DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR 1953 MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1952. WITNESSES OSCAR R. EWING, FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR RUFUS E. MILES, JR., ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR DEFENSE AC- LEO. L. MILLER, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO ADMINISTRATOR 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 (1) Appropriations for 1953 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE 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 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island 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 ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey 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 GEORGE B. SCHWABE, Oklahoma GEORGE Y. HARVEY, Clerk |