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: In particular constitutes sufficient
ground, IL is asserted by its opponents
/ TO indict it in such a way as to call
Tor its final elimination from the Off
! clal scheme OF things in Washington.
employees are supporting the Civil
Service Commission as the successor
to the personnel board because they
believe it is the logical agency to func-
tion as the body which directs the allo-
cation OF Government employees. Since
the commission has been the agency
which selects Federal personnel the
members of the service want to know
why 1t should not have confided to it
the duties of placing and classifying
j workers. In other words. they see no
reason why there should not he but
one personnel body and they view the
commission as the one most likely 10
nave the interests of the employees at
heart.
Court Of Appeals.
To a civil service court of appeals
The employees look forward as fur-
ther means of insurance against IN
justice growing out of the Juggling OF
efficiency ratings and the handling oil
personnel generally in a manner which
inevitably. they believe. must result in
the individual having the most imme-
diate chance of getting the worst OF
the deal. Where many employees now
are virtually without opportunity for
appeal, if an appeals agency were eS-
tablished there would be the most posi-
ii step in the direction of reducing
injustice and dissatisfaction to a mini
mum. At least that is what organized
employees believe.
The National Federation of Federal
Employees again will throw its sup
port behind the Welch bill to amend
the salary rates provided in the classi-
fication act. This bill is framed to in
crease the minimum salary for all
lower-paid employees so that none over
Is years old who works full time shall
receive less than $500 a year. In
this particular the Federal employees
organization is seeking the support of
the American Federation of Labor.
with which it is affiliated. The mini
mum, however. is but one phase of the
measure, which also proposes to raise
salaries in all grades.
In the matter of retirement Federal
employees are asking the following
changes in the law:
1. Increase of the maximum annu-
ity from 81 900 to $1,000.
2. Optional retirement after 80
years of service on reaching the age Of
so years.
3. Lowering Of the retirement age
OF the 70-year group to 65 years.
4. Placing of employees 60 years or
over who are retired on total disability
permanently on the retirement roll.
5. Restoration to positions as near
ly comparable in pay and duty as those
formerly occupied for employees retired
on disability who later recover suffi.
ciently to return to duty
6. Use of the divisor 30 instead Of
IS in computing the annuity.
z. Permitting of employees to name
a beneficiary or benefciaries to receive
the accumulated deductions from their
salaries and the accrued annuity at
the time Of their death.
HaIf-HOliday Extension.
In addition to these changes they
Insist that Congress each year should
appropriate sufficient money to cover
its Withdrawals from the retirement
fund, including the interest on the
sum borrowed by the Government
EXten ion of the Saturday half holi-
day is one respect in which Federal
employees have reason to he gratified
at progress which their organization