advances. At present, with its head serving without
knowing whether or not he is to be re-appointed, the Com-
mission finds much of its work stymied. There can’t be any
real long-range planning; decisions often have to be tenta-
tive; the entire staff is “up in the air.” And from the simple
human point of view, a man shouldn’t be kept dangling so
long, without knowing what his future holds.

It is for these basic reasons that The LEADER, having
pondered the pros and cons, and having heard the other
names mentioned as possible successors, respectfully recom-
mends to Governor Dewey that he give careful consideration
to the re-appointment of President Conway to another term.

Titles of Recent State Lists

ALBANY, August 15—The following open-competitive lists for
use by State departments and agencies, have been established:

Number TITLE Established
8099 O.M.O. Tab, (Numeric) (Alphabet) .... + 12-16-48
6079 Asst. Director of Nursing (Psychiatric). 12-15-48
6091 Director of Nursing, Mental Hygiene 12-15-48
8196 Biochemist, Division of Labs & Research. 12-15-48
8198 Corr. Inst, Voc. Instr, (Masonry)........ + 12-15-48
8193 Asst. Indust Foreman (Chair Shop), Correction.. 12-16-48
8195 Assoc. Trans. Engineer, Public Serv. 12-16-48 |
8063 Sr. Educ Superv. (Agric. Educ.), Education... 12-16-48
6097 Institution Fireman, Mental Hygiene .. 12-22-48
6259 _Occupational Instructor, Mental Hygiene. 12-23-48
6289 Labor Relations Examiner, Labor Rel, Bd. 12-22-48
8101 Stationary Engineer, State Depts. 12-29-48
8278 Inst. Educ. Superv. (Recreation & .).. 12-29-48
8077° Direc. of Public Employee Training, Civil Service. 9
8106 Sr. Medical Technician, State Depts.

6287 Compensation Claims Investigator .,,..

8118 ‘Tax Research Asst., Tax Department.

6284 Motor Vehicle Inspector, Public Service....

8206 1-13-49
8073 1-14-49
8232 1-14-49
8237 Marketing Specialist (Poultry), Agric, & Mkt. 1-14-49
8246 Disease Contro) Veterinarian, Agric & Mkt.. 1-14-49
8125 Sr. Superv. of School Medical Service. . . 1-14-49
8194 Assoc. Educ. Superv. (Research), Education. 1-14-49
8210 Sr, Educ. Superv. (Research), Education. . 1-14-49
8072 Social Worker (Youth Parole), Social Welfar. 1-14-49

ALBANY, Aug. 15—The follow-
ing open-competitive lists, for use
by State departments and agen-
cies, were established recently:

Pattan has oper
for full or part time instructors in erimin-

inge at attractive salaries

Slogy, elements of criminal law, finger-

Pring identification, and applied laboratory | 6290. Court Attendant, Ist and
8nd photographic ‘techniques in investiga.

ie sce aera [eae ra
‘expected, “Box 000, . Sr.
Leader, ‘97 ‘Duane Sty NYO, | eering) State. Departments...

‘

STATE

Open-Competitive

0264. Associate Public Health
Physician (Venereal Disease Con-
trol), Department of Health, $6,700
plus five annual increases
$8,144 Fee $5. Four vacancies
at present. Candidates must be
graduates of approved medical
scnool, have one year’s interne-
ship, have or be eligible for State
license to practice medicine, and
have in addition either: (a) six
years’ appropriate experience or
(b) satistactory equivalent, Oral
exam, State residence require-
ment waived. (No closing date).

0261. District Health Officer,
Department of Health, $6,700 plus
five annual increases to $8,144.
Eight vacancies at present. Fee
$5. Candidates must have grad-
uated from approved medical
school have or be eligible for State
license to practice medicine, and
have in addition either (a) one
year’s interneship plus six years’
appropriate experience, (b) one
year's interneship plus post-grad-
uate study in public health plus
two and one-half years’ appro-
priate experience or (c) satisfac-
tory equivalent of foregoing. State
residence requirement waived.
Oral test. (No closing date).

0296. Associate Personnel Ad.
munistrator, $5,232 plus five an-
nual increases to $6,406. Fee $5,
College degree plus six years’ ap-
propriate experience required,
Written test September 17.
(Closes Friday, August 19),

0297. Assistant Director of Per-
sonnel and Office Administration,
$5,232 plus five annual increases
to $6,406. Fee $5. College degree
plus six years’ appropriate ex-
perience required. Written test
September 17. (Closes Friday,
August 19).

0288. Bath Attendant, $1,840
plus five annual increases to
$2,530. No written test. Fee $1.
(Closes Saturday, September 17).

0294, Director of Personnel,
$6,700 plus five annual increases
to $8,144. Fee $5. College degree
plus seven years’ appropriate ex-
perience required. Written test

Eligible Lists

The names ot non-disabled vet-
erans on the Clerk, State Depart~
ments and Institutions, eligible
list are continued below, through
number 531. The list will be com-
pleted in future issues of The
LEADER.

CLERK
State Depargments & Institutions
501 Berry, L, NYC . 74660
502 Sacco, F., NYC ...

503 Kennedy, J., Bronx ..

Lawyer, J., Albany

505 Lebost, W., Jamaica

506 Williams,C., Jcksn Hgt 74520

507 Adams, B., Oneida ..

508 Boernsen, C., Bklyn ..

509 Levitov, L., Bronx ....74520

510 Reynolds, S., Bklyn ..74520

511 Murphy, W., Livingston 74450

512 Brewster, J., Bronx ....74380

513 Forgione, R., Rochester 74380

514 Grodensky, E., Bklyn 4380

515 Friedman, Buffalo 4380

516 Taliento, R., Bklyn .. 4310

517 Pill, P., Bklyn . 4240

518 Marcus, E., Bkl: 4240

519 Pizzolongo, E., Bron:

520 Allalouf, M., NYC

521 Hivry, A., Bronx .

522 Quinn, J., Albany

523 Taylor, H., Watervliet 74170

| 524 Davis, A., Albany .

525 Cutler, T., Bklyn .

526 Tanck, J., Albany -
Weinberger .L., Iong Beh 74100

Saladis, J., Travis, S. I. 74100
Silverstein A., Bklyn ..74030
Smith, C., NYC ..

Rappazzo, C., Albany

CLASSROOM
INSTRUCTOR

In_ Inyestigation, Detection
and Criminology; prefera-
ly retired member of the
Police Department. Estab-
ished school in Manhattan.
Full or part time. State edu-
cation. Detailed experience
and salar,

BOX 792
Civil Service Leader

September 17. (Closes Friday,
August 19),
0295. Director of Mental Hy-

giene Personnel, $6.700 plus five
anntlal increases to $8,144. Fee
$5. College degree plus seven
years’ appropriate experience re-

‘0| quired. Written test September

17. (Closes Friday, August 19).
0298. Senior Personnel Admin-

istrator, $4,242 plus five annual in-

creases to $5,232, Fee $4. Col-

lege degree plus four years’ ap-
propriate experience required,
Written test September 17.
(Closes Friday, August 19).

Exams for Steady Jobs

vacancy, Promotion expected a&
$3,600 total Fee $3. A Grade II
certificate (milk) issued by the
Public Health Council of the State
of New York will be required of
permanent appointees. Candidates
must be permanently employed in
the Health Department, Erie
County, and must be serving and
have served on a permanent basis
in the competitive class for one
year immediately preceding the
date of the examination as a Milk
Inspector, Candidates must have
a comprehensive knowledge of the
New York State Sanitary Code
applying to milk and cream pro-
duction, shipping stations and

bottling and pasteurizing plants;
ability to supervise; ability to
meet, deal with and secure coop-
eration from farmers and pro-
prietors of retail and wholesale

COUNTY

i establishments engaged in the pro-
Promotion duction, pasteurization and dis-
ERIE tribution of milk and milk pro-

ducts; tact; good judgement;
pleasing personality, Exam date
Saturday, October 22.. (Closes Fri-
day, September 16).

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

A Civ Service Career Offers These Advantages:

@ Permanent Tenure © Good Salaries @ Sick Leave
© Automatic Increases © Promotional Opportunities
® Vacation @ Pension
Civil Service Eligible Lists Remain in Effect for Four Years
Acceptance of Appointment May Be Deferred if Desired
During the Life of the List

New York City Examination Expected!

SURFACE LINE OPERATOR

Over 700 Existing Vacancies

Salary $1.24 to $1.44 per Hour

No Educational
ENROLL NOW!

9168. Assistant Supervising In-
spector (Milk), (Prom.) Depart-
ment of Health, Erie County, One

Requirements

Permanent Positions for Men and Wome:
N.Y.C. EXAMINATION ORDERED! Over 1,000 Existing Vacancies

CLERK “ A TOTAL OF AT LEAST 3,500

APPOINTMENTS EXPECTED
NO EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Opportunities for promotion to higher grades paying
as much as $6,000 a year, and in some instances more
ENROLL NOW! Classes: Mon. and Wed. at 1:15, 6 or 8 P.M.

Delay May Mean Failure...Prepare NOW!
Application Dates Officially Set—N.Y.C. Exam for

PATROLMAN

50 AUTOMATIC a
. INCREASES $ Weak
A Week | IN 3 YRS. TO

Attend at Convenient Hours in Manhattan or Jamaica

MANHATTAN: Wed. & Fri.; 10:30 A.M., 1:15, 5:30 & 7:30 PML
JAMAICA: Tues, and Thurs. 1:15, 6 and 8 P.M.

lon for N. Y. Clty License Examinations
© MASTER ELECTRICIAN
PLUMBER

Joint Wiping & Lead Work

Also Practical Shop Training

ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN!
INSURANCE
COURSE

Inquire for Full Details of Any Civil Service Position
Most Courses Available to Veterans Under G&. t. Bill
REE MEDICAL EXAMINATION WHERE REQUIRED
You Are Invited to Attend Any of the Above Classes as a Guest

VOCATIONAL COURSES

Qualifying for Next N, Y. State

Broker’s License Exams.

Accredited by State Ins. Dept,
Approved for Veterans

TELEVISION—Radio Service & .tepair—F.C.C. Licenses
DRAFTING—Architectural, Mechanical, Struct. Detailing

he DELEHANTY %weccrute

“35 Years of Career Assistance to Over 400,000 Students”

GRamercy 3-6900

Page Six

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER’ . oo teniay, August 16, 1949
Nat ;

é ( iA Sorwie 2.
LEADER

TENTH YEAR

America’s Largest Weekly for Public Employees
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation

Published every Tuesday by
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, INC,

Du Street, New York 7, N. Y. BEekman 3-6010
Oey Finkelstein. Publisher Morton Yarmon, General Manager

Maxwell Lehman, Editor. H. J. Bernard, Executive Editor
es N. BH, Mager, Business Manager

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949
Greatest Year
For Tests at Hand

ivil service is heading for the greatest recruitment ac-
Ciivity in its entire history. The Federal Government is
planning popular examinations, including one for Junior
Professional Assistant in a large number of specialties;
the State has announced its long-range examination pro-
gram, with hundreds of tests; NYC will open, in the fall
and winter, the examinations for Patrolman, Surface Line
Operator, Clerk, Grade 2, and Social Investigator, among

other tests.

In NYC particularly the job opportunities will be numer-
ous in dozens of titles, including Patrolman, 3,200; Clerk,
Grade 2, 2,200, and Surface Line Operator, 1000. There
are nearly 18,000 provisionals on the City payroll — a re-
duction of_10,000 — so exams will surely be kept rolling,
to fill these jobs permanently E

The need for adequate preparation by candidates is obvi-
ous. The NYC Commission President, Joseph A. McNamara,
stresses it. The State operates in the same direction, by
giving long advance notice of the examinations, thus afford-
ing opportunity for study. Only the Federal Government
suddenly announces tests and then holds them so soon after
the last day to apply, that there’s no time to take a study
course. It is hoped that the Federal Government will mend
its ways and co-operate with those who help to make its
administration a success sometimes more than the Commis-
gion does itself.

The LEADER will give complete advance notice of ex-
aminations, where possible; has started already; will
publish valuable study material, including past examination
questions and answers, where obtainable, and intimate facts
about specific tests that will prove of extreme value to can-
didates. It will publish information and advice that will
aid candidates to be best qualified.

Opportunity is at hand. Act on it yourself. Tell your
friends about it.

@

Comment

‘A Little Advantage’

Editor, The LEADER:

This is my answer to all this
monsense going on over Mitchell
vet preference bill, There need be
no fuss if a few sensible people

are glad and proud to have them
back after that long and terrible
war. The ex-G.I,'s don’t mind. a
bit to see a little more preference
given a disabled vet so why
should anybody else campaign and

will look at it this way. (And by| make a big issue when one doesn't
aa yA ae spends from one | exist. So in closing let me say this
V rs in s S

which explains in brief my Jong
letter. Give or make any law or
laws that give the ex-serviceman
a break and a chance to get a de-
cent job.

or more of which was during war-
time. The life was cheap and
people were getting killed all over
the world, servicemen included,
because they were not immune to| Your non-veteran has no kick
bullets and death, as our casualty | as nothing ventured nothing gain-
lists have already shown, Service| ed. He never knew the suffering
man should get every possible | of such things as being away from
break, consideration, and advan-| home, loss of gainful employment,
tage that can be given him|or fear that the next week or
to compensate him for his lost| month may mean his death,

years away from his home and EX-G. 1.
family as well as the danger, —

fright, and inconvenience that| Single Fire and Pe 2
goes with war-time  service,| Editor, The LEADER:

when every minute and breath you| TI have a suggestion that could
take may be your last one|save the NYC civil service a lot

on this earth. Upon his return he|of time and money. There is to
wishes to enter civil service, he|be another Patrolman exam next
takes his test or tests and upon|year, The Fireman's exam and
completion, if he p all he| the patrolman's is the same both

sis for a little preference and|mentally and physical. Your
the right to compete with other|paper said there would be some
ex-G.l's who went through the|3,000 that would not be called for
same things he did for civil serv-|the Fire Department. Why not
{ce appointments which I'm sure|place these names on a new Pa-
fsn't too much to show the men trolman list?
who lived to come back that we

A CANDIDATE,

Park Ranger Test Held

The written test for Park Ranger | status Park Rangers in grade CAF-
positions was held (ay (Mon-| 6, and all non-status Park Rangers
day) by the U. 8. Civil Service|and Superintendents in grades
Conimission. More than 2,000 per-|CAF-6 and 7, were required to
sons throughout the country ap-|apply for the examination if they
plied desired permanent_ appointment.

The examination announcement | Positions to be filled from the
was issued by the Commission on| examination are located through~
June 21, and applications were |out the United States and in the
accepted until July 21, All non-.) Territories of Alaska and Hawaii,

n

a

honk Repeat This

Si

(Continued from Page 1)
Republican Party candidate for
U.S. Senate?

2, As things look now, who in
ee opinion would be the best

emocratic candidate for U. S.
Senate?

3. As you see the situation,
which party is likely to win the
Senatorial election?

Here are the results:
Republican Candidates
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E, Dewey
Joe R. Hanley .«
Edward Corsi ...
William Donovan
Oswald D, Heck ...
Robert P. Patterson
Gen, Hugh Drum ..

Democratic Candidates
Herbert H. Lehman
Ferdinand Pecora .
Erastus Corning .
James M. Mead .
Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt .
Franklin D. Roosevelt, J:
James A. Farley ..,....
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. .

To win the election: Democrats
17, Republicans 3. Some of the
correspondents who answered the
first two questions didn’t vote on
the third.

In addition, several of the
writers qualified their selections.

One wrote: “It’s 50-50 now, De-
pends upon: (a) candidates chosen
in September; (b) party harmony
—both parties; (c) extent of in-
trusion into the campaign by Tru-
man and Dewey.”

Another reporter gave it as his
opinion that the Democrats will

NNN RAE

NNUUNNRAD

win if Lehman runs; otherwise
it will be the Republicans.

Still a third wrote frankly: “At
this time I’m in doubt.” And a
colleague of his says: “Tossup.”

A New York City political
writer sees the Republicans win-
ning “if Dewey runs.”

Why So Strong for Democrats?

But with all of these qualifica-
tions and doubts, Don’t Repeat
This is amazed to find such a
preponderant opinion among the
Political reporters that the Demo-
crats will win. While many ob-
servers have sensed a trend away
from the Republican party, what
has happened to accentuate that
trend to such an extent as rep-
resented by the vote of these re-
Porters?

This column even feels it perti-
nent to inquire whether the politi-
cal writers have given adequate
consideration to all the factors
which may enter into the coming
election,

Suppose Wallace Runs

Suppose Henry Wallace runs
for Senate on the American Labor
Party ticket? He may not get the
508,542 vote which he earned last
year in: the presidential assizes,
but even if he gets half that vot
he can seriously cripple—possibly
even kill—Democratic chances of
winning the election, It must not
be forgotten that Wallace made
it possible for Dewey to win New
York State in the 1948 election,

In coming to the conclusion the
Democrats will win, the reporters
must have considered that William
O’Dwyer will run well in New York
City. This would of course be a

potent factor in building up the
Democratic vote downstate. Ans
other factor: The Liberal Party,
which gave its endorsement tg
Republican Newbold Morris in the
NYC Mayoralty election, is un.
likely to endorse a Republican on
the Senatorial ticket. The Liberaly
will surely take a Democrat un-
less he’s of the most conservative
coloration. If Newbold Morris gets
a good vote on the Liberal Party
Line in New York City, that vote
will go to the Democratic nomineg
in the Senatorial race.

A number of political writers
recorded some of their thoughts
about the election, In statements
accompanying their ballots.

