Reorganization Plans No. 1 and No. 2 of 1949: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session

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Page 198 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 226 - Department to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...
Page 57 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Page 143 - Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 24, 1958, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended CIVILIAN MOBILIZATION SECTION 1.
Page 141 - No. 2 of 1956, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended.
Page 94 - An act to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States, and to establish a national board of health," approved March 3, 1879, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Page 277 - The legislature, therefore, declares that in its considered judgment the public good, and the general welfare of the citizens of this State require the enactment of this measure under the police powers of the State for the compulsory setting aside of unemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own.
Page 327 - August 20, 1949, provided for the transfer of the Bureau of Employment Security from the Federal Security Agency to the Department of Labor...
Page 105 - The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am, in room 357, Senate Office Building, Senator John L.
Page 277 - Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this State. Involuntary unemployment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the Legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and his family.

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