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There is also a Special Class, open
to non-Chinese only, with a salary scale of
$1200 x 100 $2400 and an efficiency bar at $1800. According to paragraph 4(1) of the petition this
Special Class forms a short-cut for non-Chinese
Clerks to Class II, since promotion to the Special
Class occurs on an average after 5 years service (i.e. when the Clerks are still in Class VI B) and
normally enables a Clerk to reach Class II after a
further twelve years service. Chinese Clerks
on the other hand have to work up right through
the various classes, and the petitioners state that
it normally requires 25 years service to reach
Class II in this way.
any justification for the existence of this Special
Class.
It is difficult to see
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The result of this division into a large
number of classes has been the creation of large
blocks in promotion and consequent stagnation on the
maximum salaries of the various classes. It is
stated in paragraph 4 (B) of the petition that these
periods of stagnation may recur as often as every
four or five years, and that each period may last
as long as two to three years. The position has
now become very serious. On 1/1/38, with a standard establishment of 719 (excluding the Special Class referred to above) and an actual
strength of 695, no less than 360 officers, or
51.8% of the total number, were on the maximum
salaries of their classes; and the absurdity of
the