Dewey Best GOP Man

One of the most astute commen.
tators in the'State says: “Dewey
undoubtedly would be the best
GOP candidate possible, He wil]
not, however, permit himself to he
‘drafted.’ I firmly believe he wil]
go for Governor again and then
seek the GOP presidential nomi.
nation, or will attempt in 1952 to
dictate the GOP White House
candidate. To this end he must
retain control of the State or.
ganization. He couldn’t do it as

,|a Senator but as Governor he can

control the presidential conven.
tion delegates.”
Another quote:
“The GOP has to nominate q
New York City candidate. They
can’t go upstate for another Sena-
tor, so that discounts all_ talk of
Hanley, et al. Macy's efforts to
‘draft’ Dewey for the Senate can
be damned embarrassing to the

Governor if persisted in,”

co

HE ATTENDED ten colleges
but never went to high school.
That's nothing strange in the
career of a U. S. Treasury man,
“Buck” Greene, whose life sounds
like a movie scenario, and who
now heads the Identification Sec-
tion of the U. S. Treasury Agency
Service, New York Office. He's
been “Buck” ever since the age
of two in Fulton, N. Y., and some
of his close associates don't know
that his first name is William,
his middle initial H (for Harold).
He Knows 'Em All
Buck Greene talks on intimate
terms about the nation’s big men,
famous and infamous, the poli-
ticians, and the master crim-
inals. He seems to know them
all, including their strengths, their
personal histories, their weak-
ne: , their peccadillos, and their
personal histories, And any crim-
inal who has ever had “Buck”
on his tail will testify that a
more resourceful sleuth—albeit a
polite one who rarely has had to
‘use firearms or fists — would be
hard to find, In fact, many a
prisoner languishing in the coun-
try’s jails wondering how the
Government “got the goods” on
him would be mightily surprised
to learn of the role agent Greene

had played.
Meet Owney Madden

There was the time, during
prohibition days, when Govern~
ment agents wanted to “get”
Owney Madden, Among the Goy-
ernment men, it was said nobody
could get into Madden’s brewery
or into his Park Avenue club.
And nobody could figure out how
to break him. Madden was one
of the biggest booze operators of
the day.

“Til get the goods on Owney
Madden !” Greene volunteered.
“T'll do it my own way and it’s
nobody’s business how I do it.”

“You're nuts!” his colleagues
jeered,

Greene went to visit a big,
husky speakeasy owner whom he
knew. “Mike,” he said, “I want
to meet Owney Madden.

Mike was the kind of speakeasy
man who diminished a loudmouth
in his speakeasy by picking the
offender up bodily and banging
his head against the wall, Mike
ran a quiet place.

“Sure thing, Buck,” said Mike,
and immediately went to the
phone, got a number,

“Owney,” he said,
friend of mine here
you to do business.’

Madden arrived with a body-
guard, Buck told him he was
buying up beer for the bar of a
big midtown hotel, and wanted to
give his business to Madden, It
sounded good enough to Madden
so that they arranged @ ren-

“there's a
ants to meet

Merit Ma

Buck Greene

dezvous in front of the lions at
the 42nd Street Library the fol-
lowing evening.

Greene Drives Madden’s Car

At the appointed time, a big
black Cadillac drew up, Madden
and an associate emerged, and
told Green to get into the car
and take his load of stuff, In
the back of the limousine were
cases of beer, loaded to the top.
Greene got into Maddn’s car,
drove it off, delivered the beer,
and returned with the car, The
deal was satisfactority concluded
. .. and Greene had the evidence.

Next day, back in his own of-
fice, he told the boys he had the
goods on Madden. Even when

Surface Line Operators
Plan Seniority Suit

Morris Rappaport of 343 Powell
Street, Brooklyn, announced that
200 Surface Line Operators em-
ployed by the Board of Transpor-
tation have retained Samuel Res-
nicoff to institute an action testing
a determination made by the
Board of Transportation which has
\fixed seniority salary increments
commencing from dates other
than the original date of appoint-
ment,

The rights of almost 1,000
Operators will be affected by this
action, Mr. Rappaport maintains
that the seniority rights of his
group are being ignored,

>

he showed them the bottles of
beer, it was difficult for them to
believe it.

Well, the raid on Owney Mad-
den's swank Park Avenue club
took place on schedule. The ur
dercover work lasted three month:
‘The raid was staged by ten men
in tuxedoes. But meanwhile, Buck
Greene and his wife had gone off
to Boston for a visit, At a movie,
he saw a newsreel of the raid. He
roared with laughter, and all
around him the movie patrons
shushed him, thinking him a little
crazy. Nothing funny about a raid)
on a bootleg joint!

“Send for Buck Greene”

There was a time when Syra-
cuse reported a bad liquor con-
dition. “Send for Buck Greene,"
somebody yelled, and it wasn't
long before Buck was in the|
trouble area, Impersonating his}
own brother-in-law, who lived in|
the area, he quickly came to know]
the top bootlegger. To this gentle-
man, Buck appeared like a local
boy who had a 10 per, cent in-
terest in several bars on the side,
The bootlegger grew chummy wit!
Buck, told him everything. Buck
meanwhile made several lars®}
purchases for his “bars.”

When the raid was being made,
the bootlegger was on the phone]
talking to Buck, urging him to be
patient — “you'll get the stull,
They're after me now!” The rail
was one of the biggest in the
area.

When the case came to colltly
the bootlegger’s attorney pleaded}
not guilty, Then the bootlegst!}
saw Buck sitting there.

“You?” he asked in horror.

*Me,” Buck grinned.

The bootlegger grabbed his At
torney by the lapels. “I plea
guilty,” he moaned,

He's Faced Machine Guns

Buck has faced an array ©
gangster machine guns in bi
time. He has rarely had to w
direct violence, however.

He's tracked down narcotit
peddlers, by the use of fingel”
prints, done undercover work }!
locating many types of law vi0
lators, and performed near mil
acles in identifying criminals:

Today, as chief of the Identh
fication ' Divison of the U. §
‘Treasury Department, Bue!
Greene has built up the lar
single fingerprint file in Nov!
America, larger than that of th!
FBI, He uses a modified syste!”
of locating prints which enablé
him to find the data he wants }!
a matter of minutes, His reco"
of convictions is nearly 100 P°
cent — there's nothing so dam
ing in the eyes of a jury as fin)
erprint identification, As chit
fingerprint expert in this are’

(Continued on Page 10).

JCIVIL SERVICE LEADER

- FEDERAL NEWS a
U. S. Exams Exclude Too Many

place!
Hoover Group Went Wrong

When Local Boards can go so
far wrong, and when short per-
jods for the receipt of applica-
tions can be inflicted on a vic-
timized public in an attempt to
keep down the number of outside
competitors, the need for getting
@ sufficiently large appropriation
to enable the Commission itself
to cope with its responsibilities
is plain.

Fundamentally, the commis-
sion seems to be in favor of ad-
ministration of civil service by
Civil Service Commissions, and
not by agencies that have or will
have the vacancies to be filled as
the result of the’ examination.

When the Hoover Committee
recommended that the full recruit-
ment problem be put in the hands
of the agencies, the Commission
was outspoken against it, and
properly so. ‘The Hoover Com-
mittee showed lack of awareness
of the dangers involved. The weak-
nesses of humanity that have
made Civil Service Commissions
necessary are not cured by com-
mittees that are so trusting. But
the Commission itself had given
the Committee, if not the fun-
damental idea of agency-admin-
istered civil service, at least the
proof that, in the case of Local
Boards, a beginning had been
made in that direction, and if
the experiment was successful,
which the committee must have
thought was true, then why not
let's have more of what's good?
Federal civil service had grown
vast and cumbersome and here
was a scheme of decentralization
that would assure efficiency! But
is it efficiency to transfer func-
tions to agencies less qualified
to perform them?

Under the circumstances, the
Commission, much against its will,
had to be a witness against it-
self, since it had been increasing
the thousands of Local Boards
while the committee was recom-
mending a capitulation on a
greater and grander scale.

As the result of having more
work than its staff could possibly
perform,- the U. 8. Civil Service
Commission, through its central
offices in Washington, instituted
Boards of Local Civil Service Ex-
aminers, These are composed
mostly of administrators of the
agencies and units in which are
the jobs to ‘be filled through the
examinations, Because the Com-
mission itself could not cope with
all the work, the plan was tried.
Now, after two years, it’s time that
the Commission made a thorough
study of the result, Judging from
the obvious attempt by some Lo-
cal Boards to originate a new
form of test, disguised as open-
competitive but which might more
rightfully be called closed-com-
petitive, and some of the un-
tenable minimum requirements
inflicted upon candidates, the
Commission should decide whether
the experiment should be con-
tinued.

It was a dangerous practice,
nt best, to transfer to some ad-
ministrative officials the respon-
sibiltes of civil service. Usually
administrators have an interest
in particular employees; Civil
Service Commissions don’t. The
effort by Local Boards to restrict
the number of applicants, by
hiding as deep in the bushel of
secrecy as possible the fact that
the examination is open, although
fully apprising non-status em-
ployees about the test, was born
of the shift of responsibility. Al-
though Regional Offices have
some control over the Local
Boards, it is manifestly impos-
sible to exercise close scrutiny
over them in every least par-
ticular when one’s major burdens
of examinations are so great as
to occasion outside help, But the
best and only way to meet the
problem is to build up the civil
service administration to such
numerical strength that it is un-
necessary to take in dangerous
partners,

Menace of Local Boards

How sly and uninformative the
Local Boards are, when the press
seeks information on examina-
tions that they want restricted
as far as possible to provisionals
who are seeking permanency
through passing the test any re-
porter finds out in his very first
attempt. The high priests of favor-
tism become incommunicado.
Nothing can be ascertained about
the number of vacancies, The
story given out is that “there are
no vacancies,” although the posi-
tions are filled by non-status em-
ployees, and these are budget va-
vaneies, if there is any civil serv-
ice law left whatever. A vacancy
is not, in civil service, an unfilled
position, but a competitive posi-

‘Unassembled’ Tests

The creation of Local Boards
was @ share-the-work plan. It
was tried because the Commis-
sion was overburdened with
tasks, couldn't do as good a job
as it desired if it had to tackle
all the small examinations direct-
ly, as well as the taxing large
ones. But it was only one of
several devices to which the Com-
mission resorted, in Meu of de-
mand for the appropriation neces~
sary to permit it to carry on it-
self the work it desired to see
accomplished properly.

Another effort at minimizing
the work was the increase in the
number of examinations in which

tion filled by a person not entitled
to retain it.

Local Boards, to a considerable
extent, get up their own notices
of examination, and probably have
a say in the examination questions
and ratings, The notice of exam-
ination will contain the minimum
requirements. Of course, when
you control the minimum require-

no written test was given, so
that candidates were rated on
their training and experience
alone. In these so-called un-
assembled examinations percent~
age scores are given, based on
that record, and thus in a tech-
nical sense the tests are com-
petitive, but if there is any sub-

stitute for a writteen test to decide
which candidate is best qualified,
certainly training and experience
alone aren’t the answer. There is
probably no answer save to guar-
antee a written test, where any
intellectual faculties or informa-
tional posessions are to be
weighed. In some instances, rela-
tively few, only a practical test
may be required, but NYC gives
written tests even in its license
examinations for plumbers, steam-
fitters, riggers and the like, as
well as practical tests. It does not
conduct any examinations what-
ever in which a candidate is rated
solely on training and experience,
because that comes dangerously
close to conducting no examina-
tion at all and leaves the fate
of the candidate effectively at the
mercy of the examiner, since the
rating method then is far less ob-
ocsive than it is in a good written
est.

An examination question may
be considered objective if the ex-
aminer’s findings may be checked
by some one of equal competence,
although the two ratings needn’t
necessarily be identical. The lat-
itude in the rating of training
and experience, and of weighting
the values of different aspects of

ments you have a high respon-
sibility, One Local Board re-
quired experience as a high school
\veacher, but refused to accept ex-
perience as a college teacher! To
be sure, the central office in
Washington cracked down on that
damnable nonsense quickly. The
excuse given by the Local Board
was that a college degree is re-
quired of high school teachers,
but that colleges do not require
their teachers to have such a de
sree! As if it wouldn't have been
Simpler to have made a college

Exam Closes August 31

The Board of U. S. Civil Serv-
ice Examiners, National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, Lang-
‘ey Air Force Base, Virginia, has
Set August 31 as the last date it
Will accept applications for ex-
aminations announced for filling
three types of positions located at
the Base, Applications have been
Sccepted continuously since the
*xaminations were annuonced in
1948 and 1949, The positions are
Scientific Artist, $4,479; Electronic
‘astrument Maker Group Leader,
$4,222; and Electronic Instrument
Maker, $3,993,

service principles. The Federal
Commission should prove to Con-
gress that the demands put on
the commission are far too great
to be met by the comparatively
small present staff, and that
makeshifts and substitutes prac-
ticed for economy reasons are
dangerous to a bulwark of
democracy.

Anti-School Policy

The business of hiring people
is full of whackiness, in private

‘}industry and in government, far

more so in private industry, which
in general does not set as high
standards nor invoke examining
technics, although a small be-
ginning there is showing signs of
growth. At least private industry
will respect the fact that an ap-
Plicant took a special course in
school to equip him for the job
for which he applies. Do you
think that the U. S, Civil Service
Commission shows that same re-
spect? It tries to prevent pros-
Pective candidates from taking
courses in private, and even pub-
lic schools, by withholding notice
of large examinations until the
day the test ts open for receipt
of applications, and then rushing
the examination date, so that
prospective candidates won't have
any time to go to a civil service
or trade or other school, to equip
themselves better for the job. In
contrast, the NYC Commission
considers that the schools render
® public service.

It is a credit to a candidate
that he devoted time and money
to improve his suitability for a
job and a discredit to any Com-
mission that attempts to stifle
study,

The argument made against
special study courses for exam-
inations is that the U. 8S, Com-
mission wants candidates who
have a native competence and
not simply eligibles who have at-
tained a high mark through
brush-up course or some suddenly-
acquired learning, But review
courses are part of college study
curricula and candidates for ad-
mission to the Bar find pre-Bar
exam courses given by independ-
ent lawyers a help, It’s all part
of the preparation, generally ac-
cepted as well worth while, and
in line with the ethics of a pro-
fession in which the Code of
Ethics runs high. As for learn-
ing, it never comes suddenly, It
is a product of gradual develop-
ment, an acquisition attained
over the years,

The Commission acts as a self-
appointed guardian of educational
morality when it interferes with
the conduct of schools, Federal
intervention in education has long
been a delicate subject. Sugges-
tions for creating a Federal De-
partment of Education, with a
Commissioner of Cabinet rank,
met such strong opposition that

Textile Technologist
Test Open Until Sept. 27

Textile Technologist positions
located at Camp Lee, Va., with
beginning annual salaries of $4,479,
will be filled from an examination
that has been announced by the
Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex-
aminers at Camp Lee.

No written test will be given. A
basic requirement must be met,
however, by all applicants by one
of the following: (1) Completion
of a four-year course leading to
a bachelor’s degree in technology,
engineering, or a physical science
in an accredited college; (2) at
Jeast four years of successful ex-
Perience in an appropriate field
of technoligy; or (3) a combina-
tion of education and experience,
totaling four years.

In addition, applicants must
have had at least two years of
experience of a progressively high-
er level in a pertinent field of
engineering, a physical science,
of technology; or (3) a combina-
an appropriate field may, how-
ever, be substituted for this ex-
perience,

Applications will be accepted by
the office of the Executive Secre-
tary of the Board, Camp Lee

each, can be as wide as the world, | ber

paeinis. until Tuesday, Septem-

any more, even by its advocates.
In the case of the Commission
versus the Schools, you have the
paradox of one Government agen~-
cy, acting outside its authority,
and clandestinely and indirectly
at that, trying to prevent schools
from teaching candidates, though
the schools have a license from
the State in which they operate.
In the South that’d
States-rights protest. The schools
were in most instances approved
by the U. S. Veterans Admin-
istration, so that veterans could |
take the courses at no expense
to themselves, and even get paid
while taking them!

If one studies carefully the ef-
fect of restricting the number of
applicants as is done by Local
Boards in some instances so that
provisionals may get a firm hold |
on their jobs, and the short, |
sudden filing period for popular
examinations, to prevent the |
number of candidates from too
far exceeding the number of pro- |
Spective vacancies, one comes to
an inevitable conclusion, The
worst sufferer is the veteran. The
reason is that the non-disabled
veteran gets 5 extra points added
to his earned score in a U. S.
examination, the disabled vet-
eran 10 points, and when the
number of candidates is restricted,
the number of preference can-
didates is fewer. Since the dis-
abled veteran gets twice the ex-
tra benefit of a non-disabled vet-
eran the disabled veteran is in-
jured most. And in the anti-school
Policy all veterans are at an equal
disadvantage,

It’s about time that the vet-
eran organizations became aware
of the facts and demanded a
minimum application period for
any examination of two weeks,
and advance notice of the com-
ing test, besides, First to be
heard from should be the Disabled
American Veterans,

Other Restrictions

Restriction is practiced by the
Commission in other directions,
It favors candidates for particular
jobs who have worked for large
corporations, It credits progres-
sively responsible experience heav-
ily. It often evaluates a candidate
by the number of persons he’s
supervised in any job, the more

the merrier. That's nonsense,

petent employees, but so have
small ones, and so have very
little businesses, even two-man
businesses (the boss and his lone
employee).

Another method of restriction
is to set abnormally high mini-
mum requirements. This reduces
the number of candidates, too.

It must be admitted that some-

Taise | thing has to be done if the work

load is impossibly crushing, as it
would be if no limitations were

| Practiced by the Commission, but

all devices of curtailment are in
lieu of putting up the fight that
must be made for an adequate
appropriation, so that the Com-
ion's work can be done prop-
without subterfuge econ-
omies and without the commission
relinquishing any of its respon-
sibilities to any other agency or
person, The too-high miniinum
requirements don't get the U. S,
better eligibles but, as would be
true of any narrow recruitment
base, poorer ones, and has the
additional vice of tending to sub-
stitute the minimum requirements
for the examination itself, even if
there is a written test, for get=
ting into the test was the hard-
est job.

The recruitment for Govern-
ment jobs should be wide open,
it should be stripped of all secrecy,
as many as desire to apply should
be given full opportunity to do
so. AS soon as the contrary is
true, civil service itself begins to
slip, the public loses faith and
one of the advance posts of dem-
ocracy is weakened, Nobody wants
that to happen, certainly not the
Civil Service Commission, so why
Jet it happen?

