Evening star., 1933-09-03
65,991 in Civil Service July
31-0thers Bring Number
to June, 1882, Figure.
NEW AGENCIES OFFSET
ALL DRASTIC SLASHES
Congressional Record Supplement
Necessary for First Time to In
clude All Officials.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN

The new deal" has brought almost
IN the twinkling of an eve a great
group of new Government agencies In
Washington.
80 large, so important are these ad-
ditions to the Government that for the
nrst time in history supplement" to
the Congressional Directory Is within a
week or two to be issued on order of
the Joint Committee on Printing, of
which Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of
Florida is chairman.
or tremendous Importance to the
National Capital is the development of
this new group of Government agencies.
1t means that already in the Federal
service in Washington approximately as
many persons are employed today as
there were on June 80, 1882.
This is true notwithstanding the fact
tNat Immediately after this date the
economy act of the Hoover admins
tration began to function and that the
cuts in the Government service since
President Roosevelt came into Office
have been more and more drastic.
Upturn of 554 in July.
Records of the Civil Service Com
mission show that even in the number
of civil service employees IN the District
there has been upturn in July Of 554
In the new government agencies hun
dreds and probably thousands of the
employees have no civil service status.
They have been appointed from civil
life without going through the mill of
the civil service examinations. etc.
The total number of civil service en-
ployes in Washington on July 81 was
65,991 1t is probably considerably
higher today, since efforts have been
made to give civil service employees who
were thrown out Of work in the Presi-
dents reorganization and economy
drive opportunity to obtain work in the
new agencies.
The civil service employees. plus the
army of employees outside Of the civil
service proper. will soon equal, if they
do not already equal. the number of
Federal employees in the District of Co.
lumbia before the pruning knife was
forced by the President and the Con-
gress.
Big Loss In Field Service.
The swing back to Government en-
ployment outside the District has not
yet begun to assume anything like the
proportions it has in the District. But
that it will come is the belief here.
The field service, which is the service
in the States outside the District, suf-
fered loss of 11,005 employees during
the last month. This loss was due
largely to retrenchment at Army and
Navy posts, in the field Offices of some
of the old departments and elsewhere
in the Government service. When the
detailed figures for the August 10
shake-up in the prohibition unit are
available, the loss will be still greater.
About 300 employees in the field offices
of the abolished Prohibition Bureau
lost their Jobs The total number of
civil service employees of the Govern
ment in the entire country at the close
of July was 554981, a reduction of
1O,451 during that month. But. just as
in the case in Washington, many per-
sons have been employed outside the
civil service proper. in the States dur
ing the last few weeks.
The increase in Civil Service en-
ployes in Washington during July was
attributed entirely to employment af-
forded by the new Government
agencies. particularly the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration.
The N. R. A. is proving itself a
fertile field of employment as it labors
to bring employment to millions
through the adoption of the codes OF
fair practice. Already it is reported,
the number of employees Of the Re-
covery Administration in Washington
alone has passed the 1000 mark.
Agencies Doing Their Part.
The business of the Federal Gov
ernment for years has been the big
industry of the National Capital.
Without return of men and women
to work for the Government in Wash
ington, there seemed a little chance
for early industrial recovery in this
city. The N. R. A. the Public Works
Administration, the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, the Home Loan Bank
Board, plus the Home Owners Loan
Corporation, the Federal Relief Ad-
ministration. the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, the Federal Transportation
Board and the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation-a holdover from the last
administration-are all doing their part
toward greater employment in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. AS time passes, un-
doubtedly they will be responsible for
more and more employment by the
Government itself, as we'll as by private
industry, throughout the country.
Who can name offhand the heads
Of half of these new agencies and their
principal lieutenants? The great mush-
room-like growth of Government agen-
cies in the last few months has made
it imperative, according to Senator
Fletcher for the publication without
further delay of a supplement to the
Congressional Directory, new deal"
supplement. This publication is really