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The State Employee

VOL. 10, Number 7

OCTOBER, 1941

10c a Copy

No Strikes!

The Executive Committee of The
Association of State Civil Service
Employees, meeting in extraordinary
session in Albany on October 2nd,
expressed unanimous disapproval of
the proposal of the State, County and
Municipal Workers of America
(CIO) to resort to strikes against
State, county and municipal govern-
ments.

In opening the Executive Com-
mittee meeting, Harold J. Fisher,
President of the Association, cited
the strike action of the State, County
and Municipal Workers of America
as a reflection upon the loyalty of
public workers as well as upon the
intelligence of action in public em-
ployment matters by the people of
the State and their employees. Said
Mr. Fisher: “I found no sentiment
for strike action among any of the
many employees with whom I have
come in contact, but only contempt
for the suggestion. Organized em-
ployees, as represented in the Asso-
ciation of State Civil Service Em-
ployees, and of whom the great ma-
jority realize and appreciate their
place and responsibility in the gov-
ernment of this great State, are out-
raged by the boldness of the handful
of State workers who belong to the
State, County and Municipal Work-
ers of America in daring to repre-
sent the sentiment of New York
State employees at the Lansing,
Michigan, meeting which declared
for strike action. This trifling minor-
ity, clinging to the skirts of some
creditable CIO private industry affi-
liates in this State is a disgrace to
unionism.

“Tts stock in trade is the abuse of
official privilege accorded to all re-
spectable groups, petty attempts to
create disunity among the great mass
of organized State workers devoted
to good service and sound employ-
ment policies, and the collection of
dues of twelve dollars per year for
some illusory service never rendered.

October

“News reports declare that dele-
gates from New York State claimed
that they had been unable to ‘get to
first base’ in negotiations with the
heads of State departments so long as
it was taken for granted that they
would not strike, The Association
of State Civil Service Employees has
found no difficulty in gaining suc-
cessful attention for employee prob-
lems as presented throughout the
years. On the contrary, executive,
legislative and administrative heads
have welcomed the constructive pro-
posals for the improvement of State
service and employment conditions
presented by the Association.”

The Executive Committee of the
Association discussed the matter at
length and passed with unanimity
the following resolution:

“WHEREAS, The Association of
State Civil Service Employees of the
State of New York, by reason of its
character, aims, accomplishments
and extent of membership in every
branch of State government through-
out the State, is the only organiza-
tion of State employees which may
with propriety assume to speak for
all State workers, and

“WHEREAS, a proposal approv-
ing the calling by organized groups
of workers of strikes against State,
county and municipal divisions of
government has been adopted by the
national convention of the State,
County and Municipal Workers of
America which purports to represent
civil service employees of the State
of New York, therefore

“BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ex-
ecutive Committee of The Associa-
tion of State Civil Service Employ-
ees in fairness to the citizens of the
State of New York, and in fairness
to the 35,000 members of the Asso-
ciation, hereby denounces the action
of the State, County and Municipal
Workers of America as a base mis-
representation of employee thought

on the subject of sound employment
relationships between citizens and
citizen employees of each and all
divisions of government; as a wholly
undemocratic suggestion tending to
promote selfish and destructive pres-
sure upon public officials charged
with the responsibility for high pub-
lic service; as a defiance of the prin-
ciple of preserving complete freedom
of action on the part of executive,
legislative and administrative heads
of government under the Constitu-
tion and basic laws in the interest of
the protection of life and property
and the promotion of the welfare
of all citizens; as an act inimical to
the intelligent and orderly function-
ing of government; and as a direct
threat to the application of the merit
system in public employment, and

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
That this Association reiterates its
long established policy of unalter-
able opposition to strike action by
government employees.”

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The Press Comments:

ALBANY KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, SEPT.27,41 ALBANY KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, SEPT.29,41

State Workers Lead CIO Civic Workers
Move to OK Strikes Back Employment
Against Government, \Of Reds and Nazis

Delegates from New York State, including sev
of the State Labor Department who had been given a

of absence without los:

1 employes!
day leuve

of py or time, led the fight at Lansing,

Mich., when the State, County and Municipal Workers of America
(CIOY voted to establish machinery for strikes in government de-

partments and public and private
hospitals.

The, motion, reaffirming the
position of the union. but
strengthening procedure where-
by strikes cun be called by pub-
lic employes. whether in state,
county, municipal or national
service, wis adopted unanimous-
ly_yesterday.

The action is contrary to poli-
ciex enunciated by President
Roosevelt. Mayor La Guardia,
and in this state by Attorney
Geneval Bennett and the Staic
Board of Standards and Appeals,
which passes on applications of
employe organizations seeking &
tite charter.

4-Day Leave Approved
Participating in the proceed-
ings were employes of the State
Division 8{ Unemployment In-
surance. ‘who were given official
approval: last week by Industrial
Commissioner Frieda S. Miller to
attend the convention. She di
rected that the employes, mem-
s of the SCMW, should be
granted four days off, without
loss of time or pay, or any other
privileges
The: action, amending the ni
tional constitution of the public
employ . was said by of-
ficers to be meant to “clarify” the
union's position. While disavow-
ing as. policy the use of strikes
by public employes, the officers
said the amendment was de-
signed to authorize the national
executive board to establish rules
and regulations governing strike |
procedure for local unions.
Members of the SCMWU who
are in the Unemployment Insur-
ance Division and the State Insur-
ance Fund have been at war with
bureau heads for shorter hours,
more pay. mote time off for rest
periods and other “better working
conditions.” The group has clash-
ed with the Legislature on occa-
sion and once d its fight
gainst the appointment of cer-
tain commissioners by Governor
Lehman dircetly to the Senate Fi-
nance Committee with # demand
the committee reject the appoin-
tees. The demand was ignored

Linked to CIO Policy

throughout the nation for signed
agreements and exclusive bar-
gaining recognition in state de-
partments where they claim a
majority membership. In New
York State their major competi-
tor is the Association of State
Civil Service Employes, with
\headquarters in Albany.

The report of, the constitution
committee, unanimously ap-
proved by the «delegates at
Lansing, declared strikes called
by the organization had been
caused by “willful and  irre-
sponsible refusal on the part of
labor-hating public officials to
enter Into collective bargai
“Our desire to defend our
rights Is proper and should be
tisfled,” the report stated.
“Therefore, we consider it im-
portant to assert again, that -we
have the right to strike. There is
no law nor any legal precedent
denying us this right and we will
fight with determination against
any abridgement of th

from New « York,

New Jersey, Calitorni
¢iana declared” that they had
been unable to “get to first
base” in the’ negotiations with
the heads of their departments
so long as it was taken for
granted that they would not
strike.

‘The amendment authorizes a

ke “after a local union has
exhausted .all other methods to
attain its  collective-bargaining
objective.”

National officers of the union

first must be informed, however,
and the local “shall be guided by
the advice and decision” of such
officers.

Edwin S. Smith, former mem-

ber of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board,
that for the government to refuse
collective bargaining to its em-
ployes
invidious position.”

told the delegates

“places it in a peculiarly

Mary Lucille McGorkey of New

York, representing nurses’ locals,
said organized nurses approved
the policy,

use the strike weapon because it

‘but we will never

‘The strike action is view as fit-
ting into clo

campaign *

wil ean leaving the sick.”

Without a dissenting vote the State, County and Municipal
Workers of America, CIO, are on record today in favor of em-
ployment in public offices of Communists, Nazis, Fascists und ad-

herents of other political ideolog!
government by force.

‘This wan one of the last acts
of the SCMW before the close of
its national convention in Lans-
ing, Mich, Saturday, when much
of the talk was directed against
the Devany Act in this state, ba
ring from government service
persons who advocate overthrow
of government by force.

Among delegates who purtici-
pnied in the convention, and who!

tazlicr had approved a change in

tte national constitution of the
Crganization authorizing strikes
ogainst the government among
public were muny
Stute Unemployment
Division in the State
Lubor Department. They were
back on the job today after en-
joying « four-day furlough from
their jobs without loss of pay,|
tame or other privileges. by_ the|
explicit order of Industrial Com-
missioner Frieda S. Miller.

In addition to adopting resolu-
tions for strikes, for hiring of
Conimunists and’ Nazis on state!
and other public payrolls and
against the Devany Act, delegates
also went after Dr. Godfrey P.
‘Schmidt, deputy commissioner of
the State Labor Department, for|
his inquiry into subversive and’
lien activities in the department,

Schmidt, as well ax William B.
Herlands, New York City com:
missioner of investigation, who is|
conducting a similar inquidy in
the New York City Welfare De-
partment, we
‘used the unscrupulous
nique” of Representative Dies
and that they have violated
‘every concept of fair play” Dr.
Schmidt's inquiry. still under
way. included an investigation of
Naney Reed. Communist exceu-
live who held a key position in

the New York offices of the Un-/

employment Insurance Division.
She was ousted by Commissioner
Miller and is seeking reinstate-
ment through a court action
which hasn't yet been tried

In line with the convention's
action in clearing the way for
strike of SCMWU_ members in
such state. county and municipal
departments where they are em
ployed. delegates recommended

each member be assessed x! a

jles pledged to the overthrow of
a strike and defense

year for
t ney would be used

fund. The
to finance strikes and to ngnt
legitlative and administrative in-
vestigations of their activities.

In opposing the Devany Act,
the convention resolution held
such laws had been used by anti-
union administrations for the
purpose of weeding out active
union members.”

| Statement on Btrikes

Abram Flaxer, reelected na
tlonal president of the SCMWU.
which claims 64,00 members.
explained the organizations
stand on. strikes and collective
bargaining in this statement:
Government agencies have
contended they do not have the
power to engage in collective har.
Gaining with unions of govern:
ment employes, That is not true

Union Chief |
Asks Red Ban

For Duration

Indianapolis (AD) 1s sdquar
ters of the International Bruther
hood of ‘Teamsters (AFL

#8 president, Daniel

had sent President

Roosevelt’ a telegram citing “the

Deeessity of having all Commu]

istic activities cease within Ta.

bor unions until such time as the

struggle now going on in Russia
ended."

Tobin's telegram said

‘As one who has endeavored to
be helpful to our government in
its policies toward overcoming
| Hitler and other dictators, I find
it extremely difficult to reconeite|
our people and the masses of the
workers in general toward help-|
ing the Communist government
of Russia

It is my opinion that our
| secretary of state should clearly
set forth to the Russian ambassa-
dor the necessity of having all
Communistic activity cease with
in labor unions until suc
the struggle now going
Russia is ended." ++

time a
on in,

The State Employee

wars

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The letter which follows, ad-
dressed to Hon, Freida S. Miller,
State Industrial Commissioner, 80
Centre Street, New York City, under
date of September 18th, indicates the
alertness of the Association in all
matters having to do with the keep-
ing of New York State Service on
the high plane of complete loyalty to
American Ideals. The Association
stands four-square against any and
all attempts of subversive groups to
undermine respect for our Govern-
ment or our Institutions.

To safeguard State Service today
plain speech and definite action are
demanded and each public servant
of rank must accept the
of his or her position
and do their duty fearlessly, regard-
less of the personal political or social
consequences involved. There can be
no weak compromise with evil in
whatever form it seeks to fasten
itself upon the State or the Nation.

Mr. J. Earl Kelly, the efficient Pre-
sident of our New York City Chap-
ter, the writer of the letter, is co-
operating with State authorities to
the fullest possible extent in this
matter.

“On Monday last, there appeared
in the New York Times a report
that the New York District Council
of the State, County and Municipal
Workers of America (CIO), has de-
manded of you that the investiga-
tion being conducted under the
Devaney Law by Mr. Godfrey P.
Schmidt, one of your deputies, be
abandoned and that Commissioner
Schmidt be removed from his post
in your Department. This investiga-
tion, as you know, was commenced
by you in May for the purpose of
removing from State employment,
any member of your staff who ad-
vocates the violent overthrow of our
Government or who belongs to a so-
ciety having such an objective. So
far, it has produced the dismissal
from service of one Nancy Reed, be-
cause of her Communistic activities
and party membership.

“On behalf of our membership of
more than 35,000 State employees
comprising four-fifths of the State’s
workers, we ask you to refuse the
‘demand’ of SCMWA. We urge that
you continue and press to the utmost
this inquiry.

October

“Nancy Reed is not the only Com-
munist in the Labor Department.
The best proof of this is the dis-
graceful conduct of SCMWA’s local
28, since the investigation began.
Miss Reed was on its executive
board. Any decent, respectable em-
ployee organization would welcome
and foster the removal from service
of persons who seek the violent over-
throw of our Government, and you
may feel amply confident that every
employee of the State who is not a
Communist wants just that.

“By simple inference, therefore,
the ‘demand’ that you stop the in-
vestigation must have come from a
badly scared group of Communists
sufficiently numerous or dominant
or both, to control SCMWA’s poli-
cies. Apart from such reasoning is
the direct statement under date of
October 14, 1940, signed by nine
members of SCMWA’S local 28,
some of whom were then officers
and ex-officers of that local, charging
that ‘the thinking of the majority of
the Board of Directors (local 28), is
guided by the “line” of the Com-
munist Party!” I have in my posses-
sion a copy of this document. Many
convincing circumstances can be re-
called to show how well-founded is
that charge which sprung from with-
in SCMWA’s own ranks. In their
more brazen days, the Communists
in the employ of the State published
a pamphlet known as ‘State Build-
ing News.’ When those responsible
for this sheet had been driven some-
what to cover, and its publication
ceased, we found the SCMWA
which came into being shortly there-
after supporting such Communistic
movements as The American League
for Peace and Democracy and the
Stop-Hitler — Quarantine — The
Aggressor Movement (before the Hit-
ler-Stalin Pact), The American Peace
Mobilization, and the Yanks-Are-
Not-Coming Movement (after the
Pact), The American Youth Con-
gress, etc. Surely the discontinuance
of ‘State Building News’ did not
mean that all the Communists who
had been publishing it quit the State
service or their party. It wouldn’t re-
quire very much meditation to rea-
sonably suspect that they are now,
and have for some five years, been
carrying on their party affairs under

the innocent sounding and_protec-
tive label of State, County and Mu-
nicipal Workers of America.

“Since the very beginning of Com-
missioner Schmidt's investigation,
SCMWA has been flooding your de-
partment with scurrilous bulletins
accusing him of being anti-labor,
anti-union, anti-democratic and anti
everything else they could think of.
They likewise accused this Associa-
tion of trying to break up their
Union when we wrote to you in
May, and asked you to investigate
under the Devaney Law and to fer-
ret out and dismiss any Communists
found employed within your depart-
ment. They have falsely charged
their fellow-workers with being spies
and G-men in the hope that they
might foment discord, turmoil and
distrust among your employees.
These are all well-known Commu-
nist methods intended to undermine
and discredit the good job which
Commissioner Schmidt is doing. I
assume that you have copies of these
bulletins, particularly those which
have been circulated by local 28 with-
in your Division of Placement and
Unemployment Insurance. If not, I
shall be happy to furnish you with
a complete set. They are an indis-
putable documentary admission that
SCMWA is in fact controlled by
Communists.

“By a process of calculation from
our own membership records, it
would appear that only a compara-
tively few State employees belong to
SCMWA. We publish from time to
time throughout each year the actual
number of paid-up members in our
Association. SCMWA does not,
They can hardly risk doing so be-
cause they would thus reveal the
thinness of their ranks.

“Let us consider the situation in
the Division of Placement and Un-
employment Insurance itself. Of the
800 permanent employees of that
unit, working in the Metropolitan
Area, 589 are paid-up members of
this Association as of today. Of the
remaining 211, it is quite safe to as-
sume that at least half are not mem-
bers of any employee group. These
figures are quite significant consider-
ing that SCMWA has many times
boasted of its strength in DPUI. You

(Continued on page 222)

Be State Service

221
New Commissioner of Education

Dr. George D. Stoddard, 44-year-
old dean of the Graduate School of
Towa University, and one of the fore-
most authorities in the field of child
development, will be New York
State’s next commissioner of educa-
tion.

His appointment to the $15,000-a-
year post, as well as to the presi-
dency of the University of the State
of New York, was announced by the
Board of Regents September 19.

The board asked Dr. Ernest E.
Cole, who will reach retirement age
November 18, to remain in service
until the close of the fiscal year, June
30, when Dr. Stoddard will take over
the reins,

Dr. Stoddard has been. dean of
Towa’s graduate unit since 1936 and
was head of its psychology depart-
ment in 1938 and 1939. But he
earned more fame as director of the
university’s Child Welfare Research
Station.

