Evening star., 1933-06-23
800 TO LOSE Jobs
IN |N2DEPARTMENTS Z
500 at Commerce and 800
at G. P. O. Slated to Go
Under Retrenchment.
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class, Carter said today, as the Printing
Office appropriation has been cut 81
600, 900 below the present years figure
of S13,000,O00. In this connection,
however, Carter amplified that veterans
would have preference.
At the General Accounting Office,
where the salary appropriation is So
10000, or S400,000 under this year, it
was said there would be some dismis-
sails, and presumably" some furloughs.
Program Undecided.
This office has not yet worked out
its plan in detail, being in the same
situation as number of other inde-
pendent establishments whose funds
were only fixed in the closing hours of
Congress. Included in these are the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
the Civil Service Commission. At the
former, there has been no definite word,
though one of its branches, the Bureau
of Valuation, had it's current appropria-
tion of $2,750.000 cut to $4,000 At
the latter it has been announced that
furloughs rather than dismiSsals would
be invoked. but a number of retire
ments are known to be in prospect.
The Veterans Administration, another
of the large establishments, is confront
ed with a volume of work, it was said
today, ,stkat precludes tampering. with
the -. No wholesale dismissals"
have been contemplated there, it was
when" a surplus of personnel is created,
to resort to furloughs.
Faces Two Distinct Cuts.
The departments face the coming
year with two distinct cuts from the
funds appropriated for 1888. First, the
8h per cent for salaries. impounded
in the current appropriations, was
knocked off when the estimates for
1884 were prepared. Then these lat
ter appropriations, all made before
March 4. were worked over by the new
administration, with the aim Of effect
ing a Is per cent saving. 1t is these
revised allotments with which the de-
partments are confronted in mapping
plans for 1884.
Generally speaking, all but 2 Of the
10 major departments know about in
what direction they are going to move,
State and War alone having made no
announcement of policy.
State will have available s11 ,563, 700
for 1894, as compared to 1893, the
principal ALLEGATIONS being: Depart
mental, 81 ,637, ,482; foreign service, So
299,707, and international obligations
including treaties and conferences
$1,373,611
AT both State and War officials are
studying the prospective set-up, and
at the latter it was thought today that
by Monday or Tuesday there would
be some announcement made.
Personnel Cuts Announced.
Some personnel cuts have been made
or announced in Treasury, Commerce
Agriculture and Navy, as well as the
tWo-Interior and Justice-which fell
into line yesterday, while the Post Of
fice Department is going to apply fur
loughS along with other economies, as
is intended at the Department Of Labor,
whose policy was also made known yes
terday
At the Department of Agriculture
probably some furloughs and possibly
some dismissals" was forecast today AL
ready at the department whose activi-
ties are expanding hugely in other di-
rections, abolition of the market news
service, with about 400 employees, has
been announced. In this department
the trimming process has Topped out
about S15,C0O,000
AT Justice, the program outlined late
in the afternoon by Attorney Genera,
Cummings, will hit principally patron
age jobs. Cummings explained that the
revised budget calls for cut of ST.
$4,000. bringing the funds available tt
! S33, 100000, and will mean employment