Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What kind of personnel? Mr. CUSTER. In the lower grades, in the clerical categories, for emergency peak loads. As we have indicated, it is only a small percentage of the amount spent in the fiscal year 1941, and, as I said a moment ago, this is not in fact an actual increase in money. It shows as a decrease under salaries and expenses. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. It is an increase under this item. Mr. FLEMMING. It is an increase under this item but a decrease under our regular item, in the same amount, $76,000. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. You mean, then, it is a transfer of one to the other? Mr. CUSTER. It is a transfer of one to the other. MOBILE FORCE Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What about the increase for your mobile force? What is that force, and why the increase of $21,600? Mr. CUSTER. That is for the purpose of permitting the Commission to fill vacancies existing in its authorized staff a little more expeditiously than we can otherwise do it. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What is the mobile force? Mr. CUSTER. It is a force of stenographers and typists that we use for peak loads of work in the various divisions and offices in Washington, D. C. It is from that group that we fill vacancies occurring in the regular positions in other parts of the office. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. The balance of that increase, $259,040, is requested, you say, for the purpose of providing funds for advancing field civil-service examiners from trainee to journeymen grades? Mr. CUSTER. That is right. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Is that mandatory under the existing classification? Mr. CUSTER. That is mandatory; yes, sir. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. There is no escape from that? STATISTICS ON CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED PERSONNEL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I wish you would give us tables such as you have usually given us showing the number of classified personnel in the service, and so on, as of the close of the last fiscal year. Mr. CUSTER. We have those with us and will put them in the record. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Also the number of examinations and the cost during that year. Mr. CUSTER. We will insert those in the record for you. (The statements referred to are as follows:) SEMIANNUAL REVIEW OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 1941 1 Civilian employment of persons occupying classified 2 positions in the executive branch of the Federal Government totaled 990,218 in June 1941, an increase of 168,378, or 20.5 percent, over December 1940. The total employment in June This entire report is compiled on the basis of the number of persons on the Federal pay roll with pay during the last pay-roll period of the month, as shown in the monthly employment report but does not include temporary substitute employment in the Post Office Department. Revisions have been made in several departments since publication of the June monthly report. 2 Classified positions are those positions that are subject to the competitive requirements of the Civil Service Act and Rules. 1941 was 1,358,150 as compared with 1,119,641 in December 1940, an increase of 238,509, or 21.3 percent. Over four-fifths of the persons making up the increase in classified employment were men. However, the rate of increase for women in the classified service during the period, 18.7 percent, almost paralleled the rate of increase for men, which was 20.9 percent. Increases in the War and Navy Departments accounted for over 75 percent of the total increase. Other significant increases occurred in the Panama Canal, 10,017; Agriculture, 9,260; Treasury, 5,373; Tennessee Valley Authority, 4,686; Interior, 4,363; and the Office for Emergency Management, 2.683. The only notable drop occurred in the Commerce Department where the Bureau of the Census decreased from 10,791 in December 1940 to 8,256 in June 1941, as the work of tabulating the Sixteenth Decennial Census neared completion. The net decrease for the Commerce Department was 1,392. Of the increase of 168,378 in the classified service, over four-fifths or 137.475 occurred in the War and Navy Departments. Other increases were noted in Agriculture, Federal Works, Office for Emergency Management, and the Civil Service Commission. The only notable decline occurred in the Commerce Department which decreased by 1,425. Employment in unclassified positions rose from 297,801 in December 1940 to 367,932 in June 1941, an increase of 70,131, or 23.5 percent over December 1940. The unclassified service increased by 39,991 in the War Department, 9.949 in the Panama Canal, and 4,686 in the Tennessee Valley Authority. Declines of 1,664 occurred in the Federal Works Agencv. 783 in the Veterans' Administration, and 389 in the executive staff of the Office of the President. In June 1941 there were 1,091,743 civilian men in the entire executive branch of the Federal Government and 266,407 women. This was an increase of 199,479, or 22.4 percent, in male employment over December 1940 and an increase of 39,030, or 17.2 percent, in female employment for the same period. This increased the ratio of men to women from 39 to 10 in December 1940 to 41 to 10 in June 1941. The number of male employees in the War Department increased by 87,191, or over 50 percent, while the number of female employees more than doubled, rising from 30,746 in December 1940 to 69,337 in June 1941. The men in the Navy Department increased by 50,258 or nearly by one-third, whereas women increased by 4,880, or almost by one-half. The number of women exceeded the number of men in the Civil Service Commission, Office for Emergency Management, and the Selective Service System, while in the Labor Department and the Federal Loan Agency the number of women closely approximated the number of men. Men in the District of Columbia increased from 92,092 to 106,133 and women from 62,588 to 77,774. The ratio of men to women in the District dropped from 15 to 10 in December 1940 to 14 to 10 in June 1941. Outside the District, the ratio of men to women increased from 49 to 10 in December 1940 to 52 to 10 in June 1941. The following table shows the percentage of increase over the preceding period in personnel in the classified and unclassified service since June 1938: The classified service which now represents about 73 percent of the total has increased regularly and at a greater rate than the unclassified service with the exception of the current period. In both types of employment the percentage change has been smaller in December than in June until 1940. The period from December 1940 to June 1941 reflects the effect of the national defense program upon civilian employment in the executive branch of the Federal Government. [All employment data in the following tables refer to employees on the pay roll with pay during the last pay-roll period of the month with the exception of temporary substitutes in the Post Office Department who are excluded. These statistics represent a consolidation of reports received from more than 45 different Government establishments, and cover more than 1,350,000 Federal employees.] TABLE 1.-Employment in the executive branch of the U. S. Government by sex, and classification status of positions, June 1941 and December 1940 TABLE 2.—Civil employment in the executive branch of the U. S. Government by classification status of positions and place of employment, June 1941 1 TABLE 2.-Civil employment in the executive branch of the U. S. Government by classification status of positions and place of employment, June 1941–Con. 1 Exclusive of temporary employees in substitute grades of the Post Office Department consisting of 61! in the District of Columbia and 13,355 outside the District of Columbia who were included in the monthly report of employment and pay rolls for June 1941. The unclassified positions which are excepted from the competitive requirements of the Civil Service Act and rules in the several departments and independent establishments include all unclassified positions regardless of whether financed by regular or emergency funds. They also include unclassified positions where the employees occupying these positions have civil service status and unskilled laborers who are appointed in accordance with the provisions of the labor regulations promulgated by the President. Includes employees hired under special letters of authorization. + Formerly listed as the Council of National Defense. |