Evening star., 1932-03-21
House Subcommittee to Sub
nit Results of Study
This Afternoon.
ECONOMY GROUP TO GET
DETAILED INFORMATION
Stiff Opposition Indicated to BE.
duce Salaries of Already Low
Paid Employees.

No definite and specific recommended
ton regarding the rate of reduction to
be applied on the Government pay roll
will be made to the full Economy Com
mittee, when it meets this afternoon,
by the special subcommittee of three
to which was delegated the task of see
ing what could be done to effect a saw
ing from $4,000, 900 to 500, 900, 900 by
wholesale salary Slashing.
Instead. the subcommittee will lay be-
fore the Economy Committee detailed
information regarding the estimated
reduction that can be made by apply
ing various rates decrease to the Gov
ernment pay roll.
The Office of the United States Bu-
reau of Efficiency has been busy draft
ing charts and making estimates to dis
close how the largest amount of reduc-
ton can be made without bearing down
hard on the great bulk of Government
employees who are receiving less than
$4,000 year salary.
Up Against Stone Wall.
The subcommittee, headed by Repre-
sentative McDuff1e Of Alabama, has
found itself literally up against stone
wall in its efforts to make any con-
siderable showing of saving Of Govern
ment funds without still further op-
pressing those who are endeavorinR to
live on salaries under $4,000.
They also have encountered rising
tide Of opposition in the House against
cutting the salaries Of already low-paid
Government employees so as to satisfy
big business interests which desire to
use the cutting Of the Federal pay roll
as an excuse and Justification for
wholesale reduction of salaries in pri-
vate industry throughout the entire
United States.
Flat Rate Opposed.
Some of those who have been in
closest touch with the conferences on
salary reduction proposals declared to-
day that it viii be impossible for the
economy committee to force through
the House a nat rate Of reduction ap-
plicable throughout the entire payroll.
Chairman Byrns Of the House Appro-
priations Committee and Of the Economy
Committee declared he Is opposed to,
and he believes the majority of the
membership Is opposed to, making any
reduction In the low rates of pay In the
Government service. When he made
this statement he had In mind that
two-thirds of the entire pay roll Is
composed OF persons who receive $4,000
year or less.
Throughout the membership of the
House the sentiment Is growing that
the drive from outside interests trying
to force Congress to cut salaries Of
Government employees Is being made
with the hope that outside industry will
be able to cite such action by the Gov
ernment as justification for wholesale
paycutting throughout the entire coun-
try.
Protests Pour in.
The largest organizations of employed
people, as well as thousands of indi-
vidual wage earners, are writing 20
members of Congress urging the impera-
tiveness Of maintaining the Govern
ment pay roll in order that reductions,
made for psychological effect, as stated
by House Leader Rainey, even though
it was known they would not be mate
rally helpful toward balancing the
budget, might not give outside employ
ment an excuse for general and whole
sale salary cuts.
The Senate today transferred the
Connally Government pay cut bill from
the Committee on Appropriations to
the Civil Service Committee. This step
was taken on motion of Chairman Jones
OF the Appropriations CommiItee ana
was in line with similar request he
made several weeks when the Borah
salary reduction bills were turned over
to the Civil Service Committee, Of
which Senator Dale of Vermont Is
chairman.
The Connally bill would apply only
until the end Of the next fiscal year and
would reduce on sliding scale salaries
above $4,000.