Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
u. 5. Agencies Retain
50 Pct. Of Employees
In Decentralization
$4,000 Persons Shifted
To 20 Cities in Yeor,
Budget Report Shows
BY JOSEPH A. FOX.

Approximately 60 per cent of
the employees ordered out Of
Washington in the decentraliza-
ton program have moved-or
will move-With their agencies,
Budget Director Harold D. Smith
said last night in a statement
reviewing the results of the de-
centralizing which was maugu-
rated by the Government year
ago to relieve the housing and
Office space situation here.
In round figures, 80 units, with a
total of 10000 positions, have been
shifted to some 20 cities These
took about $4,000 employees away,
with the other 10000 locating in
other jobs here. At the same time,
the moved units have been expand
ing, and now have a roll of $4,000
persons. representing net addition
of 10000 positions filled by recruit
ment at their new locations.
Housing Freed.
The decentralization, Mr.. Smith
continued, has freed 5000 houses
and apartments and 5000 living &C
commodations for single persons,
while approximately 1000 more of
each type of living accommoda ton
will be made available here from
other moves contemplated or in
progress. Office space gained
amounts to 100000 square feet
Concurrent with this exodus, ap-
proximately $1,000 employees have
been brought into the Capital. and
some 10000 more are due by June
80. Total employment here now
is near the 100000 mark.
Of the 33 decentralization moves
ordered, % have been completed:
enc is in progress, and four are still
to start Nine departments. with
slightly in excess of 10000 positions.
and II independent agencies with
the residue-about 10,000-are in
volved.
Included are: War, five units,
9,21l; Agriculture, five units, 1866:
Treasury, three units. 1854: Justice
Immigration and Naturalization
Service. 400; Patent
ONCE 089; Interior. five units,
317; Navy-field branch of Bureau
Of Accounts and Supplies-800;
Labor-two units-principally Wage
and Hour Division-505; Post Of
fee, 25 with the Postal Accounts
Division of the General Accounting
Office
independents" Shifted.
In the independent Establishments.
along with the GAO unit. are: Alien
Property Custodian, Employees Com
pensation Commission, Fourth Dis
trict Office Civil Service Commits
sion Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, Public Buildings Ad-
ministration zone section, Railroad
Retirement Board. Securities and
Exchange Commission. Bureau of
Old Age and Survivors Insurance,
Social Security Board. Veterans
Administration zone section), War
Production Board Construction Bu-
reau.
Several of the agencies which
moved are undergoing considerable
expansion. The Navy is adding
l 500 positions to the 800 already in
the supplies and accounts unit
shifted to Cleveland; Treasury,
1928 to the 1927 in the Public
Debt Bureau unit and $50 to the
$50 in the War bonds storage sec
ton, both of which are locating in
Chicago; War, 1000 to the chief
of finance unit in Chicago and
$3.50 to the division of dependency
benefits. Newark, which have, re-
spectively. 5000 and 5,12O under the
present setup; Alien Property Gus
todian, 800 to the 200 shifting to
Chicago. The Alien Property Gus
todian's Office, incidentally, took no
employees from Washington. All but
a fraction of the BIT Interior en-
ployes ordered away went with their
units, only lib remaining here.