SALARIES OF PERSONNEL EARNING $5,000 OR MORE Mr. TABER. I am wondering if you would give us a list of the men, with their names, and the jobs they will fill, the positions they will Occupy. Mr. LUND. I will be glad to provide the committee with a list of all the employees in the Division earning $5,000 or over. (The information requested follows:) Labor Production Division personnel earning $5,000 a year or more ELIMINATION OF SPECIAL ADVISER POSITION Mr. DITTER. Mr. Lund, do you mean, pursuing Mr. Taber's question a bit further, that Mr. Niles will continue in the picture, and that Mr. Harris will probably be eliminated? Mr. LUND. Yes; that job will be eliminated. Mr. DITTER. I am thinking of the person rather than the job. Mr. LUND. Mr. Niles will continue and the job will continue. Mr. DITTER. Do I understand right, Mr. Lund, that you are the Successor to Mr. Sidney Hillman? Mr. LUND. I am, although the nature of the division has been changed somewhat. It previously carried on labor supply and training functions which have since been transferred. Mr. DITTER. You are filling the job that he previously held. Mr. DITTER. What is Mr. Hillman's connection with the Government now? Mr. LUND. None that I know of, sir. He has been out for some 5 or 6 weeks. 73546-42-pt. 2- -29 Mr. DITTER. Do you occupy the same status as he occupied; the is, he was a dollar-a-year man, I believe. Are you a dollar-a-year man or are you one of the paid employees? Mr. LUND. I am a paid employee of the Government. JUSTIFICATIONS FOR OTHER OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE, WAR The CHAIRMAN. We will include at this point in the record pages 9 to 31, inclusive, from the justifications under other objects. (The statement referred to follows:) JUSTIFICATION OF OTHER OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE 02 Travel. Estimate fiscal year 1943_ $6,400.00 The estimate for travel is based upon a detailed study of War Production Boar operating experience and expenditures by the various types of travelers. Standard travel costs have been developed as shown below: Type of traveler: Per annum employees: In travel status 75-100 percent of the time. In travel status 50-75 percent of the time. Dollar-a-year employees. W. O. C. employees. W. A. E. employees.. Nonreimbursable employees- Dollar-a-year employees receive $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence for eart day employed and average 235 days work each year. The annual cost of $3,50 per employee consists of $2,350 per diem, $1,200 transportation costs, and miscellaneous charges. Personnel serving W. O. C. (without compensation also receive $10 per diem but are estimated to be on duty only 60 days a year Thus the W. O. C. employee's annual rate of $1,200 includes $600 per die $550 transportation costs, and $50 for other expenses. The following groups of employees receive $6 per diem and average 45 days year in travel status. Their costs are calculated at $600 per annum includ 24 $270 per diem, $300 transportation costs, and $30 miscellaneous costs. Reimbursable employees: Employees detailed from other Federal agencies the cost of whose services is refunded to such agencies. Nonreimbursable employees: Employees detailed from other Federal agencies the cost of whose services is not refunded. W. A. E. employees: "When actually employed" personnel, such as per dez employees. The estimate of $6,400,000 for fiscal year 1943 represents an increase of sp proximately 7 percent over the approved expenditure rate for the fourth qua of fiscal year 1942 which, when projected on an annual rate, amounts to 86.00** The estimate for travel is based on the number and types of travelers. It divisions as follows: 03 Transportation of things, estimate fiscal year 1943---- $35,00 (A) This item provides for the shipments of displays, equipment, and supple between Washington and the field offices and among the various field offices. !: is estimated that there will be approximately 133 field offices in the fiscal year 194) and a continuing trend toward transferring certain of the departmental activitie from Washington to nearby cities. 04 Communication services, estimate fiscal year 1943_____ $2,241,86 Effective communication must be maintained between the War Producti Board central offices and the field offices, between the War Production Board and other Government agencies, and between the War Production Board and individ uals, firms, and industries producing or arranging to produce war goods. Although instructions have been issued and efforts are being made throughout the organization to use the least expensive means of communication, provision must be made t meet the emergencies of the war program. Provision is made for the following items of expenditure: (1) Rental of com munication equipment; (2) local and telephone toll charges; (3) telegraphic, radi and cable charges; and (4) postage. Based on 24,722 employees, less lapse, an amount of $2,241,864 is requested for the fiscal year 1943, which is based on an over-all annual cost of $105 per employee. 05 Rents and utility service, estimate fiscal year 1943.. Space and utility costs for the War Production Using the above rate, provision is made for additional rents based on the decentralization of 1,574 departmental employees from Washington. Present lack of facilities and overcrowded conditions make this provision necessary. Rental of tabulating and accounting equipment. The estimate for rental of equipment includes special machines for the tabulation of machine tool inventories and production by the Production Division and for the needs of the Accounts and Audits Branch of the Administrative Division. Total request. 06 Printing and binding, estimate fiscal year 1943.. 267, 580 70, 000 1, 081, 160 $1,081,160 $1,283, The proposed growth of the War Production Board and its program durf the coming fiscal year indicates the need for a substantial increase in prit and binding funds. This growth in program is indicated by the incresse: personnel and expenditures of the organization proposed for the coming f A review of operating costs for the fourth quarter of the current year indicates that approximately $400,000 will be expended for printing binding purposes. Projected on an annual basis, this indicates a current s printing and binding cost of about $1,600,000. year. In the preparation of the estimate for this item, a thorough survey was of the requirements of each operating unit of the organization, and the res were compared with expenditures made for comparable items during the curr fiscal year. No estimate has been included which appears to be incors with current expenditures and reasonable standards. setting forth the items included in the estimate, follows: A detailed statetet $215 89 9. Library stock, reference books, and legislation.. Total estimate fiscal year 1943.. 07. 1 Special projects, estimate fiscal year 1943. $5,000 10, 000 80, 000 200, 000 1,283, 000 $7, 189, 240 This object includes estimates for (1) funds to be expended either by transfer to or reimbursement of other governmental agencies under section 601 of the Economy Act and (2) funds to be expended under contract or otherwise with private organizations for services of a nature not covered under other objects of expenditure. The employment of other governmental agencies is in accord with the policy of the War Production Board to avoid the establishment of organizational units which would duplicate the activities of established governmental agencies. This policy was adopted in order to take advantage of the trained personnel and experience of such agencies. Insofar as practicable this policy has been followed in the compilation of statistical data by electric accounting methods, in the field of research on labor and employment and in connection with research and development work related to raw materials. During the current fiscal year $6,378,850 was allocated under this object. The estimate for fiscal year 1943 is $7,189,240. This represents an increase of $810,390. This increase is due primarily to the extended scope of activity required in connection with raw materials. The success of the whole program depends upon the supply and production of raw materials and the increased estimate presented here relates to the development of raw material sources and supplies and the conservation of materials through policing of the conservation and limitation orders. Following is a list of the major projects which will be continued or undertaken during the coming year, together with a brief explanation of each project: Cooperating agency: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Sponsoring division: Statistics Division. Origin, nature, and scope.-The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has personnel who have been carrying on as part of their regular work, research in Fields which have become important in connection with the war program. At the present time, we are utilizing the time and skill of this technical personnel who have been trained on the supply and demand for sugar. Work plan. The objectives and policy of the research which the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce may be called upon to perform will at all times De under the supervision and direction of the War Production Board to the extent Chat it is necessary to gather information by means of questionnaires from the ndustry in connection with these research projects. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce submits all such questionnaires to the Statistics Division for |