New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
Shipping Board
Plans Further
Personnel Cut
Many Disbursing Officers
of Construction Depart
ment Are To Be Laid Off
in Five Chief Centers
Rest Go to Washington
Mack Takes Up Managerial
Duties; Old Mail Organiza-
ton Changes Announced

Severe cuts are 60 be made in the
u,rsonnel of disbursing officers in the
construction department of the United
states Shipping Board in Philadelphia.
Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Ore.
ard San Francisco.
All ofsthe employees who are re-
tanned in this branch of the board are
to be called in to Washington at once
20 Join the thirty-five members of the
staF there II is estimated that every
division Of the construction department
will be similarly affected, as this feat
ure Of the work is rapidly drawing to
close.
Philadelphis is the largest Office
affected by the new ruling, on account
Of the work around Hog Island and
West Philadelphia, where the board has
big housing problems.
There is sufficient money in the
treasury of the board to complete the
construction program irrespective of
the recent appropriation of Congress.
Mack On the Job
]. Barstow Smuil yesterday said
there was nothing new in the develop
ments Of the United States Mail prob
lem, that the ships were rapidly being
drought under the control of the man
aging operators and that the new flag
of the United States Line would in a
few months be flying over the nine YES
sells restored to the government
August E. Mack took up the duties
Of manager Of the northeastern district
OF the Atlantic coast yesterday, but
declined 20 make statement regard
Ing the plans for reorganization of his
department. T. V. O'Connor, one of
the Shipping Board Commissioners,
was in consultation with him during the
afternoon. Mr.. O'Connor has charge
Of the Industrial relations of the board
There is to be a meeting of the
s;eyedores' association next Tuesday, at
which time the members of that organ
ization probably will be asked to agree
to cut in wages.
]. H. Kennedy, general passenger
agent of the new United States Line,
announced that there already had been
bookings for TAO first, 400 second and
1000 third class passengers on the
George Washington, which will sail on
Saturday. Mr. Kennedy stuck to his
pest during the turbulent times of the
United States Mail, and tits dueiarYely
tents ability that $500 agencies were
kept intact for the new operators.
Shipping Board Statement
The following statement was issued
By the Shipping Board here last
night:
In taking over on the court order
the United States Mail organization
the operating committee Of the United
States Lines has found it possible to
make many cuts in personnel without
sacrificing efficiency. Seven officials
have been dropped from the rolls, in
GLIDING Charles Mayer, Francis Mayer,
Carlos Mayer and Juan Mayer. Twen-
ty-two have been cut from the staff of
the executive office. The accounts de-
partment personnel has been reduced
from sixty-one to tWenty-nine people,
with further reduction to twenty peo-
pie contemplated as soon as the pres
ent passenger force has been organ
lied.
All Of the departments Of the bust
ness will be reorganized, probably
with further reductions In staff. as
soon as the present departmental sur
yey is complete.
"The Italian office. which is in
charge of Lloyd Sabaudo. has been
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Italian representative of the Shipping
Board.
THE management Of the Paris Office
has been transferred from Carlos
Mayer to Fl. w Theobald. who was
assistant general passenger agent in
that Office under the Mail regime.
I'm the Boston Office the personnel
Of the operating department has been
eliminated, but the staff of five in the
passenger department has been re-
tanned. The Philadelphia office is to
be closed.
'The crew of the George Washing
ton has been reduced by one hundred,
the operating committee believing that
the ship was overmanned by this
number