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ping Board Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton. the United States Housing Cor
poration, the Inland Waterways Cor
porstion and the War Finance Cor
poration, falling within the following
ranges, are hereby temporarily reduced
by the following percentages:
"Q) Rates In salary of $4,000, but
less than 81, 900, by per centum.
"(2) Rate of $1,000 or more, but
less than $4,000, by 10 per centum.
"(s) Rates of $4,000 and over by
Is per centum.
Provided, that where such eompen-
sation rates are fixed by statute tine
percentages of decrease shall be applied
to the salary rates fixed by law. and
where such salary rates are fixed by
administrative action such authority IL
hereby directed Except where other
wise provided herein) to apply such
percentages to the salary rates prevail
ing when this section becomes effective.
Provided, that in the commissioned
and enlisted personnel OF the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast
and Geodetic Survey and Public Health
Service such percentages shall be ap..
plieable to the pay rates Exclusive OF
allowaneeO now fixed by or pursuant
to law.
Piecework Employment.
"(b) This section shall be applicable
to employments compensated on a
piecework basis, by hourly rates or on
a per diem basis, only when the hxed
rate of pay for the regular WORKING
hours and on the bassis OF customary
number of working days In the year
would amount to more than the annual
rate of $4,000
"{cl This section shall not apply CD
to any officer of the United States whose
compensation may not be Diminished
under the Constitution during the term
for which he was elected or during MS
continuance In office; tO to any once
or position. the compensation OF which,
in whole or In part, Is determined ny OF
pursuant to international agreement
l3). to anv office land, orr position, the
compensation of which Is determined
by or pursuant to law upon the basis OF
the value of money receipts or other
variable factors of public business; %
to compensation to be paid under the
terms of any contract to which the
United States Is a party in effect on the
date of the enactment of this act.
"(d) This section shall take effect
upon the first day of the second month
following the month IN which this act
is enacted and shall continue In ef-
feet until June 80, 1888, after which
latter date, unless otherwise provided
by law, the percentages OF reductions
specified herein shall be discontinued
and the annual rates Of compensation
of the Offices, positions and other en-
ployments affected by this section shall
revert TO the rates of compensation IN
effect prior to the date OF the enact
ment OF this act.
"(e) The appropriations or portions
of appropriations suspended by the OPP
erations of this section shall not be
used for any purposes, but shall be i'm
pounded and returned TO the Treasury"
In the House today Representative
Blantan discussed governmental ex-
travagance, but declared emphatically
against reducing any salary under
$4,000, He demanded that the redue-
tion should start at the top and that
the heavier cuts should be made IN
the highest salaries, Il hope to have
the President start the reduction by a
generous cut into his own salary OF
$75,000," said Mr.. BIanton,
Referring TO Representative Wood as
"dollar-a-d day advocate" denouncing
any eheese-psring policy ON the part
of the United States Government and
emphaticaliy declaring the American
people are not cheap Representative
Boylan vigorously opposed any slashing
of the Government pay roll.
1T surprised me very much" he said,
ITO hear the distinguished former chair
man of the Appropriations Committee,
who is also chairman Of the Republican
congressional campaign, who went
about extolling prosperity with Hoover,
cite to the House the fact that labor
could be obtained in localities near
Washington at the rate of 81 per day,
Surely this statement Is not in line
with the full -dinner-pail slogan of the
Republican party, Washington Is one
of the most expensive cities to live IN
in the United States and ! am sure
you gentlemen will agree with me that
you could not put very much In the
dinner pail at the wage rate of 81 per
day,
Says Charity Is Not Desired.
The American people are not q
cheap people. The national sentiment
Is TO be big, broad and generous. Amer
ioa has fed the world, and surely even
in the hour of depression we can feed
our own people. We have an upstand-
ing self-reliant people, who want no
charity but only the opportunity to
work in order to provide for them
selves and their families, From an
economic standpoint ii would be un-
wise to reduce the salaries of Federal
employees, because by doing this you
Immediately reduce their purchasing
power. When you consider that there
are nearly 10000 Federal employees In
the United States, you can at once
visualize the effect that their reduced
buying power would have on our eco
nomic structure.
Again, If the Government should re-
duce the salaries of the employees, the
example would be Immediately followed
by practically every employer in the
United States.
This period of depression cannot
last forever, The Nation will not al
ways be broke: We look forward to a
brighter day when the prosperity prom
ised under Hoover will dawn, mayhap
under another administration, for our
beloved country.
This new era cannot be brought
about by cheeseparing policy Of cut
ting the salaries Of notoriously under
paid Government employees"
Has Sought Out Here.
Representative Robert G, Simmons,
Republican, of Nebraska, chairman of
the Republicans Speakers Bureau, dis
closed IN the House yesterday that he
has persistently sought to make "a 5
per cent cut in the total for salaries
In the District Of Columbia in the De-
partment OF Agriculture" He told his
colleagues that Chairman Byrns of the
Appropriations Committee has op-
posed that and says there is no sense
IN It, that we cannot justify it, and,
therefore, unless we can show what
men can be eliminated that saving
should not be made"
Chairman Byrns said In part:
whenever you can cut out an un-
necessary employe of the Government
show me and ] shall vote with you; but
l 40 not think 1t is good business, I do
not think it Is sound policy, I do NOT
think the people expect of us that we
should undertake TO blindly take
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