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GOOD NEWS!

About the Association’s

HEALTH AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE PLAN

(increased Benefits
and Lower Rates (i)

Your Association’s Insurance Committee, after many confer-
ences with representatives of The Commercial Casualty Insur-
ance Company of Newark, N. J., and TerBush & Powell, Inc.,
Schenectady, underwriters and administrators of the Plan, has
worked out important improvements in the plan.

The details of the increased benefits and lower rates (in some
classes) decided upon are explained herein.

The new benefits become effective November 1, 1949. New

applications dated after September 15th will be accorded the
new benefits.

INVESTIGATE TODAY!

The Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.

Now has the BROADEST, MOST EXTENSIVE, and LOW-
EST COST Plan possible for any group of public employees
anywhere.

Take Advantage of this Valuable Association Service

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148 CLINTON STREET SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

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Vol. 18, Number 2 SUMMER ISSUE, 1949 15c a. Copy
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THE ASSOCIATION

President- - - - - Frank L. Tolman
Ist Vice-President - Jesse B. McFarland Iu Vis Josue
2nd Vice-President - John F, Powers
3rd Vice-President - Frederick J, Walters

4th Vice-President - J. Allyn Stearns | Peatecres
Sth Vice-President - Ernest L. Conlon

Wiemann = = = 2 x Saney G, Rex The 39th Annual Meeting, October 45.....00ssssnniunanannnnnnnen 24
Secretary - - - - Janet Macfarlane .
iia. : #518 Tai DORE Official Ballots for Annual Election...o.einmnennninndS 8 26

Exec. Secretary - - Joseph D. Lochner

Candidates’ Pictures ai iographi
Exec. Rep. - - William F. McDonough nd Biosraphies 0 7
Asst. Counsel - - John E, Holt-Harris Vote “Yes”
Asst, Counsel - - - John J. Kelly, Jr.

Field Reps. - -' Laurence J, Hollister The Salary Picture......

Charles R. Culyer
Research Consultant - - Irving Cohen Your New Headquarters ea mamma Ranti GaS

Supplemental Legislative Repott........:00:csusnsnnennnennnnnennenee 41
THE MAGAZINE

The Year Ahead...

Editor-in-Chief - - Frank L, Tolman

Macraginggiiee « Jpeight Di, Lochnes A Disabled Veteran Looks at Veterans’ Preference. .....1.s:uuinnennone 47
Advertising Mgr. - - - - Roy Fisher

fee tes + as we os Eells acter Know Your Retirement Plan ee
Photographer - - - - W.P. Kennedy

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Official Roster of Conference Chairmen and Chapter Presidents........ 52

THE COVER YOUR ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP DUES
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man pulling down the “YES” lever
on Constitutional Amendment No.

5, which will be presented to the
voters on Election Day, November
8th. It is important that you encour-

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likewise. Albany, N. Y.

The 39th Annual Meeting

7 The Thirty-Nintk Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of the Asso-
ciation will be held on October 4 and 5, 1949. Every effort is being made
by President Tolman and the Association Headquarters staff to make the
coming annual meeting the most successful and the most valuable and
effective for the delegates who attend and all the Association members they
represent. The tentative program for the meeting is printed herein. As
arrangements become final, a cefinite prog-am will be printed and distributed
as early as possible to all chapters, delegates and representatives.

GET RESOLUTIONS IN
EARLY

The Committee on Resolutions
_for the Annual Meeting consists of
the following members: Jesse B.
McFarland, Social Welfare, Chair-
man; Fred J. Walters, Mental Hy-
giene; George J. Fisher, State Ar-
mories; Harry M. Dillon, Correc-
tion; Angelo J. Donato, Conserva-
tion; Paul W. Swa-twood, State
Colleges; Robert Killough, Educa-
tion; Clarence W. F. Stott. Confer-
ences and Public Works; Theodore
Becker, Civil Service: Charles H.
Foster, Education; John F. Powers,
Labor; Vernon A. Tanner, Onon-
daga Chapter; Ivan S. Flood, West-
chester Chapter; And-ew C. Doyle,
Labor and Henry A. Cohen, Public
Works.

The Committee on Resolutions
must perform a huge task in a short
space of time. To enable the Com-
mittee to deyote as much time as
possible to their yery important
work it is recommended that reso-
lutions for consideration of the dele-
gates at the Annual Meeting be sent
AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE PRIOR
TO THE MEETING DATES to
Jesse B. McFarland, Chairman,
Resolutions Committee, Association
Headquarters, 8 Elk Street, Albany
7, N.Y.

VOTE EARLY

The Board of Directors, at its
June 30th meeting, elected the fol-
lowing Board of Canvassers to vali-
date any independent nominating
petitions received and count the
ballots cast for the election of offi-
cers and members of the state
executive committee; “Leonard F.
Requa, Tax; George W. Hayes,
Tax; Isabelle O’Hagan, State; Wal-
ter E, Conway, Law and Vernon A.
Tapper, Onondaga Chapter.

Official Ballots for the Annual
Election, printed on pages 25 and 26,
have also been mailed direct to
each member of the Association.
Any member who loses the ballot
mailed to him may secure another
from his local Chapter or from
Albany Headqua-ters.

The Board of Canvassers re-
quests the help of all members and
Chapters. Official Ballots should be
sent in by individual members and
chapters as early as possible in ad-
vance of the election date so that
the Board’s work may be carefully
completed in time.

REPORT OF NOMINATING
COMMITTEE

The Board of Directors at its
meeting on June 30, 1949, elected
the following Nominating Commit-
tee to nominate officers for the
Association year beginning October
1, 1949:

Dr. David M. Schneider, Social
Welfare, Chairman; Sidney Alex-
ander, Mental Hygiene; Solomon
Bendet, Insurance; Dr. Charles A.
Brind, Jr., Education; Charlotte M.
Clapper, Health: John A, Cromie,
Ivan S. Flood, Westchester Chapter;
Harry Fritz, Correction; John M.
Harris, Mental Hygiene; Clifford C.
Shoro, Health; Clarence W. F.
Srott. Public Works; Beulah Bailey
Thull, Audit & Control and Arnold
Wise, Tax.

At a meeting of the State Execu-
tive Committee held on June 30,
1949, a Nominating Committee
composed of the same members with
the exception of Mr. Flood, who is
a member of the County Division,
was elected to nominate members of
the State executive committee for
the ensuing year.

The Nominating Committees,

after giving consideration to facts or
petitions presented to it by individ-
ual members or groups of members
filed its report in accordance with
the Constitution, with the Secretary
at least 60 days prior to the date of
the Annual Meeting. Its report
follows:

For P:esident: Dr. Frank L. Tol-
man and Jesse B. McFarland; For
Ist Vice-President, John F, Powers;
For 2nd Vice-President, Francis A.
MacDonald and Frederick J. Wal-
ters; for 3rd Vice-President, J. Allyn
Stearns; for 4th Vice-P-esident, Er-
nest L, Conlon and Robert R. Hop-
kins; for 5th Vice-President, David
M. Schneider and Biagio Romeo;
for Secretary, Janet Macfarlane and
Charlotte M. Clapper and for
Treasurer, Harry G. Fox. Miss
Macfarlane withdrew as a candidate
for the office of Secretary.

FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT-
TEE: Agriculture & Markets, Wil-
liam F, Kuehn; Audit & Control,
Leo P. Mullen; Banking, P. Ray-
mond Krause; Civil Service, Theo-
dore Becker; Commerce, Mildred
O. Meskill; Conservation, Noel F.
McDonald and James V. Kava-
naugh; Correction, Harry Fritz;
Education, Albert B. Corey; Execu-
tive, Samuel B. Viner; Health,
Charlotte Clapper; Insurance, Solo-
mon Bendet; Labor, Christopher J.
Fee; Law, Francis C. Maher; Men-
tal Hygiene, John M, Harris; Pub-
lic Service, Kenneth A. Valentine;
Public Works, Joseph Crotty and
Charles J. Hall; Social Welfare,
Charles H. Davis and Michael F.
Brennan; State, Isabelle M. O'Ha-
gan; Taxation and Finance, Arnold
W. Wise; Judiciary, Walter J. No-
lan; and Legislative, William J.
King.

Noel McDonald and Miss Clap-
per withdrew as candidates for the
State Executive Committee.

Clifford C, Shoro was nominated
by petition as a candidate to repre-
sent the Health Department on the
State Executive Committee.

Don’t Forget to VOTE!

Merit

On October 4th and 5th

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

(Detailed information as to place of meetings and confer-
ences, names of presiding officers or discussion panel
members and prominent speakers will be announced as
soon as final arrangements are completed. A Final Pro-
éram will be printed and sent to all Chapters, Regional
Conferences and Delegates as early as possible prior to
the meeting dates.)

TUESDAY — OCTOBER 4
From 10:00 A.M. On
Registration of Delegates and Representatives
1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Departmental Delegate Conferences
Mental Hygiene Chapters’ Delegates
Correction Chapters’ Delegates
Health Chapters’ Delegates
Social Welfare Chapters’ Delegates
Public Works Chapters’ Delegates
Education Chapters’ Delegates
Conservation Chapters’ Delegates
Armory Chapters’ Delegates
. D.P.U.I. Chapters’ Delegates
1:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
County Division Delegates’ Conference
From 1:00 P.M. On
Meeting of Resolutions Committee
From 1:00 P.M. On
Meeting of Board of Canvassers
4:00 to 6:00 P.M.
Meetings of Regional Conferences
Capitol District Conference
Central New York Conference
Metropolitan New Yo-k Conference
Southern New York Conference
Western New York Conference
7:30 P.M. On
Business Meeting of Delegates
Roll Call
Welcome to Delegates
Reports of Officers and Committees
Report of Special Committee on Revision of the
Constitution and By-Laws and Action on
Proposed Amendments

WEDNESDAY — OCTOBER 5
From 9:00 A.M. On

Registration of Delegates and Representatives
(Continued)
10:00 A.M. to 12 Noon
Business Meeting of Delegates
Report of Resolutions Committee
Action on Resolutions
12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M.
Luncheon Meeting
Topic: “Retirement Progress in New York City,
U. S. Government and New York State.”
(Continued on Page 37)

Summer Issue, 1949

USE THIS BALLOT

OFFICIAL BALLOT

ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS
OCTOBER 4, 1949

The Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.
8 Elk Street, Albany 7, N. Y.

Place “X” in box before name. To vote for other than

Nominees listed, place name of officer desired on blank
line provided.

Nemesiot Candidates for each office listed in order chosen
y lot.

Check

O For President: FRANK L. TOLMAN
O For President: JESSE B. MCFARLAND

O For President: -

O For let Vice-President: JOHN F. POWERS
O For Ist Vice-President: ____

O For 2nd Vice-President: FRANCIS J. MacDONALD
O For 2nd Vice-President: FREDERICK J. WALTERS

O For 2nd Vice-President: acre

OO For 3rd Vice-President: J. ALLYN STEARNS
CO For 3rd Vice-President:

O For 4th Vice-President:
O For 4th Vice-President

O For 4th Vice-President:

ERNEST L. CONLON
OBERT R. HOPKINS

D For Sth Vice-President: .. paisa

0 For Secretary: CHARLOTTE M. CLAPPER
© For Secretary:

USE THIS BALLOT IN ACCORD WITH
INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE SIDE

(If used in accordance with instructions on reverse side
this Ballot will be secret)

25
USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE

Read These Instructions Carefully
Concerning Use of Ballots on This

USE THIS BALLOT

Page and on Page 25.

1. Fill out Ballot — do not place thereon signa-
ture or other identification.

2. Place Ballot in *Special Envelope provided
and SEAL the envelope.

3. Place signature, department employed, and
1948-49 membership card number if known,
on back of envelope.

4. Give envelope containin3 Ballot to your
Chapter or mail it to Board of Canvassers,
The Civil Service Employees Association,
Inc., P. O. Box 124, Capitol Station, Albany
1, New York,

5. Envelopes containing Ballots MUST BE
MAILED OR DELIVERED TO Room 156,
State Capitol, Albany SO AS TO BE RE-
CEIVED BEFORE 6:00 P.M., TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 4, 1949.

CAUTION...

1. Make sure envelope containing this Ballot
is SEALED. Chapters are instructed to re-
quest that all unsealed envelopes contain-

ing ballots be sealed by the voter before
accepting same.

2. Do NOT accept for your use any ballot that
has already been filled out.

*Voter may use any envelope if Special Envelope is not
available, providing that information mentioned in
paragraph 3 of above instructions is contained on the
envelope used.

OFFICIAL BALLOT

ELECTION OF STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE — OCTOBER 4, 1949

The Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.
8 Elk Street, Albany 7, N. Y.

Vote for ONLY ONE member . . . from YOUR depert-
ment. Place “X” in box before name.

Names of Candidates for each office listed in order
chosen by lot.
Department
‘Agriculture and Markets
Audit and Control

Check Nominee
‘2 William F. Kuehn
‘J Leo P, Mullen

1 P. Raymond Krause Banking

1] Theodore Becker Civil Service
‘J Mildred 0. Meskill Commerce

1D James V. Kavanaugh Conservation
d Harry Fritz Correction —
© Albert B. Corey Education

J Samuel B. Viner Executive

O Clifford C. Shoro Health

1D Solomon Bendet Insurance

O Christopher J. Fee Labor

© John M. Harris Mental Hygiene
© Kenneth A. Valentine Public Service
@ Joseph Crotty Public Works
Charles J. Hall Public Works
© Charles H. Davis Social Welfare
1] Michael F. Brennan Social Welfare

"7 Isabelle M. O'Hagan State
OD Arnold W. Wise
© Walter J. Nolan
O William J. King Legislative

This Ballot Should Be Cast Only By State Employee Members

Taxation and Finance

Judiciary

To vote for other than nomin
resentotive listed above,

for your department rep-
@ of candidate of
rectly below this in-

your choice on the blank line
struction,

Your Deportment...............

USE THIS BALLOT IN ACCORD WITH
INSTRUCTIONS ON THIS PAGE

(If used in accordance with instructions on reverse side
this Ballot will be secret)

Merit

CANDIDATES -NOMIN TED FOR 1949-50 OFFICES

JESSE_B. McFARLAND JOHN F. POWERS FRANCIS J. Mi
For President For Ist Vice-President For 2nd Vice

ALTERS J. ALLYN STEARNS ERNEST L. CONLON ROBERT
f 2nd Vice-President For 3rd Vice-President For 4th Vice-President

BIAGIO ROMEO CHARLOTTE M. CLAPPER

Biographies of Candidates

DR. FRANK L. TOLMAN
Candidate for Reelection to the Office of President

Dr, Tolman is a member of the Stote Merit Award Board. He
entered State service in 1906 as Reference Librarian in the State Ed
cation Department. In 1928 he wos appointed Director of the Divisio
of Library Extension which in 1937 became the Division of Adult Edu-
cation and Library Extension,

He hos served as President of the Association from October, 1945
to the present and has guided the Association through four years of
unprecedented progress. Prior to election to presidency, Dr. Tolmon
was a member of the Association for many years, serving ‘os Chairman
Of its important Salary Committee for several years? He did a major
Part of the drafting of the Feld-Hamilton salary schedules for State
employees and was the author of the declaration of policy of the
State with respect to equal pay for equal work which was the preamble
of the career law.

Dr. Tolman has taken active interest and participation in all the
major undertakings of the Association to improve the working condi-
tions for public employees during the last decade.

JESSE B. McFARLAND
Candidate for Election to Office of President

Jesse B, McFarland hos served in the Association os First Vice Presi-

member of ‘and as chairman of many
fora number of years. In
F Claims Examiner in’ the

holds. the
Department of Social Welfa

Mr. McFarland entered State service in 1935 as head account

pert, For seven ¢ Commerce Com-
mission covering 32 states, ond then returned to railroad employment
as an efficiency engin

McFarland’s keen interest throughout his lifetime in worker
1s has aided him in rendering exceptional service in Association
, especially in institutional matters. He has many hobbies
including music, stamps, hunting and fishing

FRANCIS A. MacDONALD
Candidate for Election to the Office of 2nd Vice-President

MacDonald is employed as Sr. Boys’ Supervisor at the State
Trajning School. for Boys, Warwick, Grange County. This school, is
under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Si

‘entered State service at Rome State School on August 21, 1919 and
wos later employed af Letchworth Village and Wassaic State School,

He has been a leader in Association affairs for many yeors and is
presently serving his 4th term as President of Warwick Chapter and os
Chairman of the Southern New York Regional Conference, which he
organized 4 years ago. He is a member of the Association's Board of
Directors, and its Directors Committee and was recently elected Chair-
man of the special committee elected by the Board of Directors to
study and recommend as to the composition of the Board of Directors
and representation thereon of the State and County ns.

