The Washington times., 1933-06-16
FUREOUGHS
Up To EACH
BUREAU
Roosevelt Expected to Modify
Coolidge Order and Hit
30-Year Veterans

Personnel adjustments in
the Federal service, necessi-
tated by budget cuts, will de-
velop rapidly in the next few
weeks, it was expected today.
Adjournment of Congress leaves
the department heads relatively
free to make dismissals or fur
loughs.
Within the next few days modi-
fication of President Coolidge'S
executive order granting longevity
credits in the Federal service will
be effected by another Executive
order. Total elimination is pos
sible, but what is looked for is a
revision of the longevity gradings
that will permit retirement of en-
ployes 80 years in the service.
Use Own Discretion -
Each bureau will have a con-
siderable degree of discretion in
making it's staff conform to its
available funds. Some can and
will adopt rotative furloughs, but
others do not want to do so, and
in these compulsory retirements
and dis1nisSals of married persons
will be adopted.
It is expected that through
eliminating a husband or wife,
where both are on the payroll, and
through retirement of the 30-year
employees whose efficiency ratings
apart from longevity credits
are low, practically all the sepa-
rations necessary can be effected,
except in those Federal units
where work is to be cut out or
greatly curtailed.
These "hot spots" include the
division of valuations and Bureau
of Accounts, Interstate Commerce
Commission; the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce and
Bureau Of Standards, and practi-
cally the whole Interior and Agri-
culture departments.
"GOing Down Line"
They are "going right down the
line" in the Interstate Commerce
Commission to effect budget saw
ingS, it was authoritatively stated
today. Some comfort, however,
appears in the likelihood that
number of clerical employees ousted
there will find berthS in the Rail
road Coordination Office.
Similar job-Savings prospects
appear, so far as the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
is concerned, in the Industrial Re-
covery Administration, headed by
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson; so far as
Agriculture employees are con-
cerned, in the new farm relief or
ganizationS, and for Interior De.
partment workers in the Muscle
Shoals administration and other
new enterprises.
OuSting of 30-year employees
will not afford all the relief neces-
Sary in the newer bureaus.
, Would Take Up Slack
Commerce Department figures
= offer an interesting view of how
this works out. In the Census
Bureau, for example, lat out of
713 employees are in the 30-year
class, or 20.6 per cent. Retire.
ment of these employees would
probably take up all the slack
necessary.
On the other hand, only IL, or
IA per cent of the 865 employees
of the Bureau of Foreign and Do
meStic Commerce have been 80
years in harness, and none in the
aeronauticS branch. The Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, for a number of reasons,
faces a rather serious situation.
AS has been already announced,
100 of 1853 foreign service en-
ployes of the bureau have been
relieved, and separations in the
domestic agencies of the bureaus
will probably be announced next
week.
In general, therefore, the pro-
Cedure in making funds sufficient
to carry on the work of the units
will be as follows:
Department and bureau chiefs
will decide promptly how much
help must be eliminated, and
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