Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-11
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around the institutions and make a little
pocket money in that way. They are the
assistant butchers, helpers, attendants,
cleaners, the assistant cooks, gate keepers,
ct cetera, and are generally filled by persons
swho nave been inmates Of the institutions
for many years.
Ice Boat Jobs Exempt
Other places which are exempt are the
positions on the ice boats. These men are
on duty from the time when the boats 20
INTO commission until the ice goes out of the
river in the spring. They must live on the
iles The work is hard and undesirable, and
besides this requires experience in the
respective lines of duty of the various posi-.
tions.
~ The city dredges are also exempt.
Nearly the same conditions apply to these
PAGES as npply, to the positions on the ice
boats, except that the dredges work in the
summer where the ice boats work in the
winter Quite number of the ice boat
WORKERS go to the dredges when the ice
leaves the river in the spring and thus keep
employed all the year round.
I'M" law demands that vessel can be
operated only with Il complete crew, which
means that it is sometimes necessary to get
men at 4 moments notice. which is i'm
possible II an examination be reOuired To
Stnp work Tor day while the candidate Is
taxing me examination would mean Il loss
Whlct many of these men will not go to the
Trouble Of getting indorsers for such posi.
'IonS ana taking the examinations. when they
could get Just as goon jobs on any river
steamer without all this trouble.
In the Law Department
I'm" Assistant City Solicitors were
formerly exempt. and they are now prac-
tlcnily 50, although the Charter Act of 1919
put them under civil service But il is so
arranged under the new law that the CITY
Solicitor may choose his own assistants and
yet the law be obcyrd. In the same manner
the Mayor can obtain special men for
special work, thus selecting his own experts
members of the Mayors Cabinet do not
come under the civil service rulings.
'i'nt no position in the classified service
Is deemed exempt until the Civil Service
commission, after public hearing, of which
pubic notice has been given, has determined
,mat ,i II Is impossible 70 obtain by compcti.
tiv" examination persons possessing tho
guallhra'lonS for filling such position and
mas classified 1t in the exempt classifcotion
~ persons so exempted are certified nv
the tiNiI Service. Commission. The bearings
at which exemption is determined nre usnniI,
attended by members of the civil Ser,ico
Reform Association and by rcprcsentntivos
"i inc department in which the position
exists. The commission gets notice also of
every separation from any position in the
Scrnire viz nnu cer,lileS such separation. as well
as al appointments, to the Controller
Zone remarkable fact stands ont In +bo
exempted claSSlliratIonS. and that is TINT
thcrc is "aCh year very considerable turn.
over IN these places, The persons who
secure them are constantly Iroying 20 tnio
other places, and the labor turnover uTi"n
civil service has done SO much TO cljminnta
III other branches of the city cmployes sill
remains lmost as large here ms When tbo
old spoil" system was in full operation"