Under his guidance, Warwick Chapter initi rograms
later copied by many of the chapters, such as the, organization of @
unit under the Blue Cross Hospitalization Plan and the organization of
4 5-10-15-20-25 year club. This club presents service pins to employees
who qualify for same at their Annual Dinner. The chapter recently
dedicated © beautiful memorial and plaque to the staff members of
the school who served in World War Il, Mr. MacDonald is @ World
far | veteran.

Mr, MacDonald feels that he con properly represent the members
of all State deptrtments in the councils of the Association, including
those in the Department of Mental ne by tecton of his seryice ot
Rome State, School, Letchworth Village and Wasscic State School.
"Mac,"' as he is better known, serves all State employees without re-
gard to their department or Ggency. He is interested in every phase
Of Association activities and is in there pitching all the time.

FRED J. WALTERS
Candidate for Election to the Office of 2nd Vice-President

Mr. Walters wos born in London, England, served in the British
Army as an infantryman_in the first World War, came to the United
States in 1924, married Elsie Thompson Hall in 1927 and has 0 sixteen
ear old daughter, Marylyn, who is now attending her fourth year of
High School at Walden, 'N. ¥.

He entered State service as an Attendant in 1924, became o
Graduate Nurse in 1929, and is at the present time a Supervising Nurse
Gt the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital.

More than twenty years ago he made his first trip to Albany to
fepresent the employees of his hospital from thot time on hos
been a vigorous worker on behalf of his fellow workers, especially

of the attendant group, as he is ever mindful of their re
and knows well of their many trials and tribulations. During, 193
when the employees of his department were given the opportunity to
become members of the state-wide civil service Association, he joined
and has been a member ever since. He has been appointed to, various
committees of the Association, including the Legislative, Resolutions ond
Building Committees, and has served for the last 2 years as 3rd Vice-
President of the Association, He also has been active in the
Mental Hygiene Association, and served as a member of the Service
Rating Committee of the Department of Mental Hygiene, having been
appointed to same by the present Commissioner of the Department,
Frederick MacCurdy, M.D.

Waiters hos represented employees before all of the state. officials,
having to do with personnel on many occasions telative to classifica:
tion and salary appeals and other important matters,

During the War, Mr. Walters was given a leave of absence on
wo occasions so that he could volunteer his services to. the War Ship-
ping Administration, and made trips to Sweden to help in the repatria-
ion of é joners of war, and to Wales to assist in the return of
injured G..s.

JOHN F. POWERS
Candidate for Election to the Office of Ist Vice-President

It interest. in human problems led John F, Powers early
in life to join groups dedicated to the betterment of conditions. He
listens corefully, weighs issues judiciously and when his mind is made
up he springs into action. But always with a soft voice. His manner is
mild and quiet, but his convictions are strong, even though he voices
them with qi not one to make a noise at any time.
When arguments gat hot, he.is the stabi

tional res

Mr. Powers has been honored by the New York City Chapter of
the Association, the largest of chapters, by election and reelection to
Vice-Presidency, and later its Presidency. In 1944 he wos elected
resident of the Association itself, and was reelected each year

_,As evidence of his stability, he is, employed as a Senior Under.
writer in the NYC office of the State Insurance Fund, Department of
Labor, the same Fund that gave him his job with the State twenty.
three years ago. He brought to that job valuable experience in the
marine and fire insurance brokerage business.

From the very moment of his start in State service, Mr. Powers wos
ective in employee organizational affairs and soon’ was serving on
important committees. He was most recently chairman of the Asso-
Ciation’s Special Committee on Labor Relations in Public Employment,
which fought for the Labor Relations Board Bill. He hos been a student
of all phases of wages, hours and working conditions in state and
local government ‘employ. As his experience broadened, he found
himself at the helm—President here, Committee Chairman’ there.

He became one of the leaders in all the State to whom workers
turned for opinions and advice. A friend complimented him humor-
ously in these words: "'For a State Insurance Fund employee, you know
too damned much about how your fellow-state employees have to
sweat it out in the Mental Hygiene institutions."”

Mr. Powers has contributed much to the advance of the Associa-
tion and of state and local employees generally. He has served for
yeorg as @ member of the Association's Resolutions Committee, Besides
is Association a s, he has been prominent in serving ‘the New
York City State Employees Federal Credit Union, of which he was o
Director, and is past Vice-President of the Insurance Anchor Club.

He is a member of the Bishop Molloy Council, Knights of Colum:
bus, and of the Cardinal Mercier Assembly, 4th Degree K. of C.
He'was chairman of the K. of C. State Legislature Commitiee and
member of the State Council.

Mr. Powers lives in Freeport, where he is an active member of the
Volunteer Fire Department. His family consists of his wife and their
two young boys.

J. ALLYN STEARNS
Candidate for Election to the Office of 3rd Vice-President

Mr. Stearns, a member of Westchester Chapter, hos served as 4th
Vice President of the Association for the past two years and as a
member of the Board of Directors and the County Executive Com-
mittee since June 1947,

He hos worked on numerous committees of the Association during
the past year, chiefly as Co-chairman of the Membership Committee
for the County Division; os Chairman of the Special Committee to
Survey Publicity Facilities; and as Chairman of the Directors’ Budget
Committee. In the belief that Association members should personally
Know and ‘have more opportunity for direct contact with their high
elective officials, he has devoted a grect deai of personal time this
year to visiting conferences, chapters and local officers in many parts
of the State and spoke at more thon 18 dinners and meetings in local
creas.

Merit
He is Chairman of the Board_of Directors of Westchester Chapter
and: of the Westchester County Competitive Civil Serv

¢ Association
‘Gnd was Editor of its monthly Bullefin. As President of this County
‘organization. from 1941 to 1946, he was largely responsible for inclusion

of 9, Classification Board and numerous mployee benefits i
the Personnel Rules and wos the employee, representative
on the County Solar surver Committes, whore” peation ‘evclogtions
and recommendations in 1948-1946 substantially raised the Westchester
Salary, schedules and emergency compensation. His work was instru-
mental in obtaining an almost general 40 hour, 5 day week for West.

ehatar coun employees.

the

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White Plains Lions Club and in July "Sok official motion pictures
Color of the sessions of the Lions Intemational Convention,

ERNEST L. CONLON
Candidate for Election to Office of Fourth Vice-President

His present title is
ty Boord in the ‘Division of Alco-

erage Control. Prior to his pat into State service he was
engaged professionally in Boy Scout work,

Mr. Conlon, who has served during the Port. yeor os Sth Vice
Bresident af the Association has been active in the Binghamton Chapter
tince ils formation and is now serving his third year Gx
has represented the Central New York Conference on the foord a Di-
rectors and is Chairman of a special sub-committee of the Board on
Regional Conferences,

He was born in Deloware County, New. York and attended high
school ot Franklin, New York. He is married and lives at 50 Mitchell
Avenue, Binghamton,

Mr. Conlon is a member and past president of Rotary; member and
post commander of the American Legion, having served in the Air
Corps in World War I. He saw service in France and with the Army of
Occupation in Germany. He is President of the Fiaeeaten District
State Employees Credit Union and Chairman of the Broome County
Committee for Education on Alcoholism. This committee, under his
leadership, has launched o very ambitious program. For a number of
years he hos taken an active port in Community Chest and Red Cross
drives and similar civic enterprises.

ROBERT R. HOPKINS
Candidate for Election to Office of Fourth Vice-President

Robert R, Hopkins entered Stote service in 1937 as Employment In-
terviewer in the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance,
State Lobor Department. He is at present Senior Unemployment In-
surance Claims Examiner in the Division's Buffalo office at 740 Main
Street. Prior to entry into State service, Mr. Hopkins was employed
by the Postal Teleqraph and the Western Union in soles and supervisory
capocities, and brought with him into State service a wealth of ex:
prince ‘Acquired in private industry.

Hopkins was thrice elected President of the Buffalo Chapter
of the ‘Association, and hos been Chairmon of the Western New York
Conference since its inception in 1945. In the. western portion of New
York State, employees hove turned to him, time ond time again for
guidonce, “He hos been a member of the Board of Directors for two
yeors, hos on many committees, and, having earned a reputa~
Feria en ielcrnad onl lorcatl specter has foleh on sel pat ba
Aaaclaten activities.

b Hopkins wos the founder of the Conference system, through
wile dele: eriplorees mast Geo togensl bees fe teat Sie tear
common problems, He was the first state employee in Western New
York to receive recognition from the Merit Award Board, earning the
first and second awards in that area, ond was selected ‘os a "Merit
Man’ by the Civil Service Leader in ‘April, 1946. He has given much

Hies, and hos earned state-wide re-
Le ee wie Te ard able oko tor te fale soso
Mr. Hapkina was bora In Buffalo, August 12,1907. He le married
He modestly describes his hobbies as Homily,” Isturanca paspla:
reading."

time ond effort to Assoc
d
ond the fother of a daughter and a’son, 14 and 7 years resper

DAVID M. SCHNEIDER
Candidate for Election to Office of Fifth Vice-President

David M, Schneider's interest in employee problems began twenty
ears ago when he wrote ‘his first book, which ‘concerned American
Yrode ontons, For thi ‘he received a’ doctor of philosophy

from Johns Hopkins. Oniversi ution which also gave
matter of ers degre.

In 1930 Dr. Schneider became director of research and
for the State Department of Social Welfare. During his ninet
in State service, he hos devoted much of his personal time to building
and, improving ‘the civil service movement in the State, "In, recognition
of these efforts, he wos made chairman of the Association's Education
Committee; chosen os 1947-48 president of the Social Welfare Chapter
of the Association and elected chairman of the Capital District Con-
ference of the Association.

Dr. Schneider's interests in personnel problems and w
ditions is reflected in his activities os a member of the National Panel
of Arbitrators; the Motion Picture Panel of Arbitrators; the Committee
‘on the Special Study of Salaries and Work Conditions of Social Workers,
National Council of Social Work Education; ond os former chairman
of the Fort Orange Chapter, American Association of Social Workers.

Summer Issue, 1949

He has a wide and practical knowledge of the operations of ra-
tional, regioncl, State, ond Igcal ostociations, which he ie

pul to fruitf a wort Tis has been ah oct
rember, of hes hed important sts i umergus organizations, in
cluding the American Statistical iation; the American Association
of Soctal, Workers: National Conference of Social Work ond Albany
Inter-Racial Counc!

‘Among Dr. Schneider's publications is the definite "History of
Public Welfare in New York State," published by the Univer of
Chicago magazine articles and monographs include "Op;
tunities for Statistical Work in Stat
‘Social Work Careers in Public Servic
and Use of Charts.”

ee D's Schneider lives in Albany, which makes it

in close current touch with problems and
civil service ‘employees.

BIAGIO ROMEO
Candidate for Election to Office of Fifth Vice-President

Biagio Romeo is at the pres:
the New York State Prychiatric ie

and ements,"
‘and his latest, “Preparation

ossible for him to
Biome ec

{time head institution patralman ot
ute Department of Mental Hyg}

as representativ
of the New York City Chapter for the Psychiatric. Institute. before. i
formation as a chapter.

He hos been acti
affoirs since 1930,
ployees and th

Mr. Romeo ie been honored by the members of the Mental Hy-
giene Employees Ass'n. by election to its 2nd Vice-Presidency, for his
honest, diligent, and sincere work and accomplishment in their behalf
in the’ betterment of conditions o tutional employees. Still has
many objectives for the future and with the support of everyone
nicl reach them.

ly advocates better pensions and the right to enjoy these
penton efore we are too old ond feeble. Strongly urges ideal labor
ions

reloti ichinery that will benefit the state employee and the
‘administration.

He is morried and has a daughter, born and lives in Brooklyn, and
is @ loyal Dodgs

CHARLOTTE M. CLAPPER
Candidate for Election to Office of Secretary

Miss Charlotte M. Clapper, candidate for the office of Secretory
of The Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., hos spent about
twenty-five years in State service. She has served os Secretary to the

lant Director of the Division of Laboratories and Research: to the
Director of Communicable Diseases, and to the
fant Commissioner of Local Health Services. Since’ 1940 she has been
Secretary to the Commissioner of Health.

For the past three years, Miss Clapper hos been a member of
the Board of Directors, representing the New York State Department
of Health. She has served on the Directors Committee, the Nominating
Committee, and the Committee on Resolutions.

She has been very active in Asso:

mental in organizing the James E. Chris
Health Department,

Before taking up her abode in Albany, Miss Clopper was a resident
of Columbia County where she was aclive in fraternal, social and
igious organizations.

ion, affairs, and was instru-
in Memorial Chapter of the

Her successful representotion of her own department is pe
best evidenced by her unanimous renomination for that office
poll token by the Membership Commitice of the Department Chapter
a few weeks ago.

haps

HARRY G. FOX
Candidate for Reslection to Office of Treasurer
Mr. Fox has been in, New York State Service for the past twenty
ors, = during thot time hos worked in th ‘Department of Public
Departme

most recently in the Department
of Civil ‘since 1939, an
ently 0

long pe

his call to
fantryman he
‘5th

Before having been chosen for the office of Association Treasurer,
he wos twice unanimously elected Treasurer of the Civil Service De:
partment Chopter of the Association, and was also designated as
chapier delegate. He has continuously taken on active part in all the
Gffairs of the organization ond has been named os a representative on
many committees. He acted as chairman of the Special ing, Com:
mittee, through whose efforts the present site of the Association Head-
quariers was selected ond purchased,

Mr. Fox is a native of Troy, New York, where he resides with his
wife and two children.

29
Vote “YES

Vote “Yes” for Veterans Preference in Civil Service at
the election on next November 8!

The reasons for such a vote are wholly logical and
sound. Study them in the light of your responsibility
as a citizen who wishes justice for all veterans and an
efficient public service for every citizen.

YOUR CHANCE TO IMPROVE

For the first time in New York State history the
people are being given the opportunity to approve a
form of preference that is fair to the disabled veteran, to
the veteran who is not disabled, and to the citizen who
by reason of his youth, his physical condition, the fact
that he was frozen into a war industry and could not
serve in war, or some other reason was not drafted into
war service and did not attain the status of “veteran”.

ACTIVE VETERAN SUPPORT

The proposed Amencment on which you are here
asked to vote “Yes” on N ovember 8 is supported by many
veterans of both World Wars, by many of the depen-
dents of veterans, by many public employees who know
the effect of the present unfair form of preference and by
many citizens in every walk of life both veterans and
non-veterans,

The reason for the support of the proposed Amend-
ment by veterans is clear. Unless the Amendment is
passed, non-disabled veterans will lose all preference in
appointment and promotion on December 31, 1950.

The present State Constitution, Article 5, section 6,
provides preference for non-disabled veterans only until
December 31, 1950 or for a maximum period of five
years next following honorable discharge or release from
the armed forces.

The vast majority of veterans will, therefore, lose
all preference beginning January 1, 1951 unless the
proposed Amendment is approved. No new Amend-
ment can be made effective by that date, for it must be
passed by two successive legislatures and then approved
by the people at a regular election, What veteran who
knows that he will thus lose all preference if the pro-
posed Amendment is not approved, will be satisfied to
give up the certain and sure preference provided in the
proposed Amendment for a vague hope that a “better”
‘Amendment may be passed and approved some day in
the future? “A bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush”.

The sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and
wives of veterans who were unable to serve directly in
the war and who have finished school or college or seek
employment in the civil service of New York State or
any of its counties, cities, villages, towns or districts, are

ractically barred from public service by the present un-
Bi form of preference.

PRESENT PLAN IS UNFAIR

The term “disabled veteran” in the present applica-
tion of veterans preference disregards the type of dis-
ability or type or length of service, except to provide that
the Federal Veterans Administration must certify to a
disability. A minimum of 10% certified disability was

established by Court Decision as entitling the holder to
preference as a disabled veteran in New York State
civil service. This disability and a bare passing mark of
75%, places such a candidate above all non-disabled vet-
erans regardless of a higher mark of 90, 95 or even 100
in all the competitive tests and regardless of severity or
length of their war service.

For many disabled veterans, the present preference is
of no value because they are unable to qualify for the
examinations for reasons of physical incapacity to do the
work. The provision is seriously misleading as to its real
value to the truly disabled veteran.

PREFERENCE POINTS ARE LIBERAL

The new Amendment provides a liberal preference
for veterans having a real disability, and it provides also
for a substantial preference for all veterans regardless of
any disability.

The preferences are:

For disabled veterans (10% or more disability) —
10 points added to passing mark on original civil
service examination
5 points added as above on promotion examination
For non-disabled veterans —
5 points added to passing mark on original civil
service examination

2¥, points added as above on promotion examination

The above preference may be used once on either
entrance exam or promotion exam, as the veteran desires.

