The Washington times., 1937-03-05

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have endured the disease of j
Particularly has this held sway
in the General Accounting Office,
where approximately 2,700 en-
ployes hold appointments which
expire technically on June 80.
. A wave of rumors has recently
, swept the agency to the effect that
large numbers of employees will
not have their appointments re-
neWed as the end of the fiscal
D year, the rumors being based on
. the fact that some have been ad-
vised to take all of their annual
leave prior to that time. Another
rumor is to the effect that $50
Audit Division clerks in the Moses
e Building will get the ak next pay
day.
According to G. A. o. officials.
however, the rumors are unfounded
and premature. The belief that
appointments will be allowed to
b.. expire by the wholesale to make
way for additional patronage has
been denied, and no general notice
has been issued to emergency folk
in regard to leave thus far, they
:. say.
AS to the firing of 750 on March
IS, it was termed "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" by G.. A, o. ad-
\ ministrative officers in reiterating
that there is plenty of work on
hand to keep everybody busy until
June of 1888, providing G. A. O.'s
appropriations aren't cut.
In general, the agency's officials
feel that emergency workers
should take all leave they have
: coming so that in case budgetary
troubles did arise within the next
four months the employees wouldn' t
be "gypped." But the notices re-
- ceived by some are attributed to
minor supervisors who have taken
matters in their own hands, prob
ably with the hope of soaring
more work out Of their under.
lings.
On June 30. 27o emergency
workers, hired only for the bonus
audit, will definitely be termi.
mated, but in regard to the rest
Of the force an official said the
other day that he didn't "think
many have need for any worry"
Some reinsurance on the mat
ter is to be found in the testimony
Of James L. Baity, assistant to the
Comptroller General, who told the
House Appropriations Committee
In December:
"The G. A. o. is not asking
for any increase in its regular
appropriations for the fiscal
year 1888 over what was appro-
priated for the fiscal year 1897.
This situation is brought about
F. by the fact that the office has
; had allOcated to it emergency
., funds to permit it to retain it's
: present emergency employees, in
addition to those employed and
paid on our regular roll; other
wise, our regular estimates for
1888 would of necessity have
been submitted for more than
: S3,OOO,O00 in excess of the eSti.
: mates before you for consider.
alton.
"Our estimates for 1888 have
been approved by the Bureau
of the Budget, and with the
amount of our regular estimates
and the amount allotted to us
= from emergency funds, we be.
lieve we will be able to do all
that it is possible to do in the
space we now have available for
office work and the housing of
files and records up to June 80,
1898. At present we OccEpy in
= whole or in part ii buildings,
5 of which are rented. We now
have and for the next few years
will have more work than we
"a, can possibly handle, and until
we are provided with a new
building sufficiently large to
meet our actual requirements it
will not be possible for us to
. keep abreast of all the work we
ate required by law to do"
D.
DR.. Thomas A. Griffin, forme
, head of the Civil Service Commits
a,sion's editing and recruiting sec
+, ton. visited his old haunts tn
other day Retired about a yea
ago, DR.. Griffin visited many o
his friends and former colleagues
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