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great strides IN converting the Gov
eminent to an all-out war basis, l
am not satisfied that we have ex-
hausted all the possibilities.
Il wish to be certain that we have
stripped Government activities of
every nom essential, that work in
one agency is not being duplicated
in another, that we are carrying on
our work in the war and So-called
non-war agencies with an irreduc-
lble minimum of personnel fully
employed and that we are doing our
job in the most effective and quick
est way possible with only the abso-
Lutte minimum of paper work or red
tape.
Would Improve Service.
Il am expecting you, with the
help OF your employees from the top
to the bottom of your agencies, to
begin Immediately continuing re-
view Of your activities, to eliminate
every non-vital service. to seize
every opportunity for improving the
speed and efficiency of your opera
tions and to conserve manpower,
materials and money.
The director of the Bureau of the
Budget and the Civil Service Com
mission have been instructed to as
sist you in every way possible. I
desire that you report quarterly
through the director of the Bureau
of the Budget the results of your
efforts. The Civil Service Commits
sion, acting under the authority of
directive No. 10 of the chairman of
the War Manpower Commission, will
transfer personnel who are not ef-
fectively utilized to positions where
their services are needed"
Authorizes New Schedules.
Concurrent with the White House
statement. the Budget Bureau, in
another statement, authorized all
agencies to rearrange their sched-
ules.
The bureau said:
Based on the assumption that all
agencies will comply with the PreSi-
dents desire for general minimum
work schedule of a six-day, 48-hour
week, approval is hereby granted to
such agencies for a revision of their
Saturday working schedule to the
same hours as apply on other days
of the week.
The schedule OF the public trans
portation facilities in Metropolitan
Washington will be adjusted on this
basis on Saturday, December 26 No
change, other than that stated
above, may be made in the schedule
OF opening and closing hours of duty
except with prior approval as pro-
vided in paragraph three of budget
circular 37l, issued March 10, 194l.
1T is requested that each agency
in Metropolitan Washington submit
to the Bureau of the Budget copy
of its revised schedule of hours of
duty, showing the number of en-
ployes reporting to and leaving work
on each day and night shift, not
later than January l, l943"
Must Justify Employees.
In instructing agencies to get on
an all-Out basis and cut out the nom
essentials, President Roosevelt fol-
lowed the line of action mapped by
Congress in passing the legislation.
The resolution directed the Budget
Bureau to require agencies to file re-
ports within 30 days justifying the
present number of employees, and to
order transfers from those units
they believe to be overstaffed.
The measure is retroactive to De-
cember l, but it was said at the
Treasury today that 1t could not
be determined when the new pay
would be available until regula-
tions the President will promulgate
in connection with the law have
been given the agencies. The regu-
lations are understood to have been
prepared, and only await the Presi-
dents approval.
On a 48-hour week. the pay raise
will average 206 per cent.
Most agencies have been on a
44-hour basis since the outbreak of
the war, while War and Navy are
on 48.