are much needed by the bureaus to which they belong. The Department has suffered an additional hardship in the loss of seven clerks through the operations of the retirement act, and under the law these places can not be filled. It is hoped that Congress will act favorably on the report of the Reclassification Commission or take some other means of increasing the compensation of the employees, as the salaries now paid are not comparable with those paid in private employment for like service, nor are they adequate to a proper standard of living as shown by statistics of this Department. Library. The need of increased assistance for the library of the Department to enable it to keep up with its current work has become very pressing. No increase in the staff has been made since the organization of the library over three years ago, although the volume of work to be done has more than doubled in that period. The library now serves a much larger group than before, and there has been a steady increase in the use of its unique resources by other Government offices, as well as by investigators from outside the Government service. The pressing importance of labor problems makes it more than ever essential to the research work of the Department that its library should keep its files of current publications up to date and fully indexed. The cataloguing at present is very seriously in arrears. The library needs immediately three additional assistants. Equally urgent is the need of providing more adequate salaries for the library staff. These are at present much below the prevailing Government rates of compensation for work requiring equivalent training and experience. The positions transferred from the bureau rolls, which were assigned to library work some years ago, can not now secure thoroughly trained library assistants who will stay in the service. During the last two years the staff of the library has completely changed with the exception of the librarian. On the side of efficiency this is particularly serious, because a library requires continuous service. The developing knowledge of the collection which comes with years of experience is something which can not be turned over to a new assistant, and its withdrawal represents a serious loss in efficency. The library needs an increase in the appropriation for books and periodicals to meet the greatly increased cost of all such publications, amounting in the case of some of the foreign publications to almost 100 per cent. There has been, moreover, an enormous increase in the number of books and periodicals published that deal with economic problems, which should be added to the collection; but owing to lack of appropriation only a limited number of these can be purchased. Appointment Division. There was an increase of 58 employees in the Bureau of Naturalization, 5 in the Women's Bureau, and 1 in the Office of the Secretary, making a total increase of 64 employees, though there was a reduction in the force of the Department both in Washington and in the field of 3,568 employees, making a net reduction of 3,504 employees, or 55 per cent. It is to be noted that a very large proportion of the employees of the United States Employment Service are paid a nominal salary, due to the fact that State, county, and municipal offices are cooperating with this service in its various activities. Officials and employees in the Department of Labor, 1919 and 1920. Changes in personnel. The following tables indicate the number of changes in personnel throughout the executive offices and bureaus of the Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920. Appointments, year ended June 30, 1920. The total number of appointments during the year aggregated 2,049, of which number 1,265 were of a temporary character. The latter includes short-term appointments, a large number of which were extensions, each action being considered an appointment, due to the fact that the same procedure was required in making an extension as in issuing a new appointment. In the total figure of permanent appointments are included changes of employees from one position to another either by transfer from one bureau to another or temporary promotions, reductions, etc., each case requiring the issuance of a new certificate of appointment. Separations and changes.-There was a total of 4,209 separations, 2,960 from permanent positions and 1,249 from temporary positions. The temporary employees were appointed for a short period and necessarily separated at the conclusion of the term, record being made of this fact. Thus, during the fiscal year, many persons are employed and separated several times. There were 4,420 miscellaneous changes, which include transfers from one station to another, cancellations, amendment of appointments, and similar actions. Separations and miscellaneous changes in personnel during the year. Transfers.-The following table shows the number of transfers from and to the Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920. They were few in number, only 25 being transferred to this Department from other establishments and two going from this Department to other establishments. Disbursing Clerk. Functions. The disbursing clerk prepares requisitions for public funds from appropriations for the Department. He also pays its obligations and does the general accounting of the Department. Naturalization fees and moneys received by the Secretary of Labor from aliens in lieu of bond are accounted for by him. His report for the fiscal year follows: Appropriations. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, the appropriations by Congress to the Department and its services were as follows: Salaries, Office of the Secretary of Labor___. Salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation_ Rent, Department of Labor__ War Labor Administration, 1919_ Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics_. Library, Bureau of Labor Statistics__ Salaries, Bureau of Immigration__ Expenses of regulating immigration__. Expenses of regulating immigration, 1919. Immigrant station, Ellis Island, N. Y.. Expenses of interned aliens, 1919-20 Enforcement of laws against alien anarchists. Refunds: Guanica Central of Ensenada, P. R__ W. C. T. Jones Steamship Co.. Salaries, Children's Bureau__. $139, 180.00 200,000.00 50,000.00 24,000.00 39, 912.00 217, 140. 00 104, 250.00 300.00 93.540.00 2, 600, 000. 00 263, 072. 04 175,000.00 25,000.00 750,000.00 100, 000. 00 10.00 100.00 106, 040. 00 General expenses, Children's Bureau__ Investigation of child welfare, Children's Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Naturalization............. Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization.... Naturalization fees, publishing of Citizenship Textbooks, Bu reau of Naturalization_____ 94, 000. 00 80, 000. 00 97, 010. 00 550, 000. 00 11, 082. 26 Woman in Industry (Women's Bureau). U. S. Employment Service_ Increase of compensation, Department of Labor... Printing and binding-- Salaries and expenses, International Conference of Labor__ Salaries and expenses, First Industrial Conference-- Total_ 40,000.00 400, 000. 00 511, 200. 00 200, 000. 00 64, 462. 46 9, 147. 57 6. 944, 446. 33 Expenditures.-Expenditures, arranged according to items of ap propriation, are as follows: Office of the Secretary: Salaries, Office of the Secretary of Labor 1919 1920 $5, 032. 02 131, 357. 27 Office of the Secretary-Continued. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor— 1918 1919 1920 Salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation 1918 1919 1920 Rent, Department of Labor— 1919 1920 War Emergency Employment Service, 1919__ Housing for war needs, 1918-19--- National security and defense. National security and defense, 1919_. War Labor Administration, 1919_. Salaries and expenses, International Conference of Labor__ 1919 1920 $2,730. 52 34, 913. 26 34, 576. 64 19.49 24, 506. 30 176, 921. 25 2,000.00 22, 000, 00 48.22 5, 570. 41 1, 745. 47 209, 648. 92 150, 665.69 51,952. 38 8, 213. 27 11, 268. 04 484, 107.83 |