Evening star., 1933-07-14
|0USTED WORKERS
LISTED FOR Jobs
Civil Service Commission
Busy as DeadIine Nears
for 1900.

With tomorrow marking the employ
ment deadline for approximately 400C
Federal workers here, under the separa-
ton program instituted when the fiscal
year started July /, the Civil Service
Commission is building up its re-em
ployment list as speedily as possible to
facilitate the placement of personnel
that may be desired somewhere in the
Government. The list also is available
for private employers.
In the past week, approximately 100C
names have been added to this list
which now numbers about 5000. This
includes not only workers Just dismissed
or facing dismissal, but those who have
been dropped in the past year. number
of names having been carried over las,
october. when the list was established
by consolidation of the old re-emp,oy-
ment list and transfer pool.
1t was said at the commission today
that no word had been received from
the White House regarding preparation
If preferred list" of employees dropped
In the current retrenchment program
from which the new emergency agencies
could select personnel. At the same
time however, it was emphasized at the
llllt l1OuSc lildl IL ID SUCH
a list be made up, in conformity with
the views of President Roosevelt who
proposes that it shall contain the names
of separated employees who won their
civil service status by competitive eX-
animation. as opposed to those blank
eted in" under civil service.
Call on President.
Harry B. Mitchell, president of the
Civil Service Commission and Mrs.
Lucille Foster McMillin, member of the
commission. saw President Roosevelt at
the White House yesterday.
The unemployment liSt-Or register
is preferential only in two respects
Agencies seeking help must go to this
source before taking personnel from
the regular registers established by the
commission through competition those
listed also have the call over persons
resigned and seeking reinstatement
Names only remain on the re-employ-
ment list one year from date of entry.
The employment list makes no
difference between employees earning
civil service and those blanketed in,
and specific directions from the White
House would be necessary to set up
this line of demarcation. Those en-
ployes retired under the 30-year law,
but before reaching the age limit for
their class, can be certified from this
list by the commission, but no certifi-
cations of married workers are made.
Up to now these two Classes have been
hit principally by retrenchment.
Nor does standing on the list have
any bearing as to Unemployment. For
instance, an agency desiring to get a
clerk-typist from the list would be
furnished by the commission with the
names of every clerk-typist available
Statement by Mitchell.
In connection with the employment
situation, Mitchell, who also is chair
man of the Council of Personnel Ad-
ministration, today issued the following
statement:
"A misunderstanding has arisen re-
garding the relation of transfers from
one department to another on the initi-
ative OF the Civil Service Commission
and certifications from unemployment
registers when the commission Is called
upon to make certificationS for filling
vacancies.
The fact is that those whose names
are on the employment registers are
certified at once. The implication that
unemployment people are not consid-
cred if people for transfer are available
is not correct Every announcement OF
vacancies that has been sent to the de-
partments has carried the following
statement These positions are to be
filled if possible in accordance with the
plan of the Council of Personnel Ad-
ministration by transfer of employees
now in the service or through the re-
employment registers"
The Weekly News Service OF the
American Federation of Labor today
carried under a Washington date line
an account of the visit to the White
House Wednesday of William Green
president of the federation, and officers
of the American Federation Of Govern
ment EMPLOYEES. at which re-employ-
ment of Government workers was
urged.
It repeated that President Green had
found President Roosevelt thoroughly
receptive to the idea that the victims OF
the economy program be given first
available jobs" and forecast that thou
sands would get preference in the new
agencies.
Green went to the White House al
the instance of the Government en-
ployes' organization He was accom-
panied by John Arthur Shaw, the ma
tional president, and John p. Simpson
chairman of the new Civil Service Re-
instatement League. which seeks tc
push the cause of the dismissed work
ers. The league meets tomorrow eft
ernoon at 8 o'clock at the American
Federation Of Labor Building.