FAIR TO NON-VETERAN

The proposed new preference is fairer to the non-
veteran than the present plan, and to the thousands of
youths who will graduate each year from New York
State high schools and colleges—at least 140,000 an-
nually—by reason of the fact that the proposed prefer-
ence is on a fair point basis for entrance and promotion, '
Without this plan the present preference which places
veterans at the top of every list regardless of passing
mark, forecloses to non-veterans almost completely any
opportunity to enter the civil service of the State or any
of its subdivisions.

It is fairer to the non-veteran in that the preference
may be used by a veteran only once instead of endlessly
as under the present plan.

RETENTION RIGHTS FOR VETERANS
Retention rights for veterans is now granted by statu-

tory provisions and continuance of this preference in

retention is authorized by the new Amendment.

REAL AID TO VETERANS

Preference for veterans in civil service has been
urged largely because of difference in opportunity for
study or civilian training on account of absence on war
duty as compared with the citizen who was not called
to war service.

Since 1945, when the present form of preference was
established, veterans have had opportunities for educa-
tion and training through the G.I. Bill and other
measures which have erased many of such handicaps.

Merit

The privileges and rights accorded to veterans express
the will of a grateful Nation that understands that the
whole Nation owes a special debt to the veteran and that
veteran rewards should come from all the people of the
Nation,

The need for absolute preference for the veteran in
civil service examinations has disappeared since the
present preference provisions were adopted, and the new
proposed point preference plan offers continued liberal
recognition of both disabled and non-disabled veterans.

ORGANIZED VETERAN APPROVAL

Large groups of veterans loyal to veterans programs
and working for veteran welfare, are vigorously support-
ing the new Amendment. They support it because they
recognize the fact that government is for all of the
people and that the best trained and most able and
vigorous amons the citizenry should be recruited and
promoted in public service. They support it also because
it gives fair preference to all veterans and does not
discriminate unfairly among. veterans.

The veterans groups supporting the Amendment
which have had real exnerience in civil service, as well
as other groups which have studied the effects of vet-
erans preference, are convinced that the present unfair
preference is responsible to a serious degree for lowered
respect for the merit system and is the-efore inimical to
economical, efficient government,

The veteran groups which gave support to the new
Aniendment include: American Legion Post 930, Fire
Department City of New York; Jewish War Veterans,
New York State; American Legion Sub-Committee on
Veterans Preference; Business and Professional Chapter,
American Veteran’s Committee; Veterans Committee on
Veterans Preference,

ILLINOIS ACTS ON PREFERENCE

‘The Illinois legislature recently reduced the amount
of preference given to veterans in state civil service ex-
aminations. Th Illinois amendment provides that vet-
erans are given five points in entrance examinations if
they pass the examination, and their place on the eligible
list is determined by their augmented rating. No extra
preference is given for disability. This new policy be-
comes effective on September 1.

The Civil Service Assembly reporting the new policy
state that it “was supported by Governor Adlai Steven-
son, and had the endorsement of veterans’ organiza-
tions.”

‘The New York State proposed constitutional amend-
ment would grant a very much more liberal preference
than that in effect in Illinois.

CITIZEN GROUPS URGE
AMENDMENT

Various citizen groups actively supporting the
Amendment include:

State Charities Aid Association; American Associa-
tion of University Women; American Association of
Social Workers, New York City and Fort Orange
Chapters; City Club of New York; Public Education
Association; Citizens’ Union; New York Academy of
Medicine; National Probation and Parole Association;
Brooklyn Buzeau of Social Service; Women’s City Club
of New York; Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.;

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American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees (AFL); New York Counties Registered
Nurses Association; Prison Association of New York;
New York Tuberculosis and Health Association; Civil
Service Reform Association; National Child Labor Com-
mittee; New York State Nucses’ Association; Legislative
Clearing House, Volunteer Firemen of New York State.

TWO LEGISLATURES ACT

The 1948 and 1949 Legislatures approved the new
proposed Amendment by an overwhelming vote. ‘The
vote of both houses of the 1949 Legislature was: Senate
54 in favor; 3 opposed — Assembly 124 in favor; 14
opposed.

It is safe to say that no Amendment ever submitted
to the neonle had more complete consideration by two
successive Legislatures or more general approval than
the proposed Amendment.

THE GOVERNOR ENDORSES

Governor Thomas E. Dewey endorsed the new
amendment in a public statement on February 18, 1949,
and said: “ IT am for the Mitchell veterans preference
bill. It is fair, It is necessary.”

Similar endorsement came from Hon. Paul Fitz-
patrick. State Chairman of the Democratic Party who
said: “The kind of veteran preference embodied in the
Mitchell Bill (the new pronosed amendment) is com-
pletely fair to veterans and non-yeterans. Moreover it
would not break down the smooth functioning of public
service in this State.”

J. Edward Conway, President of the State Civil
Service Commission, urges adoption of the proposed
point preference plan. Mr. Conwav savs: “Tt will assure
the fairest possible distribution of public jobs among
disabled veterans, non-disabled veterans, and non-
veterans. If the neople accept the Mitchell proposal this
fall. the task of assigning positions in line with the
merit system, at the same time considering a person’s
service with the armed forces, will become immeasur-
ably fairer. The Mitchell amendment deserves the full-
est support of all voting residents of the State.”

ASSOCIATION APPROVES

The Association’s endorsement of the proposed pref-
erence amendment is based upon delegate action at the
last annual meeting. The delegates urged that the

. present preference was discriminatory, unfair to the

best interests of civil service emnloyees and inimical to
the maintenance of efficient public service. The Asso-
ciation joined with other progressive citizen groups in
urging the passage of the new proposed Amendment.
The Association would be false to its own constitutional
objectives, which seck the highest and fairest oppor-
tunity for all of its members and the constant upbuilding
of public service, if it did not wholeheartedly and unani-
mously urge its membership not only to vote “Yes” on
the new proposed Amendment but also to urge all mem-
bers of their families and all of their friends to vote
“Yes” on the proposed veterans preference amendment
on November 8 next.

FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 8

Do not lose the Amendment at the polls by failure to
work actively for its passage. The watchword from now
to November 8 is “Vote ‘Yes’ on Amendment No, 5.”

31
The Salary Picture

By IRVING COHEN TABLE 2. _
Research Consultant CHANGES IN THE B.L.S, CONSUMERS PRICE IND!
a acme LARGE CITIES, APRIL 1948 - MAY 1949

One major event highlighted the Month 1935-39 = 100 April 1948 = 100
salary picture for New York State 1948 i 169.3 100.0
employees in the past year. This a nae
was’ the passage by the 1949 Legis- fay, 102.5
lature of the Association bill incor- ‘August 103.0
porating the 1948 emergency com- September 1a
pensation payments into the basic camea Me 101.7
pay scales. Constant appearances of December 101.2
Association representatives before re- 1949 ‘January. 1009
allocation hearings of the Salary Eebrusry eet
Standardization Board materially Apa. 100.2
strengthened and improved the in- May isnt
domme outlook for many vate em ga, Ure, Baas of iaber Baas

An interesting footnote on the CHART
itary pice ee hone No. 1.. Change in the BLS. Consumers’ Price Index
victory. Between $3 and $4 million Pereent| Large Cities, April 1948 - June 1949
in hard cash were added to the in- $fand®
comes of several thousand state April 1948)
workers when the courts set aside +30
the state’s interpretation of the pro-
cedure for converting pre-1947 sal- 42.0
aries to their new April 1, 1947
base. +10

What is the effect of the merging
of all emergency payments into per- ®
manent pay scales? How do state 46:
salary adjustments now compare
with the rise in living costs, with .
adjustments granted comparable

. li \ 7 Dec. Jan. Feb, Mar Apr May June
governmental bodies, with the — SbS.tnlen Mey ive dey Mag Sart Oct Tee ee eo) tens lea? ee in
1948. 1949

TABLE 1.

SALARY ADJUSTMENTS GRANTED NEW YORK STATE EMPLOYEES, 1940-1949
Adjustments * on 1940 salaries of

Date Less Than $1500- $2000- $3000- $4000- $5000
$1500 1999 2999” 3999 4999 and over
April 1941 No adjustments
April 1942 No adjustments
April 1943 10% 10% 7%% 74% 0 0
April 1944 Continuation of 1943 adjustment
April 1945 20%, -17%4% 15% = 12%% 10% 10%°*
April 1946 30%" 26% = 22% = 18% 14% layee
April 1947 No new adjustment. Previous emergency compensation
ments incorporated in basic salary scales
April 1948 15% 15% + 15% 15% (2999) 15% (2999) 15% (2999)
10% (3000- 10% (3000- 10% (3000-
3999) 4999) 4999)
5% (5000
and over)**
April 1949 No new adjustment. 1948 emergency _ compensation
payments incorporated in basic salary scales
Percent Increase
April 1940
April 1949 50-*#* 45-39-33 27- 20-*¢
105 50 45 39 33 27

* Adjustment percents are cumulative up to and including 1946.

** Maximum emergency compensation of $1000. Each of the percentage brackets also
had limits for increases. In 1949, the upper limit of salaries were increased from
$12,000 to $14,000.

#** These percentages have been increased by the establishment of new minimum pay
scales in State Service. Actually very few persons were affected by these changes.

course of wage and salary payments
in private industry.

Table 1 summarizes all the ad-
justments granted New York State
employees since 1940. As indicated
in the bottom line of this table, the
overwhelming majority of state
workers received pay adjustments
ranging between 20 and 50 percent.

Although this merging of tem-
porary payments into basic pay
scales is a reassuring factor when
price indices wobble and will act,
to some extent, as a brake on the
administrative and legislative urge
to reduce salaries under more trying
economic pressures, the plain and
simple fact is that corrections of
state salaries have not kept pace with
the rise in living costs or with wage
payments in private industry,

Prices of necessities are still be-
tween 69 and 70 percent above their

Merit

1940 level. Monthly changes in the
U. S, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumers’ Price Index between
April 1948 and June 1949 are shown
in Table 2 and Chart 1. Despite
all the conversation on this matter,
the entire unsteady decline in the
index from its peak of last August
and September to June 1949, the
latest available period, amounts to
three percent,

A comparison of state salary ad-
justments with the rise in living
costs at each of the periods of ad-
justment, given in Table 3 and
Chart 2, shows the consistent trail-
ing of these corrections in time as
well as extent.

This lag is accentuated if the
Consumers’ Price Index is corrected
to take account of the understate-
ment during the price control
period,

The trailing of government sal-
aries behind rising living costs and
private rates of pay is often defend-
ed, What are the implications for
employees in such a development?

During years when living
costs rise, the real salaries of gov-
ernment workers are cut. This is
true even if we assume that govern-
ment salaries are adequate when
prices begin to rise. In this instance,
we should have to assume that state
salaries were adequate in 1940 —
and this is quite a bold assumption.
According to the November 1948
issue of State Personnel News, the
average yearly earnings of state
workers came to $1692 in 1942, This
amounts to $32.54 a week. Later
adjustments do not compensate for
the back wages lost. Conservatively,
if state salaries were maintained at
exact par with their 1940 value,
it would have cost the state an ad-
ditional $127-170 million in salaries
between 1940 and 1949. This theory,
then, defends the relative and abso-
lute permanent loss of wages for
government employees. State em-
ployees have been forced to write
their back wages off the books, but
they would like to maintain their
1940 buying power in terms of 1949
prices.

‘The course of industrial vs. state
wages during the past nine years il-
lustrates the workings of this theory.
Industrial workers made the largest
gains in their earnings in the first
two years of the war while govern-
ment employees were forced to

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TABLE 3.
COMPARISON OF PERCENT SALARY ADJUSTMENTS GRANTED NEW YORK
STATE EMPLOYEES AND PERCENT CHANGES IN THE B.L.S.
Percent rise in BLS Consumer Price Percent. salary
Index (1935-39 = 100) from base adjustments
to date indicated granted,
1940 to date
Date Large cities New York City Buffalo indicated
April 1941 .. 22 23 41
April 1942 15.1 12.6 Lg 0
April 1943 24.1 22.8 27.4 7%-10
(corrected) * 26.7 25.4 30.1
April 1944 23.9 23.7 26.2 TAO
(corrected) * 28.1 279 30.5
April 27.1 27.4 27.1 10-20
(corrected) * 319 32.2 319
April 31.1 33.6 31.2 10-30
(corrected) 34.3 36.9 34.5
April 56.2 56.8 55.3 10-30
(corrected) * 59.3 57.0 55.5
April 1948... . 69.3 67.0 67.2 20-50°*
June 1949 : 69.6 66.9 68.300 20-50°*

* Adjusted to take account of understatement during price control period. This
adjustment is in line with the report of the President's Technical Committee on the
cost of living, better known as the Mitchell Committee, on the Consumers Price
Index.

** The majority of employees received 50 percent or less. The rise in minimum pay
scales was 105 percent during this period but relatively few employees were affected.

*** April 1949.

CHART No. 2.
Percent bik;
Suse] Comparison of Percent Salary Adjustments rg index
bal Granted New York State Employees and Changes
in BLS. Consumers Price Index 1940-1949
© /
yf
0 i
' 4
/ 4,
40 Index corrected G iy
for understatement { ey Hein Z
during price control (Range of | ats
| — grantedy Z
ed Z
20|
i @z7z7277Z
o adjustirent
n before 1943
Apr Ape Apr Ae Ap Aw Ae Ap AB
Wes IMS IG M7

Source: U. S. Bur. Labor Statistics and N. Y. State Salary Standardization Board

GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS
Consumers’ Price Index

Large Cities
U.S. N.Y. State 1935-39 = 100 Corrected
April 1940.... $25.20 $27.09 100.2 100.2
Average 1943.00... 43.14 44.68 123.6 126.3
April 1940 = 100 171.20 161.90
Average 1946 43.74 49.39 139.3 142.8
Average 1943 = 101 as i 101.30 110.50 112.7 113.0
April 1949 pisersiiis 52.62 56.42 169.2* 169.2
Average 1946 120.30 114.20 1214 118.4
*May 1949

33
* struggle along on shrinking pre-war
salaries. adesrial weekly earnings
were up 71 percent by 1943 when
the state granted its first adjustment
of a maximum 10 percent.

Private industry earnings lagged
behind the rise in living costs during
the period of price control, and have
barely kept pace, with the rise of
prices, in the period since the lifting
of controls despite three major
rounds of wage increases. Cur-
rently, the largest bodies of organ-
ized labor are engaged in fourth
round negotiations with the major
producers of the country, in steel,
auto, electrical machinery, and
mining.

A comparison of the adjustments
granted New York State employees
with those granted Federal employ-
ees, shown in Table 4 and Chart 3,
spotlights the fact that the Federal
government has been at least from
9 to 28 percent more generous with
its employees than New York State.

Against an increase of 50 percent
or less for most State employees,
average weekly earnings of clerical
and professional workers in the na-
tion were 74 percent higher in April
1949 than they were in 1939. Table
5 also shows that the composite in-
dex of wages and salaries prepared
by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York stood 97 percent over
its 1939 level in April 1949.

Table 5 and Chart 4 also under-
score the fact that wages of all work-
ers, including clerical and profes-
sional, in private industry rose 6
percent in the year between April

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TABLE 4.
COMPARISON OF SALARY ADJUSTMENTS GRANTED NEW YORK STATE
AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, SELECTED 1940 SALARY LEVELS, 1940-1949
Percent salary adjustment in Percent increase
in Federal over
New York State Federal Employment
53.3 68.3

Salary level 1940 State adjustments
$1200 28

1500 472 56.5 20
2000 449 488 9
2500 40.1 441 10

us is i

3500 343 z
= 3 3 %
5000 i
6000 292 319 9
7000 25.7 30.1 7

CHART No. 3.

pl Comparison Ua Salary Adjustments pote Newlak State

nape

beak and Federal tmployees, Selected 1940 Salary Levels 1940-1949

(Trederal Adjustments
NYS, Adjustments

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CORRAL FeBRES Wea IS Fod AIS FRLIRS Yds OS Yoo US RODS Fo ES
$iz00 41500 #2000 #2300 $3000 #3500 $4000 $5000 #6000 47000
1940 Selary Level ————

ESTABLISHED 1898
“Our Business Is Growing”

UNUSUAL FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS
We Grow Our Own

TABLE 5.
CHANGES IN INDEXES OF AVERAGE CLERICAL AND PROFESSIONAL
WEEKLY EARNINGS AND COMPOSITE OF WAGES AND ,
SALARIES APRIL 1948 - APRIL 1949
Av. weekly earnings Composite index of wages
Clerical & Professional and salaries

April April
Month 1939 = 100 1948 = 100 1939 = 100 1948 = 100

164 100 186 100

166 101 187 101

167 102 189 102

169r 103 191 103

172r 105 193 104

172 105 194 104

170r 104 194 104

173r 105 195 105

es 173 105 196 105

1949 January 172 105 196 105

February os... 173 105 196 105

March , 174 106 197 106

April (p) oo. 174 106 197 106

(r) Revised

(p) Preliminary
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Das

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1948 and April 1949. State em CHART No. 4

ployees did not receive any wage
adjustment during this period.

