The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-04-25
NO UNIF ORlNI1Y
In civil SERVICE
Classitlcation in New YORK.

civil service commission for the year
1910 gives the following classiflca-
ton of employees in eject in that
city:
Competitive class includes all 20
sitions for which it is practical to
determine the merit and fitness OF
applicants by competitive examine
'tions.
&oncompetitiye class includes such
positions as are not in the exempt
class or hellabor class. and which
it is Impractical to include in the
competitive class.
Labor class includes unskilled la
borers and such unskilled laborers
as are not included In the compete
tive or the noncompetitiye class.
Exempt class includes those that
may be appointed without examina.
ton. A statement of all such ap-
pointments must, however, be mals
to the civil service commission by
the appointing officer. This class in
cludes ta) deputies of principal ex-
ecutiye officers authorized by law 10
act for principals; (b) one secretary
for each board, office or commission
authorized by law to appoint a sec
tary, except the civil service board
Itself; tc) one clerk and on deputy
clerk, if authorized, by law of. each
court, and one clerk of each elective
judicial officer.
Chicago and number of other
Illinois cities operate under a state
law adopted by a vote of the electors
in the several cities, The law. ex-
empts from its provisions elective Of
ficers, officers whose appointment Is
subject to confirmation by the city
council. judges Of election; MEM
bers of the board of education,
teachers of schools, heads of the
principal departments of the city,
members of the law department., and
one private secretary of the mayor.
In Chicago civil. service regulation
recognizes the following classes, each
of which has subdivisions or grades:
Medical service, operating engineer
ing service, fire service, library SER
vice. inspection service, supervising
service, skilled labor service and la
Dor service.
The civil service regulations of
Boston are those of the examining
board appointed by the governor.
The Massachusetts law classifies SER
vice as official service" and labor
service" The former class includes
fire, police, clerical, technical anu
other similar positions, and the labor
service includes the positions of %
labores. C2).,skilled laborers, ami
80 mechanics and craftsmen.
Protection Not Uniform.
The. reports obtained from the
several cities concerning the proA
lection Afforded city employees in
their tenure OF office show wide vari-
ance in the extent OF the protection
Rochester, N. Y, Cincinnati, o., pay
ton. o.. Spokane, Wash. Des ;Moines.
Ia, Kansas city, Kan, Pittsburs.
Pa, Springfield, o., and New Or:
leans, La, the reports show full pro-
lection of all classes of city en-
ployees. This protection means
that removal can be made only after,
the filing of written charges and a
formal hearing.
All classes of employees are given
partial protection in Kansas City,
Mo-, and Oklahoma City, Okla, and
the following cities furnish protec-
ton to specified classes of employees
as indicated: Omaha, Neb., Dallas
and Fort Worth, Tex, Sacramento,
Calf, and Topeka. Kan. to fire.
men and policemen; washington,
d. C., only to the assessors and
uielupeFs Oh the permanent uodIu Y
assistant assessors; Troy, n. Y, to
veterans of the Civil war; and Loss
Angeles. Calf. to all employees ex-
cept those OF the fire, police and Ill
brary departments. The report :or
Tacoma, wash, shows that the ques-
ton Of the rights to discharge is yet
unsettled in that city. the matter
having been appealed recently to the
supreme court; and the method in