Evening star., 1934-05-02
10,S7 NEW Jobs
BRING EXECUTIVE
TOTAL TO 623,559
March Figures Minus $40
H. O. L. C. Workers Pre-
viousIy Enrolled.
CAPITAL GAIN 1875,
WITH TOTAL OF 1906
Civil Service Report Excludes
Legislative, Judicial and Local
Government Data.

With an addition of 10.967 workers
during the month, the Federal force
in the executive establishments reach
ed a total of 623,559, March 81, the
regular report of the Civil Service
Commission showed today This lat
ter figure actually was more than H.
600 in excess Of that reported on the
last day of February, but it included
$40 employees of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation. who had previously
been on the pay roll, but had not
been carried in the monthly tabula-
ton
The total excludes legislative and
judicial personnel and that employed
by the District Government, which
runs around $4,000. There are in ad-
dition. 2l7,680 men enrolled on emer-
gency conservation work and 4,628 Of
flcers, not shown in the tabulation,
and about 258,500 persons in Army.
Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard,
Public Health and Coast and Geodetic
Survey, putting Uncle Sans pay roll
total in excess of 1.104 900 persons.
The civil executive pay roll for
March amounted to $50 SOS, ,683.
District Gain 1,575.
In the District the month saw 2.483
employees added on permanent or in
definite basis and 908 separated, for a
net gain Of l,575 and a total employ
ment of this class of 73,106. In tenn
porary employment there were l.499
additions and 1850 separations for
net OF l39 and total of 8.463. All
employment here reached 81. 569.
In the field permanent or indef-
mite additions were 1O,307 and sepa-
rations 4,528, making the pickup
5,779 and total employment 48l.922.
Iemporaries added were 2l,900: sepa-
rated, 1926, for gain of 3,474 and
total OF 6OO86 in this class and field
aggregate of 54l,990.
The turnover in some cases means
simply transfers from one activity to
another. In the field the large shift
Is customary, representing, as a rule.
laborers going from job to Job.
Permanent net additions here dur
ing the month included: Justice, 26;
Navy, 4lS; Agriculture, So; A. A. A..
304; Federal Trade, "a; General Ac-
counting Office, As; Veterans Admin
istration, So; Farm Credit, rs; Home
Loan Bank Board, Al; Emergency Re-
lief, 2l; Public Works, l43; N. r. A.,
1853, and Home Owners Loan, 227.
There was scattering elsewhere in
the service.
Temporary Pickup.
AS for temporaries, Treasury picked
up 120; War, As, on emergency con-
servation: Agriculture, 20; Employees
Compensation Commission, 43 (mak-
ing total for the month of so, as
there had been II permanent addi-
tionS in this group; Veterans Admin
iStration. l48; N. R. A., $50, and
Home Owners Loan, %.
The A. A. A. showed net loss of 393
temporaries, making its total force
4,080 This is the first time that the
A. A. A. staff here has been reported
by itself, its figures heretofore having
been Jumped in the Agriculture De-
partment total War separated 81
temporary employees and Alcohol Con-
troll 10, these being the only other
stable groups dropped here.
In the field, the permanent addi-
tions included: Treasury, 1874; War,
319; Justice, So; Navy, 536; Interior,
1879.
Emergency Conservation, IL; Agri-
culture, 1893, Panama Canal, 275; Ten
nessee Valley, 2,161; Home Owners
Loan, 1856.
AS generally happens, Post Office
led in separations, with SIS; Farm
Credit dropped 306 and Public Works
lO2.
The principal changes in temporary
employment came, as usual, in In
terror and War, where engineering
projects center