Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-04
Will Apply to the Unmarried.

The minimum wage to be recon-
nended will apply to single men and
ice. and, in all probability. be in the
neighborhood of $1,000. DR.. Royal
Meeker of the bureau Of labor statis-
tics has recommended to the commits
! S1,O83 for single women employees OF
the federal government here. These
| figures probably will be augmented by
the bureau of labor statistics.
Ways and means for securing repre-
sentation of all government workers
in the District at the. hearings before
the Redistribution was discussed at
the meeting last night, when members
| of the old committees on sources OF
| wage data" were transformed into
committees to prepare hearings for the
thirty different services" into which
the 107 900 local government workers
have been divided.
| I'VE want to know what employees
think they should be called and what
they think they should earn" DR..
employees and administrative officials.
who comprise the committees. He
announced that, aside from the two
hearings already scheduled for this
week-the library service at $50
o'clock tomorrow morning and tho
$3.50 o'clock Thursday morning
| there probably will be no more hear
ings until next week.
| The service committees will act as
clearing houses for all government
workers to get their views before
1.-THE commission. 1t will be impossi-
BILE for the 100000 employees to per-
sonauy appear. but by placing their
views before the service committees
they will have a chance to get them
sion.
Department Lines to Be Wiped Out.
The hearings will be on two SUBJ
| jects, Herbert Z. Fleming, director
of the commission. told the commit
tee members. Classification strictly.
and salary recommendations will be
considered. Each of the thirty serv-
ices into which the 10000 employees
| have been divided has been subdivided
! into Glasses which in reality are
the different Jobs" held by the work,
ers. Departmental lines are wiped
out. and a worker in any class if do
the same pay as worker in the same
class in any other bureau.
Specifications of these classes have
been written for workers in the
library service and in the telephone and
telegraph service and are rapidly be-
ing completed for the other twenty
eight services. A class specification
contains: /, title; 2. duties: 3. quail
fications, and 4, lines Of promotion.
Promotions From Class to Glass.
Minimum and maximum salary
scales will be fixed for each: class. |
it was announced last night, although
for some scientific workers there-w
be placed a minimum but no maxi
mum salary. Promotions will be made
from class to class, constituting
series of stepping stones Ior am
bilious federal workers.
Representatives appearing at the
hearings may either recommend
definite minimum wage. make no sal
airy recomm endation whatever, or de-
clare that they will accept the mini
mum wage to be set by the commas
sion plus s12o' or whatever they
deem fit. If any set Of employees de-
cided upon this latter method, their
recommendation will appear SOME
thing like this: an. w. plus $l20.
Henry Allen Cooper, member OF me
commission. presided at the meeting.
Members of the thirty. service cam
mittees. after hearing the general in
structionA met separately to CONSIDER
plans for their individual hearings.
Specifications Of all the classes or
"iobs" in a service will be handed that
service committee by the commission
ten days in advance of the pubic
hearing to be given each service.
This is in order that adequate study
may be made by the committee OF the
specifications, and determine the sal
ary recommendations, If any, to be
made.