In re Griffin

The relator was a stoker or fireman in the highway department, borough of Queens, at the Far Bockaway Disposal Works. On April 29, 1912, he was transferred to the Jamaica Disposal Plant and reported there next day. He found the plant closed, and on the same day he was suspended with other persons “ owing to reduction in force at the Jamaica Disposal Plant,” and his name was then placed on the preferred eligible list, where it now remains, to be certified for work when requisition is made therefor. It also appears that, on May 1, another man who had previously been employed as a stoker at the…