Mr. STEFAN. You do not have him for the current year and you did not have him the year before. That position is to pay $6,235.

Mr. O'CONNELL. That is for the Bureau of Safety Investigation.
Mr. STEFAN. That is a new position?

Mr. O'CONNELL. That is right.

Mr. STEFAN. Here is an executive officer, Mr. O'Connell, at $6,235, that you have this year but are not asking for for 1951. Has that office been abolished or have you promoted that man?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That position has been eliminated.

Mr. STEFAN. Eliminated entirely; the man is off the pay roll, is he? Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. You do not have an executive officer any more?

Mr. MULLIGAN. No, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. Why do you not have one? Is it due to some reorganization?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That was a position in one of the bureaus as executive officer.

Mr. STEFAN. Here is a statistical officer for which you are asking in 1951 $6,235. Is that a new job?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That is a new position.

Mr. STEFAN. Transportation analyst, you are asking for two at a total of $12,710. You have one for 1950.

Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. The next is a transportation rate analyst. You have two now, but you are not asking for them for 1951. Have those offices been abolished?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That is a title change, a classification and title change.

Mr. STEFAN. Has the salary been increased?

Mr. MULLIGAN. No, sir; not in that instance.

Mr. STEFAN. The salary has been increased under the public laws increasing pay, however?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Oh, yes; in all cases.

Mr. STEFAN. Now we come to grade 11 with a range of $5,232 to $6.235. The first position is accountant. You are asking for two at $10,966. Are those new positions?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. Here is an administrative analyst which you had in 1949, but do not have now and are not asking for 1951. Has that office been abolished?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. You do not have an administrative analyst in that particular section?

Mr. MULLIGAN. In that particular grade and title.

Mr. STEFAN. Air transport accountant, you had one in 1949 but do not have one now; the same explanation there?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. You are asking for two air transport analysts totaling $10.715. Those are new positions?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. Air transport examiner: You had 12 in 1949, 11 for 1950, and are asking for 17 in 1951 at a total of $91,704. Are those all new?

Mr. O'CONNELL. Six are new; the increase between 11 and 17 are

new.

Mr. STEFAN. What became of the executive officer in grade 11, whose position you are not asking for? Has that office been abolished? Mr. MULLIGAN. In this fiscal year it was; yes, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. That man is not on the pay roll?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That is correct, sir.

Mr. STEFAN. Organization and methods examiner, one position at $5,232. Is that new?

Mr. MULLIGAN. That is a new position.

Mr. STEFAN. There are new positions all the way through here on these green sheets.

POSITIONS IN THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

I want to get down to the professional grades. As to all these others, however, there seems to be a regular pattern of eliminating an office that is rather confusing to the committee-and reclassifying the position or promoting the person. It is rather confusing and it indicates that you are not being stingy with yourselves in this appropriation. Under professional service, in grade 8 we have a range of $10,305 to $10,330. The first is assistant chief hearing examiner, one position at $10,305. That should be $10,500?

Mr. O'CONNELL. That is right.

Mr. STEFAN. Wherever it is $10,300 it should be $10,500. And where it is $10,330, what should it be?

Mr. O'CONNELL. Also $10,500.

Mr. STEFAN. $10,500 all the way through?

Mr. O'CONNELL. Yes.

Mr. STEFAN. You are asking for a new associate director at $10,500? Mr. O'CONNELL. That is right.

Mr. STEFAN. What will he do?

Mr. O'CONNELL. That is going back to the beginning; that is the associate director which is shown

Mr. STEFAN. We did not have him last year or in the current year. Mr. O'CONNELL. We had him but did not have him classified as an associate director.

Mr. STEFAN. Where was he working?

Mr. O'CONNELL. He was working in the same place.

Mr. STEFAN. At the same salary?

Mr. O'CONNELL. In charge of the Alaska office.

Mr. STEFAN. At the same salary?

Mr. MULLIGAN. Mr. Stefan, I beg your pardon; that is a new position in the Bureau of Safety Inspection.

Mr. STEFAN. That is not another place where you are abolishing an office at a lower classification and kicking the man upstairs to a $10.000 salary?

Mr. MULLIGAN. The difficulty with the green sheets is that they follow classification titles. Those change and we have no control over them. They are changed frequently by the Civil Service Commission. That accounts for a number of these switches.

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Mr. STEFAN. I shall ask that these green sheets be put in the record at this point, so that we may study them.

Mr. ROONEY. They will be inserted in the record at this point. (The material referred to is as follows:)