New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-03
Tammany Boldly Grabbed
Jobs for RetainerS to
Aid Organization.
IMCOMPETENTS GET
IMPORTANT POSTS
List of Appointees Shows Bur-
den Put on State-Murphy's
Friend in Charge.
BY FREDERICK W. CRONE.

Probably the most barefaced in
stances Of Tammany's policy Of grab
bling the state departments are its TAX
ing over Of the State Department Of
Labor and the recently organized
Wor6men's Compensation Commission
The result Is that the administration
of these vast agencies for the protec-
ton Of workingmen and women and
their families has been given into the
lends of incompetents most Of them
political heelers and professional job
holders. The public suffers. Only the
jobholders and the Democratic organi-
cation benefit.
In 1913 the Labor Department was
rcorganiZed under laws passed because
of the Triangle fire and disclosures Of
rotten factory conditions here and In
upstate cities and even in manufactur-
ing establishments in country towns A
legislative committees investigation
had proved the necessity for labor
department Of greater power and scope
Of work and greater resources for work,
in appropriations and employees, A
united public sentiment passed the laws
creating many new places. These were
intended TO be filled by experts men
and women trained in prevention OF UNI
safe and unsanitary factory conditions
and, because of their ability and ex-
perience, deserving of good salaries.
John Williams, a holdover from Re-
publican days, was then Commissioner,
and was extremely anxious to retain his
Ilace or get some place Of equivalent
salary in the reorganized department.
lie worked in harmony with the Demo
Gratis then and, having been retained IN
a good job, still works IN harmony with
them. In April, 1913, he asked the
State Civil Service Commission TO eK-
empt twenty-eight places, which IN
cluded important lnspectorshlps TINS
request was fought by various civic
organizations, and went over for sew
cral months. James NJ Lynch, the
present Commissioners, renewed 1t. and
twenty-one places, including the IN
vestigators i'm the Bureau Of Industrial
! Hygiene. were exempted. Governor
Glynn approved the exemptions. This
was Tammany's opportunity. The
places were filled, not with experts,
technically trained men and women,
but with politicians and labor union
officials having political influence.
In a recent treatise on "Administra-
ton of Labor Laws and Factory In
spcction in Certain European Coun-
tries" written by Dr.. George NJ. Price
and issued By the federal Department
of Labor, occurs this significant OBJ
scryation: "In all the European coun-
tries visited, factory Inspection IS re-
gardcd as a special vocation and pro-
tessiOn, just as the professions OF law,
medicine, engineering, or state service.
In this. as well as in other profess
sions. there is no place for the very
rod or for the old
or those who have failed IN other
walks of life. The preliminary selec-
tive process. with the subsequent sci
entitc tests and technical examinations,
results in assuring not only persons
with high technical training, but also
persons Of high character and social
standing
Tammany Grabs for Jobs.
Tammany did not believe in any such
method of doing business. Witness q
/ list of appointments made 10 these
J technical places. According TO an in
vestigation made by Miss Mary Cham
berlain for 1.-THE Survey" 1.-The inspec-
tors and investigators who were APP
rointed under this exemption aroused
+ the mistrust that the Department OF
Labor was being loaded with political
/ hangers-on and labor union graduate
with more or less political influence"
4 record Of these appolntm It's SHOWS
/ experience and other qualifications as
follows:
Chief factory inspector, Edward D.
jackson. Buffalo. salary $4,000; Demo
cratic Assemblyman for seven years;
switchman. secretary swltchmen's union.
Chief factory inspector, jeremiah }.
Flood, New York, salary $4,000; the
Jerry" who figured in the notorious
Letters of Boss" Adherent OF Jim
Frawley's; ousted from fat job by Bor-
OUCH President McAneny; plumber;
Assistant chief factory inspector, I'd
ward l.. Pierce. New York, salary 50,
600; formerly a janitor; Tammany ad-
herent of "Al' Smith, ex-Speaker OF
. the Assembly.
Chief Investigator Bureau of Indus
tries and immigration. Marion X. Clark,
New York. salary, $4,000; claims ~
perience i'm social and labor investiga-
tons; backed by Senator Frawley.
Assistant Counsel. Max :. Levine,
New York. salary, $4,000; Tammany al
German with unsavory record, asso-
ciated with the Sullivans.
Supervisor Printing and Publication,
John II. McCann, Albany, salary, S3'OOO;
member Albany Typographical Union
enrolled Democrat. ooo.
Special investigators, salary, S2,OuO;
John McArdle. Brooklyn, ce-president
Allied Printing Trades Council Ed
ward Y. Gilmore, New York, eX-alder-
man. Tammany. Frawley adherent; eX-
salesman. Michael Coan, New YORK,
business representative Garment Work
ers' Union. Robert VI. Wood, New
York. iobhoder under Borough Presi-
dent Ahearn; president New York state
, CoIored Democracy. Antonio VI. Caridi,
court interpreter, who sought political
inhuence to get appointment ahead or
civiI service listing. John +. Hickey.
Valatie: saloon keeper. Robert Neither
colt. Port Chester, bricklayer.
No Experience" Needed.
Confidential agents, salary, $1,000;
Jacob Heintz. New York. salesman.
Charles Z. Hurley, Albany, produce
Detective-an Office not provided for
in the law-salary, $1,000, Joseph
Grandon. New York, clerk of Senate
Finance Committee under Jim" Fraw-
ley. ., I'LL, - -
these appointments is Commissioner
Lynch. an upstate Democrat, SYRIA
c,ise printer. prominent in labor union
work. His appointment had the back
ing of Kelly, Murphy's ally IN Onon-
daea County. Mr. Lynch is also re-
sponsible for the appointment of John
q Walsh. of New York, TO be a mem
her of the Industrial Board, which en-
deavors TO straighten out labor dis
putes. He gets $4,000 for the job and