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Analysis: Function of Federal Employment Service under the Wagner-
Peyser Act, submitted by Mr. Webb...

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Rules and regulations relating to the cooperation of the United States
Employment Service and States in establishing and maintaining a
national system of public employment offices, June 18, 1938_
Schwellenbach, Hon. Lewis B., Secretary of Labor:

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Letter to Hon. Clare E. Hoffman, dated February 9, 1948,
furnishing list of names and brief summary of the background
of the heads of all the bureaus within the Department of Labor-

Letter to Hon. Clare E. Hoffman, dated February 9, 1948,

regarding rules and regulations promulgated under the Fair

Labor Standards Act__

Testimony before the subcommittee of the Committee on Educa-

tion and Labor, investigation of the GSI strike, January 20,

1948, Hon. Clare E. Hoffman, chairman of the subcommittee,

presiding.

House Concurrent Resolution 131: Resolution disapproving Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 1 of 1948_.

House Document No. 499: Message from the President of the United

States transmitting Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948-

Letter: To Hon. Forest A. Harness, dated February 4, 1948, from Noble
R. Shaw, director, Indiana Employment Security Division...
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948: Prepared by the President and trans-
mitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress as-
sembled, January 19, 1948, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorgani-
zation Act of 1945, approved December 20, 1945.
Statements of-

Argo, R. K., in behalf of the Associated Industries of Alabama__
Boyce, H. B., Clark Equipment Co., Buchanan, Mich..

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Burris, Ed. C., executive vice president, Texas Manufacturers Associ-
ation, Houston, Tex.

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Byrnes, Hon. John W., Member of Congress from the State of Wis-

consin..

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Christgau, Victor, director of the Division of Employment and Secu-
rity of the State of Minnesota__

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Congress of Industrial Organizations, presented by Paul Sifton_-
Connelly, Edward F., chairman, social security committee, Associated
Industries of Massachusetts-

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Horton, Dwight, employer representative, Texas Employment Com-
mission__

Jacobi, Seward H., member of the social security committee, New

Jersey State Chamber of Commerce__

Johnson, Clayton E., UAW-CIO, unemployment compensation de-
partment, Detroit, Mich..

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Schwellenbach, Hon. Lewis B., Secretary of Labor..

Shaw, Hoble R., director of Indiana Employment Security Division
and secretary of the Indiana Employment Security Board.

Sifton, Paul, national legislative representative of UAW-CIO.

Silbernagel, John J., representing the Wisconsin State Chamber of

Commerce..

Smith, Raymond C., Michigan Manufacturers' Unemployment Com-
pensation Bureau, Inc., Detroit, Mich..

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Whittet, Lowell, assistant controller of Ed. Schuster & Co., Inc.,
Milwaukee, Wis., appearing as member of the social security com-
mittee of the National Retail Dry Goods Association____
Williamson, C. J. S., California State Chamber of Commerce_.
Wolfe, L. R., Chicago, director of the Social Security Department of
the Illinois Manufacturers' Association___.

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Federal tax collections under Federal Unemployment Tax Act for the
fiscal year 1947, by States and Territories__

Functions of the Bureau of Employment Security.

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REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1948

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS,

Washington, D. C.

The committee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Clare E. Hoffman (chairman) presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.

(Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948 will be inserted in the record at this point, following which will be inserted H. Con. Res. 131.)

[H. Doc. No. 499, 80th Cong., 2d sess.]

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING REORGANIZATION PLAN No. 1 OF 1948, UNDER THE REORGANIZATION ACT OF

1945

To the Congress of the United States:

I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1948, under the Reorganization Act of 1945, which transfers the United States Employment Service and the Bureau of Employment Security to the Department of Labor. The United States Employment Service is now in the Department of Labor by temporary transfer under authority of title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, while the Bureau of Employment Security is at present a constituent unit of the Federal Security Agency. This plan will place the administration of the employment service and unemployment compensation functions of the Federal Government in the most appropriate location within the executive establishment and will provide for their proper coordination.

I find that this proposed reorganization is necessary to accomplish the following purposes of the Reorganization Act of 1945: (1) To group, coordinate, and consolidate agencies and functions of the Government according to major purposes, (2) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the Government, and (3) to promote economy to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient operation of the Government.

The United States Employment Service was established in the Department of Labor by the Wagner-Peyser Act in 1933. It was later transferred under Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective July 1, 1939, to the Social Security Board in the Federal Security Agency. After the creation of the War Manpower Commission, the United States Employment Service was placed under that Commission by Executive Order No. 9247 of September 17, 1942. Shortly after the Japanese surrender the Service was transferred to the Department of Labor by Executive Order No. 9617. Both of these transfers were made under the temporary authority of title I of the First War Powers Act.

The provision of a Nation-wide system of public employment offices, which assists workers to get jobs and employers to obtain labor, belongs under the leadership of the Secretary of Labor. Within our Federal Government the Department of Labor is the agency primarily concerned with the labor market and problems of employment.

The Department of Labor already has within its organization many, but not all of the resources needed for the full performance of this role. It has a broad understanding of working conditions and the factors in labor turn-over. Through the Bureau of Labor Statistics it develops extensive information on the long-term trends in employment and on the occupational characteristics of the labor force.

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