Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-30
Railroad Office Not Affected.

The railroad administration is not to
be affected. as it operates ACCORDING 10
the calendar year, instead OF the nscal
year. The more than 1000 employees OF
fhe shipping board also are not affected
for the present. as the boards appro-
priation permits it to operate with its
present force.
Congress has reduced by more than
30 per cent the appropriations LOT the
extra force of war workers in the war
Department for the next fiscal year
beginning tomorrow and wholesale
discharges are in early prospect. AL
present there are about 1910 en-
ployes on the additional roll of that
department, whose pay aggregates
IS 900. For the year beginning TO-
morrow there is available for the
payment of salaries on the add1tionai
roll the sum of exactly 100000. pro-
viding for less than half the present
force. and involving the discharge Oh
about $3.50 employees of various grades
Secretary Baker has allotted the re-
duced appropriation among the va.
rious, bureaus of the department ana
has informed the bureau chiefs that
they will be expected to reduce their
expenses to that limit. He leaves to
them the task of how the reductions
shall be made except that no more
than so per cent of the allotment
shall be expended in the first half OF
the year. Special instructions are
given to avoid the creation of de-
ficiency. Secretary Baker is said to
ba determined to do the business of
tn department with the funds avail
able il 1t IS possible to do SO without
injury to the interests Of the govern
ment.
To Reduce Force Gradually.
There will be no general reductions
ir the force tomorrow. but reductions
will be made gradually thereafter as
rapidly as they can be made without
detriment to general business. The
offices where the main cuts Will be
made are the adjutant generals Of
nee, where there are 3.465 persons on
the additional roll: the ordnance bu-
reau. with 1874; the quartermaster
generals office. with Ss7. and the sur
geon generals office. with $50 addi-
tionaI employees.
Twenty-Five watchmen, laborers and
charwomen employed in bureaus of
the War Department in the Mills
building. at the corner of 18th street
dropped from the government rolls
tomorrow. That action results from
the termination of the lease of that
building by the War Department eff
1ective today.
State Department Reduction.
Reduced appropriations for the
State Department for the next fiscal
Year beginning tomorrow will result
in the dropping of 265 clerks and
other employees on the additional
rolf unless provision is made for
their retention in the sundry civil APP
preparation bill now under final con-
Nat the work of the department.
%kich now is particularly heavy. will
f4eeriously embarrassed by the large
seduction in the clerical force neces-
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preparation bill for the next fiscal
year.
officials admit that there is slight
hope of financial relief from Congress
st this time.
Five Labor Bureaus to Close.
Five bureaus in the Department of
labor will close their work today and
be out of existence tomorrow because
of failure of appropriations covering
their expenses for the fiscal year
which begins July l.
The demise Of these bureaus VII
Throw approximately $50 clerks and
clerical employees out of their jobs
and will relieve officials OF Jobs they
had during war time.
The bureaus which will close are
the information and education serv-
Usher of the United States Bulletin:
ihe investigation and inspection
service. headed bv Ethelbert Stewart:
the working conditions service. under
Grant Hamilton. which has been en-
gagged chiefly In safeguarding the
lives Of industrial workers: the Ma
1fonal War Labor Board. final court
Of arbitration in labor controversies
during the war, under Joint Chair
men Basil NJ. Manly and William
Howard Taft. and the United States
rraining Service. Charles T CLAYTON
director. the duties of which have
1een 10 train Industrial workers in
q higher conception of the efficiency
~ their tasks 10 speed up wartime
production.
Samuel ]. Gompers, Ir. chief clerk
~ the Department of Labor, said to-
day that places for the clerks and
clerical workers who are under the
civil service Will he found as rapidly
as possible in other bureaus or de-
s.artments and that the non-civil serv-
ice employees will be dropped
Two bureaus OF the Department of
Commerce will go out OF existence
tomorrow. They are the waste rec
lamation service. under II. l.. Baden
sperger. and the industrial co-opera-
ZION service. headed by John Cutler