Civil Service Leader, 1941 January 28

Civil Series | Bie rorers ton
E ADE R Physical Test

New York, January 28, 1941 Price Fi See Page 4

POMING EXAM FOR

What It’s Like

POLICE SERGEANT
Applications Next Week

See Page 2

600 JOBS FOR MAINTAINER’S HELPER ELIGIBLES

. 8. ELIGIBLES FEDERAL EXAM
Get Standing on Lists} For Male Stenographer

1G LABOR EXAM 3,000 Sign Up for
Scheduled for 900 Jobs| SANITATION COURSE

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ABE KASOFF INVESTIGATED

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Coming Fireman Exam: Wha

To Be Announced in Spring; May Include Swimming

pie ty :
Professor Francis P. Wall
(Exclustve)

The Leaver this week rounded
up all available information on
the coming Fireman exam. The
data gathered Is such as to be of
importance to all those prepar-
ing for the te.

Definite urance that the
Municipal Civil Service Commis-
sion will announce and hold the
test this spring was given to The
Leaver by Paul J. Kern, president
of the Civil Service Commission, !

who revealed that he had
formally authorized Professor
Francis Patrick Wall, of NYU,
to work out the events which will
be used In the physical exam-
ination,

President Kern also announced
that Inasmuch as the test is slated
for this spring, only a short period
would elapse between the date for
the receipt of applications and the
actual written exam, The Commis-
sion must complete the first part of
the exam by early summer so that
the physical tests can be given out-
doors while the weather permits.

The first tentative description of
the physical parts of the exam,
which may count as much as 50 per-
cent of the final rating, is revealed
exclusively in this issue of The
Leaver. A general story of these
events appeared in The LrAaper
eral months ago, in an
story announcing that a Fireman
exam would be given. Further de-
aiis have been held in abeyance be-
use of the Illness of Professor Wall.

While the actual details of the
events are still in process of being
worked out by Professor Wall, it is
possible at this time to describe a
little more specifically than previ-
ously what Fireman candidates will
face in the physical exams,

Swimming Included

The Fireman physical test will be
designed to test the four main fac-
tors that were involved in the last
Police and Sanitation exams: endur-
ance, strength, agility, and coordina-
tion. In addition, it is expected that
a fifth factor—swimming—will be in-
cluded for the first time in a test for
jobs in the uniformed forces of the
city,

If a swimming test is included, as
is now tentatively planned, candi-
dates. will probably be required to
swim 100 yards, wearing a suit of
overalls, in a certain period of time.

While Professor Wall would like to
have swimming included in the test,
the Civil Service Commission is not
completely certain that this is advis-
lable. It is probable that a compro-

Sergeant Applications
Written Test Scheduled for May 24

Applications for the promotion
exam for Sergeant, Police De-|
partment, will be issued early
next week, probably beginning
Tuesday, at the offices of the
Municipal Civil Service Commi
sion, it was announced last
weekend. Announcement of the
exam, long expected by Patrol-
men and recently postponed,

What Every Sergeant Should Know

will be one of the February series
of tests,

Requirements for entrance to the
exam have not been officially an-
nounced by the Commission, but re-
liable sources predict that the test
will be open to any sixth-grade
Patrolman. The Commission recently
stated that any Patrolman with two
years of service would be eligible,
but this requirement may be cut still
further. Formerly a minimum of
four years of service was required
for eligibility,

Next Week

| _ It is expected that between 7,000
and 8,000 men will apply for the
|exam, the biggest in many months.
The written part of the test has
been scheduled for May 24 and the

Commission hopes to complete the
| eligible list by the end of the sum-
mer,

| For several weeks The Leaper has
been publishing  specially-prepared
study material for prospective Ser-
geants. Another in this series is in-
cluded in this issue.

Study Material for Coming Police Test: Part 5

Below is the fifth installment | Describe the departmental procedure | reco;
of the study material series for | when a juvenile is arrested; B—Ex- | ther

ance. The child shall be
upon placed in the custody of

the coming Sergeant exam, The|Plain the steps the Department is|the person executing the recogni-

Leaver will run this material,
compiled by an _ outstanding
authority, regularly until the

exam is given. Each condidate
for the exam is asked to look
upon this series as though he
were taking a course in school.
The method employed is to give
you a question one week, and the
answer in. the following issue.
During the interim, you should
work out your own answer, then |
compare {t with the one that ap- |
pears here, The series 1s based
upon the material which every
prospective Sergeant will need to
know for the examination.

Last week's question was an-
swered in part, To refresh your!
memory, here's the question again, |
with the remainder of the answer. |

Question 4

Realizing that the juvenile de
Unquent of today is the criminal ot
tomorrow, the Police Department is ,
vitally concerned in this matter, A—

laking to prevent and reduce juv-
enile delinquency.

ance, The Desk Officer should’ in-
form such person that failure to so

Qt fe

Answer to Question 4.

Part of A was answered last week, | Person liable for criminal contempt | 000 pai

Now continue.

(f) It parent, guardian or other
lawful custodian appears at station-
house to obtain the release of child,
Desk Officer may accept in lieu of
bail the personal recognizance in
writing (Form U.F. 24), without se-
curity, of parent, guardian, ete., of
sach child, to produce such child
before the proper court the next day,
at a time and place specified in the

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(g) In order to have child released
from the Children's Society, the Desk
Officer shall furnish parent, guardian,
ete., with a form U.F.26 (notice of
bail or recognizance—Juvenile Delin~
quent) and direct such person to pre-
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t It’s Like

mise plan will be effected—the can-
didate will have his choice of swim-
ming or some other event, probably
running.

Professor Wall intends, if the Fire
Department is willing, to test a rep-
resentative group of Firemen on an
experimental group of events, to find
out how well they do. On the basis
of this study, which may take several
months, he will shape the final events
for the physical exam,

In a large measure the Fireman
physical will be patterned after the
tests given in the recent Sanitation
and Police exams. However, they
will be modified to fit the duties of a
Fireman. Candidates may have to
carry dummies up and down special-
ly constructed ladders or stairs. The
purpose of carrying the dummies is
to duplicate actual conditions on the
job. Frequently Firemen are over-
come and have to be carried out of
cellars by their companions. In seri-
ous fires, men on the force are often
called upon to rescue persons by
carrying them down ladders.

Coordination Tést

‘The coordination test probably will
[resemble the one used for the first
| time in the Sanitation exam, How-
jever, the machine may be changed
somewhat to conform to standard
fire department equipment. This test
will be fully described as it takes its
final shape.

While no official requirements for
the Fireman exam have yet been set,
it has been learned that the Com-
mission intends to give special credit
for academic courses in chemistry,
physics, engineering, and closely re-
lated subjects. It is known that the

|men with a knowledge of these sub-
|iects into the department. The
Leaver advises all prospective can-
| didates to take an elementary course
|in chemistry, or read up carefully
|on the subject,

Additional information about the
physical tests, the written exam, full
offical requirements, and other ma-
terial for the Fireman’s test will ap-
pear in future issues of the LEADER
See announcement in lower left hand
corner.

Commission would like to get more|

Finish 4-Yea,
College Cours,

Commissioner William». ¢
of the Department of Sanji;(;,
instructed the Budget Ofc,
Department, Harry R. La,.9°!
include in the 1941-42 gep,i1.™
budget estimates two posi),
Junior Engineer (Sani
8, to provide for the advance
Maurice H. Feldman an4
Singer, two Department »,.,.
who were awarded the De.
of Sanitation scholarship.
1938. They will be gra
New York University by J,
year. They have also tak
petitive examination for
title, It is expected th
will be promulgated shoyi),
these two employees have
son to believe that they
cluded on it.

Commissioner Carey j
these positions in order (o ;
project advanced by May
Guardia in connection w
ing for scholarships and
Department men in spec
affecting the work of the p
of Sanitation,

Practical Knowledge

As these men will have
four years’ course. at the
pense (having received t/
in the interim), Commis.
feels that by including th.
budget, thus focusing a!
this matter, it will tie up
as a whole. In other
men competed in the [
examination, were select:
cessfully conducting
passed the required sut
York University and no:
to put to practical use t}
they have attained. 1
partment, the City and
uals will benefit accordin

This is another step in
with the program of C.
Carey who, at all time:
his deep interest in in-s«
ing courses under the «rect
Harry R. Langdon, Chief of the
Division of Finance and Supply of
the Department of Sanits

Failed Most Sanitat

(Exclusive)

More candidates fail medical
tests because of defective eye-
sight than for any other reason,
a survey by the Lxaper revealed
this week. In analyzing the re-
sults of the medical examinations
for Sanitation Man candidates, it
was shown that more than half
the total failures were among
men with poor eyesight.

During the course of the Sanitation
exam, the biggest in the Municipal
; Civil Service Commission's history,
ja total of 39,000 men were given
medical exams. Of this number 32,-

satisfactorily. Those re-
jected and marked failures amounted
to 7,000.

These 7,000 failures were divided

as follows:
Defective vision .
Insufficient height .
Heart ailment .
Color blindness .
Miscellaneous

Re-Exam
When a person is rejected in his

ES

Bad Eyesight Floors "Em

ion Candidates

, original test for any physica
he is given a chance for
nation. A period of t

|much as four months,

|allowed for a_ per:
| Physical defects,
While vision looms as ||
jeause of rejection, canci¢
permitted to appear a se
with correct glasses,
try again, However,
shows that only a hand!
cessful on a re-exam.

55,376 Get Poked

An annual report
medical examiner of the Munlcirl
Civil Service Commission showed ©
total of 55,376 medics!
during 1940, against a 1939 tial o
14,855. At the same tir
exams were given last
2,205 for the previous
petitive physical tests in:
2.805 in 1939 to 35,924 in 194

entirely as the result of the %
tation exam,

of

tests given

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By DONALD MacDOUGAL

New York's doughty little
Mayor, Fiorello H, LaGuardia,
doesn’t like to lose a fight. He
doesn’t quit fighting, for that
matter, until most of the cash
customers and the referee have
already gone home. Sometimes
he doesn't even stop then,

Thus it fares with the little Mayor's
titantic struggle to get the selective

|and firemen from the draft, Despite
the fact that the Mayor has gotten
in a few sporadic punches in this
fight, for the most part he's been
pretty well pushed around,
No Blanket Deferment *
The Maygr has been unable so tar

Mayor Adamant on Draft Issue
Just Won't Appoint More Cops, Firemen:

to obtain a blanket deferment for
cops and firemen despite previous
official promises which he inter-
preted to mean that they would be.
Moreover, the Mayor seems at this
| point likely to lose the fight. He
|may get a few isolated deferments
from local boards, but that is all,
according to informed opinion,

| Meantime, he is unwilling to au-
| thorize any new appointments to the
Police and Fire Depatments on the

service administration to defer cops| grounds that the new men would

likewise be eligible for the draft,
Even though he has been shown sta-
tistically that only a handful of new
appointees actually might be drafted,
he is sticking stubbornly to his “no
new appointment” policy,

How long this situation will con-

tinue nobody xaows. But ofc
the Mayor's office, the Police #
Fire Departments and ‘he
Director's office remained
again last week on whe! #!!
appointments can be expectet

ral

be to
will

Have you a friend in
camp? Why not subserl
LEADER for him? It
welcome present,

Civm, Service Lene
Copyright, 1941, by Civ!) |
Publications, Inc. Bnte'*! (ty,
‘ond-class matter October * "y
the post office at New Yo" y9,
under the Act of Marcit %:

Ye

candidates for the
hundree iy for Maintainers
ups A, B, C, and D, will
appointed within six
Leaver has learned ex-

x
etitive
Gro!

fs
be

cipal Civil Service Com-
working at top speed to
to these eligible lists so that
be used to replace provi-
are now holding the

si
ons "
Fe yot one of the tests have been
all bed and are now in the Com-
comp; computing room. ‘The
iss” ot will be finished on Feb-

nar | for candidates to take the
Jt itive physical exam, ‘The
eigle list for Group D is scheduled

to be

Jists f0r

jag week
No. of Eligibles

« number of eligibles on the

ze be approximately as fol-

sts wil
ows:

Group A, 1,056; Group B, 1,60
group C, 898; Group D, 1,815.

Ali four of the eligible lists should
pe published not later than the

puddle of February and as fast as
tuulifying practical tests can be
ven, men will be appointed,

‘the complete list of eligibles for
the various Groups will appear in
‘The Luave® as soon as they are com-
pleted by the Commission,

Job
Exchange

(Exclusive)

A new policy to facilitate
transfers among city employees
has just been adopted by the
Municipal Civil Service Com-
mission. The matter of transfers
has been a sore point for a long
time, since it is usually difficult
for employees to get switched
from one department to another
or from one section of the city to
another

‘The Lraver started a campaign
months ago calling on the Commis- |
tion to establish an orderly pro- |
tedure by which transfers could be
made, To a large degree this has
now been done, although the success
of the plan still must be proven.

Will Distribute List

The Commission, will shortly send
id a list of persons—approxi-
100—who have requested
‘This list will go to the
ippointing officers of the |

transfers,
Various

fépartments, ‘They will be told that |
the persons on th
transfer

list are seeking |
and if vacancies occur
ld normally be filled trom
they should, if possible,
red employees instead,
lists will be published about
tery three months,

t2mplovees who are interested in
funte's should write to the In-
Caption Department, Municipal
yu Service Commission, 299 Broad-
Wu They will receive forms which

to be filled in and returned,

Provisionals Serve
In IND System -

ating the establishment of a
yp tt, of promotion lists in the
Tran ion of the New York City
Belt System, the Municipal Civil
the poe, ommission has approved
Dina,’ sional promotion of 201 em-
in the transit system,
9 a provisionals will serve until
tle eile eligible lists are avail-
°m which to replace them.
— ee

r list,
t

Engineers to Be Chosen
Y Selective Certification

Selective ¥

Nhe Ve, certification will be used
ly 15, S¢cently-published eligible
Wide prop titionary Engineer (city-

fi, Promotion and competitive) to
te aitlon as Engineer of Dredge
unicips Bettment of Docks,” the
bas decijeg Vil, Service Commission
for (ye Wet. The eligibles qualified
Poriabie sition will need a valid
Engineers license,

Pace Toree

Herlands Looks Into Activity of Sanitation's "4 Horsemen"

By MAXWELL LEHMAN

The Leaper’s articles exposing
the activities of the Four Horse-
men in the Sanitation Depart-
ment have finally resulted in offi-
cial action.

Abe Kasoff, his cohorts, and his
henchmen are under investiga-
tion. Late last week it was re-
vealed that Commisisoner of In-
vestigation William B. Herlands
is looking into complaints of
alleged racketeering, money ma-
nipulation, connivance with su-
perior officers, violation of the
Department's Code of Discipline,
and terrorization. These com-
plaints have emanated from the
Department of Sanitation over a
period of years,

While the Department, in its pri-
mary work of keeping the city clean,
has accomplished a notable job, em-
ployee relations are known to be far
from good, As the Leaner has indi-
cated, the reason for dissatisfaction is
usually traced to the doorstep of the

Joint Council of Drivers and Sweep- ; the most serious consideration; they

ers.
are Abe Kasoff, Elias Shapiro,
Michael Morro, and Anthony Grego,
each of whom also heads one of the
four so-called “labor” groups in the
Department.

Report Not Ready

The full report of Commissioner
Herlands will not be publicly ayail-
able until it is completed and on the
desk of the Mayor. It is understood,
however, that the investigation was
tnitiated at the request of persons
interested in clarifying the muddy
situation in Sanitation,

While the Leaner is not at liberty
to reveal fully what it knows of the
background of the Herlands scru-
tiny, it can nevertheless be stated
that this newspaper's efforts have
been instrumental in pushing the
probe forward, Several weeks ago,
Commissioner Herlands had in his
hands a series of twenty specific
charges for investigation, prepared
by the Leaver. There is reason to
believe that the Department of In-

|

|

Officers of the Joint Council | may be included, together with the

findings on them, in the report to be
prepared for the Mayor.

Commission’s Report

This isn’t the first time the Four
Horsemen have been under investi-
gation. The Mayor has a report of
the Civil Service Commission on the
Big Four who, next to the Commi:
sioners, presumably exert the most
powerful influence in the Sanitation
Department, The Civil Service Com-
mission's report deals largely with
the working time of the Four Horse-
men, the salaries paid them by the
city in return for their supposed
work as drivers and sweepers, the
amount of time they actually spend
‘on the job (it isn't very much), the’
number of days they take off each
year, and the remuneration they re-
ceive from outside sources.

The Leaver is continuing its own
investigation, and will report to read-
ers regularly. At the same time, this
newspaper has offered to turn over
its complete files on the Four Horse-

vestigation has given these charges | men to Commissioner Herlands.

Draftees
Protected

A sweeping group of regulations
covering employees and candidates
for Civil Service jobs has been
adopted by the Municipal Civil Serv~
ice Commission and will be an-
nounced within the next 10 days,

While the exact regulations are
not yet known, the general pro-
visions that the Commission has
adopted will extend to present em-
ployees who are drafted, as well as
to eligibles and candidates, the privi«
leges now enjoyed by members of
the National Guard, Military and
Naval Reserve, and other reserve
groups. Of course such privileges
are only those which come within
the’ power of the Commission to
grant, such as leaves of absence, re-
instatement at the end of military
service, protection of seniority rights
and satisfactory service rating
credits,

The Commission also intends to
protect the rights of eligibles who
are drafted and who would have
been reached for appointment in the
normal course of events.

Buy The LEADER Every Tuesday.

Sanitation Eligibles In Smooth Meeting

Decide Upon Fighting Effort to Obtain Jobs

Seven hundred united Sanita-
tion Eligibles, freed from the in-
fluence of politicians on the
fringe of Civil Service, held a
clean-cut, spirited meeting at P.
8. 27 Friday night. So intense was
the interest of these men that
they had trudged through the
worst snowstorm of the season to
be present. Theme of the meet-
ing was a vigorous determination
to fight until every one of the
men on the list has obtained
a job,

Guest-speaker Paul M, Brennan,
jovial, fatherly Civil Service exam-
iner, drew a huge round of applause
when he told the eligibles that the
“ideal Civil Service employee keeps
his mind, body and uniform clean,
keeps his chin up, battles against
prejudice, treats all alike, and is a
right guy at home.” At the conclu-
sion of his speech, Brennan was voted
the first honorary membership card
in the Sanitation Eligibles Associa-
tion,

Winning Speeches

Abe Donner, President of the As-
sociation, emphasized the need for
independence in his opening speech.
Describing the difficulties encoun-

tered in attempting to have the list
certified for as many titles as possi-
ble, Donner grinningly told the boys
that the organization's officeys should
have the “personality of a Roosevelt,
the diplomacy of a Hull, the appease-
ment of a Chamberlain, the cunning
of a Farley and the courage of an
eligible.”

John Mandel, Second Vice-Presi-
dent, told eligibles employed in tem-
porary jobs to keep their ears open
for probable vacancies. Following
the suggestions of eligibles who urged
that the list be used for porter, con-
ductor, platform man, chauffeur, 1a~

auto truck driver, Mandel
“I understand Mayor LaGuar-
dia’s job is going to be vacant soon,
too.” It was Mandel’s first speech,
and he got a terrific reception,

Committees

President Donner asked eligibles
to volunteer for service on commit-
tees, All committee positions were
enthusiastically filled. Committee
members, selected from the floor, are:
Entertainment, Alfred Geritti, Frank
Murphy, Santo Scalise, Isidore Entle,
Jack Class, David Samuel, Henry
Pincot, Anthony Basile; Constitution,
Edward J. Catalano, Eugene Kalos;
Research: Paul Gregor, Frank Fusco,
Harold Holster, Joseph Lennon, Stan-

ley Greenberg, Thomas Salerno;
Finance: Julius Moll, Frank Freitag,
Constantine Chanevich.

