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Show Uncle Sam's Vast Army of Employees The War and Navy departments run a close race for third place. There are 61,483 civilians In the Navy and 01,242 In the War department. Uncle Sam also has 18.0S0 citizens looking after the Interests of farmers, umler the supervision of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. His war veterans get the next best attention, with 18,277 civilians In the veterans' bureau. Most of the 'male employees In this bureau ure former soldiers. - Irrigation and reclamation projects have 17,400 workers in the Interior department. de-partment. The nation's trade comes next In Importance, with 11,488 employees em-ployees In the Commerce department, while 5,55)8 employees handle the Department De-partment of Justice. The shipping board now hns 5,401 civilians on Its pay roll and the Department De-partment of Labor follows with 3.C83 employees. j There Is a total of only 3,121 civil- TTNCLE SAM continues to lead all private agencies as the heaviest employer of civilian lubor in America, according to the latest figures of Director Di-rector of the Budget Dawes. With 58S.C18 civilians drawing pay checks twice a month, the government takes first rank as a employer. The number, however, shows n considerable consider-able reduction over the pay roll Jlst of last year, when 643,833 were working work-ing for Uncle Sam. More thnn half of his force works In the Post Office department. The total to-tal Is 301,779, compared to 298,834 a year ago. The money handlers come next, with 67,492 men and women working In the Treasury department. This number shows a reduction of about 8,000. lans assisting ;ecretary nugnes in guiding the nation's ship of state. This number, though, does not Include 700 doormen and butlers engaged in service serv-ice abroad. Of the total number, 63.822 are employed em-ployed in Washington, while ihet remainder re-mainder are scattered across the face of the globe, though principally throughout the United States, |