‘The Carbondale, Pa., native holds
the degree of bachelor of arts from
Penn State College (1921), the di-
ploma of the University of Paris
(1923) and the degree of doctor of
philosophy earned at Iowa (1925).

Married, the father of four chil-
dren ranging from 5 to 12 years in
age, he is author of seven books and
more than 150 articles in the fields
of tests and measurements, child psy-

222

chology and development, childhood
education, parent education and
higher education.

He is a member of many educa-
tional and scientific organizations,
including the American Psycholog-
ical Association, the Child Develop-
ment Committee and the Commit-
tee on Food Habits of the National
Research Council, the American
Educational Research Association,
the National Education Association,
the National Society for the Study of
Education, of which he is a member
of the board of directors.

Also, the National Association of
Nursery Education, of which he is
past president, the National Council
of Parent Education, the Progressive
Education Association, the Joint
Committee on Health Problems in
Education of the National Educa-
tion Association, the American
Medical Association and the John
Society.

He is secretary of the American
Council on Education, a fellow in
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and vice
president of its education section
(1938). He also is a fellow of the
Society for Research in Child De-
yelopment, having been chairman in
1936-38,

Safeguarding State
Service
(Continued from page 221)

will readily appreciate, therefore,
that this so-called labor union is far
from being representative of State
employee opinion. When it ‘de-
mands’ that you abandon this inves-
tigation and dismiss Commissioner
Schmidt from his Labor Department
post, it speaks for a small Commu:
nistic clique which dominates it.
When we ask you to continue it
and to strengthen Commissioner
Schmidt’s hand in the fine work he
has commenced, we speak for a vast
army of State workers,

“Governor Lehman has asked all
department heads to investigate in
a similar manner. We, the Associa-
tion of State Civil Service Employ-
ees, want the investigation. The
Communists do not.”

Mental Hygiene Ass’n
Elects

New chairman of the Association
of Employees of the Department of
Mental Hygiene’s Executive Com-
mittee is John Livingstone, Hudson
River State Hospital employee.

Elected to serve with him on the
committee were Herman Redmond,
St. Lawrence State Hospital; Charles
W. McBreen, Rockland State Hos-
pital; and Louis Illig, Harlem Valley
State Hospital.

Officers of the Association are:
J. A. McDonald, Rochester State
Hospital, president; John Living-
stone, vice president, Mrs. Lucy 8.
Baumgras, Marcy State Hospital,
secretary and treasurer.

Westfielders’ Picnic

Members of Westfield State Farm
Chapter at Bedford Hill turned to
business last month, after a picnic
attended by 90 guests at Peach Lake
and a farewell dinner to Mrs. Eli
beth V. Robinson, supervisor in
homemaking at the farm for the last
five years.

Presented a cameo and chain by
co-workers, Mrs. Robinson received
high praise both from farm officials
and from community leaders of
nearby Mount Kisco, where she as-
sisted the Parent Teachers Associa-
tion and Episcopal Church. Mrs.
Robinson left Westfield to take an
appointment as assistant superin-
tendent at Albion.

The picnic, second conducted by
the chapter, was an outstanding suc-
cess with boating, swimming and
dancing on the entertainment fare,
topped by a picnic supper around an
outdoor fireplace, correspondent Flo-
rence Bethel reported.

Opening business meeting of the
chapter took place September 9 with
a record attendance, auguring for a
good year.

Members Should Use
BALLOTS
on pages 248 and 249

The State Employee
Our Birds--Martyrs to Speed

The toll of the automobile is
not counted in human lives alone.
In his annual Bird Day Bulletin
to schools of the State, Dr. Day-
ton Stoner, State zoologist, told
of sacrifice of bird life on the
altar of speed. His article is re-
printed here.

By Dayton St
State Zoologist

Fifteen years ago I published in
one of the professional journals an
article entitled “The Toll of the
Automobile.” The account dealt
with a motor car trip of 632 miles
which I made in Iowa during the
summer of 1924 and on which 142
dead birds, 43 mammals and 40 rep-
tiles were counted on the highways
—casualties due to speeding auto-
mobiles.

So far as I know this was the first
published formal account pertaining
to this feature of wild life mortality.
Since that time, however, numerous
inventories and discussions of such
casualties have appeared in print
and, indeed, an entire book has been
written on the subject.

Most of my subsequent records of
wild life casualties on the highways
have been made on cross-country
journeys, four of them around trips
between Albany, N. Y., and Towa
City, Towa, in the late summers of
1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940. Approx-
imately 28 driving days were re-
quired in traveling the 8,576 miles,
on which 2,975 freshly killed ver-
tebrate animals (amphibians, rep-
tiles, birds and mammals) were
counted lying on and immediately
at the sides of the highway, the vic-
tims of motor cars. Five hundred
fifty-three of the victims occurred on
the 2,644 miles of highway traveled
in New York State.

So many factors are involved in a
consideration of these casualties that
detailed discussion of them can not
be undertaken here. Suffice it to say
that the time of year, temperature
and precipitation, and ecological con-
ditions bordering the highways con-
cerned, as well as the locomotive
ability, nocturnal proclivities and
feeding habits of the victims, to-
gether with the type of highway and
the number and speed of the auto-
mobiles traveling them, all have an

October

important bearing upon the num-
ber and kind of animal casualties
concerned. Without further reflec-
tion upon these and allied features,
a concrete discussion of the birds ac-
tually encountered on the four trips
mentioned and supplemented by
other recent findings in New York
State will serve to give some notion
of the general situation attending
this now important feature of ani-
mal destruction.

As might be expected, among
these highway casualties, birds were
better represented than any other
vertebrate group, 25 species compris-
ing 1,312 individuals having been
positively identified in passing; since
their identity could not be estab-
lished without stopping, 469 addi-
tional casualties were recorded as
“miscellaneous undetermined birds.”
Thus a grand total of 1,781 birds
probably. representing considerably
more than 25 species is included in
our counts on these four cross-coun-
try tours. New York, with 14 species
recorded, led all the states in this
respect.

Outstanding in this imposing list
of bird fatalities are the two intro-
duced forms, the English sparrow
and the domestic fowl; together they
comprise 1,261 individuals or 70 per
cent of the entire number. Of these,
1,043 (82 per cent) were English
sparrows. As a matter of fact, I be-
lieve that more than 75 per cent of
the carcasses indicated as miscellane-
ous undetermined birds also were
English sparrows. As might be ex-
pected, the mortality rate in this
species was highest in agricultural
communities; 228 carcasses were
counted on 1,030 miles of highway
in the Province of Ontario, Canada,
78 on 479 miles in Iowa and 205 on
1,445 miles in Illinois; only 160 were
counted on 2,644 miles in New York.
Most of the casualties were among
birds of the year. In the 1937 round
trip of 2,117 miles, 613 dead English
sparrows were counted. Despite this
apparently high mortality rate, how-
ever, and contrary to the wishful
thinking of many observers, indica-
tions do not point to any appreciable
reduction in the sparrow population
during the past five years.

Casualties among domestic fowls
likewise occurred most frequently in

the central agricultural states; the
highest average counts were made in
Towa with 26 carcasses on 479 miles
and Illinois with 76 carcasses on
1,445 miles.

Another introduced form, the
ring-necked pheasant, frequently
meets death on the highway. Seven
individuals, all females, were count-
ed on the four trips; three of these
were in New York State, with one
each in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and Ohio. When the potential repro-
ductive possibilities of these casual-
ties is considered the loss thus sus-
tained has important economic bear-
ings, particularly in view of the like-
lihood that at least some of these
were hand-reared birds released for
local stocking purposes.

Among our native birds, the robin
was recorded the greatest number of
times, 12 in all, for the trips cited.
Not only does this species of the
thrush family (Turdidae) frequent-
ly meet disaster on the highway but
also its close relatives, the wood
thrush and the bluebird, frequently
suffer a similar fate. Contributing
factors to such an end are their more
or less terrestrial habits, their unde-
veloped lack of wariness and precau-
tion, their comparatively slow flight
speed and their lack of ability to
“time” their getaway before an on-
coming car.

The swallows are ordinarily classed
as good or excellent flyers; their
flight speed ordinarily ranges from
20 to 30 miles an hour. In addition,
they are capable of performing with
unusual facility such remarkable
aerial antics as diving, darting and
zig zagging. One would think that
ew birds endowed with this pro-
ficiency would be struck by motor
cars, but the records here cited indi-
cate five casualties distributed among
three species. In the course of other
travels I have frequently noted not
only dead barn, cliff and tree swal-
lows on the highway but bank swal-
lows as well.

I believe that these birds often
meet death by reason of their sheer
ability on the wing which renders
them more likely to take chances be-
fore an oncoming car rather than to
attempt evading it in frightened
desperation.

(Continued on page 247)

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Salaries Must Keep Pace
Nothing could be more obvious
than that the people of the United
States should resist inflation or any
other economic situation which
might result in another business de-
pression or recession, International
affairs are in such a fluid state as to
goods and exchange that we cannot
expect complete satisfaction through-
out our business and industrial life
until such a time as we have inter
national tranquillity. Prices at the
present time in America are advane-
s they did in 1917 and 1918.
means that cost of the things
which are necessary to human life
and to the maintenance of rational
living standards is involved. There
is every reason to expect that every
sacrifice necessary to the safeguard-
ing of American ideals and Ameri-
can standards will be made. Thus
far it does not appear that we need
to invade the fields of food or cloth-
ing or housing or fuel to contribute
what is necessary to the success of
America’s purpose and plan.

The problem of keeping wages
and the cost of things which wage
earners and their families absolutely
require is one in which each citizen
is interested and to which the high-
est degree of statesmanship must be
devoted until peace throughout the
World is again restored, It is not

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unreasonable to expect that several
years at the very least will be re-
quired to attain any sort of an in-
ternational well-being or security so
far as presently warring peoples or
their neighbors are concerned.

The President, members of his
cabinet, members of the extraordi
nary agencies created by the Presi
dent, Congress, industrialists, farm-
ers, bankers and citizens generally
working upon the questions of
prices, wages, taxes, national income,
national debt, credit facilities, and
the like, as well as directly upon de-
fense problems. But in the final anal-
ysis, as always, the intelligent reac-
tion of the general public shall deter-
mine whether or not the United Stat
of America is to meet successfully the
tragic emergenices of the present
political, social and economic earth
quake. There every likelihood
that Divine guidance, human. faith
and earthly resources will be the de-
ciding factors in the weathering of
this and other crises yet to come. We
must realize that we are but a get
ion in the long record of c
ization, But as a generation we
should exercise such intelligence and
such common sense that we may be
worthy of past generations and be
contributors to the advancement of
future generations.

In an especial way, public work-
ers should lead in promoting the
welfare of all citizens. They should
bear whatever sacrifices ‘are neces-
sary to general welfare and bear
them cheerfully. They must be in
the forefront of every worthwhile
project to relieve or remove any un-
happy trials or serious troubles.

But when all is said and done,
public employees must eat and pay
taxes and support homes and com-
munity life as do other workers. If
living costs rise to the point of strain-
ing their carefully budgeted salaries
to the point of breaking, public
workers must appeal for salary ad-
justments to meet such rising costs.
This is not new logic, even though
often attention to salary adjustments
in times of economic stress goes first
to those in private employment.

Today, New York State civil ser-
vice employees, in common with

other workers, face a ten per cent
higher cost of living. They have no
salary plan to meet such costs. The
Feld-Hamilton increments do not
meet these costs. Every person to
whom a Feld-Hamilton increment
is paid is a person whose salary at
the time the increment is paid is
less than the salary value of the po-
ion which he or she holds. So the
increment is already mortgaged by
needs already created and existing.
A very large percentage of the re-
cipients of Feld-Hamilton _ incre-
ments thus far have found the incre-
ments absorbed entirely, even. be.
fore received, by the added tax in-
volved in the Federal taxes not
hitherto required of State workers.
There is no fault with the new re-
quirement as to payment of Federal
taxes but provision for such taxes
was not contemplated any time in
old scales nor in the newer incre-
ments,

The Association of State Civil
Service Employees is making a care-
ful study of the situation which faces
State workers and is hopeful that the
Executive and Legislative branches
of government upon whom they
must depend for attention to any
emergency salary adjustment sought
by reason of increased living costs
will be equally interested in a sound
economic solution of the problem.
The reaction of business and industry
to the necessities of their employees
is being reflected each day in public
announcements of increased salaries.

A Secret Ballot

It should be pointed out that the
Association has a secret ballot form
which may be used by members if
they prefer. The process is to omit
the name and membership card
number on the printed ballot. After
the ballat is marked, it may be
placed in a sealed envelope and the
sealed envelope labeled “ballot.”
This envelope may then be enclosed
in an outer envelope which contains
the name of the employee and hi:
card number. The right of the em-
ployee to vote is checked at head-
quarters, the inside sealed ballot is
abstracted and placed in the ballot
box unopened, The sealed ballot is

The State Employee
opened only by the Board of Can-
vassers on the night of the election.
It is impossible for the Board of Can-
vassers or anyone else to know who
cast the ballot.

It is evident that some means must
be adopted to be sure that non-mem-
bers are not casting ballots. The
above procedure is prescribed by the
Association’s Constitution and has
worked successfully as indicated. Of
course, most members are not con-
cerned whether or not their ballot
are secret, but, as indicated, the
above procedure can well be a
if any member wish

The Front Cover
That pumpkin on the cover is real
and that’s not all.

It’s the biggest Walter Waterbury
ever hunted, found, lugged, cut up
and (three days afterward) sniffed,
but we won’t go into that.

“We've got to a pumpkin!”
said Waterbury, engraver, at_ the
Austin Empire Company in Albany
(where all your cover plates come
from).

“We've got to have a great big
pumpkin!” he added. “You can't
fake a pumpkin!” Artist. Herb
Writer nodded nt, a show-me
look coming into his ¢

Writer, that night, inquired of
neighbors in rural Wynantskill. Was
there a big pumpkin to be had? No.

Waterbury phoned friends in the
country. No pumpkin, He went to
the Albany Public Mar No
pumpkin the size he wanted.

Waterbury called produce mer-
chants. Stull he didn’t get it. He
went back to the public market.

“TIL get a big pumpkin or bust,”
he promised,

He did. He met a farmer, who said
he had the biggest pumpkin ever
grown. Waterbury would have to
come to the farm, however, to get it.

The engraver drove to the farm,
off Route 20, near Altamont. There
he saw it.

“T was born on a farm and we had

On bathroom scales, the big vege-
table tipped 60 pounds. It made
Waterbury’s car lopsided. Artist
Writer went to work on it with a
knife. Photographer Glenn took the
picture. Writer went to work on the
photo and made the Hallowe'en
cover.

October

Waterbury took the pumpkin
home, put it in the cellar for Hal-
lowe’en.

Three days later. Whew!

“T was born on a farm and we had
pumpkins,” said Waterbury, “but
none of them ever smelled like this.”

Anyhow, it real and thanks,
Mr. Waterbury, thanks a lot.

Suicide by Strikes

In Lansing, Michigan, the
SCMWA, a CIO Union, assembled
in convention, disagreed with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia
and a large number of other govern-
ment officials concerning the right
of civil servants to legally strike
against the government.

‘Abram Flaxner, perennial  presi-
dent of the union, asserted that the
strike policy would ca
“reactionary employers
to criticize and slandei
He also stated that admini
ficials, Federal, Sti
employed labor spies, fostered com-
pany unions and dismissed workers
for union membership.

‘The convention, during its session,

endorsed the government's for-
cign policy of giving all aid short
of war to Britain, Russia and China.
A motion to adopt a resolution stat-
ing that help to Russia did not im-
ply approval of the communistic
form of government was unsuccess-
ful.

The convention favored rais
fund to com
leged sub s in DPUI,
Department of Labor. Finally, it
sked dismissal of deportation pro-
ceedings against Harry Bridges,
California CIO leader and alleged
communist party member.

Every New York State civil ser-
vice employee upon obtaining a per-
manent position is guaranteed cer-
tain rights. These involve many
things such as salary range, annual
leave, sick leave and a retirement
pension, It is true that to obtain
these rights it has been necessary to
wage a long struggle. But not once
was anything in this line achieved
by a strike. To speak of New York
State alone, the Feld-Hamilton Act
was sponsored and finally enacted
into law primarily through the ef-
forts of the Association of State Civil
Service Employees. There are still
goals to be accomplished and ob-
stacles to be overcome and everything
is not yet perfect in the administr:
tion of New York State's civil ser-

se the press,
and others

vice laws. But disregarding utterly
the legal right to strike there is no
sensible or sound reason to assume
that anything can be accomplished
by striking which could not be ac
complished equally well by negotia-
tion and discussion.

