No. 14: Omits the matter stricken out and inserted by said amendment, in connection with delegation of authority to authorize payment of expenses of travel and transportation of household goods of officers and employees on change of official station. No. 15: Reappropriates unexpended balances of funds heretofore appropriated for development of landing areas, as proposed by the Senate. No. 16: Appropriates $1,500,000 for the Civil Aeronautics Board, as proposed by the House, instead of $1,529,000, as proposed by the Senate. No. 17: Corrects error in number of automobiles for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, as proposed by the Senate. No. 18: Eliminates unnecessary language, as proposed by the Senate. No. 19: Eliminates duplicating language, as proposed by the Senate. AMENDMENTS REPORTED IN DISAGREEMENT No. 5: Relating to authority for the payment of expenses of transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence to persons serving in an advisory capacity without other compensation from the United States, contained in the contingent expense item of the Department of State. The managers will move to recede and concur. No. 8: Relating to the President's War Relief Control Board in the Department of State, established to control and license private agencies engaged in fund-raising appeals for foreign and domestic relief. The managers will move to recede and concur. No. 10: Relating to the next quinquennial census of agriculture, authorized by law, and under the Department of Commerce. The managers will move to recede and concur. No. 12: Relating to the amount for establishment of air-navigation facilities, Department of Commerce. The managers will move to insist on disagreement. No. 13: Relating to the proviso, inserted by the Senate, authorizing the expenditure of up to $950,000 for the establishment of landing areas, Department of Commerce. The managers will move to insist on disagreement. No. 20: Relating to authority granting extra compensation at not to exceed $5 per day to employees of other Government agencies in Alaska and in other Territorial possessions for taking and transmitting meteorological observations for the Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce. The managers will move to recede and concur. No. 21: Relating to delegation of authority by the Secretary of. Commerce to subordinate officials of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Weather Bureau, and the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, to authorize payment of expenses of travel and transportation of household goods of officers and employees on change of official station. The managers will move to recede and concur with an amendment. 78th Congress, 2d Session House Report No. 1600 INVESTIGATION OF CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION CONCERNING INQUIRIES MADE OF CERTAIN PURSUANT TO H. Res. 16 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMITTEE ON AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT JUNE 6, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1944 LETTER OF SUBMITTAL To the SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: There is herewith submitted a report of the Committee on the Civil Service as appointed and directed under House Resolution 16, relative to the inquiry recently conducted on certain policies within the War Department, specifically, the proposal for the expansion and change in the Civil Service status of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP). CONCERNING INQUIRIES MADE OF CERTAIN PROPOSALS FOR THE EXPANSION AND CHANGE IN CIVIL SERVICE STATUS OF THE WASP JUNE 5, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. RAMSPECK, from the Committee on the Civil Service, submitted the following INTERIM REPORT Pursuant to H. Res. 16 As a result of correspondence and inquiries which were referred to the Committee on the Civil Service by Members of the House and Senate, representatives of civilian aviation organizations, veterans' associations, civilian pilots, and pilot-instructors and trainees, the Investigating staff of this committee has made inquiry as to the necessity or desirability of the program of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP). The WASP is an organization of women pilots presently engaged on a civilian basis by the War Department for the purpose of ferrying, transporting, target towing, testing, tracking, and other duties within the continental limits of the United States. Essentially, the mass of this correspondence addressed to the Congress protested that 1. Army Air Forces had embarked upon a costly and unnecessary program of recruiting inexperienced young women for training as noncombat service pilots. 2. Simultaneously, Army Air Forces was dismissing, or failing to properly utilize, large numbers of male civilian pilot-instructors, who had been trained at a cost of millions of dollars. 3. While insisting upon high qualifications as prerequisite to the retention of these male civilian pilot-instructors, Army Air Forces was lowering the standards for female civilian recruits to an almost irreducible minimum. 4. The program was highly experimental. 5. The alleged manpower shortage given as a reason for the recruiting and training of inexperienced personnel was not, as claimed, being alleviated, but instead was being further confused and aggravated. |