Evening star., 1920-05-24
FEDERAL WORKERS
MAY GETLECTURES
ON RECLASS|FY|
Plans to Be Presented at
Joint Conference Tomor-
row Night.

Lectures on the value and impor-
tance of reclassification legislation
will be given to the approximately
100000 federal employees in the gov
ernment departments here if plans to
be presented before the joint confer
ence on reclassif1cation tomorrow
night are adopted.
While Congress shows no DISPOSE
tfon to take any action on the report
the reclassification commission made
March IL last. It likewise develops
that many of the federal workers
themselves are losing interest in re-
classification.
Those behind the movement to re-
vive the reclassification issue feel
that both the government and the en-
ployes are the loser by reason of this
attitude of indifference.
VIII Repeat Lectures.
Accordingly a plan is to be pro-
posed whereby a series Of talks-"re-
classification lectures"-may be pre-
sented to the federal workers in their
own departments. 1t is recalled that
such talks were given the employees
at the beginning of the reclassifica-
At that time the need was for CO.
Operation Of government workers
with the reclassification oficials and
the commission. This cooperation
was secured with such good measure
that members of the commission aft
mission had ever received such
unanimous support from any body of
people.
Now the need is felt for awakening
anew in the hearts of some federal
workers the same spirit which ami
hnp 10 nd
Since Congress has shown no DISPOSE
ton to take up the report and bill OF
the reclassification commission, some
federal employees have felt that the
report and bill are shelved perma-
nently.
Still q Live Issue.
Members OF the joint conference on
reclassification feel that this il not
the case. that reclassincation is still .
very live issue. and that it must be
made an even moro live issue in the
minds of members Of Congress-, the
federal workers and the public at
large.
For the good of the National CAP
ital is largely involved in the re-
classification issue, 1t is pointed out,
and it Is just this very idea that it is
hoped may be put over" in the series
Of lectures proposed to be given to
the clerks themselves in their bu-
reaus and Offices
Uncle Sam 10 perhaps the greater
loser from the chaotic condition that
prevails In many Of the departments.
wherein workers doing precisely the
same work are drawing vastly differ
ent salaries. This fundamental evil
has not been overshadowed even by
the discussion OF the high cost OF
living.
To smooth out the Inequalities in
government service was the aim and
object of the reclassifcation commits
sion, in the first place. and this con-
dition, 1t was pointed out today, exists
today as surely as 1t did when the re-
classification commission began to
function.
Injures Government.
The government is the primary suf-
ferer, now as always, through a
lessened morale which is reflected in
disgruntled employees, large labor
turnovers in the departments, and in
many other ways. This is what the
joint conference on reclassification,
headed by federal workers who work
ed on the stan OF the commission
wants to impress on their fellow
workers.
With this idea firmly brought home
it is believed that the entire 100, ,O00
federal employees here will put their
shoulder to the wheel and push the
reclassincation legislation "over the
top"