Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-19
ufERS AGAINST MAYOR
The City Hall Aristocraey Of Pen
sion Hunting Life Job Holders
Are Against Thompson.
A Little Investigation Of Many o.
Thorn viii stake Thorn 70 Court
Proof Bounce.

The Civil Service Commission OF
the City Of Chicago has, for many
years, been violating the law OF the
State.
The Civil Service law has been
brazenly disresarded by It.
Positions have been created In VIOLA
ton of the law.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
have been paid out for salaries for
Examiners and other positions Gre
ated in violation Of the law.
Instead Of the Commission limiting
itself to 5000 year for help, 1t has
paid out illegally over 100000 q year.
Instead Of intelligent men being
called in at IS per day to conduct ex'
aminations, pets Of the board nave
been put on the regular pay roll at
hish salaries in defiance Of the Civil
Service law.
The law provides for Competitive
examinations.
Many Of the examinations have not
been.
In fact many examinations have
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How 10 that for Illegally?
Section 8 Of the Civil Service law
says:
Sec. 8. Examinations. All appli'
cants for ONCE or places in said classi
ned service, except those mentioned
in Section II. shall be subjected te
examination, which shall be pubic
competitive and free to all citizens o.
the United States. with specified limi
tations as to residence, age, health
habits and moral character. Such OK
aminations shall be practical In thei'
character, and shall relate to thos'
matters which will fairly test the rela
tive capacity Of the persons examiner
to discharge the duties Of the position
to which they seek to be appointed
and shall include tests Of physics
qualifications and health, and, whe
appropriate, of manual skill. NO que
lions In any examination shall reia'
to political or religious opinions
ahiliations.
Moreover, the pet examiners"
the commission appointed In violatio
Of the law have held the examination
40 they pleased.
II one Of them happened to
around, he held the examination;
more than one they held 1t. :.
It depended very much ON q
length Of their lunch routes or az
whether they had any outside bu'
ness to attend to.
In this examiner" business the 10
has been boldly and dehantly violat
from the start.
Section 8 also provides that
"The commission shall control
examinations, and may. whenever
examination is to take place. des
nate a suitable number OF persol
either in or not In the oficial serv'
of the city, to be examiners, and
shall be the duty Of such examine
and, II In the oficial service. It sh
be a part of their Official duty, with'
extra compensation. to conduct 81
examination as the commission n
direct, and to make return or rep
thereof to said commission, ana
commission may at any time sub
tute any other person. whether or
in such service, In the place of
one so selected; and the commiss
may themselves at any time act
such examiners, and without Apo
ing examiners. The examiners at
examination shall not all be m
bers of the same political party"
The examiners at any exam
ton shall not be members OF the 81
political party.
What joke.
Many examinations are condu
by one examiner"
There Is jail In sight for SOM
the gang.
Section 81 of the law says:
Sec. 81. Penalties. Any person
shall wilfully. or through cuip
negligence. violate any of the pr
ions Of this act. or any rule pro
gated in accordance with the pr
ions thereof. shall be guilty OF q
demeanor, and shall. on convi
thereof, be punished by flne o.
less than fifty dollars and not OK
ing one thousand dollars, or BY
prisonment In the county jail
term not exceeding six month";
both such fne and imprisonmel
the discretion of the court.
Section 3S. provides that before
act can 60 into effect the votes