Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-05-08
CiUil Service News

was announced by the United
States, it was announced by the
United States Civil Service Com
mission today. Both men and
women may apply under the new
announcement. Pay is $1,44O
year, although some vacancies at
$1,26O will be filled by qualified
persons willing to accept the
lower salary.
Within the past years, appli-
cnts must have had at least
full months of paid experience
operating a power-driven multi
graph machine, of which 3 months
must have been in setting and
distributing type and in the com
position of complex forms. In
filing application, they must clear
ly show that they can operate the
machine without further nstruc-
ton. Appointees in Government
jobs will be required to set and
distribute type for and to oper-
ate a multigraph machine in the
printing of circulars, letters, and
forms, and to read proof ahd
make corrections.
No written test is required.
Filing application is all that IS
necessary to be considered. Eight
cen years is the minimum age
limit, but there is no maximum
Applications must be sent TO the
Civil Service Commission, WASH,
ington, ID. c., and will be accepted
until the needs Of the service
have been met.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has modified It's re
ouirements in an effort to secure
additional mimeograph and taoU-
lating machine operators tor Fed,
eral positions. Appointments Will
be made in Washington, u. C''
only, and applications will be ac-
cepted until the needs of the serV-
ice have been met. Announce,
ments for bindery operatives ana
monotype keyboard printers were
also issued, appointments to pe
made in the Government Printing
Office at Washington. The clos
inc date for applications IS June
9, 1912. Applications for all po1
sitions must be sent to the civil
Service Commission, Washington
D. C. There are no maximum age
limits.
The new announcements for
mimeograph and tabulating ma
chine operators permit applicants
to qualify on either full-tirl2 PAID
experience or resident course IN
the theory and practice of operat-
inc the machine to which appoint
ment is sought. No written test is
required.
For under mimeograph operator
the salary is $1,26O a year. The
experience requirement IS
months; the training course re-
ouirement is so hours, not less
than 20 of which were spent IN
actual production work on the au-
tomatic-feed electric duplicator.
For tabulating machine oper-
attr, salaries are $1,260 for the
under grade, and $l,440 for the
junior grade. The experience re-
quirement is months for junior;
2 months for under. The training
course requirement is 20 hours for
junior tabulating machine oper-
ator, but 40 hours for junior al
phabetic tabulating machine oper-
ator. The training requirement
for under operators is 10 hours.
Actual machine operation must be
shown.
The pay for bindery operatives
is &C cents an hour. Two years
of paid experience in bookbindery
work, 6 months of it within the
past 10 years, is required. The
experience must have been broad
enough to cover both hand and ma
chine operations and to render APP
pointees assignable to the various
operations in a modern bindery.
No written test is required.
The salary for printer, mono
type keyboard operator, is $l.26
an hour. Requirements are: At
least 7 grades Of formal school
ing; also completion of 5-ycar
apprenticeship or 3 years of prac-
teal appropriate experience in the
trade, and l year of experience as
journeyman printer. Applicants
must have had at least 1 year of
operating a monotype keyboard IN
which they have shown the ability
to set 4,1O0 ems an hour; but this
experience may have been within
the apprenticeship or jOurneyrnan
experience. No written test is
required, but appointees, to be re-
tanned in the service, must show
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