Officers

Officers and Executive Board
members apptoved by the eligibles
are: Abe Donner, President; Eugene
Kalos, Vice-President; John Mandel,
Vice-President; Max Fisher, Secre-
tary; Edward Catalano, Secretary;
Julius Moll, Treasurer; Phillip F
Freitag, Financial Secretary. Exec
tive Board: Constantine Chanevic
Alfred Giretti, Thomas Savino, Bob
Feinstein, Paul Gregor, Daniel Korn-
feld, Ben Messing, John Gorman,

Sergeants-at-Arms; James S. Rer
Vernon Greery, Lewis DiPritoro,
Max Saks.

Jobs to Date

To date, certifications to the Sanita-
tion department have reached 210,
appointments, 169. Numbers 29 to 218
have been certified as appropriate for
laborer in the Borough President's
office (Manhattan), numbers 750 to
1250 to the Board of Transportation
as Porter; 208 eligibles have accepted
employment as porter at 50 cents per
hour, Seventeen names have also
been certified to the Fire Department
as laborer at $5.50 per day.

Officials of the organization sug-

gest that eligibles obtain chauffeurs
licenses, in the event of possible
certification to positions requiring
these license, Officers also point out
that it is useless for eligibles to try
for temporary snow-removal work as
no more applications are being
received.

The Leaver will keep Sanitation
eligibles fully informed of atl events,
job opportunities, and other infor=
‘mation in their interest,

SANITATION ELIGIBLES!

At the request of many eligibles
who failed to take advantage of
The Leader's special half-rate
subscription offer, we extend that
offer for an additional two-week
period. If you're on the Sanitation
eligible list, you can have The
Leader delivered to your home for
a full year, at a total cost of $1—
that’s half price.

Send your dollar bill, together
with number on the list, to the
Civil Service Leader, 97 Duane
Street, New York City, Remember
this offer is good for only two
more weeks. So hurry, if you
want to get in on it,

3,000 Sign Up for Sanitation Course

Movie and Slides Will Be Included in Program

Latest information on the edu-
cation front: Roughly 3,000 men
had signed up by Friday's dead-
line for the Sanitation Depart-
ment’s in-service training course.
This means that the enrollment
comes up to expectations, and
makes the largest group of its
kind ever to take such a course
in the city.

Surprising to officials was the
large number of Class A eligibles
from the new list who wish to take
the course. While the men in the
department get promotion credit, the
A men ask to enroll simply because
they desire to learn as much as pos-
sible about sanitation, Tt is an ex-
cellent commentary on the kind of
men on the new list.

‘The opening lecture, sometime In
March, will find on the rostrum Com-
missioner Carey (if he can get away
from his defense work), Paul J. Kern,
President of the City Civil Service
Commission, Commissioners Powell
and Nugent, and City Superintendent
Garbarine, Chairman of this session,
and of all others, is Harry Langdon,
whose job it is to organize the course
and direct it,

Subjects

‘The first session will be devoted to
the general subject, Street Cleaning.

The second session: Planning;
Measuring, Safety, Snow Work, The
lecturers are Andrew Biagini, Elias
Chapin, John Sica,

Third session: Landfills—Commis-

”

sioner Albert Lizee.

Fourth session: Street Cleaning:

Ninth session: Street Cleaning in

Duties of Sanitation Men A, B, and‘ Queens and Brooklyn—Borough Su-
C; Training School—Leo Farley, | perintendents and assistants.

William Tierney,

Fifth , session: Incinerators and
Waterfront Dump Operations—
Joseph Zengerle,

Sixth session: Street Cleaning—
Borough Superintendents and assist-
ants,

Seventh session: Motor Equipment
—Loronz Kurtz,

Eighth session: Street Cleaning;
Welfare; Inspection; Education—
James Pettit, Dr. Joseph Weinberg,
May Gooderson,

|

Tenth session: Fraternal and Labor
Organizations; Juvenile Activiti
Financial Procedures—Matthew Di-

will be given an examination.

This program will be supplement=
ed by slides and exhibits of depart-
mental activities. In addition a
bly be made show-

activities of the

al
ing the essential

serio, William Napear, Harry Lang-| department,

don,

The lectures will be given in Man-
hattan, At this. writing, the Depart-
ment is still negotiating with Hun-
ter College for space, Study classes,
under the direction of Borough Su-
perintendents, will be held in each
borough,

The Department is angling to ob-
tain a hall in Hunter College for
the sessions. Hunter has one aud
torium seating 2,500 people, ‘There
are certain obstacles to obtaining
this room because Hunter is under
the jurisdiction uf the Board of
Higher Education, These obstacles

At the end of the course, the men will probably be overcome.

Big

Mostly for Hospital Helper Jobs

The second biggest labor test
in recent years may soon be or-
dered~by the Municipal Civil
Service Commission if a proposal
is accepted to fill all labor jobs in
the city which pay $600 a year or
less through examination,

There are a total of 951 provisional
employees now in the labor class, the
bulk of them—674—serving in the

title of Hospital Helper. The Com-
mission has been unable to replace
provisional Hospital Helpers from

Civil Service labor lis
been declared approp:

ate for the

position, because the eligibles refuse , ed to abolish the labor clas:

to accept app

sidering the possibility of ordering a
labor test for these jobs within a
month or two,
Low-Pay Jobs

Hospital Helper "jobs $360 a
year (for part-time work averaging
about four hours a day); $440 and
$600, with maintenance, for a full
eight-hour day, ‘The $480 and $600

Labor Exam on Way

which have | ar

le

Whil

such,
and to put all the present labor jobs
in the competitive class, it has de=
cided that positions paying $600 and
less will have to remain in their
present status,

If the Commission decides to hold
this labor test, the order of ap-
plication will be the factor which de-
termines the relative standing on the
list of the eligibles.

Additional details about this exam

jobs require that the employees live! will appear in future issues of The
at the various hospitals to which they | Leave,
Pacr Four

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pointment. According to State
Civil Service Commission officials,
third-degree flat feet, poor vision,
and heart conditions are most.
prevalent among the disabilities.

The original announcement of the
Hospital Attendant test gave the ex-
mining physician 14 reasons for re-
jecting an applicant who has been
certified. Many of these ailments
cannot be removed in time for the
examination, but a number of them
can, Eligibles who have not yet
been certified would be wise to de-
termine their physical condition in
advance so that they will be fully
prepared when their time comes,
‘The Leaver presents the following
hints on the various causes for re-
jection;

Hearing
You must be able to hear ordinary

By MORTON YARMON

CIVIL SERVICE IN NEW YORK STAT

28, 19)

Hospital Attendants: How to_
Prepare for Your Medical Test

conversation at a distance of 20 feet
A good test is to listen to the click
of a coin after it spins in the air at
a distance of 10 feet. If you cannot
pass these tests, go to an ear clinic
or see a physician. Frequently, in-
ability to hear is due simply to the
presence of wax in the ear, This
can, of course, be easily removed.
A number of other local conditions
affecting hearing can also be readily
treated, Of course, if poor hearing
is due to a defect in the ear drum, it
cannot be simply cured.
Fyesight

Your vision must test at least 20/70
In either eye without glasses, or
20/40 for both eyes with glasses. Per-
fect eyes measure 20/20. (These fig-
ures refer to the scale used by eye
doctors.) To check your eyes, go to
an optometrist to examine you, City

clinics will provide an eye examina-

ATTENTION! HOSPITAL

ATTENDANT ELIGIBLES
At the request of hundreds of
Hospital Attendant eligibles who
have not yet taken advantage of
this bargain, The Leader is ex-
tending indefinitely the special
subscription offer of $1 a year to
all.on the Hospital Attendant list.
The regular subscription rate is

.

Copies of the Hospital Attend-
ant list are available at the of-
fices of The Leader, 97 Duane
Street, New York City. They may
be examined by eligibles,

tion free of charge. If you need eye
treatments, you should go to an
oculist who is an M.D. or to an
optometrist, who will fit you for
glasses, This takes only a few days.

Even the slightest trace of tuber-
culosis will cause immediate rejec-
tion,

Heart ailments, too high or too
low blood pressure, or ailments of
the arteries are all causes for rejec-
tion, A thorough examination by a

ih; ae
competent physician ca;
proper checks, a)

Varicose veins is a condi

itioy

symptoms are pains in the 01%
the leg. In the advanced stan tt
purple markings become \\,\t?
Varicose veins are blooq ‘le
which have become enlarge \(!
point where they hamper thy .°, the
circulation of the blood, ‘Tov{,,)" Ctr
are three effective means o{ ; 2,"
ing this condition: surgery °°
advanced stages), injection, a.

thermy (heat treatments)

Variocele, a form of varicose ,

is an enlargement of the vo):
the scrotum. This condition ,,.° %
cured by a simple operation Ht
patient should be well in a \/x9t"®
two, which gives the eligible pi
of time, Hydrocele is the fo) )\%v
of water in the testicles. An gi”
tion, to draw off the fluid ai
move the water-containing sac...
be necessary. ‘The operation iy w!
dangerous. ‘Other physicians
use the injection method to cue y

patient of variocele or hydrovel,
Next week, The Leaver will 4
cuss other ailments which
grounds for rejection of Hospita,
Attendant eligibles,

Lists Way Down in

A new questionnaire form for
Hospital, Attendant eligibles fn
Zone 4 has just been prepared by
the State Civil Service Commis-
sion. On this questionnaire,
eligibles are asked where they
would prefer to work and how
soon they can be available.

The new blank is easier to under-
stand than the one previously sent
out. It provides space for the eligible
not only to check in which zone 4
institutions he will work, but also

whether he will accept temporary
and permanent work, Eligibles are
warned that failure to return the

blank within four business days will
stop their certification to jobs,

On the important matter of salary,

All Zones

on the job at $54 a month. (They
reach the $66 maximum after 18
months, being raised $4 a month each
six months.) Then, says the ques
tionnaire, “Hospitals seldom give
cash for maintenance or give quar-
ters for attendant’s family.”

Financial Trouble
‘This last sentence shows the finan-
| difficulties in which the institu-
tions find themselves, and this will
be a further blow to eligibles who
are married and wish to live outside.
The superintendent of each institu-
tion decides how much maintenance
it can afford,
Figures for NYC
In zone 4, which takes in New
York City, Long Island, and Wes'
chester and Rockland counties, the:
are the latest figures:

Hospital Attendant Questionnaire

Last man certified.

Last woman certified 713
Last man appointed. 313
Last woman appointes 437

Eligibles higher on the list who
have not been certified have indi-
cated on their questionnaires that
they would not work in all the in-
stitutions, or that they were not im-
mediately available,

In zone 1, which takes in the west-
ern part of New York State and has
headquarters at Rochester State Hos-
pital, Rochester, the story at the
end of last week was:

Approximately 350 questionnaires
have been sent out, reaching down
to No, 3,642 of man eligibles and No.
2,418 of woman eligibles,

Fifteen men have been certified,
No, 1,951 the last; twelve women
have ‘been certified, No, 777 the last.

Albany Ponders
Civil Service

Emerson D. Fite, Vassar College
history prof, and chairman of the
famed Fite Commission which will
extend Civil Service throughout the
State, again heads the Assembly Civil
Service Committeé during the 1941
session, In the Senate, a newcomer,
Seymour Halpern of Quee re.
places Henry W. Griffith as chairman
of the Civil Service Commttee, Grif-
fith is moved over to Military Af-
fairs,

With committee assignments made,
the Legislature now gets down to the
serious business of separating the
legislative wheat from the-chaff,

One bill has already become law.
That's legislation which allows the
Governor to fill exempt jobs tem-
porarily vacant because the incum
bent has entered the military ser
ice,

Although the introduction of bills
slowed down last week with many
members watching Franklin D.
Roosevelt inaugurated for the third
term, a new batch of Civil Service
measures got into the hopper. Among
other things, they would have ap-
pointing officers explain why an
eligible was skipped over, keep elig-

ibles on preferred lists until retire-
ment age rather than for only four
years, establish a five-day week.

DPUI Lists

Setting up the Junior Economist
list, held March 30 last, will take the
longest amount of time in the history
of DPUI lists, Rating of the second
part of the written won't be com-
pleted until March, and the list itself
isn’t expected until May 1, Press of
other work has been responsible for
the delay, Two jobs, now filled by
provisionals, are at stake,

Other news on coming DPUI 1

Promotion to Assistant-Claims Ex-
aminer—Experience rating has just
been finished. The list should be out
shortly after February 1,

Employment Counselor—The orals
are about to begin.

Payroll Examiner—Rating of ex-
perience is just getting under way,

Further progress on DPUI lists
will appear regularly in the Leaver

For the First News—

Of all City, State and Federal
examinations, read The Leader.
ull official requirements, filing
dates, and other important in-
formation appear first in The
Leader,

Future State Test

The State law says that titles of)

open competitive lists requested by
departments and institutions

Eleven men have been appointeg
No, 1,102 the last; two women hye
been appointed, No. 677 the last,

In zone 2, centered at Utica State
Hospital, Utica, 790 is the last number
certified, 729 the last appointed, ang
1,457 last to receive a questionnaire

33 have been certified thus far i,
zone 3, from the headquarters at
Hudson River State Hospital, Pough.
keepsie, Latest certification was 4.50
(328 in the zone) to Wassaic State
School. The last number appointed
was 1,829 (175 in the zone) at Mid-
dletown State Hospital

In all the zones, district represen.
tatives of the Commission urge elig.
ibles to keep the office posteci of any
change in address or avails
Eligibles in zone 4 are reminde
the phone number of the
Room 550, 80 Centre Street,
York City, is BEekman 3-154,

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Commission Swamped
, Demands from Eligibles

on its registers or else it will
have to stop all information,
President Harry B, Mitchell is dead
set against publication of the regis-
ters. It is believed, however, the
Commission would be willing to pub-
lish the registers if they could be
convinced it would serve any good
purpose; but at the fast pace the reg- |
isters are changing now, a published
register would be out of date before
it is off the press. But publishing
registers. would stop requests for
relative standing, and that’s the Com-
mission's immediate problem.

10,000 Requests per Week
Requests tor relative standing are
being made at the rate of 10,000 a
week, far and away a record num-
ber, And the requests are increas-
ing as additional registers are being
set up to meet national defense de-
mands. During the World War period

(Exclusive)
oe @TON.—The U.S, Civil
»mmission, informed
oon Will be forced
more information on
» standing of eligibles

[ewis Bertrand, Director,
Offers Drill in Every
Language Listed

Ne, Bertrand, with a mark of
Veteran's cre

|_ As the demands for information
grow, officials are again suggesting
that the relative standing division be
closed, Either close it altogether,
they say, or else give the eligibles
sufficient information which will pre-
|vent them from making repeated re-|
quests for relative standing. The
Commission feels that printing the
| registers
| problem.
New Plan Under Way

A plan under consideration is for
the Commission to estimate the num-
ber of persons that will be called
| from a register in given sets of time.
These estimates could be sent out
| along with the grades. For example,
| if there were 10,000 names on a sten-
lographer register, the Commission |
might estimate that the first 3,000
would be called during the four
months, and 5,000 additional during

isn't the answer to their |},

Higher Salaries?
Mead Sponsors Civil Service Bills

WASHINGTON, —Sen. James
Mead of New York, the friend of
the Federal employees, is run-
}ning true to form. He has al-
|ready introduced several bills in
the Senate which would improve
the status of Federal employees
and he js studying dozens of
others.

One of the most interesting bills
that Mead y sponsor would re-

e Uncle n to give annual in-

S to all his employees
whose Bs good.
Incidentally nt for auto-
matic promotions is gaining momen-
tum and Congress may be persuaded
1 at this session of

jice, employees of the sea post offic
lenis) at division’, headquarters ok
post office inspectors and post
ployees at the U. S

velope Agency, as a reward for con-
tinuous setvice heretofore rendered
or to be rendered her shall ba
granted $100 per annum in addition
to their base pay as now or here-
after fixed by law upon the comple-
tion of 10 years’ d an ad-
ditional $100 per upon the
pletion of every 5-year period
thereafter.” No employee would be
given credit for service after 80
years.

Board of Appeals
ther Mead proposal would

‘ivil Service board of ap-
“conciliate and settle differ-

Federal employees

‘he board would

one person

Sivil Service Com-

e chairman,

one employe representative, and the
hird member to be chosen by mu-

Congress.
Postal §
Already i rn
bill that would raise the
nds of postal e

watchmen, me:
and laborers in first and secc
offices, employees in the custo-

dial service of the Post Office De-
partment rendering not les
hours service per
motor vehicle service

ice, ruri

of the railway mail serv-

clerks, and

SPANISH
FRENCH

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t problems the

One of the bi
Commission has t

dent of
y -quota state like Vir-
ginia does top the list, he won't be

the Commission was so overloaded | the next succeeding six months, Such
with work that it simply was physi-| a plan would carry a note requesting
cally impossible to answer requests| the eligibles not to request informa-

contend with is
| 152 W. 42nd St.

pe Spanish, It

will personally a
jages now listed and
of the very
nd. experience
individual language.

for relative standing, The Commis-
sion closed the relative standing divi-
sion “for the duration.”

tion as to relative standing. It is
|hardly probable that eligibles will be
satisfied with such a plan.

guaranteed a job. Happily for New
Yorkers, the Empire State again is
under quota by about 100 jo

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were clarified at a meeting last
week of the Customs and Immi-
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One significant development was
reported regarding the Association's
stand that the Commission should
make available to the public ratings
of all eligibles. The Commission,

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Cop’s Height

An important item was the clear-
]ing up of confusion as to the mini-
mum height requirement for the |

| Navy Police. A reply from the U

Civil Commission to an individu:
| eligible less than 5 feet & inches tall
who had been sent a Navy Police
stated definitely that 5 feet 8
the minimum and will not
Evidently the Commis-
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nd not a waiver of the re-

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eeting was informed that an
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ffiliated with the Ass
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istant and Asso-
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and General) eli, Plans were

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zation according!

id frem Officials
unications were read from |
Senator Wagner and Repres
O'Day indicating that
‘ors will look into the
“emergency” handling of the Immi-
gration Patrol List and its adverse |
effect upon eligible:
| Many communics
reported received from
divisions of the War,
merce, Treasury and Ju:
ments, the Federal Security and
Works Agencies and the National |
Labor Relations Board. These an-|
swered the Association’s request that |
in requisitioning personnel for na:
tional emergency expansion these |
| agencies express a preference for
qualified eligibles from lists estab- |
|lished as the result of the General
| Investigator Test. The reply of the |
Personnel Division of the Commis- |
sioner of Internal Revenue indicates
some possibilities at $1,260 and $1,440
‘The Director of the highly |
Civilian Personnel Divi-
{ the War Department states |
that for vacancies for which |
ion from said registers would
| be most appropriate “the Department
will ask that names of eligibles be
certified therefrom.”

The meeting also approved a pro-
gram by which eligibles outside large
cities where branches are being or-
| ganized will find it possible to take

| The Executive Committee outlined
la plan of action involving further

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FIREMAN

The present Fireman eligible list expires on December 14, 1941. The
next mental examination should be held not later than June, or five
months from now.

