01393 Unemployment in the United States HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3059 A bill to provide for the advance planning and regulated construction S. 3060 A bill to provide for the establishment of a national employment S. 3061 A bill to amend section 4 of the act entitled "an act to create a 106294 MARCH 18, 21, AND APRIL 1, 1930 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1930 CONTENTS V. S. McClatchy, secretary- John B. Andrews, general secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, New York City- W. N. Doak, editor and manager the Railroad Trainman, national 95 88-91 Helen Hall, director University Settlement House, 2601 Lombard Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner of the State of New York, 37 Benjamin M. Squires, Chicago, Ill.. 13 Norman Thomas, chairman committee on public affairs of the Social- 88 7, 25 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met pursuant to call at 10 o'clock a. m. in the committee room, Capitol, Senator Hiram Johnson presiding. Present: Senator Johnson (chairman of the subcommittee); Senator James Couzens, of Michigan; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida; Senator Harry B. Hawes, of Missouri; Senator Gerald B. Nye, of North Dakota; and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michigan. Present also: Senator Robert Wagner, of New York, and others. (The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of the following bills: S. 3059, S. 3060, S. 3061, which are here presented in full as follows:) [S. 3061, Seventy-first Congress, second session] A BILL To amend section 4 of the act entitled "An act to create a Department of Labor," approved March 4, 1913 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the act entitled "An act to create a Department of Labor," approved March 4, 1913, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, report, and publish at least once each month full and complete statistics of the volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the number of persons employed, the total wages paid, and the total hours of employment, in the following industries and their principal branches: (1) Manufacturing; (2) mining, quarrying, and crude petroleum production; (3) building construction; (4) agriculture and lumbering; (5) transportation and communication; (6) the retail and wholesale trades; and such other industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public interest to include. Such statistics shall be reported for all such industries and their principal branches throughout the United States and also by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by such smaller geogragphical subdivisions as the said Secretary may from time to time prescribe. The said Secretary is authorized to arrange with any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or other governmental agency for the collection of such statistics in such manner as he may deem satisfactory, and may assign special agents of the Department of Labor to any such bureau or agency to assist in such collection." [S. 3059, Seventy-first Congress second session] A BILL To provide for the advance planning and regulated construction of certain public works, for the stabilization of industry, and for the prevention of unemployment during periods of business depression Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the "Employment Stabilization Act of 1930." SEC. 2. When used in this act DEFINITIONS (a) The term "board" means the Federal Employment Stabilization Board established by section 3 of this act; 1 |