NUMBER OF PERSONNEL

Mr. O'NEAL. How many do you have on the rolls now?

Mr. ROGERS. For the full appropriation, 286. The average for the first half year was 254.9.

Mr. O'NEAL. Have you been able to recruit up to that figure?

Mr. ROGERS. We are able to recruit men at the moment. Up to this point we have had a hard time replacing guards, elevator operators, but for the last 6 weeks we have been able to step up our recruiting.

Mr. O'NEAL. Do you anticipate that you will be able to have 280 man-years? That would represent about 300 people, would it not? Mr. ROGERS. No, sir; 286 is the total number of man-years available. We cannot exceed that number.

Mr. O'NEAL. Actually, how much have you spent for the first 6 months of the year?

Mr. ROGERS. $173,665.

Mr. O'NEAL. That is fairly uniform throughout the entire year?
Mr. ROGERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. O'NEAL. It looks as though, even though you might want to have that number of employees, you will not be able to get them and this would represent a sum a little in excess.

Mr. O'NEAL. Is the overtime over and above this?

Mr. ROGERS. This figure includes the overtime, Mr. Chairman.

SUNDAY OPENING, LIBRARY BUILDINGS

Mr. O'NEAL. For extra services of employees and additional employees to provide for the opening of the Library buildings on Sundays and holidays, you are asking $8,000 in your revised estimate for 1945, which is the same amount as was appropriated for the current year. Prior to your revised estimate you had submitted an estimate of $16,360 for 1945.

Mr. MACLEISH. The situation here is exactly the same as under the Library proper. You gave us $8,000 and asked us to use that if we had to; otherwise to handle it by staggering the service. We would like to have you continue this, but we do not need that much.

Mr. O'NEAL. In other words, you are asking $8,000 but probably will not need that much?

Mr. MACLEISH. That is right. We would like to have a little cushion there, Mr. Chairman.

MAINTENANCE, LIBRARY BUILDINGS

Mr. O'NEAL. Taking up the item of "Maintenance, Library buildings," you are asking for $18,480 for 1945 against $16,600 for 1944, a suggested increase of $1,880. Will you explain that?

Mr. MACLEISH. That is due to increase in costs. That is made upof a lot of small items; the increased price of uniforms, which have gone up 20 percent. Other supplies have gone up about 20 percent. Gasoline has gone up about 66 percent, and so forth. It is estimated,. if we can have an additional $1,880, we might get by.

Mr. O'NEAL. How much have you spent up to this time under this item?

Mr. ROGERS. $8,095.

COST OF TELEPHONS SERVICE

Mr. O'NEAL. What is meant by the item, "Communication services," for which $10,510 is estimated?

Mr. ROGERS. That is telephone service.

Mr. O'NEAL. That seems a rather high figure. What kind of services does that embrace?

Mr. ROGERS. The full telephone service in the Library of Congress. Mr. O'NEAL. Does that include your long-distance telephone service, too?

Mr. ROGERS. No, sir.

Mr. O'NEAL. Have you, at the Library of Congress, a switchboard on an annual basis?

Mr. ROGERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. CLAPP. We pay for the equipment monthly.

Mr. O'NEAL. What is your fixed telephone bill there?

Mr. CLAPP. If you divide $10,000 by 12, that would just about hit it. Mr. O'NEAL. I mean without including your long-distance calls or your cost of service.

Mr. CLAPP. I do not have those figures.

Mr. MACLEISH. We will supply a statement on that.

Mr. O'NEAL. I think we should have a statement, because that seems an extraordinarily high figure. Do you know what percentage of this cost is represented by long-distance calls?

Mr. CLAPP. There is practically nothing for long-distance calls in this item, for this reason, that long-distance calls, cablegrams, and so forth, are paid for in connection with the purchase of books.

Mr. O'NEAL. In any event, will you put an itemized statement in the record breaking down this estimate of $10,510?

Mr. MACLEISH. Yes, sir.

(The matter referred to follows:)

Maintenance, Library buildings, Library of Congress, cost of telephone equipment and service, month of January 1944

Total calls for the period January 1-31 were 17,044, or an annual rate of 204,528. This should be compared with the number of calls received from Government agencies and other users of the Library requesting loan of materials and re

plies to reference inquiries. In fiscal year 1943 this number was 208,529, or 4,001 more than the outgoing calls.

NOTE.-Long-distance telephone calls are not paid for out of this appropriation. The total from appropriated funds in fiscal year 1942 was $280.25, and in 1943 was $266.60.

SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS

Mr. O'NEAL. What is the item, "Supplies and materials," $6,460? Mr. MACLEISH. That is the item that was increased $1,880. That is due to the increase in prices of uniforms, supplies, gasoline, and so forth.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD

Mr. O'NEAL. Your last item is for expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, for which an estimate of $500 is submitted against a current appropriation of $100. Will you give us a short statement on this, Mr. MacLeish?

Mr. MACLEISH. We have at the present time an appropriation of $100 for the expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. We have not touched it, but we have this situation, which is a continual source of worry to us. The Library Trust Fund Board, as members of the committee will recall, holds the Hegemann property at Sixteenth and I Streets, which is now rented to the Government. If the Government lease should be withdrawn, if anything should happen, we have no money anywhere to take out insurance, to make repairs, or anything of that kind. In order to sleep a little better at night, we would like a little better cushion, although I do not expect that we will have to use a cent of this.

Mr. O'NEAL. Thank you very much for your statement, Mr. MacLeish. Do you have anything further to present?

