The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-27
WACEDNCREASE
.PROP0sEDE0R
D..C..EMPl0YEs
Scale Advancing Pay IS to 50
Y. Per Cent Recommended to
Go Into Effect Next July.

Higher wages for District Of Co
lumbda employees, while recommended
by the Bureay Of Efficiency In Its
report to- the District Cosnmissiopers
today. will not become effective until
July I of next year. The wages OF
approximately 1900 employees will be
Increased from 10 to 80 per cent.
Efforts to have the increase made
retroactive were defeated. due TO diff.
ficulties arising because Of employees
who had resigned or died and who
would. II the wage award was made
retroactive, be entitled to the In
crease. ~. ~ 80.
firemsn In the District These three
classes OF D. C. employees have or.
ganizations, which have already ana
are still working on salary increases,
said Director Herbert Brown, OF, the
Bureau Of Efficiency. and the bu-
reau has not considered them In max
ing the accommodation for higher
wages"
Dawes To Use Same Ratings.
: In order that the employees and
the public might accept the bureaus
award of wages as entirely fair, d.
rector Brown outlined the manner In
which the wage scale was arrived AZ,
explaining that the same determine
tons Of wage scales would be used
by General Dawes Budget Commit
tee, in a. final recommendation to-
Congress. .eaualizing the wages paid
In the Government service.
AT the request Of the District Com
missioners that we work out a FAIR
wage scale for District OF Columbia
employees, we sent out 500 question
naires TO business concerns through
out the United States, covering every
kind Of clerical help, ranging from ste
nogfaphers for six different grades to
higher class clerical help" Mr.. Brown
explained. The return OF these forms
shows what business concerns are ray.
ing their employees and the labor per-
formed. We then obtained from the
Commissioners a classification Of each
smploye in the District. and with these
two charts before US, II was simple
matter TO tit one into the other. thus
| assuring the employe an absolutely
fair and impartial wage"
II In expected the Commissioners
will approve the proposed wage Ill
creases and send the bureaus report
Immediately 10 the budget committee
for approval, then to the House ap.
Appropriation Committee for final
action.
Wage Scales Proposed.
Under the recommendations Of
the Efficiency Bureaus report, the
following salaries for d. c. employees
VIII apply for the class OF work In
Charwomen. $3.50 to $3.50 per an.
mum.
Messenger boys, $40 to $500.
| Office guards, $500 to SLIGO. o..
Routine typewriting. copying, etc,
81. 140 to $500.
stenographic work, 1890 to ST..
$50. 60
Technical photographic work. Of.
flee supervisors, operators OF com.
putting and calculating machines; tel
egraph operators; bookkeeping ma
chine operators. posting detail ledg-
ers, and performers Of routine cleri-
cal work, $500 to $3.50.
Forenen and skilled mechanics:
correspondence. clerks, undersuper-
visors. and department chiefs, $3.50
to 5000.
Accountants, auditors. supervisors.
translators, and civil service ex-
aminers. $2.160 10 s2,700.
The work or the Bureau OF Eff!
cheney, almost without exception, will
be to the advancement OF the District
I Of Columbia employees. for II was found
ION investigation that D. c. employees
were the worst paid Of any in the
Government service, and are really
entitled to the Increase" Director
Brown said IN Sransnitting the report