Analysis: Function of Federal Employment Service under the Wagner- 121 253 211 322 House Document No. 231, Eightieth Congress, first session, message from the President of the United States, transmitting Reorganiza- Labor regulations: Chapter 1, United States Employment Service, Department of Labor, part 21-Cooperation of the United States Employment Service and States in establishing and maintaining a 314 332 Rules and regulations relating to the cooperation of the United States 319 Letter to Hon. Clare E. Hoffman, dated February 9, 1948, Letter to Hon. Clare E. Hoffman, dated February 9, 1948, regarding rules and regulations promulgated under the Fair 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, House Concurrent Resolution 131: Resolution disapproving Reorganiza- 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 Argo, R. K., in behalf of the Associated Industries of Alabama__ Broadway, Frank R., Montgomery, Ala., speaking for Alabama State Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile Dealers Association of Burris, Ed. C., executive vice president, Texas Manufacturers Associ- 78 Byrnes, Hon. John W., Member of Congress from the State of Wis- consin.. 292 Christgau, Victor, director of the Division of Employment and Secu- 272 Congress of Industrial Organizations, presented by Paul Sifton_- 273 100 Dresie, Grey, Wichita, Kans., on behalf of the Wichita Independent Business Men's Association and the Kansas Independent Business Garrett, H. F., executive director, employment security agency, State Horton, Dwight, employer representative, Texas Employment Com- Jacobi, Seward H., member of the social security committee, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce__ Johnson, Clayton E., UAW-CIO, unemployment compensation de- 173 226, 234 Kile, Elton, Kilesville, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Kirkpatrick, A. L., manager, Chamber of Commerce of the United Lunt, W. K., Chicago, representing the Chicago Association of Com- merce and Industry and the Associated Employers of Illinois-__ Manak, Frank C., on behalf of the National Association of State 38 Morrison, John, executive director, employment security agency in Patty, Kenneth C., assistant attorney general of Virginia and counsel and the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission. Pendergast, Harry, executive director, Oklahoma Employment Se- Schwellenbach, Hon. Lewis B., Secretary of Labor.. Shaw, Hoble R., director of Indiana Employment Security Division Sifton, Paul, national legislative representative of UAW-CIO. Silbernagel, John J., representing the Wisconsin State Chamber of Smith, Raymond C., Michigan Manufacturers' Unemployment Com- Whittet, Lowell, assistant controller of Ed. Schuster & Co., Inc., 56 121 27 Federal tax collections under Federal Unemployment Tax Act for the 221 States which have unemployment compensation and employment services in a State department of labor or comparable department.. States which have unemployment compensation and employment services located in a department having other labor functions--- Telegram: To Oscar R. Ewing, dated December 15, 1947, from the Gov- 89 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1948 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 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. 1 |