New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-17
1900 Cut Off
LaskerPayRoll
I'm 3 Months
Ship Board at Washington
Offices Alone Effects an
Annual Saving in
Salaries of $2,94I,l LOO
Oversee Stats Are Next
Sheedy Being Sent Abroad
to Make Proportionate
Reductions in Personals
From The Tr'bs"e's WASHINGTON sarea"

From The Tribunefs Washington Bureaus
WASHINGTON, Sept 16.---A reduc-
tion o. 1866 in the number of en-
ployees. effecting saving of s2,941,-
1906. with additional cuts in the per-
.onnel to follow in thirty days, was an
nounced to-day by Chairman A. B. Las
ker as result of the economy program
Of the United States Shipping Board.
These curtailments in the first three
months OF the new administration of
the governments shipping agency, Mr..
Iasker said, represent only the reduc-
tons that have taken place in the per-
sonnet of the Washington Office or
headquarters of the Shipping Board.
The board hopes, he added. that pro-
portionste reductions and savings can
be made in the cutting down process
to be applied to field forces in this
country and in Europe.
The European staff, particularly that
at London, is to be cut to the bone.
Out Of the staff of $50 employees now
IN Europe approximately 500 are to be
relieved in the reorganization scheme
that has been decided upon by the
board To put this plan into effect the
board to-day approved the selection by
General Manager J. ". Powell of J. II.
sheedy, Of New York. practical ship
administrator, who is to be sent imme-
distely to London to take active charge
Of the Shipping Boards European
force, succeeding Captain Frank E.
Ferris.
From 1894 to 6,35S
When the new Shipping Board as
sumed Office on June 5, the personnel
In the Washington Offices alone totaled
1874, with yearly pay roll of $50, $685.
7e6, Chairman Lasker said.
The Shipping Boards pay roll of
yesterday three months after the
Lasker administration began to func-
ton, showed $3.50 names with an
annual salary outlay of S12,952,69O.
making total net reduction of 1866
employees and saving of $2,94l,106
in the annual payroll.
"These reductions" Chairma Lasker
said, represent about half Of what
the board intends to do in the way of
reducing expenses. The board hopes
that within another thirty days an
other looping off of approximately
1000 employees can be effectd."
1t is the plan of the board to entirely
Americanize the European forces, which
now are almost wholly made up of en-
pioyees of foreign nationality, largely
British subjects. The June pay roll
showed $50 employees accredited to the
European Offices, representing total
outlay Of $685. 1853 & year In the reor-
gsnzation plans to be put into effect by
Mr. Sheedy the board hopes to limit the
number of employees in European
ports to one hundred.
The selection of Nh. Sheedy was ap-
proved to-day by the board, before
which General Manager Powell made g
brief report on the necessity for i'm
mediately cutting down the European
force and the installation of new
methods in the operation Of the Ship
ping Boards branch there.
Sheedy q Navy Man
Mr.. Sheedy originally was a nav.
man, who has passed his life in tn
ness, being connected for. some tim
with the Ocean Steamship Company an
with ship building plants on the Pacif
Coast.
Chairman Lasker said that Nj
Sheedy's latest connection was with n
oil company, which offered him $4,000
year if he would remain, but tina
he had elected to come to the boar
At the request of Mr.. Powell and serv
for s11 900 a year. He will be genera
manager of the London Office and hav
general supervision over the Shippin
Boards European staff. Captain Ferris
who has been the boards agent i
Europe, will remain as an assistant t
Mr.. Sheedy until the reorganization
planned has been put into effect.
Chairman Lasker explained that un
der the system now in vogue there /
considerable duplication of effort b
the European agencies of the Shipping
Board, and that the Offices there wer
not in sufficiently close contact wit
Washington headquarters. AS result
Of this, he said, confusion has pre-
vailed and a remedy is to be apple
BY Mr.. Sheedy.
Chairman Lasker said that the tota
Of new employees put on by the boar
in three months was $50, but tina
many Of these were transfers fror
other government departments.