Evening star., 1933-07-25
81 MORE WORKERS
RESTORED TODUTY
. BY CIVIL SERVICE
Allotment of $780, 900 From
Public Works Fund to Be
Used for Wages.
CONSTITUTE VIRTUALLY
LAST OF FURL0UGHS
First Examinations Under Roose-
velt Administration Are
Being Planned.

With an allotment of $4,000 from
the 81, SOC, 900 900 recovery act fund. the
Civil Service Commission announced
today that 81 workers, furloughed on
July !, were being restored to perma-
hent duty At the same time 1t was
made known that the commission staf1
will not have to take payless leave this
year, as had been feared. Last year
all workers except those in the lower
salary brackets were forced to 60 on
extensive administrative furlough In ad-
tiition to receiving the statutory pay cut.
OF the 81 employees coming back on
the payroll IL had been furloughed
for . month. and the others indefinitely.
The first group was brought back to
work several days ago in anticipation
Of the fund ALLEGATION announced yes
terday, and the others started coming
back today.
With one or two exceptions in which
the marital status law stands as q
barrier, these constitute all the workers
furloughed at the commission. where
the total separations were So. The
others went out under the 30-year re-
tirement and marital status provisions.
Increased Work Is Cause.
The increased work at the Commis-
sion, brought about by the recovery
act, was responsible for the allotment
Of funds. The Commissions appropria-
tion had been cut to 81 ,050, 900 for the
fiscal year 1884, which was $450, 900
under the past year, and 100000 less
than for 1892. At the same time work
piled up, due to the widespread per-
sonnel activities in both old and new
agencies. Even in those where non
civu service employment prevails, 1t Is
every person on the pay roll, while IN
the others, q record must be kept Of all
changes
The Commission also Is planning to
renovate its existing employment reg
listers, and to do this, it will be neces-
sary to hold some examinations, al
though the time and nature Of these
still must be fixed. It was explained that
many Of the registers are five and six
years old, which means they have been
culled by establishments seeking help
until only those persons with the low
est marks still are listed. The Com
mission anticipates additional demands
on these from the new agencies, for IN
all cases it is not possible to I'LL needs
from the e-employment registers.
The commission also has launched on
the wave OF examination for postmast-
ers. notices going out today announcing
tests for seven f1rst-class ofices, and
% for third class. The former are in
larger cities. and the latter. CORE
spondingly, in smaller localities.
First Under Roosevelt.
These are the first examinations to
be set since the Roosevelt admins
tration came into power, and are the
forerunner of thousands, as approx
mately $4,000 of these first, second and
third class ofices are subject to change.
These positions are not in the classi-
fed civil service, but the commission
holds tests and certifies Lists Of eligibles.
In the first and second class of1ces,
business experience IS the determining
addition a written test, because of the
clerical duties involved. The fourth
class Offices are under classified civil
service.
The examinations also are the first
under the new executive order raising
the age limit for entrance from IS to
IS. and giving the Postmaster General
unlimited authority to reject any ell
gible certified by the commission. The
machinery for selection remains un-
changed, and will until the administra-
tion plan to put all post ofices under
classified civil service goes through.
Substitutes Ask Help.
A group Of substitute postal employees
from Baltimore, accompanied by Will
liam Otte, secretary-treasurer Of the
National Federation of Pest Once
Clerks, yesterday called at the White
House with a petition declaring their
wages in the past two years have been
near the starvation level" and asking
the President to proclaim a SIS weekly
minimum wage, as has been done for
outside industry. In the current year,
It was said, the pay has averaged from
81 to 81 a week.
The petition said there is work for
the substitutes, but the department has
sought to avoid their use. The de-
partment has fixed a nine-day furlough
for regular workers for the July-Sep-
tember quarter.