The activities of the labor spies
were not specifically stated and as
far as New York State is concerned
probably exist mainly in the fertile
imaginations of Mr. Flaxner and his
ilk. The “company unions” referred
to may possibly be of the type of the
Association of State Civil Service
Employees, which has always been
more concerned with the welfare of
all State employees, including non-
members, than with inducing these
employees to join in dues paying
racketeering. It is possible that some
members may have been dismissed
for union membership in some juris-
diction, though more likely for gen-
eral incompetence. Many of these
“union” members are inclined to
forget that they receive their salar
for performing services for the
or other governmental agency for
which they work and not for activ-
ities for their union.

The SCMWA now endorses the
foreign policy of the government al-
though it was not so long ago that
in New York State at least its slo-
n was “The Yanks Are Not Com-
ing.” As long as the Hitler-Stalin
pact survived just that long th
party members and “fellow. travel-
ers” followed the “party line.” In
other words, it seems not loyalty to
this country now causes the union
to endorse the government's foreign
policy but a change in the foreign
policy of another country. A fur-
ther demonstration of this is shown
by the failure of the convention to
state that it did not approve of the
communistic type of government.
But the convention did not hesitate
to approve opposing an investigation
into alleged subversive activities in
the Welfare Department of the City
of New York and the DPULState
Labor Department. That, of course,
is a “witch hunt” and should not be
tolerated. The convention approved
dismissal of the charges against
Harry Bridges. Does this come un-
der the heading of civil service mat-
ters? No mention is made of the
truth or falsehood of the charges but
Bridges, as the head of another CIO
union, must be defended and saved
from deportation,

(Contiued on page 246)

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Story of State Government

CHAPTER XVII: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

The following is the seven-
teenth of a series of articles
devoted to New York State
Government. This series is in
charge of our Editorial Board
Member, A. K. Getman of the
State Education Department
Staff. The next article of this
series which will discuss the
State Department of Law, will
appear in the November issue.

By Friepa S. Mix
Industrial Commissioner

The history of the Labor Depart-
ment has for over a half century
followed the history of the state’s
industrial development. It is a chron-
icle of increasing social responsibility
for the industrial welfare of all
groups in the state.

In July the Department found
nearly 50,000 jobs for Empire State
workers—many of them, of course,
on the tool benches and the assembly
lines of our vast defense plants.

The State Boards of Mediation
and Labor Relations continued their
efforts, together with industry and
labor, to maintain the industrial
peace so essential to increased defense
production, Indeed the state is today
and has been for some years singu-
larly free from industrial strife.

An important part of the Depart-
ment’s work is the maintenance of
safe and healthy working conditions
in industry. As defense production
speeds—as inexperienced workers
come on the job, as plants go into
three shifts, accidents mount. In
total defense, we have come to know
that an injured worker is just as
much a casualty as a wounded
soldier, The casualty lists in the
battle of production are rising tragi-
cally—over 58,000 in July, the
highest in history—invaluable and
often irreplaceable skilled workers
are lost to defense production.

For them and their families there
is workmen’s compensation— nearly
30 million dollars annually awarded
by the State Labor Department. And
then there are women in industry—
just now beginning to be trained to
take men’s places in defense plants.

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These and many other services the
Labor Department performs today
contrast dramatically with its begin-
nings in 1883 as a Bureau of Labor
Statistics when a Commissioner and
a Clerk were appointed to inyesti-
gate labor conditions.

Bureau Investigates Child Labor

And those conditions needed in-
vestigating. Children of nine and ten
were found to be working 11 hours
a day in tenement cigar factories in
New York City for 75 cents a week.
A trained seamstress testified that
she worked from 6 a.m. to one
o'clock the next morning making
boys’ waists with trimming on the

State Commissioner

Industrial
Miller speaks as her predecessor,
Elmer E. Andrews, ponders her
words,

neck and sleeyes and with button-
holes, for 214 cents apiece. She
averaged 25 cents a day.

What had happened, of course,
was that the state was reaping the
harvest of the industrial revolution—
the headlong growth of inventions
and the factory system to make
profits and manufacture more
cheaply and efficiently the things
a young country needed. This was
the century that marked a trek from
the fireside to the factory and from
work inside the home to much the
same work outside.

No one realized at first the health
and moral hazards that surrounded

firetrap factories, unguarded ma-
chinery, a 12-hour day, lack of san-
itation, lighting and ventilation, and
pitifully low wages. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics began to reveal the
hazards. Even then it must be ad-
mitted that some people didn’t care.
But enough people did. The public
conscience was awakened and the
state began to write into our statutes
the first labor standards in New
York, often the first in the United
States.

In 1886 the Bureau of Inspection
was established to enforce a some-
what strengthened compulsory edu-
cation law and increasingly legal
safeguards for women workers. In-
terestingly in the same year was
created the Bureau
and Arbitration which functioned
until 1940 when it was merged with
the Board of Med

Thus there were three se:
bu which grew increasingly
interdependent but it was not until
1901 that they were merged into
the Department of Labor,

During all this period the wagon
train that had crossed the plains
gave way first to river steamers and
finally to the iron horse. The golden
tie at Ogden, Utah, did more than
increase the demand for steel rails
and rolling stock. It opened up whole
new markets for the products that
were made in the factories of New
York and New England,

More Business—More Accidents

More and bigger machines were
installed, They increased in com-
plexity—and in hazards to workers.
When men worked in their homes
and on their farms, they could con-
trol the conditions under which they
labored. When they became perma-
nent wage earners in a factory sys-
tem, they could no longer control
those conditions, But the law—the
old common law that came to Amer-
ica via the Mayflower—was geared to
the simple life. It said somewhat
vaguely that the employer should
exercise “due care” for the safety
of the worker.

With the coming of movable belts
and traveling cranes and our early
skyscrapers, however, employers de-
veloped three powerful legal defenses

The State Employee
which pretty effectively thwarted
the efforts of injured workers to
recover damages in court. The em-
ployer could say the injured worker
had been negligent (contributory
negligence); or his fellow worker
had been and he should sue the
fellow instead of the employer (the
fellow servant rule but the fellow
seldom had more resources than the
injured man); or in particularly
hazardous work where accidents
were most likely, the employer could
say that the worker knew the job
was risky but assumed it willingly
(assumption of risk).

The common law was modified
somewhat in the worker's favor but
not sufficiently. So it was not until
1909 that Governor Charles Evans
Hughes established the Wainwright
Commission to study workmen’s
compensation and make recommen-
dations to the Legislature. This
Commission recommended the pas-
sage of a compensation law to cover
eight especially hazardous occupa-
tions and it was enacted in 1910.

Industry Pays Cost of Accidents

‘The law said that workers should
not bear the cost of inherent risks
in industry, that such cost was a
legitimate charge against industry,
regardless of fault. On March 24,
1911, however, the Court of Appeals
held the law unconstitutional, saying
that proof of fault or negligence
was the only due process by which
an employer could be required to
pay compensation to an injured
employee.

‘The very next day, on March 25th,
machines were humming in a shirt
waist factory in Manhattan. Sudden-
ly fire broke out, workers rushed to
the exits, they were locked, panic
ensued and in horror crowds in the
streets watched 145 women burn to
death. This was the famous Tri-
angle Shirt Waist factory fire.

The ironic part of it was that,
even had the Court of Appeals up-
held the compensation law the pre-
vious day, it would not have helped
the families of those girls because
they were not assumed to work in
a hazardous occupation.

Public opinion, however, was
deeply aroused. A constitutional
amendment was started on its way,
overwhelmingly approved in 1913
election and an enabling act became
effective July 1, 1914. At the 25th
anniversary of workmen’s compen-
sation celebrated a year or so ago,
Industrial Commissioner Freida S.

October

Miller pointed out that over a half
billion dollars had been paid by in-
dustry to nearly two million injured
workers and their families during
the quarter century.

Thus were workers helped, accord-
ing to Miss Miller, to bear the cost,
if not the suffering, of industrial
accidents. Thus, she said, was an-
other labor standard built, a substi-
tute for broken homes, childrén in
orphanages and cripples in old men’s
homes.

State Tries to Prevent Accidents

But even more important than
paying compensation to the injured
which is really locking the door
after the horse is stolen, was pre-
venting the occurrence of industrial
accidents. An aroused public opinion
after the Triangle Fire also forced
the appointment of a factory inves-
tigating commission to inquire into
fire protection, sanitation, ventila-
tion, lighting and so on in the fac-
tories of the state. On this commis-
sion sat a distinguished group of
citizens, Senator Robert S. Wagner,
Frances Perkins, Mary Dreier and
others.

Their very thorough investigation
brought a tightening of the safety
and health provisions of the labor
law all along the line. Thus were
other labor standards erected by
an aroused public opinion.

‘The Legislature took an unprece-
dented step—it realized that with
all its legislative problems it could
not keep abreast of dynamically
changing industry and the hazards
these changes constantly raised. It
decided to delegate quasi-legislative
power to the Department to make
detailed rules to safeguard the lives
and health of workers so long as
these rules followed the general
intent of the labor law.

Today we operate under some 30
‘odd safety codes in addition to the
labor law. These codes range from
metal spray painting to rock drilling,
from women in canneries to ex-
plosives. The Commissioner may
prepare drafts of new or revised
codes, and after consideration and
public hearings, the Board of Stand-
ards and Appeals promulgate codes.

Matching Men and Jobs

In 1915 too, the State Employ-
ment Service was started. We were
getting into a period—not unlike our
own—when a slumping economy
began to feel the impact of war
orders from abroad. As these in-
creased and later as we entered the

war ourselves, a chaotic labor market
compelled the creation in January,
1918, of a U. S. Employment Service.

At no point perhaps in our pres-
ent defense effort have we profited
more from World War experience
than in the field of matching men
and jobs. We started our current
program with 3,000 federal-state
employment agencies geared to-
gether to recruit and analyze the
labor resources of the country and to
channel them quickly and efficiently
into defense jobs.

We have been able to find out the
labor needs of defense industries
not only today but two months, six
months hence. If we could not find
men for the jobs, we could recruit
workers to be trained in the schools
and the factories of the nation to
relieve the stringency. We could
urge employers to simplify tech-
niques and conserve their skilled
workers for the most difficult tasks.

We have been able to detect
quickly and to discourage more ef-
fectively than in the past, labor raid-
ing by employers and aimless
wandering by workers around the
country in search of jobs that do not
exist. These “defense Okies,” as they
have been called, not only bring
endless suffering upon themselves
and their families but disrupt the
whole labor market.

Vividly do we recall during the
last war how Pittsburgh mechanics
rushed to Rochester on the rumor of
a job while Rochester mechanics
rushed to Pittsburgh on similar
rumors.

Women Pour Into Munitions Plants

As the AEF sailed away for
France, women poured into industry
to take their places. This was a new
phenomenon in America and created
a whole new set of problems. We
found that employers continued to
use men in the more highly skilled
jobs and to pay women less than
men, many employers preferring
women workers for this reason.

The question of hours of work,
of seats in factories and of sanitary
facilities for women hastened the
establishment of the Division of
Women in Industry just 22 years
ago to deal with these problems. The
old cry of “equal pay for equal
work” was resurrected—we had
heard it intermittently since the ’80s
but even today it has not been gen-
erally realized. Women in industry
earn on the average only half what
men do,

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As women are beginning to be
called for training as coremakers,
welders and the like in this current
effort, we again start—as in the Em-
ployment Service—far ahead of the
last war. We know a great deal more
about the relation of hours of work
to output and to the health of the
worker.

With the end of the last war,
various internal reorganizations oc-
curred in the Department. During
the properous twenties, workmen's
compensation coverage was liberal-
ized, safety and health regulations
somewhat tightened, hours shorten-
ed. Wages and prices, however, were
relatively stable and we coasted along
to the crash in 1929,

The Depression Awakes the Public

By 1932 wages and employment
were spiraling downward. One in
four was jobless. Businessmen strove
to cut costs by cutting wages and
discharging workers, They forced
competitors to do the same thing.
Finally they found their markets
dissolving through lack of purchas-
ing power. They had to cut costs fur-
ther and the deadly spiral was on.

Against this chaotic background
the public conscience again awoke.
Tt moved on a number of fronts. It
said that those who lost their jobs
through no fault of their own should
not bear the full cost of that job-
lessness —an unemployment insur-
ance system was set up.

‘The state said that there should be
a minimum wage—adequate for
maintenance and to protect their
health for the lowest paid workers
in the state—for women in intra-
state commerce.

Tt said that hours should be short-
ened in stores, hotels, beauty shops
and on public works. It said that
industrial homework—long an eco-
nomic canker sore where low
wages, long hours, child labor and
bad working conditions abounded—
should be regulated and ultimately
abolished.

It said the state should help
workers collect unpaid wages where
due, should fix the prevailing rate
of wage on public works.

By 1937, the state said that the
public machinery for settling indus-
trial disputes should be strengthened.
Empire State industry and labor had
had years of experience in dealing
with each other in collective bar-
gaining. They understood and re-
spected ‘the other’s position and
against such a background the State

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Mediation and~ Labor Relations
Boards have achieved the success
mentioned earlier — with industry
and labor they have kept a high de-
gree of industrial peace. They have
provided an informal conference
table around which differences could
be ironed out.

The Labor Department Today

The year 1941, therefore, sees a
Labor Department whose adminis-
tration affects some 300,000 employ-
ers and between four and five mil-
lion workers. It has nearly 7,000
employees and total annual expen-
ditures of some 13 million dollars,
nearly 10 million of which is for the
administration of unemployment in-
surance and the State Employment
Service now connected with it. These
latter funds come from industry
through the payment of social secur-
ity taxes to the Federal Government
(except about $300,000 the State ap-
propriates to match Federal funds
for the Employment Service).

Some one and one half million of
the three million dollars of the De-
partment’s remaining expenditures is
for administering the workmen’s
compensation law and is paid by
industry through their insurance
carriers. It is not therefore a charge
against state taxes. This leaves a
cost to the sate of some one and one-
half million which is further reduc-
ed by the collection of revenues paid
into the state for licenses, fees, per-
mits and miscellaneous revenues.

The Department therefore cost the
13 million people in the state in 1940
about $1,250,000 or roughly ten cents
per capita.

The Department consists of an
Industrial Commissioner, two Dep-
uty Industrial Commissioners, six
Assistants to the Commissioner, Sec-
retary of the Department, and two
Assistant Secretaries; the Industrial
Board, five members; the Board of
Standards and Appeals, three mem-
bers; the State Labor Relations
Board, three members; the State
Board of Mediation, five members;
and the Unemployment Insurance
Appeal Board, three members; 10
formally established main Divisions
(besides the internal administrative
units which might be considered an-
other Division), several Bureaus and
Units within each of the main Divi-
sions, and 90 local offices of the
State Employment Service. Each Di-
vision is headed by a Director, each
Bureau by a chief, and each Employ-
ment Office by a manager. District

offices are maintained by the De-
partment in New York, Albany,
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo
and Binghamton. Nine District
offices are maintained by the Em-
ployment Service.

The Labor Department Serves

Defense

It was with this administrative set-
up and this fabric of labor standards
that the people of New York met
the national defense program in the
spring of 1940 when it hit a leisurely
rising market like a thunderbolt.

Fourteen billion dollars—and now
many more—were to be translated
into guns and tanks and planes—
and training camps within two to
four years. Armies were to be trained
and equipped and the whole pro-
ductive energy of a people mobilized
for coordinated national defense, By
November New York factory em-
ployment had topped 1929 levels for
the first time, according to the De-
partment’s statisticians.

With Governor Lehman's cut-red-
tape order the Department threw
all its resources into the battle of
production. As 1940 statistics are al-
ready outmoded, a round-up of July
defense activities might reveal the
nature of much of the Department's
present work,

The 48,716 jobs filled by the State
Employment Service in July were
over 80 percent more than those
filled a year ago. The corollary is
also true—that unemployment in-
surance benefits have dropped more
than 40 percent over a year ago.

As previously mentioned, a good
employment agency must know not
only what employers need today but
what they will need two months,
six months hence. Some 25,000 ad-
ditional workers will be hired in the
second half of 1941 in New York
City alone. Nearly two-fifths of these,
the Employment Service believes,
can be found among trainees, NYW
youth and vocational high school
graduates of whom nearly 8,000 are
now registered with the Metal
Trades Placement Office. Possibly
three times their number are cur-
rently enrolled in defense courses
and will be available when needed.

Outside the metropolitan area,
shortages of skilled workers contin-
ued general—with farm labor short-
ages to become serious during the
harvest season. Both farm and non-
defense industry workers are taking
higher-paid defense jobs.