6 Months Rule Eased
On U. S. Promotions

Féderal employees no longer
have to serve six months in one
grade of a position before they
are eligible for promotion to the
next higher grade, according to
@ new ruling of the U. 8. Civil
Service Commission.

The remaining restrictions still
apply: New employees, and those
who are transferred from tempor-
ary indefinite status to permanent
status, must wait six months be-
fore promoion.

—s.

Subscribe for

news of examination progress,
help toward a
public employees,

prefer;
FE IRST
| with
with what’s hap;
job
with
with

where!

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER,
97 Duane Street, New York 7, N.

Send bill to me: at my office [J

The LEADER conducts a direct question-and-answer ser-
viee for its annual subscribers, Besides the benefits of full
coverage of civil service news, notices of examinations and

government job, through the service, or. if already
aid in their civil service problems.

The LEADER would like to continue its past practice of
rendering this direct service to all, but because of its increased
news coverage, and new features, its staff must limit the letter
and telephone information service to annual subscribers,

Subscribe for The LEADER.

civil service news

new opportunities
civil service men and women every-

SUBSCRIPTION $2 Per Year~'

Please enter my subscription for one year.

Maur NAGS! ss 40's kde vesnewohenccctssceasssveti osendtnen

U enclose check [

the LEADER

subscribers obtain a valuable

Use coupon below, if you

pening to you and your

Y.

my department (1) my club GB)

Page Eight

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Nine

The maximum age limits for
Positions requiring considerable
physical exertion has been raised
from 45 to 50 years by the NYC
Civil Service Commission, while
the general rule obtains that there

excepting (1) those specifically
established by statute for
enumerated positiot (2) those
arising from the State Labor Law
and the NYC Employees Retire-
ment System Law and (3) the
limits that may be established by
the Commission in regard to ex-
cepted examinations,

Instances of excepted exam-
inations occur in the September
series, which opens on the 12th
of next month and close on the
27th. In the Sewage Treatment
Worker ($2,280), Elevator Mech-
anic’s Helper ($9.60 a day) and
Stock Assistant (Men) $2,100 ex-
aminations the upper age limit
is 50, as of September 12, 1949,
Otherwise it would be 70, the
compulsory retirement age.

No applications can be made
for any of these three tests until
September 12.

The minimum age is set by

exists if the candidate or eligible
has a senior high school diploma.
Then there is no minimum age
limit. Some exceptions to max-
imum age are allowed to veterans,
195 Present Vacancies

There are 195 vacancies, all told
in the three titles, but more are
expected. The Stockman Assist-
ant list, possibly the others also,
will be used for filling positions

which the test is held, where
the skills are comparable. The
breakdown of present vacancies
is: Sewage Treatment Worker,
139; Stock Assistant, 50, and El-
evator Mechanic's Helper, 6,
Stock Assistant Test

No minimum education or ex-
perience is required for the Stock
Assistant exam, No. 5985. NYC
residence for the three consecu-
tive years prior to appointment is
required, except for filling va-
cancies in the Board of Educa-
tion, the Department of Educa-
tion and the NYC Housing Au-
thority. The filing fee will be $1.

Duties Defined

An appointee must assist in the
care, receipt, checking, storage
and distribution of materials and
supplies; lift and carry heavy
materials and supplies; assist in
the preparation of stock inven-
tories; keep records; perform re-
lated work,

The Commission says the job
requires extraordinary physical
effort, hence the age 50 Umit, but
with these exceptions: <

The official announcement Mats
these exceptions:

“a) The requirement does not
apply to disabled or non-disabled
veterans. (Sub. 3 (e), Section 21,
Civil Service Law)

“b) In addition, all other per-
sons who were engaged in military
duty, as defined in Section 246 of
the Military Law, subsequent to
July 1, 1940 and in time of war,
may deduct the length of time
they spent in such military serv-
ice from their actual age in de-
termining their eligibility, (Sub.
10a, Section 246, Military Law.)”

Stock Assistant List Limited

Written, weight 100. The pass
mark will be the score of the
candidate who runs 500th in the
order of comparative rating. In
the event of a tie for the 500th
place, all candidates with that
rating will be passed.

Candidates who pass the writ-
ten test will be required to pass
qualifying physical test prior
te certification and will be sum-
moned in the order of their
standing on the list in accord-
‘ance with the needs of the serv-
fee, No second opportunity will
be given to candidates who fail
to appear for the qualifying phy-
sical test until all candidates who
passed have been appointed, and
then only if the needs of the
service require a second test.

Physical Test Qualifying Only

The qualifying pl ‘al test will
be designed to test the candidate's
strength and agility, In order
to qualify, candidates will be re-
quired to jump and clear a rope
2 feet 6 inches in height and lift

in succession a 40-pound dumb-
bell with one hand and 35-pound
dumbell with the other full

Exams for Men
Up to Age 50

are No age limits in examinations |examination for Stock Assistant.|Foreman, Department of Public/Burtalo, and in person at local

State law at 18, but an exception | character releyant to the duties|a tendency to incapacitate, satis-

im other titles than the one for | factory evidence. Any willful mis-

BLIC JOBS

arm’s length above the head, ST ATE equivalent combination of train-
iretpreee will hie be ie ing and” experience. Application
quired to pass a qualifying medi- aes forms may be obtained from the
cal test prior to appointment, Open-Competitive State Civil Service Department or
Experience requirements were Office of Erie County Personnel
eliminated, compared to the last Light Maintenance | Officer, 210 Pearl Street Building,

Highway

Some experience is required,| Works, Vacancies exist in several | offices of the New York State Em-| ‘Tel, yates piles wae

however, for Sewage Treatment | Counties. Requires three seasons ployment Service in Hrie County. settee

Worker '(No, 5827) and Elevator {Since April 1, 1989) of experience) (Closes Friday, September 16), BAe TSE OR oe ca 2
" ic’s * 1 a bad i ate

fens _cabeemiontian, Yor S607, thes heels eS el CA Ei. et Weatcicetn Conn dor "ts | 302, State Ofice Building, i
eta aa) 0. dri : e $2, : 4 .

Years for SHO, lingua sti |stats” rack are" not avalible, | #240, ota, Fee Candidates] for county Jobs
Sevage Wecativont Worker |Persons appointed to this position New York Stateine ane NYC—96 Duane Street, y
phys -eatmen orker may be required to furnish as a|New Yor! ate for at least one| Cortlandt 7-8880. Opposite
8 for the Sewage Treatment year and of Westchester Gounty

NYO Education (Leachiy

inimum, a standard one-ton
Worker exam, the filing fee for|{™ , i .|for at least four months immedi-
which will be $1: Bae Silowanne a "33 So per any ately preceding the examination | Brooklyn 2, N.
Employees in the title are eli-| Win be made for use of truck | ate. If eligible, candidates may New Jersey—Civil Servic
sible for promotion examination| Salary range $6.93 to $8.19 per|Ompete also in No. 0328 Inter-|1060 Broad Street, Newark:

ER office,

to Senior Sewage Treatment|qay plus cost-of-living bonus of | Mediate Account Clerk. A separate| of State agencies,
Worker, z 15 percent. Application fee $.50.|2PPlication and fee must be filed Promotion exams are o
i e fe h examination, Candidat: bey
At least six months’ experience (Closes Wednesday, September 2,) |f0r each examination. Candidates! oi57, usually in particular I specified,
of a nature to qualify for the| Institution Fireman, State De-|™Ust have either (a) one year of : md
satisfactory clerical experience of NYC does not receive or fas by mail.

duties of the position is required,| partments and Institutions. Va-

except that such experience need | canctes in Gowanda State Hospi- a 4
not necessarily have been con-|tal and Graig Colony, Candidates |! financial record keeping work | all applications be post-marky

tained in a sewage treatment | must’ h: tea i {and graduation from a standard| The U. S. also issues and recd
plant;or @ satisfactory equivalent |6"%"" tn hare feet welt. 1g | Senior high school course including] that applications be actually 4
of six months’ experience will be| pounds stripped, must be physical-|0 supplemented by a course in| of that date is not sufficient]
accepted, ly strong, well proportioned and | DooWscening: oF (b) a satistactory applying for an application fy
‘ai i ‘>| but a 6-cent stamped, addreq
Training or experience of a|free from defects that would have |Cauvs Hfatning and experiente. All S¥outy be eetoses ped. are
of this position which was ac-|factory hearing and eyesight|P°rmanent appointess will be re-| the State and should be add

quired while on military duty or| (without glasses — not less than | dulred to pass @ He MO dress above).
While engaged in  veterans’|20/40 in each eye). Ability to| Hon Belore appoiniaent. (Closes The NYC and State coy
training or rehabilitation program | operate heavy motor vehicles. En-| "923" raundry Sujvervisor, Chau-| Sundays and holidays, from 9
recognized by the federal govern-| trance salary $2,070. Five annual tain Count Teme Department|9 a. m. to noon. The U. §
ment will recelve due credit. increases up to maximum of or pupiie Welfare, Chautauqua | 8:30 am. to 5 p.m. except Sif
At the time of investigation, | §2.760. Application fee $2. (Closes |County, $1,992 to $2,292 total. At| : r

its e 5 r 2, . faihit c 4

Peart potiat Weiss oo Ae Marketing Investigztor, Depart- | Present one vacancy. Fee $1. Can-| reaching the U. S., State and
transcript of record of the Bureau | ment of Agriculture and Markets, | qidates must have Been legal resi | in NYC, follow:
Saree oro are, once State Civil Service Comnil

of Vital Statistics or other satis-| Four Vacancies throughout the| react one year ard of Chautau:
State. Requires three years’ ex- qua County for at least four| IND trains A, C, D, A.

statement will be eause for dis-|Perience in selling, grading, in-| Tontns immediately preceding the| Avenue line ‘to Brooklyn &
qualification. eee een or preparation for mar- examination date. Candidates must | Brighton local to City Hall
i have either (a) two years experi-| __U. 8. Civil Service Coma

Under close supervision a Sew-
age Treatment Worker maintains |fgB, school education or satis-| ence ‘asa laundry worker and | Christopher Street station.

or makes minor repairs to pumps, | ary $3,036 with five annual salary completion of a standard grade} _

which six months shall have been | State both issues and receives

4, N. ¥. (Manhattan)
je of New York, N. ¥.

York 7, N, ¥., Tel,
i, N.Y, and Room
Fame applies to exams

y. (Manhattan), -Tel.

410 Livingston Street

state House, Trenton;
bien; personnel officers

already in government

New York
mail and requires that
ht of the closing date.
bs by mail, but requires
bsing date; a post-mark
tage is required when
bvil Service Commission
hyex9 inches or larger,
hpplication blanks from
the Albany office (ad-

bpen every day, except
nd on Saturday from
open every day from
ys and holidays.
How to Get There—Rapi@™ that may be used for
ice Commission offices

| Service Commission—
A or C@ Street; IRT Lexington
burth Avenue local or

wenth Avenue local to

sewage screens, blowers, com- school course; or (b) a satisfactory
bressors, air filters, other equip- henry optioned fer tees equivalent combination of the fore-
ment and auxiliaries found in a| Wednesday, September 2.) going training and experience, The | nation date, Candidates must
sewage treatment plant and per- U - oral examination will be held|either (a) six months of ex!

forms related work, after October 22. Application forms | ence as a water maintenance
The written weight is 100, with COUNTY may be obtained by writing or|Grade II and completion
70 per cent required. Candidates A calling in person at the State De-| standard grade school cours
will be required to pass a qual- Open-Competitive partment of Civil Service, also|(b) two years of experience
ifying medical and rigid physical in person at all local offices of the| plumber, refrigeration me
Resta prion ca) eopoln mnie 0324. Multilith Operator, De-|New York State Employment |or other water distribution
El anlo’s Ei am partment of Health, Erie County,/Service in Chautauqua County.| perience and graduation from}
levator Mechanle’s Helper at present, one vacancy. Appoint-| (Closes Saturday, October 22). |standard high school course
The filing fee for Elevator|ment expected at $2,300 total. Fee 0329. Water Maintenance Man, | (c) a satisfactory equivalent o@ffaly
Mechanic’s Helper will be 50 cents.| $1. Candidates must have been|Grade 1, Westchester Joint Water | bination of the foregoing trai
Employees in the title are eli-|Jegal residents of New York State | Works District, Westchester Coun-|and experience. A new York §|
gible for promotion examination|for at least one year and of Erie|ty, $2,415 to $2,730. At present|driver’s license will be requ
to Elevator Mechanic, County for at least six months|one vacancy. Fee $2. Candidates] of permannt appointees.
Minimum requirements include| immediately preceding the ex-|must have been legal residents of | date Saturday, October 22. Ad
three years’ satisfactory exper-|@mination date, October 22, Re-|New York State for at least one|cation forms may be obtaine
ience in the maintenance, repair,|Quirements are either (a) gradu-|year and of the Westchester Joint | writing or calling in person at!
or installation of electrically or|®tion from a standard senior high| Water Works, comprised of the|State Department of Civil Seri
hydraulically operated elevators; |@chool and one year of satisfactory | Towns of Mamaroneck and Har-|or Westchester County Pi
or a satisfactory equivalent. | office ence, including the|rison and of the Village of Mam-|Office, Room 733, County 0!
‘Training or experience of m|operation of # multilith or simi-|aroneck for at least four months| Building, White Plains, or in 4
character relevant to the duties |¥#F machine; or (b) # satisfactory |immediately preceding the exami-|son at all local offices of the }

mf this position which was ac- =

for at

must state

County Memorial Hos-
ppkins County, $1.27 an
present, one vacancy,
ididates must have been
Kents of New York State
} one year and of Tomp-

least

diately preceding the
pn date. Candidates must
br (a) one year of ex-
in handling medical
plus completion of a
h the maintenance of
words, and graduation
ndard senior high school
(b) a satisfactory equiv-
bination of the forego-
hy and experience. Can-

in

—\ | applications where they received|experience. All permanent ap-
their course in maintenance of | pointees will be required to pass a| i
medical records and the length|medical examination before ap-|men on September 16. It had
ointment. Application forms may | expected to make appointments
obtained by writing or calling} August 1, but the budget certifi-
October 22. Application may be|/in person at the State Department |cates were not obtainable, There
obtained by writing or calling in|of Civil Service, or Westchester |are now 370 vacancies, arising from
person at the State Department |County Personnel Office, Room 733,| promotions to Sergeant and from
of Civil Service or in person at the|County Office Building, White|retirements, deaths and resigna-
local office of the New York State|Plains; or in person at all local | tions.
Employment Service in Tompkins | offices of the New York State Em- r
County. (Closes Friday, September | ployment Service in Westchester|made from the present budget’s
County. (Closes Friday, Septem-|quota that went into effect July
1 last. The Patrolman quota is
18,827. The Police Department
would like to have that raised to

COUNTY | ere

of time spent in completing such

Exam date Saturday,

course.

6).

0326. Senior Typist, Tompkins] ber 16.)
County, $.84 an hour. At present
two vacancies at the Tompkins
County Memorial Hospital. Fee $1.
Candidates must have been legal
residents of New York State for
at least one year and of Tompkins
County for at least four months
immediately preceding the exami-
nation date. Candidates must have Clerk, (Prom.) Westchester Coun-| Patrolman tect on

ctor’

caer ve ears of Se niuainy |ty, $1,810 to $2,790 total. Fee $1.| December 1, 1949. closing thé
typing; or (b) one year of satis-| Preference in certification will be period on Friday, December 16.
factory general office experience | given to eligibles in the promotion ay Pes a A ee ds
including typing and graduation] wit in which the vacancy exists. HAaARIGS tes Ge eaten

Candidates must be permanently] representative, but not by mail,
Westchester | 8t 96 Duane Street, opposite The
LEADER office.

senior high
school, including or supplemented
by a course in typing; or (c) ajemployed in the
satisfactory eal aicay bee County Service and must be serv-
tion of the foregoing training an " ch
experience, Candidates must state | 10 8m have served on a perman:
in ee paar ens ipoudeat ee i ition with a minimum base
not their education included or | in a pos!
was supplemented by a course in|salary of $1,350 or more for at/ 20 vot ea to pass, and a phy:
typing. Application may be ob-|least six months immediately pre-| that the candidates weciare en
tained by writing or calling in|ceding the examination date. In| i. o.orea on a fact beak
person at the State Department |addition, candidates must meet| 1 Sddition there will bens Geaky
of Civil Service or in person at all/the requirements of one of the] ‘ving medical test. B: ualityi 4
local offices of the New York State | following groups: either (a) two| iS meant that the candidate ic
Employment Service in Tompkins | years of general office experience | marked Qualified or Not Qualified
Exam date Saturday,|of which one year shall have been! with no percentages given, ,
(Close Friday, Sept-|in Cater neroed keeping work given.
and graduation from a stan ry
Account| senior high school incising or| teem, and, the physial tests
Clerk, Westchester County, $2,310 | supplemented by a course in book-| exam—but on the desler BOoEE:
to $2,790 total. Fee $1. Candidates| keeping; or (b) & satisfactory] arct the Commission and then’
must have been legal residents of | equivalent combination of the! just prior to prospective appoint.
New York State for at least one |foregoing training and experience, be iy
r and of Westchester County | Candidates requir
ton at least four months iinetedte have satisfactory service record oath AY Seen eee
ately preceding the examination |ratings at the time of the estab-| members and organs of the bod.
date. Candidates may also com-|lishment of the promotion eligible] aq includes sight. If the dey aia
pete in No. 0327 Junior Account |list in order to be placed on the! ment considers s catanante as
Clerk. A separate application and Peon ge (Gea Sote Sarda, Not Qualified who has been Quali-
fee must be filed for each exami- | Oc ; , Septem- mm.
nation, A promotion examination | ber 16). re cee eae ties Comm saIG,
for the position will be held at the
same time as this open-competi-| (Pro:
tive examination. It is anticipated | $2,910 to $3,510 total. Fee $2. Pref-| finding,
be a sufficient} erence in ‘certification will be
four|number of appointments so that given to eligibles in the promotion
the open-competitive list will be|unit in which the vacancy exists.
used also, Exam date Saturday,|Candidates must be permanently |™&n Job, always strong, is expected
‘Westchester |*0 be keener this year than at
either (a) ‘fw years. of general | County Service and must be sery- | ®0Ytime since before the war. It is
office experience of w1 one year | ing and have served on a perman- :
shall have been in financial record | ent basis in the competitive class| Pre fully for the written exami-
keeping work and graduation from | in a position with a minimum base
@ standard senior high school in-|salary of $1,590 or more for at
cluding or supplemented by s/| least six months immediately pre-
course in bookkeeping; or (b) a|ceding the examination date. Writ-
satisfactory equivalent combina-|ten test Saturday, October 22,
their | tion of the foregoing training and| (Closes Friday, September 16).