An analysis, by industry division,
of the wage increases received by
private industry workers is given
in Table 6 and Chart 5.

Average gross weekly carnings
data tend to understate the change
in the wage situation for the past
year. Hourly wage increases were
offset by reduced overtime and
shorter workweeks, particularly in
manufacturing. Here is what hap-
pened to the earnings of production
workers in the state and nation
since last April. (See also Chart 6).

Avg. weekly earnings’ U.S. N.Y¥.S.
Apr. 48 $51.79 $55.49
Apr. 49 52.62 "56.42
Apr. 48 = 100...... 101.6 101.6

Avg, hourly ears
Apr. 48 $129 $141
Apt. 49... 137 1.50

+ Apr. 48 = 106.2 106.3

Avg. weekly hours
Apr. 48 ... 40.1 393
‘Apr. 49 ve 383 325
Apr. 48 = 100. 955 95.4

At its 38th Annual Convention
in October 1948, the Association
delegates declared for a 12 percent
increase in salaries in addition to
the merging in all temporary pay-
ments. Basic economic facts fully
justified this position. Only in the
face of determined executive and
legislative opposition did the Asso-

John J. Hyland
Manager

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Index

0939 = 100)

# Includes State, and Local Govern
Government, Brokerage, Railrosds Clerical Workers and Ti

Fifaseced Cth ete L heags
Hofasinel Coal Lange Spal BO alo

Fab May Awe
173 174174

May June July

‘hug, Sept. Oct Nov Dec. Jan
166 67 169

72 72 17017317517
1948

ment (non

1949
sschool) Insurance, Manufacturing,Clerical, Federal
ers

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
CHART No. 5.
Increases in erage Gress Wockly Earnings.
Percent in Slecled Iudusies US. anal NYS. 140-1949
increase
1HoAv. ME ncrnses vpts Ap 48
120 -
Ince fm Ap 8
to
100
90
80 Rise in Cost
of Living
La 94o-June 949
Conat. Hotels Mig. Ret Wi Tele, IQ: Ret OW
Us. NYS—>
Source: U. >. bureau of Lavur Statistics, N. Y. S. Division of Placement and

Unemployment Insurance

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!
In the Association Election

35.

ciation reluctantly postpone its re-
quest for the time being.

Although there has been no radi-
cal change in the basic indicators of
the national economy since the Oc-
tober convention of 1948, a marked
change in the economic climate or
environment has occurred.

In the fall of last year, postwar
inflationary forces still seemed to
be in the ascendancy. Since then,
they have abated somewhat. Most
economic activities show a moderate
downward trend. In June of this
year, civilian employment was 3
percent below last June; in the same
period, unemployment had climbed
73 percent and is now above the
point where it can be considered a
“spot” or local problem; under-em-
ployment has increased by at least
12 percent. New York State unem-
ployment insurance claims in the
first week of July were double the
amount of October 1948. Industrial
production has declined in June to
13 percent below last fall's peak.
Farm income in the first half of 1949
was about 8 percent below the first
half of 1948. Business investments,
trade, housing activity were all less
than the previous year.

Table 7 lists some of the more
important changes which have oc-
curred in the last two half years,
Elements of strength in the econ-

TABLE 6.

AVERAGE GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS IN SELECTED
INDUSTRIES, 1940 - APRIL 1949

1940
Industry average
Manufacturing $25.20
Construction 31.70
Telephone... 32.44
Wholesale Trade 30.39
Retail Trade... 21.17
Hotels (yr. round) 15.52
Manufacturing... $27.42
Retail Trade . 24.25
Wholesale Trade 34.90
*May 1949

April
1948

Percent
increase April
1940-1948 1949
‘A. United States
105 $53.08*
109 70.28
47 50.59
84 58.12
86 41.81
103 33.11
B. New York State
98 $56.42
7 45.28
74 64.00

1948-1949
increase
Percent

MUN UABAAN

Source: U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and New York State Division of Placement and

Unemployment Insurance.

TABLE 7.

CHANGES IN SELECTED ECONOMIC SERIES
SECOND HALF 1948 TO FIRST HALF 1949
Change from 1948 second half

Series
Gross National Product.

Government Purchases of Goods and Services ...

National Income ......
Personal Net Savings.
Civilian Employment ..
Unemployment...
Industrial Production Index
New Construction .....

Business Expenditures for New Plarit and Equipment 2

Wholesale Price Index...

Consumers Price Index.

Prices Received by Farmers

Consumer Credit Outstanding.

Merchandise Exports

General Merchandise Imports

Ratio of Inventories to Monthly §
Retail Trade*
Wholesale Trade’
Manufacturing*

* April 1948 - April 1949

Source: Council of Economic Advisors

to 1949 first

half

1948 second half = 100
96.6

NS |

; S © «

i als te

5 REX 4

3 3%
SSL

Av. Weekly Hours

UNITED STATES
Av. Hourly Earnings
Av. Weekly Earnings

NEW YORK STATE
Av. Hourly Earnings

Av. Weekly Hours

Av. Weekly Earnings

nt Insurance

a
=
3
Ay
6
5
3
3
4
*
3
§
:
&
a
5

of Placement and Unemployn

Merit
omy, personal savings, government CHART No. 7.

spending, the ratio of inventories to
sales are also indicated. (See also
Chart 7).

In determining Association salary
program for 1949-50 delegates
would do well to ponder these new
salary and economic developments.

Meanwhile, as a basic step in
safeguarding and improving the
salary standards of the state em-
ployee, the Association must con-
tinue to bring all inequities to the
attention of the new Compensation
and Classification Board for prompt
correction.

ANNUAL MEETING
(Continued from Page 25)

Training & Education for the
Public Service Local Civil Ser-
vice Administrat’'n (Co. Div.)

4:40 to 5:00 P.M.

Panel Discussion
Topic: “The Membership Cam-

paign for 1949-1950”
6:30 to 8:00 P.M.

Dinner Meeting

Chief Topic: Veterans Preference
8:00 P.M. On

Business Meeting of Delegates
Report of Board of Canvassers as
to Results of Election

Introduction and Installation of
Officers
Adjournment

2:30 to 4:30 P.M.

Panel Discussions
Subjects:
Personnel and Labor Relations
Salaries
New Classification and Com-
pensation Procedures

Changes in: Sobicjuel Corainte Sacre

1948 totinst Half 1949
mae CHANGE
Decrease Increase
20, 2-15 10-8 Ce ee
r T T T T T T T T
PRODUCTION

Gross National Product

roment Pi of
Seesae and SetSs

Industrial
Production Index

Business Expenditures
for Plant& Equipment

PURCHASING POWER
National Income

Personal Net Savings

Consumers Credit Outstanding

EMPLOYMENT
Civilian Employment

PRICES
Wholesale Price Index

Consumers Price Index

Cy psctartet

‘TRADE

Ratio of Inventories to
monthly Sales: Retail Trade’

Wholesale Trade
Manufacturing
Merchandise Exports

Merchandise Imports
A A 1 1

April 1948-April 1949

Source: Council of Economic Advisers

Vote “YES” On

Constitutional Amendment No. 5

On November 8

Summer Issue, 1949

37
EXECUTIVE REPRESENTATIVE'S OFFICE

William F. McDonough
Executive Representative

Laurence J. Hollister

Datrick DeMurio and

Freida Roberts (left) and
Ruth Bailte
Stenographers

The photos are of. the Association's staff
and the interior of your new -headquarters
building, 8 Elk Street, Albany. The services
of the staff and facilities of the building are
devoted to the protection and promotion of
the interests and welfare of members.

FIELD REPRESENTATIVE'S ROOM

Your Associatior

EXECUTIVE-SECRETARY'S OFFICE

John T. DeGroff (left)
Joseph D. Lochner ae
Executive Secretary

John E, Holt-Harris
Counsels

w Headquarters

The Association's Legal Staff, besides Coun-
sel DeGraff and Asst. Counsel Holt-Harris,
pictured below, consists of:

Asst. Counsel John J. Kelly, Jr., whose pic-
ture appears on page 46; Regional Attorneys:

John J. Conway, Jr, 317 Genesee Trust
Bldg., Rochester; J. Norman Crannage, 610
Commerce Bidg., Syracuse; Edmund L. Shea,
Elverso Bldg., Ogdensburg; Donald W. Kramer,
Security Mutual Bldg., Binghamton; Charles R.
Sandler, 1435 Rand Bidg., Buffalo,

Dorothy L. Sheehy (left)
Accounts

and Helen Garrah
Group Insurance

Charles R. Culyer

Jacqueline McDowell
& Blizabeth Rivet (right)

Sylvia Stevens (left) and

LIBRARY ond DIRECTORS’ ROOM
In Rear of Building

PARKING AREA

IRVING COHEN
N
Solory Reseorch
JESSIE NAPIERSK 5
lionces JACOB HARRI
Is
Janitor
ROY FISHER

Appliances

Supplemental Legislative

Report

By John E. Holt-Harris, Jr., Assistant Counsel

In the preceding issue of Merit Mr. DeGraff reported to the membership
on the results of the Association’s campaign in the 1949 legislature. His
report dealt, in the main, with the Association’s five major legislative objec-

tives.

The Mitchell Bill, the Association’s blue print for a fair and equitable
veteran's preference in Civil Service, is to be considered for approval by the
people in the November election. Detailed information concerning the pro-
posal has been and is being prepared by the Association for distribution and
for that reason will not be further discussed in this supplemental legislative

report.

The second objective, the estab-
lishment of adequate grievance ma-
chinery, has not yet been consum-
mated. The Governor has agreed to
inaugurate a plan and formulate
the necessary procedures by execu-
tive order. That agreement was
reached during the legislative ses-
sion and as yet, in spite of repeated
urgings on the part of the Associa-
tion and its officers, the conferences
prerequisite to the promulgation of
such an order have not been held.
The Association will continue to
press for a speedy decision on the
part of the administration with re-
spect to this phase of our work.

Time has dispelled the misap-
prehension which initially existed
concerning the effective date of the
merger of the emergency compen-
sation with base pay. That merger,
effective April 1, 1949, is an ac-
complished fact and is particularly
notable because civil servants in
other jurisdictions, both in and out
of the State, have been unsuccessful
in their efforts to obtain similar
consideration.

‘The separate Salary Standardiza-
tion and Classification Boards no
longer exist. ‘The single agency
created to handle both title and
salary allocations is now functioning
and the Association has already rep-
resented its membership in frequent
meetings with the Director and staff
of the Classification and Compen-
sation Division of the Civil Service
Department,

At the time when the initial
legislative report was prepared sev-
eral retirement measures had passed

Summer Issue, 1949

the legislature but had not been
acted upon by the Governor. Mr.
DeGraff’s report discussed and an-
alyzed the disappointing failure of
our efforts to obtain a 55 year re-
tirement option. His report also in-
cluded a description of the bills then
before the Governor.

The supplemental information
contained in this statement is intend-
ed as a ready reference, coupled
with the initial report, to new laws
passed at the 1949 Legislative session
affecting civil servants, both in State
service and in the political sub-
divisions.

Amendments to the Civil
Service Law Other Than
Retirement Provisions

Chapter 420 of 1949, introduced
by Senator Graves, amends Sec. 30
to provide that a refusal or wilful
failure of an employee of the state
or its civil

divisions to take and file
tional oath shall terminate
his employment until such oath
shall be taken and filed. An unfor-
tunate situation which arose in El-
mira resulted in a Supreme Court
decision under which a civil servant
lost her position due to inadvertent
failure to file a new oath upon en-
tering a new position. Under the
provisions of former Sec. 30 the
Court held that an employce’s fail-
ure for any reason to take and file
such an oath terminated his employ-
ment. A new law protects all em-
ployees against a recurrence of such
a situation.
Chapter 130 of 1949, introduced
by Senator Erwin, amends subdivi-

sions 6 and 7 of Sec. 41 to provide
that persons appointed, promoted or
reinstated on or before October Ist
in any fiscal year shall be eligible
to receive an increment on the fol-
lowing April Ist. Prior to. this
amendment an employee had to be
appointed not later than September
30th in order to be able to receive
an increment on the following April
Ist. Strict construction of the for-
mer law had deprived some em-
ployees of an increment even though
they had been appointed on October
Ist.

Chapter 355, introduced by Os-
tertag, amended Secs. 38, 39, 39-a,
39-b, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 47-a and
48, abolishing the separate Classifi-
cation and Salary Divisions and
Boards and consolidated the powers,
duties and functions of those divi-
sions and boards into a single agency
known as the Classification and
Compensation Division. It further
created appellate machinery known
as the Classification and Compen-
sation Appeals Board to which ap-
peals from determinations made by
the Director of the Classification and
Compensation Division may be
taken. Final authority to approve
reclassifications and reallocations is
still vested in the Director of the
Budget.

The law contains general provi-
sions relating to classification and
allocation and also adds a new pro-
vision, Sec, 39-b, which clarifies the
procedures to be used and the salary
rights and limitations of employees
where a position allocated to a salary
grade in Sec. 40 of the Civil Service
Law is reallocated to a higher salary
grade.

Chapter 547, introduced by As-
semblyman Tifft, amended Sec. 16
of the Civil Service Law by adding
a new. subdivision, 9-a, provides
generally for the procedure to be
followed when functions of a city
agency are transferred or assigned
to the county or to another
city within the county. It provides
that upon such transfer provisions
shall be made for a transfer of so

much of the staff employed by the
agency as may be necessary and
practicable and that such transfers
shall be made in accordance with
seniority. Employees so transferred
are not required to take further
examinations and suffer no loss or
impairment of Civil Service status.

Chapter 384, introduced by Sen-
ator Fino, deletes from subdivision
3 of Sec, 14 the requirement that
an applicant for examination state
under oath in his application the
place of his birth.

Laws Affecting Civil Service

Chapter 238, introduced by the
Budget, coupled with Chapter 354
which amends Sec. 40 of the Civil
Service Law, introduced by Senator
Wicks, resulted in the merger of
the bonus and base pay effective
April 1, 1949. Chapter 354 also re-
places, as of April 1, 1950, the pres-
ent salary schedules so that the
schedules themselves will reflect the
fact that emergency compensation
has been added to base pay.

Chapter 353, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, extends until April 1,
1950 the provisions of the Lupton
Law which Law the Association
successfully passed in 1947. It pro-
vided that an employee, upon per-
manent appointment to the same
or a position similar to the one
which he has held temporarily, re-
tains the increment credit accorded
him during the period of temporary
service. Prior to the enactment of
the Lupton Law such an employee
on permanent appointment had to
begin at the minimum of his salary
grade,

Chapter 119, introduced by As-
semblyman Stuart, amends Sec. 228
of the Labor Law to permit the em-
ployment of student nurses over 17
years of age in Mental Hygiene in-
stitutions if they are regularly en-
rolled for training in a school of
nursing in an institution in that de-
partment. Sec. 228 otherwise pro-
hibits the employment of anyone
under 18 years of age in any penal
or correctional institution or any
institution in Mental Hygiene if
such employment relates to the cus-
tody of prisoners or inmates.

Chapter 459, introduced by Sena-
tor Condon, amends Sec. 21 of the
Labor Law to give the Industrial
Commissioner general administra-
tive supervision over the divisions,

boards, commissions and bureaus of
the Labor Department.

Chapter 346, introduced.by the
Rules Committee of the Assembly,
creates a temporary commission
known as the State Board of Equal-
ization and Assessment and trans-
fers to it certain of the functions of
the State Tax Commission and De-
partment of Taxation and Finance.
Provision is made for the transfer
without examination or loss of Civil
Service status of all employees of
the Local Assessment Bureau of the
Department of Taxation and Fi-
nance engaged in the performance
of duties transferred to the newly
created board.

Chapter 362, introduced by As-
semblyman Stuart, amends Sec. 60
of the Mental Hygiene Law and
discontinues the Edgewood State
Hospital as a separate institution in
Mental Hygiene and transfers the
buildings, grounds and’ functions
of that hospital to Pilgrim State
Hospital.

Chapter 733, introduced by Sena-
tor Halpern, creates a state com-
mission in Mental Hygiene to be
known as the Mental Health Com-
mission to consist of commissioners
of Mental Hygiene, Social Welfare,
Health, Correction and Education,
That commission will formulate
plans for the recruitment, training
and education of professional and
other personnel in psychiatric work.

