Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-04
EVEN JERUSALEM
IS RECLASS|F
| |TSC|V|L WORKERS
So Morris Lambie Tells u. S.
Clerks at Meeting-Other
Speakers Heard.

They are reclassifying EN- now in
Jerusalem, Morris Iambie told
group of government workers who
attended the opening of the nation
United States civil service employees
held at 1923 New York avenue last
night. under auspices of the National
Federation of Federal Employees.
When the British took hold of the
ancient city they set up a civil serv-
ice. Mr.. Lambie declared. but took
care that the natives should be kept
out by making the pay rates so low
that no self-respecting native would
remain.
But officials are reclassifying the
civil service in Jerusalem now. and
soon the tangle there will be cleared
up Mr.. Lambie gave this as an il
1uStration of the Worldwide nature
of Reconsideration schemes and legis
lation.
Heating Among Speakers.
Other speakers We're Edward Keat-
ing. secretary of the reclaSSifica tion
commission; Lewis Merriam. former
chief statiStician of the commission.
and Robert Moses The last paid
especial attention to the question of
tying up Redistribution legislation
with budget legislation. The budget
agency which is to be set up. Mr..
Moses said. will make the Secretary
of the Treasury 'tke most important
the function of fixing salaries of gov
erTment clerks cannot be put in the
Civil Service Commission. saying that
Congress will not permit it; neither
would it be desirable.
Everybody should appreciate the
fact that there is going to be a
budget" Mr.. Moses said. He declared
that it is unlikely that Congress
will make the Redistribution commits
Sion's specifications of government
ms Ia hE
warning his hearers that if they went
before Congress with that 1.000-pase
report of the commission it proba-
bly, would end the matter
There are plenty of people with
nothing else to do but find fault with
the report. Mr. Moses said. and also
if Congress starts hearings on the re-
classification report they will never
get through" The speaker asserted
that it is better to get the ,princi-
pies of reclassifcation through Con-
gress than try to get the whole
book through.
Report Too Big.
You'll never get unanimous APP
prevail of book that size" declared
Mr.. Moses
Mr.. Merriam refuted the assertion
that has been made, he declared, to
fixed their own salaries" in the re-
port of the commission. There never
was a group more carefully watched
than the members of the staff de-
tailed from the government depart
ments." he said. The reclaSSificatio
he said. is in the interests of gov
eminent and employee alike, and is
literally by. for and of the govern
ment employee.
All elements interested in reclassi-
fcation should unite, was the plea
of Mr.. Heating. The interest of all
civil service employees is the force
which will ultimately make reclassi-
fication law. he declared.
Il feel that the hope of the civil
service" Mr.. Heating said, lies in the
employees in the service
Will Be Nation Wide.
1t is a serious mistake, Mr.. Heating
declared. for any one to imagine that
Redistribution will not affect civil
service employees elsewhere. IF adopt
ed here" he said. cit is only a short
time before it will be extended over
the United States"
President Luther Steward OF the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes outlined the plans of the fed
Grafton for nationwide reclassihca-
ton. Miss Gertrude NcNally of this
city and Charles l.. Wiegand of Bal
timore. vice presidents. presided. Ex-
ecutives of the four local unions of
the District and of the fourteen local.
unions of Maryland attended