Evening star., 1941-11-27
Personnel Ratio
Jumps 70 1877
In Defense
Survey Contrasts
June Figures Of
Lost Year and This
BY OLIVER MCKEE.

Between June, 1910. and June,
1941, the proportion of Federal per-
sonnal engaged in national defense
activities jumped from Al to 73 per
cent, according to study made by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in
cooperation with the Civil Service
Commission. Results of the survey
were made public by Secretary
Perkins today.
At the end of last June, there
were approximately 3,119000 per-
sons on the Federal pay roll, as
compared with 1,496o00 in June,
1910. Though the proportion OF
non-defense employees decreased
from SO to 27 per cent during this
period. the actual number rose 7
per cent. Personnel of the armed
services, including selectees. in
creased 267 per cent. and comprised
Sc per cent of the June, 1941, total,
as contrasted with 80 per cent a
year earlier. The number of civilian
employees in defense agencies in
creased 298500, or 127 per cent
during the year. In June, this group
numbered more than $4,000.
To give better picture of the
changes in the pattern of Federal
employment caused by the pre-
paredness program, the bureau
classified non-defense employees into
IS groups, according to the type
of work performed. These groups
were General Government, law en-
forcement, public works, conserva-
tions and development. agriculture,
industrial and commercial develop
ment:" business and finance regula-
ton, labor and industrial relations.
health, welfare, Indian affairs.
postal service, other public service
enterprises, research and general in
formation, and education and refer
ence.
Postal Service Leads.
The postal service in June had
the largest number of non-defcnee
employes-37 per cent of the tot"l.
General Government, public works
and welfare each accounted for
between II and l3 per cent of the
Federal employees engaged in non
defense work. These were the four
largest groups, and made up ap-
proximately rs per cent of total non
defense employment.
With an increase of nearly 48 per
cent, law enforcement registered
the biggest proportional gain of the
non-defense groups during the year.
This was largely due to the ex-
/ pansion in F. B. I. personnel. At
the end of June, law enforcement
/ personnel totaled 20,050.
! Public works registered a smaller
! percentage gain than law enforce
ment, approximately IS per cent,
but accounted for the largest abso-
Lutte increase of the non-defense
groups, approximately $4,000. Pub
lie works personnel in June totaled
113,131.
Other Gains.
Other percentage increases IN the
non-defense groups, according to
the bureaus survey, were as follows:
General Government, 17.16; business
and finance regulation. 15.47; labor
and industrial relations, % 96; health,
8.52: postal service, $50: other public
service enterprises, 709, and edu-
cation and reference, 2940. There
was a gain also in the industrial
and commercial developme
groups.
Reversing the current expansion
trend, five of the non-defense
groups registered a decrease in per-
sonnel Due mainly to the release
of workers employed in compiling
the results of the decennial census,
the information and research grouu
reported decrease of 25 per cent,
with 11,709 Federal employees listed
in this classification in June. Tie
welfare group, which includes super
visory personnel of w P. A. and
the c. c. c., had a personnel of
l00,390 in June, a drop of 8.6 per
cent.
Agriculture reported a 1857 per
cent decrease in personnel, Indian
Affairs decline of A. per cent,
and conservation drop of less than
! per cent.
According to the bureaus survey,
the number of non-defense employees
in the Federal Government in
creased about $500 during the
year, reaching total in June of
approximately $4,000.
The Federal pay roll in June, both
military and civilian, amounted to
S312 ,583 400, an increase of 50 per
cent over the June, 1910, total, --