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HEARINGS

Commers. How BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

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Atkinson, Raymond C., Bureau of the Budget-
Bryant, James G., chairman of the Employment Stabilization Com-
mission, Sacramento, Calif...

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Collins, Maurice, assistant administrator, Federal Security Agency,
appearing for the Federal Security Administrator__

Compton, R. T., assistant director of the National Industrial Council

and director of social security of the National Association of Manu-

facturers

Cooley, Hon. Harold D., a Representative in Congress from the State
of North Carolina_-

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Budget Bureau:

Qualifications of certain employees--.
Pros and cons of certain employees--
Monthly report on the labor force__-

Davis, Russel S., chairman, State of Maryland Unemployment Com-
pensation Board-.

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Briefs, letters, written statements, telegrams, etc.-Continued
Gamble, R. L., Commissioner, Department of Labor---

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Goodwin, Robert C., Director, United States Employment Service--.
Hoffman, Carl E., professional staff member Report and Recommen-
dations on Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1947--

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Johnson, Keen, Under Secretary of Labor---

Hyder, T. B., Commissioner_

Karsten, Hon. Frank M., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Missouri_

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Stanley, Claude M., Commissioner, Iowa Employment Security Com-
mission___

Truman, President Harry S., statement regarding Reorganization Plan

No. 2 of 1947_

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REORGANIZATION PLANS NOS. 1 AND 2 OF 1947

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947

WASHINGTON, D. C.

The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to notice, in room 1501 of the New House Office Building, Hon. Clare E. Hoffman (chairman) presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.

Reorganization Plans No. 1 and No. 2 of 1947 will be inserted in the record at this point.

[H. R. Doc. No. 230, 80th Cong., 1st sess.] REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1947

To the Congress of the United States:

The pro

I am transmitting herewith Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1947. visions of this plan are designed to maintain organizational arrangements worked out under authority of title I of the First War Powers Act. The plan has a twofold objective: to provide for more orderly transition from war to peacetime operation and to supplement my previous actions looking toward the termination of wartime legislation.

The First War Powers Act provides that title I

"shall remain in force during the continuance of the present war and for six months after the termination of the war, or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution or the President may designate."

Upon the termination of this title all changes in the organization of activities and agencies effected under its authority expire and the functions revert to their previous locations, unless otherwise provided by law.

Altogether nearly 135 Executive orders have been issued in whole or in part under title I of the First War Powers Act. The internal organization of the War and Navy Departments has been drastically overhauled under this authority. Most of the emergency agencies, which played so vital a role in the successful prosecution of the war, were based in whole or in part upon this title. Without the ability, which these provisions afforded, to adjust the machinery of government to changing needs, it would not have been possible to develop the effective, hard-hitting organization which produced victory. The organization of war activities had to be worked out step by step as the war program unfolded and experience pointed the way. That was inevitable. The problems and the functions to be performed were largely new. Conditions changed continually and often radically. Speed of action was essential. But with the aid of title I of the First War Powers Act, it was possible to gear the administrative machinery of the Government to handle the enormous load thrust upon it by the rapidly evolving war program.

Since VJ-day this same authority has been used extensively in demobilizing war agencies and reconverting the governmental structure to peacetime needs. This process has been largely completed. The bulk of temporary activities have ceased, and most of the continuing functions transferred during the war have already been placed in their appropriate peacetime locations.

The organizational adjustments which should be continued are essentially of two types: First, changes in the organization of permanent functions, which have demonstrated their advantage during the war years. Second, transfers of continuing activities which were vested by statute in temporary

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