Evening star., 1920-01-12
URGE BILL TO GIVE
" EMPLOYEES OF D. c.
RAISE Be PASSED
Commissioners Write Chair
! men of Senate and House
I District Committees.
WOULD NOT WAIT ON
RECLASSIFICATION
Increases Ranging From 10 to 40
Per Cent Are Provided
For in Measure.

Urgent recommendation that the
bill providing for salary increases
ranging from 10 to 40 per cent in
salaries Of employees of the District
of Columbia be passed is made in a
letter from the District Commission
ers to Chairman Sherman of the Sem
ate District committee and chairman
Mapes of the House District commit
tee. In their communication the Com
missioners ask that the measure be
made law at once. without await
ing the result of the labors of the
congressional joint commission on re-
classification of salaries, and urge
that the increases recommended. with
a few minor amendments. would in
crease the monthly pay roll only
about $95.734.
vide that salaries of employees whose
basic pay is $1,000 or less per annum
shall be increased 40 per cent. The
increase to employees whose basic pay
is $1,000 or less is fixed at 80 per
cent; to employees whose basic pay
is $500 or less. 20 per cent. and to
those drawing $4,000 or less, 10 per
cent.
Not Satisfactory to Teachers.
Teachers in the public schools of the
District, being employees of the Dis
trict government. are included IN the
bill providing for pay increases. The
teachers, however. are not sat1sned
With the progressive increases provid-
ed in the bill. nor with the amounts
of the increases. and it is expected
separate bill will be introduced in
Congress providing a fiat increase of
so per cent in salaries of all teachers,
pending reclasSification.
The Commissioners in their commu-
nication ask that the class to be given
a 10 per cent increase be changed so
as to include employees of the District
whose basic pay is $4,000 or less.
Existing salaries are so low. the
Commissioners say in the communi-
cation to the chairmen of the Senate
and House District committees. that
the Commissioners believe some ac-
tion should be taken at once to tide
over the interval until the joint COM
mission on reclassification of salaries
can complete its work and Congress
can take some action on it's re-
port.
Would Amend Measures.
In their commandments Com
missioners say:
The Commissioners. in order more
clearly to present their views regard
ing the proposed legislation. recon-
mend that lines six to thirteen (of
:. 1864, Sixty-sixth Congress, first ses-
sion), be amended to read as follows:
Forty per centum to those whose
present basic pay is $1,000 or less per
annum; 80 per centum to those whose
present basic pay is more than $1,000.
but not exceeding $1,000 per annum;
20 per centum to those whose present
basic pay is more than $1,000. but not
exceeding $500 Aper annum; 10 per
centum to those whose present basic
pay is more than S1,500, but not eX-
ceeding $4,000 per annum.
Provided, that in computing in
creases in each of the foregoing
groups the maximum compensa ton
paid in any one group shall not ex-
ceed the minimum compensation paid
IN the group next above"
Tables showing the aggregate
amount required to pay the increased
compensation to District employees
compiled by the auditor for the Dis
trict of Columbia. were appended to
the communication. These tables
however. do not include the amount
required to pay the additional 10 Der
cent to employees whose present basic
pay is more than $1,000. but less than
$1,000. To increase salaries of this
group, the Commissioners state in the
communication. would require S13,s3O
additional.
Audifnrs~ Raoous<,u.xs.