Public Affairs receiving on-the-job training in Government with the Conciliation Service and International Labor Affairs in the Department of Labor. June 1947 to the present, Office of International Labor Affairs, Department of Labor. In March and April 1948 accompanied the Director of the Office of International Labor Affairs to England, France, Belgium, and Luxemburg, conferring with United States and foreign government officials. Worked with a task force of the Hoover Commission group studying the structure of the Federal Government as it relates to the conduct of foreign affairs in preparation for the foreign affairs report issued by the Hoover Commission. Edward B. Persons, ILO specialist, GS-14 Born March 3, 1916, New Rochelle, N. Y. Antioch College, A. B. degree, 1938. Experience in State employment service while in college. Maxwell School, Syracuse University, graduate work in public administration, 1938-40. 1940 to 1941, budget examiner, Bureau of the Budget. 1941 to 1943, Civilian Personnel Office, Office of the Secretary of War, manager of Philadelphia field office; Assistant Chief of then Chief of Field Office Section. 1943 to 1946 United States Navy (Pacific). 1946 to 1948, assistant coordinator of international cooperation programs, Department of Commerce. 1948 to present, Office of International Labor Affairs, Department of Labor. Has served on United States delegations to the ILO Governing Body and other ILO conferences and meetings in Switzerland. Joseph L. Harmon, ILO specialist, GS-13 Born May 27, 1906, Odessa, Mo. University of Missouri, A. B., 1928. 1928 to 1929, Institute of Higher International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, postgraduate study of international relations. 1929 to 1932, University of Berlin, postgraduate study of administrative law, international law and economics. 1934 to 1936, clerk, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Washington, D. C. 1936 to 1938, Harvard University, Ph. D., graduate study in government. 1939 to 1942 (7 months of this period in the Army), field assistant and assistant manager of field office, Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Clayton, Mo. 1942 to 1946, United States Army (European theater after September 1944). 1946 to 1949, Office of Military Government for Germany (Manpower Division) engaged in work with the social security organization of Germany and Chief, Wages and Standards Division, Biparitite Control Office. May-September 1949, ECA Mission to France, study of social charges (social security, public assistance, pensions, and similar expenditures) in France as related to wages and salaries and the national income. December 1949 to present, Office of International Labor Affairs, Department of Labor. Philip Arnow, trade agreements specialist, GS-14 Born December 11, 1916, New York, B. S. and M. A., New York University. Supplementary graduate work in economics, American university. October 1937 to June 1938, National Institute of Public Affairs, intern at National Labor Relations Board. June 1938 to January 1939, analyst, United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Civil Liberties. January 1939 to August 1942, economist, Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor. August 1942 to December 1945, served with National War Labor Board, initially with national office, throughout most of period as Wage Stabilization Director and later as vice chairman of regional board for Michigan, with headquarters at Detroit. January 1946 to August 1949, Chief of Wage Problems Division, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. ginning in May 1947, also served as United States Department of Labor representative on Interdepartmental Trade Agreements Committee. August 1949 to present, Office of International Labor Affairs, United States Department of Labor. Be Delegate to Geneva (1947), Annecy (1949), Toquay (1950-51) tariff conferences; United States Department of Labor representative at International Scientific Management Congress, Stockholm, July 1947; member, Committee of ILO Experts at Labor Statisticians meeting, Geneva, May 1949; member, United States delegation, Mexican-United States migratory labor talks, January 1951. Donald E. Reid, administrative assistant, GS-9 Born June 14, 1921, Boston, Mass. B. S. 1948, College of the Holy Cross, M. A. 1949, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. 1942 to 1945, United States Army, company commander, Tank Destroyer Battalion; intelligence officer in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. 1949 to present, Office of International Labor Affairs, United States Department of Labor. James F. Taylor, Foreign Service specialist, GS-13 Born October 12, 1918, Oakland, Calif. Father was officer in Commercial Pacific Cable Co. in San Francisco, Honolulu, Midway Island, and Shanghai. Lived in these places with family between 1918 and 1932. Residence from 1932 to 1941, Oakland, Calif. B. A., 1940, University of California (Berkeley). University of California (Berkeley) graduate work in public administration ending 1941. George Washington University, about 1 year of night law school. 