The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-27

Federal Employees Said to Be
Dissatisfied With Increases
Granted.

The Personnel Classification
Board has nearly completed the
tasks which it set out to accom-
plish under Congressional au-
thority last April.
Accomplishments Cited.
It's work has been the following:
The classification of and the
framing Of tentative pay schedules
for the field service employees.
Tentative ALLEGATIONS of Federal
employees in the District of Column
bIa for budget purposes which are
now being made public by the
board.
The framing of permanent class
specifications for the District OF
Columbia employees. This work Is
not finished. but rapid progress is
being made upon it.
This work has probably been the
most difficult and embarrassing task,
so far as personnel questions are
concerned, that ever fell upon
Federal board. The enmity of every
civil service employee, who has not
been allocated as he thinks he
should have been, has been aroused.
Whole groups of workers have taken
exception to the work Of the board
because they have not been given
the service status desired.
Effort to EquaIize Salaries.
The pay increases announced by
the board for the Federal workers
in the District have not made any
great impression on the rank and
file Of workers, probably because
many OF them had been led to be-
Heve that reclassification would
mean substantial advances in the
fortnightly envelope. The one out
standing feature OF this phase Of the
boards work is that it is making an
honest effort to equalize salaries in
the various departments.
The reports that the feud be-
tween the field service employees
and the District workers is grow
ing stronger, that the entire work
of the personnel board will be
strapped by Congress, continue to
be heard. There Is little doubt
that another row over reclassifica-
ton issues will be aired in Con-
gress next December.
Bureau SHES at Spotlight.
The Budget Bureau, it has be-
come known, is anxious to retire
from its central place on the board.
The Budget Bureau thinks it has
q sufficiently difficult task on its
hands in cutting down the esti-
mates of the various departments
without assuming the even more
difficult and enemy-breeding work
of classifying the Federal person
mel. 1t is probable that there will
be an official recommendation for
the reorganization of the board at
the coming session of Congress.
The salary ALLEGATIONS for the Vet
Grams Bureau and the State Depart
ment have been announced by the
board. The average annual increase
Of salary in the Veterans Bureau is
IL per cent, or SO. The present
average annual salary is 1857, in
Guiding the bonus, and the recon-
mended salary is 81 ,656.
In the professional and scientific
service of the Veterans Bureau there
are 144 employees who now receive an
average annual salary Of $3.50, and
who are recommended for an advance
20 1854. The compensation of the
eighty-five employees engaged IN sub
professional work will be increased
from 50 ,067 to $2,120.
In the custodial classification there
are 400 workers in the Veterans
Bureau whose compensation is in
creased from $1,000 to $1,0S1.
State Department Increases.
There are SCI employees In the
State Department, not counting the
employees of the international COM
missions. The average annual
salary Of the 480 who have been
classed in the clerical and admins
trative classification is S1,737, and
this has been raised to $1.S40, or an
Increase of $103. The sixty-four
employees of the mixed claims COM
mission, the inter-AmerIcan high
commission, the international boun-
dairy commission, and the inter
national joint commission are raised
from an average annual salary of
t3.016 to $3.159, or an increase of
S43.