from a

County.
October 22,
ember 16.)
0328. Intermediate

that there will

October 22. Candidates must have | employed

Promotion

9169. Intermediate Account

ent basis in the competitive class

Prom.), Westchester

in the

Surface Line Operato

while engaged in #8 veterans’
training or rehabilitation pro-
gram recognized by the federal
yovernment will receive due credit.
(Continued from Page 1) The new test is to be “ordered” |immediately preceding app
mechanical and electrical repeirs | wm be sect after approval is ob-| today (Tuesday) by the Commis-| ment. Service in the armed (0
hydraulic elevator systems includ-| tained from Budget Director] Sion. That is the first step toward | does not interrupt residence.
tee cablans caoaven dlatnis valves J. Patterson, The test may| holding test. Pay is $1.24 an| “Although there are 10
stufing boxes, generators, motors, |be added to the series opening on | hour to start, for @ 48-hour week,,|limits at the time of filing
Telays, switches and safety de: | September 12, or $59.62 a week, The pay rises| plications, no eligibles will
Tices, and’ performing “related | ‘There are now more than 100| ¢0,$1.44, or $69.12 a week. appointed from the list wi
rik, provisionals in the bus and street| |The mew liberalized pension |less than 21 years of age #
worn performance test has a|car operating Jobs. More vacan-| Plan will be open to appointees. | time of appointment.
eight a 10 win | cles will occur because of enlarge-| Under this plan half-pay retire-| “At the time of appoint
weigh : FS Co ment in 25 years, instead of 30,|candidates must be accel!

f Line Operators are as-
the operation of either
Street cars; in order to
d to the operation of a
uployee must possess a
York State chauffeur’s

Written, weight 100, 70%
All candidates who pass
n test will be required
ualifying physical test
tertification and will be

st to Fill 1.0000

pummoned in the grass of their) Operator has been prepared by
standing on the list-in accordance Arco torial
with the needs of the service. In ene Fat Ponti: Contes
are available at The Leader Book
addition, candidates may also be
Store, 97 Duane Street, New York
required to Pass @ qualifying | 7, N, 'y. ‘The price is $2. See ad on
motor ability test prior to cer-| page 15, "
tification. No second opportunity *.
will be given to candidates who
fail or fail to appear for the
qualifying motor ability test until

didates who passed b
au candidates whe, peste! pore Personnel Jo

tors

required. Candidates will be re-| ment of the municipal bus waar |is practicable, but continuation | for bonding.
Gal and rigid physical tests prior |1,000 Jobs ‘are expected to be| 1 ge 70 is allowable and in a
eae ed Dareee fas was true also last time, | Siven case — age 21 entrance, 49

sppolnt open, years’ member-rervice = 98 per A t

cent of retirement. | m d
° . . ° Former Requirements mmediare
Editorial and Information |, me ss tex was nea in 200 O th
Abou! le same requirements are W
B Fill d U S expected this time, No education- pen I
° Ss to e I e y ° . or ever lPade requirements will
cechastion ye ees As M

A nation-wide Ae oe he fell ice pages bexts ‘The last e: notice stated: S arine
filling information end edit ext lon! “Requirements: Appli q
positions in the Washington, D. C.,| will be appointed to information-| ne malar ments: Applicants must) 4 ications will ber
area will be annaunced probably | specialist positions in such fields | inches (bare feet) in height, until further notice for ™4
next week, by the U. 8. Civil|as press, periodicals and publica- “At the date of filin; i operator jobs with the Arm
Service Commission, Salaries from |tions, radio and motion pictures, ep 0 J oti c=! Manhattan, Bronx, Brook!
$2,974 to $4,103. Others will be appointed as in- | tions, candidates must be citizens! Queens, There will be no W"

‘This will be the first examina-| formation clerks, editorial clerks, | Of the United States and residents | fast Papers will be rated
tion announced by the Commission | indexing elerks and proofreading | of the State of New York. At the/as "received and appoint?
for information and editorial po- | clerks, time of appointment, candidates| made. The jobs and how!’
sitions in this salary range since| Do mot attempt to apply until / must comply with that section of | annual pay:
the end of World War IL After|the actual opening of the exam|the Administrative Code which|Mate (Tug-Class D ....+:+
the examination s announced, |is announced. Blanks will be ob-| Provides that any office or posi-|¥First Assistant Engineer
applications will be secepted for|tainable then at the Second Re-| tion, compensation for which 1s] Assistant Engineer 1
about three weeks, gional Office, 641 Washington| payable wholly or in part from (Tug-Class I), Steam an°

Applicants will be required to|Street, New York 14, N .Y., and|the funds of the City, shall be
show that they have bad appro-|at post offices, other than New| filed only by @ person who ts a
priate experience or education.| York, N. ¥, (Manhattan and The | bona fide resident and dweller of
Written tests will be scheduled | Bronx), the City for at least three years

.

q Jobs
in NYC

nt under Headquarters,
' Governors Island, and
‘sor of New York Har-

‘ent number of applica-
‘te position of Deckhand
f) at $3,080 a year, in-
me? original announce-
lc LEADER two weeks
yiecelved and applica-
st position are closed,
i 1s No, 2-25-2 (1949),
{, Executive Secretary,
U.S. Civil Service Ex-
York District, Corps
of. 220 Wall Street, New

the needs of the service require
such a second test.

“The written test will be used
to ponies the candidate's gen-
eral intelligence and ability to
read and follow directions, The| ate to apply for State personnel
qualifying physical test will be| administration jobs. Titles and
designed to test the candidate's | starting pay are:

“nts and hein in order to
qualify, candidates will re- .
quired to jump and clear a rope | 0; fee $0.
2 feet 6 inches in height and lift
He Foncerelan @ 40-pound dumb-
with one hand and a 35-
Pound dumbbell with the other a|™inistrator, $5,282; fee $5.
fullarm’s length above the head,

“Medical and Physical Require- | S0nnel and Office Administration,
ments: Candidates may be rejected
for any disease, injury or ab-
normality, which in the opinion |strator, $4,242; fee $4. ,
of the medical examiner tends to
impair health or usefulness, such | $3,582; fee $3,
as: hernia; defects of the heart
or lungs;

impaired hearing in| perience must have been in the
either ear; defective color vision; | professional or technical phases
vision of less than 20/40 in either | of personnel administration in a
third} regularly organized personnel of-
egree or disabling varicose veins.” | fice or agency and must have in-

A study manual for Surface Line | cluded responsibility for recruit-

eye (eyeglasses allowed);

Jobs

eligible list will be exhausted by
the end of next year, possibly
earlier, and therefore the NYC
Civil Service Commission will be-
gin receiving applications for a

will consist of a written test, usu-

9170. Senior Account Clerk, | Commission-department
County,| committee, which makes a final

Advance Tips on

Patrolman Test

The Police Department is hop-
Ing to appoint about 400 Patrol-

No avpointments have been

It is expected that the present

Thursday,

Two Tests Competitive
‘The competitive examination

Only the Commission rates the

ment, the Police Department it-

the case is referred to a joint
medical

Stiffer Competition
‘The competition for the Patrol-

therefore doubly necessary to pre-

nation. A start should be made as
soon as possible, Moreover, train-
ing for the physical test should be
begun later. It is possible to im-
peove one’s score in this part, also,

y suitable preparations, esbecially
if the training is done under ex-
pert direction.

‘The job is coveted not only be-
cause of the entrance pay of $3,150
‘and the advance to $4,150 after
three years of satisfactory service,
but also because of the opportun-
ities for promotion to Sergeant at
00 ®& year more than the top of

e Patrolman grade.

The age limits for the examina-
tion are set by law and are 20 to
29 for applicants. Nobody is ap-

pointed who's under 21, but any- | the

one on the list who's under 21

Friday, August 19 i¢ the last

0294. Director ef Personnel,

0295. Director of Mental Hy-
giene Personnel, $6,700; fee $5.

0296. Associate Personnel Ad-

0297. Assistant Director of Per-

$5,232; fee $5.
298. Senior Personnel Admini-

0299. Personnel Administrator,

To be acceptable, personnel ex-

From Test Closing Aug. 19

s to Be Filled

ment, examining, placement,
classification, Job analysis, train-
ing, administering of employee
evaluation program, or resolution
of personnel problems relating to
appointments, promotions, rein-
statements, layoffs, and other
types of personnel transactions.
For Director of Mental Hygiene
Personnel, the personnel ex~-
perience must have involved the
resolution of problems related to
or peculiar to mental institutional
personnel.

will be certified after he attains
age 21.
5'8” Is Minimum Height

The minimum height is 5'8” in
bare feet. Vision must be at least.
20/20 Snellen, each eye separately,
without glasses, Weight should not.
be disproportionate to height,

A Break

Veterans who are actually more
than 29 on the first date to apply
— December 1, 1949 — may sub-
tract from their actual age the
Jength of time that they spent in
the armed forces, and if the dif-
ference is 29 or less, they're in.
One who attains age 29 on Decem-
ber 1 is counted as age 30, for he
has begun his 30th year.
No addition may be made, for
any reason, by veterans or oth
to the minimum age, but the
minimum age is figured from the
last application date, December 16,
In that way the age limit has a
two-weeks leeway in favor of can-
didates, in either direction, by re-
ducing it that much for the old-
sters and increasing it the same
amount for the youngsters, giving
both groups a break,

Vet Preference
Veteran preference will apply.
The Commission intends to bring
out the list after January 1, 1951,
if the proposed amendment to the
veteran preference law is adopted
by the voters in the referendum
on November 8, 1949. If adopted,
it will change the present abso-
lute preference system to a point
system.

McNamara Advises Preparation

Joseph A, McNamara, President
of the Commission, explains the
Jong advance notice as follows:
“We wanted the prospective ap-
Plicants to know the requirements
in advance, so that they could pre-
pare! adequately for the examina-
tion.”

A study manual for Patrolman
has been prepared by the Arco
Editorial Board. Copies are ayail-
able at The Leader Book Store,
97 Duane Street, New York 7, N. Y.
The price is $2. See ad on pagel5.

Physical Therapist Test
Open for Jobs to $3,727

An examination for physical
therapist positions in U. S. Veter-
ans Administration establishments
in the District of Columbia and
the States of Maryland, North
Carolina, Virginia, and West Vir-
inia has been announced by the
eterans Administration Zone
Board of Civil Service Examiners
No. 4, Washington, D. C. The po-
sitions pay $2,974 and $3,727.
All applicants must be gradu-
ates of approved schools of physi-
cal therapy. No experience is re-
quired of applicants for jobs
paying $2,974. Persons applying
for positions paying $3,727 a year
must, however, have at least one
year of professional experience in
administering physical therapy
under medical supervision. No
written test will be given.
Applications will be accepted by
Executive Secretary of the
Board, Vermont and H Sts., NW,,
Washington, D. C., until further
notice,

Wage-Hour Investigator
Test Date to Be Set

No date has as yet been set by
the U. 8. Civil Service Commission
for the written test in the Wage-
Hour Investigator exam, The test
is expected to be of a general in-
telligence type, including questions
on interpretative reading, yocabu-
Jary and arithmetic.

About 1,500 candidates filed ap-
Plications during the short period
allowed, which ended Tuesday,

| August 2.

Railway Mail Assn.

Administrative personnel ex-
perience must have been in a
major administrative capacity in
8 personnel office or agency with
responsibility for resolution of
problems relating to recruitment
grievance adjustments, and other
related transactions. Administra-
tive personnel experienc:
substituted for supery
perience where required,

Holds 371h Convention

| The Railway Mail Association,

NYC and vicinity, held its 37th
biennial convention at the Hotel
8 NYC.

| RMA is the labor union
which the Post O: e Department

recognizes as the bargaining agent
for all me s of the r
Postal Service,

—=

‘Page Ten

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

‘Taésday, August 16; 194

House Commi

FEDERAL NEWS

ttee Backs

$150 Postal Pay Raise

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—The
subcommittee of the House Post
Office and Civil Service Com-
mittec reported to the parent

committee a bill granting a flat
pase to all postal em-
Yc per hour to sub-

lower
in si
master

‘ades and a 242% incre
ary to fourth-class p
identical to S. 1772, re-

ported out by the Senate Com-
mitiec on July 28,

The full House committee, in|
executive sessio1 defeated the
proposal. Congressman Corbett of
Pennsylvania then offered a sub-
stitute bill providing:

Annual leave at 20 days and
sick leave at 10 days a year with
a provision that there be a m
imum limit on annual
tablished at 60 days,

Three meritorious
credit for prior years of
for those postal

do not now rec

rvice |

ious grades, In cases where groups |
of ees now receive meri-|
torious grades but receive less |
than three such grades, esi!

e of $150 for}
all employees paid on an’ annual |
basis, an increase of 2¥40 an hour |
for hourly employees and 244%
for fourth-class postmasters,

employees. receive we

appointments they will
be placed in Grade 3, In cases|
where employees are presently in
regular spnointments at lower’
than Grade 3, place them in
Grade 3.

The Post Office Department will
furnish uniforms and that, in the
alternative, the Postmaster Gen-
eral may authorize the purchase |
of necessary uniforms not ex-
ceeding $100 a year when he de-
termines it to be in the interest
of the Postal Service

The estimated cost is approx-

Get Your

| The cost:

imately $140,000,000 annually,

The full committee approved
the Corbett alternative in ex-
ecutive session.

“This bill will provide many
benefits which are not now in-
cluded in the Miller Bill, H, R.
4495,” said President William C.
Ambrust, of the United National
Association of Post Office Clerks,

Senate Committee Action

The Senate Post Office and
Civil Service Committee favorably
reported the following bil
will now go to the Senate for
action:

H. R. 1689 — Top Executive
pay bill, increasing salaries of
more than 200 Cabinet officers
from $15,000 per annum to $25,000,
and granting substantial increases
sistant head of the Executive
Departments and Agencies,

8S. 1762 — Granting an average
increase of $125 to 900,000 classi-
fied workers other than_ postal,
stimated at 120 mil-
lion dollars, The bill includes a
general revision and repeal of the
1923 Classification Act, Senator
Long will reintroduce this meas-
ure in a clean bill and include
provisions for increasing the sal-
aries of those employees who are
heads of Bureaus and Agencies
who can come within the pro-
visions of the general reclassifica~
tion bill,

H. R, 2262 — Previously passed
by House, granting time to em-
ployees of four hours, not charge-
‘able to annual leave or loss of
pay, to participate in funerals of
deceased members of Armed
Forces returned for burial.

H. R. 3383 Previously passed
by House, correcting inequalities
in computing night differential
pay when changing from Stand-
ard time to Daylight Savings time.

The Senate Committee on Labor

(Continued on Page 11)

ARCO

MAIL HANDLER

STUDY BOOK $2.00
To Help You Pass the Test

at the

Leader Bookstor

LEADER BOOKSTORE,

Please send 1

e, 97 Duane St.

97 Duane St., N.Y.7.

copy P. O, Mail Handler

Study Book. I enclose $2, plus 15¢ postage.

NAME

Address

FOR JOB SECURITY

JO

IN

Federal Career Employees Association — New York Chapter
ike mailing address of the Association is 234 Seventh Avenue, New York

» N.Y. Phone: WAtkins 9-7611 or

FILL IN AND

PResident 2.7202,
MAIL BLANK

Federal Career Employees Association — New York Chapter
| herewith apply for membership in the Association and wit assist In

every way possible to ac

e job
ployees, and to preserve

areor

NAME
HOME ADDRESS

AGENCY _ rer ees

security for non-vot
System in Civil Service,

CATION.

| acquired pormanent Civil Service status on (date) _

Dato of application:

two monthly instalments
Federal Career Employoos Assn., and

l(Merberine firs are $5, 00 por yoar, and may bo paid in o
Make checks and money orders

SIGNATURE t

mail to ROSINA D. STIC!

215 Manhattan Avenue, New York 25, N. Y. Phone MO 6-3093),

Merit Man

(Continued from Page 6)

Buck Greene's job 1s conceded to
be tops. From hig little office on
lower Broadway emerge strings
having nation-wide ramifications,
From a single portion of a finger-
print found in Oakland on Oct-
ober 31, 1943, a big nation-wide
narcotics operation was broken
up. It happened this way. The
Narcotics Bureau boys “bought”
$10,000 worth of heroin from the
leader of a mob of peddlers on
the west coast, formerly a Brook-
lyn man, Heroin comes in small
envelopes, and_ these envelopes
were sent to Greene for finger-
print examination. On one en-
velope he found the partial print.
of the left-hand ring finger of
a man whom he identified as
John Stoppelli, being an interna-
tionally-known narcotics _ seller
operating out of Greenwich Vil-
lage, This character was the sup-
ply man for the west coast,

The Greenwich Village mob-
ster was brought to trial in San
Francisco and convicted on Buck
Greene's evidence — convicted on
three counts of sale, possession
and conspiracy, on the slim but
powerful thread of evidence based
on a part of a fingerprint which
Buck had identified. The case set
a precedent. Stoppelli was sen-
tenced to six years in the peni-
tentiary.

Covers Big Area

He works under James B. E.
Olson, district supervisor for the
Alcohol Tax Unit, covering New
York State and Puerto Rico. And
the area covered by his work in-
cludes New England, New Jersey,
and Deleware as well, Yet, with
a tiny staff, all the fingerprint
work in this large area which falls
within the province of Mr. Olsen's
office, gets performed by Buck.
He makes identifications, main-
tains a file, testifies before juries,
and teaches Treasury agents —
quite a program. He has been
asked to help set up a national
central fingerprint file. Mr. Olson
considers his office as having the
best fingerprint setup of any law
enforcement office.

