Evening star., 1933-08-07
600 to 700 Estimated to Have
Regained Jobs, Although
Figures Are Lacking.
GROUP IN PROHIBITION
RETAIN THEIR STATUS
Some Additional Changes Are Made
in Regrouping Plan by
President.

Approximately rs persons, who had
lost out in the general retrenchment
program. have been re-employed by
various Government agencies during the
last week. it was said today at the
Civil Service Commission.
Exact figures were lacking in this
weekly summary of the unemployment
situation, it being explained some en-
ployment agencies were slow in making
their returns. While the IS was just an
estimate, it was said the employment
figures were more likely to be above this
number than below.
On this basis, between $50 and 700
workers dropped in the economy pro-
gram have been restored to duty within
the last month.
Remain in Present Status.
In another personnel development to-
day, it was said at the Department of
Justice that those workers concerned
with permit work in the Bureau of Pro-
hibition would remain in their present
status when the bureau is split up
Thursday, under the reorganization
order.
Some doubt had been expressed as to
the fact they were due to go to the
new Division of Internal Revenue
which is not to be established until De-
cember 81
1t was explained there are only two
or three clerks and an attorney on per-
init work in the Prohibition Bureau,
most of these activities being centered
In the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol.
Will Split Functions.
All the functions Of the Prihibition
Bureau, with the exception of those
dealing with investigation. are to be
split up in the Department of Justice
as the Attorney General may order
and with much Of the detail still to be
decided upon. it was said the permit
employees would be in the same status
as others who are to be assigned to new
duties.
Some additional changes in reor-
ganiZation have been made by President
Roosevelt-none of which, however.
will have any effect on the employment
situation here. They will be reflected
in the States and Territories. The
President has deferred until go days
after the opening of the next Congress
the IS per cent cut ordered in expendi-
lures for vocational education and re-
habilitation, endowment and mainte-
nance of colleges for agriculture and
the mechanic arts, agricultural expert
ment stations and agricultural extern
sion work.
This cut was the center of heated
fight in the closing days of the last
Congress, and the Senate adopted reso-
luton asking that it be held up. The
resolution failed of passage in the
House. but it was understood at that
time that the President would go along
with the desires of Senate leaders and
defer the cut long enough in the next
session to give a chance for any action
that might be desirable.
Involves Vocational Education.
The sum involved in the vocational
education work is S8000000, of which
100000 was to be Topped off. For
the agricultural and mechanical col
leges, $4,000 goes to each State and
Territory in which these are located, for
q total of s2,500,000.
In the same executive order the Pres
ident also postponed the shift from the
Commerce Department to the Public
Works Administration the Employment
Sterilization Board, which will not
move now until the 1st of March. 1t
was said at the board this morning that
the 20 employees there were to have been
kept despite the consolidation, which
automatically drops all personnel in an
affected agency.