Employers are adjusting—taking

The State Employee
older workers, hiring women and
girls.
Keeping the Industrial Peace

Akin to finding the right man for
the job is keeping the industrial
peace after they go to work. Another
month of relative peace was reported
by the State Mediation and Labor
Relations Boards—another indication
that we learn from World War I.

Then as now, the urgent mobili-
zation of our econorhy for war time
production threw thousands of em-
ployers, superintendents, foremen
and workers into sudden intimate
association with one another to make
a lot of new things, new ways and
with unfamiliar tools.

The resultant frictions at that time
led to a wave of serious strikes
focussed on two main conflicts—
disputes over recognition of the right
of workers to bargain collectively
with their employers through repre-
sentatives of their own choosing and
their desire for a share in the in-
creased profits of industry—that is,
for wage increases.

The need to settle these disputes
and increase output forced the crea-
tion of the National War Labor
Board and similar agencies in the
shipbuilding and transportation in-
dustries which were the precursors
of the present labor relations and
mediation boards,

As a result of its experience the
National War Labor Board promul-
gated the following declaration of
principle:

“The right of workers to organize

in trade unions and to bargain col-
lectively, through chosen repre-
sentatives, is recognized and af-
firmed. This right shall not be
denied, abridged or interfered
with by the employers in any
manner whatsoever. Employers
should not discharge men for
membership in trade unions, nor
for legitimate trade union activ-
ities.”

If these conclusions are correct,
then we have begun our defense
effort in New York today in a much
more fortunate position. Not only
have industry, labor and the State
learned to understand one another
better but one of the major causes
of world war industrial disputes has
been basically altered by writing into
law guarantees of the right of col-
lective bargaining.

Defense workers are mostly en-
gaged in interstate commerce and
the agency which would iron out

October

collective bargaining disputes in this
field is the national, rather than the
state, labor relations board.
State Labor Relations Board

In the chiefly non-defense, intra-
state industries, however, the exper-
ience of the state board points to a
growing public acceptance of the
principle of collective bargaining.
Although it has the power to en-
force this guarantee, the board has
seldom had to use the legal process
of enforcement, During 1940 over
90 percent of its unfair labor practice
cases were adjusted informally
around a conference table without
resort to formal hearings before the
board.

The other important function of
the state labor relations board is

—are dealt with today by the state
mediation board. This board enforces
no law, exercises no coercion or
restraint and considers its chief value
to lie in the absence of such author-
ity.

With collective bargaining legally
assured, the mediation board prefers
to act as an impartial, friendly ad-
visor at the conference table around
which representatives of manage-
ment and labor freely discuss and
fairly adjust their grievances.

The increasing use of the board’s
services is evident and reflects a

growing recognition by management
and labor of the value of its ser-
vices in substituting orderly peace-
ful adjustment for tests of economic
superiority.

Inauguration of the decentralized check payment systems in the early
days of Unemployment Insurance brought hordes to the Albany Employment

Service Office.

to decide disputes over which union,
if any, is the proper bargaining
agent. Again a similar percentage
of the representation cases filed dur-
ing 1940 were settled informally.

In contrast to the days before col-
lective bargaining was legally as-
sured, workers did not have to re-
sort to strike action against their em-
ployers to adjust disputes over this
right. An orderly, peaceful method
of settling such controversies has
been substituted for wasteful tests
of economic strength.

State Mediation Board

Other causes of industrial disputes
in the state—controversies over
wages, hours and working conditions

With a view to averting any future
work stoppages particularly in de-
fense industries because of indus-
trial disputes, the mediation board
has written to the mayors of every
city and first and second class villages
of the state, to the chambers of com-
merce and labor unions, asking them
to advise the board of any actual or
imminent dispute of which they
have knowledge. A mediator will
immediately be assigned. As the
letter states, “The record of the
Board shows that settlements are
possible in the great majority of cases
through prompt mediation.”

If only the proper steps can be
taken in time, it is believed most

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work stoppages can be prevented or
quickly remedied. This is true
whether the stoppage stems from an
industrial dispute or from accidents
or disease which may cost the ser-
vices of valued skilled workers. For
this reason the Department has also
placed its resources at the disposal
of industry to help prevent or cor-
rect unsafe and unhealthy working
conditions at the outset of produc-
tion.
Conserving Man-power

Despite the combined efforts of
the state, industry and labor, acci-
dents are rising tragically. Redoubled
efforts are being made to meet the
challenge and the Labor Depart-
ment’s contribution is along the lines
of approving plans for new defense

Industrial design—under the im-
pact of the defense program has seen
radical changes—blackout construc-
tion for the first, mass production of
aircraft, sabotage control. Meeting
these needs safely has been the
problem confronting the state and
industrial designers alike. The labor
law and some 14 codes are applied
to building plans in an attempt
to assure safe working conditions.

Inspecting for Safe Practice

But not all plants are new. Some
are old and some long closed are
being hastily renovated and re-
opened. Old machines are being re-
conditioned and new machines are
being installed, Plants are going
into two and three shifts. Lots of
new men are coming on—some in-

A unit of the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance
in Albany hums with activity

plants for safe practice, inspection
of existing plants and the detection
and control of occupational disease.

Nearly 350 new defense plants
or additions to defense plants have
gone up or are building in the State
of New York. These plants repre-
sent an investment of almost 30 mil-
lion dollars. The department's
Engineering Division which ap-
proves plans for such plants and the
Board of Standards and Appeals
which grants exceptions or varia-
tions to the labor law where undue
hardship would result from its literal
application but where its safe intent
can be preserved, have been faced
with many baffling problems—be-
sides the need for speed.

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experienced—as inexperienced in
avoiding accidents as in doing the
work.

There is little time to overhaul ma-
chinery on 24-hour operations—the
weak link may slip by. Above all,
there is the demand for speed—pres-
sure for production.

Despite what we have learned
about safety, industrial accidents
still go up as production goes up.
The largest numbers of such acci-
dents ever reported in this State oc-
curred during the years 1927-29,
when they ranged from 507,000 to
523,000 annually. During 1940 they
topped 528,000—the highest in his-
tory.

Lest our safety laws be indicted

for failure to reduce accidents, it
said that most accidents in modern
industry do not result from violation
of safety laws but from a variety of
preventable causes outside the law.
Most employers, most workers, are
willing to correct unsafe conditions
and practices when the hazards are
called to their attention.

The safety experience of factory
inspectors is extensive and widely
recognized. The Department has
thus been able from the beginning
of the emergency to place all its
safety and health experience at the
disposal of defense contractors.
Many employers have themselves
sought advice on the safe installa-
tion, spacing and guarding of ma
chinery and on proper ventilating
equipment,

Safeguarding Workers’ Health

Factory accidents are not the only
hazards facing workers on a defense
program. Far subtler ones lurk in
the new industrial processes, new
chemicals, new poisons and new
uses for old ones. Little is known
about them and the national defense
program steps up the hazards enor-
mously.

The department's division of in-
dustrial hygiene consists of a group
of technicians—doctors, chemists and
engineers—whose job is to conduct
and control occupational diseases,
Their weapons are the x-ray, the
blood test, the dust count, chemical
analyses and — usually — the right
ventilating equipment.

Letters have gone to every defense
contractor offering the services of
the division gratis and sending pub-
lications describing the hazards in
the particular industry and the mea-
sures which control the disease. Sur-
veys have been made of the aircraft
industry where the excellent coopera-
tion of management and labor has
resulted in working out better venti-
lation to carry off the fumes of metal
spray painting and other dangers.

Problems of radium dial manufac-
turers, welding and a variety of other
hazards have been tackled, And the
work grows daily.

Labor Standards are Defense

Like a refrain there has recurred
throughout this article a fundamen-
tal principle—that labor standards
are themselves a basic part of na-
tional defense and the State’s indus-
trial efficiency.

Good personnel practice is neces-
sary to recruit, train and keep quali-
fied workers. Impartial public “con-

The State Employee
ference tables” helped maintain in-
dustrial peace in the last war and in
this emergency so far by adjusting
labor disputes fairly and quickly.
Safety and health standards in de-
fense plants protect the workers and
keep output high.

The same is true of decent hour
and wage standards, Tired or hun-
gry workers produce few guns and
little butter. We found that out in
the last war and Europe has dis-
covered it again this time. England
lengthened her hours to 66% a week
during World War I and defense
production still lagged dangerously
behind. She cut them to 45 a week
and instead of curtailing output fur-
ther, it was actually increased by
about nine per cent.

Even Germany two years ago
found her 60-hour week—decreed
from the top and enforced by the
Gestapo — resulted in production
lags and serious work stoppages from
industrial accidents. Her working
hours had to be relaxed to increase
output.

As for wages, substandard earn-
ings don’t make enthusiastic work-
ers or citizens. The State minimum
wage law secks to establish wages
“sufficient for adequate maintenance
and to protect their health” for wo-
men and minors in intra-state in-
dustries. Equal pay for equal work
is still a remote ideal. Women in
factories still earn on the average
only half what men do. And wo-
men in some of the service trades
are the lowest paid of all.

Enlightened employers know this
and welcome State minimum wage
orders if they are vigorously en-
forced. They know that they can
then pay their workers decent wages
and be protected against unfair com-
petition from the chisellers who
don’t.

The year of 1941 sees 153,000 wo-
men and minors securing the bene-
fits of minimum wage orders, an in-
crease of more than 100,000 in 18
months. These women are in the
laundry, beauty service, confection-
ery, cleaning and dyeing, hotel and
restaurant industries. Orders for the
last two were promulgated last fall.

Evidence from employers them-
selves, through sworn payrolls, shows
that wages have gone up not only
for the workers at the bottom of the
scale but for all workers. Women
have not been replaced by men be-
cause of these raises. Employers have
been able to stabilize the work week

October

in relation to the minimum wage
rates. And the extra dollars don’t
stay in the pay envelopes. A study
of this phase of minimum wage or-
ders offers additional evidence that
more money—even though the
amounts are small—in the hands of
many is good for business.

But there are other workers whose
wages are still substandard. In facing
the problems of labor morale and
production in the days ahead, when
more workers will be needed, when
pressure for output will accelerate,
we go back to a recognition that the
maintenance of decent wage and
hour levels, safe and healthy work-
ing conditions and provisions for the
families of defense “casualties” are
the warp and woof of the support-
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The Safety - Responsibility Law

By Carrott E, Mratey
Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Next January | is destined to be

something more than just another
New Year's Day.

On that date, the new Motor Ve-
hicle Safety-Responsibility Law goes
into effect and promptly thereafter
careless or reckless driving will re-
sult in much more serious penalties
than ever before.

For the owners and drivers of
motor vehicles in this State, and for
those pedestrians who, despite every-
thing we may do to prevent it, be-
come the victims of automobile ac-
cidents, it will be remembered as a
day of outstanding importance.

The law has teeth in it—sharp
teeth, The Bureau of Motor Vehicles
therefore has been instructed by
Governor Lehman and Commission-
er Graves of the Department of Tax-
ation and Finance to institute extra-
ordinary efforts to give every citizen
of the State full opportunity to know
its purposes and requirements.

Let us consider in simple language
what the law will require of every
driver, the penalties it will impose
upon those who fail to obey its man-
dates, and the conditions that caused
its adoption. This is your law. It
was adopted by the 1941 Legislature
unanimously, and was approved by
the Governor only after careful con-
sideration of its provisions with the
heads of those State departments and
bureaus that are affected by its ad-
ministration. Naturally, its enforce-
ment is the responsibility of the State
Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Let me pause to say, too, that no
one claims perfections for this law.
It would be wholly unreasonable to
pretend that a statute of such broad
effect and application could attain
perfection short of the experience
that can be gained only from its
practical administration. I promise
you that we shall not hesitate to rec-
ommend proper amendments that
are indicated in the course of its ad-
ministration or by any other sound
indicator, But you and I, together,
must remember that as it now stands
it is a law of our State. It is there-
fore, my duty to enforce it faithfully
and your duty to obey it willingly or
accept the penalties that surely must
result from disobedience of its pro-

232

visions. It was written to give every
man, woman and child in this State
greater protection against the grow-
ing menace of the street and high-
way accident, and to compensate in
reasonable measure those who are
the victims of accidents for the losses
that they suffer.

Now let us examine its provisions.
Fundamentally, it has two primary
purposes:

(1) To make the penalties suffi-
ciently severe to curb recklessness
and carelessness at the wheel more
effectively than ever before; and

(2) to permanently remove from
the highways of this State those fi-
nancially irresponsible drivers who

Hon. Carrott E. Meatry

are involved in accidents resulting in
human injury or property damage.

The day when any person shall
drive on our highways in a manner
that results in injuries to persons or
damage to property and then fail to
meet full financial responsibility for
that act, is about to end. I am con-
fident that the great majority of our
citizens join with their elected repre-
sentatives in saying that day ought
to end.

So, if you either own or drive an
automobile the law automatically
goes into operation against you in
any of the following circumstances:

1. If you are involved in an acci-
dent resulting in ANY personal in-
jury, however trivial, or property
damage in excess of $25;

2. If you fail to satisfy, within 15
days, a judgment growing out of an
accident in any amount for personal
injury, or for property damage in ex-
cess of $25;

3. If your drivers’ license is sus-
pended or revoked upon your con-
viction of certain offenses, including
drunken driving, leaving the scene
of an accident, and reckless driving;

4. If your driving record becomes
sufficiently bad for the Commission-
er of Motor Vehicles to determine
that the public interest requires that
you furnish proof of future financial
responsibility before you may again
use the highways and streets of New
York State.

Let us now presume that you are
involved under some of these circum-
stances.

Unless you have the means pro-
vided by law to guarantee the pay-
ment of a judgment that may be
obtained against you and to give
permanent proof of your financial
responsibility as the owner or driver
of a motor vehicle in the future, the
Commissioner has no recourse but
to suspend your driver's license, your
registration certificate and your li-
cense plates, and to keep them sus-
pended until such time as you satis-
fy a judgment and give proof of
your financial responsibility for the
future.

Now, let us see how you can satis-
fy these requriements.

Right here let’s get the records
straight about one thing. This is not
a compulsory insurance law. It is
an honest effort to protect all of the
people against the dread results of
careless or reckless driving without
resorting to the more drastic mea-
sures of a total compulsory automo-
bile liability insurance statute, which
would compel every person who
owns or operates a motor vehicle in
this State to buy such insurance.
Under this law you don’t have to
take out motor vehicle liability in-
surance. But, if you are involved in
an accident resulting in death or in-
jury to a person, or property damage
in excess of $25, you must deposit
security for damages caused by the
accident that has already occurred
and at the same time provide proof
of financial responsibility for the
future,

The State Employee
Obviously, you can’t insure against
an accident that already has hap-
pened. So, after January 1, if you
are involved in such an accident
and are not insured, you must put
up security, in the form of money or
negotiable collateral, sufficient to
satisfy any judgment that might arise
from the accident. The amount will
be determined by the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles. For an accident
involving injury to one person and
property damage, the Commissioner
may require that $6,000 be posted,
or for an accident involving injury
of more than one person and pro
erty damage, as much as $11,000.
If property damage alone is involved,
the amount may be $1,000.

As regards providing financial re-
sponsibility for the future, the law
will give you three alternatives:

1. By furnishing proof that you
have taken out a motor vehicle lia-
bility insurance policy, written by a
company authorized to do business
in New York State, providing in-
surance up to $5,000 for death or
injury to one person, $10,000 for
death or injury to more than one
person and $1,000 for property dam-
age coverage.

2. By filing a corporate or personal
bond guaranteeing payments in the
same amount.

3. By depositing with the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles $11,000
in cash or securities which have a
market value of $11,000.

Let me now take just a moment
to put these things together so that
you may have a clear understanding
of how to protect yourself, remem-
bering, of course, that so long as
you avoid an accident the law does
not touch you. Here is where you
will stand after this law becomes ef-
fective, January 1:

If you have a 5-10-1 motor ve-
hicle liability insurance policy, the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is
directed to accept it as both security
for any accident in which you may
be involved during the life of the
policy and as proof of future finan-
cial responsibility. If you do not
have that policy before you are in-
volved in such an accident, the Com-
missioner can accept a newly written
policy as proof of future financial
responsibility, but you will still be
required to deposit the necessary
security as outlined heretofore to
cover any judgment growing out of
the accident that happened before
you insured yourself. Both must be

October

provided for under the law before
the Commissioner can permit you to
operate a motor vehicle in this State
or permit any one else to operate
your car for you. As regards insur-
ance coverage, any licensed agent or
broker can give you that informa-
tion.