Mr. MACLEISH. I have no further statement, Mr. Chairman, except to thank you very much for your courtesy and kindness.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1944.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

STATEMENTS OF AUGUSTUS E. GIEGENGACK, THE PUBLIC PRINTER; RUSSELL H. HERRELL, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLIC PRINTER AND DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL; ALTON P. TISDEL, SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS; B. R. KENNEDY, DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL REGISTER

GENERAL STATEMENT

Mr. O'NEAL. Gentlemen, we are very happy to have with us this afternoon Mr. Giegengack, the Public Printer. Mr. Giegengack, we should be very glad to have a general statement from you, if you care to make one, before we proceed with the individual items.

Mr. GIEGENGACK. Gentlemen, as usual, I am glad to have this opportunity to appear before you for the purpose of answering any questions you may have concerning the operation of the Government Printing

Office and to present to you the estimates for congressional printing and binding for the fiscal year 1945.

It has been my usual practice to present a rather lengthy statement concerning the activities of the Government Printing Office, but in view of the fact that our procedures were pretty well outlined to you last year, and that there has been very little change in the type of work except an intensification of our problems, I will merely touch some points that may be of special interest to you at this time.

VOLUME OF WORK

When I appeared before you last year the indications were that we would handle approximately $65,000,000 worth of work for the fiscal year 1943. However, it ran to $77,837,186.54, as compared with approximately $47,000,000 for the fiscal year 1942. While it is impossible, of course, to predict now what the volume will be for the current fiscal year, it appears that the demands upon the Government Printing Office will not be as great as they were last year.

This decrease is due to many causes. During 1943 great quantities of printing were ordered without sufficient time to consider the possible and probable effectiveness of the printed matter.

Mr. O'NEAL. When you refer to 1943, do you mean the fiscal year

1943?

Mr. GIEGENGACK. Yes, sir; the fiscal year 1943.

Also, owing to the rapidly increasing military and naval personnel and the rapidly expanding Federal programs affecting civilian personnel, accurate determination of needed quantities could not be made. Toward the end of 1943 and progressively in 1944 to date, the departments have been able to develop effective means for centralizing control and review of printing requirements. Further, they have been made keenly aware of the need for conservation of paper. The result has been a far more intelligent procedure and application of the control of printing within the departments. For example, the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department has instituted a new method for control of its depot inventories. Heretofore when the stocks in a depot ran low, additional quantities were ordered regardless of the quantities available in other depots. Their present plan of operation centralizes the information regarding all inventories, and requests for additional stocks of printed matter submitted by a depot or a service command are supplied first from stocks available in other conveniently located warehouses and after that by requisition for new printing often only in partial amounts to supplement available quan

tities.

The promulgation of O. W. I. Regulations Nos. 7 and 8, requiring the review and clearance of all poster and graphic material and informational publications, supplemented by the requirement for the establishment within each department of a control officer whose duty it is to eliminate nonessential and to simplify essential printing has already proved of great value. The savings effected by this procedure will be cumulative and increasingly greater as its operation continues.

Mr. O'NEAL. That saving will be reflected largely in the amounts asked by the various departments?

Mr. GIEGENGACK. That is correct; yes.

The Government Printing Office has conducted a program of standardization of sizes and of simplification of production methods,

including reduction in sizes, elimination of nonessential production factors, such as expensive bindings, special round-corner punching, die-cutting, and so forth, and reduction in weight and quality of paper. This standardization and simplification program, still under way, is producing large cost reductions on jobs to which it can be made applicable.

Another contributing factor in the reduction in demands being made upon the Government Printing Office is the increase in the volume of printing produced in Federal agency field plants and secured through field organizations. The Government Printing Office in buying printing from commercial plants is constantly confronted with competition from these field procurement agencies, often to the disadvantage of the Government.

The best estimate that I can give at this time of the amount of printing the Government Printing Office will be required to handle in the current fiscal year is that it will not exceed $65,000,000.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

As of January 31, 1944, we had in a pay status 7,487 employees, as compared with 7,821 on January 31, 1943. Notwithstanding the fact that the Government Printing Office has lost 2,040 trained employees to the armed forces and has experienced all the usual difficulties in recruiting competent replacements, our organization is in good shape and our percentage of on-time deliveries is higher than it has ever been. With our increased experience in supplementing the facilities of the Office by calling upon commercial printers throughout the country, we are in a position to handle any demands that may be made upon us.

FIELD WAREHOUSES

Our field warehouses, the establishment of which was outlined to you last year, have been of great value in our efforts to give the various departments and agencies the services they needed, and with the increasing decentralization of the procurement of printing by some of the larger agencies, particularly the War and Navy Departments, the duties and responsibilities of these warehouses will necessarily be increased and they will play an even more important part in the control of printing orders originating outside Washington. Without these warehouses we would have been unable to meet the close schedules on some large and important jobs.

PROCUREMENT OF PRINTING FROM COMMERCIAL SOURCES

Of the $77,837,186.54 worth of printing handled by the Government Printing Office during the fiscal year 1943, $36,888,429.57 worth was procured from commercial sources. For the first 7 months of the current fiscal year our outside orders for printing total $15,052,409.62. This work was placed with 728 printing firms in 119 cities in 30 States. In each case the figures for outside purchases does not include paper, which is supplied by the Government Printing Office.

A FEW INTERESTING JOBS

There are in the Government Printing Office at this time approximately 6,300 requisitions, and the Office receives approximately 6,300