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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

APPROPRIATION FOR 1953

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1952.

WITNESSES

OSCAR R. EWING, FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR
JOHN L. THURSTON, ASSISTANT FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINIS-
TRATOR

RUFUS E. MILES, JR., ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR DEFENSE AC-
TIVITIES

LEO. L. MILLER, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO ADMINISTRATOR
M. A. STEPHENS, BUDGET OFFICER

Mr. FOGARTY. The committee will come to order.

The committee has before it the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, Mr. Oscar R. Ewing. Mr. Ewing, we will be glad to hear your statement.

Mr. EWING. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

GENERAL STATEMENT

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, when I appeared before you for the consideration of the Agency's 1952 estimates, I stated that every item of governmental expense should have the most meticulous examination. That is still my opinion, and I want to assure you that in my view the estimates now before you covering fiscal year 1953 have been submitted on this principle and represent a rigid economy in meeting our responsibilities to carry out essential activities of Government.

During our current defense mobilization period, we are greatly enlarging the potential capacity of our defense industry. Essential to such great industrial expansion is the further development of our natural resources our basic metal industries, our electric power industry, and our agricultural potential. We must give similar attention to the development and conservation of our human resources. Surely we must all agree that developing our capacity in electric power and steel production is meaningless unless it is coupled with the development of an educated and healthy manpower capable of using them.

TYPES OF PROGRAMS

The Federal Security Agency contains most of the Government's programs for the development and conservation of human resources. As you gentlemen well know, our activities encompass the fields of

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Appropriations for 1953

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE

JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island, Chairman

E. H. HEDRICK, West Virginia

GEORGE B. SCHWABE, Oklahoma

CHRISTOPHER C. MCGRATH, New York LOWELL STOCKMAN, Oregon

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman

JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina
GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas
HARRY R. SHEPPARD, California
ALBERT THOMAS, Texas
MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Ohio
W. F. NORRELL, Arkansas
ALBERT GORE, Tennessee
JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi
GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Alabama
JOHN J. ROONEY, New York
J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia
JOE B. BATES, Kentucky

JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island
HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington

ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida

ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico

WILLIAM G. STIGLER, Oklahoma

E. H. HEDRICK, West Virginia

PRINCE H. PRESTON, JR., Georgia

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
WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana
JOHN J. RILEY, South Carolina

ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey

JOHN TABER, New York

RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts
BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa

H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota
WALT HORAN, Washington

GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey
IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania
LOWELL STOCKMAN, Oregon

JOHN PHILLIPS, California

ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas

FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York

CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio

EARL WILSON, Indiana

NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire

GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin

BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania
GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan
FRED E. BUSBEY, Illinois

GEORGE B. SCHWABE, Oklahoma
FRED G. AANDAHL, North Dakota

GEORGE Y. HARVEY, Clerk

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