Operation of the law is not limited
to New York State, nor to residents
of this State. If you, as a resident
of New York State, become involved
in an accident, are convicted under
certain laws or have judgment taken
against you in any other State or in
Canada, upon receipt of notice of
this fact the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles is required to proceed in the
same manner as though the occur-
rence was in this State. Further-
more, all of the provisions of the
law apply to non-residents when
they are driving over our streets and
highways.

‘There are certain provisions under
which the owner or driver of an un-
insured motor vehicle may be re-
lieved of the requirement to put up
security for damages following an
accident. You can obtain a release
or a confession of judgment from the
other parties involved. With the con-
sent of the other parties concerned,
you can also confess judgment in an
agreeable amount, payable in in-
stallments satisfactory to the injured
party. But in no event, under this
law, can you be relieved of furnish-
ing proof of responsibility for the
future.

Remember, too, these points:

Administration of the Safe-
ty-Responsibility Law will
cost $1,250,000 annually —a
bill insurance companies who
write policies under the statute
will actually foot.

A staff of 500 clerks and in-
vestigators will be appointed
from Civil Service lists to
handle the records. The Bu-
reau now gets 132,000 acci-
dent reports annually. Statis-
ticians say the law will result
in receipt of six times that
number.

The entire Motor Vehicle
Bureau must seek new quar-
ters containing 75,000 square
feet of floor space as compared
with the present 35,000 square
feet occupied in the State Of-
fice Building.

(1) you must report in writing to
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
any accident in which you were in-
volved;

(2) if a person having no driver's
license or motor vehicle registered in
his name becomes involved in an ac-
cident resulting in property damage
of more than $25 or personal injury,
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
is required to enter an order FOR-
EVER prohibiting that individual
from operating a car or having a
car registered in his name in this
State;

(3) the law does not apply to the
owner of a car that is operated by an

Aim of the law—to reduce accidents

233
individual without the owner’s ex-
pressed or implied consent.

T told you in the beginning this
law has teeth in it—sharp teeth. I
imagine that by this time you be-
lieve I made no understatement. But
let us sce for just a moment whether
these penalties are justified, and why
they were adopted by the unanimous
vote of our Legislature. You and I
both know that the amount of kill-
ing and maiming that takes place on
the highways and byways of this na-
tion every year is appalling. Despite
everything that we have done to
make our streets and highy afer,
the needle on the accident graph has
een going ever upward. T hold in
my hand some of the latest reports
of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles on
accidents in New York State. Here
are sume of the figures:—

LEFT TURN

From January to July, of this year,
we have had not less than 40,293 ac-
cidents, resulting in injuries to 53,062
persons and causing 1,175 fatalities.
Remember, please, this is the record
only up to July. You can guess with
me where it will be by December
3st, at the rate it is going.

Now let us bring it a little closer
home; maybe down to your own
community. In July, of this year,
Albany recorded 51 accidents as
against 43 in July, 1940; Amster-
dam had 11 as against 9; Batavia 9
as against 2; Binghamton 29 as
against 16; Little Falls 3 as against
none; Ossining 11 as against 1;
Rochester 190 as against 143, and I
might go on and read the roster
right on through the State.

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Fellow employees of New York,
this cannot go on. Somewhere, some-

CONSULT AN OCULIST
FOR YOUR EYES

how, we must take the steps that

are necessary to stop this killing and Fredette’s
maiming. We hope that the Motor ;

Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Law Dispensing
may remove from our highways Opticians

those who cause accidents. We are
determined that at least it shall com-
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The State Employee
Our 1941 Federal Tax

By Beutan Baitey THuLy

The time has come for us, the
civil service employees of the state,
like every one else in the country,
to tighten up our belts, reline our
last year’s coat, find out that there
can be true enjoyment in a book, a
friendly chat, tinkering around in
the cellar workshop or the garden,
or an invigorating walk in the open
air. We must convince ourselves
that those are the real pleasures of
life, the ones that will ultimately
lead to true contentment. What fun
it will be when at first such pastimes
seem lacking in zip and ummph,
to talk of those days that were when
one had a car which could be used
for pleasure, when one could buy
clothes and cigarettes and fancy
cosmetics, and now and then step
out after office hours for a gay dinner
or play.

Possibly the time has come when
we as a people must pay the bill for
our years of care-free adolescence,
and may every one of us be willing
to pay, be willing to sacrifice so that
we can preserve that freedom which
is our birthright.

‘The Revenue Act of 1941, the Act
which calls us all to the colors, is
not a complete statute in itself, but
consists of amendments to our
existing revenue law. It consists of
(1) increase in rates (2) changes in
the base to which the rates apply,
and (3) new forms of taxes.

Our interests as government em-
ployees on a salary will be primarily
in the personal income tax and the
excise taxes. We will not enter into
a discussion of capital gains and
losses, corporation taxes, estate and
gift taxes, etc. These 1941 amend-
ments to the Federal income tax
are effective on income after Decem-
ber 31, 1940. That is the new rates
will apply on 1941 income.

There are six terms which we
should all clearly understand and be
able to differentiate between. They
are: gross income, deductions, net in-
come, exemptions, normal rate and
surtax rates,

Gross income is your entire in-
come from every source during the
calendar or fiscal year. For most
of us it is our salary check,

Deductions are the various expen-
ditures which the government per-

October

mits one to subtract from gross
income. They include: (1) contri-
butions to church, community
chest, Red Cross, Bundles for Britain,
etc. (2) taxes except special assess-
ments and service charges paid on
your home (here is where the home
owner has one up on the renter
as rent is not deductible), state
income tax, car registration fee, state
gasoline tax, amusement tax and the
New York City sales tax. Cigarette
and liquor taxes and Federal gaso-
line tax are not deductible. Neither
is one’s contributions to the pari-
mutuel pools, (3) interest on the
mortgage on your home, interest on
any borrowed money including in-
terest paid to the credit union, but
not interest on your loan from the
pension fund. We are told that there
we do not pay interest on that loan,
only a service charge. (4) Bad debts
if you can prove that you have tried
in vain to collect them.

Net income is what you have left
after you subtract your deductions
from your gross income. (It is this
net income which is the base for
the 10% Federal credit on earned
income, more of that later).

Exemptions are the monies which
are not subject to tax. They are $750
for a single person, formerly $800;
$1,500 for a married person or head
of family, formerly $2,000, and $400
for each dependent. However, if you
are the head of a family because you
have one dependent, you can only
claim the $1,500 exemption, But if
you have two or more you can add
$400 to the $1,500 for each depen-
dent over one. Example, a widower
with two children could claim $1,900
exemption.

The normal rate of the Federal
tax is 4% no matter whether your
taxable income is ten dollars or a
million dollars.

The surtax rate ranges from 6%
on the first dollar of specified tax-
able income to 77% on all income
over $5,000,000. Without doubt the
rates covering $10,000 will suffice for
state employees. They are 6% on the
first $2,000, 9%—$2,000 to $4,000;
13% —$4,000 to $6,000; 17%—
$6,000 to $8,000 and 21 %—$8,000 to
$10,000, etc. Last year the surtaxes
did not apply on the first $4,000 of
taxable income.

Now with these points clearly in
mind, let us see how it all works out.
What would be the normal tax of a
married man with one child who
receives $2,500 a year salary and has
a deduction of $200, contributions,
other taxes, etc. From the $2,500
subtract the $200 deduction. This
leaves $2,300 which is net income.
From this net income for the normal
tax you can subtract three things.
1. exemptions—in this case $1,900,
a married man with one child. 2.
10% earned income credit. The
Federal law permits one to deduct
10% of their net earned income.
In this case it would amount to $230,
3. Interest on certain partially tax-
exempt securities. In this case our
married man owns no such securities
so there is no deduction, (Any em-
ployees who do own government
securities must this year check them
carefully as there are numerous
changes in the law). What is left
of the $2,300 after the above de-
ductions is $170. The normal tax
rate is 4%. $170 x 4%=$6.80 the
normal tax.

But we are not through. Now we
must figure the surtax. We will
start with the $2,500 salary, sub-
tract the $200 deductions and the
$1,900 exemptions. This leaves $400.
When figuring the surtax you can-
not deduct the 10% earned income
credit or interest on certain govern-
ment securities. Multiply $400 by the
surtax rate of 6%, result $24. To
this add the $6.80 normal tax and
$30.80 is the total tax for the married
man with one child and $200 of
deductions. Under last year’s law our
married man would have paid no tax.

This surtax is peculiar in its work-
ings. There are instances when a
person is not eligible for a normal tax
but is eligible for a surtax. Take as
an example a married man with one
dependent who receives $2,100 a
year. We will figure it with no de-
ductions, just exemptions. In figur-
ing his normal tax he would have
$1,900 for exemption and $210 for
the 10% earned credit deduction.
He has no normal tax as that would
come to $2,110. But for his surtax
he can take only his $1,900 exemp-
tion so that leaves him $200 upon
which he must pay the 6% surtax,
or $12 is his tax.

235
OPTIONAL TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITH GROSS INCOME
OF $3,000 OR LESS

Instead of computing tax and surtax on net income at percentage rates outlined in Sec. 1201, resi-
dent individuals may elect to pay a tax on gross income, at fixed amounts shown in following table.
Gross income must be $3,000 or less, and must be derived from compensation for personal services,
dividends, interest, rent, annuities or royalties. Optional tax is not available to estates, trusts, or non-
resident aliens.

GROSS INCOME? AMOUNT OF TAX? GROSS INCOME! AMOUNT OF TAX?
Head of Head of

Family or Family or

Not Single Married Not Single Married

More Than More Than Person* Person’ More ‘Than More Than Person’ Person’
$ 1 $ 750 $0 $ 0 $1,875 $1,900 $ 96 $ 28
750 775 1 0 1,900 1,925 98 30
775 800 2 0 1,925 1,950 100 32
800 825 3 0 1,950 1,975 102 35
825 850 5 0 1,975 2,000 104 37
850 875 z 0 2,000 2,025 106 39
875 900 9 0 2,025 2,050 109 4)
900 925 11 0 2,050 2,075 111 43
925 950 14 0 2,075 2,100 113 45
950 975 16 0 2,100 2,125 115 48
975 1,000 18 0 2,125 2,150 117 50
1,000 1,025 20 0 2,150 2,175 119 52
1,025 1,050 22 0 2,175 2,200 122 54
1,050 1,075 24 0 2,200 2,225 124 56
1,075 1,100 26 0 2,225 2,250 126 58
1,100 1,125 29 0 2,250 2,275 128 60
1,125 1,150 31 0 2,275 2,300 130 63
1,150 1,175 33 0 2,300 2,325 132 65
1,175 1,200 35 0 1 2,325 2,350 134 67
1,200 1,225 37 0 2,350 2,375 137 69
1,225 1,250 39 0 2,375 2,400 139 71
1,250 1,275 42, 0 2,400 2,425 141 73
1,275 1,300 44 0 2,425 2,450 143 76
1,300 1,325 46 0 2,450 2,475 145 78
1,325 1,350 48 0 2,475 2,500 147 —- 80
1,350 1,375 50 0 2,500 2,525 150 82
1,375 1,400 52 0 2,525 2,550 152 84
1,400 1,425 55 0 2,550 2,575 184 86
1,425 1,450 57 0 2,575 2,600 156 89
1,450 1,475 59 0 2,600 2,625 158 91
1,475 1,500 61 0 2,625 2,650 160 93
1,500 1,525 | 63 1 2,650 2,675 163 95
1,525 1,550 65 2 2,675 2,700 165 97
1,550 1,575 68 3 2,700 2,725 167 99
1,575 1,600 70 5 2,725 2,750 169 102
1,600 1,625 72 6 2,750 2,775 172 104
1,625 1,650 74 7 2,775 2,800 174 106
1,650 1,675 76 9 2,800 2,825 177 108
1,675 1,700 78 ll 2,825 2,850 180 110
1,700 1,725 80 13 2,850 2,875 183 112
1,725 1,750 83 15 2,875 2,900 186 114
1,750 1,775 85 17 2,900 2,925 189 117
1,775 1,800 87 19 2,925 2,950 191 119
1,800 1,825 89 22 2,950 2,975 194 121
1,825 1,850 91 24 2,975 3,000 197 123

1,850 1,875 93 26

1m determining gross income bracket, deduct $400 credit for each dependent; exclude one dependent in case of head of
family, where taxpayer's status as head of family is occasioned solely by such dependent or dependents,
Tax is a fixed amount for each bracket. No credits against tax allowed.

8Status of taxpayer (married or single; number of dependents, etc.) is determined as of close of taxable year; no proration.
If husband and wife file separate returns, each is treated as a single person.

Revenue Act of 1941 (Prentice-Hall), p. 30, Sec. 1203.

236 The State Employee
Let us take one more example.
Again a married man with one child.
This man owns his home upon
which the tax is $150 a year. He has
a mortgage on the home for $2,000
upon which he pays 414% interest
or $90 a year. His other deductions
amount to $300. This makes total
deductions of $540. The man’s salary
is $3,000, deduct the $540 and this
leaves $2,460 of net income. From
this deduct $1,900 exemption
$246 carned income credit, leaving
$314 upon which the normal tax is
due. $314 x 4%=$12.56, the normal
tax. The surtax would be 6% of
$2,460 minus $1,900 (exemption) or
$33.60 making a total tax of $46.16.
Under last year’s law this man would
have paid no tax.

The 1941 Revenue bill has pro-
vided an optional tax on individuals
with gross incomes of $3,000 or less
(see table at end of article). In using
this optional table you take your
gross income of $3,000, deduct $400
for a dependent and this would le:
$2,600. Now find $2,600 in the table
and follow it across to what tax the
married man would pay. In. this
instance it would be $89.

If we took the same married man
and had him living in an apartment,
owning no property, owing no debts
and taking no deductions, his tax
if we figured is out by the long way
would be $98, but if we used the
table it would be $89. This table
takes into consideration the personal
exemption, the earned income tax
credit, and a 10% allowance for
deductions.

‘The employee whose gross income
consists entirely of salary and who
has no deductions of any substan-
tial amount would probably benefit
by the optional table. But if the
employee owns property and has ex-
tensive deductions, he would not
benefit by it.

Every one whose gross is $3,000
or less should carefully figure the
tax both ways and then take the
lesser. If you once file a return under
Supplement T, as the optional table
s called, there is no changing your
mind,

Our civil service members working
in the various institutions and re-
ceiving maintenance will base their
Federal tax on their salary only.
‘The last decision was that the Fed-
eral government does not tax main-
tenance, It would be wise to check
on this before March 15 as new
decisions and rulings are readily

October

made. We are not talking about
state income taxes but it might be
of interest to know that for state
income tax purposes, if one’s institu-
tional salary is over $2,000 and main-
tenance, gross income is the s:
plus half of the maintenance allow-
ance. If the salary is less than $2,000
and maintenance, gross income is
the salary plus the amount allowed
in that institution in lieu of main-
tenance.

Last year’s 10% superimposed
nse tax has been repealed.

All of us will feel upon our
budgets repercussions from the var-
ious excise taxes or sales taxes.
year special Defen: e
levied for a designated period. ‘The
1941 Revenue Act makes many of
these Defense tax rates permanent.
Among these made permanent is
the 1%c per gallon tax on gasoline.
The 1941 Revenue Act has increased
the tax rate on other commoditi
and also added more commodities
to the taxable list.

Some of the increased rates which
will affect us are: the admi:
that starts with a Ic tax on admis-
sions up to 10c and goes to 15%
on admissions over 50c There are
no more exemptions for charitable
entertainments, etc. Increased caba-
ret, roof garden and club dues and
liquor fees will not interest us much.
There is a 10% tax on radio receiv-
ing sets, phonographs and records,
musical instruments, etc., also on
electric equipment. The tax on
matches is 2c a thousand for the
plain kitchen variety and 5Y%c per
thousand for the fancy ones. The
10% tax on local telephone calls
will be definitely felt, but you can
still use a “pay telephone” for 5c.

Manufacturers must for the first
time in years pay a sales tax on all
sporting goods, luggage, rubber
goods, electric signs, electric bulbs,
etc, Without doubt this tax will be
reflected in higher pric

There is a 10% retail sales or
excise tax on jewelry, furs and cos-
metics. Railroad tickets, berths, etc.
are taxed 5%. Commutation tickets
and tickets costing less than 35¢ are
exempt.

