Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-16
FURTHER CHANGES
f. IN RETIREMENT ACT
TO Be REQUESTED
Meeting Called for Tomorrow
Night for Benefit of
UncIassified.

| Necessity for further extension Of
the retirement act to cover certain
unclassif1ed employees of the civil ser
flee will be brought. to the attention
of President Wilson and the Civil Ser
vice Commi ssion by the joint confer
ence on retirement.
A meeting of the conference was
called today for 1880 o'clock tomor-
row night at 1923 New York avenue
to consider the best way and the most
opportune time to remind the chief
executive and the Civil Service Com
mission of the matter.
Meeting to Be Representative.
Representatives of the various fed
eral employees unions, the National
Federation of Federal Employees, and
of the Washington navy yard. various
departments and bureaus of the gov
eminent will attend, making the
meeting representative of the senti-
ment here on the matter.
AS the time draws near-Friday-
for the separation from the govern
ment service of several thousand SUI
peranuateS in this city and through
out the country. attention of the gov
eminent workers who will remain in
the service until their time comes to
retire centerS more and more on re-
naming problems of retirement.
Case of the Unclaxsified.
Yielding in Importance to none
other Is the problem Of the extension
of the retirement act to cover certain
ment who have had long tenure Of
Office, but are not at present eligible
to the benefits of retirement.
These old men and women, some Of
whom have toiled nearly half century
in government buildings here, will see
h,,y, 4f not f111 IA
men and women like them, say goodbye
to their offices Friday, and retire on
annuities.
But those who are not in the CLASH
fled service, no matter how long they
have served. nor how faithful their work
on a pension unless the Civil Service
Commission sees it's way to so recon-
mend to the President. and the Presi-
dent. in hi sturn, to issue an executive
order.
Several months ago Attorney General
Palmer handed down an opinion that it
was in the power of the Civil Service
Commission to designate who should be-
come eligible for retirement in the ranks
of the unclassif1ed employees and so
recommend to the President for an
order.
Since that time the matter has been
hanging fire in the departments here.
problem of finding out just what the
opinions of the heads of departments
and other supervisory officials were.
Problem Complicated.
The problem has been complicated
by the indecision Of employees and Off
Gals alike as to exactly who from
the unclassified ranks should be in
cluded under the benefits of retire
ment if an extension Of the act is to
be asked
Some requests have been made, it is
known. that certain particular in
dividuals in the unclassified service
should be made to come under the
retirement benefits. Such partial
recommendation of class of workers
has not met with the approval of the
civil service body to date, it being the
opinion that unfairness only would
result from an order placing one or
two individuals under retirement and
leaving scores of their fellow workers,
doing essentially the same work,
without the retirement benefits, as
they are at present.