Evening star., 1923-08-07
ALL j. s. WORKERS
/. ARE GIVEN HOLIDAY
New Order Closing Depart
mentS Until Saturday Is
sued by Hughes.

Because of doubt on the part of
some authorities as to the scope of
the Executive order issued by Sec
retary Hughes, by direction of the
President, Saturday, closing the
executive departments from this
afternoon until Saturday morning, in
respect to the memory of the late
President, the Secretary of State late
yesterday afternoon issued a second
order on the subject extending it's
provisions to "all executive estab-
hshments."
The new order follows:
by order of the President. the
order issued on August 4. 1928, clos
ing the executive departments on
Tuesday August I at and after /
o'clock pm. and on Wednesday,
and 10, 1928. shall apply to all execu-
tive establishments and these shall
he closed accordingly on the said
days"
Applies TO All.
As explained at the State Depart
ment the amendment was design ed
specifically to extend the scope of the
original order to all independent fed
eral establishments not directly at
tached to any of the regular execu-
tive departments, particularly the
government printing office. the Lii
hrary Of Congress, the Interstate
Commerce Commission. the United
States Labor Board, the veterans bu-
reau, the board Of vocational train
ing. the War Finance Board. the
United States Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, the Smithsonian Institution,
the National Museum. the general ac,
counting office, the Civil Service
Commission. the bureau OF efficiency.
the federal trade commission, the
United States Shipping Board. the
ton, the War Finance Commission.
the alien property commission. the
United States tariff commission, the
United states employees compensation
commission. the federal reserve board
etc. The revised order applies to ali
federal employees, including per diem
men.
The divisions Of the Department of
Labor dealing with human beings"
Will remain open. and the employees
viii work throughout today. unless
the body of President Harding ar
riVeS in Washington earlier than cX-
pected Acting Secretary T.. J Hen
ming of the Labor Department today
ordered the general order closing all
departments suspended in the Labor
Department in so far as the bureaus
or divisions dealing with human be-
ingS are concerned.
Labor Department to Work.
Mr.. Henning said the Labor Depart
mrnt is government agency dealing
with human beings and as such can
not close as early AS some of the
others which do not have the human
factor almost exclusively
Ellis Island is crowded with i'm
migrants, who must be moved" Mr.
Heuuing declared. and the other
work OF the department must go on"
y general order to- continue work
in the departments today in view of
the delay of the train bearing the
body OF the late President had not
been issued. and one was not contem-
plated. according to the State De-
partment The other departments
closed at l o'clock. although many
officials remained at their desks.
ID. c. 10 T. <ruse Many
Per diem employees of the District
he excused tomorrow and Friday
without loss of pay under an amend
ment to the general order closing the
District building. which was adopted
today by the Commissioners.
IT was pointed out that il would be
virtually impossible to release all of
the per diem employees in the munich
pal government. especially those con-
nected with the water and sewer de-
partmcntS.
The amendment to the closing order
is believed to be the result of d pro-
test made to President Coolidge yes
terday by William F. Franklin, past
commander of the Vincent r. Cos
telo Post of the American Legion
Franklin declared that 1.500 employees
of the District building would be de-
MED the privilege of rendering trib-
ute to the memory of the late Presi-
dent Harding if they were required
TO stay at their posts, while all gov
eTUlnent work is Stdn1Stlll.
Library to Close.
out of respect for the late President
Harding and pursuant to the order of
closing of the District government is
sued by the Commissioners. the Public
Library will be closed this afternoon
and all day on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday.
1t will be open all of Saturday.
August IL, from 3 am. 70 9 pm. This
is IL variation from the usual Satur-
day hours of the summer half holi-
day season and is provided for this
week only in order that Washington
readers may have an opportunity TO
exchange their books before Sunday.