A Civil Service Man

Buck is a career civil service
employee, not a patronage man,
He has a high regard for the
career system,

He entered the Federal service
while coaching athletics at
Georgetown University, One day
he walked into the office of Dr,
James Doran, then director of
prohibition, and asked for a job.
‘That was on a Tuesday, On Wed-
nesday, he went to work, with the
title of  “storekeeper-engager,
assigned to the Fileischmann’s
Yeast plant. He took and passed
@ regular civil service exam, and
has had status since the begin-
ning of his Government career,
After 22 months, he was trans-
ferred to the Investigation Sec-
tion of the Justice Department
as a Special Agent, He then took
Gold Star Mothers of 1st World
War to Paris on their pilgrimage.
As @ recreation director, he made
five round trips to European coun-
‘tries., During his career, he trans-
ferred several times between the
Treasury and Justice departments,
and his work covered a wide area
of assignments. Under Attorney
General Homer 8, Cummings, he
was for a time Personnel Examiner
in_ Washington,

Continuous Interest in Sports

Wiry, fron-gray-haired Bucte
Greene doesn't look his 52 years,
Perhaps the reason i his con-
tinuous interest in sports, That
interest began when he was a
boy, and reached into the big-time
even before Buck was a full~
fledged adult.

When in the seventh grade, he
played with a high school foot-

champion high jumping just as
a sideline,

Buck was so outstanding that
he went into college directly from
grammar school! The colleges
had heard about this athletic
genius, and they weren't going to
wait four years for him. Ul-
timately, one of the colleges he
attended gave him a prep school
diploma, He studied the human-
ities at Xavier College, dentistry
at McGill, science at Georgetown,
science at Harvard. He refereed
inter-collegiate boxing, at Syra-
cuse, Yale, Rutgers. He coached
football, boxing and baseball at
Xaxier; coached baseball at
Georgetown; baseball and boxing
at George Washington University.

McGraw gave him a tryout in
baseball in 1927. When Rogers
Hornsby was there, He remained
with the Giants for a season.
He still works out two weeks a
year with the Cincinnati Reds,
just to keep in trim. And his
best pals are the sports writers.

“Lawes University”

Among the framed photos of
the nation’s big names which
adorn his office are several news-
papers made up by the students
of “Lawes University” Sing
Sing to you, Buck has been res-

ponsible for building meray
that institution in ® manner |
worked wonders with the i
of the prisoners. They have
him many testimonials, an,
feels that his work ith ‘4
men has an important bead
on their rehabilitation, td
he still officiates at AAU
meets,

Buck enlisted in the int
during World War I, and )),
football during his
He attended Infantry of,
Training School at Camp
Va., when he was basebal)
boxing instructor. More rece,
in 1940, he went to Plattsp;
with a hand-picked Nati
Guard regiment,

He is married, and the tq
of a 14-year-old girl, rece
graduated from Ursuline 4g
emy.

Aces High

One final word about
Greene: He's one man
stands aces high with every)
who know him — as this
porter discovered by inquif
around, It’s a unique disting
and just one more evidences
the quality of Federal carcer
ployees,

SCHOOL DIRECTOR

Academie and Commercial—College Preparatory
BOR® HALL ACADEMY—Flatbush Ext. Cor. Fulton 8t.Bklyn. Regents Acc

MA. 2.2447,

BARBER SCHOOL

LEARN BARBKRING. Day-Bves Special
Barber

Classes for womem GI's welcome.

School, 91 Bowery. N.Y.0. WA 5-0083.

Business Schools

LAMB'S BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL—Day and
Brooklyn 16, §.

270 Oth St. at Oth Ave.

evenings. Individual {nstru
YY. SOuth 86-4280.

147

West 42nd St.

STITUTE, —Becretartal
‘Comptometer Oper. Shorthand Stenotype BE 9-4181, Soe

MANHATTAN BUSINESS IN!
keeping, Typing

joderate

coat,

WASHINGTON BUSINESS INST. 2306 —71m Ave (oor, 135th 04.) HLY.O, Bec
civil service training, M ‘MO 2-086,

HEVTLEY & BROWNE SECRETARIAL
Brooklyn 17.

SCHOOL,
Whvine 86-2041 Day and evening Veterans

9 Lafayette Ave. oer. Fini
Biligible.

MONROR SCHOOL OF BUSINESS. Secretarial, Accounting, Stenotype. Apron
train yotorans under G.I, Bill, Day and evening. Bulletin C. 177th St. Bs
Road (& KO Chester Theatre Bldg.) Bronx, DA 3-7300-1.

Business and Foreign Service
LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE—11 West 42nd St. ¥.Y.0. All secretarial and

ness subjects
administration end t

tay English, Spanish. Pertarese.

te intern:
4-2895.

20th bet, Oth & 7th Aves. H.Y.0. oF
‘mechantcal flelds.

COLUMBUS TECHNICAL PCHOOL, 180 W.
training for carcere i the architectural and ime
caroliment, "Vow eligible. WA 9-0035.
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INGTITUTR—Mechanical,, Architectural, job estima!
Manhattan, 55 W. Street LA 4-2929, in Brooklyn, 60 Clinton st.
Hal a eleri. ‘in New Sere. 116 Newark Ave. Birgu 4-2300

Detection, Investigation & cceaanteer

‘WME BOLAN ACADEMY, Empire

Boer’ Course. Pree placemes

se (Be an Investigator) 1

ent, service feclata graduates ve obtain Jobs, APP

Elementary Courses fer Adulte

Tam COOPER SCHOOL—3:
‘Mathematics, Spanish,

16 W. 189th St. N.Y.0.,
French-Latin Grammar. A’

wagner SINGER, PRINT SCHOOL, 209 Brosdway (mr. Obi y
ipped Schol (Iie, by State of ¥. Y.). Phone 170
BUTT SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES ‘(ial 1600) — B94 Ww. 198. Voes! si
shorten your studies by developing attractive singing through the loos
‘Misa Buccini's expressive Italian. Aleo English, (BI 93204).

Motion Floture Opernting
BROOKLYN YMOA TRADE SCHOOL —1119 Bedford Ave (Gvies). Bhiym. MA #

Maste
‘Ym PIERRE ROYSTON ACADEMY OF MUBIO—1 Btreot,

S25 Suawed sas eaheneones ¢ (asee HT State Bh ot wey Detalt
NEW YORK 1000, (Cnartered, 1878)

COLLEOR OF
Tomraction 116 ont 80th Biro

all branches, Private of
‘BU B-0977. M. Y. 98, N.Y. ©

ball team, Not enough, he also

played baseball, basketball, was Plumbing and Off Burner

® track man, and went im for| pamx sSOHOOL—304 Atlantic Ave, Brooklya, M. Y. Plumbing, Oll-burset
wiping, Beginners and edvanced. @. I. Approval. Full or part time.

FINGERPRINT
INSTRUCTOR

All phases of fingerprint identi-
fication. Established school tm
Manhattan,

Full or part time, State edu-

cation, experience, salary. Box
616, Leader, 97 Duane St..N¥C.

Radio Television
RADOO- ELECTRONICS BCMOGE. OF KEW TORE. 90
Day-evenings.

Tae" Gresa 61190"

Brosawag, 8. YX. Apororel

RADNO-TELEVISION INSTITUTR, 480 Lexington Ave, (40h Bt), W. ¥. 0. 0
evening PL 3-4585.

a4

COMBINATION BUSINESS BOHOOL¢ Prepare new for all CIVIL SERYIOR EX4})

TIONS, Graphotyps,
clerks,

gdiressceregh. mimengragh,
sicuograpbers, ote. 198 We 186 Be MY. OT M. Y.

W 4-5170

DRAKES, 154 KAMA CTRERE, 1.1.6, Gowstariel, Accounting, Drafting, 20

Day-Night. Write for catalog.

re, cnet, Do eared Sareea Bot de et Bar Sou

esday, August 16, 1949

“CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Eleven

FEDERAL NEWS

(Continued from Page 1)
.jdietcown, Oneonta, Riverhead,
anac Lake,
Idea of Written Test
she Written examination may
ysist of questions designed to
; aptitude for learning and ad-
ing to the duties of the posi-
fn and include questions of the
jwing general types:

}, Alphabetizing,
} Computations and questions
involving simple arithmetic
reasoning,
Name and number compari-
son.
Word meaning — questions
requiring a knowledge of
words,
Reading — questions testing
the ability to read and prop-
erly interpret material,

é. Spelling.
7, Grammar — questions re-
quiring a knowledge of
grammar.
ime examination should re-

ire about 2% hours,
The test will be open to men
(i women.

Veteran Preference
ference benefits based upon
morable separation from the
med forces are given under cer-
onditions in competitive ex-
nation for original appoint-
nt

1, Five points are added to the
bred ratings of the applicant
0 establishes claim to pref-
based on his or her own
e service in the armed forces
the United States during any
hr or in any creditable cam-
ign or expedition,

Ten points are added to the
i ratings of applicants who
tablish a claim to preference
(a) A disabled veteran; (b)
wife of a disabled veteran
is disqualified for appoint-
because of his service-con-
i disability; (c) the widow
has not remarried) of a
ceased ex-service
d in the armed forces of the
ed States on active duty dur-
% any war or in any creditable
ign or expedition; or (d)
he widowed, divorced, or sep-
ated mother of certain deceased
disabled ex-service sons or
buchters,
Applicants who wish to claim
icran preference should be pre-
ed to furnish documentary
of of honorable separation
m the armed forces if and
en it is requested. Failure to
hbmit such evidence may result
loss of opportunity for ap-
intment.

"Study At Pace”

INESS AND’ Ye cinta COURSES
Y AND EVENING—MEN AND WOMEN
euniancy (C.P.A. & Busines

sing, “Advertising, Sell

Administration).
nographic.
ei

ACE COLLEGE

/BROADWAY (Opp. City Hall Park) NEW YORK 7

$10

(COMPLELE
COURSE)

PING

mest Rates Sten. Bk, Comptometry, ete.
notype

(Machine Free) $20. monthly
1) Instruction + Hours to Suit

1 RISTA ante Broadway

man who}

Postal Pay Bills

(Continued from Page 10)
and Public Welfare favorably re-
ported H, R, 3191, granting sub-
stantial increases in the rate of
compensation for injury to em-
ployees in the line of duty, The
bill was amended to include mem-
bers of Congress. This bill was
passed previously by the House
and now goes to the Senate for
action,

The Committee authorized Sen-
ator Long to introduce a bill pro-
viding $120 annual increases to
legislative employees,

Message by Ambrust

‘The NYC branch of the United
National Association of Post Of-
fice Clerks has strongly indorsed
the Presidential Message of Mr.
Ambrust, encouraging the con-
tinuation of the policies, by all
postal organizations, that have
obtained in the past, of main-
taining friendly relations with
the members of the Senate and
the House, and of the committees
of those legislative branches,

“It has become apparent that
pressure groups have overplayed
their hand,” he said, “Members
of the Senate and House are be-
coming alarmed and resentful.
They looked for counsel and ad-
vice, not demands and threats.
If this method continues, postal
employees will not enjoy the ad-

REPAIR

Approved for Veter
Immedinte Enrollment

"TYPEWRITER al

I Secee acute
i

Full Time and Part Time Classee

Repair School
404 Fourth Ave. MU. 6-8027
Cor, 28th St.

|
|
! Office Equipment
!

miration and respect of the Con-
gress.

“UN. has always main-
tained friendly relations and
that throughout the years the
members of both legislative
branches, and of the committees,
have held postal employees in
highest esteem.”

ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN!

INSURANCE
COURSE

To Qualify for the Next

Broker's License Exam.
lass Starts Mon. Sept. 12

Complete Coverage + Experienced Face!
Accredited by N.Y. State Insurance Dept.

Available for Veterans

Visit, write or phone for Brochure

DELEHANTY

INSTITUTE

Licensed by State of Now York
IS E. 15th St, N.Y. 3 + GR 3-6900

SHORTHAND SPEED
with records

.

on,

hand” ayst

Dractical” result

STENOSPEED eet ICTATION RECORDS
210} ‘Accurac’ ntl.

Gonce ndividuat records 80 to 150

Words a minute. Oriy $1 each, Bet

of 8 records te, $7.50. FREE liter

Suerte Digby 9-3128,

‘STENOSPEED-CO. 141 BOND, KEW TORK.

Ne

G

a

Af you never received @ High School
Diploma you know how difficult it is
to get a Food job or advance.

you ean get the eau

Schoo! Diploma by stud
few months at home, In
No long study hours

CAREER INSTITUTE, Dept. 10,

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

*WE GUARANTEE TO KEEP TRAINING YOU
UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR DIPLOMAI

w Correspondence School

UARANTEES

The Equivalent of @

att:
recognized by employers,
vocational schools,
missions as the
High School Diplon
guarantee to keep
ve your diploma! W.
tails. , . no obligation

1 Newark, N. J.

The Diploma you will receive te
Dusiness (and

Building and Plant Mgmt.

Theoretical and Practical

te
STATIONARY ENGR'S. SUPTS.,

CUSTODIAN & FIREMEN
License Pr |. for Veto
Day ai

AMERICAN TECH

44 Court Street, Bkiyn., MA, 5-2714

PREPARE NOW

FORA ~
BRIGHT FUTURE

BE a

FLIGHT NAVIGATOR
Qualifed Veterane Ehgible
Under G. 4. Bill of Riehte
Puupsias ¥Ox" OUR

C. A, A. EXAMINATION

CALL OR WRITE
OAPT. A. 3. SCHULTZ, Dir.

Atlantic Merchant

Marine Academy

44 Whitehall St. N.Y. 4, N.Y.
BOwling Green 9-7086

X-RAY

Basic and Advanced
Classes Now Forming

Fislt "Schoo! Day-Bve, Get tree book
L'a Accepted. State Licensed.

MA NHATT A Wecrcot

SCHOOL
'780 Broadway (57 St.) PL 7-8275

Inquire for Courses In
MEDICAL LAB, & DENTAL ASST'G

Civil Service Exam Preparation

Ea st mma

. GAINE:
4 SECRETARIAL& ACCOUNTING: ns

‘Also SPANISH STENOGRAPHY,

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH INTERNATIONAL TAADE

RAPHY
TYPEWRITING-BOOKKEEPING
Speci! 4 Months Course - Day or Eve.
Calculating or Comptometry
Intensive Course
BORO HALL ACADEMY

427 FLATBUSH
Cor. Fulton

ADAAAAAAAAAAAAT

0 Avaliable at Leader Book Store

“FEWER JOBS
ARE OPEN FOR
THE UNSKILLED”

Multiply YOUR Opportunities!

For
HEALTH INSPECTOR

Study ARCO
Health Inspector _ 2.50

Contains previous exams with answers,
Duties, laws and all related material
A MUST for all Applicants
Add 160 Postago

LEADER BOOKSTORE

97 Duane Street, N. Y. C.

VETERANS
SECRETARIAL
ACCOUNTING
STENOTYPE

et tuition and subsistence of
75 to $60 a month while attending
eve, vession: $75 to $120 day session

MONROE

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

E. 177 ST. & BOSTON ROAD - BRONX
B.K.O. Chester Theatre Bldg.
1

DA 3-730

Ramercy 3-3553

You Are Invited to
Attend a Class as Our Guest

HEALTH INSPECTOR
COACHING COURSE
Enroll Now at

Arco Career School, Inc.

480 Lexington. Avenue, NYC
Eldorado 5.6542

For
APPRENTICE

U. S. JOBS

All who filed for this exam
should study this excellent
ARCO Book

-- $2

Apprentice

Add 16¢ Postage

LEADER BOOKSTORE

97 Duane Street, N. Y. C.

America’s Oldest Sehook of Dental Technology
O—LONG BEFORE @. 1. B

ESTABLISHED
Approved for Ve

Complete rainines Plate,
ating. Porcelain, Chrome Alloy.

LICENSED BY NEW YORK and

Gall, write phone for FREE CATALOG

NEW YORK SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY

125 West 31st S

138 Washington Street,

CHAT YORK SCHOOL of

Tm
Bridgework,

New York 1, N. Y.

Complete Secretarial
Stenography - Typewriting

Maximum Results - Minimum Time
DAY — EVENING — PART TIME

DELEHANTY scious

Reg. by N. Y. State Dept. of lsaotes
MANHATTAN: M5 E. 6S
JAMAICA; TOM Sutghia Ba JA 68200

“ivil Service Ceaching

Jr, Civil Engineer, Jr.
Asst Civil, Engincer,
Engines

Engineer, ng
Draftaman, Electrical Insp., Inspector
Constr, Housing, Hull Inspector.

License Preparation

Prof, Engineer, Architect, Surveyor,
Master Electrician, Stationary Engr.,
Refrigeration, Oil Burner, Portable Engr,

Drafting, Math. & Coach Courses
Arch’, Mech'l, Electr'l, Struct'l,
raphical, Civil Serv. ‘Arith. ‘Algebra,
Geom, ‘Trig, Calculus, Physics, Design
(Machine, Structural, Concrete, Piping)
Building Estimating, Surveying.

MONDELL INSTITUTE
280 W. 4let Her, Trib. Bldg. WI. 7-2086
109-18 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica AX 7-2421

. Biway., White Plains 8-2087
Moat Courses Approved for Vets
Over 35 yra, specializing

TELEVISION

Train at an Institute that pioneered
ON. NING since

‘atte or E
covering all phases of
uency, Modulation, ‘Tele-
to opportunities in In-
Broadcasting or own Busi-
news. Approved for Veter:
ENROLL NOW FOR NEW

RADIO TELEVISION INSTITUTE
Lesington Ave, NX: 17 (46 8t.)