1941 to 1943, trainee, subsequently placement assistant, Office of Director of Personnel, Department of Labor. 1943 to 1946, United States Army. 1946 to 1949, Office of the Director of Personnel, Department of Labor, Personnel Assistant, Chief of Central Services Section, Chief of Examining Section, including assisting Office of International Labor Affairs in Foreign Service personnel work and liaison with the State Department on personnel work. 1949 to present, Office of International Labor Affairs, United States Department of Labor. Attended ECA Labor Adviser-Labor Attaché Conference, Paris, summer of 1950. Special assignments in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, England, and Switzerland during summer of 1950. Attended Labor Attaché Conference in Cuba, October 1950. LOYALTY REVIEW PROCEDURES Mr. BUSBEY. Mr. Schwabe referred to the loyalty screening of this Department. Has there been any objectionable information turned up on any of them? Mr. KAISER. Not to my knowledge. Secretary TOBIN. He would not know. Mr. BUSBEY. I had in mind the same thing. Secretary TOBIN. He would not know. I just want to give you the way the loyalty board works. The material they work on from the FBI is not made known to the superior of the individual. If the individual is to be dealt with, the loyalty board will make a recommendation to me, as Secretary, and the basis of it is confidential with the board and the Assistant Secretary of Labor would not know about it. Mr. BUSBEY. You don't know. Mr. KAISER. No, sir. I do not know. Secretary TOBIN. I think we have the best loyalty board in the Government-Mr. Dodson, Mr. Shane, and Mr. Tyson, Solicitor of the Department. I do not think you could get better Americans than the three of them. Mr. HEDRICK. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) Mr. BUSBEY. As soon as the Loyalty Review Board has been brought in, and they do figure in it, because in many instances employees of various departments have been recommended for dismissal and have appealed their cases to the Loyalty Review Board; and under the standards that were enforced on the Loyalty Review Board by the President, the Loyalty Review Board has no authority to remove these people from office and that is the reason they were not able to remove Mr. Remington. I hope that that condition under which the Loyalty Review Board has to operate at the present time will be removed because in my opinion I do not believe the Loyalty Review Board can remove an employee if they can prove he was a Communist for the past 10 years and was a Communist until the day before they reviewed his case. It specifically states in there, the man "is" a Communist and does not take into consideration his past record. I would like to ask the Secretary, Mr. Tobin, if he knows of any of these employees that are in the International Labor Affairs Office on whom there has been an adverse report? Secretary TOBIN. No. There has not been any. Mr. BUSBEY. Mr. Kaiser was referring to two gentlemen having been in Germany associated with General Clay. I would like to inquire if in their work in Germany by any chance they came in contact with George Shaw Wheeler? Secretary TOBIN. Mr. Zempel is in the room. Mr. ZEMPEL. I worked in the Manpower Division which was under General McSherry at that time and Wheeler was in the Division. Mr. BUSBEY. Were these other two gentlemen in contact with him? Mr. KAISER. Werts was Director of the Manpower Division. Secretary TOBIN. Mr. Werts is now Deputy Director of Civilian Manpower in this country. He was Director of Manpower for General Clay and he stayed with him until shortly before he left in 1949. Mr. Kaiser, did you meet when he was in Europe? He had known him prior to that and I can testify to the fact that he is a 100-percent American. There is nothing in his record that would cause the most exacting critic to question him. Mr. BUSBEY. I have no reason to doubt you whatever. But just to explore the proposition, was George Shaw Wheeler ever connected with the International Labor Force Department? Mr. KAISER. At no time. Mr. BUSBEY. Thank God for that. That is all, Mr. Chairman. Secretary TOBIN. I want to say to the members of the committee that if you ever know anyone about whom there is the slightest suspicion we will have a check made of him in 24 hours. (Discussion off the record.) DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES TO BUDGET BUREAU Mr. SCHWABE. Mr. Secretary, may I ask you please, sir-your request for funds-the budget for your Department of Labor which you are now here to justify and explain is less than you requested of the Bureau of the Budget? Secretary TOBIN. Oh, yes. Mr. SCHWABE. And I recognize it is generally true, of course, that most of the departments feel that the Department justifies, if they can convince the Bureau of the Budget they are entitled to it, taking into consideration all the circumstances. But may I ask the next question, Will you submit to us your request for appropriations made to the Bureau of the Budget? Mr. FOGARTY. He can put it in the record now. Mr. SCHWABE. And will you put it into the record at this point? If you do not have it, it can be supplied. Mr. DODSON. We will put it in the record. |