Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
THEY LOVE TO LOAF
Civil Service Pets Have the Very
Softest Jobs Of Any in the
City Hall.
"Investisate" by Telephone, "esan.
inc" by Restfulness. but Sign the
Payroll in Person. Every Time.

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 disregarded 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 intelligent men being
called in at IS per day to conduct ex.
aminations. pets of the board have
been put on the regular pay roll at
high 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
been held for one man only.
How is that for illegality?
Section 8 Of the Civil Service law |
says:
Sec. 6. Examinations. All appli. |
cants for office or places in said classi. |
fed service, except those mentioned
in Section IL, shall be subjected to
examination, which shall be public, |
competitive and free to all citizens Of
the United States, with specified limi.
tations as to residence, age, health,
habits and moral character. Such ex.
aminations shall be practical in their
character. and shall relate to those
matters which will fairly test the rela.
five capacity of the persons examined
to discharge the duties of the positions
to which they seek to be appointed
and shall include tests of physical
qualifications and health, and. when
appropriate, of manual skill. No ques.
tons In any examination shall relate
to political or religious opinions or
affiliations.
Moreover, the pet examiners" Of
the commission appointed in violation
Of the law have held the examinations
as they pleased.
If one Of them happened to be
around. he held the examination; II
more than one they held It.
II depended very much on the
length of their lunch routes or as to
whether they had any outside bust.
ness to attend to.
In this examiner" business the law
has been boldly and defiantly violated
from the start.
Section also provides that
The commission shall control all
examinations, and may, whenever an
TO-. L.. a. AL, IT,
nate suitable number Of persons,
either in or not in the official service
OF the city, to be examiners, and 1t
shall be the duty OF such examiners,
and, II In the official service, 1t shall
be a part Of their official duty, without
extra compensation, to conduct such
examination as the commission may
direct, and to make return or report
thereof to said commission. and the
commission may at any time substi.
tute any other person, whether or not
in such service. In the place OF any
one SO selected; and the commission
may themselves at any time act as
such examiners, and without appoint.
ing examiners. The examiners at any
examination shall not all be mem.
bers Of the same political party"
The examiners at any examina.
ton shall not be members OF the same
political party.
What joke.
Many examinations are conducted
by one examiner"
There Is jail in sight for some OF
the gang.
Section "a OF the law says:
Sec. 81. Penalties. Any person who
shall wilfully, or through culpable
negligence, violate any OF the provis.
ions of this act, or any rule promul.
gated In accordance with the provis.
ions thereof. shall be guilty Of a mis-.
demeanor. and shall. on conviction
thereof, be punished by fine Of not
less than fifty dollars and not exceed
ing one thousand dollars, or by i'm
prisonment in the county jail for q
term not exceeding six months, or
both such fine and Imprisonment In
the discretion Of the court.
Section 3s, provides that before this
act can go into effect the votes of the
city must approve of 1t at an election
The voters of Chicago have approved
legislature can go into effect until
that amendment Is also approved al
an election by the legal voters OF
Chicago.
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Five hundred envelopes, each con-
tanning a check from the Red Cross
relief committee on the Eastland dis
aster were delivered by postmen to
survivors of victims of the disaster.
In all, the amount sent out TO families
who suffered in the river disaster was
$4,000, made up in $40 checks.
Members OF the relief committee ex'
pressed some anxiety when they heard
that shysters and confidence men are
on the trail OF these checks, and may
seek 70 advise the beneficiaries as TO
the investments which they may de-
sire 10 make Of the money.
To safeguard the Eastland suffer
cTs, the committee has taken all pos
s.Ble precautions and has warned each
beneficiary that before investment he
Jr she seek advice from the relief
committee or some we'll known and
reputable business man.