REGISTER NOW
SECRETARIAL—JOURNALISM

DRAFTING—ACCOUNTING
Commercial Spanish Dept:

DRAK

SCHOOLS IN ALL BOROUGHS
DAY t NIGHT : AFTER BUSINESS
Positions Secured-Ask for Catalog

New York, 154 Nassau St.
OPP, CITY HALL BEekman 3-4840

For Maintainer’s Helper ||
GROUPS A, B, C, TESTS

SERVICE
PHYSICAL EXAMS

SANITATION
MAN

Facilities available every week-
day from 8 A.M. to 10:30 P.M.
Three Gyms, Running Track
Weights, Pool and General
Conditioning Equipment
Apply Membership Department

BROOKLYN CENTRAL
YMCA

55 Hansen Pl. B’klyn 17, N.Y.
Phone STerling 3-700
You May Join For 3 Months

SUTTON

BUSINESS INSTITUTE

Prepare for ‘Civil Service Exams
Speed, Brush Up, Drills, Short Cuts

Dictation-Typing, $1.59

Week Each

1 Subject $2.00 Wee
Special Month
Beginners Advanced
117 Went 42nd Street, N.¥.C. LO 6-0835

ARCO'S Wonderful New
STUDY BOOK
Maintainer’s Helper, $2.00

A complete preparation for your exam
Previous examinations, questions and
answers; invaluable study material, A
book you can't afford to be without

Add 160 for Postage

LEADER BOOKSTORES

preparation for ©
Enginoering & Li

97 Duane Street, N. Y. C,

MEDICAL LABORATORY
TRAINING

Qualified technicians in demand!

Day or Evening courses, Write for

free bookle: “C.” Register now!

Veterans Accepted Under Gi Bill
ST. SIMMONDS SCHOOL

2 East 54th | St, »N. NYS Cc. El 5-3588

mail at once,

Newark 2, New Jersey

MEN — WOMEN

and Vicinity examination is held.

De

Rush to
description
copy of lus

Ge

(a)

bow

eae vAME

ADDRESS
Use This Coupon

jefore

NE

ont dab!

U.S, GOVERNMENT JOBS!

Be ready when next New York, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, New Jersey

START AS HIGH AS $3,351.00 A YEAR

Prepare Immediately in Your Own Home

THOUSANDS OF PERMANENT AP-
POINTMENTS NOW BEING MADE

Veterans Get Special Preference

FULL PARTICULARS AND 40-PAGE
BOOK ON CIVIL SERVICE FREE

Use of this coupon can mean much to you.
Write your name and address on coupon and
Although not Gover
sponsored this can be the: first step in
your getting a big-paid U. S. Govt. Job.

FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

W-56, 130 West 42nd
N.Y.

pt.
W YORK 18,

mie, entirely
of 3

u

List of

+ t
to QUALIFY tor ‘a

Ant r
You Mislay It—Wrlte or Print Plataly

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

ORNS ECG PN

NEW YORK CITY NEWS

Bi UE Sa

Diana Favors Career Plan—Urges Speed

The Mayor’s Committee on the
Career and Pay Pian for municipal
employees was presented last week

tveamlined method for

e proposed reclass-

ification survey. Raymond EB

Diana, President of Welfare Coun-

cil No. 330 of the Civil Service

Forum, suggested the use of ques-

tionnaires and high-speed mech-

anized equipment to facilitate
completion of the “survey.

Deplores ‘Controversy’

Mr. Diana deplored the “heated
controyersy” which has arisen
from Mayor O'Dwyer’s proposal
and said that “continued pro-
longed discussion is only delaying
the day when the present crazy-
quilt’ of municipal services can
be replaced by a sound and equi-
table classification.” To speed up
the process he suggested the use
of two basic questionnaires — one
eliciting the views of employees
with respect to duties, respon-
sibilities, grade, rank and pay
of their positions; and the other
seeking
for positions with duties and re-
sponsibilities similar to those in
city service” paid by state and

INSURE YOUR CAR

Now Before it's too late

wh e Payments Arranged

Ing Motorist Since 134

W ILLIAM BECKER. CO.
Yc

87 MAIDEN LANE
BO 91485

HOME OWNERS
July - Aug. Sale

FREE! ! FREE! !
We will paint absolutely

e wa, doors and
tiding Job contracted

WN PAYMENT

NG
FOK FREE

Call TI. 2-5354
(Day or Night)

EGBERT at WHITESTONE
Flushing 3-7707

Driving Instruction

Higibli der
VETERANS °"shr. Sin
General Avto Driving Schoo!
404 Jay St 25A Hanson PL
11L44B Fulton St.
B’klyn, N.Y. ULster 5-1761

| LEARN to DRIVE

You rain confidence quickly with ou
courteous expert ore. Private
for your

Control Cara.

VETFRANS

Sehool to Leara

+ OMelatly Appr.
Under G1 Bill without cost to vom

“the prevailing pay scale] ar

federal agencies and private con-
cerns in the metropolitan area,
Mr, Diana said that coding of
these questionnaires, permitting
the use of mechanized equipment
for arranging and sorting, would
make possible completion of the
survey by January 1, 1950 and
would reduce the amount of staff
necessary to be assigned te the
survey.
The Program

‘The Council No, 330 president
submitted a 7-point program call-
ing for the following:

1—Completion of the reclass-
ification survey before the end
of this administration which
Promised it to the employees,

2—Pull participation by the em-
ployees in the reclassification pro-
cess through their designated rep-
resentatives,

3—Raising of basic salary stand-
ards to conform with living costs
and with pay levels in similar
positions in private and public
employment in the metropolitan

ea,
4—Establishment of salary
schedules in accordance with the
principle of “equal pay for equal
work.”

5—Inclusion of “longevity pay”
in salary schedules,

6—Well-defined lines of promo-
tion with a choice of advance-
ment either into positions re-
quiring greater skills and cap-
acities within the same level of
function or into positions of super-
visory or administrative respon-
sibility,

7—A_ permanent system of
maintaining up-to-date the posi-
tion-classification and pay plan
adopted as a result of the survey.

Mr, Diana sald his organization
did not believe it pertinent to the
present deliberations of the
Mayor’s Committee to present at
this time specific requests for re-
classification and salary adjust-
ments for the various categories
of Welfare staff. He urged the
committee to proceed immediately
in thé manner he suggested and
to adhere to the principles enum-
erated “to insure completion of

the reclassification survey by Jan-
uary 1, 1950 and adoption of a

career and pay plan that will be i

acceptable to the overwhelming

majority of the employees, work- | ti

able in the interests of proper
City management, and efficient in
guaranteeing adequate job per-
formance.”

[See Career story, P. 1]

More Promotions Asked
In Park Department

The present titles in the Park
Department were approved by
the Greater New York Park Em-
ployees Association, excepting,
General Park Foreman, recom-
mended for changes to District
Siiperintendem, and Park Direc-
tors, suggested to be supplanted
by Borough Superindent. The
present departmental title of As-
sistant Borough Director should be
made a civil service title of As-
sistant Borough Superintendent,
the Association recommended.

by the Associa~

No one may enter the Park
System unless he has successfully
passed a qualifying or competi-
tive examination.

A promotion examination for
all Cledners to advance them to
Attendant, Grade L

A promotion examination for
Attendant Grade II and Attend-
ant Grade IL

For all titles not being reclassi-
fied, a system of cross promotion
shall be established.

‘That advancement in the Park
System from one group te an-
other shall be accomplished only
by having successfully passed a
promotiion examination.

All laborers in the Department

deners, Climbers and Pruners, At-
tendants, one year or more in the
Department of Parks shall be

elegible to take the promotion
examination’ for Park Foreman.

tion. Garage on premisen,
Coffee Shop—Cocklail Lounge
— convention facilities, Free

segoo
SINGLE
Spend your weekends with wm,

WILLIAM H. JOYNER:
MANAGER

LEARN ro DRIVE

AUTO DRIVING SCHOOL

1912 Broadway, N. ¥. G
(het. 63 and 64 St.)

Cars for Road Test

EN DICOTT 2-2564

LEARN ro DRIVE

INSTRUCTION DAY & NIGHT
OAK FOR STATE EXAMINATION
Veterans Lessons under ¢ . Bil
Approves
Scare. of Bauration

Times Square ‘ste, §choo!
Bet. 66th St. & 67th St. N.Y.

22648 pone

Staff and Operations
Murphy is back on his job

during which he recuperated
an illness. While he was
ray Chief William J. Hennessy
led his post. Now both Commis-

artment after a vaca-| 1%

FIRE LINES

sioner Frank J. Quayle ang
Hennessy are on vacation
Chief of Department “4
Loftus... . Two more prom;
to Lieutenant have been ma,
Ernest Artus, Engine Co, 21
iH. & L. 76, and William P, 16,
H. & L. 3, to Engine Co, 6

A Mo’ hay fever. Handball, eddie

Mocking, STRICTLY KOSHER.
Booklet Telephone 315.

por FUN OR REST — LIOTEL LORRAINE

LIVINGSTON MANOR 5, NEW YORK
Modern, all roome with hot and sold running water: elevation 1504

Chien

necomodated. "r0e
‘GERBER FAMILY

BOATHOUSE

18-01 STEINWAY STREET

“Never « Cover or a Minimum”

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN
FOR OUR BANQUET HALL

ACCOMUDATES WEDDINGS A)q|
PARTIES OF is fn, 208

PRCLAL
own. ‘Sunvick OKGANIZATIO

DANCING

EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT To
THE MUSIC OF THE 4 YACHTSi

CRYSTAL SPRING gpa

. swim

dy
Vig bes trem de To
WEEKEND
LABOR DAY

co, 7-3958

x STAR LAKE CAMP »

fa the Glorions Adirondacks
Open till Sept. 11

Between Thousand tsands and Ausable
A marvelous pleasure play-

300 pee person
Send for Booklet-New York Office
320 Broadway Room 908 CO 7260:
Sendays, Evenings. Holidays-PR. 4-130

SEFORE ree Arrange = VACA

Reservintions made at no com \o

Open Weekdays 9-7; Sundays 1.5
130 West 42nd 18th Floor BK. 0.

playground, dietary Inwa Rates rr
after Aug 14

Write for booklet ©.

Pennsylvania

MAAMAMAAAAAAAALAALL
On the Mountain top
Kighth Scenie Wonder of the Wor
Hotel Delaware Water

Hotel Reenleigh
ome Sivle Cooklng-Resreation
HONEYMOON PARADISE
Request Folders and’ Mates
Phone ‘Deleware ‘Wailer ap. Pi

eatin
MAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WOODYCREST COTT.

* Hearyville, Pa.

High elevation, excellent soooer7
{iful table, Tennis, handball courts,
board: private dance hall Hot sf

buses
Strowlsbare 2088-18 Munch

ILLA wee

N.X, phone WA. 4-821 or Highland
2808.

"BOATMEN'S HARBOR™
Ovecicoking benutital Peconle ay at
Picea Neck. Cutchoras, TL Atirne:

ioma om dally, weekly
ie "rates.

taking a test and @ comple’
lon about veteran prefer:

‘one job to anoth
lobs, "Complete Gulde to Your

general manager Mortow Yarm

LEADER BOOKSTORE

Please send me

Civil Service Jol by

you can understand H, by LEADER editor
i

97 Duane Street, New York City

diately « copy of “Complete Guide te Year
Mace lua and Morton Yermes, |
enclose $1 im paymest, pins 16 for postage,

Get the only book that gives you (1
service exams, all Subjects; (2) require:
lobs; (3) information about how to get «

and 1,000 additional facts al

Civil Service Jol
xwet Lehmen ood

aly $1.

GREENWA,
Stroudsbi

50, Weesters
Booklet. Charles W
Degen, Owner.

HORSES - RODEOS

onie Range, Duchess Ce,
* CLinTON CORNERS 7, N. Y.

now Rates $30 weekly $6.50
phone Mount Pocono 5849.
TERESA @ Mcl!

‘Honeym: ‘Hayen.

yinoon

and Catholle Churches
2 we

day, August 16, 1949

otis

CIVIL SERVICE

LEADER

Page Thirteen

NEW YORK CITY NEWS

Surplus Means Efficiency,
NYC Welfare Head Holds

anitation Man Physical
fests to Begin on Sept. 7

ctor Paul M. Brennan, pel guaemee Ore timer ina tae
‘vedical-Physical Bureau, NYC | compete. 1,000

Sormally woald. tal . eoring a
4 service Commission, expecta | Bormally ‘eligible
the first group in the Sani- Fae 8EO0
yn Man examination for phy-

High Interest in Exams
That Open in Sept.

The September exam series
published im The LEADER two
weeks ago, is attracting consider-
able attention. Brisk response from
the public may be expected. The
Btockman Assistant

tests Wednesday, September
yan Cortlandt Park.
ne written test, held on June
vas passed by 11,126, failed by
The applicants totalled 20,-
put 16,143 showed up for the

10 passed the written
ook te “will take the medical
hich Baturd:

wi ends on lay, examination
pst 27, will probably attract the most
candidates because of the absence

he bysicals the Litem of
didates an hour will be the
‘These tests will run through

build a Better Future This |
Kummer With These Books
[hat Mean More $$ for You

‘or A Civil Service Job

L Complete Guide te Civil Service Jobs — 26 poges of

elvil service tests; requirements for 500 jobs;

vet e, transfers, otc.—_$1.00 I]

2. Handbook for New York Clty Employees — Rales,

« fagulations, promotions, functions, bats for passing

4 es fo pass « civil service physicol exomiaction —
Exercises for

ew examination which oayone con fake

ies Tigh schoo! diploma

4 Maintainers Helper, All Grades —
current examination

1. Civil Service Arithmetic & Vocabulary — A special
fraining for all civil service tests which econtole |
this series 10

& Employment Interviewer — A new Arce book for the
current test

9. Practice Tests for all Jobs — Practical material, study
eatlines, refresher courses, technical, mechealcal, ote, LA?

To Pass Those License Tests
1@, Oil Burar Manual — Text widely used la schools__™. 258 ff]
42, Oll Burner Handbook — Guide to installing industriel
end domestic burners
14, Real Estate Brokers State Manual
6. C. P. A. Review — Auditing & Theory — Based on
ectual questions. 430 pp.

For a Butter Job

22, The Art ef Extempore Speaking by Abbe Bantain —
Of inestimable value to both the experienced profes-
slonal speaker ead to the beginner *

28, 106 Success Opportunities. How te shop for the life
work you'll like. A sarvey ef what Is needed to be
successful la major lines ef work.

2%, Bookkeeping & Acc: introductory coarse la

1949 book for the

200 |
|
better jobs a |
Sh

|

plete cowrse for clerical exams. —_. 1.80
ide — A handy brush-ap coarse with

i

arteoning
42. Handbook Nurses Aide
4, How a Plane Files

yor Promotion Exams

A, Practice for Civil Service Promotions — Am Arce
stedy book
aa iarreeiee: for Firemen — A basic book on oo SOPs

Miter Dente TNC A bade FOR oe hoe

JLEADER BOOK STORE

Duane St., N. Y. 7, N. Y.
Neate send me books mambercd @boVe? mnensniemnmrmnsnmimmen [fl
| enclose check or money order FOF Semmventnnnssemnemnnmenesemmemn

Md 1Se for postage. |

e |

Midress f |

and State

= —

finterest aspects ef | tion of trends highlight =

civil service, expert ani flight NYC Employee nie
‘ur eases and sharp LEADER, tes

MYC Welfare Department
Raymond Hi

sources — © poor m-

Ployees.’
“With respect to employees in
ent, the facts are

were made in this Department.

the fifteen month period ending
June 30, 1949, the public assist-

ance caseload increased by 14,248,
or or 10.2%, while staff increased
by 906, or over 15%,

Working Conditions

“In addition to the salaries and
numbers of staff,.working con-
ditions have been greatly improved
at almost every point, and we
are currently spending a greater
amount for new equipment than
for any similar period in the his-
tory of the Department of Wel-
fare. It is true that there is still
much need for improvement in
working conditions, but we are
making, and will continue to
make, substantial progress in this
respect,

“With respect to relief allow-
ances, in October and November
1948, food allowinces were in-
creased by approximately 25%.
The cost of making this additional
and realistic allowance for food
totaled over $11,000,000 from the
time that the change was made
until the end of the fiscal year.

“No provision had been made
im the budget for such increase
im food allowances, despite the
very great actual increase in the
cost of food. The last previous

adjustment in food costs in rea
lief allowances was made in De~
cember 1946, Had it not been for
this adjustment, obviously the
surplus would have been increased
by $11,000,000, The average cost
per case receiving public assist-
ance rose from $73.05 in April
1948 to $81.31 in June 1949,

The Sources

“The budget surplus, therefore,
came from two sources: first,
better functioning policy and
staff; second, insistence that every,
employable person on relief ac-
cept suitable employment, and in«
sistence also on more accurate
determination of eligibility, result-
ing in an actual decrease of 4,145
in the total caseload between
June 1948 and November 1948,
Even with the unexpected and
yery severe increase in uncm~
ployment which began in De-
cember 1948 and which continued
withoyt interruption to the end
of the fiscal year (June 30, 1949),
the caseload did not reach the
anticipated budget figures for the
year.

“I know you will agree that no
administrator should feel an ob-
ligation to spend money unneces«
sarily or without justification,”

More Auto-Enginemen
Sign Annual Pay Pacts

Domestic refrigeration will cov-
er refrigeration physics, service
Problems, repairs and intense
Practical application. The course
began August 15 and is planned
to train men tobecome refriger-
ation mechanics and service per-

sonnel,
The course in motion picture
operating is designed to qualify

students to meet the requirements

for a motion picture operator’s
license ugust 22, '

that under @ prevailing rate, If
one were established, Auto En-
ginemen would get about $3,000
@ year for a five-day week of 40
hours, or less than under the
present terms of the agreement.

said| He asked the Board to provide

for a $3,250 minimum for a five-
day, 40-hour week, with $3,624
for a six-day week as worked in
the Departments of Sanitation
and Hospitals. He also com-
Plained that the Department of
Public Works had changed from
& five-day to « six-day week for
Auto Enginmen, and wanted the
$3,624 to apply there, also. Mr.
Rossi figues. the prevailing rate
would exceed $4,000.

Mr. Patterson said that more
and more Auto Enginemen are
withdrawing their claims under

rates.|the Labor Law and signing an-

nual agreements.

