COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE
EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 249

A BILL TO DIMINISH THE CAUSES OF LABOR DISPUTES
BURDENING OR OBSTRUCTING INTERSTATE

AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

PART 1

JANUARY 31, FEBRUARY 1, 2, 3, 1949

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

CONTENTS

I. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Ching, Hon. Cyrus S., Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Page

Service..

Goldberg, Arthur J., general counsel, CIO and United Steelworkers of

America_.

53

407

116

19, 203, and 268

Herzog, Hon. Paul M., Chairman, National Labor Relations Board_

Tobin, Hon. Maurice J., Secretary of Labor

II. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Monday, January 31, 1949: Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, Secretary of Labor__

Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1949: Hon. Cyrus S. Ching, Director, Federal Mediation

and Conciliation Service...

Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1949:

Hon. Paul M. Herzog, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board..

Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, Secretary of Labor. - -

19

53

116

203

Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, Secretary of Labor.

268

Arthur J. Goldberg, general counsel, CIO and United Steelworkers of

America

407

III. LIST OF STATEMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949:

Ching, Hon. Cyrus S., Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation

Service, insertions of:

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-effects of a house-

keeping transfer to Department of Labor.

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service comparison of effective-

ness of United States Conciliation Service in Department of Labor

and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service an independent

agency.

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-would transfer to the

Department of Labor result in economies?..

Letter of, to Senator Thomas, in re testimony of Secretary of Labor
Tobin__

Table 1. Comparison of average travel costs United States Concilia-

tion Service and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,

fiscal years 1942-50, inclusive..

75

Table 2. Comparison of average communication costs United States

Conciliation Service and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,

fiscal years 1942-50, inclusive..

76

Table 3. Comparison of average salary costs and average over-all costs,

United States Conciliation Service and Federal Mediation and Con-

ciliation Service, fiscal years 1942 to 1950, inclusive____

Donnell, Hon. Forrest C., a United States Senator from the State of Mis-

souri, insertion of: Presidential proclamation of Hon. Franklin D.

Roosevelt, September 8, 1939, in re national emergencies

Goldberg, Arthur J., general counsel, CIO and United Steelworkers of

America, insertion of: Constitution and bylaws of United Steelworkers

of America__

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412

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