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his only thought was that he did not
know where the money was coming
from. He stated in the communication
that he* realized * all state employees
were woefulliy under-paid.
It was decided these.-communications
ould be tabled for the present and
wrought up as they-might fit into the
agenda of the meeting.
Payroll Deduction Records
Thé next order of business'was con
sidération of the various resolutions ap-
provied at the General Council meeting
in November.
Resolution from Chapter No. 34
with respect to slip to be attached to
pay check showing various deductions:
During the discussion, Mr. Chidsey
suggested that in view of the tremen
dous amount of work ahead of Mr.
Stewart on other objectives that more
members of the Association be put to
work. He felt that although it might
be hard to get. the members to work
that they would take more interest in
the organization i f they had some re
sponsibility. He made a motion that
a committee o f three be appointed to
check with various departments to as
certain those which were not putting
out the slips with payrolls and to find
out if they intended to change over
to that method, the committee to report
to Mr. Stewart who then could work
on the individual departments. Mr.
Ericksen thought it should be up to
the local chapters to appoint commit
tees to call on the employers and point
out the advisability of doing' this. The
motion was carried.
President White asked Mr. Ericksen
if he would head a committee to carry
out this work and he said he would
and suggested" he be allowed to, appoint
his own committee which would in
clude members in Portland to cover
the departments with main offices at
Portland. The president acquiesced in
such procedure.
Wage Rates, Old and New Employees
Resolutions from The Dalles Chapter
No. 9 and John D ay No. 13 which
had been re-written by wages and sal
ary committee, with respect to remov
ing inequality of hiring new employees
at same rate of pay as old employees:
Mr. Stewart stated the Civil Service
Commission is reluctant to change the
policy it has been operating under and
that he had taken no formal action on—
this particular resolution.
Mr. Chidsey explained that the atti
tude o f the Civil Service Commission
is that the law allows a lot of authority
to the employing agency in each de
partment and the board had adopted
the policy o f confirm ing as nearly as
possible the requests of the hiring au
thorities and where each department
insists on adopting a program along
certain lines, the Civil Service Com
mission has two alternatives; it can
step in and tear up the whole deal and
cause a lot of opposition or they can
adopt the policy of consistent steady
pressure and bring about full operation
over a period that will probably take
five years. He said the policy has its
good points because if the commission
tried arbitrarily to set rules they were
going to stir up a lot o f opposition to
the civil service law and as everyone
would recall the law passed the senate
by a very small majority— three votes
— and it would not take too much pres
sure to. repeal that law. The Civil Serv
ice Commission feels the steady pres
sure plan of putting the law into full
effect is better than trying to change
everything at once.
Mr. Stewart stated he agreed with
Mr. Chidsey and thought this particular
resolution should be allowed to rest
now until it is known how the A s
sociation will come out on the pay
question.
President White stated that the bud
gets are made up on a three per cent
increase and this would “ shoot that all
to pieces.” He said he had an appoint
ment with the assistant budget director
to go over the budgets in an effort to
find money to go ahead with an ad
justment. He stated he had met with
the governor on Thursday after the
resolution was turned down and the
governor arranged for the meeting with
the budget department.