An analysis of clerical positions for juniors in railway transportation

Contents

Part-time Education Series, No. 6. An Analysis of Clerical Posi¬ tions for Juniors in Railway Transportation.

Part-time Education Series, No. 7. Selected Reading List for Administrators and Teachers in Part-time Schools.

Part-time Education Series, No. 8, Part-time and Continuation Schools Abroad—Reprints.

Foreword

This is the third of a series of studies of junior positions in com¬ mercial occupations, made by the Research and Service Center of the Division of Vocational Education. The study includes an analysis of the clerical work of junior employees in twenty positions in the general offices of the Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco. The analyses as presented in the bulletin will not only be useful to those who are engaged in the education of young workers in railroad offices, throughout the state, but will be suggestive to teachers of youths employed in similar fields as a guide in making similar studies in other fields of employment.

The data for this bulletin were collected by Mr. R. E. Berry, Associate Professor of Commerce in the University of Wyoming, on leave of absence. The study was directed and edited by Miss Emily G. Palmer, Special Agent for Training Part-time Teachers, University of California.

Robert J. Leonard,

Director, Division of Vocational Education, University of California.

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CONTENTS

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Introduction. 6

Part One

ANALYSIS OF CLERICAL POSITIONS Four Positions Common to Many Departments.

Stenographer. 23

Three Positions Connected with the Passenger Service

Junior Claims Clerk. 36

Positions Connected with the Freight Service page

Junior Waybill Clerk. 41

Three Positions Connected with the Auditing of Passenger Accounts

Sorter of Local Tickets. 45

Ticket Sorter and Checker (Home Interline Bureau). 48

Tally Clerk (Foreign Interline Bureau). 54

Four Positions Connected with the Auditing of Freight Accounts

Carbon Clerk. 61

Waybill Arranging Clerk. 63

Checking Clerk (Tracing Bureau). 67

Junior Clerk in Rechecking Bureau. 72

Two Positions Connected with the Treasury Department

Assistant Indemnity Bond Clerk. 77

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Distribution Clerk. 80

Three Positions Not Open to Juniors

Manifest Clerk (General Freight Office). 84

Indemnity Bond Clerk (Treasury Department). 86

Garnishment Clerk (Treasury Department). 88