Wilbur J. Cohen, Assistant Director, Research and S
Security Administrator, accompanied by R. G. Wa
Bureau of Employment Security..

Nelson H. Cruikshank, director, social insurance acti
Federation of Labor....

Oscar R. Ewing, Federal Security Administrator_
Paul Sifton, national legislative representative, Uni
Workers, Congress of Industrial Organizations - -
Saturday, February 28, 1948:

John D. Davis, commissioner, employment securi
Olympia, Wash..

W. O. Hake, commissioner of the Tennessee Departm
Security

Robert E. Marshall, director, division of employme
Commonwealth of Massachusetts..

Harry B. Crozier, chairman, employment commission,
Michael J. Carroll, director, division of employment se
City, Mo

Ray C. Smith, director, Michigan Manufacturers
Compensation Bureau, Detroit, Mich.

M. William Zucker, administrative assistant, Commer
Association of New York.

Herschel C. Atkinson, chairman, social security com
Association of State Chambers of Commerce, Colun
Paul F. Gorby, representative, Illinois Chamber of Com
Ill.
Thomas H. Bride, Jr., chairman, Unemployment
Board of Rhode Island .Providence, R. I

A. R. Findley, secretary-treasurer of Wiebolt Stores, I
B. A. Krawczyk, Wisconsin State Chamber of Com
consin Manufacturers Association___

Wesley K. Lunt, the Chicago Association of Commerc the Associated Employers of Illinois_

C. G. Caffrey, Washington representative of American
facturers Association, Washington, D. C...........

Edward F. Connelly, chairman, social security commi
Industries of Massachusettts-.

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R. K. Argo, Associated Industries of Alabama....

Frank R. Broadway, Alabama State Chamber of Commerc
Ala

Ed C. Burris, Texas Manufacturers Association_
Clement V. Conole, Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce_
Julian D. Conover, American Mining Congress. -
Charles C. Fichtner, Buffalo Chamber of Commerce-

room, Capitol Building, Senator Joseph H. B Present: Senators Ball (presiding), Donnell. Senator BALL. The committee will come to there may be inserted in the record copies of th transmitting Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 194 rent Resolution 131.

(The documents referred to are as follows:)

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES T TION PLAN No. 1 of 1948, UNDER THE REORGANIZA

To the Congress of the Unted States:

I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 194 tion Act of 1945, which transfers the United States Emp Bureau of Employment Security to the Department of L Employment Service is now in the Department of Lab under authority of title I of the First War Powers Act of Employment Security is at present a constituent uni Agency. This plan will place the administration of the unemployment compensation functions of the Federal appropriate location within the executive establishme their proper coordination.

I find that this proposed reorganization is necessary to purposes of the Reorganization Act of 1945: (1) To gr solidate agencies and functions of the Government acco (2) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the promote economy to the fullest extent consistent with the Government.

The United States Employment Service was establish Labor by the Wagner-Peyser Act in 1933. It was later ganization Plan No. I, effective July 1, 1939, to the Soci Federal Security Agency. After the creation of the Wa the United States Employment Service was placed un Executive Order No. 9247 of September 17, 1942. Sh surrender the Service was transferred to the Departme Order No. 9617. Both of these transfers were made und ity of title I of the First War Powers Act.

The provision of a Nation-wide system of public e assists workers to get jobs and employers to obtain labo ership of the Secretary of Labor. Within our Federal ment of Labor is the agency primarily concerned wit problems of employment.

The Department of Labor already has within its org all of the resources needed for the full performance of t understanding of working conditions and the factors in la