Evening star., 1933-07-15
|0USTED WORKERS 9
BEING REH|RED.
Civil Service Commission An
nounces New Agencies Are
Making Use of List.
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list will be available for certiflcation for
on the day on which ap-
plication for entry is made.
There are now about 5000 names on
the Washington list. New applications
are being received at the rate Of ap-
125 a day. The list OF
includes persons qualified for
most kinds of work.
Now re-employments are being made
at the rate of approximately 100 week,
whereas only about 100 selections from
the unemployment list in Washington
we're made during the entire yea- ended
June 80, 1888.
Director Is Liaison Officer.
1.-The director of the Council of Per-
sonnel Administration, acting in behalf
of the departments and independent
offices. and as a liaison officer between
them and the Civil Service Commission.
is giving personal attention to the eX-
pediting of selections from the re-em-
ployment list.
THE unemployment list is being
used not only by the governmental
branches whose employees are in the
classified civil service, but also in in
crcasing degree by the newly created
agencies which are authorized to make
appointments without regard to the
Civil Service la and rules.
When we'll qualified people are not
found upon the establishment re-em-
ployment list the director of the Coun-
Gil of Personnel Administration antici-
pates d!smiSsals or 1urloughs by can
vass.ng the departments and independ-
ent offices to locate competent en-
ployeS who are likely to be separated
from the service and who are. there
fore, available for transfer to other
places. This procedure of transfer,
however. does not interfere with the
appointment of well qualified eligibles
on the re-employment list.
List is First Resort.
I'm fact the unemployment list is the
first resort.
The unemployment list is available
to any Government establishment,
either civil service or non-civil service,
which has places to fill"
The unemployment list was estab-
lished by the commission last Octo-
ber, consolidating the old re-employ-
ment list and the transfer pool. 1t is
open to workers who have been dis
missed or furloughed, or who face fur
Tough or dismissal Thirty-year en-
ployes are eligible for it, those with
marital status are not. 1t does not diff
ferentiate between workers who have
earned their civil service rating and
those who have been covered in.
inefficient Must Go.
In its announcement the Post Office
Department indicated that the inef-
III, ll1y, mill he
tired
The departmental plan was made
known in letter to Chairman Mead of
the House Post Office Committee. from
Joseph c. O'Mahoney, First Assistant
Postmaster General, in response to
query addressed to Postmaster General
Farley
OMahoney wrote: Il am pleased to
say that no person who is efficient
and physically able to perform salts
factory service will be retired on &C
count Of having 80 years or more
service.
However, postmasters at the larger
Offices have been asked to determine
their personnel requirements under
existing conditions and. where a sur
plus exists. the department will con-
slider retiring 30-year employees who
and the department will also give con-
s:deration to retiring employees who
rave had 80 years or more service, who
are unable to render useful and efficient
service"
The Post Ofhce Department, which
is going to operate under the stag
gered furlough plan, already has drawn
up its schedule for the postal. or field
service, but is still to announce the
program in the departmental service.
Verbal Orders Held Sufficient.
Meanwhile today workers who have
looking hopefully for some sign that
President Rocsevelt's expressed desire
that they be taken into the new
agencies, would be followed generally.
At the same time, it was learned that
no formal executive order is in prospect
On this point, the President taking the
attitude that verbal instructions to his
aids in the administration are suf1-
cient
The Civil Service Reinstatement
League, formed last Saturday by the
American Federation of Government
Employees to aid in restoring employment
to ousted workers. is meeting again this
afternoon at 3 o'clock at headquarters
of the American Federation of Labor,
with which it is affiliated 1t is pro-
posed to complete the slate of officers.
only the chairman, John P. Simpson,
who is president of the Interstate Com
merce Commission Lodge of the Fedora
tion of Government Employees. having
been chosen at the first meeting.
Simpson last night addressed a mass
meeting of colored men and women, re-
moved or facing removal, under the
retrenchment program. The meeting
was held at 920 U street
On the subject of direct order from
the President to get work in the new
agencies for civil service. employees,
Simpson said he believed this unneces-
sary, in the light of the Presidents
statement to himself. William Green,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, and John Arthur Shaw, pres
ident Of the Federation of Government
Employees. when they called at the
White House Wednesday in the interest
OF the workers. Simpson explained that
the PRESIDENT said the orders would 60
verbally to administration leaders.
John Davis, executive secretary Of
the Negro Industrial League, who also
spoke, said about 500 members of his
race already had been dropped. and
forecast large batch in addition on
August 10, when the Government re-
organization program becomes effective,
specifying particularly employees of pub
lie buildings and public parks, which
will be brought into the Interior De-
partment
The Federal News. weekly organ of
the National Federation of Federal
Employees, in an editorial today, called
on President Roosevelt for "an en-
phatic order that the administrators
OF the new agencies must draw required
personnel from the list of available per-
sons with civil service status"
The White House has made plain
its conviction of the correctness and
soundneSs of the merit system and has
indicated its wish that this system be
Upheld by the administrators of the
emergency agencies" the editorial con-
tinues. But in view of the tremendous
pressure of the spoilsmen it is only too
plain that sooner or later the President