Evening star., 1933-07-22
Civil Service Registers Now
Contain Names of $500
Unemployed.
REVISION IS AWAITING
PRESIDENTS APPROVAL
Instructions to Weed Ont Those
"slantstsd In Expected.
to Go Out Soon.

Establishment Of . preferred list"
for re-hiring as Is contemplated by
the administration would remove ap-
proximately 125 persons from the re-
employment registers Of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission in Washington, it was
estimated today.
These registers. from which President
Roosevelt has said the new Federal
emergency agencies must take quail
ned personnel, now contain about 5000
or furloughed, or face separation under
the retrenchment program.
The instructions to the commission
to weed out from the Unemployment
registers those persons who wei e
blanketed In under Civil Service, leav-
ing the list made up of those who won
their status by competitive test, Is 60
ing forward today to Harry B. Mitchell,
president Of the Civil Service Commis-
sion, it was said this morning at the
ofnce Of Secretary Of Commerce Roper.
Mitchell Letter Delayed.
Cabinet Committee on Re-employment
Mr.. Roper Is directing that the Presi-
dents wishes In this regard be carried
out. The Mitchell letter was read yes
terday afternoon, but was delayed until
1t had received White House approval,
it was understood. The commission Is
expected to start compilation of these
revised lists as soon as the instructions
are received.
Meanwhile. at the commission It was
said today that Unemployment in the
new agencies OF personnel dropped from
the regular establishments is progress
ing favorably and it was felt the week
ly report to- be made Monday would
show up encouragingly.
On Monday. too. when the National
Industrial Recovery Board, headed by
Secrtary Roper. has its meeting q de-
cision Is anticipated from Attorney
General Cummings on the possibility Of
liberalizing application of the marital
status law to permit those persons
dropped because husband or wife Is in
the service to be made eligible for en-
ployment IN the new agencies.
One Opinion Delivered.
It Is conceded that this class cannot
be brought back to the regular estab-
lishments.
The Attorney General already has
rendered at request of the President
one lengthy opinion on the marital
status law, holding 1t Is permanent leg
islatiop and directing the method in
which, 1t must be applied in dismissing,
or furloughing workers for 80 days or
more. This decision is In line with the
policy followed by the Civil Service
Commission In setting up separation
ratings.
In reductions Of personnel, this order
Is followed: The first to 60 are those
married persons, without veteran pref
erence, who have husband or wife also
In the service; next comes the married
persons with veteran preference; en-
ployes without preference are next to
go and last are those workers with pref
erence.
Under this arrangement the veteran
preference is knocked out where the
marital status enters.
Wage Policy Attacked.
The current issue Of the Federal News.
organ Of the National Federation Of
Federal Employees, today recalled that
departments now are working on the
1885 estimates, and said that In these
"the administration should take i'm
mediate action to prevent recurrence OF
the unsound, uneconomic, morale shat
tering events Of the past year"
The publication hit the procedure
under which various agencies, with
funds cut to the point where necessary
services cannot be carried on, are forced
illogically to seek emergency recovery
funds for their running expenses.
The federation also expresses the
hope that with the appointment Of q
new commissioner Of the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics the cost Of living upon
which the President bases his order
with respect to the Federal wage scale
will be brought down to date" adding
If that is done it is inconceivable that
January will afford another opportunity
for the continued crushing Of Federal
wages"