Evening star., 1920-05-22
FEWER WORKERS
SHOWNBY RECORDS
RecIassifiers Predict Reduc-
tion Below co. 900 in D. C.
After July |.

Government employees in the District
of Columbia will be reduced in num-
bers to less than 10000 AFTER July 1,
according to the belief of reclassifica-
tion officials who are keeping the rec
ords of the reclassification body up
to date at the headquarters at Az
street and Missouri avenue.
The number of federal employees
, here now stands in the records of the
commission at 10000. instead of the
| former figure of 100000. when the
commission was preparing its report.
and with the reductions soon by the
War Department the figure is ex-
pected to sink to 80. 00o
Discharges by the Department of
! Agriculture, owing to the failure to
ductions in other departments. will
bring the number down below 10000,
1t is anticipated.
At Work ON Personal Records.
A staff of nineteen persons is work.
ing OIL the personnel records of the
reclassification commission at the
headquarters. Instead of being de-
funct. the assjfication commissi on
proved to be very much alive today.
although there has been a general
disposition to believe. both on the
part of some members of Congress
and the public, that the commission
ceased March II last. when it made
its report to Congress.
A decision of Controller Warwick
OF the Treasury. however. has made
il plain that the law which created
the reclass:ficatioA commission did
not limit the life of the reclassifica-
ton body. Accordingly. a staff of
men and women has been quietly at
work at the old headquarters. sand
wiehed in with the pulsing life of the
census bureau. at work on the new
census figures.
Considering Details.
Perhaps the most vital work of the
nineteen commission workers. who ope-
i1ate under the general directions of the
reclassification commission, is that per-
tanning to the monthly records of all the
departments and their bureaus. 1t is
from these records that the figures given
8 bove were procured. During the active
work of the reclassification body on its
report the departments and bureaus
sent twice a month records of all
changes. transfers and other data reia-
tive to their employees.
This work is being kept UP. with the
of the departments. despite
section of one of the largest depart
ments against the practice. Super
visory officials generally realize that to
keep the Questionnaires and other rec
Crds of the commission absolutely up TO
date is highly essential. especially when
the report of the reclassification COM
mission comes up for consideration in
Congress. along with the bill which it
presented as part of the report.
Hundreds Of Tables Produced.
The completion of the elaborate
statistical tables upon which the COM
mission was engaged at the time it
made its report to Congress has oc-
cupied the nineteen workers since
March Il. AS the result of this work
Congress has in it's possession hun
dreds of unique tables.
Some series of the statistical work
contain different tabIG. each worked
out by electrical pyhthing machines
! beyond chance of error and present
| ing the very latest data on the gov
ernment serviceTn the National Capt.
/ tai
!, It is now, believed that no other
capital iI the world possesses such
/. a fund OF statistical data on its civil
| service workers as does the United
States Capital.