Page ACCION Febrer. 10, 1949 UPW Carnival Queen Candidates Candidatas Para Reina De Los TPU Miss Evelyn Hamilton for the Army and Navy Miss Rosalie Miss Victoria Miss Jean Smith Lowe Lanerey for the Hospitals, for the Marine for the Commis Health and SaDivision, Muni sary Warehouse nitary Dept. cipal Engineering and Col Transportation, Division, Mech Storage Track anical Division, Gang, Building Dredging DiviDivision sion, Electrical Division.
Miss Bianche Miss Corinne Miss Rose Nis, Dorothy Miss Victoria Rose Brown Goodrich Morrison Williams for the CommisGatun Locks and for the Oil Hand sary Retail for the Club for the Aids to Navi ling Plant, Store Stores (Cristo houses (Cristo Cristobal gation house, Motor bal, Camp Bierd, bal, Camp Bierd, Docks Transp. Division, Silver City, Mar Margarita, ChaPanama Canal garita, Chagres, gres, Gatun)
Press, Hotel Gatun, Coco So Schools, Post Washington lito. Mindi Office Dairy.
Atlantic Side Members Shaping Carnival Plans WHO SAYS THERE ISN ANY DISCRIMINATION?
To all people except those blinded by prejudice or afflicted with defective vision, there is little need of high blown rhetoric to prove that discrimination between employees exists on the Canal Zone. comparison of gold and silver wage scales, housing conditions, or educational and recreational facilities should silence once and for all time those who would deny that there is discrimination here.
But let us go beyond the first line of living and working conditions and take a look at, what we shall call for the sake of convenience, secondary rights and benefits. An analysis has been made of certain regulations affecting the two groups of employees. comparison has been made of the provisions. Let us see if there is any discrimination in the following break down: WITHIN GRADE RAISES GOLD The employees are entitled to receive a within grade increase, after fulfilling length of requirements, simply by obtaining a SATISFACTORY efciency rating from their supervisors. SILVER. Employees must be SELECTED by their supervisor and APPROVED by the Department Head to obtain a within grade raise. In contrast to the gold system, this procedure is open to favoritism and discrimination and only a minority of the employees receive increases.
LEAVE GOLD The employees receive 324 HOURS of leave per year and may receive an additional 40 HOURS of leave with pay for travel purposes outside the tropics. They may accumulate 720 HOURS of leave before reaching the maximum. There are NO REQUIREMENTS on accumulation of sick leave. SILVER The employees accumulate leave at the rate of 192 HOURS per year and must have 240 HOURS of leave before being able to accumulate and use rest leave. The maximum amount of leave that may be accumulated is 480 HOURS.
NIGHT BONUS GOLD The employees receive a differential or bonus of 10 per hour în addition to regular rates for night duty. SILVER No night bonus is allowed.
REDUCTION IN FORCE GOLD The employees receive points for their efficiency rating, length of service IN ALL PANAMA CANAL AND RAILROAD DIVISIONS, and veterans status. These points are totaled and become the retencion credit of the employee. When a reductionin force is contemplated, all the employees retention credits are computed and they are listed in the order of their magnitude. Those employees with the least credits are terminated first. This is a precise system guaranteeing the employee security from favoritism and arbitrary action. SILVER There is no reduction in force system to protect the employee. The supervisor is free to select whom he chooses for termination provided that, if two employees are EQUAL in efficiency, the one with greater seniority should be retained.
PAY PERIODS GOLD The employees are paid every two weeks. SILVER Despite much lower pay scales, these employees are paid only once per month.
ALLOWANCE FOR MEALS GOLD. When working away from their official stations, the employees may receive 25 PER DAY in allowance for meals. When the regulation was first issued in 1938, this allowance was 150 PER DAY. ENTRANTS COMPETE FOR QUEEN In response to an official in the Atlantic side.
before an enthusiastic gather vitation from the Junta del Presentation of the nine ing of members and friends of Carnaval de la Concordia, the beautiful candidates vying for the union. Each contestant reCristobal and Gatun Chapters the title of UPW CIO queen presents certain divisions on have launched a contest for and the formal lauching of the Canal Zone and has a maa UPW CIO queen to reign the contest took place on Ja nager to conduct her camduring the carnival period on nuary 23rd at the Savoy Club paign.