‘The number competing will be large, the competition
examination difficult. ‘Therefore, those who hope for suc:
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Our mental classes are meeting three days weekly—physical classes
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The present list for Patroiman should be exhausted by January, 3,
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The purpose of this offer is to encourage men to begin preparation

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It’s Budget Time

IGHT now, in the quiet pencil markings of ac-

countants and statisticians working in city

offices, the fate of many an employee is being
sealed.

On page 11 of this issue there’s a simplified analysis
of what happens at budget time. The analysis shows
that the top figure for city expenditures is a declining
curve. At the same time, costs are going up.

To Civil Service employees what happens at budget
time should be a sobering event. When there isn’t too
much money to spend, when the economy-mongers
start their weird howlings—it looks easiest to the
officials who make budgets to lop off a few jobs here,
cut a few services there, permit this or that position to
remain unfilled. Yes, the temptation to slash is a
great one.

If government workers permit this process to con-
tinue its course, they may expect to reap conditions
of which they will not be proud.

Civil Service employees owe it to themselves to see
that increments aren’t curtailed, that salaries aren’t
sliced, that vacancies aren’t left unfilled, that the
speed-up doesn’t become an accepted feature of pub-
lic service,

The time to fight budgets is when they're being
made, The time is now!

Labor Reclassification
Shouldn’t Be Killed

N unhappy piece of news is that which emanates
from the Budget Director's office: that the labor
reclassification may be doomed,

The change from the labor into the competitive class
was a movement which The Leaver heartily endorsed,
There were debatable features in the proposal as
originally written, But two hearings and a third in
prospect were doing much to prepare a resolution
which would be a credit to the merit system, The
importance of the reclassification was evident from
the packed, tense, interested representatives who ap-
peared at the public hearings, And no wonder. Some
12,000 persons are immediately affected; and in the
future, if this proposal goes through, all New York
employees will be chosen on a democratic, competi-
tive basis.

Whatever the budgetary considerations may be, they
ought not be permitted to throw into discard a plan
for improving New York's Civil Service,

A Petition to the Mayor
On the 11-Squad Chart for Cops

Dear Mr. Mayor: As a member of New York
City’s Police Force, 1 feel that the 11-squad chart,
which would give us a 48-hour swing each week,
will improve the morale and efficiency of the
men, I urge that you, as Chief Executive of the
city, get behind the 11-squad plan and help us to
gain the decent working hours which it provides.

NAME. ieveeercreeeeeeereee sete eenen eens

Home Address

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97 Duane St. N. Y. C, It will then be forwarded to
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THE WORD
breathed through DPUI offices in
New York and Albany a few

“party” was

weeks ago... The only official
who didn’t hear it was Richard C,
Brockway, for he was to be guest
of honor...and his colleagues
were afraid that Dick would stay
away if he knew in advance what
was in the wind...Dick Brock-
way, at 32, has just been made
director of the State Employ-
ment Service, at a time when it’s
become a very important arm of
the nation’s defense program...
His job is to ferret out people for
defense industries in this and
other states...and to keep de-
fense officials up-to-date on sup=
ply and demand in the labor
market...A complete reorgani~
zation of the Employment Ser-
vice is imminent, but Dick, un-
ruffled, plans to do much more
speaking in an effort to popular-
ize the service among private
employers...Here are some fig-
ures: 506,000 men and women are
now seeking work through the
Employment Service...in 1940,
340,000 positions were filled
through its offices, an increase of
90,000 over '39...Dick’s packed
much personnel experience into
his relatively few years: Wharton
School of Finance at the U, of
Pennsylvania, Gimbel Brothers,
Administrative Office of the
WPA's Project Division in Wash-
ington, Director of Employment
and Labor Relations on Federal
Project No. 1.,.A Civil Service
test—for Assistant District Su-
perintendent—brought him into
the DPUI...Executive Director
Milton O, Loysen kept him as
Administrative Assistant until
April 1 last, when Robert Boyd
resigned as director of the Em-
ployment Service...Dick Brock-
way is built like a football player,
but his sweet smile reveals the
tenderness beneath...He’s an
amateur yachtsman, married...
and, in the words of fellow-work~-
ers, “a swell guy.”

HE CONDUCTS a school whose
thousand pupils couldn’t play
hookey if they wanted to. ..-

Merit Men

His name is Leo Klauber, Direc-
tor of Education at the Riker’s
Island Penitentiary. ,.. If you
were a basketball fan two dec-
ades ago, you'd remember Leo
Klauber as a blond flash who
starred on Nat Holman's C.C.N.Y.
quintets for three years... .
Captain in his senior year, he
made the all-metropolitan team
two years and the all-eastern
team once, . . . His classmates
remember him as president of
the Senior Council... a real
leader of men, .. . Since college
days, he's done settlement house
and summer camp work, taught
school, earned his law degree. ...
All these roads led to an inter-
est in penology. A Civil Serv-
dee test brought him to his pres-
ent post... . He's done wonders
since.,..In four years the num-
ber of students has jumped from
50 to 20 times that figure... .
They learn by day, at night, and
in correspondence courses. . . «
Many of his students learn to

write for the first time, while
others pick up trades that will
be invaluable when they leave
Riker’s. . . . He 4s particularly
proud of the Riker’s Review, a
thick, well-written monthly,
completely the work of his stu-
dents. . The city has already
acknowledged his work, last year
granting him one of the four
$200 scholarships to N.Y.U. that
go to outstanding career men in
the city service... .The years
hang lightly on Leo Klauber....
At 38, he still has the springy
step of the athlete, with the
bright though sober eyes of the
mature student. ..,. In spare time
he writes articles regularly for a
number of publications, speaks
over the radio, is active in par-
ents’ and other clubs, ., . His two
daughters, Lila and Ann, are
particularly proud of their daddy,
for he heads the first parents as-
sociation in the growing Park-
chester development in the north
Bronx.

the Sanitation Dep,

Horsemen are pyyj,, Fg
copies of The Chics j, 89
their activities are plugee "
distribute among the Sanity ‘
Men? If the men are so yu
with the Four Horsemen fe 4
this bolstering necessary)
Courts are reported sick ang\
of the huge amount of Ciyijg
vice litigation... .Attenda,
senger eligibles picketed an
dertaker for two hours hy
they realized he was the wd
John Laffan, They wanteg f
Board of Transportation);
sonnel head....Emil K, ghijg
written to the University
Michigan for background sy
on Paul Kern.. .State employ
will soon be agog over a y
bill to give them Unemployng
Insurance, 4

Makeshift Department

Men on the Pharmacy option of
new U. S, Investigator list hive
home-made but accurate listing ¢f
the eligibles throughout the coun
complete with marks and ranking,
The Board of Appeals bill provid
for arbitration in the handling
government employee disputes
been pushed for years by pos
workers, But it affects other fe
employees as well. ,.27 radio stat
in the State announce jobs open
the State Employment Seria
(WNYC, WMCA, WBNX In \;
York City)... Application of
Hatch Act is curbing paid subse
tions for political mags. ..U

ik IT true that

are being studied by the State Ca
mission in inyestigating its ovn
cent Referee test... .

Defense News

Uncle Sam wants to k
maximum pig-feeding p

employees take an 00

strike...Civil Service veterd
plan to continue their bal
against the U. S. Commi
publication of federal lis
the staff of the Fire Departmd
Joined up within the past fi

years...

letters

Customs Eligibles

Sirs: In September, 1938, a quarter
of a million citizens filed applications
for positions as Customs Inspector
and Immigration Inspector, In Oc-
tober, 1940, ratings were announced,
About 60,000 eligibles had qualified,

The Customs and Immigration In-
spector Bligibles assert there is some~
thing grievously wrong in the func~
tioning of a government agency
which (1) deliberately disqualifies
entire lists of eligibles and causes
economic waste; (2) maintains the
iNogical position that among 45,000
who qualified for the Immigration
Patrol there cannot be found a few
hundred hardy men capable of han-
dling the idential duties of the same
patrol with a new name; (3) dis-
charges its moral obligation to make
some appropriate use of such eligi-
bles by promises which go unfulfilled,

J. H, Terenman
Attorney for
Customs and Immigration Eligibles
Association

Congressman-at-Large Matthew J.
Merritt, who has the complete story
of the Customs eligibles, plans to
read the matter into the Congres~
sional Record.—Eprron,

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No Bed of Roses
For Hospital Workers

Sirs: Thanks for your plug for
Hospital Helpers in a recent issue of
the Leaver, Most people don't realize
that hospital workers earn little
as $480 per annum with so-called
maintenance or $720 per annum
without maintenance, Even highly
skilled Laboratory Technicians are
paid as little as $960 per annum,
And your readers might be inter-
ested in knowing that the Clerical
Workers in the Department of Hos-
pitals are the lowest paid and have
the fewest promotional opportunities
of any department in the city.

Low salaries and poor conditions
in hospitals are a definite threat to
every city employee. Hospital sal-
aries are being used more and more
as a goal toward which to aim.

Hospital employees organized in
City Hospitals Local 128 are trying
to improve their conditions, They
have met with some success during
the past few years,

Morris Berwin, President
City Hospitals Local 128
State, County and Municipal
Workers of America,

The Leaver feels that hospital em-

deth od ve eset ed

Protes

ployees are entitled to {ir he
working conditions thr the }
have. It is our opinion tht |
should be included in the bet
classification into the comb’
class now before the Civil §
Commission.—Ep1T08.
Defense Jobs 3
Sir: This letter is in ri

those city employees who
terested in securing 10° fg
sence to take part in the ®
National Defense prostt f
tions of non-military characlt
In September, 1940, the Musas
Civil Service Commission
that it would approve s\
absence dt granted by tn
ment head under whom ‘he ¢
is working. “a
At the present time "tl
“hitch” to this matter‘ »
that the Budget Direcio! yd
vented by some technical!’
finance to reissue th
money for the temporaty
filling the ensuing vacane’™
Will all interested MP»
siring such leaves ©!
municate with the (Wi
W. W., c/o of the Cl yi
LEADER,

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Pace Seven

POLICE CALLS.

By BURNETT MURPHY

shart Waiting

iil to create an 11-squad working chart for New York
still in the hands of Councilman Joseph Kinsley who is
évisions. He has also had a number of conferences with
Police Department and with officers of the Patrol-
Kinsley has asked the latter to submit

nensive #2

wie
pean (pe added, if so, how many, ete,

officials have contended that the 11-squad chart would
Polit to appoint many more Patrolmen; if this is true, it would
in having a,

meet opposition,

im Ball
Shor terainment and ball of the Police Shomrim Society will
the Astor Hotel on March 29,

4 »olice Post Ball
peridan bags Post will hold its 15th annual bail on February 15

he Scribus Club, 1 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn,
the Co!

ney WPA Force

pe vyeen heard of the proposal to set up a temporary emer-
of guards.in the Police Department, created from WPA
veterans in most cases),

jction, that unless we unhappily get into war, no such step)
That even if we do, it probably won't.

he Lime’

No more

0:
iil be taken.

ublic Hearing on Vogel Resolution ;

public hearing was held Jast Friday on the resolution submitted in)
Council by Councilman Edward Vogel, calling on the Mayor to
ihe immediate appointment of $52 new cops, or even to bring
artment up to its allowed quota, The resolution was then passed

rf
i ot the Patrolman's Eligible Association pleaded vigorously for
jue of this resolution,
““he resolution has no teeth in it, it may at least serve as a
} expression of the Council's wishes, and, for that matter, of the
i that the Police Department, in these troubled times, be

manned.

her Honored by New York State

New State took official recognition of the heroism of the late
jioiman Edward F, Maher, victim of the “mad dog” killers outside
‘Altman's tWo Weeks ago, A resolution offered last week by Senator
ymout Halpern extending the sympathy and respect of the Legislature
Maler's family and to the uniformed force of the Police Department
i by the Senate.

FIRE BELLS

By JAMES DENNIS

No Word on Lieut.

Promotion

‘sof the Naer Tormid So-| There is still no word, official or
held in the Riverside | ote!wise, on when new promotions
to Fire Lieutenant can be expected,
1c, 310 West 103d Street, on |'The Fire Commissioner so far has
night, January 27, Fire | made no formal request for the ap-
4 Lissman presided, | Pointment of any new Lieutenan

and until he does there will be none.
——————— | Also, the economy spirit which has

HAIR TODAY...
None TOMORROW tual standstill.

dominated the Mayor's policy for
| more than a year is still in effect
|

Unless || Where Is That

Checked | Chief Exam?

|

[and all appointments to the uni-
formed forces have reached a vir-
Whatever happened to that promo-
ordered by the

A | tion examination,
m Municipal Civil Service Commission,
. for the position of Fire Chief?

Time! |)
“ Fire Dept.

HERE sn sincore offer. 1¢ T ean~ J ag PI

spyttt fostow hair on thin spots or J/ VeTense Flan

bwer your forehead Hine—DON'S || ‘There is a plan, now in the “talk-

ing” stage, to have the New York
City Fire’ Department serye as a
training ground for officers and men
from all oyer the U. S, in special
defense duties, The New York De-
partment is especially well equipped
for such a job, and Is enriched. by
the recent experiences of observers
who were sent to London to observe
a city under aerial attack,

Fire Vets Plan
Meeting

The next regular meeting of the
Veteran Firemen's Association (20
years’ active service in the N. Y, C,
Fire Department) will be held at
Al's Grill Rooms, 240 Atlantic Ave.,

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Welfare Department News

That Beggs Case

Just What Does It Mean?

Just what did the Court of
Appeals hold in the Beggs case?
That question has led to con-
siderable discussion among mem-
bers of the Welfare Department
of the city. Most lawyers are as
much confused as the employees.
Even the Commissions and de-
partment heads are not alto-
gether sure that they have it
straight.

We have asked an attorney
with a disinterested point of
view to give us a summary of
what he believes the Court of
Appeals held and directed the
Municipal Commission to do.
This is his analysis in brief. We
hope he’s right!

The record shows that social in-
vestigators in the Child Welfare
Board were long in the ungraded
service: Social investigators were
paid salaries from $1,200 to as high
as $3,000 a year. Some of the
higher-paid social investigators were
assigned to supervisory position:
others not. It was left to the di
cretion of the department which
ones were to act in supervisory posi-
tions.

Regular Promotions

The Civil Service Commission de-
cided to grade the “social service,”
so that in future there may be defi-
nite lines of promotion from the
lower “grades of social investigator
to assistant supervisors, supervisors
and senior supervisors, Three grades
of positions were established under
the new grading: social investigator,
up to $1,800; assistant supervisor, up
to. $2,400; supervisor, up to $3,000;
senior supervisor, up to $3,600, etc.

What was the Commission going
to do with the social investigators
who were receiving more than the
maximum of $1,800 fixed for the
new grade for social investigators?
They couldn't all be supervisors.
Most of them never were so assigned.
Yet the Commission did not wish to
prevent the social investigators who
were receiving salaries over the
$1,800 maximum from continuing to
receive their old salaries.

The Municipal Commission, there-
fore, after consultation with the
Budget Director and the Board of
Child Welfare, decided to invoke the
new grading for future promotions,
while at the same time not disturb
the existing salaries of social inves-
tigators, The Commission's resolu-
tion adopted at the time of grading,
and as a condition of grading the
service, in effect tried to do this:
Social investigators could continue to
serve under the old title of social in-

vestigator and get the old salary even |

|

though the lary would be above
the maximum for social investigator,
None of them, however, was to get a
higher title or be entitled to the
privileges of the higher grades es-
tablished unless and until they had
passed a promotion examination and
have been promoted in regular order
from the promotion list.

Challenge Interpretation

The social investigators in the
Child Welfare Board, however, chal-
lenged the Commission's right to de-
prive them of their “new” grades.
They claimed that their old salary
determined their grade and their
title, So that a social investigator
who had been receiving a salary of
$2,500 automatically became an as-
sistant supervisor; one who received
$3,000 automatically became a super-
visor, etc, The investigators insisted
upon the right to the grade, title and
assignment to supervisory duties—
this whether they had ever acted as
supervisors or not, ‘The Child Wel-
fare Board resisted, claiming if that
is what had to be done, the Board
would haye a Mexican army-—more
supervisors than investigators, per-
haps,

The Supreme Court upheld the
contention of the employees, It ruled

Lieutenant list were increased
slightly last week by action of the
Municipal Civil Service Commission,

The men, and their adjusted
ratings on this part of the test, are:
Edward C. Brennan, from 97.25 to
99.75; Joseph McPartland, from 95.00
to 95.30; and Joseph M; Murphy,

of three eligibles on the new Fire

from 95.00 to 95.20,

By HENRY TRAVERS

have their salaries reduced below the
minimum of grades for social investi-
gators, corresponding to the grades of
salaries fixed for the social service;
but the Commission had not accom-
plighed that result through the means
the Commission chose in its resolu-
tion grading the social service.

6, The social investigator positions
had to be graded separately from the
supervisory positions so far as old
incumbents in positions of social in=
vestigator were concerned.

The grading for social investi«
gators would have to be a grading
based solely on salary control, while
the grading for the social service as
a whole, namely, supervisory posi~
tions, was based on rank, responsi-
bility, changed duties of a higher or«

that the salary determined the grade
and ordered ‘the assignment of the
social investigators to supervisory
positions according to the new titles
of the grades according to their old
aries. The Appellate Division af-
firmed the lower court's order.

Court’s Decision
‘The Court of Appeals modified the
order of the lower courts. It held in
effect:
1. The Civil Service Commission

sion | der, ete,

could, of course, grade the positions; 2 et ate

and establish lines of promotion for] ,,% The stading adopted by | the
Commission for the social services {s

the future

2. The Commission did not intend
to permit the social investigators to
get the titles to the higher grades es-
tablished for promotion purposes,

3. The Commission could not “pro-
mote” the social investigators to the
supervisory grades with competitive
test under its own resolution, nor did
it intend to do so,

4, The Board of Child Welfare
could not be required to assign all
the social investigators to the super-
visory positions merely because their
old salaries were above the new
grades for supervisory positions; nor| 10. Regardless of the salaries paid
could the Board be compelled to es-| to the social investigators, they were
tablish more supervisory positions |elisible to qualify, subject to any
than were needed or provided by the| conditions the Commission might

| sonably impose, for promotion to

budget.
supervisory position, first assist

effective for future appointments and
promotions,

Separate Grades

9. The Commission would have to
establish a separate grading for so-
cial investigator positions, distinct
from the grading of the social service
as a whole, if they sought to protect
the social investigators trom suffer-
reductions in salaries below the
minima of $1,800, . which
would be possible if no grading for
ocial investigators alone were not
effected,

5. The Commission intended that! the
the social investigators should not | ant, then supervisor, then senfor,

Mental Hygiene Votes

By JOHN F. MONTGOMERY
War Time and all the other historic churches

Dr, H. Beckett Lang, new assis |sna landmarks of London. When
ant commissioner of the Mental| you feel everyone has to face the
Hygiene Department, is a veteran of | fight, then everyone gets into it with
the last war, and a keen observer|a new wil
of the present one. Here's what he
has to say about the mental condi- S
tion today of the people of England: Alcoholics Anonymous

“It's interesting to note that when| leven former patients of Rock-
the war started in earnest in Eng-|jand Hospital, all of them confirmed
land, dozens of psychiatric clinics | alcoholics, are now living in a vol-
were opened in London to take care | untary group in New York City as a
of the expected nervous victims.| vigorous step to help cure each
Only the other day I saw a letter) other's alcoholism, It’s part of the
trom the chief psychiatrist of Mauds-| nation-wide Alcoholics Anonymous
ley Hospital in London, saying that | movement, organized on the theory
all but one of the clinics had been|that only’ an alcoholic can under
slesed for lack of patients. stand another alcoholic.

“There's a psychological answer |
for that. When there's no place to| —
retreat to, you turn around and face |

the facts. That's what London is
doing. It the people in Londgn|At? DRAFTS through window

thought the rich and government of-|{tames. One Gal. Paint-Point GUN-
ficials had a safe place to retreat to, | RITE black with a Caulking Gun de-
they wouldn't like it so much, Bui|livered to your home for only $1.09,

House of Parliament, the Guildhall,

$1.09 WILL STOP LEAKS —

the biggest psychological blunder the PAINT-POINT PRODUCTS CO., Ino,
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THE CIVIL SERVICE LEADER'S MINIATURE NEWSPAPER FOR TEACHERS

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by May Andres Healy

May Andres Healy is granted the widest latitude
in expressing her views. Her opinions do not
necessarily represent the views of The Leader.

HE PROPOSED budget of the Board of Education provides for
the elimination of nearly 0 teaching positions. These are
in addition to the hundreds dropped by the Board of Estimate

last year.

It is most discouraging that such a proposal should be made by
our own Board of Education. No one knows better than they that
there are still several thousand classes in the school system with
registers of from 35 to 50.

Why did not the Board of Education eliminate these oversize classes
when the opportunity presented itself this year? This could easily be
done without increasing the total cost.

An Increased Birth-Rate .

It the Board of Education continues to follow its present policy, we will
find that in the very near future regular teachers will be in danger of
losing their positions. It is true that due to the declining birth-rate, regis
ters dropped noticeably in the past few years, but according to recent birth
statistics there is now an increased birth-rate and two or three years
hence should show an increase in registration,

Now is the time for teachers and parents to make a very definite drive

for normal-size classes. It will be soon enough to save money in the educa-
tional budget when this has been accomplished.

There may e been some excuse for our Board of Education in the
past, when elimination of over-sized classes meant increased cost, but now
when for the same total this long delayed injustice to the children could
be righted, they lacked the necessary courage,

After the disgraceful deal the Board of Education got in the Capital
Outlay Budget we think that they should have asked for all that was
necessary for the proper functioning of the New York City public schools—
if cuts are to be made, let the Board of Estimate answer to the electorate
for such cuts.

Emergency in 1932

It is not too late to revise the proposed budget! Now is the time to
eliminate over-crowding! Let us hope that the Board of Education will
heed the plea of all grotips who spoke at the budget hearing on this
matter.

In 1932, when a so-called “emergency” was declared in this city, absenee
refunds for teachers were drastically cut, At that time salaries were cut
and in the following years a payless furlough was imposed in addition,

When this emergency was over, the Board of Estimate passed a resolu-
tion declaring such an emergency at an end and so advised the Legis-
lature, This resolution, in effect, restored to all city employees the pay
schedules prior to 1932,

The Board of Estimate, however, did not restore the money necessary
tor full absence refunds for teachers, The Board of Education has failed
each year to include this item in its proposed budget, which leaves the
New York City teachers the only group of publicly paid employees who
do not receive some stated number of days each year with full pay when
absent due to personal illness, The Legislature passed a bill mandating
full pay for a stated number of days when ll, depending upon the years
of service, but the Governor vetoed it, by request of Mayor LaGuardia.

Sometimes Death Results

Much hardship has come to teachers because of this discrimination,
Teachers go to school when ill because they cannot afford to lose the day's
pay. These sick teachers not only jeopardize the children they teach but
often find that they must absent themselves much longer in the end be-
cause their illness was aggravated by attending school when they should
have remained at home, In some cases it is claimed that death occurred
because the teacher did not stay in bed when advised to do so by his
physician, but attempted to perform his school duties,

Why this unfairness continues we cannot say, but the Board of Educa-
tion must realize that it is depriving its employees of a normal right and
consideration which even most private employers deem fair practice.

Expenses are greater when one is ill, but the teacher gets no pay.
Later, if the Board of Education wishes, the teacher may get a refund of
half-pay, However, if the teacher has been unfortunate enough to be ill
more than once in the course of the year the probability is that there
will be no refund for the second illness,

We have a bill in Albany to restore absence refunds. I hope that fair-
n ill prevail and that the matter of a few dollars will not allow this
injustice to continue longer,

MUST FILE STATE and FEDERAL INCOME TAXES

EMPLOYEES EARNING $800 ANNUALLY IF SINGLE
EMPLOYEES EARNING $2,000 ANNUALLY IF MARRIED
MUST FILE INCOME AND DEFENSE TAXES THIS YEAR
t tax experts will

tax return for the
proper deductions and

CIVIL EMPLOYEES TAX SERVICE 20 2,

LONGACRE 6-2155-2156

service to “Lender”

and
of $1.00. This
Don't trust to luc!

Ke

& staff of competent
income

1 sum
nptions.

LET
THE
202 WEST 40th 8T,, N. Y. C.

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One Every 16 Days

New school buildings and additions’

have been constructed by the Board
of Education during the past twenty-
two years at the rate of one new
building every 16 days. A total of
494 new buildings and additions, pro-
viding seats for 641,000 students have
been built at a cost of $378,000,000.
Besides providing modern facilities
in all parts of the city, the new
buildings effectively reduced short-
time attendance, eliminated conges-
tion, overcame the problem of shift-
ing school populations and permitted
the Board to surrender 64 obsolete

buildings and cancel leases on non- | 61

city owned premises,

Most of.the new construction was
confined to the boroughs of Brook-
lyn and Queens, 162 buildings, seat-
ing 160,494 pupils were erected in
Queens, 113 buildings seating 147,
430 in Brooklyn. Elementary schools
built throughout the city numbered
382; high schools 57, junior high
schools, 55.

Aviation Mechanics

The Board of Examiners has placed
eight names on the eligible list for
license as teacher of aviation me-
chanics. The eligibles and their
ratings are; John H. Miller, 57-26
162d St., Flushing, 77.39%; Jack Le-
vine, 1001 Jerome Ave, Bronx,
71.32%; Albert Hraba, 427 Secatogue
Ave, Farmingdale, 75.68%; Santo J.
Frontario, 104-33 4ist Ave, Corona,
L, L, 75.18%; Dorrance P. Cook, 1136
Madison Ave., New York, 71.15%;
Harold R. Johnson, 58-14 214th St.,
Bayside Hills, 69.35%; John M.
Wirth, 42-04 Saull St. Flushing, L.
1,, 69.06%; Austin N. Steele, 40-15

| 215th Place, Bayside, 68.20%; Edward

V. Reith, 173 Riverside Drive, 67.95%;
Charles’ Youmans, 19 Maple St,
Irvington, N. Y., 67.55%; Clifford H.
Petterson, 153 Central’ Ave, Lyn-
brook, L. 1, 63.83%.

New Eligibles

during the week. The lists follow:
Radio Communications

Jeffords, John M,, 74.3; Baco1
ton W., 71.4; Apstein, ‘Maurice, 70,

Community Centers

Kiesler, Harry, Health Education,
74.5; Gordon, Isidor, Librarian, 63,
Whitehead, Maud L, I., Health Educé
tion, 91.25; Bien, Ruth F., Librarian,
Malisoff, Sylvian, Librarian, 61.4
Pergolizzi, Anita, Pianist, 76.

Portraits to Hang

WANTED: Appropriate places to
hang portraits of former Board of
Education presidents.

Fifteen portraits which adorned
the walls of the old Fifty-ninth street
headquarters are not suitable for the
new Administration building, 110

these portraits have already been
assigned to their future habitats; five
are still without destinations,

Two portraits of De Witt Clinton
will be hung, appropriately enough,
|in De Witt Clinton High School. One
|of Richard Ludlow Larremore, jus-
|tice of the old Court of Common
Pleas, will hang in the New York
County's Supreme Court library.
Portraits of Robert Kelly, Charles B.
Hubbell and Erastus C, Benedict will
| decorate City College. Hunter Col-
|lege will receive a portrait of Ber-
nard Smyth, who laid the corner-
stone of Normal College, Hunter's
predecessor. A portrait of Townsend
Harris will be used in Townsend
Harris High School. Board officials
expect to have the remaining por-
traits placed in similarly suitable
spots in the near future.

Eligible lists for licenses in com-
munity centers and as teachers of
tadio communications were estab-
lished by the Board of Examiners

Livingston Street, Brooklyn. Ten of |

Adult Education

Courses in a varie
are taught under the
WPA Adult Educati

The courses vary from
according to the avait
teachers and the number “Mi
tive students. Ordinary
are conducted in such
hay

Adi

ty ot

e
uspicer
onal pre

jects. as Accounting
Beauty Culture, Blue
and Estimating, Bookk
Machine Practices, Cre
ing, English, French, {1.1
ish, Journalism, Machine ¢.”
tice, Photography, Philo
chology, Public’ Speaic,.0
Short Story Writing, s,."
Typing, and Hook Rus yy,

Prospective students ,.
to apply at the WPA Aj,
tional Program, 239 Bast 1)
for information,

——$__
Guild on Finance

The New York Teache
| vigorously criticized th
mittee of the Board of p:
limiting the time allowed 1,
the proposed budget and to .

‘
budget hearings. The Guilj me

TS Guy

before the scheduled heariny”
The Guild suggested 4)
finance committee set
nights for the hearing
could be devoted to those seis
argue about individual it

a whole,
Jallowed to speak at these he
In a statement, the Guild said: "fy
Guild trusts that it shall not be
quired to spend hours on a
analysis and then, by a
| warranted ruling, make impo
the presentation of its painstakiy
analysis.”

PARK TOPICS

By B. R, MEEHAN

Promotion to

Gardener

Study Series No. 8

79. Define each of the following
gardening terms : (a) crown-tuber,
(b) root-tuber, (c) stem-tuber, (d)
tunicated bulb, (e) scaly bulb. Give
one example of each.

80. Enumerate the differences be-
tween an excurrent and a deliques-
cent tree, Give an example of each.

81. W is meant by the term
mulching? (b) Enumerate the advan-
tages and disadvantages arising from
its use, (c) Name some common
muching material used, (d) Are
lawns mulched through winter?
Summer? Discuss. (e) When should
tulip beds be mulched? When should
such mulch material be removed?

Directions: In each of the follow-
ing items four possible answers are
suggested to complete each state-
ment. On the answer sheet write the
letter of the statement which is best
of those suggested, \

|

90, Dahlias are packed and stored
in peatmoss. .

91. Para-dichloro-benzine
to control peach borers. T.

92, Semesan is an ineffective rem-
edy for “brown patch.” T. F.

Because of unavailable space, an-
swers to the written and essay type
questions cannot be printed,

‘The foregoing are answers to Study
Series No. 5, questions which ap-
peared in the January 7 edition of
the Leaver,

ANSWERS

46, T; 47, T; 48, T} 49, T; 50, T;

51, B; 82, C.

Think It Over

Children are the worst vandals and
the hardest to curb. Police, prose-
cuting and probation authorities have

is used

|

been appealed to in an attempt to.
solve the problem. Educational cam-
paigns in playgrounds, and films in
public schools have been used. These
methods are slow in producing re-
sults, and the small minority who de-
stroy public property must have the

82. “Toro” is the trade name for | strictest kind of discipline—From
(a) a gas-driven lawn mower, (b) a/| Six Years of Park Progress,

spraying gun, (c) a soil-pulverizing
machine, (d) a sod-laying machine,

83. ‘The one of the following which
is not true is (a) Clay's is an organic
fertilizer, (b) nitrophoska is a com-
plete fertilizer, (c) soot controls in-
sects and grub that work under sur-
face soils, (d) cottonseed meal is not
recommended for acid-loving plants,

84. Raffia: is commonly used for
(a) mulching lawns (b) control of
cut worms, (c) typing plants, (d)
sharpening pruning shears,

85, June grass is (a) creeping bent,
(b) red top, (c) white clover, (d)
Kentucky blue grass.

86, Hemlock forest called “New
York's most precious natural posses-
sion” is located at (a) New York Bo-
tanical Garden, (b) Brooklyn Botani-
cal Garden, (¢) Central Park, (d)
Flushing Meadow Park,

Directions: Examine each of the
following statements and decide
which is TRUE or FALSE. If you
decide a statement is TRUE, encircle
the “T,” or “EF” if the statement is
FALSE,

87. Balloon vine is an annual plant,

i 5

TF
88. Cotton batting is placed around
tree trunks to catch insects. T. F.
89. Stipa is a digging tool. T, F.

Catholic Park Guild
Elects Officers

At a recent meeting of the Catholic
Guild of Park Employees, held in
Our Lady of Mercy Auditorium,
Fordham, James V, Mulholland, di-
rector of recreation, was again elect-
ed president of the Guild.

Other members elected to office in-
clude: Vice-presidents, Joseph Dur-
‘kin, Manhattan; Harold G. Beal,
Bronx; Mary Chumra, Queens;
Michael Finnegan, Richmond; Kath-
erine V. Devine, financial secretary;
Thomas F. Nelleny, recording secre-
tary; Mary M. Meehan, treasurer, and
James McCahull, marshal.

The annual Communion Mass and
Breakfast will be held on Sunday,
March 23, The Rev. Dr. Edward
Lodge Curran, Chaplain of the Guild,
will celebrate 9 o'clock Mass at St,
Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue
and 50 Street, Manhattan, with the
breakfast following at Hotel Com-
modore,

(Address all communtcations to
this column in care of Tue Cit
Srnvice LEADER.)

Park Foreman |,
Won't Do For Porter

Foreman

A request that the pror
to Park Foreman be de
priate for Foreman of Porters, Dep
ment of Public Work

last week by the
Service Commissioner.

Ass’t Gardeners
|To Select Office

The next regular mee
Five Boro Permanent A:
ers Organization will
‘Tuesday evening, Feb
City Court House,
Street, Manhattan, at

All interested Ass't Gardent's
urged to attend. Election of
is scheduled.

‘Letter to the Editor

Sir: With reference to the "Pr
tion to Gardener” exam, hart!
requirements been set by the
missioner yet? id:
has five years of exper
an employee in the Depa
Parks be permitted to take
Is this test only for civil s
ployees?

Have you any other infor
that might prove helpfil’

Respectf

the ta
pice

wi

Requirements for the i" !
not yet been officially sy
The test as it appears on tht |
schedule of exams is to beh
department promotion on¢
open competitive exam for &
was held June 18, Me
ments included the follow,
limits were 25 through #.
dates were required to have
six years’ recent expect
dener with a recor
parkway authority, lands
tractor, nurseryman oF PF
tate, Employment should,
volved technical work rele! snr
planting, propagation, cull"?
care of flowers, plants an

Previous copies of the ©
and Assistant Gardeners ©
their answers, and other
terial based upon the <v!
position will shortly bé
sale by the LEApER.

eld
bal,

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

7 Pace Nine

ue
by H.

stion, Please?

ELIOT KAPLAN

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Reinstatement
Of Veterans cabled veterans have

“special privilege of retention in
not of lay-offs due to lack of
cast or appropriation, as we have
wer pointed out in this column.
{ne same, obviously, is true of
ie-disabled veterans, regardless
névihe date of appointment, Sen-
of uy is the same for all employees
je the competitive class. It is not
i yermined by length of service,
ameumulated time of service, but
er by date of original entrance
he service after appointment
from a competitive eligible list and
tinuous service therein, State,
county and municipal services are
freated as separate services, except
jn the cases of county services
within New York City paid out of
city funds, In the latter case sus-
pended employees are eligible for
Feinstatement in either the county
or city service in similar positions,

ith the approval of both the State
New York City Commissions.

Hospital Attendants Won't
Replace Prison Guards

W. P. C—No decision has as yet
been made by the Governor's Spe-
cial Committee on Extension of the
Competitive System in institutions

of the State with regard to the
classification of hospital attendants
in the State Correction Depart-
ment. In any event, it is not gon-
templated that hospital attendants
will displace prison-guards in any
of the Correction institutions. The
only issue involved {s whether the
present positions of hospital at-
tendants in the State hospitals for
the criminal insane shall hereafter
be in the competitive class rather
than the non-competitive class, The
incumbents of these hospital at-
tendant positions will without
doubt be covered into the com-
petitive class without examination
just as was done in the case of the
hospital attendants in the Mental
Hygiene institutions.

Using Changed Name f

M. L. G—In applications for
civil service examinations it is
best to give your correct original
name, not the name that you may
have adopted informally, You
may, of course, use your “cor-
rected” or “adopted” first name in
preference to your original first
name, particularly where you have
used the former for a long period
of time; but in that case you should
inform the Commission of your
correct original name so that they
be able to trace your birth records,

This

all

Department of

Information

Please?, The Civil

Service Leader,
If space does not allow printing your

is conducted as a free
LEADER service for Civil Service employees, for eligibles, for
who desire to enter the Service.
to Question,
Street, New York City.

Address your questions
97 Duane

answer, you will receive a reply by mail. Therefore, enclose stamped,

self-addressed

thorough

envelope. Questions

analysis by

a well-known

for this
Civil

column receive
Service authority.

etc,, and be able to tie you up with
official records that include your
original given name. It is also
well, incidentally, to give any
“aliases” that you may have used
from time to time. Disclosure of
these may avoid unnecessary mis-
understanding later,

Hearing Trouble

H, K:—Whether you will be
qualified fot service in the Federal
agencies for such positions as en-
gineer of heating and ventilating
in view of your hearing difficulty
without mechanical contrivance
will depend first on the nature of
the particular employment, and
second, on the extent of the indi-
vidual’s hearing difficulty, No rule
covering every case can be given,
It is generally left to the deter-
mination of the Commi:
on the
medical examiners of the Commis-
sion,

Provisional Can’t
Be Covered In

S. B.—Regardless of the length
of service that a temporary or pro-
visional appointee who has been
appointed without competitive ex- +
amination may have served, such
provisional or temporary appointee
cannot be covered or blanketed in

as a permanent employee in the
competitive class. That was one of
the various issues in the so-called
Ackerman case.

Clerk-Carrier List

H, R, S.—The eligible list for
postal clerk-carrier may be used
for filling either the position of

postal-clerk or carrier in the dis-
cretion of the postmaster and with
the approval of the civil service
commission. Postal clerks and car-
ried positions are interchangeable
for transfer purposes, although the
department does not encourage the
practice of such transfers, In any
event it is a matter of discretion
with the department, not a matter
of right.

Suing the City

P, J, B—There {s nothing in the
law or policies of New York City
that I know of which prevents or
precludes an employee of the cil
from suing the city for injur:
caused to the employee as a result
of negligence on the part of any
operating agency of the city,
where such injury was not in-
curred in the course of his em-
ployment, but outside of it, A city
employee has the same right to sue
as any other citizen, Employees
injured in the course of their work

Postal News

By DONALD

Identical Legislation

‘The Joint Conference of Affiliated
Postal Employees is adopting a pol-
{oy of trying to weld the legislative
policies of its constituent members
into a coordinated form. It is felt
that such joint action is far more
effective in getting results, Hereto-
fore, the conference was handi-
i by the fact that there were
different legislative programs

arious crafts of the service
arriers, R, M. S. Clerks,

Motor Vehicle Employees.

