The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-07

sion; instead they are showed off on tho night shift of the AAA at $1,44O a year with the prom. ise: "Just tako this temporary job until we can And something better"
 Most of thsnI would do more work If they could, and make overtures to tho civil service workers to teach them the ropes Hut the latter knowing that their only salvation Is the ignorance of their colleagues, are as com. municativo as osapoa
 The civil service workers come chiefly from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of ColunlbiR; {; hut despite their much higher efficiency they are being wecdcd out rapidly. Most dismissals are given without the required thirty day notice.
 Another clique unto itself is made up of college boys, most of them going to George Wash- ington, Georgetown or any Of the othor half dozen universities in tho capital, who keep themselves awake flirting with pretty girls VT otuoSmB, AnSy oot tUe utbH- watormark for inofilcioncy. Some which together with their gov. crnmont pay, permits them Co drive to work In their own road. BtorH,
 ono night throo Of them were arrested In m automobile mix. up, when supposed to be on duty at tho AAA.
 INDIFFERENCE
 Tho final AAA clique consists of formor census bureau work. ors, who know ali tho routine Of punch cards, tabulating mn. chinos, and sorting machines which reduce human labor to minimum. Because of this many of them have been elevated t0 tho exaltod rank of assistant su. porviBors, at S2,000 a year thore. by oarning tho right Co strut around tho room, lean on tho desks, of pretty girls, talk learn. odly with tho supervisor and In general display an exaggerated ego.
 The most amaxing thing about these assistant supervisors iS tUVlT CutlOubUubb TCBuTuiUB UliBs takes. Frequent errors are made by tho tabulating maehlnos in calculating tho amounts of mon. of $50, oalod to tho attention of an assistant supervisor, brought
 "Wo're not supposed Co get that. That's the job of the audit. Ing bOys."
 "ShHii [ make a note of h on the margln?"
 No, that's their business"
 U0uaiiy the method of figuring . the siHo of crop checks is so complicated thnt it is difficult for farmers to know whether tho amount they receive is accurate. But throo farmers in Springfield. Mo-, discovered that they were bding oVorpnid and turned the checks In to tho county agont. How many other mistakes have boon made is impossible Go oBtis mate, but they must bo multitu. dinouH.
 Thoso errors seemed Co worry tho civil sorvico workers. most of them government clerks or tho old school typo who take a sort of cantankorous pride in their work. But ovon they, Ind ing ne ono 10 share their point of view, now worry no more, ROUTINE
 Most of tho contracts handled nre for cotton and tobacco. Cons parativcly flow farmers had tax. cn up tho governments propoBi. AlaA Aa anot al tis.a aaA AH xuk ant nGreage even b6foro tho drought. Thoro arc also a lot of crop loans on corn.
 Tako ono of tho latter, that of R. CasBons of Rock Rapids, Iowa to illustrate how tho con. tract ia handled. ills estimated production for thls yoar Is 5000 bunheis of corn with which he Intends to fatten forty head of hogs. His carryover for 1888 was 2,500 bushels and his 1889 car. ryovor is still 800 bushels. On tho basis of this no Rets q crop loan of 5000. But most of those checks arc mailed to mortgage banks, not tho farmer.
 Tho Cassens contract along with thousands of othora, goes through tho receiving section, thon to tho review clerks, then through the auditing section, un. tli it hits tho machine unit, which instead of boinR c0ncen. tratcd in ono part of the build. ing is scattered from the fourth and fifth floors to tho basement
 Hore tho contract is run through tho card punch machine tho gang punch which checks out tho county and state. the sorting machine. the tnbulating machine and thon comes to tho machine roviow eiork.
 RENTAL
 Hut thcro is iIttlc coordination between these machines. A stack Of contracts will come through one; meanwhile two or three other machines arc hold up wait ing for work. All night long it is q question of working 90 min. utoR, then loafinR sixty.
 Probably the root of the din. cuity is that there is not enough work to justify night shifts. But the various punch card and sorting machineB arc rented by tho government from the Intor. national Business Machine com. panv at $250 per month each.
 The company will not sell the machines. will only rent them. And despite the fact that the justice department is now suing the company for infringe. mcnt Oe the antl.trWst jaws. and despite the fact that the census bureau hns R large number OS similar machines wathcring dust in storage. the AAA pays the rental.
 Therefore the reason for night shifts. according to m ofIl- ciaI explanation. is in order to get S2B0 worth Of monthly use a.- AA~ .~~snN a. ct.is1aa