The choice of the Clubhouses, Schools and Post OffThere have been THREE INCREASES since that time ice is Dorothy Morrison; retotalling 754.
presenting the Receiving and SILVER These employees receive 20 PER Forwarding Agency is VictoDAY in meal allowance. This has been increased ria Williams; the Commissary ONLY ONCE since 1938 when the allowance was 90. Warehouse and Cold Storage, EFFICIENCY RATINGS Mt. Hope, are swinging their GOLD Before the efficiency rating is arrived votes to Victoria Lancrey; Roat, it must be talke dover with the employee by the Se Goodrich will have the supervisor. After it is discussed with him, he is given Press, MTD, DQM, Oil a copy in writing. If he is dissatisfied with the rat Handling Plant Storehouses ing, he may appeal it to a special Efficiency Rating and Hotel working in her Appeal Board. One of the three members of the Board behalf; Blanche Rose will reis an employee elected to the position by all the em present the Commissary Reployees. The efficiency rating is very important in tail Stores and Mindi Dairy.
terms of promotions, merit raises, and reductions inThe Health and Sanitary force.
Depts. Building Division and SILVER There is no official rating system. In PRR Transportation Div. are most cases the foreman or supervisor uses his own, sperooting for Jean Smith; the cial system. He does not discuss the rating in advance Army and Navy civilians are with the employee nor is he required to furnish the supporting Evelyn Hamilton; employee a copy in writing. When the employee final Rosaline Lowe will represert ly learns of his rating (which is rare except in dis the Marine Div. MED, Mecharge) he can appeal it through the grievance proce chanical, Electrical and Dredgdure but he has no special appeal board to which he ing Divisions; the Locks and can go.
Aids to Navigation Divisions DEPENDENT CHILDREN QUARTERS will be pulling for Corinne GOLD. Dependent children, for the purpose, Brown.
of quarters assignment, are defined as any child earnManagers and supporters of ing less than 125 per month, regardless of age.
the contestants are all working SILVER. Dependent children are all those overtime to being in the winnUNDER 18 years of age unless they are attending a ing votes and keen competirecognized school on the Isthmus. If they are 18 or tion is developing to raise the over and not attending school, they are not considered necessary funds, before each dependent children whether employed or unemployed. counting period.
RETIREMENT The vote counting will be GOLD The employees can be retired under the a gala weekly affair on Sunprovisions of the Canal Zone Retirement Act which day nights at the Savoy Club provides a decent, liveable annuity superior even to with dancing and entertainthe Civil Service Retirement law. In addition, cons ment for all those attending.
truction period employees who worked at least three Cecil Josephs, Chairman of years prior to 1914 are entitled to an additional an the Carnival Committee for nuity.
the UPW CIO declared that SILVER The employees are specifically ex plans are being made for the cluded from the Canal Zone Retirement Act. They construction of a gigantic float can be placed on cash relief if they are found to be in the carnival parade which disabled and if they have worked a minimum of 10 will be the talk of the Town years. Cash relief provides a stipend of per month and something that the memfor every year worked with a 25 monthly maximum. bers will be distinctly proud The inability of the employees to save any money of.
because of their indequate pay scales coupled with the Headquarters for all affairs meager amounts they receive on cash relief has meant in connection with the carnia life of slow misery for hundreds of old timers in val and contest will be the Panama and throughout the Caribbean area. Further Savoy Club where the carnimore, construction day silver employees, many of val will wind up with a sewhom started working in 1904, 1905, and 1906 receive ries of gala dances on the nothing additional for these years of service.
nights of February 26, 27, 28 ооо and March 19 As long as these differences in rights and benefits Graham Lewis, Chairas well as the vast gulf in pay, housing, recreational man of the Cristobal Chapter, facilities, etc. remain, so long will there be a system of has called upon every member discrimination on the Canal Zone. No amount of denials to assist in the Carnival actior high sounding phrases wil be able to erase what this vities to insure making it a simple story tells. Cont. on Page BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO