W COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER C. MCGRATH, New York SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois FOSTER FURCOLO, Massachusetts FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts KARL STEFAN, Nebraska BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GEORGE B. SCHWABE, Oklahoma GEORGE Y. HARVEY, Clerk II Doc. Dept DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1952 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WITNESSES MAURICE J. TOBIN, SECRETARY OF LABOR RALPH WRIGHT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY PHILIP M. KAISER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES E. DODSON, DIRECTOR OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT ARNOLD ZEMPEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS Mr. FOGARTY. A quorum is present, so the Subcommittee on Labor and Federal Security will come to order. We open hearings on the 1952 estimates, and as our first witness we have with us a man I have known for a long while and for whom I have a great deal of esteem, the Secretary of Labor, Mr. Tobin. Do you have a prepared statement? Mr. FOGARTY. You may proceed. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY Secretary TOBIN. The budget presented for your consideration has been formulated to contribute to the greatest possible extent to our national defense effort. Further, the basic programs of all of the activities of the Department which can contribute in any way to the solution of manpower problems have been redirected toward this objective. SUMMARY OF ESTIMATES The total amount requested for 1952 is $231,289,000. This represents a decrease of $4,378,677 below the amount approved by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for these programs for 1951. However, it will, taking into consideration a proposed $3,000,000 supplemental for the employees' compensation fund, represent an increase of $363,323 over the amount available for expenditure in 1951 after application of section 1214 by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget in the establishment of reserves as directed by the Congress. I might explain that the $3,000,000 supplemental is for workmen's compensation payments to Federal employees and, as you will appreciate, this defense effort is going to add many additional employees to the Federal payroll, and the estimate is a conservative one. (1) A further analysis of our estimate for 1952 shows that $29,479,000 is the total for general administration; that $169,560,000 is for grants to States for employment and unemployment insurance activities; that $31,000,000, which includes a contemplated $3,000,000 supplemental, is for the employees' compensation fund; and that $1,250,000 is for the temporary project of revision of the Consumers' Price Index. We contemplate the completion of the Consumers' Price Index with this appropriation. Incidentally, the present outlook taking into consideration increased salary and travel rates is that the total project covering 3 years will be completed at a cost of about $400,000 less than our original estimate. With the committee's permission I would like to insert two tables at this point which present a general analysis of our request related to current available funds. Mr. FOGARTY. Let them go in the record at this point. (The tables referred to are as follows:) |