We are going to be very tax con-
scious of our automobile. From now
on in addition to our gasoline taxes
and our registration fee, there will
be a $5 Federal use tax payable to
the Bureau of Internal Revenue. We
will probably carry red, white and
blue stickers on our windshields

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The Capitol Beat

From the heart of the Adiron-
dacks recently there came a routine
report from a forest ranger which
had all the elements of near tragedy,
suspense, quick thinking and drama
and with it all, good fortune. It was
Ranger Maurice Bissell, stationed at
Lake Colden, deep in the heart of
the woods in the Mt. Marcy region,
who told the story with the charac-
teristic reticence of the group to
which he belongs.

A man whose name Bissell neg-
lected to put in his report was found
unconscious in Calamity Leanto at
the western outlet of the Flowed
Lands the other day. Bissell, whose
cabin is several miles away on Lake
Colden, was notified. He in turn
located a doctor who was va
ing there at this out of the w:
almost inaccessible lake, and upon
reaching the man, the doctor diag-
nosed it as insulin shock.

With no medicine or equipment
for treatment, the seriousness of the
situation called for quick thinking.
Bissell “hit the trail” to his cabin and
called Dr, Geiss at Lake Placid who
promptly made arrangements with
Lake Placid Hospital for the things
needed to treat the unconscious man.
Bissell next called Forest Ranger
Mark Nugent at Lake Placid who
picked up the medicinal supplies at
the hospital and rushed in his car
over nine miles of public roads and
two and a half miles of Conservation
Department forest truck trails to
Marcy Dam.

In the meantime, Bissell rounded
up a group from the Intercollegiate
Outing Club who were having their
annual fall outing in that section of
the Adirondacks and directed them
to post themselves at half-mile in-
tervals from the head of Lake Col-
den out to Marcy Dam in order to
run the medicine in relays. When
Ranger Nugent arrived at Marcy
Dam, the first of the pairs ef college
men took the medicine from him and
thus started the initial relay of the
five mile trek through the woods and
across two lakes. At the head of
Lake Colden a man was waiting
with a boat; at the head of the
Flowed Lands two men were wait-
ing with a canoe.

Quoting from Bissell’s report,
“Flash lights were focused on the

238

landings to guide the boats. The
night was pitch black with frequent
downpours of rain which made the
gravel roads and trails muddy and
slippery. In spite of these handicaps,
only one hour and fifty-five minutes
elapsed between the time I called
Dr. Geiss and the delivery of the
medicine at Calamity Leanto. The
patient recovered and later was able
to walk out to his car. I feel very
grateful to this visiting doctor who
gave so freely of his time and train-
ing to help us and also grateful to
the members of the Intercollegiate
Outing Club.”

“We in the Conservation Depart-
ment also are grateful,” said Conser-
vation Commissioner Lithgow Os-
borne, when officials of the Division
of Lands and Forests brought the
report to him. “However, we also
should feel thankful that we have a
man of the calibre of Bissell on the
job.”

The truck trail over which Nugent
had to drive runs from South Mea-
dow to Marcy Dam and like all other
truck trails is closed to public use.

© 8 3

New York State factories em-
ployed 3.2 per cent more workers in
August than in July and payrolls rose
5.9 per cent during the month,
among all eleven industrial groups,
Industrial Commissioner Freida S.
Miller reported.

As yet, she said, there has been no
marked curtailment in non-defense
production at reporting factories in
the State due to priorities of material
and shortages of labor. Effect of the
summer vacation period which usu-
ally results in reduced operations
during August was not as pro-
nounced this year, she explained,
because workers either sacrificed or
delayed vacations in order to speed
the defense effort.

a6

The harvest season always puts
the Social Welfare and Health De-
partments on the alert for violations
—for, in New York’s rural com-
munities, migratory workers some-
times have suffered evils akin to
those of Steinbeck’s Joads.

Legal action was brought by the
Health Department recently against
an upstate camp operator housing

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more than 40 Negroes during har-
vesting. The charges:

He imported the men from South
Carolina August 14, They arrived
three days later. They said they had
been given two meals of coffee and
doughnuts en route. At the camp,
they were housed in a ramshackle
structure, supplied with water from
an insanitary well. No furnishings.
Just a stove,

‘The labor corps had been moved,
at last word, but the department was
still on the hunt, with the charges
growing.

oe

Despite the drought, comparative-
ly few cities in the State suffered be-
cause of water shortage. They num-
bered only 20 per cent of these af-
fected by the 1939 drought. The rea-
son? Preparation.

* = ©

Under an 8point program set
forth by Dr. Edward $. Godfrey, Jr.,
health commissioner, New York
hopes to wipe out tuberculosis by
1960.

“It is time to be hard-boiled and
realistic and to dig into the facts
about services and facilities needed
to eradicate tuberculosis in any given
locality,” he said. Since the fight
against the disease was made a pub-
lic issue, a 76 per cent reduction in
cases has resulted.

To finish the job, Dr. Godfrey
suggested: A complete roster of cases
and contacts, X-rays for contacts and
susceptible adult groups; hospital
care for infectious cases; public
health nurse for each 5,000 popula-
tion; removal of the dollar mark
from treatment, or free care; more
public education; more surveys, and
jobs for tuberculosis patients.

* e ®

New York fishermen hold the
world’s records for the largest brown
trout and northern pike ever taken
on an artificial lure.

This was one of many interesting
findings turned up by Cecil Heacox,
junior aquatic biologist, in the Con-
servation Department's Rochester of-
fice. Heacox compiled an official list
of record game fish caught in the
State during the past 30 years.

He compared this list with one
for the country as a whole, going

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239
Promotion Examinations

No. 3223— Superintendent of
Grain Elevator and Terminals, Ser-
vice 11, Grade 5, Division of Canals
and Waterways, Department of Pub-
lic Works. Usual salary range $5,200
to $6,450. Application fee $5.00. Ap-
pointment expected at the minimum
but may be made at less than $5,200.
Last filing date October 13.

Minimum Qualifications: Candi-
dates must be permanently employed
in the Divisions of Canals and Water-
ways, Engineering, or Highways, in
the Department of Public Works,
and must be serving and have served
on a permanent basis in the competi-
tive class for one year in Service 7,
Grade 4, or its equivalent, preceding
the date of the examination. Candi-
dates must be licensed to practice as
professional engineers in the State
of New York on the date of filing
application and, in addition, must
have had two years of recent satis-
factory experience involving admin-
istrative responsibility in: the super-
vision of a staff and in the exercise
of independent judgment in plan-
ning projects of considerable scope.
Candidates must have a knowledge
of the rules and regulations govern-
ing the use of and the operation of
New York State Canal Terminals
and the Gowanus Bay Grain Ele-
vator.

No. 3225—Senior Stenographer
(Law), Albany office, including Al-
bany area office, Department of So-
cial Welfare. Usual salary range
$1,600 to $2,100. Application fee

$1.00. Appointment expected at the
minimum but may be made at less
than $1,600. Last filing date Octo-
ber 13.

Minimum Qualifications: Candi-
dates must be permanently employed
in the Albany Office, including the
Albany area office, Department of
Social Welfare, and must be serving
and have served on a permanent
basis in the competitive class in Ser-
vice 3, Grade 1-b, for one year im-
mediately preceding the date of the
examination, and must have had
two years of satisfactory stenographic
experience of a legal nature. Candi-
dates must have a thorough knowl-
edge of the Social Welfare Law and
of legal forms and terms.

No, 3226—Assistant Stenographer,
Buffalo Office, Alcoholic Beverage

240

Control Board. Usual salary range
$1,200 to $1,700. Application fee
$1.00. Appointment expected at the
minimum but may be made at less
than $1,200. Last filing date Octo-
ber 13,

Minimum Qualifications: Candi-
dates must be permanently employed
in the Buffalo Office of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, and must
be serving and have served on a per-
manent basis in the competitive class
for six months in Service 3, Grade
l-a, immediately preceding the date
of the examination, and must have
had one year of satisfactory steno-
graphic experience.

No. 3227—Steward, Department
of Mental Hygiene. Usual salary
range $3,000 to $4,000 with main-
tenance. Application fee $4.00. Ap-
pointment expected at the minimum
but may be made at less than $3,000.
Last filing date October 13.

Minimum Qualifications: Candi-
dates must be permanently employed
in the Department of Mental Hy-
giene, and must be serving and have
served on a permanent basis in the
competitive class for one year im-
mediately preceding the date of the
examination. They must have had
five years of satisfactory experience
in the Department of Mental Hy-
giene and have atttained the title of
Assistant Steward or Bookkeeper-
Paymaster (or equivalent title in the
Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital or
the Psychiatric Institute and Hos-
pital) in the institution service, or
the grade of Senior State Accounts
Auditor in the Albany office of the
department. A thorough knowledge
of the accounting system used in
State institutions; the preparation of
budgets and estimates; the methods
of purchasing supplies and the stor-
age and care thereof; and familiarity
with the principles and procedures
of institution management are essen-
tial. Candidates must have executive
ability; ability to direct the work of
others to obtain effective cooperation;
initiative; resourcefulness; integrity;
and good judgment.

No. 3228—Assistant District Engi-
neer, Department of Public Works.
Usual salary range $6,700 to $8,200.
Application fee $5.00. Appointment
expected at the minimum but may

be made at less than $6,700, Last
filing date October 13.

Minimum Qualifications: Candi-
dates must be licensed to practice
professional engineering in the State
of New York on date of filing appli-
cation. They must be permanently
employed in the Department of Pub-
lic Works, and must be serving and
have served on a permanent basis
in the competitive class as engineers
for one year in Service 7, Grade 4, or
higher, immediately preceding the
date of the examination. Candidates
must have had thirteen years’ ex-
perience in professional civil engi-
neering work, of which two years
must have been in work involving a
high degree of administrative re-
sponsibility, Technical education will
receive credit for experience in pro-
portion to its value. Graduation
from a four year course in engineer-
ing for which a degree in civil en-
gineering is granted will be credited
as two years of the required general
experience. Candidates must haye a
through knowledge of the principles
and practices of difficult engineer-
ing as applied to the duties in the
Department of Public Works.

The Capitol Beat

(Continued from page 238)

back to 1911, The largest fish of two
subspecies of muskalonge, which in-
habit New York waters, also were
entered in the New York list.

se 8

Enrollees of CCC camps in North-
ern New York will plant approxi-
mately 1,000,000 trees this fall in 13
State reforestation areas in Oncida,
Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence
Counties as part of the Conservation
Department's reforestation program.

How much the national defense
program is affecting the building in-
dustry is shown by the Labor De-
partment’s industrial report for
August.

Residential building for the month
dropped $6,000,000 below last year.
Total residential building for 1941
through August is nearly 14 mil-
lions below the same period of 1940,
Industrial and commercial building,
on the decline since 1939, is now on
the way back up again.

The State Employee
In-Service Training Notes

Edited by Albert H. Hall, Chief,
Bureau of Public Service Train-
ing, and Secretary, Regents
Council on Public Service Train-
ing, State Education Department.

The Town and County Officers’
Training School, an educational cor-
poration chartered by the Regents
and administered by the Association
of Towns, has established Informa-
tion and Training Extension Ser-
vices for justices of the peace and
town welfare officials. These services
take the form of monthly bulletins
of information and instruction which
are sent to all of these officials. The
services are operated in cooperation
with the County Officers Association
and the State Education Depart-
ment.
* * ©

Regents certificates have been is-
sued recently to State employees
completing successfully a course in
Income Tax Accounting given un-
der the direction of Harold R. Ens-
low, Director of Training, Division
of Placement and Unemployment
Insurance,

2% -@

The thirty-fourth annual State
Conference of Probation Officers was
held in Utica on October 6-8, under
the auspices of the State Probation
Commission and the Division of
Probation of the State Correction
Department. The sessions consti-
tuted a valuable in-service training
course for probation officers.

6 a

The New York City Police De-
partment has begun instruction of
post wardens and building-control
directors of the city air-raid protec-
tion service. Classes are being held
from eight to nine-thirty p.m. every
week day except Saturday, in thirty-
six school auditoriums. The course
provides a series of five lectures,
More than 90,000 post wardens have
registered for instruction.

An advanced school for local sew-
age treatment plant operators which
opened at Niagara University on
September 6 will provide thirty
weekly sessions. The school has been
approved by the State Public Health
Council to meet special course re-
quirements for Grade II operators
under the Public Health Law. The
school is administered by the Mu-
nicipal Training Institute in coopera-
tion with the University, State
Health Department, Mayors’ Con-
ference and the State Education De-
partment.

s&s

Sergeant Charles P. Curtin and
Trooper Edward M. Glavin of the
New York State Police were among
twenty policemen students from all
parts of the country who received

graduation certificates at the last
commencement exercises of North-
western University. The presentation
of certificates, following a nine-
month course in traffic control and
accident prevention, marks the first
time that police traffic officers have
been included in regular graduation
exercises at any of the country’s uni-
versities or colleges.

Teacher-training courses for 1,700
officers of the New York City Fire
Department responsible for instruc-
tion of the city’s 80,000 civilian aux-
iliary firemen opened on October 6
The courses are giving these office
intensive, practical guidance in the
organization and presentation of in-
structional material. The State Edu-
cation Department is directing and
presenting the courses.

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October

241
D. P. U. I. Officers

Samuel T. Frone, Vice-Chairman, and Joseph F. Reilly, Chairman

Association members in the Capi-
tal district employed in the Divi-
sion of Placement and Unemploy-
ment Insurance, Labor Department,
have reelected Joseph F. Reilly to
serve as chairman of the DPUI Ex-
ecutive Board. Other officers elected
were: Samuel T, Frone, vice chair-
man; Christopher J. Fee, treasurer,
and Miss Genevieve Murphy, secre-
tary.

Mr. Reilly, employed in the Tax
and Wage Records Bureau of the
Division, has been a member of the
Board since its creation two years
ago, representing Association mem-
bers employed in the Broadway Ar-
cade Building.

The Executive Board consists of
representatives from each building in
Albany housing offices of the DPUI.

Building chairman is elected by
the membership in each building
and he in turn appoints members to
the Executive Board in the propor-
tion of one representative to each 20
members,

242

Building chairmen elected to serve
for the new term include: Miss Eve-
line Smith, Dearstyne Building;
John T. Ellis, Drislane Building;
Miss Genevieve Murphy, Standard
Building; John T. Manning, Arcade
Building; Milton C. Livingston,
A.P.W. Building; Mrs. Alice M.
Barnes, State Employment Service
office; and Charles W. Owens, Jr.,
Albany Storage Building.

The Executive Board meets at reg-
ular session the first Tuesday of each
month and discusses matters con-
cerning members of the Association
within its Albany network.

Members Should Use
BALLOTS
on pages 248 and 249

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Country by Buying
U.S. Defense Bonds

and Stamps
at your local postoftice

Phone 4-1188

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Leaving New York every Saturday
in October. Most inclusive itineraries.
Many other Fall Trips,

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ALBANY, N. Y.

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The State Employee
Local Activities

ROME STATE SCHOOL GOLFERS

Beacon Events

The Matteaws State Hospital
Employees Association and Social
Club held a ham supper on Thurs-
day, September 25th. Much praise
was given the committee for the
smooth functioning of the affair.
Over eighty persons attended.

Plans for the Hallowe'en Masque-
rade Dance are progressing rapidly
under the direction of Percy Larra-
bee. Mr. Larrabee is president of the
Association and chairman of the
dance committee. Bobby Nelson’s
Orchestra will supply the music.
Prizes will be given for costumes
and according to the plans of the
committee the decorations will be
both spectacular and exciting.
male and female bowling
sting of members of the
ion will be in the spotlight
awan this year.
Two draftees so far have returned

i ies at the hospital, hav-

ing been released because of the
overage law. They are Paul Lahey
and Rocco Ferrone.

Long Island Chapter
Notes

‘The regular bi-monthly meetings
of the Long Island Inter-County
Park Chapter of the Association
were resumed on Wednesday eve-
ning, September 24, 1941. President
Travis presided. The activities of the
chapter since its last meeting were re-
viewed by Secretary Reeves, and four
new members were voted into mem-
bership. The program of business of
the chapter for the coming fall sea-
son was planned. After the meet-
ing refreshments were served by the
Social Committee. Fred Lemily was
selected as delegate to represent the
chapter at future meetings of the
Association.

Guards to Dance

First meeting of the Sing Sing
Chapter in the Ossining Elks Club,
September 10, was devoted to a re-
port from Dr, Ralph S. Banay, psy-
chiatrist, on the convention of the
American Prison Congress which he
attended in California.

Secretary Irving A. Goldfarb re-
ported that plans for the chapter's
Annual Affair will be arranged at
the next meeting, October 15, with
dancing and entertainment.

