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Show U. S. Payrolls Still Soaring 121,117 More Get Jobs With Administration in Year. Bureaucracy Is still rolling up new high totals for the number of employees on Its roster. A year ' ago there were 684,918 employees on the Executive payroll. Today, according to the latest report of the united states civil Service Commission, Com-mission, the total Is 800,035. While It Is asserted frdra the stump that business and Industry have mads great gains and the national Income In-come bas Increased by billions, the rumors that the emergency Is over apparently have not reached those In Washington who hire quickly and fire with extreme deliberation. President Roosevelt, four years after the Democratic platform pledged economy In Government, appointed ap-pointed a commission to study plans for cutting down expenses, and for reorganizing and reducing the number num-ber of departments. He made it clear that no report was expected until next year, which means that the matter will not arise to distract the thought of the voter from other considerations. 1 The Emergency Plea. A . common explanation of the great Incrense In bureau payrolls is that It is not Just a case of creating creat-ing huge and politically frlendlv payrolls, but tliut the Administration Administra-tion has needed these extra workers work-ers to help meet the emergency. A glance at the official Government records, however, shows disturbing payroll Increases In those departments depart-ments which have no relation to recovery re-covery and emergency. Take for example the "regular" departments such as the State, War, Treasury and Post Office departments. More than 5,000 persons were added to those payrolls In March, the last month reported. The Civil Service lists twenty- J five new agencies created under the ' present Administration. There are 50,593 employees on those payrolls alone. The list Includes such fa-miliar fa-miliar alphabetic bureaus as CCC, FHA, FCA, HOLC, et cetera, et cetera. Some of the new agencies have been merged Into other departments. de-partments. This process has caused trouble. In order to keep those employees em-ployees who have been at work In I "emergency- departments under the Okay of Chairman Farley of the National Democratic Committee, it bas been necessary to study new methods of evadlnif the civil ice laws. It was proposed the other day to place 10,000 such loyal workers work-ers In other departments by means of a "special examination." Growth In 3 Years. Looking once more at the latest reported total number of employees, the records for March, 1930, show that 242,548 have been added to the Executive payrolls since February 28, 1933, a few days before Mr. Roosevelt became President. The number on that date was 563,487. The present administration started out with the declaration that It proposed to cut Government expenses ex-penses 25 per cent Three years later It had Increased the Executive payroll alone by 43 per cent The foregoing figures do not Include In-clude 294,309 enrolled personnel and 8,000 others in the CCC. The totals for March, 1930, show a gain of more than 7,000 employees over the number on the February list At that rate of Increase there will be an additional 49,000 on the payrolls before election day. Which will make a November army "f 855.000. |