Those who are prosecuting the
Prevailing wage claims are main-
ly members of the Civil Service
Forum,

Royal Schools Teach
Shorthand Course

The Royal Business Schools
have tested the New Simplified
Gregg System of learning short
hand for the past four months
and find that it can be taught in
less than two months, It is easy
for review students and beginners
alike to learn; now everyone can
learn to read and write shorthand
quickly, say the schools.

‘The demand for day and eve-
ning classes has been so great at
‘the Royal Business Schools that
they have opened another school at

140 West 42d Street, Rates have
been reduced,

Immediate Jobs Available

for Qualified Personne)
Ofice—Social Service—Medical
Technical—Engineering
Hee Mtr, Comelanae
former ‘Civil ‘Service Examiner
QUALIFIED "ERSONNEL aemney.
114 Liberty St. Hm,
REctor 2-7663-4

¢ SHOPPING “GUIDE >

vn

© Television

© Refrigerators

® Automatic
Washers

20 to 40% OFF

Ou Your Favorite Breud

=p to
36 months pay

LAKIN’ S  seritaces

. EV 9-4374

Manhattan Ave.
TISREENPOINT, BKLYN., N. Y.
Ind. Sub. OG Train, Ave. Bta,

DISCOUNTS—From 20% te 40%

fam" fm the, way of Nationally
nous Household Appliances, Such
tema as

‘TELEVISION

Pressure Cookers: Sandwich
Electric Trains; Washing Mac
Refrigerators; Badio: Fountain

Jewelry, ete,
Lea 25 East 26th Se.

Grille;

$ SAVE ‘DOLLARS $

WE HAVE EVERYTHING FOR
MB
Television Wetrigerators

Radios +
Washing Machines

Toasters Irons +
Vacuum Etc
STANDARD MERCHANDISB
EMPIRE RADIO CO
@06 Third Ave. at 43rd St N. H
8098

Open Eves wil ® Except Wednesday
Civil Service Employees Only

TELEVISION SALE!

Minimum discount 25%
en ony set on our floor
Popular Brands Only.

BRODY SALES CO.
1836 Boston Rd. Bronx, N. Y.

LUdlow 9-7400
THOR WASHERS ? ? f

@* SAVE — DON'T WASTE -#@
YOUR PRIZED
COSTUME JEWELRY
repai

Courteous Ahsan: service assured.
£ SAM BORELL
11 John 8t. Rm 608 N.Y.C,,
OSSSESS BEckman 3-054364F6EH
Alwavs a Better Buy
At STERLING'S
Save Up To 56%

0 ontionally advertises jewelry
watches silverware diamonds

STERLING JEWELERS
Clrele 6-821

TA Weet 46 St. NL

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

NEW YORK CITY NEWS

Appeal to All Civil Service:
Open Your Home to an Infant

An urgent appeal has been is-
sued by the NYC Department of
Welfare to all civil service em-
Ployees, Negro and white, of all
Taces and creeds, to open their
homes to babies in need of foster
care, The appeal is addressed to
ctvil service employees as a group,
because “among the employees of
the city, state and nation there
seem to be so many fine families
who have excellent homes to offer
children,”

In this connection it is interest-
ing to note that of the homes ap-
proved to date by the Foster Home
Program, one-third are the homes

of civil service employees.

The infants who need placement
come from homes broken by illness
and other family misfortune. Their
parents are temporarily unable to
care for them, They are normal,
healthy children, as appealing as
only babies can be, living in hos
pitals only because there is no
other place for them to go, Al-
though the hospitals do their best
to care for them, although the
babies are fed, bathed and clothed,
they lack the love and attention
which is essential for normal
growth and development.

The Department of Welfare will

NYC Junior S

Test To Open on Sept. 12

The NYC Civil Service Com-
mission will open the Junior
Statistician examination on Mon-
day, September 12, Last date to
apply will be Tuesday, September
27.

The job pays $2,400 total. An-
nual increments of $120 can bring
the pay to $2,630,

Junior Statisticians are eligible
for promotion to Statistician,
$2,751 to $3,350.

There are 20 present vacancies,

Candidates must have a bac-
calaureate degree issued upon
completion of a course of study
registered by the University of
the State of New York, Paid e
perience as a full-time statistician
will be accepted in lieu of edu-
cation on a year-for-year basi
Persons who expect to be grad-
uated by June 30, 1950 will be
admitted to the examination but
must present evidence to the
Bureau of Investigation that they
have complied with the foregoing
requirements prior to certification,

Training or experience of
character relevant to the duties
of the position which was acquired
while on military duty or while
engaged in a veterans’ training

WENT =

$55 WEEKLY GUARANTEED!
IN YOUR SPARE TIME!
AT HOME—AT WORK

tatistician

or rehabilitation program recog-
nized by the Federal Government
will receive due credit.

Candidates are cautioned that
in order to pass the written test
they must have a working know-
ledge of statistical methods and
procedures.

Under close supervision Junior
Statisticians compile statistical
data, perform calculations re-
quiring a knowledge of statistical
theory, prepare data for presenta-
tion by means of tables: and
graphs, prepare reports involving
interpretations of statistical data,
conduct minor statistical studies
and perform related work.

The written test will have a
weight of 100; 75 per cent is the
Pass mark,

The written test will be used
to evaluate the candidates, know-
ledge of statistical methods and
procedures as well as his general
intelligence,

Candidates will be required to
Pass a qualifying medical test
prior to appointment,

Do not attempt to apply be-
fore September 12,

A study book for Junior Statis
tician and Statistical Clerk has
just been prepared by the Arco
Editorial Board. Copies are avail-
able at The LEADER Book Store,
97 Duane Street, New York 7.
See ad on page 15, The price is
$2.

ELECTROLATION

1600 aire removed permanently
(in one

Face © Arms © Body @ Legs
ate Men's Dept

Write tor free Polder

CLARA REISNER INSTITUTE

of COSMETOLOGY
508 With Ave, N. ¥. VA 6-1628

TYPEWRITERS RENTED
FOR EXAMS
No Pick Up or Deters Ch Charge

Alse Bought, Sold
rented by the mont!

BEACON TYPEWRITE!
6 Maiden Lane. off Bway, oRve
Orth 4-375!

pay for the cost of a child’s care,
providing $55 a month as board
for children under two years, and
$50 a month as board for children
from two to three years of age.
In addition, medical and dental
care, clothing and other necessary
expenses will be provided.

Interested persons are urged to
apply now at:

Department of Welfare
902 Broadway
New York 10, N. ¥.

Ex-Lieut. Fay Loses
Suit Over Pension Pay

A court action by retired Police
Lieutenant David Fay, who sought
to compel NYC to pay his pension
during the period he was em-
ployed as a civilian by the War
Department, was unsuccessful be-
fore Supreme Court Justice Peter
M, Daly. The court cited chapter
897 of the City Charter, which
authorized the suspension of pen-
sion or retirement allowance pay-
ments during the time a NYC
pensioner is employed by the U. 8S,
government,

The law has been changed,
since the period during which
Mr. Fay worked for the U. 8.
government, to permit pension
payments,

Grade 3 Clerks Offered
Transfer Opportunity

An opportunity is offered to a
3rd grade male stenographer, by
transfer, to take charge of a new
Division recently established in a
City department. Good working
conditions, fine office and a chance
for advancement are offered.

Communicate with Mr. Taylor,
Secretary, New York City Teach-
ers’ Retirement System, 154 Nas-
sau Street, NYC.

CHRONIC DISEASES

of NERVES, SKIN and STOMACH
Kidneys, Bladder, Weaken

en
PENICILLIN, All Modern Injections

* PILES HEALED |
| Sas

Ricose v VEINS TREATE®) |
kan | tRAY ing Taare

FEE $3
Medicine

Dr. Burton Davis

jours: Mon., Wed.. Frt.. 9:30-6:98
‘Thurs, @ Set 9:30-2:00. Sun. &
Holidays 10-18 A.M. Closed Tues,

_ @ READER'S SERVICE GUIDE

y
) oe
LR ASS

SES

Everybody’s

21 AEA SLE ANNAN ETN MENT

After Hours

Savings

Bence SALAS, ts
NASSAU EET

New York’ ‘Ghy es Olgby o-16800
Photography

Bpecial discounts photographic equip.

Liberal time pay Beat prices paid

om used equip Spec. 8mm film rentals.

CITY CAMERA EXCHAN iE
41 Jobo St. N.Y. 908

Discounta Up To 40%
On Jewelry For
Civil Service Employees
Name brand Watches and quality
Diainonda our Specialty.
, ape

0 JEWE!
Room 1207
Brooklyn, N. Ys

Mala 4-370

HALLICRAPTERS

The NYC Employee

(Continued from Page 1)
when a list is made “appropriate”
for filling jobs in other titles, that
had they only known that no test
was to be held for the position
they’d set their heart on, they'd
have applied for the exam with
the multiple job opportunities.

As the Commission will have a
heavy fall and winter exam sched-
ule, it is striving to use particular
lists for filling as many other jobs
as possible, One of the heavy as-
signments is the list of promotion
tests for supervisory positions in
the Board of Transportation,
which Fred H. Hedin has pre-
pared weil in advance,

When Court Cases Hurt

CIVIL SERVICE court cases
usually are squabbles for jobs. One
of the hurtful effects is when
Persons who have been appointed
‘have to be let out because a court
found that the list used was’ not
the right one or some other ob-
jection to the appointments, or

romotions, was judicially upheld,

then employees have to buy uni-
forms, and then find that the jobs
to which they were appointed
doesn’t last, they’re out of work
and out of pocket. The uniform
can’t be turned into civilian garb
just by removing the brass but-
tons. The cut of the coat isn’t in
line with what men_ generally
wear and one gets stared at in the
street and in subways, as happen-
ed to a man who had a short-
lived career as Correction Officer.
He had to discard the disguised
uniform,

Eligibles on the Transit Patrol-
man-Correction Officer-Bridge and
Tunnel Officer list found them-
selves at odds with incumbent pro-
visionals in the Inspector of Mar-
kets, Weights and Measures jobs.
‘The Commission had declared the
triple list appropriate for filling
permanently the vacancies which
were filled temporarily by the pro
visionals, But the court upheld the
provisionals’ contention that the
test for the triple-titled list was
not one suitable for producing

rsons qualified for the Inspector
jobs. Meanwhile the Transit Pa-
trolman eligibles — all disabled
veterans — had been appointed as
Inspectors, some had quit jobs in
private industry and were among
the unemployed after the court
order was entered.

The Commission favors ap-
pealing the case.

More Bus Driver Jobs

THE EXAMINATION for Sur-
face Line Operator — drivers of
buses and operators of trolley
cars — that the Commission will
open, possibly add to the Septem-
ber series, will provide at least
1,000 job opportunities to eligibles

did the previous test. Since the
last one was held the City has
acquired Staten Island and Man-
hattan bus lines, so that the jobs
are not exclusively in Brooklyn
and Queens.

In the last exam 11,438 applied.
‘The distribution by boroughs dur-
ing the first filing period was

STATE OF NEW YORK — INSURANCE
DEPARTMENT, ALBANY — I, Robert E,
Dineen, Supt, of Insurance of the State of
New York hereby certify pursuant to law
that ‘The Lumbermens Mutual Insurance
Company, Mansfield, Ohio, is duly licensed

the “ieliorine "s

Assets, $7.086,057.87; Total Li

cept Capital), $5,166,453.27; Surplus as
rogards Policyholders, $1,031,204. on
come for $6,329,274.05

Dis-
urvementa for the sear, $3,004,043.74.

| tome would
ARE YOU LONESOME? t! 7, Somewhere there ie some-
HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR EVENINGS? | one who would like to know you In an
Group classes now forming for adult |exclusive and discreet manngr “Social
beginners in personality, Diane, | {ntroduction Service” nas brought te
voice, social dancing. drama, languages, | gether many diseriminating men and wo-
painting, photography, —paychology, | mem With great solicitude and prudence
Bible and shorthand. What would you | you can enjoy m richer, happer life, Write
sar those “were ‘all given PREIE | for booklet ec or phone RN 9.2038,
details, CL. 17-6160, MAY RICHARDSON
LiL W. 784 St. H.Y.0. Diy. 10-7; Sum. 18-6
a ancghTe AMERICAN
Central American, Mexican.
Rican Ladies and Gentlemen wish te, Mr. Fixit
Sorreapond with single people in Mew
01 rite —_——
CLUB PAN AMERICA BXPERT WATCH REPAIRS, alse
Box 8564 Houston 9, ‘Texas ARD

SELECTED INTRODUCTIONS
Leading to Friendship and Marriage
Service that is Different
Circular on Request.
Holes Brooks, 100 W. 4tod St. WI 7

DISAPPOINTED?

Yor BEST RESULTS write
BELEAN | CORKESEONUENGE ‘om
Box 338 times Sq, N.Y.0.

WANT gucceesfal Job Requlte? Consult:
RESUMES, x

FARN MONEY
Selling nationally _ady
on credit. High rate

IN BALES 00,

MOTOROLA & STONE,
C - DO Television $90.05
B AVe4 Ne MU 7-3643

4105 Broadway

STAND. BRAND WATCHES
BOSSE SNTIOL S1scounss
Watebmakers and Jewelers, A.N.
{2'Foun Bee MTG. Now 30007-1108,

Sewer

2490 | SEWERS OR DRAINS BAZON-KLEENED. 0

No resulta, no charge.
Electric Roto-Rooter ‘Phone
TA 6-6444: NA 8-0588: TA 2.0125.

ENVELOPES ADDRESSED Public typ-
‘imeographing, Multigraphing UN 4

Siion

A complete study book for Pos-
tal Clerk-Carrier has just been
prepared by the Arco Editorial
Board. Copies are available at The
Leader Book Store, Duane
Street, New York 1, N. X, The
price is $2,

ee

STATE OF NEW YORE. —-IAURANOR
DEPARTMENT, ALBANY — I, Robert E,
Dincen, Supt. of Insurance of the State of
New York hereby certify pursuant to 1a
that the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile
Insurance Company, Colum! hi

duly licensed to transact the
insurance in this State and that
Ment filed for the "year ended Dees Si,
1S45 shows the following condition: Total
Admitted Assets $36,043,304,

301,106.85

STATE OF NEW YORK — INSURANOE
DEPARTMENT, ALBANY Rol
Dineen, Supt. of Insurance of the State, of
New York hereby certify pursuant to law
that the Central Manufacturers Mutual In-
surance Company, Van Wert, Ohio, is duly
jcensed to transact the business of insur-
ance in thie State and that ite statement
filed for the year ended Deo. 1948
Shows the following condition: ‘Total
mitted Ausets, $18,725.822.40¢ Total Liao.
ities (except Capital) $12,009, 987 20

lus As regards policyholders, $5,

: Income for the year,

=the year,

disabled veterans

Broan,
a

and besides afford a wider geo- | §
graphical distribution of jobs than | iq sTaNLEY SOSHUK, decoased, who
at the, time of his death resident of
East 6th Street, in the City of q

nine hundred and forty-nine,

why

* |gomie,to5

Manhattan, 1,612; Brooklyn, 3
Bronx, 829; Quéens, 1, 171;
Richmond, 235. Although Man}
tan contributed the second 1a;
number of candidates, there
no jobs in Manhattan. Also tj
were no jobs in Richmond,
with conditions changed, the |;
number of declinations, ay;
Probably for the most part #4
objection to travelling a long
tance to wok should not rq

Samuel H. Galston, Directo,
Examinations, said that the
tative opening period in mind
October, but that the new
would be added to the Septen}
series “if it's in any way’ pos,
to squeeze it in.”

Whether the City likes {|
not, it realizes that i will }
more, rather than fewer, bus jj
in the future. That means ym
bus operator jobs and also m
more jobs in the shops, incre;
the opportunities for Maintain
Helpers in the examinations
be held in November, applicati
for which are now closed.

Know Your City
JUST in case the question ¢
up in some NYC exam, as it
might, you should know the
wer. If a man with a broad ¥
lish accent jumps into a tax!
and says to the driver, “I sigh,
topper, will you hasten me to
residence at No, 10 Dow
Street?”, the correct response
would be (A) Say Brother Brit
er, you seem to forget that yo
not in dear ol’ London now, but
NYC; (B) I'll have to o

Policeman to see if there's
such place in town; (C) O.K
correct answer is (C) for therg
@ No, 10 Downing Street in Gre

wich Village, on the west side

Sixth Avenue,

150 Disabled Vets
Head Transit Police Lis!

There are about 150 names
left on

‘Transit Patrolman-Correction
ficer-Bridge and Tunnel Off
eligible list.

ADAM
SCAU, ISABELLH 6/0
HINAK, ‘the next of kin
heira at law of STANISLAW
NLY SZOSTCZUK,

and | STANLEY
ed, send greeting

Sos

Whereas, HENRY SHOSTOHUK, vhd

sides at 49 Hazelwood Road, Staten Is

the City of New York, has late!

will and. teste

the County of New Yi

of Records in the County of New
on the 23rd day of September, one th
‘at hal
ten o'clock in the forenoon’ of that

‘the said will and testament 0}
not be admitted to probate aa a Wi

Personal property.