There was, of course, some similar-

ity in the programs, but the slight

differences necessitated the introduc-
of different bills in Congress.
members feel that this fact
been responsible for the lack of
suitable legislation to improve the
working conditions of postal em-
ployees, ‘The many bills have tend-
to confuse legislators,

The conference has asked its mem~
sroups to adopt identical basic
lutions, and to introduce these
heir respective State and na-

tional conventions, The resolutions

are these:

Resolution No, 83—Endorsing la-

« representation on the U, S. Civil

Service Commission,

Resolution No, 82—Endorsing 30-
© optional retirement for the

kovernment employee.

Resolution No,  86—Proposing

her standards in government em-
yment.

five

any

be
re

Resolution No, 8—Proposing seni-

ig principles for federal em-
Resolution

No, 88—Approving

MacDOUGAL

small pay increases for postal em-
ployees on longevity basia (length
of loyal service),

Resolution No. 88—Endorsing cam-
paign of the N, F. P, 0, C. to secure

BIDS AND PROPOSALS

_ Power Plant
Now State Hospital
eur Deor Park, Long Inland, N. ¥,
NOTICK 0 BIDDERS
Separate sealed

ei

proposals covering
Wor

ating, Sanitary and
‘and Coal Handling Ap-
Power Plant, Building No,
‘ate Hospital, Near Deer Park,
‘in accordance with
10808,

and

10809, 10810,
accompanying
ie

jin=
of-
2:00
‘"rime)
joy, February 14, 1941, when they
i bublcly opened und ‘read, ‘This
lvoriitil Supersede the date previously
The approximate amount of

t ta $750,000.00,
lt shall Ge accompanted byw
check made payable to the
New York, Division of the
or money ‘deposit of 5% of

he pa:

ees nen nw follows: On

Vicosogo'%, $800.00 and. not more than
00, Of 100% of ‘the amount of

the contract: on cont
$500,000.00, 60% of the amount of th
contract, ‘Corporations aubmitting pro:
posals shall be authorized to do bual
ness in the State of New York, Draw-
ings and specifications may be exam:
ined free of charge at the following of-
fi Commissioner of Architecture,
State Office Bldg, New York City; Com-
missioner of Architecture, State ' Office

Diatrict Enginoor,

‘ots in excess of

ES

Datrlot
Syracuse,
Barge Canal
Diatrl

hamton, N.Y.

Drawings and specifications may be
obtained from the Commlasioner of
Architecture, State Oftice Bldg., Albany,
N. ¥., upon deposit for each wet ns fol-

Construction, : Heating,
i Sanitary, $6.00; Blectric, $15.00,
and Coal Hendling Apparatus, $10.00,

Proposal blanks and envelopes will’ be
furnished without charge.

If @ proposal ts duly submitted by any
person or corporation making the de-

ani
tn

egordan
Fe
the full amount of such depoalt

require
ment,

small pay increases for the substi-
tutes,

Resolution No, 77—Proposing es-
tablishment of Civil Service Court
ot Appeals,

Resolution No. 76—Proposing leg-
islation recognizing the right of the
government employee to collective
bargaining.

THE COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION |
of the New York Post Office, through its President, Ciro
Macaluso of 1955 McGraw Avenue, presents to Postmaster
Albert Goldman, Chairman, Federal Division, National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a check for $100 as its
contribution to the Infantile Paralysis Drive.
Ciro Macaluso, Honorable Albert Goldman, Postmaster,
and Joseph Tofano, Past President of the Columbia Asso-

ciation of the New York Post Office.

Resolution No, 139—Proposing leg-
islation to restrict the use of the

Left to right:

“temporary employee" in the post
office.

Resolution No, 72—Proposing ad-
justment of the overtime pay to the
forty-hour work week,

Odds ’n’ Ends

Sam will report the salaries of fed-
eral workers to the states, for tax-
ing purposes...A recent radio quiz
program had this question: “Could
you mail a letter In a railway mail
car?” The answer, of course, is
yes...No examination for postmas-
ter Is held at offices paying less than
$500 yearly.

Pythians New Officers

On Tuesday evening, January 28,
the Pythian Post Office Club will in
stall its newly-elected officers fo

the year of 1941 at its new home and|

meeting rooms in the Fraternal Club
House, 110 West 48th Street, at 8:30
p.m,

The following officers are to be in-
stalled: President, Henry Goldberg,
Station 1; first vice-president, Ab
Kaye, Examination Sect. G. P. 0,
second vice-president, Louis Kobrin-
sky, Station O; financial secretary,
Harry Lutwin, Station J; recording
secretary, Sol Gruber, Station G;
treasurer, David Brickel, Church St.
Station; sergeant-at-arms, Max Sul-
tan, Madison Sq. Station,

Buy The LEADER every Tuesday

are, however, subject to the Work-
men’s Compensation Law or the
retirement laws, Recovery against
the city will have no bearing on
the employee's continuance in the
service, or be a cause of any em=
barrassment to the city or to the
| employee,

| Transfer in

| x ks in the postal
servic umably eligible for
transfer to any similar position
(similar as to grade of salary and

general nature of the work) in an=
other department within the same
Federal district. As always in the
case of transfers, they can be made
only with the approval of the com-
mission and the heads of the de-
partments involved in each case,
| Temporary Isn't
Permanent
. R—Your appointment for a
period of one year as a
pair man without com=
petitive test in the Federal serv~
fce will not give you the right to
continue permanently in the posi-
tion until you have passed a com-
petitive test therefor and have
been reached on the list in regu-
lar order, Your name will never
be placed on a competitive register
for permanent employment no
matter how long you may serve as
a temporary. You will, of course,
| be given credit for whatever ex.
perience you may have had when
you take the competitive test
which will undoubtedly tend heay-
ily toward the practical side
rather than an academic written
test. For permanent pos
physical examination is ger
had. How long your tem;
position may last is a mat
conjecture. ‘The department
one best able to inform you

n

Empire Crust
Company

50 LAFAYETTE STREET near WORTH STREET
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Start the New Year Right,
in order.

We hear that F. D. R, has recom-
mended that Congress continue the |
8c, postage net which expires June
30, 1941, If the measure isn’t sus- |
tained, the U, 8. Treasury will lose |
$102,000,000° annually, which shows
how pennies can mount up...Uncle |

for one copy of the plans and specifica |
tlon shall be returned to such person or
corporation if the copy of the plans and |
specification used by #uch person or cor- |
poration Is returned in good

Office Bide, Albany, N. ¥
daya following the award of the contract
or the rejection of the bids, Fifty per
Gent relmbursement will be made for the
return. of ail -other copler of the plans
and specifications in’ good condition
within thirty days following the award |
the contract or the rejection of

the bid
ar |

JWS-AEF,

BRONX

Joust

MAIN OFFICE: Third
MElrose 5-690!

BRANCH
Third Avenue at 197th Street
Third Avenue at Boston Road

Fordham Koad at Jerome Avenue
‘Ogden Avenue at University Avenue
MEMBER FEDERAL

ME

RESOLVE

To put your finances in order!

A Personal Loan and a Firm Resolution Can Help You
Resolve to Put Your Finances

Loans of from $60 to $3,500 for periods of 12 months or longer
can be arranged without co-makers, The discount rate ts low
—444% per annum—and life insurance costs only 50 cents per
$100, Bronx County Trust Company service is prompt,

DEPOSIT
BER FEDERAL F

COUNTY

.
if. 7anY,

Avenue at 148th Street

0, Extension 50

OFFICES
East Tremont Ave, at Eastern Blvd,
White Plains Avenue at 28%rd Street
East Tremont Ave, at Boston Road

11 Hugh J. Grant Clrete
INSURANCE CORPORATION
RYE. SYSTEM

PROMOTION TO MOTORMAN-
CONDUCTOR, BOARD OF
TRANSPORTATION
(Operating Division)

ry
00

. Donovan, 80,00;
v; 02, 1

ity, St
Willan J
i, 8100 4,

Hubert W

2X, Witt
weph McDonough,

is Hurley, 80,00;

New City Eligible Lists —

98, John FE,

0,005

James Ba
1,

H

ol,

1a,

Chi
reat

ms F. Cor
Arnold, 77.42: 1
712; ‘iat, "Renato
Fonaph 'p. Graty, 7

‘B. [number of the junk dealer concerned,
shall immediately be prepared and |

Perry, 78.12; 09, John F. Sheehan, 78.12, ~
Gustave

(Continued from Page 8)

would be released from the Society's
custody.

(h) If child fs so released, proper
entry shall be made in Arrest Record
and copy of personal recognizance
(Form U, F, 24) shall be forwarded to
proper court on the following day.

5. It the child is involved in the
unlawful taking of property or in the
sale of property to a junk dealer, a
| thorough investigation shall be made

re,

Fol
| to ascertain whether or not the child

actually sold property to a junk deal-
erat any time. If so, the junk dealer
shall be proceeded against under Sec-
| tion 484 of the Penal Law.

If the child is involved in any way
uM \in the sale of property to a junk
:|dealer, whether such dealer is ar-
| rested or not, a report on Form U. F.
49, in duplicate, containing the result
of investigation, together with the
name, business address and license

_ New State Eligible Lists

O'Brlen.
Tob. B.
NIOR sit!

SENIOR ACCOUNT CLERK, AUDIT | 58 tin Ry 7

COUNTY
tvon, Hilda A.
TANT TYP

Ryan,
80.01;

Lit
Herman

A, Ward,
vald P,, 80.75
Marvhbuen, 10
Louls SN. 80.02

and Tivek
80,78
pin, Si

'T OF TAXATION AND

DEPART-

mon, Sara

Where Do I Stand?‘

The following are the latest certifications, in New York City

and Albany, from popular State lists:
Junior Clerk

Ranking. Percentage,

Permanent—New York—$900

Permanent—Albany—$900 .... 2,421
‘Temporary—New York—$900 1,089
‘Temporary—Albany—$900 . Parry 2,649
Junior Stenographer
Permanent—New York—$900 719
Permanent—Albany—$900 ., 1,926
‘Tempor: New York—$900. 997
Temporary—Albany—$900 . 2,101
Junior
Permanent—New York—$900... B41
Permanent—Albany—$900, 1,074
‘Temporary—New York—$900 1,091
Temporary—Albany—$900 . on 1,153
Assistant Clerk
Permanent—Albany—$1,200 . 370
Temporary—New York—$1,200, ‘ 243
Temporary—New York—$1,100. 344
‘Temporary—New York—$960 852
Temporary—New York—$900 437
Temporary—Albany—$1,200 . 292
Temporary—Albany—$1,160 598
1371
Permanent—New York—$900 100
Permanent—Albany—$900 ..... 1,102
‘Temporary—New York—$1,200 472
Temporary—Albany—$1,200 . . 584
‘Temporary—Albany—$960 . 611
Temporary—Albany—$900 vs 1,246
Assistant Stenographer
Temporary—New York—$1,200 1,048
_Temporary—New York—$960 1,919
Temporary—New York—$900 . 1,794
Temporary—Albany—$1,200 . 2,020
Temporal 1,957
2,020
New York—$900. 383
Albany—$900 ,,... 2,061
New York—$900 498
Albany—$900 ., oe . . 1,632
Junior Typist
New York—$900. hewe 576
Albany—$900 .. 840

86.90
82.75
85.15
82.45

87.30
82.40
86.30
81.40

88.20
87.50
87.46
87.30

88.61
89.25,
88.74
87.08
88.37
88.94
87.76
80.61

89.50
85.60
87.30
86.90.
86.70
85,40

84.59
79.60
80.90
17.30
79.00
17.30

87.45
83,25

88,30
83.80

89,20
88,20

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(Continued on Page 14)

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Juvenile Aid Bureau direct.

6. Arresting officer shall appear in
court when required until case is
finally disposed of and report final
disposition to Desk Officer of pre-
cinct in which arrest was made for
completion of records.

B, Steps the Department is taking
to prevent juvenile delinquency:

1, The Juvenile Aid Bureau was
formed and is maintained within the
Police Department for the purpose of
(a) carrying on a broad program for

ts, | the reduction and prevention of de-

linqueney in New York City; (b)
helping put into operation measures
for the rehabilitation of juvenile de-
linquents and wayward minors.

2, The scope of the work of the
Juvenile Aid Bureau is as follow:

(a) The elimination of conditions
»| which might serve as a contributing
cause of juvenile delinquency, such
as improperly supervised dance halls
and cabarets, pool and billiard parlors,

,|common shows and motion picture
“0:

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are displayed and places where the
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(b) ‘The discovery of individuals
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minors by systematic patrol and in-
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(c) The investigation of complaints

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(a) Follow-up treatment on cases
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brought to the attention of members
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Force on patrol.)

(e) Helping to secure adequate so-
cial treatment and referrals to proper
agencies of juveniles, where so re-
quired,

(f) The operation of a broad pro-
gram of recreation by means of the

Police Athletic League, assistey
Street and Play Center wor
the WPA,

(g) Establishment of youth req,
ation centers in neighborhoods \,1,.°"
the delinquency rate is high,

(h) The utilization every ‘sur,
of Fox Lair Camp, where hunirctt
of underprivileged boys are affors.4
the opportunity of several wot
country vacation, -

() Program of education—ne:
ery of talks to groups of childre,,
clubs, organizations and ar.,!
groups,

G) Annualeollection and distrit,
tion of toys to children at Chri.”
mas, a

(ic) Investigation and proper actio,
regarding youthful gangs, ‘

(1) The full cooperation with 9)
other agencies, both public and p1\
vate, concerned in the preventio y,
juvenile delinquency,

(m) The carrying on of @ prograiy
of education within the departiiesy
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all other members of the Force,

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attendance at school, and enforces,
ment of the law relative to sires,
trades by minors,

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A number of children attending
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came seriously ill after having ea
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have already been removed to a hos.
pital in a private auto; others arg
still present. Assume that you are
the Sergeant on patrol and arrive
at the scene in response to a radi
alarm, State in detail your actions
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agenda, Write the answer, then
compare it with the one which will
appear in next week's Leaner

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PAGE ELEVEN

and testing of common battery and
local battery telephone equipment
and switchboards; repair teletype
machines, tele g

machine work in connection with
fabrication of damaged parts, etc.
Requirements

Applicants must have had at least
three years of experience in the re=
pair, installation, etc., of telephone
instruments, telephone switchboards,
powerboards, storage batteries, and
all equipment belonging to ‘such
telephone system,

Basis of Ratings
Applicants will be rated on thelr

_—

How to Apply for a Test

For City Jobs:
City,
Municipal Civ!
a self-a
Bronx, 6 cents elsewhere).

For State Jobs: Obtain applications at 80 Centre Street,
six cerits in a letter to the Examina~

city, (9 a.m, to 5 p.m.), or enclo:

(9 am, to 4 p.m.), or write to th
Service Commission at 96 Duane Street and enclose
dressed 9-inch stamped envelope (4 cents for Manhattan and

Obtain applications at 96 Duane Street, New York

Application Bureau of the

ew York

tions Division, State Civil Service Department, Albany.

For County Jobs: Obtain applications from Examinations Division,
state Civil Service Department, Albany. Enclose 6 cents,

For Federat Jobs: Obtain applications from U. S. Civil Service Com-

mission, 641 Washington Street, New York City, (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.),
jn person or by mail, Also available from first and second class post

offices, Second District.

U, S. citizens only may file for exams and only during period when

applications are being received,

Fees are charged for city and State exams, not for federal.

‘The “weights’

Applicants for most city Jobs must have been residents of New York
City for three years immediately preceding appointment. Applicants
for State jobs must have been New York State residents for one year.
listed for various titles on thes
relative value of each part of the exams. Therefore, if the weight of
the written part of an exam is 30, this means that the written part
counts for 30 per cent of the final mark.

pages refer to the

State

Junior Education Examiner

Department of Education, (Usual
salary range $150-$190 a month; ap=
poliment expected in Albany of-
fice; lists will be used for tem
porary appointment only.) Fee, $1.
File by February 7.
ists will be set up in these sub-
jects: English, fourth year; Latin,
third year; Freneh, third year; Ger-
man, third year; Spanish, ' third
year} plane geometry; intermediate
algebra; American history; _eco~
homies; vocational homemaking:
piysies; chemistry; blology (second
Year); earth science; stenography;
iypewrlting; bookkeeping; business
arithmetic; ‘business law,

Duties

Under supervision, rate Regents
exams, special scholarship exams,
objective tests, assist in prepara-
ticn and validation of such tests; re-
lated work.

Requirements
Either (a) three years teaching ex-
tence within the past five years
condary school registered by

he State Education Department in
the subject or subjects in which the
candidate wishes to qualify, and a
college degree, supplemented by
either (1) 15 semester hours of grad~
uate work in the appropriate field,
9 11 semester hours of credit
for graduate work th the appropri-
aie field, and two semester hours in
educational or mental tests and
measurements; or (b) an equivalent
combination, Candidates may qual-
ity for more than one subject, but
must Mle a separate blank and fee

for each,
Basis of Rating

Written, 5; training and experi-
ence

Industrial Homework
Investigator

Division of Women in Industry
4nd Minimum Wage, Department of
Labor; (usual salary range, $1,800-
$2,300; appointment expected’ at
minimum, but may be made at less).

File by February 7, Fee, $1,
Requirements
Either (a) two years experience in
industrial investigation, one of

Which Was spent in problems of
Women and minors, or in checking
payrolls or financial records, and a
College degree with specialization in
feonoinles “or political science; or
{)) one year's experience in indus~
lal investigation, six months in
Sucking, payrolls ‘or financial rec-
(ics and one year graduate work
{i fconomies and/or political sci-
init Or (e) five years experience in
duluitry,” two of which were

of 8 Involving practical knowledge

thro)
1

Kovernment, labor, or

ther type of
its aim, the
lal or working
ditions, and six months of which
ip checking payrolls or finan-

cla recorage
combingties OF (a) an equivalent

nior Engineering Aid

ission. (Usval salary

ide a
rae at tess.)

Requirements

) a Civil Engineering de-
En, a) two years toward a
Yom Civil Bgitpestea exceatat ees
4 ring experience
* (©) an equivalent combination.

thst Social Worker
deling ating schools for juvenile
the Huchts Under the supervision of
(Usuar Pattment of Social Welfare,
With suttary range $14 i
tenanewlitable deduction’ for main-
ected’ {f allowed; appointment ex-
*t minimum but may be

Either (a
Bree on

Tests

made at less; appointments expected
at the New York State Training
School for Boys at Warwick at
$1,200-§1,700 plus maintenance, and
it’ the State Agricultural and Indus-
trial School at Industry at $1,600-
$1,800 without maintenance; | ap-
Poimtments may be made from this
ist to simlar positions at the New,
York State Training School for
Girls at Hudson. File by February
7. Fee, $1.
Requirements

Candidates must be high school
graduates or have its educational
equivalent. ‘They must meet either
a) six years'-full-time paid experi-
ence in social case work within the
past 10 years, “ree of them with a
child welfare agency; or b) four
years’ experience, two with a child
Welfare “agency, and two years
toward a college degree; or c) two
years’ experience, one with a child
welfare agency, and a college de-
gree; or d) an equivalent combi-
nation, Training in a school of so-
clal_work may be substituted for
experience: one year study for a
year of experience, and two years’
Study for three years’ experience.

