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SEGREGATION OF CLERKS AND EMPLOYEES IN CIVIL SERVICE 5

Negros in United States service Continued.

	Employees.	Total Salary
Departmental service at large:
Diplomatic and Consular	16	836,410
Treasury	1,082	743,373
War	2,342	1,705,320
Post Office	3,599	2,807,134
Interior	31	25,738
Agriculture	102	53,212
Commerce and Labor	64	42,612
United States Army	4,426	1,162,221
United States Navy	1,529	678,050
United States navy yards and stations	2,146	1,210,070
Miscellaneous	775	581,515
Total	22,540	12,456,760

DISTRIBUTED BY CITIES.

	Employees.	Total Salary
Washington, D. C.	6,347	4,099.118
New York	635	599,394
Chicago	670	588,902
Boston	91	86,491
Cincinnati	56	49,840
Richmond	86	78,540
Jackson, Miss.	33	29,230
Mobile, Ala.	63	60,173
Indianapolis, Ind.	40	30,460
St. Louis, Mo.	195	167,120
Louisville, Ky.	98	86,890
Miscellaneous points	14,130	6,609,352
Total	22,540	12,456,760

There are about 490,000 persons employed in the Government
service and since 1912 there have been appointed about 2,000 negroes,
making approximately 24,500 negroes in the Government service.

(National Democratic Fair Play Association.)

AFFIDAVIT.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City of Washington, 88:

Before me, a notary public within and for the District of Columbia, this day personally
appeared Maud B. Woodward, of lawful age, whom I certify is worthy and entitled
to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, upon her oath deposes and says:

That she is and has been for several years an employee in the office of recorder of
deeds, Washington, D. C.; that there are now employed in said department 22 negroes
and 15 whites.

That the recorder, Henry Lincoln Johnson, a negro, absents himself from his office,
leaving it in charge of his deputy, and the time actually spent in his office during the
past 3 years would not exceed 6 months at labor out of 36 months; that the major part
of his time is devoted to his private business at Atlanta, Ga., or elsewhere, to the neglect
of said office, for which duties he is supposed to draw a salary of $4,500 per annum

That on or about April 25, 1913, one Mary V. Malvin, a negro woman, an employee
in said office (reputed to be married to one Judson Malvin, a negro employed in the
War Department), said to and in my presence and hearing, that "if Ralph W. Tyler
(a negro) was removed by President Wilson, then that he (said President Wilson) was
a s__________; this and like expressions have on numerous occasions and times been used by said Malvin with great bitterness and force; and on these occasions she has cursed
President Wilson and the Democratic Party, saying, "she was in hopes that Japan,
China, and Mexico would go together and wipe the United States off the map," and
using frequently the words "s________," and speaking in very disrespectful terms and
Expressions of the President, of other officials, and of the Democratic Party.

That the said Mary V. Malvin, a negro woman weighing perhaps 225 pounds, is
what is known among departmental employees as a "10-per-center," meaning, that

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