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Show IRE PAY FOR U, S.EMPLOYES Bill Going Before Congress Today Will Effect Over 140 In Ogden The new civil service reclassification bill, which is to be introduced in on-gress on-gress today by Representative Frederick Fred-erick R. Lehlbach of New Jersey, will include a revise pay schedule and provide for application tf this schedule sched-ule and reclassification to the civil service all over the United States, It wis announced today by A. C. Wycoff, secretary of the local Federal Em-plovrs Em-plovrs union. No. 215. The bin will also remove existing legal registrations on Inter-departmental iransfeis. In order to study the final draft of the bill and put the wheels In motion mo-tion to work for desired congressional congression-al action, the national legislative committee com-mittee of the National Federation of Federal Employes nn-t in Washington yesterday. Mr WXCOff said The Lehlbach lull s designed to take the place of the bill introduced nt the last session of congress as the recommendation recom-mendation of the joint congressional committee on reclassification of civil service salaries, whose work was restricted re-stricted hy conpress to the lustrict of Columbia. Besides providing for extension ex-tension of the reclassification to the field , thr new lull differs from the reclassification commission's also In that it has simplified tln salary sal-ary schedules and in other respects is stripped for a short race." as It were, being drawn to cover only the sal4ry questions, and leaving other features of employment policy to be dealt with In subsequent measures, This simplification, It Is believed by friends of tho bill, will increase Its chances of early enactment into liw. Tn anticipation of the passage, of the budget bill, which will give tho bUdget making power to the secretary of the treasury of the president, the L-hlhach bill ' will provide that the reclassification of salaries shall be administered by the secretary of the treasury, the civil service commission to retain it present function of determining de-termining eligibility for appointment and promotion Mr. Wyeoff today said: '"the proposed reclassification of the civil service will affect the salaries of at least 140 persons In Ogden, exclusive ex-clusive of the postal employes, who are provided for in another bill. The number in the .state of I'tah who would come within the provisions or this bill aggregate m the neighborhood neighbor-hood of luu employes. This Is the llrst real attempt at salary readjustment readjust-ment subsequent to tho civil war, and consequently the need of adjustment nia readily be understood by anyone who gives the matter proper consider utlon." oo- |