Blindness Prevention

Consultant Nurse
Division for the Blind, Depart-
ment of Social Welfare: (Usual
salary range $2,400-$3,000; appoint-
ment expected at minimum but may
be made at less.) File by Febru-
ary 7, Fee, $2.

Assistant

Superintendent

Westfield : te Farm, Department
of Correction, (Usual salary range
$3,120-$3,870; appointments expected
at’ minimum but may be made at
less; appointment may also be made
f tant Superin-

the Albion State

ing School for Girls, Departme:
Correction, and at ‘the New
State Training School for Girls at
Hudson, Department of Social Wel-

York

fare, at $2,760-$3.360.) Preferred age
limits: 25-45, File by February 7.
Fee, $3.

Highway General Main-

tenance Foreman

Division of Highways, Department
of Public Works. ($5 a day.) File
by February 7. Fee, 50 cents,

‘This exam is open to legal rest-
dents of all counties but Bronx,
Kings, New York, Queens and Rich-
mond: certification will be made by
counties. For filling a county ya~
eancy, certification will be limited
to legal residents of four months’
at the exam date,

Requirements

Candidates must have had three
seasons since April 1, 1930, of prac-
tical experience in construction or
maintenance of modern paved high-
‘ways, one season as foreman.

stand

Instructor
Agriculture)
epartment of Correction. (Usual
'Y range $1,800-$2,280; ‘appoint

ment expected at Elmira’ Reforma
tory at minimum but may: be made
at less.) File by February 7.
Fee, $1,
Requirements

Either a) graduation from a col-
lege course in agriculture and pos-
session of a certificate to teach
vocational agriculture in the secon~
dary schools of New York State, or
eligible for such certificate; or b) an
equivalent combination,

Instructor
(Physical and Recreational

Director)

Department of Correction. | (Ap-
pointme:

mt expected at Napanoch

Prison at $1,800.) File by February
1, Fee, $1.
Duties

Under direction, have complete
supervision of the physical and
recreational activities of the inmate
population and of the personnel of
the institution engaged in this
related work,

Requirements

Either a) two years’ experience in
coaching adults in competitive
sports or in directing the physical
and recreational program of adults,
and college graduation; or b) one
year of such experience and gradu-
tion from a school of physical edii-
cation with special training in
coaching or directing recreational
activities; or c) an equivalent com-

e
work;

bination.
Basis of Rating
Written, 5; training and experi-
ence, 5.

Junior Aquatic Biologist
Division of Fish and Game, Coi
vation Department. (Usual sal-
ary range $2,400-$3,000; two appoint.
ments expected at minimum but
may be made at less.) File by
February 7, Fee, $2.

If eligible, candidates may file for
Senior Aquatic Biologist; a separate
application and fee must be fled for
each.

Junior Psychologist

Department of Correction. (Usual
salary range $1,800-$2,300; appoint-
ments expected at minimum at Au-
burn Prison and at the New York
State Vocational Institution at West
Coxsackie, but may be made at
less.) File by February 7. Fee, $1.

Physiotherapist
Division of Orthopedics, Depart-
ment of Healt (Usual salary
range $1,650-$2,150; appointment ex-

pected at minimum but may be
made at less.) File by February 7.
Fee, $1.

Psychiatrie Museum
Curator

New York State Psychiatric Insti-
tute and Hospital, Department of
‘Mental Hygiene." (Usual salary
Tange $1,800-§2,300; appointment ex-
pected at minimum but may be
made at less.) File by February 7.
Fee, $1.

Railroad Equipment
Inspector

may be made at less.)

February 7, Fee, $2.
Requirements

Either a) four years’ experience

File by

in responsible charge of the erec-
tion, maintenance, or repair of loco-
motives in a locomotive erection or
repair shop, and high school gradu-
ation; or b) an equivalent combina-
tion. Technical education beyond
high school may be substituted for
experience, a Mechanical Engineer-
ing degree the equivalent of two
years’ experience,

Senior Aquatic Biologist

Division of Fish and Game, Con-
servation Department, (Usual sal-
ary range $3,120-$3,870; one appoint-
ment expected at minimum but may
be made at less.) File by Febru-
ary 7, Fee, $3. Q

Candidates may file for Junior
Aquatic Biologist; a separate appli-
cation and fee inust be filed for
each,

Senior Inspector of

andards and Purchase

Division of Standards and Pur-
chase, Executive Department, (Us-
ual salary range $3,450-$4,200; one
appointment expected at minimum
but may be made at less.) File by
February 7. Fee, $3.

Requirements

Candidates must have had 10
years’ business or industrial exper!-
ence, five of which were in the sale
or manufacture of furniture or
household equipment and furnish-
ings, Involving responsibility for the
inspection of these commodities to
determine standards of quality and
manufacture,

Senior Medical Biochemist

Division of Laboratories and Re-
search, Department of Health. (U:
ual salary range $4,000-$5,000; ap-
pointment expected at minimum but
may be made at less.) File by
February 7. Fee, $:
Niagara County
Settlement Accounts Clerk,
partment of Public Welfare.
Stenographer, Department of Pub-
Me Welfare.
Oneida County
Account Clerk, Oneida County
Veterans’ Relief Committee.
X-Ray Technician, Oneida County
Hospital.

De-

Orange County

Assistant Photo Recording Clerk,

County Clerk's Office.
Westchester County

Guard-Farmer, Westchester Coun-
ty Penitentiary.’ This examination
is open to legal residents of any
county in New York State, but pref~
erence in certification will be given
to legal residents of Westchester
County.

Head Janitor, Division of Build-
ings, Department of Public Work

Senior Court Clerk, Surroga'
Court.

U. s.

Engineman, Locomotive
sel, Electric, Gasoline)

Salary: $1,860, File by February
13. Place of employment: War De-
partment, Brooklyn, Age limit: 50,

Duties

‘To operate and make running re-
pairs to 45-ton diesel, gasoline, or
Electric locomotives; to move loaded
and unloaded cars’ about yards or
over spur tracks to main lines; to
Spot cars at warehouses, piers or
coal wharves for loading or unload-
ing; to do such repafr work as ad-

justing brakes and air equipment,

Tests

clean and oil engine and maintain it
in good running condition, etc.
Requirements

Applicants must have had at least
one year in the operation of diesel,
electric, or gasoline powered loco-
motives.

Basis of Ratings

‘Applicants will be rated on their
experience and fitness on a scale of
100,

Telephone Repairman
Salary: $1,800. File by February
3. Age limits: 21 to 48,

Duties
Dismantling, repairing, assembling

experience and fitness on a scale of

Junior Stenographer
Salary: $1440, File until further

notice. Age limit: 18 to 53, For ap=

pointment in Washington, D. Cy,

only, Open only to men
Requirements

The only requirements are that

applicants must meet the age limits
and be citizens of the U. S,
Basis of Ratings

Copying from plain copy (types

writing), 25; general test, 29; stenog=

Faphy, 5,
he’ dictation is at the rate of 96 =
words a minute. Any system of
making notes, including the use of
shorthand-writing machines, is
ceptable, provided that the notes are
given to the examiner after being
transcribed, use of typewriters
for making notes is not permitted,

Applicants must supply their ow
typewriters and tables, Any sty!
of typewriter, except electric,
permitted.

Petrographer
Salary: $3,200. File by March 3,
Age limit: 53.
Duties

To make chemical and petrologic
studies on minerals and rocks, to
examine both opaque and trans-
parent minerals by both thin sec-
tion and powder methods, and to
supplement these examinations by
other usual physical and chemical
methods of identification; perform
similar duties,
Requirements

Bachelor's degree, plus three years
of professional, a experience in.
chemistry or geology, including one
year of specialized research or in=
vestigative work on the chemical
and physical properties of minerals
and rock: ‘and their derivatives,

Basis of Ratings

Applicants will be rated on their
hearers and fitness on a scale
of 100.

Chief Artist-Designer,
$2,600

Principal Artist-Designer,
2,300

Senior Artist-Designer,
$2,000

Artist-Designer, $1,800

Assistant Artist-Designer,

$1,620
File by February 20, Age limit: 53,
Duties

To design, lay out, execute and
draw, and/or supervise the per=
formances of art work including:
lettering, black and white line=
drawings, drawings for use of Ben
Day, and half-tone screens in black
‘and’ color, posters, covers for cir»
culars, pictorial maps and chart
retouching photographic negative:
wash and air-brush drawings,
Use of photographs and other tech~
niques in suitably preparing art
work for reproduction by photo-
engraving and photo-lithographic
rocesses, ‘The duties and responsi
bilities vary with the grade of posi
ion,

Requirements

High school education, or equiv
alent experience,

In addition, experience in work
comparable to the duties described
above, as follo Chief Artist-De-
Principal Artist-
Designer—five years; Senior Artist-

(Continued on Page 12) .

The City Budget Explained

A Difficult Subject, But Vital to NYC Employees

By BURNETT MURPHEY

This is the time of year when
that strange, complicated, and
little understood device called the
budget is prepared. The average
city employee working along on
$1,999.99 or $1,200, or even $3,000
@ year, can’t quite figure out why
it’s so tough to stretch a mere
$550,000,000 to run the city, pay |
salaries, buy equipment, provide
essential services, etc,

This year, though, making up the)
1941-42 budget will be “different,”*to
say the least,

own,
jumped.

|datory salary

The assessed value of property;only levy taxes with the consent

stood at $19,000,000,000 in 1933; then | of the Legislature,
it started nosedi
it dipped to $16,553,000,000.
the city has had to absorb an an-
nual tax loss of $75,000,000.

Income Down, Cost Up

While the city’s income has been
decreasing, or at best, holding its
have
for example,
normal increases will amount to 14
or 15 million dollars.
$1,590,000 is for additional pension
contributions; $4,050,000 is for man-
increments to city
| employees; the rest is for other stat-

the city’s expenses

This year,

The reasons for this aren't hard| utory increases.

to find. The bulk of the revenue
to run the city comes from real es-
tate taxes,
that the actual tax rate can't be in-
creased,

The total value of real estate,

revenue.

Authorities are agreed | cation,

There will also be a decrease of
about $1,000,000 in state aid for edu-
, since this is based on the
number of pupils in school, and this

year there has been a sharp drop.
Something that has city officials
after climbing for years, began to| worried is the habit which they a
fall in the middle thirties, and each tribute to the State Legislature of
drop has meant another loss of|taking more and more taxes away
lfrom New York City, which can

Of this sum,

Increasingly in

ing until last year the last few years, one budget official
Thus, | says, the Legislature has snatched

away specific city taxes, such as the
bank tax ($4,000,000), the utility tax
($12,000,000), the cigarette tax ($7,-
000,000), ete.

More Pruning

Last year for the first time in a
long while the budget was smaller
than for the preceding period. By
much pruning the budget authori-
ties and the Mayor cut $6,000,000,

‘This year there will be some more
|tight squeezing. Departmental re-
quests, which increase from year to
year, will have to be slashed. New
; Services in many cases will have to
be dropped or delayed. Some jobs
may be cut; salaries may—it's only
a vague rumor so far—have to be
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Designer, four years;

igner, three years; Assistant Artist-
jesigtier, tWo years.

Basis of Ratings

Applicants will be rated on their

experience and fitness on a scale

of 1

Associate ‘Technical Editor
$3,200

Assistant Technical Editor
2,600

File by February 20.
fe: 83,

Duties

Associate Technical Editor; Under
general supervision to review and
edit technical manuscripts, reports,
manuals, bulletins, circulars, tables,
charts, ete,

Assistant ‘Technical Editor: under
immediate supervision and with
Iimited responsibilities to perform
duties similar to those above, This
work is to be confined largely to the
fields of engineering, chemistry and
physics,

Age lim-

Requirements
Applicants must have a bachelor's
degree or the equivalent in experi-
ence, plus three and two years, re-
spectively, of paid experience in
writing or editing technical mate-
rial in the field of engineering,
physics, or chemistry.
Basis of Ratings
Applicants will be rated on their
experience and fitness on a scale
of 100.

Principal Technologist
(Any Specialized Branch)
5,6

(Ainy Specialized Branch),
$4,600

Technologist (Any Special-
ized Branch), $3,800

Associate Technologist
(Any Special
3,2

Assistant Technologist)
(Any Specialized Branch),

File until December 31, 1941. Age
Init; 53,
Duties
With varying degrees
bility, depending on the

position, to plan,

responsi-
‘ade of the
interpret, and re-
port upon the thvestigation or re-
Search in some specialized branch
of technology,
Requirements

A bachelor's degree from a tech-
nical college, or the equivalent: in
experience,

addition, from seven to two

years, depending on the grade, of
brofeisional experience in the field
of technology. Part of the experi-
fice must have been In a special-

wed branch,

Basi. of Rating

Applicants willbe rated on thelr

gFRetence and Atness on “a scale

Senior Pharmacologiat,
$4,600

c ologist, $3,800

te Pharmacolopist,

$3,200

Assistant Pharmacologist,
00

Pharm

Asso

File until December 31, 1941, Age
lmits; 53. 3
Duties
To plan, supervise, or conduct ad-
vanced fesearch upon the phar-

macological or toxicological action
of organic or inorganic substances,
by means of experimental animals
or by other meai
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or the equiva
ent. In addition, professional e:
perience ranging from six years to
three years, according to the grade
of the position applied for.
Basis of Ratings
Applicants will be rated on their
experience and fitness on a scale
of 100.

Junior Technologist (Any

Specialized Branch) , $2,000
ile by February 20, Age limit: 39.
Duties

Under immediate supervision, to
perform professional or subprofes-
sional scientific work in some spe-
clalized branch of technology such
as ceramics, minerals, paper, petro-
leum, rubber, texiles, or other well
defined specialized branch.

Requirements

Applicants must have
degree with major study i
branch of technology; or have the
equivalent in experience: Senior
students will be permitted to apply

for this test, if they finish their
courses before July 1
Basis of Ratings
Applicants will be rated on a gen-

eral test on a scale of

Junior Communications
Operates
(High Speed Radio Equipment)

Salary: $1,620. File until further
notice. Place of employment: Sig-
nal Seryice at large, War Depart-
ment, Second Corps Area. Age
Umit! 48,

Principal Inspector
(Subsistence Supplies),

Senior Inspector
istence Supplies),
$2,300

Inspector
(Subsistence Supp!
2,000

Assistant Inspector
(Subsistence Supplies),
.

Junior Inspector
(Subsistence Supplie

$1,620
File until further notice. Age
limits: 28 to 53 for first three grades,
21 to 53 for the rest.
Duties
To perform nonprofessional in-

spectional work, in connection with
urchase of the classes of sub-
Sistence Supplies; to insure  com-
pliance with Government purchase
Specifications and contract requir
ments: to prepare reports as re-
quested; to conduct necessary cor-
respondence, ete.
Requirements
Applicants must have had experi-
ence in the inspection for final.
of three of the classes of
subsistence supplies listed below as
follows: Principal, five years; sentor,

four; inspector,’ three; assistant,
two;’ and Junior, one.
Subsistence supplies: 1) farina-

ceous products; 2) fruits and vege-
tables; 3) sugar starch products; 4)
condiments and pickle products; §)
beverage products,

fain substitutions are allowed
for these experience requirements,

Basis of Ratings
Applicants will be rated on their
experience and fitness on a scale of
100,

Junior Melter

Salary: $6.40 a day. File by Jan-

uary 22. Place of employment: U. 8.
Mint Service, Sreasury Department,
New York City. Age limit: 18 to

Assistant Home Economics
Specialist (Food Utiliza-
tion), $2,600

Assistant in Home Eco-
nomics Information, $2,600

Assistant Home Econo
(Food Economics), $2, 600

Assistant Home Economist
(Clothing Economies),
$2,600

Assistant Home Economist
(Family Economics),

$2,600

tant Home Economist
(Family Economies
Writer), $2,600

sghile by February 17. Age lmit:

As

Requirements
uApplicants must be college grad-
In addition they must have
Had ¥ rying amounts o! pe ao
and research experien

You may obtain full ‘requirements
by communicating with The Leader.

Phy:

therapy Aide, $1,800
Junior Physiotherapy Aide,
1,620

Options for Junior Physiotherapy
Aide only: (1) general; (2) neuro-
Psychiatric hospitals.

File by February 17.

Umit:

Requirements
Applicants must have gradudted
fr a school of physiotherapy or
have had 18 months of experience
as a physiotherapy pupil, aide or
et

junior aide in a Veterans’ Admin-

istration Facility.
Certain substitutions of education
and experience are allowed for

these experience requirements,
Basis of Ratings
Practical questions, 50; education,
experience and fitness, 50,

Psychiatric Nurse
Salary: $9,200, | File by February

17. Age limit:
You may obtain full requirements
by communicating with The Leader.

Medical Guard-Attendant,
1,6:

Medical Technical Assistant,
$2,000

Optional subjects (Medical Tech-

ical Assistant): 1} clinleal labora

tory. techaique: pharmacy; 3)
ay ‘Laboratory ‘Technique
srile by February 17, Age limits:
25 to 53,
Requirements

Medical Guard-Attendant—Applt-
cants must meet the following re-
quirements: (a) ‘They must have
graduated within five years from a
chool of nursing requiring a resi-
dence of at least two years in a
hospital having a daily average of
0 bed patients or more, and must
e been registered as a graduate
nurse or (b) have had three years
of continuous service attendant or
guard-attendant at any one of the
Department of Justice penal institu-
tions; or (c) have been honorably
discharged or retired within five
years after at least three years of
active service in the Medical Corps
of the Army or Navy with duties es-
sentially medical in character,
Medical Technical Assistant—Ap-
plicants must meet the require-
ments for Medical Guard-Attendant;

Custodial Helper and Internes
They Can't Get Change in Status

Two reclassification resolutions, ;

one of which has been lying on
Mayor LaGuardia’s desk since
July 21, 1937, have been returned
to the Municipal Civil Service
Commission without the Mayor's

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year-old resolution which was
recently returned would have
provided for the selection by
Civil Service of custodial workers
in the Board of Higher Educa-
tion and the Board of Education.

At the time the original resolution
was submitted, the Commission be-
lieved it had the power to select
these custodial workers in the Board
of Higher Education by Civil Sery-
ice procedure, It has since been ad-
vised that in order to do this, the
State Legislature must adopt en-
abling laws. However, the Commis-
sion still intends to adopt a resolu-
tion providing for the selection of
these employees in the Board of
Education, in which case no addi-
tional legal authority Is necessary.

System Abused

At present the school Custodians
are picked by Civil Service exams,
but they are allowed the right to hire
their own assistants, such as helpers,
cleaners, porters, etc. The Custodians
are paid a salary and in addition are

given a lump sum to pay for their
assistants,

In the past this system has led to
abuses, many of which have now
been corrected, But the Commission
probably will adopt a_ resolution
within two or three months that will
affect all the custodial workers in
the Board of Education and will pro-
vide that new appointees pass Civil
Service exams.

Internes Non-Competitive

The second resolution disapproved
by the Mayor and returned last week
involve Internes in the city hospitals, |
The Commission wanted these in- |
ternes to be selected by competitive
exams and to transfer them from the
non-competitive to the competitive
classification,

However, the Department of Hos-
pitals adamantly refused to agree to
this change, and since the Mayor
rarely goes ahead with a policy that
one of his department heads opposes,
the reclassification was turned down.
It probably will not be brought up
again.

in addition: At least one
raining or, experience in
tional selected either
or in the Hospital Cot
or the Navy of the

Leg
at od States.

of Rai
Practical questions in nursing, 50;
education, experience and fitness, 50.

