Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-26
RUSH FOR PENSIONS
MAY PUT CLERKS
ON LONGER HOURS
Retirement of $50 Veterans
Also Will Cut Force
Needed on Claims.

Overtime work for all employees Of
the pension bureau may result shortly
from the retirement Of 80 superan-
nuates Of that bureau. combined with
the heavy draft Of work resulting
from the retirement law itself. and
the recent laws extending pensions re-
sultlng from the civil and Spanish
American wars.
Twelve thousand claims under the
RULER and Sells acts. relative to
pensioners of the two wars named.
are unrecorded of the 10000 already
received. simply through inability OF
employees to record them
Extra Work Swamps Once.
Acting Commissioner r D. Rving-
ton today stated that overtime work
ior the employees of the pension Office
looms as a necessity, as the result OF
me conditions existing. and that the
mater wliI be placed before Commits
Sloner Saltzgaber immediately upon
his return TO the city.
ne depletion of the pension Office
StdL through the ultimate retirement
VI 10y employees. with about fifty su-
Perahnuates retained for two-vcar
period, does not make The situstion
SO serious, but the great smo,In, 81
| Extra work now upon the bureau *
"mdt is causing the trouble
cidlhS Tor pensions under the
CNo new laws, to say nothing of rha
~ ann ulAitS under the
hleht law. are coming in AT the rate
OF fVo a day, Or. Byington said Thou-
mus OF THESE ella inns are unrscorded
| IN the recording division. hecausa ~.
Iprce is not large enough to handle
WI win the accustomed speed
vigorous Protests Expected.
II Is anticipated that overtime work
az ,he bureau would cause a tremen-
dous protest. especially during ~ ~,
weather. but officials feel thai in 80,
OF me situation no employees could
justly protest if the order has IN he
pun INTO eject IT is hoped that some
solution of the problem may be ar
rived at without the resort to over
time work.
Some of the $50 positions ia no 1.f,
vacant August u as the result OF H.
operation OF the retirement act can
De hlled by transfer from other d.
partments, notably the War Denart-
ineht' which is releasing some of It's
workers. But other positions will MOI
pe SO easy TO MI, ii is Anticipated as
1t is not believed that the entire 1ao
can be recruited by transfer. and
| mat is the only way the positions may
be hlled under the terms of the law
Few Post ONCE Claims YET.
Al the retirement division il was
stated today that very few or In
clalms OF superannuates of the Post
O,liSe department had as yet been
hIed with the division. 1t is antici-
pated that these claims, both in the
Post ONCE Department here and the
postal service throughout the nation
VIII De sent into the retirement di-
vision in a group.
Just how many of the post Office su-
perannuates the Postmaster General
intends to certify for retention was
mystery today. The department re-
fused to give out the number of those
10 be retained. following the recent
resembling by the Postmaster Genera
of his blanket retirement order and
the Civil Service Commission declared
1t could not make the information
public.
II was reported today that very few,
retentlons would be o. KID by the
Postmaster General in the cas. ~
Superannuates