Chapter 383, introduced by Sena-
tor Wicks, amends Sec. 528 of the
Public Authorities Law to permit
the State Bridge Authority to ap-
point Bridge Authority Patrolmen
who shall be peace officers and have
all the powers of policemen within
the territorial limits of the Authori-
ties’ jurisdiction.

Amendments to the Military
Law Relating to Civil
Service Employees

Chapter 778, introduced by As-
semblyman Fitzpatrick, amends
Sec. 246 of the Military Law relating
to special military eligible list status
of persons returning from military
duty. The amendments provide:

1. (a) Where an employee re-
turns from such duty and passes a
comparable promotion examination
or passes the remaining part or parts
of an examination which he had
started before entering military duty,

his name shall be placed on the
special eligible list, provided that he
would have been reached for certi-
fication between the date that he
entered military duty and the date
that he was notified that he had
passed the examination.

(b) His name shall be placed
upon such special eligible list if
between the aforementioned dates
any veteran or disabled veteran who
achieved a lesser rating in the exami-
nation was appointed from the eli-
gible list or special list by reason of
veterans’ or disabled veterans’ pref-
erence. This is, of course, with the
proviso that the person covered by
this amendment was likewise en-
titled to veterans’ preference.

(c) Such lists are to remain in
existence for a period of two years
from the date that the veteran’s
name was placed thereon, or for a
period of two years from: April 23,
1949, whichever is the longer period.

2. (a) The law further provides
that when the name of a person is
on an eligible list while he was on
military duty his name shall be
placed on a special eligible list, on
written application within two years
after April 23, 1949, if during the
period of such military duty any
veteran or disabled veteran who
achieved a lesser rating in the ex-
amination was appointed f:om the
eligible list or special list by reason
of veterans’ preference. It is further
provided that such special eligible
lists remain in effect for a like two
year period,

Chapter 773, introduced by As-
semblyman Goldwater, amends Sec,
236 of the Military Law to b-oaden
the application of that section to in-
clude positions for which competi-
tive examination is required. The
law formerly covered positions in
the competitive class of the classified
Civil Service. The amendment was
made necessary because some posi-
tions in the unclassified service are
filled by competitive examination.

Amendments to the Civil
Service Law Affecting
Retirement

Chapter 609, introduced by As-
semblyman Stephens, permits em-
ployees to make additional contri-
butions to the retirement system in

order to produce a larger annuity
account which will in turn produce

Merit
a larger final retirement allowance.
Cont-ibutions equal to an additional
50% of the normal contribution on
that portion of salary not exceeding
$7,500 a year are allowed.

Chapter 641, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, permits retired members
of the Retirement System, if their
retirement allowance does not ex-
ceed $1,500, to earn up to $750 per
annum in public service after re-
tirement. Such earnings formerly re-
sulted in a proportionate reduction
of the retired member's retirement
allowance.

Chapter 817, introduced by Sena-
tor Wicks, permits a retired teacher
to earn up to $500 per year as a
substitute teacher without loss or
suspension of his retizement allow-
ance,

Chapter 735, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, permits a member, or
after his death, his beneficiary to
elect to receive a reduced annuity
arrived at by actuarial computation
payable for life or the unpaid bal-
ance at the date of death,

- Chapter 611, introduced by Sen-
ator Fino, changes from January 1,
1948 to January 1, 1950 the time
limit within which a member trans-
ferring from another retirement sys-
tem to the New York Retirement
System must contribute to purchase
allowable.service credits.

Chapter 734, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, provides for a method by
which contributions of members of
the State Retirement System former-
ly employed in county or city tuber-
culosis hospitals which have been
transferred to the state will be com-
puted with respect to the value to be
placed on maintenance allowances.

Chapter 548, introduced by Sena-
tor Hughes, makes the same provi-
sions for employees of Onondaga
County who are members of the
State Employees’ Retirement System
as are made for the above described
employees of city and county tuber-
culosis hospitals,

Chapter 297, introduced by As-
semblyman Barrett, provides for a
special 25 year retirement for Re-
gional State Park Police on the same
basis as the 25 year retirement now
in effect for members of the New
York State Police force in the Execu-
tive Depa:tment.

Chapter 742, introduced by the
Ascembly Rules Committee, _pro-
vides that if a member of the Re-

Summer Issue, 1949

tirement System, after receiving dis-
continued service benefits, returns
to active service for ten years or
more, that ‘member will receive
credit for his total service upon
subsequent retirement. This amend-
ment was made necessary due to
inequitable situations which arose
when members of the system, often
for reasons beyond their control,
left State employment and upon re-
turn and = subsequent retirement
found that the interruption in ser-
vice presented serious retirement
problems.

Chapter 736, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, provides that no reduc-
tion shall be made f-om accidental
disability or death benefits for legal
fees up to $100 awarded in confor-
mity with the provisions of the
Workmen's Compensation Law.

Chapter 763, introduced by Sena-
tor Erwin, provides that the final
average salary for determining dis-
ability benefits may mean the maxi-
mum salary which the retired mem-
ber would be receiving in the posi-
tion from which he was last retired
for disability or in a comparable
position if the position from which
he had so retired has been abolished.

Worthy of particular mention is
a proposed amendment to Aticle 7,
subd. 8 of the Constitution, intro-
duced by Senator F. J. Mahoney and
Assemblyman Douglas. The amend-
ment would permit an increase in
the retirement allowances of retired
members of state and local retire-
ment systems. It confers power to
increase such allowances on the
legislature which he-etofore de-
clined to take such action on the
ground that such increases for re-
tired employees would be unconsti-
tutional. The bill successfully
passed the last session and since it
amends the Constitution must be
passed by the 1951 session of the
legislature.

While the gains outlined above
are gratifying, it is obvious that none
of them can be described as major
liberalization of the present Retire-
ment System. The diappointing
failure of the 55 year optional re-
tirement has already been discussed.
Other major items, both to shorten
the time required in which to re-
tire and to increase the benefits are
still to come and will not come until
our entire membership wholeheart-

edly urges passage on succeeding
legislatures and administrations.

Miscellaneous Legislation

Because of peculiar technical and
administrative problems, it is always
necessary for the Association, in ad-
dition to drafting and’ sponsoring
measures which benefit the great
majority of state employees, to pro-
vide for those employees for whom
special legislation is required. Typi-
cal illustrations of such measures
are to be found in Chapters 356 and
357 introduced by Senator Wicks,
which provide for the merger of
emergency compensation into the
base pay of employees of the judi-
cial and legislative branches of the
government.

Senator Wicks also introduced
Chapter 620 by which such emer-
gency compensation was merged
effective April 1, 1950 with the base
pay of civilian employees in am
mories.

Chapters 689, 456, 479, 457 and
677, all introduced by Senator
Wicks, increased respectively the
base salary for State Police, School
Superintendents, Faculty members
of State Indian Schools, the State
Law revision Commission, and of
Wardens and Chief Administrative
Officers in State prisons.

The employees of the institutions
at Dannemora and Matteawan,
Westfield and Albion have already,
by administrative action, been placed
in the competitive class and the As-
sociation is now actively dealing on
their behalf in connection with
classification and salary problems,

The Veto

A number of Association spon-
sored measures passed the legisla-
ture but fell victim to the Gover- .
nor’s veto.

A bill introduced by Senator
Fino and Assemblyman Austin
which would have permitted trans-
fers between retirement systems for
those members who had not with-
drawn their contributions from the
first system within one year from the
dare of transfer, or before June 30,
1950, was vetoed without memo-
randum. Similarly, the Scanlon-
Herrick bill to permit members of
any retirement system maintained
by a political subdivision to receive

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43
The Year Ahead...

CHARLES R. CULYER
Field Representative — County Division

With the approach of the new Association year October first, I believe it
is now time to take stock and turn the County Chapters’ thoughts to discus-
sing plans for the coming year. Every business organization sits down at least
once a year, with its officers and directors, to plan, and so it should be with

the Association Chapters.

Many of the Chapter Officers can point to important accomplishments for
the benefit of their membership this last year, but let us consider your

program for the new year.

What is the most important action
for your chapter to take after Oc-
tober first? Is it salary adjustment,
job reclassification, rewriting of your
work rules, an ‘effort to make the
local Civil Service Commission more
responsive to local conditions in Civil
employment, the setting up of an ef-
fective employee grievance commit-
stee with your governing body, con-
vincing the local officials of the
equity of placing all civil jobs in the
competitive service, or having the
Employees Retirement Law accepted
in the sub-division, or school district
units of government? You begin to
see the many improvements in work-
ing conditions that can be part of
your new year program,

Now, how can you plan this work,
—for work it is,—so that the new
year will be one of successful ac-
complishments? First, to assist the
officers of the chapters, responsible
committees should be appointed.
The four most important commit-
tees of your chapter are the Legisla-
tive or Salary, Grievance, Member-
ship and Publicity, and the success of
your chapter organization stems
from the work of these committees,
Certainly to get the program started,
you should have frequent meetings

. of your officers and board of di-
rectors,

When the decision is made to
work on definite improvements, find
out how much of the material and
approach to the proper official your
chapter can supply. It might be the
friendly acquaintance of some of
your membership who could take
over the contact wo-k with your of-
ficials. If you feel that headquarters
staff could be of help, call on us with
your problem.

Do not overlook the value of your
county executive board member,
who, on his visits to Albany, at

COUNTY DIVISION
Chapter Roster

BROOME
CATTARAUGUS
CAYUGA
CHAUTAUQUA
CHEMUNG
CLINTON
CORTLAND
ERIE
FRANKLIN
FULTON
GENESEE
HERKIMER
JEFFERSON,
MADISON
MONTGOMERY
NASSAU
NIAGARA
ONONDAGA
ONTARIO
ORANGE
OTSEGO
ROCKLAND

ST. LAWRENCE
SCHENECTADY
STEUBEN
SUFFOLK
SULLIVAN
ULSTER
WARREN
WESTCHESTER

board meetings can discuss your
situation directly with the Associa-
tion officers—or come in direct con-
tact with state officials and depart-
ments which could be of help. This
may sound elementary, but I know
that many chapters are not taking
full advantage of contacts with head-
quarters, and using their elected rep-
resentatives on chapter affairs and
problems,

All of the items for action I have
mentioned, have appeared in county

chapter activities these last two years.
There are no doubt others, but I
have listed the most important. It
is not necessary to be a crusader in
your-actions, but the’ presentation of
your protest with logic, and the rep-
resentation of your membership, is
sufficiently effective. This, also, has
been demonstrated in the chapters
this last year.

One of the chapter committees
written into your by-laws, is a “Pub-
licity Committee.” How many chap-
ters have a committee actively func-
tioning to keep your activities before
the public? Your committee should
prepare and write,-articles for the
local press, supported by photographs
of your business meetings or social
affairs. Contacts with the press
should be cultivated, What you are
in Civil Service in your community,
is of interest to the public. If you
have a special campaign to wage,
you will need the support of the
press. Your actions are news in the
publishing business. Then, how
many chapters use the columns of
the Civil Service Leader? While the
local papers are necessary expres-
sions, do not forget that the Leader
goes to the home of every one of
your members, and further, to the
state employees in your locality.
What publicity could you obtain as
easily as sending your notices and
stories to the “Leader”? You are
sure that your material will be pub-
lished,

In all the chapters, the salary ad-
justments were the most important

- business of the chapter. The results

show that the fact of organization
helped in attaining asked for ad-
justments, The new year brings the
temporary emergency bonus “freeze-
in” as the main objective. Head-
quarters staff have projected material
to help in your presentation and in
some chapters, upon request, have
made on the ground surveys of the
salary allocations so that the local
officials were made aware of the ma-
terial used in the chapter presenta-
tion, This work can be continued
through the period of budget-mak-
ing in the subdivision and indica-
tions are, the start having been made,
success will also come as the result
of your chapter activity.

Merit

Classification and reclassification
can be continued as an all year part
of your chapter program. T have
been surprised to find governmental
units where no classification has
been attempted since the Fite law
wash-in of 1943. Chapters should
get the advice of headquarters on
this subject and work out with your
local Civil Service Commission the
proper approach to reclassification.
Where energetic local commissions
work to help the Civil Employees
in their problems, you will find job
classification on a current basis but
too many of the commissions need
the stiffening of public opinion be-
fore they become interested in this
part of their work. If education is
necessary, then the chapter should
take over, and make the necessary
requests, keeping in mind that tech-
nical help is available from head-
quarters itself, ‘The same attention
can be paid to the introduction of a
compensation plan affording a yearly
increment to employees salaries with
a minimum and maximum to the
grade. Again, too few units are on-
erating under such a plan, which
should be the goal of achievement
for every one of the county chanters.
The approach to this subiect should
be put in the hands of a snecial com-
mittee, as technical advice and re-
seach will be needed. No unit is too

small to go under this olan and its -

anplication has been the source of
much neelect in the sub-divisions.
As chamnions of the merit system,
we should work for its introduction.

Have satisfactory work rules been
apnroved by your governing body
and supplied in printed form for the
use of your fellow workers? There
again, is a weak snot in emplovee re-
lations in the sub-<divisions. I find
even in large units of government, a
complete absence of any formal set
of work rules. Why not make this
part of your new year’s program? A
number of our chapters were success-
ful in having modern work rules put
into effect during the last vear. You
can very seadily be supplied with
conies of some of the work rules
adopted, calling for regulated sick
leave. and vacation time, with other
conditions of employment which
should be part of your Civil Service
work. Let us endeavor to have uni-
form work rules adopted in all the
sub-divisions, more in keeping with
present day employment practices,
and not carried over from the far

Summer Issue, 1949

distant past, as found in some juris-
dictions.

What will this program mean to
your chapter? Without question an
increase in membership interest, a
better reception from the elected of-
ficials of your community, a much
better public understanding of what
Civil Service means and the satisfac-
tion of accomplishment by your of-
ficers and committee members. The
Association is a voluntary service or-
ganization, and it continues to be of
service and interest to its members
only by energetic action throughout
the year. Individual complaints and
adjustments must always be faced,
but a strong program has been found
to be the real membership interest
in your chapter and the Civil Service
Employees Association.

Do not take Civil Service for
granted. It is the administration of
the law, rules and regulations that
effect you and your fellow members,
and you are now the responsible
group in your Community and must
be the watch dogs for efficient civil
employment and fair employment
practices in public work. You have
the right as an emolovees organiza-
tion, to insist that Civil Service func-
tions fairly, honestly and adequately,
in your governmental unit.

Much could be written and re-

ported on this subject of activities in
the new year, but if your chapter
makes the start on any one of the
parts of this suggested program, and
approaches the situation as outlined,
there is no reason why you should
not be successful. You are part of
the representation of counties listed
at the head of this article, and now
is the time to make yourself felt in
the cause of Civil Service.

Your. Association Dues
Will Be Due
OCTOBER Ist

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45
NEW ASSISTANT COUNSEL

JOHN J. KELLY, JR.

Mr. Kelly has recently been ap-
pointed Assistant Counsel of the
Association, and is associated with
the law firm of DeGraff and Foy,
Albany. He was forme-ly associated
with Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke
and Whiteside of New York City.

His military record included
eighteen months of combat service
with the First Infantry Division as
a platoon leader and company com-
mander in F Company, 26th Infan-
try, from November 8, 1942 until
June 6, 1944, He se-ved in combat
with the First Division in Tunisia,
Algeria, Sicily and France and par-
ticipated in the D-Day invasions of
Africa, Sicily and France. Mr. Kelly
was seriously wounded in both legs
during the invasion of France by
German mortar shell fragments. He
was hospitalized for two and one-
half years for treatment and was
eventually retired with the rank of
Major as “permanently unfit for
any tyne of active service.” He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Silver Star with Oak Leaf
Cluster, and the Purple Heart.

M-. Kelly was graduated from
Christian Brothers Academy, Al-
bany. He attended Cornell Univer-
sity and received his B.A. in 1942
when he entered military service.
After the war, his leval education
was comnleted at Cornell Law
School and his LL.B. was conferred
in 1947, He was Editor-in-Chief of
the Co-nell Law Quarterly and was
elected to the Order of the Coif,

Lower Rates - Larger Benefits . .
Accident and Health Plan

Policyholders and others interest-
ed in the Accident and Sickness
Insurance Plan sponsored by the
Association will be happy to learn
that the plan has been substantially
liberalized. The special features of
the plan—low-cost, broad coverage,
non-cancellability, convenient
method of payment, etc.— have
made it the best buy obtainable in
the past. The added improvements
make the plan even more attractive
and valuable to members.

The Insurance Committee of the
Association has met _ periodically
with representatives of the Insurance
Company ever since the plan was
originally established in 1936 to
assure that members taking advan-
tage of the insurance protection
received the most liberal treatment
that could be arranged. The Acci-
dent and Sickness Insurance Plan
has been constantly improved, but
the following liberalizations which
will take effect November 1, 1949,
represent the greatest increase in
benefits won to date:

1, Premium rates will be reduced
approximately 20% for male
policyholders and 10%, for fe-
male policyholders under age
40.