Chief Engineering Drafts-
man, $2,

Principal Engineering
Draftsman, $2,300

Senior Engineering Drafts-
man, $2,

Engineering Draftsman,

Assistant Eng Engineering
Draftsman, $1,620

Optional branches: 1) architec-
tural: 2) civils 3) electrical: 4) heat-
ing and venti 5) lithographic;

6) mechanical: (machine design); 7)
plumbing: 8) radio; 9) structural;
10) topographic; 11) general.

File until December 31, 1941,

Sanitary Technician,

58

Assistant Sanitary Tech-

nician, $1,620
gsTile by February 10. Age Umit:

Duties
Sanitary Techniclan—Under the
direction of a medical inspector, to
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Aeronautical Inspector
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‘
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,200; Civil Aeronautics Author-

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until further notice. Age: 24-40

(Associate), 24-35 (Assistant),
Applicants must have pilot's

certificate, solo flying hours and

instruction experience.

Aireraft Inspector (Factory)
Associate ($2,900)

Air Carrier Maintenance
Inspector, Associate
(32,900)

Civil Aeronautics Authority.
File until further notice. Age
limit: 24-53.

Applicants must have an air-
craft mechanics’ certificate of
competency and (1) two-year
supervisory experience in the
mechanical field of modern civil
aircraft manufacture or repair, or
(2) three years’ experience in
the same field, which includes
components, sub-assemblies, in-

struments, and accessories,
final assembly inspection.

Inspector, Engineering
Materials (Aeronautical)
($1,800-$2,600)

Junior, $1,800; Inspector, $2,000;
Senior, $2,600. Navy Dept.’ for
duty wherever assigned. File un-
til further notice. Age limit: 53

‘Applicants must have had two
to six years’ experience in the in-
spection and testing of aeronau-
tical engineering materials, or
aircraft engines and their acces-
ories, Certain substitutions are
allowed.

or

Engineeriag Draftsman
($1,620-82,600)

Assistant, $1,620; Engineering
Draftsman,’ $1,800; Senior, $2,000;
Principal, " $2,300; Chief,” $2,600.
File until further notice. These
positions are for work on ships.
Age limits: 45 (Assistant), 60
(other grades).

Engineering Draftsman
(Ordnance)
($1,620-$2,600)

Assistant, $1,620; Engineering
Draftsman, $1,800; Senior, $2,000;
Principal, $2,300; Chief. $2,600.
Navy and War Depts. File until
June 30, 1941. Age limit: 53.

Co roid must be high school
graduates and must have two to
six years’ drafting experience, ac-
cording to the grade. One year
must be in elementary drafting
training or experience and the
rest in ordnance drafting.

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Assistant, $1,620; Engineerin;
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allowed for part of experience.

Engineering Aid
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Assistant, $1,620;
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June 30, 1941, Age limit: 55,

Applicants must have had en-
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research, design, construction, or
other engineering activities, partly
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gineering.

Inspector, Ship
nstruction

($2,000-$2,600)

Inspector, Engineering
Materials ($1,620-82,600)

Ship Constructio

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Engineering

(optional branches—hulls, _me-
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Engineering Materials: Junior,
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$2,600.

Navy Dept. for duty in the
fleld.< File until further notice.
Age limit: 55. Applicants must
have had inspectional experience,
appropriate for the grade and op-
tional branch,

Junior Engineer

($2,000)

Optional Branches: (1) Aero-
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yeat's experience in the optional
ranch is permitted.

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A request of the Borough Presi
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TION DEPARTMENT

Pace Fourteen

BULLETIN BOARD

‘All Civil Service organizations are invited to forward notices
of meetings and events for appearance in the Bulletin Board.
Please have your notice in by Friday of the week preceding date

of the event.

Sanitation Benevolent
Meeting Tuesday Night

A meeting of all officers and dele- |

gates of the Sanitation Benevolent
Association is scheduled for Tuesday
night, 8:30 p.m., January 28, at the
‘Times Square Hotel, 43rd Street and
Eighth Avenue. The meeting is im-
portant, and all are urged to attend,
Matters of vital importance are on
the agenda.

Lehman, LaGuardia

At Fashion Show

and Mayor
LaGuardia head a distinguished
group of city, State, and federal
officials who are honorary. patrons of
the annual fashion show, and revue
et the Israel Orphan Asylum,
scheduled for Saturday evening,
March 15, at Madison Square Garden.

Governor Lehman

Big Crowd Expected
At AFL Ball 22

Thomas Moran, superintendent of
the Queens County Courthouse, presi-
dent of the International Union of
Operating Engineers, local 30, AFL,
expects a crowd of 5,000 at the 41st
annual ball, schedujed for the grand
ballroom of Brooklyn's St, George
Hotel on Friday evening, February 7.

‘Auto Enginemen
To Hold Entertainment

The Automobile Enginemen of the
Department of Hospitals (affiliated
with Hospital Council 77) will hold
an annual entertainment and dance
on Saturday, February 1 at the Hotel
Riverside Plaza, 73rd St. between
Broadway and West End Ave.

A number of prominent city
officials have been invited to attend.

Parents Elect

Eli Resnikoft was re-elected presi-
dent of the Parents Association of
Public School 16, Brooklyn, at the
January meeting of the association,
The re-election of Resnikoff coin-
cided with the announcement of
condemnation proceedings to acquire
ite for an addition to P,S.16, The
Parents Association, headed by Res-
nikoff, has fought a long camp:
for the replacement of the pre-
War school.

Fire Eligibles Urged
To Send in Draft Forms

The next general meeting of the
Fire Eligibles Association will be
held Friday, January 31, at 8:30 p.m.
in P. S, 27, 42nd St. and 3rd Ave.,
Manhattan. All eligibles have been
urged to attend, especially those who
have received jobs as Platform men
in the Independent Subway,

Members who have not sent in their
questionnaires regarding their status
in the draft have been asked to do
so immediately as a report will soon
be submitted to the’ Mayor and the
Fire Commission.

New membership cards for 1941
may be obtained from Warren F.
Smith, 97-11 Waltham St.,
LL

Jamaica

Printer List Searched

For Inspector

The Municipal Civil Service Com-
mission decided this week to use its
new selective certification process on
the list for Printer in order to find
eligibles who are qualified for the
position of Inspector of Printing. A
special examination of those on the
Printer list will be held to determine
which eligibles are competent to hold
Inspector of Printing jobs. There
are three vacancies in the latter title
in the Comptroller's Office,

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Only $1.25 per gal, Free de-
Telephone your order or ask |
for free sample, STagg 2-4560,
PAINT-POINT PRODUCTS CO. Inc,
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There is no charge for this service.

Dinner of Transit

| Supervisory Employees
The first annual dinner of the As-
sociation of Office and Supervisory
Employees of the New York City
‘Transit System, BMT Division, will
be held on Lincoln's Birthday Eve,
February 11, in the main ballroom
of the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn.

Placards

The Joint Conference has printed
and distributed to its constituent
members hundreds ot large placards
in two colors, ‘These cards will
jadorn the Postal Bulletin Boards in
Metropolitan New York, They serve
as a reminder of the big Mass Meet-
ing to be held March 9. The big
subjects of that meeting: Longevity,
Court of Appeals, Retirement, Sub-
stitutes’ legislation. The event is
to take place at the Central Com-
mercial High School, 214 East 42nd
Street, New York City.

Auto Driver Eligibles

In Two Meetings

‘The Auto Truck Drivers Eligibles
Association will hold two important
meetings at 10 Seventh Avenue,
Thursday, January 30, and Friday,
January 31. All eligibles on this list
are requested to attend. Committee
members state that the case current-
ly being fought by the Auto Truck
Drivers’ Association in the Supreme
Court will be thoroughly discussed.
Both meetings start promptly at

|8 pam.

|Park Foremen
Hold Get-Together

The Greater New York Park Fore-
men Association will hold their first
|get-together party of the year on
Monday evening, February 3, at Aug-
rick's Restaurant, 257 William Street,
Manhattan,

Tickets are priced at $1,00, with
|the assurance that a good time will
| be had by all.

'He-Cops, She-Cops
|Plan Dance Together

A dance will be given February 9
by the Patrolmen and Policewomen
eligibles at the Hotel Pennsylvania
Root Garden, Good music, good
fun,

Postal Legion Dance

The first midwinter “co-operative”
dance sponsored by the Dan Tallon
Post, American Legion will be held
at the Cornish Arms Hotel Grand
Ballroom, 311 West 23rd St, Febru-
ary 21 at 8:30 p.m. The Ladies
Auxiliary and the Sons of the Legion
Squadron are co-operating with the
Post in holding the affair. Vice-
Commander Eugene Crum is being
assisted by Ella Brown of the Aux-
iliary and Jack Bowen of the Sons of
the Legion in arranging details. Com-
mittee members helping out are
Commander Peter V, Curry, J, Zava-
tore, Jack Walker, Harry Lippman,
| Steve Tassi, Morris Gerster, Harvey
Sweeney, Dennis Hynes, Moe Silver-
man, Harry Basist, L. R. Bailas,
Thomas Wagler, Harry Miller, Harry
Davidson, Harry Levy, William
Douglas, Antony Peronace, Fred
Strassburger. ‘Tickets can be ob-
tained from Station delegates.

\To John J. O’Brien

| To John J. O’Brien, chairman of
delegates, Municipal Auto Engine-
men, The Leaver extends deepest
mpathy upon the untimely death of
wife,

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|
|

Appointments From
Motor Vehicle List

Two appointments have just been

Examiner list, which is due to expire
| May 25, Numbers 54 and 58 were ap-
‘pointed to the Albany office of the
|Motor Vehicles Bureau, bringing to
38 the total of appointments from
this list.

First announcement of a new
exam in this title wlll appear in the
Leaver when readye

de from the Motor Vehicle License |

| City Accountants

New Titles for Bus, Car Operator,

2,500 Transportation Employees to Be

A procedure for the reclassifi-
cation of 2,500 employees of the
Board of Transportation who are
serving in the titles of Street Car
Operator and Bus Operator has
been adopted by the Municipal
Civil Service Commission. The
employees, now in the non-com-
petitive class, will go into the
competitive group, This transfer
will begin in a few weeks.

The procedure was approved fol-
lowing a study made by the examin-
ing division of the Commission and
after suggestions from John H. De-
Janey, chairman of the Board of
Transportation, had been considered.

Tt was pointed out that the rapid
substitution of buses for trolley cars
in the city would affect 500 em-
ployees within the next few months,
most of whom will be transferred to
other jobs.

Originally it had been suggested
by an official of the Commission that
the titles of Street Car Operator and
Bus Operator be abolished, and in
their place a new title of Surface
Line Operator be created.

Delaney Opposed

However, Chairman Delaney was
not in favor with this proposal, and
pointed out that two types of surface
transportation are operated by the
Board, one powered by electricity,
the other by gas or oil engines.

“The operator of an electrically
powered vehicle is not thereby a
qualified operator of an automotive
vehicle,” he wrote. “The reverse is
likewise true, Some operators are,
however, by ability and experience
qualified to operate both vehicles and
are fitted to hold the proposed title
of Surface Line Operator. But if the
title of Surface Line Operator is cre-
ated and applied, without Civil Ser-
vice or departmental examination, to
all operators of electrical power and
automotive surface lines, the assump-
tion would be that a Surface Line
Operator was thereby qualified to
operate either vehicle.”

How It’s Done

Through the procedure adopted by
the Commission it will do the job
with the following steps:

1. Classify present Street Car Op-
erators into the competitive title of
Street Car Operator,

2. Classify present Bus Operators
into the competitive title of Bus
Operator.

3. Abandon for the present the
creation of the title of Surface Line
Operator.

4, In cases of all reclassification
resolutions involving Street Car Op-
erators, the following important
statement will be added:

oa the incumbents of the posi-
tion of Street Car Operator have the
right to appointment as Bus Oper-
ators in order of seniority, subject to
a qualifying Civil Service examina-
tion and the power to conduct such
examinations be delegated to the
Board of Transportation for a period
of one year from the effective date of
this resolution.”

5. In cases of all reclassification
resolutions involving Bus Operators,

Prominent Attorneys
To Explain Civil Service

Procedures and Trials
The New York County Lawyers’

Association will hear twe attorneys

discuss legal matters in relation to

Civil Service. Time and place:
Thursday, January 30, 8 at the
Association's headquarter: Vesey

Street, opposite St. Paul's, Speakers:
H, Eliot Kaplan, Executive Secretary
of the Civil Service Reform League
and Contributing Editor of The
Leapen, will discuss “Elements, Prep-
aration, and Trial of Civil Service
Actions and Proceedings.” Fred-
erick P. Bryan, First Assistant Cor-
poration Counsel, will speak on the
subject “Proceedings to Review De-
terminations of Municipal Adminis-
trative Officers and Agencies.” The
event is under the sponsorship of the |
Forum and Social Committee, Wil: |
liam Jacobs, Chairman, In charge
of the evening is Joseph W. Kaut- |
man. All lawyers and officials are
invited to attend,

Hear Talk on Specialty

The Society of Municipal Accoun-
tants, Inc, held a regular meeting
on Monday,’ January 27, in Room
413, Pulitzer Building. A talk on
“Bond Funds and Other Funds” was
given by Jacob Turchin,

add the following to the standard
preamble:

“. , , the incumbents of the posi-
tion of Bus Operator have the right
to appointmeat as Street Car Oper-
ators in order of seniority, subject to

Reclassified

a qualifying Civil Service .,

tion, and the power to con, ta
examinations *be delegate, \\ "th
Board of Transportation fo. , °°, the

of one year from the effectiy tit
this resolution.” ake

(Continued from Page 10)

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46, 47, Belo:

elene F. E81, f
Nes Somsphite 80,95; oe Poitslscy, Rey

ASSISTANT CLERK, DIVISION OF
PAROLE, EXECUTIVE DEPT.

1, Wolf, Eliz, K., 2, Doyle, Mar

80.00; 4, Alte

uth,

Corea Bierce wena

82.43; 8, Haggerty, Margaret C., 81.04,

SPECIAL AGENT, DEPARTMENT
OF MENTAL HYGIENE

1, Young, ot ‘i, 87

5,_ "Martin,
“McCauley, ‘John.

Stuart Ce 8158" 0.
81.01; Paitte, Erest C., 79.55; 8, Daloerak,
Chester F., 77.9

ASSISTANT ACCOUNT CLERK,
AUDIT AND CONTROL

A, Spelloian, J. J., 90.14
1a,

Gluck, Har
88,08

20, iieera Geo.
1, Clarke, John’ J., 22,
‘Austin T., 80.44: 2

Son, 7 Marcy, Eugene, 78.46.

SUPERVISOR OF STREAM IM-
PROVEMENT
Emerson W., 87.60; 2, Cook,

SENIOR ‘TE. “ROENTGENOLOGIST,
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Gartenlaub,
50; 4, Zinn,
PRINCIPAL CLERK, PERSONNEL,

SOCIAL WELFARE
Ostrosky, Anna

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ASSISTANT INSURANCE POLICY
EXAMINER

1y,Cohen. Victor 8., 82.49; 2, Gasmer. A.,

*FUNIOR EPIDEMIOLOGIST,
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

1, Rubin. Arthur, 81.00; 2, Bukowskt,
Edw. 79. ;Koupal, Jean, 79.00: 4,
Drachman, ‘neo. Bs 5, Montague,
Terry

SENIOR ENGINEERING AID,
ULSTER COUNTY

State atid st Lists

81.00; 8, Rfenbary,
aShushinn it, Re
80.40;

0; Ahiske,

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CHINE, TRANScRInE wy

2+ Kodon, Rosalind, 80.05; 2
86.88; 3, Buckley’

Bass; 4 Pollard, M, 7, 8s
Mary K., 85,27;

83;
10. "Mabe, Tani
Ty Mae is, Blin Liat
belie, Eaten, 88.95; 14,

Insurance
Referee Test

a fucied

Candidates on the recent
ployment Insurance Rei
eed have no feats that the sat
Civil Service Commis

gotten about them,
tions division of the Commis;
following conferences with DPUt
ficials, is now perfecting a read)
ment plan aimed at stifling o
that insufficient time wa
part I of the test, An:
of the adjusted marking
to be made shortly,

It is learned that, cont:
ports, no tentative key
sued

Immediately after the \
16 test, candidates com;
they were given only 240 rm:
answer 280 questions,

A bill disqualifying
from Unemployment Inswran:
fits who quit their work, ur
ercion or discrimination
has been introduced into
lature. Should this pass
ices of additional Referee
needed.

More on all this will appear is
future issues of The Leavin

1, Stewart, M, S., 88.00; 2, Wood, Jack

Buy The LEADER Every Tuesiay,

This column is
offered to readers
who have legit-
imate complaints
to make about
their jobs, salar-
ies, working con-
| ditions, etc. Only
initials are used

complaint
corner

with letters,

Passed Exam, Taken Off
List, Wants to Be Placed Back

Sirs: On* June 14, 1940, I received
notification from: the Civil Service
Commission to the effect that I had
assed the promotion. examination
for Clerk, Grade 2, with the. grade

% for the written, and 72.50% for
tne eee sate averaging 71.25%.

T had no other communication from
the Civil Service Commission until
January 2, 1941, when I received a
Jetter notifying me that the grades
had been ‘erated due to a court
order, that, my, grade was now 69%
and that I had been dropped “off the

'S\hile readin the Civil Service
newspapers, I had become aware
that there was some disagreement
over certain questions, and one in
articular, ‘The change, I assume,
hinges on these facts.’ However,
whatever the reason, I had le; legally
passed the examination and had reé-
ceived notification to that effect, If
the Commission, due to outside
claimants, has chosen to alter its
conception of the rules of grammar,
it is not fair that those who have met
the original correct requirements
should have to bear the burden of
the decision. I do not deny these
“others” the right to their claims,
but I strongly assert my claim to the
Commission's original ‘disposition of
the matter and my original place on
the promotion list,

Lours Manper.

The Commission states it must
abide by the court order,—Editor,

Federal Steno Lists

Sirs: In May 1940, 1 took an exam
for stenographer, males only, for
work in shington, D.C. Iam now
on that list. As a matter of fact, on

November 29, 1940, I received a © be
munication from the U,
ive Commission that I am

the list. That was more than @ na
er of

ago. According to your pa
week ago, appointments «
made at the rate of 200
week, not from the list of the Nit
exam but from a new one which
given some two months ai. .
ferred, that there are 1 ot endl
maje stenographers avail le.

SEE I aga
by The Civil Service ne
If there is such a great Ga fe
stenographers, why, should they Si
over the previous list an
new register for appointment
the old register is no more tht
months old? And why sho
be “talk” of giving a new @xiM
cause there are not enoush *
raphers? MR

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of pictures...
S trhast week's stand-

RY,
2 UNIGHT TRAIN,” it
‘a let-down to come to
SIERRA,” et al of this week,

RRA (Warner).

