Evening star., 1934-07-01
EXECUTIVE UNITS
ADD @,579 UNDER
ROOSEVELT REGIME
Many 0Id-Line Agencies,
However, Show Drop
of Thousands.
NAVY YARD SHOWS
BIGGEST GAIN IN D. C.
Civil Service Commission Report
Sets Pay Roll for May at
$685. ,479.

More than $4,000 employees ,57s
to be exact-have been added to the
Federal pay roll in the executive
agencies alone, since the Roosevelt
administration took office.
This was made known yesterday,
when the monthly personnel state
ment of the Civil Service Commission,
as of May 81. was given out.
In the District of Columbia, the
increase since February %, 1933-just
before the reinS of Government
changed hands-was l9,137; outside
the District, it was 76,462.
This raised the employment totals
in the District to $500, and else
where. to 573.147, for an aggregate
up of 77,483 employees classed as per-
manent or indefinite, and 8456 as
temporary Outside. the respective
Classifications total 492 $50 and 80, 0,488.
The month saw 1896 new jobs
filled. Locally, the permanent or in
definite figure was 1901 and tenn
porary. 446: outside. 4,300 and $3.50.
The report also carried 142 additions
that previously had been made in
various agencies, but had not been
shown in the monthly tabulation.
S89,5T,479 Payroll.
The payroll for the month was
S89,577,479, as compared to S85, ,625, 1877
in April.
These. figures. taking in only civil
ian workers, do not include the ap-
proximately 5000 employees in legis-
lative and judicial branches of the
Government, nor the 10000 in District
employ.
The largest increase locally in per-
manent-or indefinite - employment
was in the Navy Department, where
the total was 73l, due to the building
up of the Navy Yard force on account
of the building program on which the
Government is embarking. The
Home Owners Loan Corporation
added 240 N R. A, 115; Government
Printing Office, 10S; P w. A, TO-;
Treasury, IS: A. A. A., 55; Interior
40; Veterans Administration, 27;
General Accounting Office, %; and
r. F. c., 20.
In this class of employment, Justice
showed loss of SO; Commerce. %;
and I. C. c., 20; under temporary
employment, the A. A. A. added SO;
War, 1856; Agriculture, 125: Labor, 78; +;
Treasury. 81: Veterans Administra-
ton. 40; Emergency Conservation
Work, under Agriculture, So; Com
merce, 30; and r. F. c., %.
n. r. A. Drops 234.
The N R. A dropped 234 temporary
employees; War, 121 fr@n emergency
conservation work; Government Print
ing Office, 40; Farm Credit Admins
tration. 80, and Justice. 90.
Outside of Washington, principal
additions of permanent or indefinite
workers were made as follows: Treas
ury, 1920; War, 212: Navy, 984; In
terror 537. and 463 for emergency con-
servation work; Agriculture, 649, and
% for emergency conservation work
Veterans Administration, 478; CO.
ordinator of transportation, 1876; P. w
A. PIG; N. r. A. 1903; Home Owners
Loan Corporation, 1857.
Big Justice Turnover.
The separations included: Justice,
773; Post Office, $50; Farm Credit,
1862; Tennessee Valley Authority, 81 :;
Commerce, 35, and Panama Canal, "a.
The Post Office figures reflect the
usual run of retirements, while there
was a large turnover in Justice, due
to the transfer of liquor law workers
to the Internal Revenue Bureau. The
bulk of the additions to temporary
employment outside of Washington
was as usual centered in War, Navy,
Interior and Agriculture, while size
able reductions were occurring in
emergency conservation work under
Agriculture, the Farm Credit Admin
iStration and the T. V. A.
The month saw the Civilian Con-
servation Corps carrying 2S5, 1896 en-
rolled personnel; 10,114 enrolled
Indians: 5,791 employees in the War
Department; and military personnel
of 5,152.
A comparison of the commission S
statement on May personnel with that
at the end of March. 1888. shows that
while the tremendous expansion has
been occurring in the Government as
a whole. there actually has been de-
crease in personnel in a number of
old line agencies, running anywhere
from 500 to 1000 to 5000 in some
cases, and in the Post Office more
than 5000. These reductions have
occurred, in addition to the Post
Office, in State. Treasury, Justice,
Commerce. Labor, Interstate Com
merce Commission and Veterans
Administration,