Evening star., 1925-11-25
Transfer Is Part of Plan to
Coordinate u. S. Activities
in Owned Quarters.
S1OO,00O A YEAR SAVING
TO RESULT FROM CHANGE
500 Employees Will Be Affected
Shift Expected to Begin
Within Few Weeks.

Transfer of the activities and pcr
sohhel OF the Department Of Labr,
ilolil rented quarters az 1T12-14 G:
street 10 the Interior Department
building on f street between Eight.
eenth and Ninteenth streets has been
recommended TO the Public Buildings
'otninlssion and will probably begin
within lew weeks. The move is
part OF the general scheme for con
Soiidatfon of Government ac+ivities ~,
Washington in buildings owned bv
the Government. 1t will save the
Government about $1,000 a wear in
rent. neat, light and other expenses
ihciuental TO operation, according 10
preliminary estimates The Labor
department, which has occupied the
Rlne-story building at 1712-14 G street
year in rent
Approximately ESQ EMPLOYEES win ba
aHected in the move, together with ar
immense amount of office furniture
MES and correspondence Three hun.
urea ana nifty more employees of the
LABOR department, employed in the
Maltoy Building a First street and
Ne" Jersey avenue, will not be affect
ed by the transfer. The Labor De
partment will probably be assigned
the entire west wing of the Interior
department Building, now occupied
largely by the General Land Once
The Labor Department has a lease ON
me street structure running until
June 80 1927.
Survey Made.
Secretary Work of the Interior De
partnent several weeks ago initiated
a survey and consolidation Of Offices in
ut tf.,-i i4,-
understood. at the suggestion of the
Labor Department, which has been
concerned for some time over request
ed rental increases for the quarters
now occupied by the latter organiza-
ton. The transfer has not been
hnally Endorsed by the Public Build
ing Commission, since the commission
has not met recently, Senator Smoot,
its chairman. said today. Early rati-
fication of the transfer is expected.
The move Is the largest office trans
Ter undertaken by any Government
agency in Washington since the war,
when large part Of the War and
Navy Department activities were
transferred from the State, War and
Navy Buildings on Pennsylvania ave
nue. to the buildings on 3 street west
of Seventeenth street. Part of the trans
fer, 1t was learned. involves moving
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ployes' Compensation Commission. the
Fine Arts Commission and probably
the Federal Power Commission from
the quarters they now occupy in the
Interior Department Building TO the
Pension Office Building at Fifth and
G streets. A recent consolidation of
office space in the Pension Office Build
ing made room available for these
units. Col. c. o. Sheriff., secretary
of the Public Buildings Commission.
and G. s. McAllister, assistant sec
retary, conferred this afternoon with
Interior Department officials on de.
tails of the transfer.
Four Bureaus in Building.
Four bureaus of the Labor Depart
ment and the Secretarys office, EN-
ploying several score persons. are
housed in the Labor Department
Building on G. street. The Women's
Bureau, the Children's Bureau and
the United States Employment Bu-
reau, all units of the Labor Depart
ment, occupy temporary buildings
south of d street and east of Seven
teenth street, while the Housing Cor
poration, a large organization en-
gagged chiefly in liquidating properties
acquired during the war TO house
Government wartime activities, occu-
pies the Maltby Building near the
Capitol. Bureaus in the G. street build
ing are Immigration, Cancellation,
Naturalization and Labor Statistics.
Four large Government activities
will still be housed in rented quarters,
together with several of their bureaus.
after the Labor Department transfer.
They are the Department of Justice,
at Vermont avenue and K street,
which has been asked to pay d sub
stantial rental increase; the Com
merce Department, at Nineteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue; the
Interstate Commerce Commission, at
Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, and the Civil Service Commits
sion on f street between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth. In addition the
Railroad Administration occupies the
building at Eighteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue on the corner
opposite the Interstate Commerce
Commission, while several bureaus of
the Departments of Agriculture and
Commerce are in rented quarters
scattered throughout the city.
A large part of the floor space in
the Interior Department Building is
now occupied by the Bureau of Mines
which has been under the Department
of Commerce since last Spring.
ENCT TDkIN uITC ATTIC,