The Washington herald., 1915-05-21
STRAIGHT CIVIL
PENSIONS FOUGHT
Retirement Association Will
Continue to Work for Con-
tributory Plan.
DELEGATES IN SESSION
Resolution to Limit Voting by Proxy
Is Postponed After Spirited
.....--~ Debate
DELEGATES IN SESSION

Delegates to the sixteenth annual con-
vention Of the United States Civil Serv-
ice Association assembled at G. A. II.
Hall last night, voted unanimously to
support ANY reasonable compensation law
for civil service employees" that may De
offered in Congress. The delegates. how
ever. adopted a resolution Ito continue
to advocate an equitable contributory
plan of retirement" and Ito refuse to
affiliate with any organization advocat-
ing straight civil pension wholly at the
expense of the public treasury"
The convention also voted unanimously
that under no circumstances should the
autonomy of our association be affected
or the usefulness of its work interfered
with by entering into any compromising
or entangling alliance with the straight
civil pension advocates" The resolutions
to steer clear of the straight pension ad-
vocates were recommended by DIR.
Llewellyn Jordan. secretary Of the asso-
citation, in his annual report, and were
approved without dissenting voice.
For Contradictory Pension.
The resolution to support any com.
pensation law was introduced by the
resolutions committee and adopted with
out discussion. Adoptions of these reso-
buttons mean that the association will
continue to work for a contributory PEN
sion and will support any compensation
law without actually combining forces
with the straight pension advocates. The
resolutions may be taken to indicate a
peace overture, it was stated, between
the two factions Of civil employees seek
ing pensions.
Spirited debates marked the entire SEES
sion. The first fight was caused by a
resolution commencing a local newspaper
for fighting the cause of the pension
seeker. Friends of other local news
papers objected on the ground that all
Washington papers are aiding in the
pension fight. After more than bali of
the delegates had joined in the debate
a compromise was reached by adopting
a resolution commencing each Of the
four papers in this city.
Resolution IL Postponed.
Another storm was created by intro
duction of a resolution designed to limit
voting by proxy. The resolution was
indefinitely postponed"
Secretary Jordan made these state
ments in his annual report: I'VE have
not been permitted to make any COL
lections in the Department of Agricul-
ture. Justice. Navy and Postoffce, nor
in the Civil Service Commission and have
suffered a loss of between $40O and $500
We endeavored to overcome this opposi-
ton by appealing directly to the Presi-
dent. who had given us a general per-
mission for the collection of member
ship dues. We are informed that the
matter was made the subject of Cabinet
meeting"
Daniel Goldschmidt OF New York, presi-
lent of the association, in his annual
report declared: THE only thing We ac-
tually have accomplished in the last
year is the procuring of widespread pub
lefty of retirement and pension schemes
ind plans in newspapers and elsewhere"
The convention was addresses by Com
missioner Brownlow. Superintendent of
Police Pullman. William F. GUIDE and
Helgesen, of North Da-
,ota