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Mr. ALTMEYER. That is right. In fact, the situation is the reverse. May I point out, Mr. Chairman, again to repeat what I said a day or so ago, that just as in the case of the United States Public Health Service, there is a need for a supervisory regional staff to keep the operations of those bureaus operating together out in the field. Senator KNOWLAND. Thank you very much, gentlemen.

UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

Senator KNOWLAND. Letters have been received relating to the United States Employment Service which will be placed in the record. First is a letter and statement from the National Child Labor Committee, New York.

(The letter and statement are as follows:)

Hon. WILLIAM K. KNOWLAND,

NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE,
New York 16, N. Y., May 10, 1948.

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR KNOWLAND: Again I am writing on a matter before the Senate Appropriations Committee, namely, the cut recommended by the House for the operating budget of the United States Employment Service and the State employment service.

We believe this cut would bear heavily upon the work which the employment services are undertaking for young people, newcomers in the labor market, a problem which, as we stated in our testimony on the child-labor matter, we believe should receive increasing attention by the Government.

We are not asking to appear before the Senate Appropriation Committee on this question, but enclose a brief statement we would like to have incorporated

in the record.

We deeply appreciate the interest you have shown in problems relating to the employment of young workers.

Very sincerely yours,

(Mrs.) GERTRUDE FOLKS ZIMAND,
General Secretary.

STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MRS. GERTRUDE FOLKS ZIMAND, GENERAL SECRETARY,
NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE, TO THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMIT-
TEE ON H. R. 6355, MAY 10, 1948

The National Child Labor Committee strongly urges restoration of appropriation cuts made by the House in the 1949 budget requests of the United States Employment Service. Proposed cuts would reduce the operating budgets of the United States and State Employment Services by more than 20 percent below current levels of expenditures. Past experience suggests that these cuts will affect most seriously those phases of the employment-service program in which the National Child Labor Committee is vitally interested.

Each year almost 2,000,000 young people enter the labor market for the first time. In addition, the number of boys and girls, 14 to 19 years, now in the labor force is 40 to 50 percent higher than was to be expected on the basis of past trends. There were in April 1947 about 54 million teen-age youth in the labor marketabout 12 million more than anticipated on the basis of prewar trends. For the most part, these young people have not received sufficient vocational help in the schools to prepare them to find and to take their place in the labor market. The only agency of Federal, State, and local government which has a program geared to meet the needs of these out-of-school youth is the Nation-wide system of public employment offices.

We believe that adequate job counseling and placement services for young people should be provided in order to reduce to a minimum job dissatisfaction, unnecessary labor turn-over, and instability, of employment. Young workers who are occupationally maladjusted constitute a serious economic and social loss.

Based on its knowledge of the needs of young people in relation to the limited services available, the National Child Labor Committee is convinced that greater attention must be given to the vocational needs of out-of-school youth and that

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the current levels of expenditures for such activities by the Employment Service should be maintained. The proposed cuts would seriously affect the assistance given the States in developing counseling methods and occupational information, in evaluating various State experiences, and in interchanging information on plans and procedures between the States. For example, the national office of the Employment Service, which may be called the central laboratory of the FederalState system, has a continuing responsibility for the development of counseling procedures, aptitude tests, and occupational information. This material is distributed to the State agencies for use in their job-counseling programs.

Both Federal and State services would be seriously jeopardized by the cuts proposed in H. R. 6355. Particularly serious will be the impact on service to young people in rural areas, since many small local employment offices will probably have to be closed if adequate service is to be provided in the more heavily populated industrial areas in which the great bulk of unemployment-compensation claims arise.

The net effect of the action recommended by the House, in the opinion of the National Child Labor Committee, will be to contribute to immediate and future problems of occupational maladjustment and unemployment. Such problems, on the other hand, could be ameliorated by the appropriation of the funds requested for the administration and operation of the Employment Service. The small increase in expenditures involved in restoration of the cuts, in our opinion, will be more than justified by the social and economic gains to be derived from job counseling and placement services for the young people of our Nation.

Senator KNOWLAND. Next is a letter from the Guidance and Personnel Association of the District of Columbia.

(The letter referred to is as follows:)

GUIDANCE AND PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION

OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

May 5, 1948.

Hon. WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND,

Labor-Federal Security Agency Subcommittee on Appropriations,
United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR KNOWLAND: The membership of the local Guidance and Personnel Association, which is a branch of the National Vocational Guidance Association, is urging you to consider carefully the appropriations for the United States Employment Service.

Our association, which is composed of teachers, counselors, and personnel workers, realizes the important contribution which the USES has made to better adjustment of youth, veterans, handicapped, and the older worker in its employment counseling, selective placement, and testing program.

Also, we who are guidance workers in business schools, Government, and industry cannot do an effective job without the many industry and area employment trends, occupational guides, and many other helps which this agency furnishes. Therefore, we are earnestly urging the appropriation of funds for the USES and the State employment services which will be adequate for the continuation and improvement of its counseling program.

May this letter be placed in the record of hearings.

Sincerely yours,

WILLA NORRIS, Secretary.

Senator KNOWLAND. Next is a letter addressed to Chairman Bridges from the Toledo Secretarial School.

(The letter referred to is as follows:)

THE TOLEDO SECRETARIAL SCHOOL,
Toledo, Ohio, May 4, 1948.

Hon. STYLES BRIDGES,

Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR BRIDGES: For your information we should like to go on record in stating that the services of the selective placement and counciling section of the Ohio State Employment Service, have been invaluable to us.

Through their facilities this past year 30 of our graduates have been placed in well-paying office positions. Also through the efforts of the selective placement and counciling sections, we were able to train a number of persons that they recommended for our training program. Our program comes under the

Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation and is offered free of charge to all qualified handicapped adults.

It is our sincere hope that this knowledge will be beneficial to you in making any laws or recommendations concerning selective placement services of the Ohio State Employment Service.

Yours very truly,

JULIA MOODY.

Senator KNOWLAND. There is also a telegram from Chicago in opposition to the personnel rider.

(The telegram referred to is as follows:)

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE,

CHICAGO, ILL., May 7, 1948.

Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Thirty residents of Chicago's Fourth Ward urge vigorous opposition to rider on Labor Department appropriation directed against Government workers' union. JANET B. STERN.

Senator KNOWLAND. The committee stands adjourned.

(Whereupon, at 1:30 o'clock, Wednesday, May 12, 1948, the hearings on the supplemental Federal Security appropriation bill were concluded.)

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