Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-23
LACK Of TRAINING
CITED HANDICAP
TOMANY WORKERS

Setting Of high educational require
ments for entrance into the tipping.
stenographic, correspondence and
secretariaI services of the govern
ment was commended today by a
committee which represented the H.
900 workers in these services before
the joint congressional commission
on Redistribution of salaries in the
District.
zone of the main causes of poor
work by typiStS and Stenographers is
undoubtedly due to the fact that they
have not had a good fundamental
training" declared w. J. Schutrumpf
of the Interior Department. present
ing a brief asking for salary in
creases to the Redistribution COM
mission.
Called "Dackbone Of Service"
Regarded as the backbone of the
government service" the tipping,
stenographic, correspondence and
secretarial workers constitute the
largest single class of employees IN
the government service which has yet
appeared before the reciasSificatlon
commission. Sealed salary demands
were placed before the commission.
The government is constantly los-
ing the service of reporters" declared
the brief Many of these have re-
ceived much of their training in the
government service. If there were
provided in government service a
scale of salaries and promotions winch
would measurabiy compare Win
what they can command IN OUTSIDE
work. these men probably would stay
"As it is the government is helping
to train them for the benefit of their
future employer. without making an
effort to retain the benefits for itself,
declared the brief.
The brief declared that it may De
fairly estimated that lin amount or
nrena ration necessary the shorthand
reporting profession is fully compare
HE with those Of law and medicine
while the actual work is generally
much more eXact1ng.
Suggestions by Committee.
The committee. headed by Mr. Schu-
trumpf. asked that in requirements
in the future for senior typist and
stenographer SiXty-five net WoroS per
minute be substituted for seventy
five; for junior stenographer ana
tynist fifty-five for sixty words, and
for under typist and stenosrapher'
forty-five for fifty words
a priyate secretary in the govern
ment service here was designated as
the diplomat of his office" in the
brief presented. g
cider" il was stated. but he must
nIease his boss; know his iciosyn-
crasies. respect his humors, antici-
nate his wishes and never make the
error of attempting to keep out some
one who later proves to be friend.
"Jf he unconsciouSly onends any
one it is up to him to smooth the
matter over, and if he fails, he fails
as a private secretary
Miss Esther simpsons Brief.
Mss Esther Simpson of the war risk
insurance bureau presented sepa-
rate brief, asking that the debating
machine operators in the government
service be considered as separate
class of workers.
mo minute of time need be wasted
nv an OPERATOR said Miss Simpson.
"a dictator never has to wait for an
generator. He may d ictate at any time
of day or night, at his office, home or
in another city; he may stop debating
To use the telephone, interview nu-
rnarous people hold conferences: but
the operator is steadily working on.
with absolutely no waste of time.
1.-The time that is spent by the Ste
nographer in taking dictation anG
wasted in waiting on the dictator to
attend to things for which a business
man may always be interrupted is
used by the operator for turning out
actual work.
LAS consequence of this uninter-
rupted work." Miss Simpson said, the
operator can put out SO per cent more
work than the stenographer.
1.-The work of the d ctating machine
operator Is hard and steady, and her
production is far beyond any worker
in her class"