Only_ they're not
mean it! Only recent-

livelihood of gangstering,
jovation. in. stage presenta-

nolds, recently returned
brings affairs there
loser to home with
lines account of blitzkrieg

yone ever heard of that
{me see, I'll remember its |
playing at|that she w:

Nh “GONE WITH
Back after a year's|STORY” . .
hn the states, this money- u
ed some twenty ‘Monday or Tuesday but liked it fine.

millions of dollars) 1s back to New
York audiences,

THEY MET ON SKIS (Skokal),
For those who get a thrill from see-
ing newsreel skiing photos, here's a
delightful full-length French pro-
duction, The picture, which has
English’ subtitles, is set’ in the Sw:
and French Alps and presents ne-
tional ski champions in exciting and
stirring scenes, These people will
really show you how to cut a mean
Christie. “THEY MET ON SKIS”
is at the 55th Street Playhouse.

The Museum of Modern Art is
continuing with the second part of
its 40 years of American comedy.
Shows are presented daily at 4, on
Sundays at 2 and 4, The stage of
comedy now being’ presented has
some of the best of the Chaplin epics
in it. For those of you who haven't
yet seen any of the presentations,
We'll tell you once again that you're
missing something. For those of you
that have ‘nuff said,

“ARIZONA" js still trying to push
“PHILADELPHIA STORY” out of
the Music Hall. We're saying “I
told-you-so" to confreres who scoffed
at Katie H. We always maintained

s_good—and does she
prove it In “PHILADELPHIA
. Tried skiing for the
first time last week—cotldn’t walk

SHUFFLING RHYTHM
comes to the New York Strand

| New York City, COrtlandt 7-8880.

List Now's.
Technician

Mo
Investig:

. Chass A

Social
Special Patrolman
1

with Henry Busse and his orch.

competitive exams
Jered last week by the
Service Com-
One of the tests is for
00 a year post as Director
Bureau of Child Hygiene
ment of Health.

others aret Chief Dental
($3,000), Department
; and Laboratory As-
istant (Biochemistry), to $1,500.
dates, full requirements
other information about these
tests will appear in the Leaper
as soon as they are officially an-
the Commission.

___|30. The rating of part II of the other

_——$—$— S| eclciticn fe in progress.

First Welfare Lists

all lists, just completed

by the State Civil Service Commi:

still awaiting establishment,
ers of the count:

sts Moe wie exams dnd written test 75 per cent completed.

44 counties last September

According to Com-

all of the lists will |
iable eee time in February.| mation Center): Written test held.

ment Investigator, Onta,'o County, | ¢
and Medical Worker in Broome and | >

ion Reserved on

Labor Jobs for Seamen

Action on @ proposal to use the
man’s list as appro-
labor jobs was reserved

the Municipal
The Commis-

Service Commission.
sion will consider the proposal again

Buy The LEADER Every Tuesday.

REYNOLDS
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~STARTS TONIGHT —
VIRGINIA
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— CASS DALEY

AMOUNT Z

Is Your Exam Here ?

Below is the latest news from

mission on the status of exams which attracted 300 or more candi-
dates, THE Leaver will publish changes as soon as they are made

known,
COMPETITIVE

Administrative Assistant
fare): The rating of
Public Relations Specialty h:
completed. The oral interview for
this specialty will be given January

Airport Assistant: 170 candidates
qualified on the written test.

Asphalt Worker: Tentative key
published.
Assessor (Railroad): Rating oft

Assessor (Utillty Buildings): 75 |
| percent of written test rated.

Assistant Director (N. ¥. C. Infor-

376 candidates appeared.
Assistant Engineer — (Designer),
rade 4, Board of Water Supply:
Report on final key before Commis- |
sion.

Assistant Engineer (Drill Op-
jerator), Grade 4: The holding of
this examination is contingent upon
final determination to continue the
operation boring units,

Automobile Engineman: All parts
of examination held. Computing of
list in progress.

Baker: Rating of written test
nearing completion. |

Buildings Manager (Housing Au-
thority): Written test scheduled for |
February 15. |

Car Maintainer, Group G: All
parts of examination completed ex- |
cept final experience. |

Clerk, Grade 2 (Board of Higher
Education); Rating of part A of
written test nearing completion.

Continuity Writer: Rating of
written test completed. The ex-
perience interview will be adminis-
tered soon.

Cook: Rating of written test al-|
most completed. |

Court Stenographer: Rating of |
part A held up pending clarification
of court determination.

Dentist (Part Time):
held recently.

Dietitian: Rating of qualifying ex-
perience nearly completed,

Gasoline Roller Engineer and As-
phalt Roller Engineer: Written test
scheduled for February 18,

Inspector of Blasting, Grade 2:
Written test scheduled for Febru-

Written test

ary 6.
Junior Administrative Assistant
(Housing): Part II of all specialties

except maintenance will be held
January 29 and 31.

Junior Administrative Assistant
| (Welfare): (See Administrative
Asst.) (Welfare).

Junior Assessor (Engineering): 75
per cent of written test rated.

Junior Engineer (Mechantcal),
Grade 3: Tentative key published.

Junior Engineer (Sanitary), Grade
3: All parts of examination held.
,| Junior Engineer (Signals), Grade

+ mn ,

the Muntctpal Civil Service Com-

50 per cent of the written test
completed.

Junior Psychologist: The Commis-
sion has approved final key. Rating
of written test has begun,

Maintainer’s Helper, Group A:
Competitive physical completed.

Maintainer’s Helper, Group B:
Rating of written test completed. |
Competitive physical will be com-|
pleted February 6,

Maintainer's Helper, Group C:
Written test completely rated. C:
petitive physical completed.

Maintainer’s Helper, Group H|
Competitive physical completed.

Management Assistant (Housing |
Authority), Grade 3: Oral interview
tests completed.

Mechanical Maintainer, Group B:
Practical test completed. |

Office Appliance Operator: Prac-|
tical tests~for various office appli- |
ances in progress

Playground Director (Female),
Permanent Service: Oral practica’
tests continued through next week. |

Section Stockman (Welfare): The
rating of part I nearly completed.

Senior Maintainer (Office Appli-

ances—Typewriters); Written test |
scheduled for January 30. |
Signal Maintainer, Group B: All)
parts of this examination are com-
pleted, |
Stenographer (Law), Grade 2:

Stenotypist, Grade 2: Part A of writ
ten test almost completely rated.
Structure Maintainer: All parts of |
this examination are completed. }
Supervising Tabulating Machine |
Operator (I.B.M. Equipment), Grade |
4: Written test has been given.
Telephone Operator, Grade
(Female): A list is now being con-

| Head Dictitia

Court):
progress.
Court Stenographer:
written test held in’ abey
ing outcome of litigat

Elevator Operator (Department of
Hospitals):
key answers being considered,
Rating of written

Rating of
nee pend-

test under way.

Junior Administrative Assistant
(City-Wide): Objections to tentative
key answers being considered.

Junior Assistant Corporation Coun-
sel, Grade 3 (Law Department):
Written test rated. The experience

interview will be conducted early
next month,
Junior Counsel, Grade 3 (New

York City Housing
(Division of
Estimate): W

uthority) and
‘anchises, Board of
en test rated.

Maintainer's Helper, Group A: No |

candidate passed written test.
Maintainer’s Helper, Group C: No
candidate passed written test.
Senior Dietitian: Rating of writ-
ten test begun,

Senior Psychologist: Examination

|held in abeyance pending a final re-

classification determination,

Senior Storekeeper (Knowledge of
Automotive Parts); Rating of writ-
ten test completed.

Senior Supervisor, Grade 4 (So-
cial Service): Examination held in
abeyance pending outcome of litiga-
tion,

Station Supervisor: Rating of writ-
ten test begun,

Supervising Tabulating Machine
Operator, Grade 3: Written test has
been given.

Supervisor, Grade 3 (Social Sery-
fee): Examination held in abeyance
pending outcome of litigation,

Towerman: a ig of written test
begun.

Train Dispatcher:
ten test in progress.

Yardmaster: Rating of written
test will be completed soon.

LICENSING TESTS

Master Plumber:

Rating of writ.

Drawing of the

stituted as a result of selective cer- | _

tification from the list for Clerk,
Grade 2.
Typewriting Copyist, Grade 1:
Rating of written test is completed.
X-Ray Technician; Rating of writ-
ten test in progress,

PROMOTION

Assistant Director of Public As-
sistance, Grade 5: Rating of written |
test is completed. ‘The oral interview
will probably begin in a week.

Assistant Station Supervisor: Ten-
tative key published.

Assistant Supervisor, Grade 2 (So-
clal Service): Examination held in
abeyance pending outcome of litiga
tion.

Assistant Train Dispatcher: The
rating of the wrilten test has begun. |

Bridge Sergeant (Triborough
Bridge Authority): Rating of writ-
ten test in progress.

Captain (Fire Department): Part I
completely rated.

Car Maintainer, Group G: All parts
of examination completed,

Conductor: Rating of the written
test begun. |

Court Clerk, Grade 3 (Magistrate's

Rating of written test in|

Objections to tentative |

cy

Your Chances for Appointment

‘The latest certifications of the Municipal Civil Service Commission are
given below. An asterisk (*) with the last number certified, indicates that
certification has been made during the past week.
stand for probably permanent and temporary.
Renders should remember that certification does not necessarily mean
appointment. Usually more names are certified than there are vacancies.

Anyone with a question on a certification should call or write to the In-
formation Bureau, Municipal Civil Service Commission,

The letters P and T

299 Broadway,

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Labor Proposal Seems Doomed

Budget Director Fears Increment Law

{Kenneth Dayton asked to exam~

(Exclusive)

The possibility looms this week
that the proposed reclassifica~
tion of the labor class which the
Municipal Civil Service Commis-
sion is advocating may be held
up more or less’ indefinitely.
The proposal, in the form of a
resolution to place some 12,000
present labor class jobs under
a competitive status, has already
been the subject of two public
hearings, A third public hear-
ing to consider additional altera-
tions to the original resolution
was slated for last week, but in

wthe meantime Budget Director

ine the resolution.

Dayton is known to have raised
certain objections to the mass trans-
fer of so many employees in the
competitive class, largely because of
uncertainties on how the, would be
affected by such matters as the Mc-
Carthy Increment Law.

Afraid of Pay Raises

The Commission's resolution pro-
vides for minimum and maximum
salaries for each grade of position.
Both the minimum and maximum
salaries are the same. But the Bud-
get Director is not satisfied that
once the labor jobs become com-
petitive they will not automatically
fall under the provisions of the Mc-

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Carthy law, despite any restrictions
set forth by the Commission,

If a satisfactory agreement cannot
be reached between Dayton and the
Commission, the whole thing may
be called off, or a completely new
resolution may be submitted.

In any event, the hopes of the
Commission, expressed more than a
year ago, to effect the complete
abolition of all labor jobs by July 1,
1941, now seems doomed.

Action on
State Lists

By recent order of the State Civil
Service Commission, preference in
certification of eligibles on the Senior
and Assistant Mechanical Stores
Clerk lists will go to those-residing
within the judicial district in which
the job’ is located,

‘There's finally been an appoint-
ment from the list for Cashier, Coun-
ty Clerk's Office, Richmond County.
It’s No. 3, Harry J, Bohlen, 41 Flor-
ence Place, Princess Bay, at $2,641.

The third appointment from the
Industrial Relations Investigator list
has just been made. That's Harold
J. Bydt, disabled veteran of 438
Goethe Street, Buffalo, who is No, 3.
The first two, also disabled veterans,
have already been placed. Eydt’s
job is at $1,600 in the Binghamton of-
fice of the Labor Department.

State Lists Die

The following State lists expired
this week:
Open

Jan. 21—Senior Statistics Clerk,
Public Service,

Jan. 21—Investigator, Division of
Old Age Security, Public Welfare,
Chautauqua County.

Jan, 26—Senior Psychiatrie Work-
er, Westchester County. +

Jan, 26—Biologist, Division of Can-
cer Control, Health.

Jan, 26—Assistant Sanitary Chem-
ist, Conservation.

Jan. 26.—Photostat Operator, Coun-
ty Register's Office, Westchester
County,

Jan. 26—Photostat Operator, Bronx
County Surrogate'’s Office,

Jan, 28—Title Examiner, Commis-
sioner of Records Office, Kings
County.

Promotion

Jan, 26—Assistant Typist, Corree-
tion, Albany Office.

Jan, 26—Supervisor, Division of
State Aid, Social Welfare,

Contest for

Transcribers

Transcribing Typists in the De-
partment of Welfare have been in-
vited by the Dictaphone Corporation
to compete in the annual Dictaphone
Speed and Accuracy contest to be
held at the National Business Show,
Grand Central Palace, Lexington
Avenue, at 46th Street, New York,
between February 3 and 7, 1941
Inclusive. Previous prize winners
of this contest are not eligible to
compete.

There will be four principal
prizes. The first prize consists of
$50 and a gold pin; second prize, $25
and a gold pin; third prize, $15 and
a silver pin and fourth prize, $10
and a silver pin, Bronze pins will
be awarded to all contestants achiev-
ing a rate of 300 lines or more per
hour, Certificates of proficiency will
be awarded to all contestants achiev-
ing a rate of 150 lines or more per
hour.

Application blanks from Tran-
scribing Typists competing in the
contest have been forwarded to
Theodore M. Schoenfeld in the Di-
vision of Methods, Procedures and
Office Management. Applicants will
jbe notified by mail by the Dicta-
| phone Corporation as to the time as-
signed.

Each Transcribing Typist who for-
warded an application to compete
will receive an admissi
| National
Division of Methods, Procedures and
Office Management.

Less people are taking Civil Serv-
ice exams . ., More jobs are ayail~
able... Your chances are better...

ion card to the
Business Show from the |

Report to Give
Lawyers, G-Men
Special Status

WASHINGTON.—The Reed Com-
mittee on Civil Service Reform will
make a final report to President
Roosevelt within two weeks, it is
reliably reported in Washi gton.

But remember, this promise has
been made several times on previ-
ous occasions and fe committee
members have done little but fight
among themselves.

However, Dr. Leonard White, Chi-
cago University professor who is a
former member of the Civil Service
Commission, forced the issue when
he threatened to resign if thy com-
mittee continued its do-nothing
policy. ‘The committee has been
“studying” for two years the feasi-
bility of bringing scientists, lawyers,
administrators, G-men and other

technical and professional
under Civil Service, ‘The Jon
have taken about six months gt 44
most, Supreme Court Jus'i._
ley Reed decided to call a comm
meeting to avert White's resi,,
tion, in
Recommendations
It's reported that the com,
will recommend that scientist,
ministrators and other techninit
and professional people be brows
under Civil Service. In regarg
G-men and other FBI employees, @
will say that they should be brown’
under merit, “but not at this time q.
national emergency.” About ie
yers—that is a question, The oday,
seem in favor of attorneys bein
blanketed in, but Supreme cof)
Justice Felix Frankfurter has a pi
which would put them about hala
way under merit, Briefly, his play.
would give lawyers job protecti
retirement and other Civil Se
benefits, but the selection would hy
left largely to general counsels ang
a committee of distinguished lay,
yers headed by the solicit genera,

‘Borough President’s Office

News Roundup Among Sewer Workers

We stepped into the office of Man-
hattan Borough President Isaacs, on
the 20th and 2ist floor of the Munici-
pal Building. This is what we
learned,

Oddity: In 1917, during the big flu
epidemic, not a single sewer worker
had the disease, None’ of them has it
now. And they all work in drafts
...Lloyd Sutton’s crew of loyal men
recently located a stretch of lost
sewer downtown. It doesn’t show on
any map. It’s over 100 years old.
And it’s in excellent shape...The
film which brought $190 increases to
each sewer laborer when it was
shown before the Board of Estimate
last summer, cost only $400 to pro-
duce...A sewer man’s daughter came
dashing in to see Gil Goodkind, as-
sistant to the Commissioner. “Please
transfer my daddy,” she pleaded.
“He's been working in the sewers
for 25 years, and he ought to have a
surface job.” The department readily
agreed, and arranged for the transfer.
The next day, Papa came dashing in,

irate. “What does this mean?

was I transferred?” His voice way
belligerent, When told that hig
‘daughter had requested the transfer,
|e came back with this: "So! 1 givg
them a good education, I send’ them
through college—and now I'm not
good enough for them. Now I stink!"
He went back to the seivers...A cers.
tain Lucien Pietri asked Bill Peer,
the Department's examiner, for q
copy of the booklet entitled Eu
River Drive, published by the Bor.
ough President's office, Mr. Piety
title is Chief of Civil Service, Gov.
ernment of Indo-China...On the
radio program Servants of the Ci,
WBNX, a laborer in the department
was suddenly called upon by the
announcer to talk about his work
Jobn Meyerback (that's our man)
performed brilliantly, as though it
had all been rehearsed in advance,
On that:same program, last Tuesday
it was, appeared Ladis Csyani, acting
superintendent of the East’ Rivet
asphalt plant,

Twenty City Exams

Applications Ready Next Week

A series of 20 new city exam-
inations will be opened early
next week by the Municipal Civil
Service Commission. This is in
contrast to the small number of
tests that have been announced
in recent months,

Eight of the new groups are com-

petitive and twelve are promotion,
open only to city employees, Fifteen

| of the series are to fill positions in

the city subway system.
The tentative schedule follows:

Competitive
Alienist (psychiatrist), Grade 4.
Roentgenologist, Grade 4,
Jr. Physicist (radiation),
Turnstile Maintainer.
Car Maintainer, Group A.
Car Maintainer, Group F,
Telephone Maintainer,
Power Distribution Maintainer.

Promotion
Sergeant (Police Department).

Food Inspector Can't

Be Lunch Assistant

A request by Aaron Steger, an
eligible on the list for Inspector of
Foods, Grade 2, that his list be de-
clared appropriate for the position
of Senior Lunch Assistant at $1 an
hour, has been denied by the Mu-
nicipal Civil Service Commission,

An examiner of the Commission,
asked to report on the request, de-
clared that there was no similarity
in the duties of the two positions.

Exams in Kingston

U, S, Civil Service exams will
henceforth be held in Kingston,
which has ust been designated as a
general examination point. Ulster
County residents previously had to
travel north to Albany or south to
Poughkeepsie when the exam spirit
moved,

Mention of the CIVIL SERVICE

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Foreman (turnstiles).

Foreman (power distribution).

Car Maintainer, Group F.

Car Maintainer, Group A.

Mechanical Maintainer, Group A,

Mechanical Maintainer, Group C,

Power Distribution Maintainer.

‘Telephone Maintainer,

‘Trainmaster,

Foreman, Group 2 (Borough Pres
dent's Office),

Assistant Foreman (track),

Complete details on all these tests
will appear in the neat issue of The
Leapen,

How to Buy

Mary O'Connor, director of the
Division of Standards and Pure”
chase of New York State, in het |
spare time lectures on purchas-”
ing at the Albany Business Col
lege. She has some interesting
things to say on what makes §
good public purchasing agenl
and other related topics:

“It is important that the studett
develop the viewpoint that a sue
cessful purchasing agent must be #
expert salesman, selling himself,
viewpoint, and his wares {0 thst)
he contacts. The purchasing ase
is-always the man in the midadll
must give efficient service, 00 1
hand, to the user—he must, on
other hand, purchase ethically, t
satisfaction of his employer:
|case of government, his emp
are the taxpayers of the commu’
he represents, so his every act 80
public function and must be
corded and explained through P!
records,

“Qualifications of @
agent include education, exp’
integrity, good judgment, and Pe
sonality. He must have a min
his own, He must find a way 1
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scientiously, but also be able “ef
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person like it, =~

“T owe»my training to sine Sit
executives and the opportuni.
the competitive Civil Service
tem.”

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