Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-24
Low SALARY RATE
100000 WORKERS
Government Employees in DC.
Reported Getting Less
Than $50 a Month.
5000 LISTED AS CLERKS

More than $1,000 employees of the
federal and municipal governments
in the District Of Columbia are re-
ceiving less than $50 q month. ac-
cording to the joint congressional
commission on reclassification cot
salaries.
This estimate was submitted yes
terday by the commission to the Sen.
ate education committee. which 10
considering the Nolan bill giving fed
eral employees daily minimum wage
Of s. a day.
The $1,000 employees in this salary
class comprise 2e per cent Of the
104.317 whose positions are under the
jurisdiction Of the reclassihcation
commission and are now being clas-
sified on the basis Of duties, respon-
sfbilities and qualifications. It is
calculated by the commission that
the annual earnings Of these employees
of the federal and municipal govern
ments are less by $5,271, 900 than they
would be If the Nolan bill went into
effect.
Classification Of Employees.
OF this number 5000 are listed as
clerks and 1000 as stenographere and
typists. Moro than 10000 Of the total
were found to be employed in the
Treasury Department. One case found
messenger. eighty-four years of age,
who entered the service forty-nine
years ago at 1892 and is now receive
ing 1929. Another was that Of a clerk,
having supervisory responsibilities
seventy-three years old, who entered
5000 and now is receiving $1,000. An
other entered the service twenty-six
years ago at 1920 and now is receiy-
ing 5000.
D. G. List Numbers 2,411.
A total of 2.411 employees of the
District of Columbia government come
commission announced in a table CIV
ing numbers of employees who will be
benefited by this legislation. OF this
number 1,15S, are teachers in the Dis
trict public schools. More than one
hundred men of the District fire de-
partment, fifty-nine of the police
force, 402 Of the street cleaning de-
partment and 627 in other branches
of the District government come
within the terms Of the Nolan bill, the
commission announced. This list in
%,,vI o~a -
OF the federal departments, whose
workers reside largely in the District
of Columbia, there are 4.766 en-
ployed at the bureau of engraving
and printing who will come within
the terms Of the Nolan law, 1.165 Of
the war risk insurance bureau, 1897
of the Department Of Agriculture,
1881 of the State. War and Navy
building, 2S9 Of the Smithsonian In
.stitution and others from other de-
partments and divisions of the fed
eral government.
Large Percentage Laborers.
Nearly one-third of the employees
who receive salaries of less than $50
a month. or ssh, are laborsrs Char
women, maids and matrons account
for 2,570 more and clerks for more
than 5000.
Teachers who come in this class
number 730.
The number and duties of employees
of the District government who fall
in the $50 class are not specified in
the report.
Those named In the report as bene-
flied by the Nolan bill. who work on
part time, number 2,247, exclusive of
teachers who are sometimes called to
substitute for a regular teacher.
There are 1887 employees at the gov
eminent printing office who come I'M
der tho terms Of the Nolap bill. and
$3.50 in all bureaus and Offices Of tho
War nonorfroont