1 Amounts for 1952 and 1953 have been adjusted, where necessary, for comparability 2 Revenue and nonrevenue receipts available to the Treasury for general expenditures 3 Revenue and nonrevenue receipts deposited in the Treasury for specific purposes, Receipts deposited in trust in the Treasury for expenditure by the Department, as trustee, for specified purposes. Represents the portion of the total receipts from national forests available for (1) 25" For payment to counties in which such lands are located. TABLE 6.-Estimated obligations for research, appropriated funds, fiscal years 1940, 1945-53, and budget estimates, 19541 [Thousands of dollars] Amounts adjusted for comparability with the appropriation structure in the 1954 budget necessitating rough approximations in making certain past year adjustments. 2 Data for the years 1940 and 1945-48 not available on a comparable basis with data for EMPLOYMENT Mr. ANDERSEN. At this time we will hear from Mr. T. Roy Reid, the personnel officer of the Department. Mr. REID. I appreciate the opportunity of meeting with you and giving you some facts about the employment situation and personnel situation in the Department of Agriculture at this time and the trend over a period of years. The number of full-time employees in the Department of Agriculture on December 31, 1952, was 55,586, which is 160 less than a year earlier. The total number of employees was 67,406, which is 1,244 more than a year earlier. That means the intermittent and part-time employees were larger in December of this year by 1,404 people than they were the year before. That is due, I think, to the favorable weather conditions which made it possible to carry on outdoors work at that time of the year. Mr. ANDERSEN. There are approximately 150 less permanent em ployees today than at this time last year? Mr. REID. One hundred and sixty less full-time employees than a year earlier; yes, sir. A comparison of full-time employment on December 31, 1952, and December 31, 1942, shows 70,554 full-time employees on December 31, 1942, and 55,586 full-time employees on December 31, 1952. Mr. ANDERSEN. Are you referring to the same functions? Mr. REID. Yes, sir; it will be practically the same functions. There have been a few functions added, I believe, and there were practically none taken away during that period. We have added some, such as the telephone program, which comes in in the 1952 figures. Mr. ANDERSEN. We have, as you perhaps know, entered into some discussion on this yesterday. We would like to be very particular about having the proper sort of table so that we can substantiate it man for man and function for function through the Department. If we use these figures on the floor of the House when we come in to debate and point out that there are 55,000 permanent employees today as compared to 70,000 10 years back, we want it to mean just that and we want it to be 100 percent correct. Mr. REID. The transfers made in and out of the Department, such as the Weather Bureau, Public Roads Department and the REA end of the Department, and Farm Credit end of the Department, were made prior to the 10-year-ago period. Mr. ANDERSEN. In connection with those tables we requested yesterday, will you see to it that the kind of tables we want will be put into the record? Mr. ROBERTS. We will see that you have tables on both funds and employment, which are on a comparable basis, so that the agencies and programs that are shown for 1952 and 1953 will be the same, and the moneys and the employment will be for those same programs as in 1940. PERSONNEL REDUCTIONS EXPLAINED Mr. CANNON. You say you have 160 less full-time employment than you had a year ago? Mr. REID. Yes, sir. Mr. CANNON. Has that been accomplished through retirement, resignation, or dismissal? Mr. REID. That was accomplished through all of the things that cause vacancies to be left open. The 160 less people on the payroll was due to vacancies being left open because of the lack of funds or because of the uncertainty of the situation. Some positions weren't filled because of the change in administration. Mr. CANNON. It was not the result of arbitrary dismissals? Mr. HORAN. Do you have the totals of those other than those employed directly by the Department, who were remunerated from Agricultural funds? Mr. REID. I do have that table and I will be glad to give you copies of it, and also insert copies in the record. If you wish, I can insert the figures we have previously put into the record in past years. Mr. ANDERSEN. We will be glad for those to be inserted. (The table is as follows:) Report of personnel cooperating or collaborating with, but not paid by, the Department of Agriculture, June 30, 1952 1 Excludes land-bank appraisers. 2 Estimated figures for national farm loan associations and production credit associations include 561 employees who work jointly in these associations. Represents total appointed strength rather than the number of employees who actually worked during the month. This includes 85,155 community committeemen who, like the county committeemen, are employed only a few days throughout the year. DATA ON NUMBER OF PERSONNEL Mr. REID. The monthly report of paid employment inside and outside Washington is furnished for the record. (The report referred to is as follows:) Monthly report of paid employment, as at end of Dec. 31, 1952, inside and outside Washington, D. C., metropolitan area 1 1 Includes employees outside the continental limits of the United States. Includes 13 FICB and 33 PCC employees working part time for these units and the rest of the time for other district units. Excludes 40 FCA part-time employees (appraisers) paid directly by FLB's. Includes 276 FICB and 140 PCC full-time district employees; excludes 903 FLB, 197 BC, and 240 GA full-time district employees. Also excludes 319 FCA full-time employees paid directly by FLB's, and 24 Central Bank for Cooperatives full-time employees. *Includes 5,349 FHA State and county committee men who perform service during the month. |