Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-04
WOULD END WORK
. ON RECLASS|FY|NG
EARLY IN January
Commission Plans to CON-
plete Salary Hearings by
December II.

/ Plans for driving the work of the
joint congressional commission on re-
classification Of salaries IN the Dis
trict through to finish by the second
week in January, so that there may
be some chance of government en-
ployes getting financial relief by next
July, We're made today at reclasslh-
cation headquarters.
Z. o. Grifenhagen, chief counselor
of the comm SSlon, arrived IN " ASH
ington today and conferred with
members of the Redistribution com
mission on the final steps which must
be taken in order that the report OF
the commission to Congress may be
presented on time.
Would End Hearings December II.
One of the steps decided upon is the
massing of hearings of groups or fed
eral employees before the commission.
At the rate hearings have been pro-
crossing it is realized that several
more months would be necessary to
hear all the emp'oyes. Plans adopted
today call for the conclusion or the
h arings by December II.
The system of presentation of the
claims of the employees by briefs
handled by representatives of the par
ticular services conce, ned, worked
so admira bly,, Commissioner Edwar
Heating declared today. that the com
mission sees the feasibility of group
ing several services into one hearing.
This plan, therefore, with the CO.
operation of the federal employees con-
cerned, will be carried out with the
technical engineers and scientists in
the government service here, all OF
whom probably will be given joint
hearing.
Hearings Tomorrow and Wednesday.
Several of the strictly clerical serv-
ice. also of whom the great majority
have yet to be heard before the com
mission, will be grouped similarly, 1t
was indicated today. Following the
hearing of the domestic service. when
includes White House ushers and
footmen. at $50 O'Clock tomorrow
morning, at the comm ssion head
quarters Az street and Missouri ave
nue., the rural industries service WI
same hour and place. The depart
mental publications and information
services will be heard Tuesday morn
ing.
The mail fling and recorder serv-
ices, three of the strictly clerical Serv-
ices, will be heard before the commits
sion at $40 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. most probably in room 426 of the
Senate office building, owing to the
size of this serv ce.
More than $4,000 federal employees
are at work in the filing service, it
was stated today, and will be repre-
scented by their chosen spokesman a.
the hearing. About 1000 more en-
ployes are engaged in recording work
and the mail service.
FinEer-Print Experts to Testify.
Finger-print experts of the war risk
insurance bureau and other bureaus
of the government will be represent
ed at the hearing next Wednesday
These employees constitute one of the
newest branches of federal work, and
their brief before the commission is
looked forward to with interest
1t is the hope of the reclassifica-
ton commission that the briefs yet
to be presented to it will live up to
their name-brief. Some of the
| briefs in the past have been any
thing but brief, it is known. and
while no disposition is shown on the
part of the reclassifcationists to
place any limit on the size of writ
members are praying for real briefs"
Women's Briefs Short.
The women, SO far, have presented
mission" declared a member of the
commission, discussing the briefs. He
pointed to the brief of Miss McNally
who represented before the commits
sion recently the several thousand
woman employees Of the bureau of en-
craving and printing. Her brief was
but two pages in length.
This is typical of all the briefs
presented to date" declared the re-
classlficatlonist. THE women are
brief, and the men wordy."