Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
I19O ON BURROUGHS
REGAIN COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT Jobs
Public Works Grants Make 1t
Possible to Recall Them
Immediately.
ACTION BRINGS HELP
TO FOUR BUREAUS
1000 Field Workers Also to Be
Re-employed in Coast and
Geodetic Survey.

Secretary Of Commerce Roper an
nounced today that $50 furloughed
Commerce Department employees in
Washington would be recalled to work
Immediately in four bureaus, as result
Of grants obtained from the Public
Works section of the National Recovery
Administration.
The bureaus affected are Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, Census, Mines and
Geodetic Survey
For the first three agencies, the Pub
nc Works Administration granted ST.
900 for clerical hire to set up statistical
sections to function for the National
Recovery Administration. These bu-
reaus have been authorized to recall
into the service 100 clerks, it was said.
Fifty additional workers will be re-
employed here in the Bureau of Coast
and Geodetic Survey as a result of
grant of s2,6Oo,oOo. In the field OF
this service approximately 1000 addi-
tional men will be employed. These
workers were furloughed last July Is
because Of lack of funds in the regular
appropriations for the Commerce De-
partment.
Makes s2,5o0,000 Grant.
At the same time. the Public Works
Board granted S2,500,000 to the Geo.
logical Survey of the Interior Depart
ment, which is expected to aid employ
ment.
Setting up OF the statistical division
IN the Commerce Department is to be
started at once, as it was explained the
data to be compiled is now wanted by
Recovery Administrator Johnson. Mean
time, Secretary Roper said he had
committee studying the reorganization
of the Shipping Board and expected to
have the present independent agency
under the banner of the Commerce De-
partment by August 10. Until the COM
mittee completes its study, Mr.. Roper
said, no changes will be made In the
Shipping Board personnel
Has Two-fold Effect.
The allotment Of s2,6oo,ooo for the
Eeodetic Survey, Mr.. Roper said, will
nave a two-fold effect: In the first
Mace, 10 per cent of all the money will
be paid out directly as wages to men
urgently in need Of work.
The money will be used to operate
surveying parties in the majority of
the States and along the Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific Coasts. The remain
der, approximately 80 per cent. will
be spent chiefly for the operation OF
these surveying parties, and thus, he
emphasized, will contribute to the well
fare of many small communities
throughout the country.
The Bureau of Mines recently was
transferred from the Commerce De-
partment to the Interior Department.
Mr.. Roper explained, however. that,
due to a technically, the Commerce
Department retained supervision over
that agency's appropriations.
Pay Cut Not Applied.
In a decision bearing on the use OF
recovery act funds, Controller General
McCarl held today that where any OF
this money Is used to pay new en-
ployes concerned only with emergency
Functions in any regular agency, the 10
Der cent pay cut need not be applied.
This was in conformity with previous
decisions by the controller general, who
has held it would not be possible to
apply the pay cut inasmuch as the
emergency pay rates were not estab-
bished when the recovery act became
kaw. The McCarl decision today re-
peated, however. that where the regu,,
lar establishments use their classified
bersonnel for functions under the re-
Eovery act. the pay cut applies. The
decision today was rendered to the
Secretary Of War.
Meanwhile, the Civil Service Com
mission was swamped with appllca-
lions for employment In the new
agencies from former Government
Eorkers who were dropped under the
marital status law. /
The trek to the Commission started
yesterday when general circulation was
kiven of Attorney General Cummings
ioiA hot c1occ p1iOihln for
bervice In the emergency groups.
Paves Way for 1000.
It has been estimated that the At
korney Generals opinion would pave
the way for unemployment of perhaps
p 900 men and women, inasmuch as no
restriction is contemplated, based on
The salary earned by the employed hus-
band or wife. SO far as the Commission
has yet been advised.
The married workers will now take
kneir place on the Commissions re-
employment registers, but none will be
certified for the regular Government
establishment.
The June personnel report of the
Civil Service Commission given out for
publication today shows net decrease
of 1923 workers in the executive civil
service here, and 1851 in the field.
This represents, IN the former case, the
difference between 712 additions AND
1885 separations, and in the latter,
d7,259 additions and 4,610 separations.
1T makes the total employment as OF
June 80, 65437 in Washington and
H99, 995 in the field, for aggregate OF
e65,432.
Net Decreases Shown.
{ In view Of the fact the major re-
krenchment did not start until July l,
6t will only be in compilation OF the
figures for last month that the principal
kffect viii be shown, although the weed
ing out, In some cases, will not be COM
bleted for some time.
The principal net decreases mere
were: Commerce, 1853; Public Buildings
and Parks, 1862; Navy, 157; General
Accounting Office 1879; Interstate Com
Snerce Commission, 30; Treasury, rs:
State, 70; War, 81; Justice, IS. and
Goyernment Printing Office, 80.
scattering of others ran from ! to 16.
Agriculture had net increase OF AZ,
Ind the Farm Credit Administration.
30. The separations are those for all
causes, including retirements and
In the field, principal net decreases
were: War, 2,736; Navy, 1904; Treas
6ry. 926; Commerce, 1888; Post Office,
n48: Veterans Administration, I'll;
Panama Canal, Gil, and Justice. 108.
interior added 367 and Agriculture, 127.
Temporary employment accounts in
large part for shifts in the field.