National reemployment service, local reemployment office personnel to Oct. 31, 1933

LOCAL REEMPLOYMENT OFFICE COSTS TO OCTOBER 31

I am also inserting a schedule of "Local reemployment office costs to October 31, 1933," showing the portion of such costs paid from F.E.R.A. funds, from local relief funds, and contributed, respectively.

National Reemployment Service, local reemployment office costs to Oct. 31, 1933

Due to the creation of the Civil Works Administration, the number of those local services has now increased to 3,400, in round numbers. As of December 31, 1933, the number of registrations in those offices was 10,122,396.

NUMBER AND PERSONNEL OF LOCAL REEMPLOYMENT OFFICES

I am inserting at this point a schedule of "Local reemployment office personnel as at December 31, 1933," showing, respectively, the number of local offices in each State; the personnel in local reemployment offices; the personnel in State employment offices; and the grant total subdivided as to men and women.

Civil Works Administration personnel in national reemployment service as of Dec. 31,

REGISTRATIONS AND PLACEMENTS TO DECEMBER 31, 1933

There is further inserted a schedule of the statistics of registration and placement for the period ending December 31, 1933; that is, as of the date for which such figures are latest available. This schedule reports, respectively, the number of registrations by reemployment ces; the number of registrations by State employment offices; and tal registrations, as well as the number of placements by reemployat offices, State employment offices, and total placements.

National Reemployment Service, consolidated report of registrations and placements

up to Dec. 31, 1933

Mr. OLIVER. Who are entitled to register?

Mr. PERSONS. The unemployed who live in the county in which

the office is maintained.

Mr. Chairman, I shall distinguish between employment office
registrations and reemployment office registrations. You will under-
stand that the employment offices are subject to my administration
insofar as they serve public works or civil works, just as though
they had been my own creation.

The number of registrations up to December 31, in the State
employment services was 2,733,631. Naturally those offices are in
the larger cities of the United States.

The number of registrations in the newly created reemployment offices, up to December 31, was 7,388,765, making a total, as I said before, of 10,122,396.

The number of placements made by only the reemployment offices, to December 31, was 2,419,669. I have figures showing the number of placements made by the State employment offices on public works and civil works only, not counting their industrial placements, just the service they rendered under my administration as a service under these two national recovery movements. Such specialized placements by the State employment offices numbered 785,267. So that the total placements made in this service to the recovery. movement was 3,204,936 up to December 31, 1933.

VALUE OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICE TO PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION

The members of the committee will wonder, of course, what in the future is to be the obligation of the United States Employment Service, so far as this recovery movement is concerned. Two things influence that. In the first place, every single public works project that has been approved has been subject to the requirement that any contractor who gets a project contract must in his contract agree to take his labor through employment offices designated by the United States Employment Service. In consequence, public works cannot operate unless we continue to provide the services we have just organized in order to deliver qualified workers to jobs. Secondly, Civil Works Administration imposes the same obligation upon the civil-works administrators, as are imposed upon public-works contractors. From now on, nobody gets on civil works as an employee, unless he is registered through our reemployment offices.

In the interest of entire accuracy, I must make one qualification of those statements. When the contractor runs a closed shop, or when Le so prefers, he may decide to use organized labor, in which case he is not required to get organized labor through the reemployment service, but is indeed required to get such organized labor, if it is available, through labor unions, because that is the customary proedure; but except for closed-shop contractors, and for those civilworks administrators who desire to carry out an earlier policy of a Community or municipality to use organized labor, these workers tereafter must be taken through the employment services we have zanized, called reemployment offices, and/or those we have desigLated, which are called employment services and which existed as arts of State systems before we took up this enterprise.

Consequently, if we envisage an extension of Public Works prorts in the calendar year 1934, and if we envisage a necessary expanon and extension of Civil Works projects during 1934, then the ployment offices must continue in every place where they are organized during that calendar year, and they will probably be Per places than they have been heretofore.

Nevertheless, I do not contemplate asking your committee to pro

to Congress an appropriation to support the organization, supervision or operation of these new reemployment services, because it seems to me fitting that the Public Works Administration should contite to pay the cost of the supervision and organization of services they specifically require, and that the Civil Works projects

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