2. Benefits paid insured members
under age 60 disabled by sick-
ness will be increased 10% on
policies in effect at least one year,
without any increase in premium
rates.

3. The Principal Sum payable for

national legal honorary society, He
was admitted to the practice of law
on September 17, 1947 in the Third
Judicial Department, at Albany,
New York.

Mr. Kelly, born November 5,
1920. at Albany, is the son of Mr.
and M-s. John J. Kelly. Mr. Kelly,
Sr., is Director of Office Audit in
the New York State Department of
Audit and Control, a ca-eer man
of many years service. Mr. Kelly,
Jr. married Victoria Winks of Bir-
mingham, England, in 1944, and
they have two boys, John III, and
Paul Francis.

accidental death or dismember-
ment will be increased from $500
to $1000, without any increase
in premium rates.

4. Accidental Dismemberment Ben-
efits will also be increased under
certain conditions.

Other improvements in the plan
which took effect during the past
two years ‘included:

1. The period during which non-
occupational accident _ benefits
are paid has been increased from
five years to 10 years.

2. Reimbursement for medical and
surgical expenses incurred as
result of a non-disabling accident
was increased fourfold from
an amount not exceeding one-
fourth of the, monthly indemnity
to an amount not exceeding one
full month’s indemnity.

Thousands of Association mem-
bers take advantage of the savings
possible by particinatine in the
group plan made available by the
Association as comna-ed with se-
curing like insurance protection thru
the regular channels. These savings
for each individual member nolicv-
holder exceed by many times each
vear the small amount of member-
shiv dues,

INVESTIGATE TODAY

Every Association member is in-
vited to investigate today the special
features of the Group Plan of Ac-
cident and Sickness Insurance. Ap-
plications and liteature may be se-
cured from Association Head-
quarters, 8 Elk Street, Albany 7,
N. Y., or from TerBush & Powell,
Inc., 148 Clinton Street, Schenec-
tady, N. Y. or from your local
Chapter.

‘YOU CAN HELP...

Remember
Your Dues Are Due on
OCTOBER Ist

Merit
A Disabled Veteran

Looks At Veterans’ Preference

” By John J. Kelly, Jr., Assistant Counsel

At the outset, so there will be.no misunderstanding of my remarks, I
should state that I am professionally interested in the passage of the Mitchell
Amendment for Veteran’s Preference, I am Assistant Counsel for the CSEA
which is on record in support of this proposal. However, herein, I am speak-

ing personally and for myself alone.

T have been actively interested in veteran’s affairs and am a member of
The Legion of Valor, The Disabled American Veterans, The Disabled Emer-
gency Officers of the World War, and President of the Officers of the 26th

Reg’tal Combat Team.

Thus, I feel, that I have had ample opportunity to consider veteran’s pref-
erence both as an active, interested veteran and as an advocate of the merit

system in public employment.

WHY — VETERANS'
PREFERENCE

I definitely feel that there is a
place in the merit system, as in pri-
vate industry, for an_ intelligent
preference to veterans. However, I
do disagree with the reasons so often.
put forth by “professional veterans”
for the existence of a preference. It
should not be viewed, in my mind,
as a hero’s reward, a bonus, or a
bonanza. The emotional approach
to veteran’s welfare, so often char-
acterized by phrases such as
“blood soaked sands of Normandy,”
“rivers of blood” and “brave boys
marching forth to meet the oppres-
sor—many of them never to re-
turn” is not the correct way to con-
sider the question. Campaigns
based on such statements stir the
emotion, as well they should, but
serve to becloud the mind as to the
actual reason for veteran’s prefer-
ence,

In the first place, comparatively
few of our veterans were contribu-
tors to the “rivers of blood” which
are used as the keystone of the emo-
tional approach, and many of those
who were find that they are physically
unable to avail themselves of the
benefits won for all by eulogizing
their personal sacrifices.

No, the proper basis for granting
veterans preference is not for what
the veteran did, but for what he
lost in the doing. All veterans, dis-
abled and non-disabled alike, lost
time while in the service. To most
of us, the time investment was just
as serious as the risks we underwent.
To many of us, it delayed the be-

Summer Issue, 1949

ginning of our careers for four, five,
or six years. Others had business
careers interrupted almost as soon
as they began. All of us sacrificed
the years of early manhood when
we would normally have had the
opportunity to achieve some mea-
sure of security, seniority and tenure
in public service, or in private em-
ployment.

The disabled veteran, likewise, is
entitled to a greater preference, in
my mind, not because of his dis-
ability, per se, but again because of
the greater loss he suffered. In ad-
dition to the time and opportunity
lost, the disabled veteran is presum-
ably, because of his disability, at an
even greater competitive disadvan-
tage in seeking public or private em-
ployment.

That to my mind is the true basis
for veteran’s preference. Through
no fault of our own, we, as a group,
lost time and the opportunity to
achieve security. The debt of the
community should be commensurate
with the loss. What the veteran is
entitled to, and what the veteran
should seek, is a preference that will
compensate him for his loss. We
should seek a preference that will
put us on an equal competitive
footing with those who, for what-
ever good reasons, did not suffer the
same loss. Less than equality of
competition is not fair to the vet-
eran; more than equality to the
veteran is unfair to the community
as a whole since it denies oppor-
tunity in public employment to
those most fitted to serve, be they
veteran or non-veteran.

THE PRESENT ABSOLUTE
PREFERENCE

The present constitutional pref-
erence for veterans I consider as
basically unsound for two reasons,
First, the scales are weighted much
too heavily in favor of the veteran,
whether disabled or non-disabled.
Any disabled veteran who takes
and passes a competitive examina-
tion with a minimum passing mark
automatically goes to the top of the
eligible list. The only persons who
may be appointed prior to such a
disabled veteran are other disabled
yetetans who obtained higher marks
on the same examination.

Similarly, non-disabled veterans
passing with a minimum passing
mark are placed next on the list.

It is repeated that the preference
is mandatory, and that the veterans
must be tendered appointments be-
fore any other persons, regardless
of their comparative technical quali-
fications and regardless of the marks
achieved on examination.

Because of the great number who
normally take the competitive exam-
inations at the entrance level con-
trasted to the much smaller number
of positions available, all non-vet-
erans, and in many instance, non-
disabled veterans, under the present
unfair preference, are absolutely de-
nied an opportunity to enter public
service despite outstanding qualifi-
cations.

Unfair as such a system is at the
entrance level, it is even more dis-
ruptive of the merit system where
promotions are involved. Here the
same absolute preference is accorded
first to disabled, then to non-disabled
veterans. By its operation, the most
qualified person is often absolutely
denied an opportunity for advance-
ment if there are disabled or non-
disabled veterans possessing mini-
mum. efficiency and experience
qualifications in the same promo-
tion unit.

Not only does the merit system
suffer, and ultimately the entire
citizenry of the state in that they
are the recipients of a less efficient
public service, but also, it is not

47
= The Year Ahead... .

Field Representative — County Division

‘once a year, with its of
the Association Chapters,

rs and directors, to plan, and so it should be with

Many of the Chapter Officers can point to important accomplishments for
the benefit of their membership this last year, but let us consider your

program for the new year.

What is the most important action
for your chapter to take after Oc-
tober first? Is it salary’ adjustment,
job reclassification, rewriting of your
work rules, an ‘effort to make the
local Civil Service Commission more
responsive to local conditions in Civil
employment, the setting up of an ef-
fective employee grievance commit-
‘tee with your governing body, con-
vincing the local officials of the
equity of placing all civil jobs in the
competitive service, or having the
Employees Retirement Law accepted
in the sub-division, or school ‘district
units of government? You begin to
see the many improvements in work-
ing conditions that can be part of
your new year program.

Now, how can you plan this work,
—for work it is—so that the new
year will be one of successful ac-
complishments? First, to assist the
officers of the chapters, responsible
committees should be appointed.
The four most important commit-
tees of your chapter are the Legisla-
tive or Salary, Grievance, Member-
ship and Publicity, and the success of
your chapter organization stems
from the work of these committees,
Certainly to get the program started,
you should have frequent meetings

+ of your officers and board of di-
rectors.

When the decision is made to
work on definite improvements, find
out how much of the material and
approach to the proper official your

* chapter can supply. It might be the
friendly acquaintance of some of
your membership who could take
over the contact wo-k with your of-
ficials. If you feel that headquarters
staff could be of help, call on us with
your problem.

Do not overlook the value of your
county executive board member,
who, on his visits to Albany, at

COUNTY DIVISION
Chapter Roster

BROOME
CATTARAUGUS
CAYUGA
CHAUTAUQUA
CHEMUNG
CLINTON
CORTLAND
ERIE
FRANKLIN
FULTON
GENESEE
HERKIMER
JEFFERSON
MADISON
MONTGOMERY
NASSAU
NIAGARA
ONONDAGA
ONTARIO
ORANGE
OTSEGO
ROCKLAND

ST. LAWRENCE
SCHENECTADY
STEUBEN
SUFFOLK
SULLIVAN
ULSTER
WARREN
WESTCHESTER

All of the items for action I have
mentioned, have appeared in county

chapter activities these last two years.
There are no doubt others, but I
have listed the most important. It
is not necessary to be a crusader in
your actions, but the" presentation of
your protest with logic, and the rep-
resentation of your membership, is
sufficiently effective. This, also, has
been demonstrated in the chapters
this last year.

One of the chapter committees
written into your by-laws, is a “Pub-
licity Committee.” How many chap-
ters have a committee actively func-
tioning to keep your activities before
the public? Your committee should
prepare and write, articles for the
local press, supported by photographs
of your business meetings or social
affairs. Contacts with the press
should be cultivated. What you are
in Civil Service in your community,
is of interest to the public. If you
have a special campaign to wage,
you will need the support of the
press. Your actions are news'in the
publishing business. Then, how
many chapters use the columns of
the Civil Service Leader? ‘While the
local papers are necessary expres-
sions, do not forget that the Leader
goes to the home of every one of
your members, and further, to the
state employees in your locality.
What publicity could you obtain as
easily as sending your notices and
stories to the “Leader”? You are
sure that your material will be pub-
lished.

In all the chapters, the salary ad-
justments were the most important

- business of the chapter. The results

show that the fact of organization
helped in attaining asked for ad-
justments. The new year brings the
temporary emergency bonus “freeze-
in” as the main objective. Head-
quarters staff have projected material
to help in your presentation and in
some chapters, upon request, have
made on the ground surveys of the
salary allocations so that the local
officials were made aware of the ma-
terial used in the chapter presenta-
tion. This work can be continued
through the period of budget-mak-
ing in the subdivision and indica-
tions are, the start having been made,
success will also come as the result
of your chapter activity.

Merit

Classification and reclassification
can be continued as an all year part
of your chapter program. I have
been surprised to find governmental
units where no classification has
been attempted since the Fite law
wash-in of 1943. Chapters should
get the advice of headquarters on
this subject and work out with your
local Civil Service Commission the
proper approach to reclassification.
Where energetic local commissions
work to help the Civil Employees
in their problems, you will find job
classification on a current basis but
too many of the commissions need
the stiffening of public opinion be-
fore they become interested in this
part of their work, If education is
necessary, then the chapter should
take over, and make the necessary
requests. keeping in mind that tech-
nical help is available from head-
quarters itself, The same attention
can be paid to the introduction of a
compensation plan affording a yearly
increment to employees salaries with
a minimum and maximum to the
grade. Again, too few units are on-
erating under such a plan, which
should be ‘the goal of achievement
for every one of the county chapters.
The annroach to this subiect should
be put in the hands of a snecial com-
mittee, as technical advice and re-
search will be needed. No unit is too

small to go under this olan and its *

application has been the source of
much neglect in the sub-divisions.
As chamnions of the merit system,
we should work for its introduction.

Have satisfactory work rules been
avnroved by your governing body
and suoplied in printed form for the
use of your fellow workers? There
again, is a weak snot in emplovee re-
lations in the sub-divisions. I find
even in large units of government, a
complete absence of any formal set
of work rules. Why not make this
part of your new year’s program? A
number of our chanters were success-
ful in having modern work rules put
into effect during the last vear. You
can very readily be supplied with
conies of some of the work rules
adopted, calling for regulated sick
leave. and vacation time, with other
conditions of employment which
should be part of your Civil Service
work. Let us endeavor to have uni-
form work rules adopted in all the
sub-divisions, more in keeping with
present day employment practices,
and not carried over from the far

Summer Issue, 1949

distant past, as found in some juris-
dictions.

‘What will this program mean to
your chapter? Without question an
increase in membership interest, a
better reception from the elected of-
ficials of your community, a much
better public understanding of what
Civil Service means and the satisfac-
tion of accomplishment by your of-
ficers and committee members. The
Association is a voluntary service or-
ganization, and it continues to be of.
service and interest to its members
only by energetic action throughout
the year. Individual complaints and
adjustments must always be faced,
but a strong program has been found
to be the real membershio interest
in your chapter and the Civil Service
Employees Association.

Much could be written and re-

James G. Tebbutt

fone on this sabjest of activities in
new year, if your chapter
make the plots one of =
parts of this Program,
approaches the situation as outlined,
there is no reason why you should
not be successful. You are part of
the representation of counties listed
at the head of this article, and now
is the time to make yourself felt in
the cause of Civil Service.

Your. Association Dues
Will Be Due
OCTOBER Ist

THE CAPITOL
RESTAURANT

IN THE STATE CAPITOL

Splendid Food

Pleasant Atmosphere }

Open Daily from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M.
Saturday from 7 A.M. to 3 P.M,

Under the management of

PETER GIFTOS

Marshall W. Tebbutt, Jr.

Cebburtt

Funeral Service
Since 1850

176 STATE ST., ALBANY

Opp. State Capitol

of quality Living Room, Dining Room and Bed Room
furniture from the country’s outstanding manufacturers!

HARRY SIMMONS CO.

STATE STREET ot JAMES @ ALBANY, N. Y.

NEW ‘ASSISTANT COUNSEL

JOHN J. KELLY, JR.

His military record included
eighteen months of combat service
with the First Infantry Division as
a platoon leader and company com-
mander in F Company, 26th Infan-
try, from November 8, 1942 until
June 6, 1944. He se-ved in combat
with the First Division in Tunisia,
Algeria, Sicily and France and par-
ticipated in the D-Day invasions of
Africa, Sicily and France. Mr. Kelly
was seriously wounded in both legs
during the invasion of France by
German mortar shell fragments. He
was hospitalized for two and one-
half years for treatment and was
eventually retired with the rank of
Major as “permanently unfit for
any tyve of active service.” He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Silver Star with Oak Leaf
Cluster, and the Purple Heart.

M-. Kelly was graduated from
Christian Brothers Academv, Al-
bany. He attended Cornell Univer-
sity and received his B.A. in 1942
when he entered military service.
After the war, his leval education
was comnleted at Cornell Law
School and his LL.B. was conferred
in 1947. He was Editor-in-Chief of
the Co-nell Law Ouarterly and was
elected to the Order of the Coif,

Lower Rates - Larger Benefits . .
Accident and Health Plan

Policyholders’ and others interest-
ed‘in the Accident and Sickness
Insurance Plan sponsored by the
Association will be happy to learn
that the plan has been substantially
liberalized. The special features of
the plan—low-cost, broad coverage,
non-ancellability, convenient
method of payment, etc.—have
made it the best buy obtainable in
the past. The added improvements
make the plan even more attractive
and valuable to members.

The Insurance Committee of the
Association has met periodically
with representatives of the Insurance
Company ever since the plan was
originally established in 1936 to
assure that members taking advan-
tage of the insurance protection
received the most liberal treatment
that could be arranged. The Acci-
dent and Sickness Insurance Plan
has been constantly improved, but
the following liberalizations which
will take effect November 1, 1949,
represent the greatest increase in
benefits won to date:

1. Premium rates will be reduced
approximately 20% for male
policyholders and 10% for fe-
male policyholders under age
40.

2. Benefits paid insured members
under age 60 disabled by sick-
ness will be increased 10% on
policies in effect at least one year,
without any increase in premium
rates. . -

3. The Principal Sum payable for

national legal honorary society. He
was admitted to the practice of law
on September 17, 1947 in the Third
Judicial Department, at Albany,
New York.

Mr. Kelly, born November 5,
1920. at Albany, is the son of Mr.
and M-s. John J. Kelly. Mr. Kelly,
St. is Director of Office Audit in
the New York State Department of
Audit and Control, a caveer man
of many years service. Mr. Kelly,
Jr. married Victoria Winks of Bir-
mingham, England, in 1944, and
they have two boys, John III, and
Paul Francis.

accidental death or dismember-
ment will be increased from $500
to $1000, without any increase
in premium rates.

