000.000 Annually to
Federal Payroll
WASHINGTON, April 1.—Salar
ies of Government employees were'
j tcday restored to the predepres
| slon level, adding an estimated $65,- j
1000,000 annually to the Federal |
payroll.
i Simultaneously, with the effec-!
1 tiveness of the recent Congression- |
al act in increasing Government
wages to a point where they stood
before the 1933 economy paycuts,
the Civil Service Commission an
nounced that workers in the Fed
eral and Executive Departments
were 680,000, the largest since the
war period.
DRAMATl(f CLUB
WILL NOT MEET
TUESDAY NIGHT
There will be no meeting of the
Juneau Drama Club tomorrow
night.
It seems that, with tomorrow be
ing election day and with the first
plane due to leave for Fairbanks
in the afternoon, there are just too
many other attractions.
So, the meeting that was sched
uled for the mathematics room of
Juneau High School tomorrow
night, has been postponed to;,
Thursday night by President J. F.
Mullen.
A short one-act play and a talk
on “Production,” by Mrs. Helen
Webster, will feature Thursday’s
meeting.
HOUSE STICKS
BY PRESIDENT
ON RELIEF BILL
Demands Elimination of
"Direct Work” Clause
from Proposed Setup
WASHINGTON, April 1.— The
House voted 249 to 110 today to
stand by President Roosevelt and
sent the work relief bill back to
'onference with the Senate for
sliminatlon of “direct work" limita
tion clause.
Uncertainty ruled in the Senate
and Senator Joseph K. Robinson,
floor leader, indicated if necessary
new conferees would be selected to
take out the clause.
