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Mi\ BrciiANAN. Now, am th<>s4' positions <iro|>|H'd out of this 

 or^!Ujizati<^n as it now j'xists, imhIci- the pirsi'nt appropriation? 



Ml". C'oHHs. You nit'im for the picsciif liscal year? 



Mr. KiTciiANAN. Yes. 



Mr. Conns. The totals in the rsliniutr for next year Iinve b«'en 

 (Iccicasrd. 



Mr. Hicii.ww. Arc \]\vy workin^r now oi- not. Thai is wlnit I 

 want to know. 



Mr. (%)nns. Part of those positions ari' lilU-ti at the pre.s«»nt time. 



.Mr. lU cnAX AN. What |n-op<til ion of ilieni ar»' filled, and what 

 proportion of them ai'e dro|)ped ^ 



.Mr. Conns. I can tell you which of those are filUMl: Messenf^cr hoy 

 at i^~'20 and one at $(')(►(> are occupied: the charwoman at >'*24o is oc- 

 <"npied. and one of the hihoi"ei\s' positions at Ssl<> is occu|)ied. Tin* 

 positions at S'.>()() are \acant. hut a|)pointments which had heen of- 

 fered to eniril>les Inne l)een ac(vpte«l, so that all of the j)laces which 

 are to l)e (h(>|)|)ed from the roll i)rol)ahly will he occupied shortly 

 »'\cej)t or\e nicsscn<rer or lahorei^^at $720. It is not expected that 

 any clerk will ha\e to he «lismissed on .July 1 as it is thoii^rht that 

 there will be enoiifrh clerical vacancies caused by resij/nation dur- 

 ing the remainder of the fiscal year to make up the five position^ 

 dn)ppe(l. The charwoman, laborers, and n)essen*rci" boys will have 

 to be dropped at that time, unless they can be transferre<l or their 

 positions have become vacant otherwise. 



Mr. T^rciiANAX. TIow many of them? 



Mi-. Conns. There are five of those that have been di'opped. 



Mr. TirciiANAX. So that savin^r is already made imder the present 

 bill and the present plan — five positions at $900. 



Ml'. Conns. T wotild like to malce this statement there. We have 

 had a frood deal of difliculty in fillin<r some of these $000 ])ositions. 

 In fact, the turnover in the $0()() <rrade dui'injr the past year was 

 in excess of 40 per cent, and we have had a prreat deal of difliculty 

 in Lrettin«r comj^etent people for our work at that salary, so that we 

 have hacl a <rood many vacancies throu<rhout the year which were in 

 {process of beinu: tilled, and two or three which we haven't filled, be- 

 cause we felt we could *;et alonj; in a ))inch without them. 



Mr. Btchaxax. Tf you ha<l wanted to have had some of these 

 five positions filled, you could have had them filled i 



Mr. Conns. Yes: we could eventually have filled them. 



Mr. BrciiAX'AX. AVhen you say they were dropped, you don't 

 mean yo\i dischar<j:ed anybody: they just (^nit. Ts that it? 



Mr. Coiuis. Yes. The positions ai'e iu»w vacant or ai'e expect. •.! to 

 be vacant as a result of turnover in the division. 



Assistant Seci-etary Piost.ky. And, I think you jniirht adil, the 

 inability to iret jieojile to do the work that these positions called foi* 

 at that salary. Therefore, if ua^ tlion<jht bcftei" not to trv to fill 

 the positions. 



Mv. Conns. It has taken durin<rthe past year anywhere from three 

 to five weeks to fill those positions satisfactorily. We have had to 

 do a tremendous amount of coi-respondence with people all ovcm* the 

 country. 



Ml-. AxoKHsox. .\re those jieo|)le machine operatoi-s? 



Mr. Conns. No. These are clerical |iosition< I am speakini: about. 



