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General Council
Meeting
(Continued from page 42)
Secretary-Treasurer, Homer V. Car
penter.
Director of Civil Service, John An-
ning.
Director of Law and Legislation, C.
T. Terril.
Director of Public Relations, E. H.
Clymer.
Mr. French, Chairman of the Gen
eral Welfare Committee presented two
resolutions which were considered and
adopted.
Resolution No. 9
WAeretfs: Employees of many State
Departments receive the same rate of
pay within a classification and without
regard for experience or length of ser
vice in that classification, and
Whereas: It is generally recognized
that an employee becomes more valu
able to his employer as his experience
and length of service increases, now
Therefore B i i f Resolved: That the
Budget Director and all state officials
be urged to recognize this principle and
adopt wage schedules establishing in
creases in pay within a classification
as experience and length of service in
creases.
Resolution No. 10
Whereas: Employees of the state are
entitled to fair and adequate wages, and
Whereas: The present salary of many
state employees is not reasonably con
sistent with increasing living costs, now
Therefore Bt i f Resolved: T hat the
Budget Director and all State officials
be urged to adjust wage schedules to
more reasonably correspond with in
creased living costs.
The new officers were installed by
C. H. Armstrong and a vote of thanks
was tendered the retiring officers.
The delegates were requested to have
their chapter members contact the leg
islators back home to advise them that
they were in favor of the merit system
and the retirement plan being sponsor
ed by the League of Oregon Cities.
A motion was made and adopted au
thorizing the Association to accept ad
vance payment of dues or to accept the
loan of reserve funds from the various
chapters when and if needed.
A motion was made and adopted
requiring the Board of Directors to
study the need of dividing the duties
of the Secretary-Treasurer’s office.
There being no further business the
meeting adjourned.
A M essage to the
Women
(Continued from page 12)
deeply entrenched custom of not speak
ing for themselves. Women have been
slow to accept the values of organiza
tion; but we now have the example of
other states. Women who have come
from other localities which have had
organized employee groups are anxious
to affiliate and are unanimous in say
ing that they wish all women would
realize the tremendous value of con
centrated action.
It is time for women employees to
speak for themselves. Women are en
tering new professional and non-pro
fessional fields of employment every
year— and still they refuse to speak for
themselves. A few women members of
the Oregon State Employees’ Associa
tion are trying to speak for an esti
mated 3,000. It is the responsibility of
every employee to help make the As
sociation 100 percent representative.
All of us will do well to consider what
we can contribute towards creating a
voice of 3,000 to speak for 3,000.