4. Accidental Dismemberment Ben-
efits will also be increased under
certain conditions.

Other improvements in the plan
which took effect during the past
two years ‘included:

1. The period during which non-
occupational accident benefits
are paid has been increased from
five years to 10 years.

Thousands of Association mem-
bers take advantage of the savings
possible by particivatine in the
group plan made available by the
Association as comna-ed with se-
curing like insurance protection thru

. the reoular channels. These savines

for each individual member nolicv-
holder exceed by many times each
year the small amount of member-
shiv dues.

INVESTIGATE TODAY

Every Association member is in-
vited to investigate today the snecial
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Merit
A Disabled Veteran

Looks At Veterans’ Preference :

7 By John J. Kelly, Jr., Assistant Counsel

At the outset, so there will be.no misunderstanding of my remarks, I
should state that I am professionally interested in the passage of the Mitchell
Amendment for Veteran’s Preference. I am Assistant Counsel for the CSEA
which is on record in support of this proposal. However, herein, I am speak-

ing personally and for myself alone.

Reg’tal Combat Team.

Thus, I feel, that I have had ample opportunity to consider veteran’s pref-
erence both as an active, interested veteran and as an advocate of the merit

system in public employment.

WHY — VETERANS’
PREFERENCE

Summer Issue, 1949

The disabled veteran, likewise, is
entitled:to a greater preference, in
my mind, not because of his dis-
ability, per se, but again because of
the greater loss he suffered. In ad-
dition to the time and opportunity
lost, the disabled veteran is presum-
ably, because of his disability, at an
even greater competitive disadvan-
tage in seeking public or private em-
ployment.

‘That to my mind is the true basis
for veteran’s preference. Through
no fault of our own, we, as a group,
lost time and the opportunity to
achieve security. The debt of the
community should be commensurate
with the loss. What the veteran is
entitled to, and what the veteran
should seek, is a preference that will
compensate him for his loss. We
should seek a preference that will
put us on an equal competitive
footing with those who, for what-
ever good reasons, did not suffer the
same loss. Less than equality of
competition is not fair to the vet-
eran; more than equality to the
veteran is unfair to the community
as a whole since it denies oppor-
tunity in public employment to
those most fitted to serve, be they
veteran, or non-veteran.

THE PRESENT ABSOLUTE
PREFERENCE

The present constitutional pref-
erence for veterans I consider as
basically unsound for two reasons,
First, the scales are weighted much
too heavily in favor of the veteran,
whether disabled or non-disabled.
Any disabled veteran who takes
and passes a competitive examina-
tion with a minimum passing mark
automatically goes to the top of the
eligible list. The only persons who
may be appointed prior to such a
disabled veteran are other disabled
vetetans who obtained higher marks
on the same examination.

Similarly, non-disabled veterans
passing with a minimum passing
mark are placed next on the list.

Unfair as such a system is at the
entrance level, it is even more dis-
ruptive of the merit system where
promotions are involved. Here the
same absolute preference is accorded
first to disabled, then to non-disabled
veterans. By its operation, the most
qualified person is often absolutely
denied an opportunity for advance-
ment if there are disabled or non-
disabled veterans possessing mini-
mum efficiency and experience
qualifications in the same promo-
tion unit.

Not only does the merit system
suffer, and ultimately the entire
citizenry of the state in that they
are the recipients of a less efficient
public service, but also, it is not

and to most disabled veterans.

The New York City Police
Fire Departments are cases in point.
Since the end of the war most
appointments have been to dis-
al veterans. The same is true
to an even greater extent of promo-
tions in these departments. The out-
right inconsistency of such a situa-
tion is pointed up by the fact that
the physical examination required
for entrance is the same as that re-
quired for entrance to West Point
or Annapolis, What truly disabled
veteran could pass such a stringent
physical examination?

The second reason why the pres-
ent preference is basically unsound
is because it expires on January 1,
1951 (or five years after discharge,
whichever is later) as to non-dis-
abled veterans. After that date, the
disabled veteran will retain absolute
preference—the non-disabled vet-
eran will have none.

To my way of thinking, any
arbitrary cut-off date for veteran's
preference is at best illogical and
likely to cause unintended hard-
ships. To illustrate, a non-disabled
veteran may have tried several dif-
ferent entrance examinations and
done well in several or all of them.
However, he may not have been
reached on these lists because of the
great number of disabled veterans
ahead of him. (See N.Y.C. Police
and Fire Dept. example cited above)
To deny such a person preference
because of an arbitrary expiration
date seems manifestly unjust.

It would seem much more con-
sistent with the underlying prin-
ciples of veteran’s preference to al-
low the “system” to continue in-
definitely, but to limit the number
of times any individual may avail
himself of the preference. This
would: avoid inequitable hardship
in individual cases, and at the same
time limit abuse and unwarranted
extension of the objectives sought
to be achieved by veteran’s prefer-
ence.

THE PROPOSED
AMENDMENT

The proposed constitutional
amendment, or the Mitchell Bill,
as it is more commonly called, of-
fers a common sense, practical and

easily administered solution to the
problem of veteran’s preference.

Tt offers disabled veterans 10

points added to a pass-
ng pists ‘on entrance examinations
and five on promotion examinations.
Non-disabled veterans receive 5
points on entrance and 2% points
for promotion. The preference may
be used only once, either on entrance
or promotion at the election of the
veteran. However, the preference
is not deemed to have been “used”
until the veteran obtains an appoint-
ment or promotion from a list on
which the preference is used.

The amendment also authorizes
legislation having to do with pref-
erence in retention for veterans.

I feel wholeheartedly that the
Mitchell Bill is the answer. It meets
reasonably and fairly the loss for-
mula which was discussed above and
which I believe to be the only proper
basis for veteran’s preference. At
the same time, it certifies the most
capable eligibles for early appoint-
ment, whether vete-an or not.

The 5 and 10 preference requires
that a veteran first pass without
any preference. Then the prefer-
ence points are added to determine
the final rating on the examination.
Certain lists have been “Mitchel-
lized” by persons studying this sub-
ject, and the results are eyeopening
as well as most desirable. The out-
standing candidates, whether veter-
an or not, have placed near the top
of the list. The bulk of the most
competent disabled veterans have
appeared slightly above the bulk of
the non-disabled veterans, and they
in turn generally -have grouped
slightly above the majority of non-
veteran applicants. The most sig-
nificant feature, however, has been
that the best now are in a position
to be reached first, and the worst
(above a passing grade) are gener-
ally reached last regardless of vet-
eran status. Under the present abso-
lute preference, the worst disabled
veteran. is reached before the best
of the non-disabled or non-veterans.

In promotion, the veteran's pref-
erence under the Mitchell Bill
would be just one half of the en-
trance preference. This, to my mind,
is an exceedingly well thought out
aspect of the proposed amendment
quite consistent with the loss for-
mula. Presumably, a man seeking
promotion has already re-achieved

some of his “loss.” The very fact
that he has a civil service position
bespeaks of some deg:ee of seniority
and tenure, Thus he does not need
as high a preference on promotion
to insure him of competitive equal-
ity commensurate with his loss,
What he needs is given by the
Mitchell Bill.

Moreover, from the veteran's
point of view, it is apt to point out
that the smaller promotion prefer-
ence is probably even more gener-
ous than the entrance preference
since those competing in promotion
examinations are generally a smaller
group possessing more uniform
qualifications than are found in ex-
aminations at the entrance level,
Thus, the 5 or 2% point preference
is almost certain to make itself felt
in the narrower “spread”, found on
promotion examinations.

Besides the equitable fashion in
which it assures competitive equal-
ity to the veteran, the proposed
amendment also would eliminate
the objectionable cut-off date, and
substitute a use test for expiration of
the preference which is much more
logical and fair than the present
arbitrary provision.

The Mitchell Bill authorizes
legislation g-anting veterans prefer-
ence in retention in case of aboli-
tion of positions or reduction in
force. The present absolute prefer-
ence .in retention provided for in
Section 21 of the Civil Service Law
could ‘be (and I suspect would be)
continued.

In conclusion, I ask for a fair
veteran’s preference, fair to the dis-
abled and to the non-disabled veter-
an, and fair to the non-veteran as
well as to the State as a whole. I
feel that the Mitchell Bill is the solu-
tion in that it accords the veteran
competitive equality with the non-
veteran on the basis of the loss suf-
fered while in military service with-
out the excesses and abuses per-
petuated by the present constitu-
tional provision.

Vote “YES” on
Amendment 5 on
ELECTION DAY
November 8th

Merit

know Your Retirement Plan

questions were supplied th

Editor’s Note: The facts contained in the answers to the following
rough the courtesy of The New York State
ae Donk Ce em Same Compens

H. Eliot Kaplan, Deputy Controller.

(1) Q. When was the New York State Employees’ Retirement System

established?

A. January 1, 1921. It applied originally only to the state employees (with a
few departments which had their own pension systems excepted). From time to
time it was extended until now it includes all the local jurisdictions — counties,
cities, towns, villages, etc., (except the City and counties within New York City).

(2) Q. What is the primary purpose of the Retirement System?

A. To make the public service more attractive to those seeking government
careers ; to provide financial security against old age and disability ; and to provide
a fair method of retiring state and municipal employees.

(5) Q. Are pensions guaranteed?

A. Approximately 144,000.

cipating in the system,

(6) Q. Who contributes to the
System?

A, The employer ‘and the employee
on a mutual basis. The employer,
however, pays all the cost of adminis-
tering the System.

(7) Q. What rate of interest are
members paid on their own contribu-
tions? ,

A. 4% for those in the System
prior to July 1, 1943; 3% for those
joining thereafter.

(8) Q. What happens to the
amounts deducted from the member's
salary?

A, Such amounts are deposited to
the account of each member and
credited as a separate account.

(9) Q. How may membership be
terminated?

A. By death, retirement, or ter-
mination of service.

(10) Q. Can accumulated contribu-
tions be withdrawn in a lump sum at
any time?

A. Only upon termination of ser-
vice but not after retirement status
is effected.

(11) Q. Are
benefits?

A. Yes. (1) Ordinary death bene-
fit after one year of member service;
(2) Accidental death benefit at any
time during member service.

(12) Q. What are the death benefit
payments?

there any death

Summer Issue, 1949

A. Yes. The Constitution (Art. V, Sec. 7) makes pensions a contractual
relationship, “the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.”
(4) Q. How many members are there in the System?

(5) Q. Who is eligible for membership in the System?
A. Any paid employee of the State or of any municipality or agency parti-

A. The ordinary death benefit
amounts to one month’s salary for
each year of service up to a total of 6
years. The accidental death benefit
amounts to one-half final average
salary payable to the beneficiary.

(13) Q. What other insurance fea-
tures are there in case of disability?

A. 1. Ordinary disability retire-
ment after 15 years of service amount-
ing in most cases to not less than one-
quarter final average salary.

2. Accidental disability retirement
— Disability incurred in service
through accident (before age 60) —
three-fourths of final average salary
plus annuity based on contributions.

(14) Q. When is retirement volun-
tary?

A. At age 60 or at age 55, respec-
tively, for those having elected to
contribute on either basis, or after 25
years of service for those especially
entitled thereto as in the case of
policemen and firemen.

(15) Q. When is retirement man-
datory?

A. Upon reaching age 70.

(16) Q. Assuming I am soon to be
retired, may I get an estimate as to
the amount of my retirement allow-
ance?

A. Yes, by writing to the New
York State Employees’ Retirement
System, 256 Washington Avenue, Al-
bany, New York, for estimates under

any or all options.

(17) Q. What is final average sal-
ary for retirement purposes?

A. The average for the last 5
years of service or of any 5 consecu-
tive years during membership.

(18) Q. What comprises the term
“retirement allowance”?

A. The retirement allowance is
made up of two parts: a pension pro-
vided by contributions paid by the em-
ployer; and an annuity based on the
amount of contributions by the em-
ployee.

(19) Q. What is meant by the
“30-day clause”?

A. It means that a retirement al-
lowance does not become payable until
30 days after an application for re-
tirement has been filed.

(20) Q. What happens if a member
dies during the 30-day period?

A. The retirement does not become
effective. The beneficiary is entitled
to the return of contributions with
interest and the ordinary death benefit.

(21) Q. What advantage is there
in continuing to pay for additional
annuities after reaching voluntary age
of retirement?

A. It helps to increase the retire-
ment allowance upon retirement.

(22) Q. If I left the System after
19 years of service for personal rea-
sons, will I receive any retirement
allowance?

A. No, unless you _— reached the
age of voluntary retirement.

(23) Q. Upon leaving the service
and choosing to withdraw my contri-
butions must I withdraw all of them
at once, or may I withdraw part of
them from time to time?

A. If you choose to withdraw your
funds, you must withdraw all at one
time. (This terminates membership).

(24) Q. May a retired employee
receive a lump sum settlement in lieu
of a monthly retirement allowance?

A. No. Retirement allowances are
all based on monthly payments to the
member or beneficiary.

(25) Q. May a retired member pro-
vide for his dependents after his
death?

A. Yes, through choice of one of
several options.

(26) Q. What happens if a mem-
ber does not select an option?

A. He receives a monthly allow-

- ance during his lifetime, but upon his
death all payments cease.

(27) Q. Is there a time limit on
Selection of option upon retirement?

A. Yes, it must be made within
30 days of the effective date of re-
tirement.

(28) Q. Having retired and select-
ed an option may I change the option
any time thereafter?

A.. No.

(29) Q. May a member while still

“im service change the designated bene-
ficiary?

A. Yes, at any time before retire-
ment. ;

(30) .Q. May a member borrow
money from the System?

A. Yes,-up to fifty percentum of
his own contributions, after 3 years of
member service.

(31).Q. How must loans be repaid?

A. By payroll deductions of fixed
amounts or lump sum payments,

(32) Q. May I transfer my mem-
bership to the Federal Retirement
System upon joining the Federal
service?

A. No.

(33) Q. May I transfer my mem-
bership from the State System to
the New York City Retirement Sys-
tem upon becoming an employee of
the New York city service?

A. Yes.

(34) Q. May I transfer my mem-
bership from the State Teachers’ Re-
tirement System to the State Em-
ployees’ Retirement System?

A. Yes. .

(35) Q. May I transfer my mem-
bership from the State Employees Re-
tirement System, to the State Teachers’
Retirement System?

A. Yes.

(36) Q. How are the funds of the
Retirement System invested?

A. Regulated by statute. Invest-
ments are confined to specified govern-
ment bonds and FHA Kuaranitees
mortgages,

(37) Q. Are the Retirement Sys-
tem funds trust funds or do they be-
long to the State?

A. They are trust funds. The State
Comptroller is the designated trustee.
The funds are kept separate from all
other state funds.

The tabulations contained on this
page are for the purpose of illustrating
the amount of retirement benefits a
member of the System may expect un-
der specified conditions of age, years
and type of service, etc. These are
ven_only_as_guides.

Option Pension Anauity Total Reserve
O $891. $587. $1478. § —
% 891. 489. 1380. 6,100.
1 742. 489. 1231 15,352.

2 608. 400. 1008. =
3 723. 476. 1199.

COMPULSORY SERVICE AT
AGE 70
DATA

Option Pension Annuity Total
O $424. $732. $1156. § —

% 424. 548, 972. 5300.

1 317. 548. 865. 8369.
2 259. 448. 707. -
3 322. 556. 878. =

55 YEAR SERVICE RETIRE-
MENT AT AGE 55

DATA
Group _ Clerical
Sex Male
Present Age. 55
Beneficiary .... Wife 50
Lye Salary. $3,000.
. A. S.. .

Total Reserve

$1473, §

0 $500. $973.
% 500. 840. 1340.
1 432. 840. 1272.
2 357. 695. 1052.

DATA

Prior Service.

Acc. Cont.

BENEFITS
Option Pension ‘Annuity Total Reserve
0 $1023. $427. $1450. $ —

% 1023. 353. 1376. 5,000.
1 845. 353. 1198.
2 663. 276. 939. _

3 804. 335. 1139. _-
"Prior to effective date of 25 year law.

B
Annuity Total
$309. $732.
6
4

123. 292.
76, Ms

ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY AT
AGE 48
DATA

$140. $2281.

94. 2235. 1460.
94. 1540, 17476.
55. 900. _
79. 1290. =
ORDINARY DEATH AT AGE 48

DATA

Prior Service .
Acc, Cont.

Option Pension Annuity Total Reserve
0 $83. $167. $250. § —
ae a it
179, 159. 238. 4520.

Lump sum payment of Ord
Death Benefit $1500. /

Contributions to be $3020.

