Evening star., 1933-08-06
FEDERAL CHANGES
Ne XT THURSDAY
MILD ON WORKERS
DismissaIs Barred Where
Shifts Are Going Through
as Scheduled.
ONLY THREE MOVES IN
FIRST PART OF PLAN
Prohibition Bureau, Shipping Board
and Bureau of immigration
Are Affected.

With much Of the sting removed tenn
porarily, due both to suspension Of some
of the contemplated changes and q
prohibition against dismissals where
shifts are going through as scheduled
the first steps in President Roosevelt's
reorganization program will become ef-
fective Thursday morning.
As a result OF executive orders in the
last week amending the reorganization
order itself, there will be but three
moves Thursday in which large num-
bers of workers will be involved.
The Prohibition Bureau, which al
ready has undergone heavy cuts. will
be split up in the Department Of JUS
tice.
The Shipping Board goes TO the Com
merce Department.
The Bureau of immigration and Nat
uralization of the Department OF LABOR
will be consolidated into the 1mmigra-
ton and Naturalization Service OF
Labor.
The Prohibition Bureau shift has
brought about a problem that was un-
derstood yesterday still to be awaiting
a solution.
Formation Held Up.
The original order made definite al
location of all functions and PROVIDED
that the permit work should go to the
new Division of Internal Revenue. For
nation of this latter has been held UP
until December 81, however. and offl-
cials are not certain, 1t was understood
what will happen now. This work ap-
parently is left hanging in the air, in
asmuch as the investigative duties &c
to the new Division of Investigation, OF
Justice. and all other functions are to
be distributed through the department
as the Attorney General wills.
As for the Shipping Board. a special
committee now is at work in the De-
partment of Commerce deciding the
size of the staff to be maintained
There are about 900 workers here, only
approximately 100 of whom have civil
service status.
II has already been announced at
the Department OF Labor that the I'M
migration Naturalization consolidation
will be put through with as little dis
turbance as possible.
The principal consolidation move
that is going through without any ef-
feet on personnel for the present is
that under which a group Of agencies.
including the. Office of Public Build
ings and Public Parks of the National
Capital will be merged in the ONCE OF
National Parks. Buildings and ReSerVa-
tions. in the Interior Department. Here
President Roosevelt ordered that the
automatic dismissals which otherwise
would be forced be delayed until Sep
tember 30 In this way administrative
officers will have opportunity to survey
their needs and act accordingly. En-
ployes Of the Federal Board for Voca-
tional Education which also goes to In
terror. are likewise to be held in serv-
ice until September 80.
Other Delay Caused.
This need for further study was also
said to have been responsible in part
for holding up until December 81 for
nation of centralized divisions Of pro-
curement and disbursement in the
Treasury, supplanting the individual
units in the various Federal agencies,
and also for delaying until the same
date consolidation of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and Industrial Alco-
hoI into the Division Of Internal ReVe-
nue.. Here the possibility Of prohibition
repeal was another reason. These
moves also saved jobs for the present.
The re, laining changes due Thursday
are con cerned principally with legal
work
After these preliminary reorganization
shifts, the next important development
in the Government service will come
when. after the middle of the month,
Director of the Budget Douglas returns
to the Capital and starts hearings on
the budget for 1895. Here, from the
standpoint of the workers, principal in
terest will lie in the attitude to be taken
on pay, and it seems not unlikely that
it will be recommended that Congress
carry oyer for another year the pro-
viso regulating the scale by the cost of
living.
In a move interpreted as iberalizing
Unemployment conditions. the Civil
Service Commission yesterday held that
those former employees eligible for re-
instatement might be employed by any
agency requesting their service. Here
tofore, they could only be employed. ii
there was no one else qualified on the
unemployment register. This class is
not eligible for the Unemployment reg
lister after being out of service more
than year.