October

Front Row: Joseph Waterhouse, Dr. Edward Dake, Carl Masset, George
Holmes, Leo LeDuke, Joseph Wissman, Ernest Hay and Charles Ohmart.
Rear Row: Walter Holdridge, Walter Shattuck, William Kines, Leon Crook,
Arthur VanderHoff, Dr. Arthur Schwartz, George Pardee, Robert Healey
and Naaman Brown.

Twenty-two golfers of the Rome
State School are now in competition
for the annual medal play tourna-
ment. Each golfer is to play 54 holes
and the low medalist will be award-
ed the championship cup and other
prizes.

Dr. Edward Dake, having won the
annual handicap tournament for the
second successive year, will be a
strong favorite for the 54-hole indi-
vidual medal play match now in
progress at Beaver Brook Country
Club. Dr. Dake recently defeated
Robert Healey by the close score of
one up to cop the annual handicap
event. :

‘Twenty-two players have qualified

Chautauqua County

Chapter News
Employees of Chautauqua County
Chapter will hold their regular meet-
ing at the Hotel Renehurst, near
Findleys Lake, on October 11, 1941.
Dinner will be served at 6:30 P.M.

for the new tournament, They in-
clude: Fred Arnold, Ken Barr, Nim
Brown, Leon Crook, Dr. Dake, Dr.
George DeDunyk, Bill Evans, Niles
Hauck, Bob Healey, Walt Hold-
ridge, George Holmes, Bill Kunes,
Carl Massett, George Pardee, Leo
LeDuke, Charles Ohmart, Dr. Ar-
thur Schwartz, Bud Shattuck, Roy
Tuttle, Art VanderHoff, Joseph
Waterhouse, and Joseph Wissman.

The golfing group is planning a
second annual banquet for October
9th, at which time prizes for the
various tournaments held during the
year will be distributed, and an in-
teresting program of golf movies
and demonstrations is being planned,

and the regular Chapter meeting will
follow.

President A. Morgan Whitney act-
ing as host to the meeting has ap-
pointed committees for the funfest
which will follow. It is expected
that a 100% attendance will be on
hand to greet the Chapter President
in his home bailiwick.

243
From throughout the State have
come unsolicited statements to As-
sociation Headquarte i
appreciation and_ satis:
the manner in which beneficia
deceased members of the Group Life
ive settlements

of claims promptly a
tape. And wl houldn’t satisfac-

paid within twenty-
the death of the member occurs.

Approximately 300 claims, total-
ing over $500,000.00 have been paid
already under the Group Life Insur-
ance Plan, and it only started slightly
over two years ago.

The Superintendent of one par-
ticular State Institution wrote:

“The first thing I wish to say is
that I was almost astounded at the
rapidity in which this payment was
made, for with most insurance com-
panies you have to wait a long time
and present almost every form of
document, so it is quite evident that
the Employees’ Association is doing
everything possible to aid the dis-
tressed employees. This can only re-
sult in a satisfied group among our
employees. I wish to congratulate
you and your Association on the in-
terest it takes in its fellow employ-
ees.”

A fellow employee of a dec
member wrote:

“The promptness in which the As-
sociation collected the insurance and
turned same over to Mrs.— caused
very satisfactory comment. “One of
the higher officers here remarked
that the insurance as sponsored by
the Association’s group should be
compulsory.”

Another employee advised Asso-
ciation Headquarte:

“T delivered the check to Mrs.——
yesterday afternoon. She was notice-
ably surprised at the promptness of
the payment of this claim, as the
funeral of her step-son had not yet
taken place. This is the second case
where I have delivered a group in-
surance check to a beneficiary prior
to the funeral of the deceased mem-
ber.”

A beneficiary of a deceased mem-
ber states:

“Tt is gratifying to receive such

sed

244

Our Group

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT GROUP LIFE PLAN

splendid service at a time like this
and I feel that the Association can-
not be too highly recommended.”

Another beneficiary writes:

“Will you please extend my thanks
to the Travelers Insurance Company
for attending to this matter with
such promptness.”

A representative of the Association
advi

“TI delivered the insurance check
to Mrs.—this noon. She had evi-
dently filed a claim for another in-
surance settlement recently and
commended the Association on the
lack of long blanks and other re-
quirements before the insurance
payment under the group plan could
be made.”

Another beneficiary writes:

“I wish to thank you for the
prompt handling of this matter, and
will be glad to tell my fellow em-
ployees in the Association of the
prompt settling of this insurance.”

Sai ¢ been paid to the bene-
aries of deceased members of the
plan formerly employed in practi
ly every State department and
throughout the State. The Group
Plan pays for death due to any
and already deaths of members in-
sured have been caused by natural
death, by accidents, suicide, drown-
ing, fire, and even murder. Not
only have the elderly members of
the plan died, but deaths have oc-
curred in every age bracket.

The following amount and num-
ber of claims have been paid in the
various departments:

Agriculture & Markets 3  $ 6,500
Audit & Control 2 5,000
Conservation BY 9,500
Correction 31 65,500
Education 6 19,500
Executive 7 17,000
Courts 1 5,000
State Police 7 11,000
Health 7 11,500
Insurance 1 4,000
Labor 8 = 28,000
Div. Placement & Un-
employment Ins. 8 15,500
Law 8 32,000
Mental Hygiene 102 93,500
Public Service 3 6,000
Public Works 64 = 109,000
Social Welfare 5 6,000

2 2,000,
tion & Finance 9 — 18,000

With almost two out of every
three State workers already insured
under the plan, and in view of the
splendid claim service established,
the low premium cost, the easy con-
venient payroll deduction method of
payment, and its broad coverage, it is
difficult to understand why employ-
ces not insured under the plan do
not tak age of the protection
is at once,

No medical examination is re-
quired for an employee who applies
for the group life insurance within
the first three months of employ-
ment with the State. Employees who
allow this period to lapse should not
deprive themselves of the protection
accorded by the plan. Such employ-
ees may take a medical examination
at the expense of the insurance com-
pany, and if approved, secure this
valuable protection.

Any State employee who is a mem-
ber of the Association, or becomes
one, may apply for this insurance.
Application must be made while the
employee is actively employed.

Employees who are interested in
obtaining detailed information or
an application for the insurance
should contact the As ion Rep-
resentative in their group, or write
Association Headquarters, Room
156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.

Present policyholders in’ the plan
and members of the Association
could do a good deed for their co-
workers by calling this insurance to
their attention. Newly appointed
employees especially should be ad-
vised of their special opportunity to
obtain the insurance without medical
examination by making application
within their first ninety days of em-
ployment with the State.

Members Should Use
BALLOTS
on pages 248 and 249

The State Employee
Insurance Plans

THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT HEALTH INSURANCE

The policy of Accident and Si
Insurance, sponsored by your
Association for New York State Em-
ployees, covers many conditions not
usually found in most Accident and
Sickness policies. A brief resume of
our benefits will enlighten many
Employees who think that they can
buy Insurance elsewhere that is just
as good,

Benefits Begin

Disability benefits begin from the
first day for accidents and pay up to
five years (under the Non-Occupa-
tional Policy)—Sickness Benefits be-
gin on the eighth day of disability
and pay up toa period of one year.
‘These maximum periods of indem-
nity are with respect to any one
claim and please note under our
plan there are no restrictions as to
the number of claims you may make.

Non-Occupational Insurance

Recommended

Your insurance may be had under
the Non-Occupational or the Occu-
pational bi 90% of the State Em-
ployees who are insured, however,
prefer the Non-Occupational Plan,
that does not duplicate their Work-
men’s Compensation protection and
so permits our granting a longer
period of coverage (five years) for
accidents occurring away from their
work,

Our Insuring Clause

‘The insuring clause in any policy
is what determines the scope of your
protection—it is actually the “back-
bone” of your coverage, Our Insur-
ing Clause covers accidental bodily
injury; while most policies require
that the bodily injury be sustained
through accidental means, which in
the opinion of Accident and Health
experts and in a great many courts,
limits the policy coverage conside
ably. For example, you might seri-
ously injure your back while shifting
a heavy piece of furniture. As you
obviously intended to lift that fur-
niture there would be no accidental
cause (or means) involved. Thus
you would not be covered under
any policy which requires that the
means, or the cause, of the injury
be accidental. Notice we consider the
results rather than the cause of your
injury.

October

Cost

The cost of the Insurance is so
extremely low that many Insurance
men throughout the State have
honestly stated such an attractive
premium would not be possible if
it were not for the very large group
covered by this Insurance. Here are
the rates now in force under the
Non-Occupational Form:

Salary Groupings, Benefits and
Premiums

Monthly
Annual Salary “Indem

Less than $600 .... $30
$600 but less

than $1,000 ...... 50 500 er}
$1,000 but less

than $1,200... 60 500 85
$1,200 but less

than $1,600 ...... 75 500
$1,600 and over | 100 500

tenance and time serv
be added to cash salat

y group.

In the above schedule, the semi-
monthly premium is the amount de-
ducted from the salary each pay-day
to pay for the benefits shown under
the heading “Monthly Indemnity.”
If it is desired you may take less than
the monthly indemnity shown oppo-
site your salary but not more. In
other words, if you get $1,300 a year
or over, you may take less than $75
monthly indemnity, but not more.

Method of Paying Premium

One of the important benefits un-
der the Group Plan of Accident and
Sickness Insurance, as sponsored by
your Association, is convenient pre-
mium payments. Each pay-day your
premium will be automatically de-
ducted as long as you are on the pay-
roll, unless you order it stopped at
any time. It keeps your Insur-
ance in force and pays for it in
small installments—rather than hay-
ing a larger premium come due
twice or once a year. For those who
do not care for payroll deduction, the
premiums are paid on an annual or
semi-annual basis. The only impor-
tant thing to watch is, if you are sick,
or if you are on leave of absence, or
if you are off the payroll for any rea-
son whatever, you should maintain
your premiums by direct payment to
Ter Bush & Powell, Inc., 423 State
Street, Schenectady, N. Y.

Valuable Benefits

On every policy issued under the
Group Plan, there is an endorsement
which states that this policy shall be
renewable and non-cancellable, ex-
cept that the Company reserves the
right to decline to renew this policy
on the following grounds only. (‘The
following reasons are for the non-
occupational policies.)

a. Non-payment of premium.

b. When the Insured becomes sev-
enty years of age.

c. If the Insured ceases to be a
member of the Association.

The above conditions exist as long
as the contract between the Associa-
tion and the Company remains in
force, but it should be noted that
the Company shall be entitled to
terminate all policies under this
Group Plan upon 60 days’ notice to
the Association,

The above-mentioned non-cancell-
able provision is of exceptional impor-
tance to State Employees and places
a high value upon your policy. If
you have a serious disease such a
tuberculosis, arthritis, high blood
pressure, anemia, diseases of the
brain, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy,
goiter, etc., after we have paid one
claim under this policy, whether it
be one month or twelve months, and
you have returned to active State
Service, your policy must be con-
tinued in force; while with most in-
dividual Accident and Sickness poli-
cies, after your claim has been paid,
the Company can rider or cancel your
coverage because you may no longer
collect on this policy. So that
you can see this special agreement
rider under our Group Plan of Ac-
cident and Sickness Insurance is a
very important item and increases
the value and stability of your Insur-
ance tremendously. And the only
thing you have to do is to comply
with the above requirements of
premium payments when off the
payroll and also you must maintain
your Association membership.

Non-Disabling Injury Benefits

An additional coverage you have
under our policy is medical reim-
bursments for non-disabling injuries.
If you have an accident where you
are not disabled but are required to

245
pay certain medical fees, the Com-
pany will pay these bills upon re-
ceipt of receipted bills for medical
and surgical attention in an amount

not to exceed one week’s indemnity..

Special Advantages

We cover disability caused by any
mental diseases, while the majority
of insurance policies, you will find,
exclude such disability.

After your policy has been in force
ten consecutive months we pay for
pregnancy or child birth, not to ex-
ceed four weeks indemnity for any
one confinement.

Tuberculosis claims are paid for
twelve months in the aggregate. If
you have continued your premiums
during your period of disability your
policy may be automatically rein-
stated provided you apply for such
reinstatement within thirty days
from the date you return to State
Service.

Our policy covers hernia, which
you will usually find excluded in a
great many policies. It covers aerial
navigation, as long as you are on a
regular transport plane as a regular
passenger. It covers sexual diseases
and female complaints, which are ex-
cluded in most policies.

Illness becomes effective from the
date of the policy, while in most
policies you will find that you have
to have the Insurance policy for 30
or 60 days, and sometimes six
months, before the illness portion of
the policy becomes effective. House
confinement is not required, except
during a period of leave of absence
or vacation and not then, if your
period of leave of absence would
have expired, or your vacation would
have expired before you are well
enough to return to work,

We do not exclude accidents oc-
curring while intoxicated or under
the influence of liquor.

What We Don’t Pay For-

We think it only fair to give you
the reasons and conditions under
which the Group Plan does not pay.

Whenever there is a material mis-
representation in your application—
therefore, you should answer all
questions carefully and in full. If
you have some physical impairment,
or if you have had past medical his-
tory or advice, you should reveal all
the facts in your application. It does
not necessarily mean your applica-
tion will be declined. Oftentimes
you can still get Insurance, but fail-
ing to put these correct answers in

246

your application may void some fu-
ture claim. With your cooperation
we can avoid future misunderstand-
ings. We in turn will do everything
possible to be of service to you and
to issue Insurance to you if the regu-
lations of good insurance under-
writing will permit us to do so.

Your Group Plan policy does not
pay for suicide. It does not pay for
aeroplane accidents in a private
plane or for stunt flying.

Your Group Plan policy will not
pay you unless you have medical at-
tention or care at least once in every
seven days as required under this
policy. It is the belief of the Insur-
ance Company writing this Insur-
ance that the medical profession to-
day has reached such a standard that
they can improve your health and
get you back to work safely, a lot
quicker than you can do it yourself
by reading medical books, or taking
the advice of a druggist or friend
and it is for this reason that medical
attention is required at least once in
every seven days.

Claims

The motto of our Claim Depart-
ment is—First to pay all just claims
fairly and promptly. Secondly, to
decline courteously any unjust or
fraudulent claims.

During the past winter months
many hundreds of State Employees
have been sick every month and have
been receiving benefits under this
Group Plan of Insurance. During
the month of March, alone, nearly
$17,000 was disbursed to State Em-
ployees to help pay their bills in
time of need and to repay them for
any lost salary or lost time due to
accident or sickness disability. So
now the size of claim department has
been greatly enlarged throughout
the State so that all claimants can
get real prompt claim service.

Consider the Future

You are not immune from accident
and sickness. Perhaps you have never
had a serious illness, but that does
not mean that you will not have it
in the next month or in the next six
months. Just answer this one ques-
tion—supposing your doctor told yout
yesterday that you had tuberculosis,
ulcers, arthritis, or some other seri-
ous disease. Are your finances ready
for the obligations incurred by dis-
ability which might extend over a
long period of time? Would you
have to rob the savings that you have
been making to buy a car, to take a

vacation, to make payments on a
home, or would you have to depend
upon charity? Why not join today
with those other 15,000 State Em-
ployees who have had foresight
enough to protect their salaries
through the Association’s Group
Plan of Accident and Sickness In-
surance.

Suicide by Strikes
(Continued from page 225)

If collective bargaining is ever
granted to this union God help the
independent citizen in governmental
service who has thrived and who
has no desire to be represented in any
matter by people of this type.

We who are members of the Asso-
ciation of State Civil Service Em-
ployees, to which belong by far the
great majority of employees in the
service of the State, certainly should
by every means in our power oppose
the fallacious employment policies of
the SCMWA. We do not want
strikes. We can achieve our ends
peacefully and decently as in the
past. We do not believe there are
any labor spies or company unions
in New York State service. We do
believe that incompetents or those
more interested in union activities
than in their duties should resign or
be dismissed from State service. We
have no sympathy with communists,
“fellow travelers” or the “party line.”
We are firm supporters of our goy-
ernment and loyal Americans first,
last and always. We have had a form
of collective bargaining for some
time and have always received con-
sideration and cooperation from the
Governor, department heads and
members of the legislature. We have
no grievances that can not be settled
by discussion and negotiation and we
have absolutely no need for a radical,
incompetent type of union in State
service and most certainly no desire
for it.

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The State Employee
Our Birds —
Martyrs to Speed
(Continued from page 223)

Another group of birds well repre-
sented in this list and in other high-
way casualty lists is that containing
the woodpeckers (Picidae). As a
matter of fact it was the extraordi-
nary preponderance of the red-
headed woodpecker as a highway
casualty that prompted me first to
announce my findings in 1925. Of
the 142 dead birds then recorded on
632 miles of Iowa highway, wood-
peckers of four species comprised 75
of the casualties; 53 of these were
red-headed woodpeckers. For the
four round-trip records here report-
ed, nine woodpecker casualties were
noted; one of these was a red-headed
woodpecker (Illinois) while five
were flickers, one each for Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio.
Two yellow-bellied sapsuckers and
a downy woodpecker complete the
fist.

