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THE work of our Civil Service National Council in producing a scheme for reconstruction dealing with the clerical and manipulative workers in British Government Departments has its counterpart in that of a Congressional Joint Commission appointed by the United States Senate to investigate the remuneration and conditions of employment and the need for reform in the Civil Service of the Republic. The Joint Commission commenced its inquiry in March, 1919, and completed its report on reclassification and readjustment of compensation in March last. The report has now been published, and provides an interesting and illuminating commentary on the conditions which prevailed in the American Service before the war, the bewildering and chaotic multiplication of,class within class, the gross anomalies in salaries, the absence of any just and sane retirement scheme, and the accentuation of this unsatisfactory state of affairs by war conditions. In this respect Washington appears to have suffered far more than London by the introduction of the “business man”element into its administrative service.
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CHURCH, A. Scientific and Technical Workers in the United States Civil Service. Nature 106, 843–844 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106843a0
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