Total... $4520.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT
AGE #0
DATA
Group Clerical
Sex Mal

Present Age.
Beneficiar

Option Pension « Annuity Total
0 $1465. 0 $1465.°°
**No option may be selected,

Merit

In the
‘Wal Sox

Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Tolman:

I received my check in the DeMarco case, of two hundred thirty-seven
dollars, and you may be sure I appreciate getting it.

The Association is worth all of the cost and much more.

We have all of the members that it is possible to get this year. Nearly
all of the regular employees have joined.

I wish there were more here and that we were a larger unit. *

Before forming a chapter we were able to get very little information and
no real contacts.

Thanking you and all of your co-workers for a good job done, I am

Yours truly, ¥
/s/ CHARLES W. VANBUSKIRK

New York City
Gentlemen:

Today I received a check for the payment of back salary made possible
by the DeMarco decision.

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Association, Mr. DeGraff,
and all those*who so successfully worked on this case, for their efforts on
behalf of myself and other State employees.

Surely, every employee of the State must realize that without the Asso-
ciation the DeMarco decision would not have been possible, and many
State employees would not have received what was rightfully theirs.

Thanks again.

Yours very truly,
/s/ WILLIAM J. PETERSON

Middletown, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Lochn

I am writing this short letter to thank you for the services that you
rendered me. I wish there was a yardstick to measure appreciation because
then I could really tell you how much I appreciated your services.

I received a letter from the Commission in the same mail that I received
your letter and after reading both letters a great cloud of gloominess left me.

I have always associated Albany with miles of red tape and it is a real
pleasure to know that we have such sharp shears,on our side.

Thank you again,

Yours truly,
/s/ GUSTAVE W. ANDERSON

Albany, N. Y.
My dear President:

I received my pay differential today as a Principal Examiner of Municipal
Affairs, Dept. Audit & Control, under the DeMarco decision — for which
I sure am thankful.

I am aware of the splendid service rendered by the officials of our
Organization in obtaining this adjustment—and I assure you that it is
appreciated.

Sincerely, 7,
/s/ GEORGE A, BOLD

Summer Issue, 1949

LEGISLATIVE REPORT
(Continued from Page 43)
credit for military service in. World
War I upon payment of contribu-

tions therefor was vetoed.

A measure introduced by Sena-
tor Campbell and Assemblyman
Bannison authorizing municipalities
to pay employees overtime compen-
sation at any multiple of the regular
rate failed of executive approval as
did a measure permitting civil ser-
vants leaves of absence with pay
while serving as jurors in courts of
record. It further provided that they
shall not be required to turn. over
to the state or the municipality any
fees received from such jury duty:

The Halpern-Barrett bill amehd-
ing the present law to broaden un-
employment insurance coverage in
public employment by extending
such coverage to per diem employ-
ees and to persons employed for less
than one year was vetoed as were
measures like the Furey-Clancy bill
permitting Saturday closings of
County Clerk’s offices, and the
Sorin-Morr bill providing that va-
cancies in competitive class positions
in municipal Police and Fire De-
partments be filled within 60 days
from appropriate lists, or if no lists
exist, providing that examinations
must be given, lists established and
vacancies filled within 90 days after
they occur.

No Action

At times it is difficult for the
membership to understand that cer-
tain bills on our program take sev-
eral years of work and education
before their chances for passage
brighten, In this as in other years,
we had our quota of bills which
never moved from the committees
to which they were referred. Typical
of such measures was the Hollowell-
Clancy bill concerning salary in-
crements at Cornell University; the
Hatfield-Clancy measure prohibiting
pay differential in jobs in which men
and women performed the same or
similar duties; the plan to provide
extra increment after 5, 10 and 15
years at the top of a grade; the
proposal to bring employees of the
revolving fund of the Public Service
Commission under Feld-Hamilton
coverage; the retirement measures
previously discussed, and other bills
reported from time to time in the

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Capital District Conference
Dr. David M. Schneider, Social Welfare
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Sidney Alexander, Psychiatric Institute,
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Francis A. MacDonald, State Training
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Harry W. Phillips, 28 Spring St., Beacon
Napanoch Institution Employees Chapter
sere Butler, Napanoch Institute, Napa-

Sing Sing Prison Chapter
August Westpfal, Sing Sing) Prison,
Ossining
‘Wallkill Prison Chapte:

Edward P. Melville, Box G, Wallkill
Westfield State Farm Chapter
Everett H. Quinn, Westfield State Farm,

Bedford Hills
‘Woodbourne Prison Chapter
George Sautter, Woodbourne Prison,
Woodbourne

EDUCATION CHAPTERS
State College Chapter
Miss Helen B. Musto, 203 W. Seneca St,

aca
Long Island Agricultural & ‘Technical
Institute Chapter
W. Everett Rowley, L. I. Ag. & Tech.
Institute, Farmingdale
State School for the Blind Chapter
Mrs. Sophia Peruzzin, State School for
the Blind, Batavia
Morrisville Chapter
Miss Lois Thomas, State Ag. & Tech.
Institute, Morrisville
Veterans’ Vocational School Chapter
Ralph O'Brien, 7th Ave. & Broadway,
Troy

EXECUTIVE CHAPTERS
Genesee Valley Armory Employees Chapter
Paul N. Lambert, State Armory, 100
Seneca St. Hornell
Hudson Valley Armory Employees Chapter
Robert B. Minerley, State Armory, New-
burgh
Mid-State Armory Employees Chapter
George A. Drury, State Armory, Steuben
Park, Utica
Armory Employees of Syracuse & Vicinity
Chapter
Joseph E. Uhl, State Armory, Corning
Armory Employees Chapter, Metropolitan
‘Area

Jack DeLisi, Kingsbridge Armory, 29
West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx

Merit

Westen New bit Armory Employees

ipter
George “A. Leber, State Armory, Tona-
wanda

HEALTH CHAPTERS
J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital Chapter
Ray Palm, J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital,
Perrysburg
Broadacres Chapter
Mrs, Anne Levine, Broadacres Sanatorium,

Utica
Gratwick Chapter
Mrs, Margaret Kelly, State Institute, “663
N. Oak St., Buffalo
Ithaca Chapter
Miss Mary Ann Zmek, Biggs Memorial
Hospital, Ithaca
Mount Morris Tuberculosis Hospital
Chapter
John Barrett, Mount Morris
Mount Morris
Onondaga Sanatorium Chapter
Harold Webb, Onondaga Sanatorium,
Syracuse

Hospital,

Ray Brook Chapter

Emmett J. Durr, Ray Brook State Hospi-
tal, Ray Brook
State Rehabilitation Hospital Chapter

Mrs.. Imogene W. Margiotta, State Re-
habilitation Hospital, West Haverstraw

LABOR CHAPTERS
State Insurance Fund Chapter

Edmund Rozck, 625 Madison Ave., New
York City

MENTAL HYGIENE CHAPTERS
Brooklyn State Hospital Chapter
Arnold Moses, 681 Clarkson Ave.
Brooklyn State Hospital, Brooklyn
Buffalo State Hospital Chapter
Harry B. Schwartz, 400 Forest Ave.,
Buffalo State Hospital, Buffalo
Central Islip State Hospital Chapter
Michael J. Murphy, Central Islip State
Hospital, Central Islip
Craig Colony Chapter
John K. Welch, Craig Colony, Sonyea
Creedmoor Chapter
Irving H. Scott, Creedmoor State Hos-
pital, Queens Village
Gowanda State Hospital Chapter
Frederick Milliman, Gowanda State Hos-
pital, Helmuth
Harlem Valley State Hospital Chapter
Willis O. Markle, Harlem Valley State
Hospital, Wingdale
Hudson River State Hospital Employees
Association
Guy de Cordova, Hudson River State Hos-
pital, Poughkeepsie
Kings Park Chapter
Elwood DeGraw. Kings Park State Hos-
pital, Kings Park
‘Letchworth Village Chapter
John Harris, Letchworth Village, Thiells:
Manhattan State Hospital Chapter
John Wallace, Manhattan State Hospital,
600 E. 125th St., New York 35
Marcy Chapter
Charles D. Methe, Marcy State Hospital,
Marcy
Middletown State Hospital Employees’
Association
Alfred Whitaker, Middletown State Hos-
pital, Middletown
Newark State School Chapter
Merton Wilson, Newark State School, 529
Church St. Newark
Pilgrim State Hospital Chapter
Frank Neitzel, Pilgrim State Hospital,
Brentwood

Summer Issue, 1949

A LOAN PLAN for STATE

i x

Borrow by PHONE
Repay by MAIL

at
BANK of COMMERCE

ply phone 3-2268 and let us know your re-
quirements. The necessary forms will be mailed
to you immediately and you can return them by
mail or in person. Within 24 hours after the
receipt by us of your completed application, you
should receive our check for your approved loan.
If you so desire, all loan repayments may be made
by mail. To save time — just call 3-2268 and ask
for MAIL LOAN SERVICE.

COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE

Do All Your Banking at Bank of Commerce

D
50 STATE STREET
Phone 3-2268

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Authorized > Member

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Psychiatric Institute & Hospital Chapter
Biagio Romeo, Psychiatric Institute, 722
W. 168th St, New York City
Rochester State Hospital Employees
Chapter
J. G. Zugelder, Rochester State Hospital,
1600 South Ave., Rochester
Rockland State Hospital Chapter
James Nolan, Rockland State Hospital,

Orangeburg

Rome

pital, Ogdensburg

Fort Stanwix Chapter’ of Rome State
ool

Sch
Fred Earwaker, 1029 W. Dominick St,

St. Lawrence State Hospital Chapter
Clarence Linson, St. Lawrence State Hos-

Sate Hospital,

ee ‘State School Chapter
Pierce, Willowbrook, State
sha cl Island

Public. Seri eervie Me Motor Vehicle Inspectors
. Chapter
William B. Filkins, 4 Rose Pl., Utica
PUBLIC WORKS CHAPTERS

Barge Canal Cha g
George J. Eddy, 334 Sess Lockport
: ‘Chautauqua County Chapter
George Hanley, Main St., Brocton
Columbia County State Public Works

Chapter
Peter Miller, Box 5,:Hudson
‘Chapter

Hamburg,
J. A. Crotty, State Store House, Evans St,
Hamburg
Orange County Public: Works Chapter
Ralph Swalm, Tot Sprague Ave., Middle-
town
Public Works District #2 Chapter
John R. Roszykiewicz, Dept. Public Wks.,
109 N. Genesee St. Utica
Rochester Chapter, D.P.W. District #4
J. M. Gallivan, Box 72, Rochester
Department of Loren Works District #8

ee F, Close, Box 551, Poughkeepsie
Lawrence State Public Works Chapter
Philp Bernhard, 432 Oak St Ogdensburg,
District #10 Public Works Chapter
William A. Greenauer, State Office Build-
ing, Babylon, L. I.
New York State Bridge Authority Chapter
Nicholas Glusko, 35 Hasbrouck Drive,
Poughkeepsie
SOCIAL WELFARE CHAPTERS
State Training School Chapter
William J. Connally, State Trng. School,
Hudson
Thomas Indian School Chapter
Denton Vander Poel, 40 Orchard Place,
‘Gowanda

New Chapter
Lester Crookston, Box 4, New Hampton
Oxford Chapter
John W. Carney, State W.R.C. Home,
Oxford
Industry Chapter
George Woltz, Jr. State Industrial School,
Industry
Warwick State School Chapter
Francis A. MacDonald, State Training
School for Boys, State Schoo!

COUNTY CHAPTERS

Broome Chapter
Charles P. West, Room 543, County Office
Bldg., Binghamton eee

Cattaraugus Chapter
R. D. Scott, 310% State St, Olean
Cayuga Chapter
Albert L. Clark, 64 North St, Auburn
Chautauqua Chapter
Robert Miller, Highway Dept, Falconer

Clyde E Paull, 1160 W. Church St,

Miss Ethel Duley, 12 McDonough St,
Cortland Chapter
Dr, Kenneth Tice, 104.N. Main St, Cort
Bie Chapter, :
Nicholas J. Giannelli, Erie County Home
& Infirmary, Alden

Franklin Chapter
Alvin J. McKee, 79 Constable St., Malone
Fulton Chapter
Harry Van Steenburg, 44 North St,
Gloversville

Genesee Chapter
Donald Morse, 5 Tracy Ave., Batavia

Herkimer Chapter
John J. Graves, Fire Dept., Herkimer
Jefferson Chapter
Sheldon G. Stratton, County Welfare
Dept, 173 Arsenal St. Watertown
Madison Chapter
Warren Whie, 507 Main St.
Montgomery Chapter
Mrs. Edythe A. Zabava, Education Dept.,
45 Division St, Amsterdam
‘Nassau Chapter
George Uhl, 94 Nassau Parkway, Hemp-
stead
Niagara Chapter
Howard Kayner, County Court House,
Lockport

Onondaga Chapter
Vernon A. Tapper, Dept. of Parks, 109
N. State St, Syracuse
Ontario Chapter
Robert W. Case, Court House, Canan-
daigua
Orange Chapter
Frank J. Welsh, Welfare Dept, County
Building, Goshen
Otsego Chapter
Kenneth Hooks, Fire Dept, Onconta
Rockland Chapter
Arthur Jones, Tompkins Cove
St. Lawrence Chapter
Philip L. White, 928 Caroline St, Ogdens-

burg
Schenectady Chapter
Robert K. Stilson, Room 6, City Hall,
Schenectady
Chay

Steuben pier
Wm. M. Groesbeck, 376 Seneca Road,
Hornell

Suffolk Chapter
L. A. Walker, 102 North Pa Park Ave., Bay
Shore

| Sullivan Chapter
Stanley Myers, County Highway Dept,
Eldred
James P, Martin, 247 W. Chestnut 5
vee

farren Chapter
C. Edward Roath, 29 ate St, Glens
Falls

Westchester Chapter
Ivan S, Flood, Box 827, White Plains

LEGISLATIVE REPORT
(Continued from Page 51)

periodic reports made to the mem-
bership during the session itself.

In retrospect, the Association en-
joyed an excellent legislative year.
Unfortunately, through misappre-
hension the very real benefits of the
so-called legislative package did not
become fully apparent until some
time after the session had ended.
This session and the results of our
work before it serves to again high-
light the necessity for a strong and
united organization in which each
member does his full share to assist
in improving working conditions in
public employment for himself and
his fellow members.

The 1950 session with old and
new problems will soon be upon us
and we look forward to it with
high confidence.

Vote in the
ASSOCIATION
ELECTIONS

HL J. CURTIS

HOLY YEAR
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We Are Local Agents for American Express Catholic
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PASSPORT AND VISA INFORMATION

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507, BROADWAY, ALBANY 7, N. Y.

W. J. HACKER

Merit

IF you HAVE
The GROUP LIFE INSURANCE . ..

REMEMBER: that the amount of insurance issued each insured
member will be adjusted effective Nov. 1, 1949 to the
amount called for by your annual salary (not including
overtime pay). If a change in deduction from your pay
is necessary because of change in amount of insurance
issued you, OR because your attained age (age of near-
est birthday as of Nov. 1) places you in the next higher
age bracket, SUCH CHANGE IN DEDUCTION
WOULD BE MADE EFFECTIVE ON THE LAST
HALF OF OCTOBER PAYROLL, A rider provid-
ing the new amount of insurance effective Nov. 1
would be sent to you promptly after that date if your
amount of insurance is changed.

IF you HAVE NOT
The GROUP LIFE INSURANCE .. .

Carefully Consider Its Special Features -

LOW COST g0c semi-monthly per $1,000 if you are 39 years or
younger — slightly higher rates if you are older.

BROAD Pays for death due to any cause, and double indemnity
COVERAGE - for accidental death, plus 10% additional insurance

without cost, without red tape, usually within 24 hours
after death.

EASY You pay for it by small automatic deductions from
PAYMENT your pay —convenient and no worry about lapsing.

Protect Your Loved Ones by the
Low-Cost Group Insurance

APPLICATIONS or LITERATURE for the Group Life Insurance
may be obtained from your local Chapter or from. . .

THE CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, INC.
8 Elk Street Albany 7, New York

Tt 2 matting for you -

YOUR “MEMBERSHIP” CARD

For the Association Year Beginning October 1, 1949

Prior to October 1, 1949 YOUR membership renewal bill will be sent to you by
first class mail. PLEASE PAY YOUR DUES PROMPTLY — it helps the Association to
devote more time to helping YOU. Protect your group insurance coverage by main-
taining paid-up membership.

Secure the membership support of your fellow employees. Literature on the
work of the Association and membership applications will be distributed by your
Chapter fo all non-members.

SUPPORT YOUR CHAPTER AND ASSOCIATION BY MEMBERSHIP AND

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN CHAPTER AND ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS.

RARTRRRRRRRED

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