Other bird casualties met with on
the cross-country trips discussed here
include the peafowl, Virginia rail,
screech owl, brown thrasher, mea-
dow lark and bronzed grackle. Ad-
ditional species recorded from New
York State include the barred owl,
kingbird, catbird, _ chestnut-sided
warbler and goldfinch. And, since
the beginning of my interest in this
phase of animal mortality, I have
recorded in various parts of the
country such other avian highway
casualties as the sparrow hawk, crow,
mockingbird, cedar waxwing, star-
ling, Baltimore oriole and towhee.

Tt will be observed from the above
that scarcely any group of birds is
immune from destruction by the
motor car on our highways. Prob-
ably little can be done by man to
reduce this slaughter except to re-
duce his own rate of speed.

Within the past few years the
New York State Museum has ac-
quired for its zoological study collec-
tions a considerable number of birds
and mammals killed on the high-
ways. This and other educational in-
stitutions welcome such material and
I shall be glad to receive it for the
Museum, At the expenditure of a
small amount of time and effort al-
most everyone may render an aid to
science by recovering for a useful
purpose specimens of the larger ani-
mals sacrificed on the altar of speed.

October

Letchworth Village News

Plans are afoot to have representa-
tives from the Letchworth Village
Chapter and the Rockland’ State
Chapter interview Senator Johnson
and Representative Doscher, to ac-
quaint them with the necessity for
increased wages to meet the in-
creased living costs.

‘The annual election of officers will
be held on October 4th. A commit-
tee consisting of Mr. Harry Hansen,
Mr. Hugh Grant and Mr. Ira Bais-
ley will conduct the election. We
hope to have a record vote,

The annual meeting will be held
on the 16th of October.

Recently the chapter purchased
several kits for men in Military Ser-
vice. Ten of these were sent out, and
acknowledgments were _ received
from all recipients. The letters
showed that the boys greatly appre-
ciated this little gift. Our boys are
stationed as follows:

Pri. B. W. Dolman, Parris Island,
S. C.; Pri. John H. Niblet, Fort
Bragg, N. C.; Corp. Fred Hanker,
Fort Eustis, Va.; Corp. Mondo Gus-
berti, Pine Camp, N. Y.; Pri. Ed-
ward G. Hanker, Camp Robinson,
Ark.; Pri. Lester Trought, Fort Law-
ton, Seattle, Wash.; Pri. Oklahoma
Easlon, Fort Jackson, S. C.; Pri.
John Sherwood, Hickam Field, Ha-
waii; Pri. Joseph B. June, Hickam
Field, Hawaii; Dr. Thomas Cassara,
Fort Totten, Bayside, Long Island.

Binghamton Plans

Preparation of a program to be
presented at the Association’s an-
nual meeing in Albany was under-
taken by members of the Bingham-
ton Chapter in their first meeting,
September 19, at the State Employ-
ment Service office in Binghamton.

Dues, organization and other sub-
jects were discussed and preliminary
plans made for the chapter's annual
dinner. Members from the health,
parks, conservation and welfare de-
partments and employment service
attended. ‘

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Kings Park Election

Discussion of increased living costs
highlighted the opening meeting of
the Kings Park State Hospital Chap-
ter, September 26, which resulted in
the election of Kenneth V. Borey as
president,

Other officers named include: Ad-
dison Johnson, vice president; Fran-
cis Flagg, secretary; Lauretta Moore,
assistant secretary; Leonard Rodri-
quez, treasurer; Milton Cohen, ser-
geant-atarms; and Mr. Borey and
Emanuel Goldberg, delegates.

A resolution was adopted instruct-
ing the newly elected officers to pre-
pare a legislative program under-
scoring demands for salary increases
to bring the wages of hospital em-
ployees up to the level of those in
other branches of State service.

The program is to be submitted to
the October meeting and then for-
warded to the annual Albany meet-
ing through chapter delegates.

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Members Should Use
BALLOTS
on pages 248 and 249

247
Please vote only for Member on Executive Committee to repre-
sent the department in which you are employed. To vote for
regular nominee place check mark in box opposite name. To
vote for other than regular nominee, place name of representa-
tive desired on blank line provided directly under name of
regular nominee,

Check Member
oO W. F. McDONOUGH

Department

Agriculture and Markets

CHARLES W. SWIM Audit and Control

Oo

ELIZABETH E. STALEY Banking

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oO JOSEPH TAMMANEY 3 Civil Service
Oo ARTHUR Ss. HOPKINS Clacecvaiion
oO HARRY FRITZ Correction
[J WAYNEW.SOPER Education
[Ep] CHARLES FOSTER Executive
‘| CLIFFORD C. SHORO ‘i Health |
[Ey HARRYS.DEEVEY Insurance

JOHN W. HENRY
* JOSEPH F. REILLY

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(C] FRANCIS C. MAHER

oO PATRICK McCORMACK Mental Hygiene

oO WILLIAM HUNT Public Service

(F] EDWARD J. RAMER Public Works

[DJ JESSE MacFARLAND Social Welfare

(] HAROLD J. FISHER State

Taxation and Finance

* Independent nomination
This ballot must be delivered or mailed so as to reach
Association Headquarters, Room 156, State Capitol, All
N. Y., or the place of the Annual Meeting, before 8 P.
October 21, 194

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248

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ELECTION

In order to carry out fully the intent
of the Constitution of the Association to

have the Association truly representa: |

tive of the wishes of its members, oppor-
tunity must exist for each member of the
Association to choose by ballot the rep-
resentative of his or her respective de-
partment on the Executive Committee.
The Association's Constitution provides
that in cases where the members within
a department fail to elect a representa-
tive for the Executive Committee, the
Executive Committee is empowered to
make a selection.

It is important that members within a
department elect directly their represen-
tative on the Executive Committee and
thus enable the Association to function
democratically in a complete sense. The
success of the Association depends to a
great degree upon the personnel of the
Executive Committee.

Numerous meetings of the Executive
Committee are called during the year,
and many on brief notice, when imme-
diate action on important issues involv-
ing Association action is necessary.
Members are urged to bear this in mind
and to select their representatives from
among their membership residing in Al-
bany or vicinity. It should be wholly
possible for employees wherever lo-
cated throughout the State to keep in
close contact with such representative.

The ballot on this page contains the
candidates selected by the Nominating
Committee and Independent Nomina-
tions submitted in accordance with the
provisions of the Association's Constitu-
tion: Blank space is provided to write
in the name of any other representative
desired.

Envelopes containing ballots should
be marked “Ballot” and should bear
signature or membership card numher
of member, (See Editorial, this issue.)

It is important that you use your right
to vote for a representative of your de-
partment on the Executive Committee.
Detach the ballot provided, fill it out,
and send it to Association Headquar-
ters. Room 156, State Capitol, Albany,
TODAY.

The State Employee

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ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS

The Annual Election of Officers of the Association for the year beginning October 21, 1941, will
occur on that date and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution quoted
below:

“ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3. Officers and members of the Executive Committee shall be elected by ballot at the
annual meeting which will be deemed to continue from nine o'clock A.M. to eight o'clock P.M. on the third Tuesday of
each October. When the meeting is not actually convened, the headquarters of the Association shall be open to receive
properly prepared ballots either by mail or in person from any eligible member of the Association. Ballots with the
names of al! duly nominated candidates printed thereon shall be distributed in the official magazine or otherwise made
available to members at all offices or locations designated by the Executive Committee, at least ten days prior to the
Annual Meeting date. The ballots or the envelopes in which ballots are enclosed by the member shall be marked ‘Ballot,’
and such envelope or ballots shall also bear the signature of the member and the name of the department in which he
is employed.”

"ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4. The Executive Committee shall appoint a Board of Canvassers of at least three mem-
bers of the Association to determine the validity of nominating petitions and to count the ballots, The persons receiving the
greatest number of votes for the respective offices or positions shall be duly elected for the ensuing year. Any person
whose name is printed on the ballot may be present during the canvass of the ballots. In case of a tie vote, a new ballot
shall be taken under rules established by the Executive Committee.”

The officers to be chosen are: President, First, Second and Third Vice-Presidents, Secretary and
Treasurer.

The Nominating Committee, selected at a meeting of the Executive Committee, consisted of:
William F. McDonough, Chairman, Mrs. Beulah Bailey Thull, and John A. Cromie. The candidates for
the various offices printed in the Official Ballot below, are those submitted by the Nominating Commit-
tee chosen under the following provisions of the Constitution.

“ARTICLE VI, SECTION 1. A Nominating Committee shall be appointed by the Executive Committee at least ninety
days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting, and such Nominating Committee, after giving full consideration to all facts
or petitions presented to it by individual members or groups of members, shall file with the Secretary, at least sixty days
prior to the annual meeting, nominations for officers of the Association and members of the Executive Committee.”

The names of candidates other than regular nominees which you may wish to vote for may be
written on blank lines provided.

Members will note that envelopes containing ballots shall be marked ‘Ballot’, and shall also bear
the signature of the member and the name of the department in which he is employed.

Members are urged to exercise their voting power (see editorial).

The Association of State Civil Service Employees

of the State of New York
OFFICIAL BALLOT — ANNUAL ELECTION OCTOBER 21, 1941

To vote for regular nominee, place check in box opposite name. To vote for other
Chae than regular nominee, place name of officer desired on blank line provided.
ec!

Oo For President: HAROLD J. FISHER

For President: .. = ER een
(For First Vice-President: CHARLES L. CAMPBELL
For First Vice-President: *

(| For Second Vice-President: JOHN L. LIVINGSTONE
For Second Vice-President: —__. we oe eS

{| For Third Vice-President: J. EARL KELLY

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For Third Vice-President: . = E
For Secretary: JANET MACFARLANE

For Secretary: _ a arate
tam For Treasurer: EARL P. PFANNEBECKER
For Treasurer: ee

The Constitution of the Association provides that when the Annual Meeting is not actually con-
vened, Association Headquarters will be open to receive properly prepared ballots either by mail
or in person from any eligible member of the Association. This ballot therefore must be delivered or
mailed so as to reach Association Headquarters, Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y., or the
place of the Annual Meeting, before 8:00 P. M., October 21, 1941.

Membership Card No. ————________--

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October 249
Recommended F'or Reading

Prepared by the
Book Information Section of the
New York State Library

FICTION
Day of the Trumpet, by D. C. De
Jong. Harper. $2.50.

In the days when the Nazi menace
is looming over neutral Holland,
wise old Mevrouw Haming and her
family are seen coping with their
individual problems; the young
people with their secret love affairs,
their uncertainties and desires, the
older ones with their family com-
plications and worries, but all
brought ever and again face to face
with evidences of German infiltra-
tion and spying. Sharply etched in
incident, warmly individualized in
characterization, the narrative stu-
dies the reactions of young and old
as they are played upon by false
hopes, and at length broken by
treachery and invasion but deter-
mined some day to build their lives
anew,

The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J.
Cronin. Little. $2.50.

Written with sincerity and feel-
ing, this chronicle traces the chang-
ing pattern of the life of Father
Chisholm, Catholic priest, from his
difficult childhood in the town of
Tweedside on through his seminary
days and his first curacy, always in
trouble with his superiors, but at a
critical moment offered a vicariate
in a remote Chinese village by his
bishop who understands his rebel-
lious individualism. What this priest,
“the oddity, the misfit” makes of
his life and his mission is the core
of a story, packed with colorful, turb-
ulent and dramatic incident.
Shadow of Wings, by Stella Morton.

Harper. $2.50.

A happy knack in writing dialog
that is amusing and natural, and in
depicting characters who are like-
able and human, distinguishes this
story of an English family during
the time when the world was once
more plunging into war. John and
Caroline Lane scrimped and_sacri-
ficed to educate their five children,
and now, with even the youngest
boy on the verge of manhood, all
feeling of security is swept away.
As each individual’s private prob-
lems are solved, some happily, some
in sorrow, so, too, the life of each

250

member of the family is remoulded

to meet the conditions of the im-

pending war.

Tadpole Hall, by Helen Ashton.
Macmillan. $2.50.

When the wind of Nazi persecu-
tion blows the Hahns, an Austrian
couple, into the English Village of
Lambscot, Colonel Heron of Tad-
pole Hall goes to the station to meet
his new servants and it gives him
quite a turn to find himself inclined
to kiss his cook’s hand “as if she
were royalty.” Lisel in truth is an
aristocrat, adaptable, friendly, lov-
able, while her Jewish husband, bro-
ken’ by his frightful experiences, is
sullen and increasingly suspicious as
well as suspected by the villagers.
The story compounded of romance
and tragedy is set in those early days
of the war when bombers are flying
over the lovely countryside.

They Came to a River, by Allis
McKay. Macmillan. $2.75.

In the beginning of the apple in-
dustry boom on the Upper Columbia
River, romantic young Chris, child
of pioneers, marries a boy who
through the years, successfully de-
velops his orchards into an estab-
lished business, with packing and
railroad facilities, only to die in his
prime, leaving his devoted wife to
manage everything. A full-bodied
story, authentic and rich in back-
ground, centering in the eager, like-
able Chris who thinks, quite errone-
ously, that her own life is finished
before she is thirty.

NON-FICTION
In the Mill, by John Masefield. Mac-
millan. $2.

When as a very young man, John
Masefield, English poet laureate,
found work in a carpet mill in Yon-
kers, he had leisure for the first
time in his life. Though he was
“much too ignorant to read with
system,” the world of books, espe-
cially that of poetry, opened to him.
Here he writes, with the fine sim-
plicity of an arist, of the months
spent in the mill, of the actual pro-
cesses of his work there, and his own
and the other men’s responses to it,
of his joy in discovering the beauty
of woods and river, and of his final
decision to end his exile from En-
gland, and to “get into poetry some-
how before the mill got him.”

Living High, by June Burn. Duell.
$2.50.

“To go to an island and pull the
ladder up after us and live, un-
troubled by anything” was the dream
of the author and her husband,
a happy-go-lucky, penniless pair,
whose gay zest for adventurous liv-
ing has led them up and down this
country and into a varied assortment
of occupations. An informal, breezy
narrative, describing with verisimili-
tude their homsteading on the last
available island in Puget Sound, a
year of teaching in the Arctic Circle,
traveling with a donkey and cart
and a baby, camping out, or settling
down for a season in cabins built
with their own hands.

The Soong Sisters, by Emily Hahn.
Doubleday. $3.

How it came about that the three
daughters of Charlie Soong, Eling,
Chingling, and Mayling, were edu-
cated in America, and how through
their marriages and their own char-
acters they have become famous in
present day Chinese history, is pop-
ularly presented in this record of the
individual activities of Madame
Kung, Madame Sun Yat-sen, and
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, activities
thrown into relief against the back-
ground of Chinese revolution, civil
war, and invasion by Japan. Photo-
graphs,

Today’s Refugees, Tomorrow’s Cit-
izens: A Story of Americaniza-
tion, by Gerhardt Saenger. Har-
per. $3.

A sympathetic study of the per-
sonal problems of the refugee and
their effects upon him as a human
being. Designed to lead to a bet-
ter understanding of the refugee,
this discussion by a trained social
scientist, and based on interviews
and investigation, vividly portrays
the adjustments the refugee is forced
to make and also his contributions to
American life.

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THE ANNUAL MEETING

of this Association

WILL BE HELD

Tuesday, October 21st, 1941

AT THE

State Office Building, Albany

SEVEN -THIRTY P.M.

At that meeting, ballots electing officers and members of the
Executive Committee for the ensuing year will be canvassed
and results announced.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Association, Asso-
ciation Headquarters, at Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, will
be open until 8:00 P. M. on that day to receive ballots properly
prepared, either by mail or delivered personally. Ballots for the
use of members in electing officers and departmental represen-
tatives, may be found in this issue. Attention is called to the
article on the Editorial Page relative to a “Secret Ballot.”

The annual reports of officers and chairmen of standing
committees covering the work of the Association year closing
will be submitted for the records. Proposals for inclusion in the
Association’s program for the coming year will be presented
and discussed. Any member of the Association or group of mem-
bers, wishing to present any resolution or proposal, but who are
unable to be present at the meeting, should submit it in writing
with memorandum to the President or Secretary before the date
of the meeting.

Members of the Association are urged to avail themselves of
their voting rights, and to be present at the annual meeting and
take part in the discussions and formulation of the policies, pro-
gram and work of the Association for the coming year.

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