In testimony whereof, we have °if
the seal of the’ Surrogate's
of the said County of Nev
to be hereunto affixed. Wit
Honorable George Franken

(L8.1 Surrogate of our said Cou

New York, at said coun
16th day of July, im the 7%
gur Lod one thousand nist
dred and. forty nin

MILIP A, DONAHUE,
cterk of the ‘Surrogmte's

STATE OF NEW YORK — INSUBAl
DEPARTMENT, ALBANY. — I, Robe

Al
Dineen, Supt. of Insurance of tho Sis
New York hereby certify pursuant 1
.| that the Farm Bureau Mutual
‘ance: Company,
licensed

ad Fare

mitted Assets, $5,059,163.
abilities (except Capital)
Surplus a regards rem tant
201.19; Income for the year, $6.0
jursements for the ye

STATE OF NEW YORK cas
DuPARIENE ALAN = te fal

the year ended Dev, 31,

following condition: untied

Tial
sets, $21,221,424.49; Total Liabilitics
copt Capital)’ $17,078,081,08;

00,000.00; Surplus a
‘gasbt: income ce
piper

0
eserves,
gards Policyholders,

he year, $7.0

‘the: gear $538

at 5
‘Voll

|

GEVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Fifteen

Page th
n the Board of
are still
provisionals in the
ie, Over the four-year maxi-
yo legal fe of the new list
LE li ag gre)
im soon
gr the new list is promulgated.
ne Jobs are im all NYC de-

|

~NEW YORK CITY NEWS

RNS Ser

lerk Grade 2, Test
o Open in October

icipate in
ernational Police Pistol Tourna-

nt,
his tournament is sponsored by
New York Daily Mirror and
‘Teaneck Police Department.
the ninth consecutive time in
many years, the fire fighting
poiers will step to the firing
, shoulder to shoulder with the
st shots of the law-enforcing
nciés from all over the world,
well as civilian marksmen who
ssify as champions, and with
mbers of the armed forces.
The shooting lounge of the club,
well as the trophy case in Fire
pulquarters, gives testimony of
accomplishments of NYC's
poting Firemen, In observing
ayle Day this year, they hope
present their Commissioner
me prizes.
Permission bas been requested
b alow members to make mutual
changes of tours and to leave
he city to attend the event. Com-
issloner Quayle and his staff
ve always cooperated with the

@ix Teams for Club

Bix teams will represent the
b tm the four-man team
ches, as well as several two
n teams and many individual

Crime Laboratory

Technician Instructor

Experienced in police erime
detection technique, Full or
part time, Established school
in Manhattan. State educa-
tion, experience and salary,

Box 470, LEADER

97 Duane St., N.Y.C.

LEGAL NOTIC
ANION, The People of the State of New
vk, By the Grace Free and In-

Ftd widow of GEORGH 0, MOSELEY,
deceased,
4 dead, "to the executors, ad-
lstraiors and next of kin of said "MARY
I deceased whose names and Poot Of-
Addresses are unknown and eannot after
feat inquiry be ascertained by
Nloner erein, and the next of kin
GEORGE 0, MOSELBY, also known as
PRG MOSELEY, daceased, whose
fies and Post Office addresses aro un-
Wn and cannot after diligent Inquiry
acertaled by the petitioner herein
interes

his denth was —
Sth Street, New York City, SEND

EETING

‘on jon ef The Public Ad-
tirator ef the County of Mew York,
174 ble office at Hall ef Records Room

tof 189

ire Dept. Crack Shots
o Compete on ‘Quayle Day’

the main group.
refreshments after the shoot-

Amandus V, Matthews and his
committee,
Some of the shooters will be

» Dick Clarke, Milt
Shapiro, Tom Monohan, Walter
Feldt, Max Herer, Lou Calamari,
Frank Panella, Athley Block, Augie
Dennerlein, Carl Springer, Lou
Carosella, Vincent Tortorice and
many others,

aaa

cea

eae ene

Bonus Is Temporary,
Budget Terms Warn

Vacation Limit 25 Days - No Vacancies fo Be Filled Unless Necessary - Call
fo Snow Removal Work Must Be Obeyed.

‘Twenty-five days of vacation are
the Hmit in NYC. That means
26 working days off. Sundays, or
other regular days off, and holl-
days don’t count.

No vacancies shall be filled in
NYC unless the public business
can not otherwise be properly
performed.

The cost-of-living adjustment,
popularly known as the bonus, is
temporary and subject to revo-
cation when economic conditions
warrant

it.

Laborers, skilled mechanics and
im addition some others also must
respond to snow duty calls, Yes,
sir, they’ve got to pick up that
shovel and lay # down full of
mow, raising it again, empty, if
such exertions do not constitute
working out of title. Refusal is
punishable by withholding pay
for the days during which the
may-nay was in effect.

Provisions Are in the Budget

‘These provisions, and others af-
fecting employees of NYC, are
contained in the Terms and Con-
ditions of the 1949-50 budget,
now in effect. The Terms and
Conditions are not known to most
City employees, who don’t get
copies of the budget for them-
selves, Few City employees have
any ‘unity or occasion to
ook at the printed volume known
as the Budget as Adopted, with
the important Terms and Con:

Te

=

RICHARD
WIDMARK

‘Slattery’s

LINDA
DARNELL

VERONICA |
LAKE

Hurricane”’

A 20th Century Fox Picture

On Variety Stage — SID CAESAR EVELYN KNIGHT
On lee Stage “CARMEN”

Sterring CAROL LYNNE

wz ROXY

ARNOLD SHODA

50th St.
Tth Ave. &

All thet the name tmplios te re-
flected ta the Sepphire Ble Seo

can’t be missed.
Filling of Vacancies Restricted

On the subject of vacancies the
Terms and Conditions set forth:
“No vacancy .. . existing on
July 1, 1949, or occurring there-
after during the fiscal year
shall be filled except upon a
tificate issued by the Director of
the Budget and then only upon
the terms contained in such cer-
tificate. . .

“Because of conditions con-
fronting the City, in order to live
within code totals by accumula-
ting accruals, it is hereby declared
to be the policy of the Board of
Estimate that no vacancies oc-
curring in any agency during
the year shall be filled unless the
public business can not otherwise
be properly performed, and ac-
cordingly before any certificate
of approval shall be issued by the
Director of the Budget, such fact
must be shown to his satisfaction.”

A code is a subdivision of a
departmental or service budget
comprising lines of appropriation.
An accrual is an appropriation
not expended or to be expended
for the appropriated purpose,
hence may be anticipatory.

Bonus “Yemporary-

The bonus is covered by the
following:

“The cost of living adjustment
now included herein shall be con-
sidered temporary in nature and
subject to revocation at such
time as living conditions permit
due to improvement in actual

ditions right up front, where they | the

cost of living and is provided with

understanding that no part
of said adjustment shall be con-
sidered in computing the pension
contribution of either an em-
ployee of the City or for the pur-
pose Of fixing any rights for pen-
sion or retirement purposes as
specifically set forth in the agree~
ment form required to be signed
by each employee receiving such
cost-of-living adjustment.”

Snow Removal

The
follows:

“All laborers or skilled mech-
anics, and all other employees
whose duties are appropriate
thereto, shall upon request of
the Commissioner of Sanitation
be required to work, consistent
with their titles, upon or in con-
nection with snow removal, and
if their compensation is fixed upon
@ per annum basis, no extra com~
pensation shall
such work for that number
days upon which their
num compensation is b:
any such employee shall
refuse to work upon or in con-
nection with snow remoyal, his
per annum compensation shall be
reduced proportionately to the
number of days during which he
fails so to work.”

snow removal provision

e paid them for
of

A complete study book for the
test titled State Clerk-Typist-
Stenographer, has been prepared
by the Arco Editorial Board. Copies
are available at The Leader Book
Store, 97 Duane Street, New York

1, N. ¥. The price is $2.

Wonderful New

(] Bookkeeper
(Ol Bus Maintainer (A & B) $2.00

( Cor Maintainer ... $2.06
C] Civil Service Arithmetic

and Vocabulary $1.50
(] Civil Service Handbook $1.00
( Clerk, CAF 1-4 $2.00
[i] Clerk, Grade 2 ccerne $2,00
[J Clerk-Typist-Stenographer
$2.00
(Complete Guide
Civil Service Jobs $1.00
Oo Electrician $2.50
( Engineering Tests —... $2.50

(Factory Inspector —-.. $2.00
Fingerprint Technician $2.00
Fireman (1949 Edition) $2.50

$2.00
al Test Gulde ... $2.00
(] Guard Patrotman $2.00
(J Health tnspector $2.50
EE] H. S. Diploma Test —..... $2.00
aveene $2.00
[5] Immigrant Inspector —. $2.00
Jr. Professional Asst... $2.00

Jr, Statistician and
Statistical Clerk 2.00
ker . $3.00
$2.00
iner's Helper —... $2.00

2.00 |

og0o0os ooa08o0o0 ooo0000

ARCO BOOKS!

PASS ALL TESTS!

(I Accountant & Auditor .. $2.00) ( Mail Handler ...
$2.50|[-] Messenger .

. $2.00
$2.00
[El Motorman $2.00
[[] Motor Veh. Lic, Exam ..$2,50
[] Office Appliance Optr. .. $2.00
Oi! Burner Installer —.. $2.50
Park Ranger . $2.00
Patrol Inspector .. $2.00
Patrolman ('49 Edition) $2.50
Plumber... $2.00
Postal Clerk-Carrier
Practice for Civil Service
Promotion
Printing Plant Worker
Real Estate Broker .....
Resident Bldg, Sup
Sanitation Man (B) ..
Scientific Aid
Social Investigator
Special Agent ..
Stationary Engni
Fireman ...
Stock Assistant
Student Nurse
Structure Maintainer .
Student Aid
Surface Line Operator
Telephone Operator

4
3
ry
=
5
<
m
ES
>
=

U.S. Secretary—(Study
Steno-Typist, CAF 7) .. $2.00
CO Sr. Fite cl -- $2.00
[7] Wage-Hour Investigator $2.00

|

Examine these and many other helpful titles at the Leader
Bookstore, 97 Duane Street, N. Y, er mail the coupon.

Rivate Swimming Pool,...Gey Cabana
Clab, Ale Conditioned Sea View Dining
Room ond Cockieil Lounge ond the

a a

LEADER BOOK Ee

97 Duane Street, N. Y. 7,.N. Y.
Please send me copier

ey |] Dence Pete where swaying palms and
Ye ae wf booke checked above,
to Ea ‘goods, enchanting mesh he meglio In the enclose check or morey order
te , moonlight, Add 160 ft ti
Tenia ratect We, Rar gnsend : With E: y. Gidaye tor delivers
ef the sald Counts af Mew Fook Soule) very N.Y.C, dreo 0 for 24 our Moca delivery
to be hi ito affixed. ae io 0.0.D'e
eas Witte HONORABL gronoe % oo Book — Invaluable New
INTHALER, « Surr
ofr anid County, nthe Gotaty drco “Outline Chart of ogee LL)
orl ‘22nd ‘
~ shourana Eh a i New York City Govt.”
rash nae aie N BEA Olty and Stato .eseeeceeses
(oy Mans yot: she Burrogate's Comrt| Soin
Page Sixteen

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

rors

NEW

eS MN AN a er

Strong NYC Employee Units

YORK CITY

“

Get Behind Career-Pay Plan

(Continued from Page 1)
fm guaranteeding adequate job
performance,”

Stand in Favor by C1O Group

The American Civic Employees
Union, CIO, issued a statement
saying in part:

“tm our dual role as citizens
and employees, we must take a
positive stand in favor of the
long rdue — reclassification,

which, if properly administered,
will st out the muddle
of the City’s personnel policies,
‘The employees themselves have
the greatest stake in efficient civil
service, At the same time, real-
izing the dangers which might

from any job study, the
ACEU will insist upon a number
of safeguards and the creation

of a permanent agency with full
employee representation which
will be strong enough to see to
it that safeguards are enforced.”
‘Has Got to Be Made’

Speaking for the Civil Service
Technical Guild, Mr, Brueck, its
president, told Civil Service Com-

missioner Joseph A, McNamara
and Assistant Budget Director
Abraham D, Beame: “We realize

that a sound, objective career and
salary study has got to be made,
It can't be done in a day, Over
the years, people have grown into
their jobs, Dozens are working
in titles below those they should
have, Our present system is out-
moded ss far as salaries and
duties is concerned.” Mr, Brueck
felt, however, that the job should

How Fireman

The LEADER next week will
continue the publication of the
names of NYC Fireman (F.D.)
eligibles in the prospective ap-
pointment order, A list has
been published, but not prom-
ulgated, and candidates notified
by the NYC Civil Service Com-
mission where they stand on the
list in the order of percentages.
But appointments are not made
in the order and the numerical
standing by percentages, especial-
ly where the list is large, as here,
gives information of little, if any,
value,

Some eligibles have inquired
why they wound up farther down
on the list than the standing
announced by the Commission.
The answer is that the list as
published by the Commission with
names in the order of relative
standing by percentages, has to
be completely re-arranged, be-
cause of veteran preference. Any
disabled veteran who passed the
test skipped over all other can-
didates, and an non-disabled vet-
eran who passed skipped over all
non-veterans, It is impossible in

List Changes

any given instance to say how
many disabled veterans went
ahead of the non-disabled vet-
erans, because of preference,
since some disabled veterans had
higher scores than non-disabled
veterans whom they therefore
didn’t skip.
No Formula

There is no formula by which
one may compute his position
on the list in prospective appoint-
ment order, after application of
veteran preference to the list
as published by the Commission,
because of variable and even un-
ascertainable quantities. All that
non-disabled veterans can safely
say is that they will be lower
down on the appointment order
list than the lowest disabled vet-
eran on that list, while non-vet-
erans will be lower down than the
lowest non-disabled veteran.

Because of the impossibility of
computation The LEADER re-
arranges and publishes the list
in prospective appointment order
— a service it alone renders —
and thus informs the candidates
of approximately where they
really stand,

not take two years. [There has
been no official statement from
anybody that it would take two
years,—Ed,]

Lauds DeGraft

Speaking of John T. DeGraff,
the Mayor's appointee to conduct
the survey, Mr. Brueck stated:
“I know Mr. DeGraff personally.
I have battled with him many
times in Albany, But I don’t
know anybody better qualified
than DeGraff to conduct this job.”

Equal Pay for Equal Work

His organization wants equal
pay for equal work, Mr, Brueck
continued, and wants those sal-
ary adjustments “now in the
works” to be processed without
reference to the over-all survey.
He also asked a statement of in-
tent and plan of procedure from
the committee,

15 AFL Unions

Speaking for fifteen unions in
the American Federation of La-
bor, Mr, Feinstein stated that, his
organization had studied all avail-
able material about the pending
Career and Salary plan and “‘we're
wholeheartedly behind it.” Mr,
Feinstein condemned what he
called “bickering” by some em=
ployee groups appearing before
the Mayor's committee.

“Their attitude is an attempt
to sabotage this great advance in
civil service or they have political
considerations,” he said. “The
end result of their foolishness is
to hurt the employees of the City.
We are asking a number of safe-
guards in the Career and Salary
Plan, but with these assured we
are giving the Mayor’s project the
fullest cooperation. We know his
sincerity in this because he has
promised there would be no wage
cuts, and has found the man best-
qualified in the entire country
to do the job.”

Mr. Beame asked those appear-
ing before him, at recent hear-
ings whether they had objection
to an “outsider”—that is, some-
one not from NYC to conduct the
survey. In nearly all cases, the
employees stated they saw no ob-
jection,

NEWS

‘No ‘Shori-

Cut to

A Good Career Plan

It ts @ delusion that any short=
cut can be found for a proper
Career and Salary Plan. At the
same time, there is no reason to
believe why such a plan cannot
be completed in a year's time,

These views were expressed
last week by James R, Watson,
executive director of the Civil
Service Reform Association in let-
ters to the heads of public em-
hs organizations in New York

ity. oo

What a Good Plan Means

Mr, Watson's letter made these
additional points;

1, A good Career and Salary
Plan will provide a just and ade~
quate wage for work done;

2, It will assure equal pay for
equal work;

3. It will furnish a clear de-
scription of the duties of the job,

4, Proper lines of promotion
opportunities will be set up.

5. The project will end the sit-
uation where employees doing the
same work get different pay and
employees doing unequal work get
the same pay:

6. It will end the injustice
where supervisors often earn less
than the people they supervise,

7, It will end the hodge-podge
existing today where a number
of different titles exist for the
same work,

False Rumors

Mr. Watson deplored that
“some employces, who have the
most to gain from a_ practical
career and salary plan, have been
misled into fearing it is apt to
result in loss of increases, and
have listened to rumors which
have no basis in fact.” He re-
minded the employee leaders that
the Mayor had personally guaran-
teed there would be no salary
cuts. -

Mammoth Task

Referring to statements made
before the two man committee
now holding employee hearings,
Mr, Watson said: “It is not true
that enough data has already been

assembled by the Budget Director |
and the Civil Service Commission

Brueck Next Week

The arguments presenteq
Philip Brueck, president of
Civil Service Technical Guild,
others heard last week at 4
Career and Salary Plan hea,
will be published in next y,
LEADER.

to make further study unecesg
The data that has been assenjy
is just @ sampling of the 4;
that will be necessary. In a
ice the size of New York's, (|
a mammoth task merely to q
termine the duties of every
Position — the first step in 4
Career and Salary project, To
‘up a sound, equitable Career
Salary Plan is a technical job

experts who can devote th
full time to it.” Mr. Watd
favors, however, an employ

committee to work with the ted
nicians at every stage of
project.

“The main purpose of the hey
ings now going on was to ena
the City employees to give cq
structive suggestions for the cy
duct of the study and the est,
lishment of the Career and §
ary Plan, It is unfortunate ¢
most of those who have spok{
at the hearings so far have j
stead concentrated on grievand
and deficiencies which can
cured only by a thorough, tg
to-botton reclassification.
would be the greatest assistan}
to those conducting the heari
and those who will later cond
the study if the employee re
resentatives who give their vie
from now on would do so wi
these facts in mind.

Speaking of the attitude
the Civil Service Reform Associ}
tion, Mr, Watson said his gro
favors adequate salaries for py
lic employees, comparable wi
those paid.in private indus!
wide opportunities for promoti
on merit; a sound retirement si
tem; a model career plan.

This is your day to discover that

RUPPERT

Not Heavy! Not Sweet!
RUPPERT “Feels Good” to Your Taste!

One day soon you'll lift a glass of beer .
and as your face lights up with that famous
SMILE OF PLEASURE—you'll know that you,
too, have discovered RUPPERT!
“switch to
RUPPERT” day? Just say

Why not make today your

“Make Mine RUPPERT” .

and get set for that RUPPERT

Smile of Pleasure.

IN BOTTLES, IN CANS
AND ON DRAUGHT

©1949, Ruppert Knickerbocker B

»sipeee

and Ruppert Ale, Jacob Ruppert, New York City

ae
SN