Evening star., 1933-06-14
Enforcement to Continue,


Many employees of each agency will
not be needed after the reorganization
plan becomes effective, August 10, but
Cummings told newspaper men there
would be no slackening of prohibition
enforcement.
The Attorney General said it would
be several weeks before the plans for
rearranging the bureaus could be COM
pleted and that he had not decided
whether both investigatory agencies
would be completely merged, or whether
, they would remain as separate units
under directing chief, to eliminate
duplicate functions. Neither has de-
clsion been made as to how the field
Offices of the two bureaus will be
affected
Mr.. Cummings added that he had
given no thought yet as to the selection
of a head for the new division At
present A. " Dalrymple, California
attorney, is prohibition director, and j.
Edgar Hoover is chief of the Bureau of
Investigation, position he has held
for many years.
At the same time, Treasury officials
said they were mapping out plans for
complete reorganization of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau and the Bureau
of Industrial Alcohol. The reorganiza-
ton program provides for consolidating
the two and technically abolishing both
by changing the designation of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue to a
division.
Administration leaders again empha-
sized that the changes under the Presi-
dents reorganization plan would not
involve widespread dismissals of en-
ployes either in Washington or in the
field.
Rsther, it was said, the heads of the
new divisions under the program will
be permitted to select the employees they
wish to continue in the service under
the new set-up. More than 10000 Gov
ernment workers are now employed both
in and out of Washington in the vari-
Gus bureaus which are to be abolished
and consolidated, with new divisions
taking their places.
The consolidation Of the Industrial
Alcohol Bureau with the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau involves between 1000
and $4,000 employees in the Internal
Revenue Bureau and 1900 in the alco-
hol bureau. Which of these employees
would be retained would be decided by
the heads of the new division.
Another consolidation which will
affect more than 5000 is that placing
Treasury under the Governments pro-
curement division. This move. also,
will throw open the selection of the
employees for the new division and per-
NIT its chief to choose which members
of the Supervising Architects force he
will retain. This division has charge
of the construction of all public build
lngs, from the selection of sites to the
awarding cf contracts and supervising
the construction of the buildings.
Workers to Be Certified.
Meanwhile, at the Civil Service Com
| mission today, the president, Harry B.
Mitchell, who also Is chairman of the
Council of Personnel Administration
denied unqualifiedly published reports
that the commission or the council
| would recommend to agencies whose
personnel is to be selected without re-
gard to civil service, that they build
their organizations with workers either
from abolished agencies or those cur
tailed under the economy program
who have civil service status.
Emphasizing that no move of this
sort would be initiated, Mr. Mitchell
| said the commission simply would fol-
| low It's long established custom certi-
flying workers where the administrative
| officers requested that this be done.
In this connection it was recalled that
the commission has Just announced an
| examination to appoint about 600 emer-
gency agricultural assistants, who will
| receive from $4,000 to $4,000 a year
for the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
| lstratlon which requested this be done
though the law provides the administra-
tion workers may be selected without
| regard to civil service.
These are field workers and the ex-
animation is not open to residents OF
the District of Columbia.
Other new units in which the Civil
Service Commission has thus far been
! advised that the workers will be non
| civil service are the Tennessee Valley
Muscle Shoals project, reforestation ad-
ministration, emergency relief admin
istration and United States Employment
| Service.
| The announcement earlier in the
week that the Council of Personnel Ad-
ministration had called to the attention
of administrative officers the desirabiliy
of inter-departmental transfer of per-
sonnel to absorb any surplus. where this
principle could be followed consistently
today resulted in a formal statement
from Mitchell to clear up a micta1er
idea which it was said had arisen as tc
precedence, in filling vacancies. Hi:
statement said:
"A misunderstanding has arisen re-
garding the relation of transfers from
one department to another and certifi'
cation from unemployment register:
when the Civil Service Commission i!
called upon to make certifications fol
filling vacancies.
THE fact is that those whose name:
are on the Unemployment registers ar,
certified at once. The implication thai
unemployment people are not consid
cred If people for transfer are availabl,
Is not correct Every announcement o.
vacancies that has been sent to the de-
partments has carried the following
statement: These positions are to bl
| Rllad IL osSihla in acnordarc with tiaI