Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-09-25
Pay Raise for )
District Groups
Voted by House
Conference Not Set
On Bill for Police,
Firemen, Teachers
By Harold B. Roeers

out just When 1t Will become law
appeared to be up in the air.
A $500 pay raise, effective July /,
for these three groups, was ap-
proved by the House yesterday, in
a bill sent to the Senate.
The Senate's District Commit
tee, however. apparently will not
take any action on the measure
for the time being, at least until
after the Senate disposes of the
controversial national tax bill.
Meanwhile, a pay raise for
police, firemen and teachers is
carried in. Senate-pasSed ver-
sion Of a bill to increase salaries
of classified employees of both Fed
eral and District Governments.
effective July l.
COnferees Named.
The Senate has asked the House
for conference on the legislation
and the House today named its
conferees. 4.."
The conferees will be Repre-
sentatives Murray of Tennessee,
Davis of Georgia. Whitaker of
Kentucky, Democrats; Rees of
Kansas and st. George of New
York, Republicans. Conferees on
a postal pay bill. also already
passed. are Representatives Nor
rison, Democrat, of louisiana;
Haggan, Republican. of Mime
sofa, as well as Representatives
Murray, Davis and Rees.
Both chambers have passed a
bill for classified employees. The
House version carries nothing for
police, flremen and teachers but
would give $400 to classified
workers, effective July /. The
Senate bill gives classified workers
a 10 per cent pay raise and carries
an amendment doing the same
thing for the Districts police, fire.
men and teachers.
When the separate measure for
a $400 raise for the three groups
was called up on the House floor
yesterday, during District day,
Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee got the House
to accept an amendment making
the bill retroactive to July l..
The amendment also would en-
power the District Wage Board TO
make retroactive any pay raise
granted per diem workers for the
District.
To Oppose Provision.
Representative Davis said today
he would oppose in the conference
the provision in the Senate ver-
sion of the classified employees pay
raise bill to give raises to District
police, f1remen and teachers. It
was the Georgia Democrat who
insisted that such a provision be
taken out of the House version of
the classified measure because. he
claimed, the House District Com
mittee had jurisdiction over po-
lice, firemen and teachers.
Mr.. Davis expressed the hope
that these three groups will be
taken care of in the measure
which passed the House yesterday
and went to the Senate.
Other d. C. Bills Passed.
The pay raise legislation was
one of 10 District measures passed
by the House during a somewhat
hectic afternoon of about three
hours debate. Action was inter-
rupted by two quorum calls and
one roll call.
Most controversial of the city
bills was one to authorize the en-
ployment of up to Is retired men,
bers of the armed services as
teachers of military science and
tactics. Sponsored by Representa-
tive league, Democrat, of Texas
as a means of strengthening the
High School Cadet Corps, the
measure was attacked by Repre-
resentative O'Hara, Republican, of
Minnesota and some others.
The bill was approved finally
by the House. first by a standing
vote of As to 10 then by roll call
vote Of 239 to So.
The House passed and sent to
the President for his signature
Senate-approved bill to establish
a new department of food services
in the public schools. It would
set up a centralized system of
management for school cafeterias,
now under control of the principal
of each school.
4 Teacher Measures.
-Four other bills affecting public
school tecahers were passed by the
House.
One, already passed by the Sen
ate, was amended by the House
and sent back to the Senate. It
would remove several inequities
in the Teachers Salary Act of
1947. Among other things, it
would set up new class of assist
ants, consultants and supervisors.
Another Senate-approved bill
was amended and sent back to
the Senate for Qualification of the
Teachers Leave Act. It would
provide among other changes, for
increasing the amount of sick
leave teachers may accumulate
from the present maximum of so
days to rs days for regular teach
ers, and from 10 to 20 days for
temporary teachers.
Other teachers bills approved
By the House would give the
Board of Education authority tc
regulate the vacation periods anc
annual leaves of absence of Ger
tain school officers and employees
of the board, and would make
several changes in the Teachers
Retirement Act.
Holiday Pay Bill Approved.
Passed and sent to the Senats
for action was a measure to gram
police and flremen extra pay fol-
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