The Washington times., 1935-05-28
{ EXAMINATIONS
FOR G.P.O.J JOBS
SCHEDULED
BY J. EARLE MOSER

Included in list of nine exami.
nations announced today by the
Civil Service Commission is a test
Tor apprenticeship at Government
Printing Office, a berth highly
popular because of the welfare
and recreational advantages of a
@. P. o. career, plus an ultimate
earning total higher than that of
the average Government employe.
The apprentice examination, for
which applicants must file by
June S, is to create a new first
year class of 100 to replace those
who were recently graduated into
journeymanship. The 100 eventu.
ally selected will be apportioned
among the various departments,
with a minimum salary of SIS
weekly.
Mental tests, requiring about
two hours, will compose the eX-
animation, and educational re.
quirements demand qualifications
equal to the completion of the
eighth grade of common school.
Applicants must have reached
their sixteenth but not their nine
tenth birthday by June S.
Closing June "a, the commits.
sion announced tests for multilith
operator, $1,440, at Securities and
Exchange Commission, and pas.
senger rate clerk, $4,000, while the
earlier date of June II will close
the following tests:
Junior entomologist, $4,000; bi.
ologist, associate and assistant,
$3,800-$2,600; assistant director
of social work (senior warden's as.
Sistant) at Department of Justice,
$4,000: mediator for the National
Mediation Board, $4,000; senior
soil technologist. Agriculture, 81
600, and protozoologist, associate
and assistant, Treasury, $4,000 to
$4,000. Complete details on all
posts are available at the commits
sion, or from the writer.
It was revealed today that a
large percentage of the Alcohol
Tax Unit employees passed their
recent noncompetitive test to
escape tribulations of the Nc.
Kellar rider. Five hundred and
seventeen took the examination
Also, there are eight applicants
for the berth of postmaster at
Santa Claus, Ind, the tiny town
that receives tons of mail yearly
from philatelists and children
who place their letters to St.
Nicholas in the U. S. mail.
DR.. william I. Sirovich, New
York Democrat, tomorrow will re.
open hearings on his omnibus bill
for Federal personnel. at 10 a. m.
in the House Civil Service Com.
mittee room. Kent ]. Owens, FILA,
and Bradish Carroll, MIRA, per.
sonnet administrative officers, are
expected to vouchsafe their opin
ions of the measure.
One of the frequent cases of in
Justice that has no legislative
remedy was pointed out by ad'
l1erentS of the Sirovich bill today
"A Navy Department field worker
with 80 years of service was max.
ing $4,000 annually when he suf
fered a nervous breakdown from
overwork and was retired for total
and permanent disability. One
year later he was found com
pletely cured and received notice
to get another job within 80 days
before losing his disability com
pensation.
Turned down by his former
office, the worker So, found a job
in an unventilated vault at a
stipend of $1,000. Provisions of
the Sirovich measure. it was
pointed out. would have allowed
his $1,000 yearly retirement until
a position equal to his former
berth was located.
Claude Babcock, AFGE leader,
Is requesting Government en-
ployes to advise relatives who are
veterans not to consider participa
ton in any possible march on
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