Evening star., 1933-06-30
ECONOMY PROGRAM
HITS u. S. WORKERS.
Hundreds Enter Ranks OF
sJobIess Today and Others
{ Face Additional Pay Cuts.
Continued From First Page.)

marrled class Will go IN lNe next 10
days, all from the department proper.
fn addition. the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. with more than
100 employees. is virtually being halved,
and at the Bureau of Standards $50
employees, many of them well known
kcientistS, are being put on years
AIrlough. Further. the departmental
Workers must take Is days furlough.
= Justice. where 1900 Prohibition Blu
reau workers and 400 others have been
taken off the rolls. will have a reduc
ton approximating 200 persons, here.
In the Treasury it was said there
would be few" separations from the
departmental service, but the Bureau
of Internal Revenue is dropping 900
persons, including 100 here; Public
Health Service more than 400 and
Coast Guard l,500 enlisted men and
$50 warrant officers.
!. State is dropping e. employees.
{. War Department Drops %
: At the War Department % civilian
clerks in Washington bureaus were
dropped from the pay rolls tocay. O1
This number, 13 were retired mvol-
unfairly and the remainder were put
On s0-day furloughs during which time,
It was said. efforts would be made TO
replace them in other jobs.
: The War Department dropped % IN
the departmental service today, and at
Walter Reed Hospital 1875 employees are
going. The War Department proposes
to coast more or less through the
first quarter of the fiscal year to see
lust what develops but is anticipating
some furloughs. There are lS7 tenn
porary en- cloyes there. compiling World
War records. whose fate is in doubt.
: The only other immediate reductions
in War Department personnel was at
Walter Reed General Hospital where
T54 of the civilian employees were
dropped. This is due entirely to the
recent law severing none-serVlce con-
uected cases of World War veterans
from the hospital. The reduction at
Walter Reed leaves about score OF
civilian workers to take care OF the
remaining patients including some 80
forest recruits who cannot be ols-
charged from the hospital at this time.
Aside from the 20 clerks severed from
the rolls today during the past 10 days
or so the War Department has dropped
three clerks whose husbands or wives
were employed in other Government
departmentS In each Of these three
cases the War Department employe
chose to resign because his or her
SPOUSE received a higher salary.
SOffcials Of the department said
few more dismissals and retirements
would be necessary during the flrst
qparter of the fiscal year due to
etonomy measures.
sLabor is dropping three married per-
sons and retiring one. tonight. and
rlans to put furloughs in effect as
riaeded Here. however, heavy cuts are
anticipated when the Bureaus o: I'M
migration and Naturalization are con-
sblidated in August by executive order.
Hospital Force to Be Cut.
EThe Navy Department cut off 203
from the departmental force on June
& and will stand on that. but is ellmi-
hating 40 workers at Naval Hospital,
and so. including 80 on temporary duty.
at the Navy Yard. ,,,
SThe Post Office Department is still
ID draw up the furlough schedule 1or
its force here, but in the postal service,
1iine .payless" days are being required
Gr the first quarter.
Elm the independent offices. anotner
Sddition was made to the ranks OF
those getting rid of personnel, When tne
Civil Service Commission announced
that three men and seven women WIN
50 years service are being retired per-
nianently: 10 men and 2 women OF
the same class are being retired tenn
porarily with the understanding tnat
they would be returned to the pay roll
II conditions later permit, and 70 wom-
en- and IA meri with husband or wife
il the Government service were 1ur-
laughed indefinitely. until the commits
sion is advised that the other employed
member is dismissed or lndennltely
Hrloughed In addition. all others IN
Ehe commission, including the three
commissioners. themselves, are to re-
ceive furloughs, Of length still to be
determined, it was said.
!. The Interstate Commerce Commission
vas heaviest hit of individual groups,
6l3 employees of the Bureaus OF Valu-
alton and Accounts being put on go
aav turloughS that are to be made per-
fnanent unless they can be placed IN
employment elsewhere. At any rate.
they are through at the commission. 1t
vas estimated there that the ratio OF
bcal workers to those in the field was
Ground 3-2
I The Government Printing Office, next
h line. is dropping between $50 and
100. and the General Accounting Office
fom $50 to 200
: The Office of Public Buildings and
Publ Parks. which will go to the In
ter:or Department August 10. under the
hew reorganization. is dropping 60 en-
rloyes in the buildings division and ten
tl clerical and engineering. From the
Rational Capital Park and Planning
Commission three are going.
I Shipping Board Affected.
!. The Shipping Board with 800 en-
bloyes. only 100 of whom have civil
Service status. will also be affected un-
Der reorganization, being destined for
The Commerce Department. and it Is
not known what the outcome of this
move will be as regards personnel
: Some savings are to be necessary at
the Federal Power Commission, al
though the policy there still is to be
determined.
!. The Hederal Trade Commission is
dropping about 20 temporary employees.
who have been on investigative work
and about 80 of the regular force. The
Naff now is. in round numbers, 400
persons. All but one of the married
workers is to go. and some of the 30
gear class. it was explained. The Sepa-
fationS will be made July 8.
:. The Federal Radio Commission is
dropping five local employees and five in
fine field-4principally clerical
= The Board of Tax Appeals and the
Tariff Commission. locally are escaping.
but in the New York; Office of the lat
fer some dismissals are being made in
fle valuation section
Z Existing conditions. were bitterly as
sailed last night by Luther C. Steward,
PRESIDENT of the National Federation Of
Hodn asserted
I've are now witnessing the most violent.
sustained and voracious attack levelled
against the civil service since that sys-
km was established in 1888"
: Steward addressed the Organization
Committee of the District of Columbia
federation of Federal Employees Union
d Schneider's Cafe
No job, however small. will escape
The eyes Of the spoilsmen." he said.
4(iding that the LOB hunger" is being
|omented and encouraged by many