RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S ORGANIZATION ON UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CHRONOLOGICAL FILES OF EDWARD EYRE HUNT. Jan. 8, 1928-July 23, 1931. 10 in. 1 This series contains only a few letters relating to activities of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, of which Mr. Hunt was Secretary. Most of the letters and memoranda were accumulated during his service as Secretary of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes and Executive Secretary of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends. Arranged chronologically, with some undated material at the end of the series. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK RECORDS OF THE CHIEF CLERK. Oct. 1930-July 1932. 1 ft. 2 Letters, memoranda, telegrams, reports, statements, specimen office forms, and releases. The records relate to the cooperation of the Committee (or the Organization) in unemployment relief activities of national, State, and local agencies; the publication and distribution of issuances; and personnel matters. Arranged by type of material, subject, or name of employee. CENTRAL FILES OF THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR EMPLOYMENT. 2 Minutes, reports, issuances, publications, economic recovery plans, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to the Committee's organization, functions, and activities and to the economic situation and efforts to improve it. Arranged according to a decimal classification scheme, which is reproduced in appendix II. This series is more fully described in the "Inventory of the Records of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment and the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief," which is in the Social and Economic Branch of the National Archives. CENTRAL FILES OF THE PRESIDENT'S ORGANIZATION ON UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. 4 This series consists of the same types of materials as those described in entry 3. Arranged according to a decimal classification scheme, which is reproduced in appendix III. This series is more fully described in Part II of the "Inventory of the Records of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment and the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief," which is in the Social and Economic Branch of the National Archives. 5 A card index of names of PECE members, PECE and POUR employees, and POUR Advisory Committee members. Most of the cards also contain addresses, salaries, and service dates of employees. In five groups, each arranged alphabetically by name of person. COMMITTEE INDEX. Oct. 1930-June 1932. 5 in. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR RECORDS OF WALTER S. GIFFORD. Aug. 1931-June 1932. 10 in. Office files of Mr. Gifford, who served as the Director of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief. They include correspondence with members of the Organization's nationwide Advisory Committee and Governors of States; memoranda; telegrams; lists of members of the Advisory Committee; reports; copies of radio broadcasts; and congressional publications. The records relate mainly to the appointment of members of the Advisory Committee and its subcommittees, activities of these committees, unemployment relief, employment organizations and their work, the Organization's promotion of local and State unemployment relief measures, and proposed Federal relief legislation. Arranged alphabetically by name of committee or subject. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GENERAL RECORDS. Oct. 1930-Mar. 1933. 7 ft. Office files of Fred C. Croxton, who served with the Emergency Committee successively as a regional adviser in charge of the North Central States and acting chairman of the Emergency Committee (May 1-August 18, 1931). He was Assistant Director of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief and chairman of its Committee on Administration of Relief during the life of the Organization. The records consist of letters; telegrams; memoranda; reports; statistical data; press releases; copies of State legislation; issuances of Government agencies, public welfare and church groups, and certain associations; and newspaper clippings. The records relate to the programs, campaigns, and other activities of the PECE and the POUR (and the latter's committees); the organization and history of the POUR; economic and relief conditions; the spreading of work in industry; labor-management relations; the credit union and other small loan movements; and State legislation for aid to business and the needy. Arranged alphabetically by subject, type of material, or name of organization. CHRONOLOGICAL FILES. Oct. 20, 1930-Mar. 1, 1933. 2 ft. 8 Correspondence of the Office of the Assistant Director and other POUR offices with organizations and individuals, reports, and issuances of Government agencies and private organizations. These records relate to requests for economic aid, information, and publications; proposed plans and suggestions for emergency relief, for reducing unemployment, and for remedying the depression; and the activities of the PECE and the POUR. The correspondence from August 1932 to March 1933 was answered by Frank W. Connor, an associate of Fred C. Croxton at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, where both men were employed after the POUR became inactive in July 1932. Arranged for the most part chronologically. A number of files at the beginning of the series are arranged according to the Organization's decimal classification scheme. RETURNED EMPLOYMENT QUESTIONNAIRES. Mar.-July 1932. 8 in. Completed questionnaries received from manufacturers, pertaining to their employment practices, payrolls, and financial situations. Arranged alphabetically by name of firm, with some unarranged material at the end of the series. STATE FILES. 1930-July 1932. 2 ft. 2 10 Correspondence with officials of State and city relief organizations POUR representatives, and others; and telegrams, memoranda, reports, Census Bureau releases, Government and private publications, and press clippings and news summaries. The records relate to unemployment, relief, and creation of jobs in the States. Arranged alphabetically by name of State. At the beginning of the series are some folders containing papers on activities of several States. FILES ON CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF COMMITTEES. Sept. 1931-Jan. 1932. 1 ft. 11 Correspondence between POUR officials and local public and private officials that relates to the establishment of unemployment relief committees. Included are some detailed reports and other papers concerning the organizational structure and work of these committees. Arranged alphabetically by name of State and thereunder alphabetically by name of city. At the end of the series there are several folders of additional correspondence and a list of the committees and their chairmen in cities and towns of 2,500 to 10,000 population. OFFICE FILES OF ERVING P. HAYES. 1930-33. 2 ft. 12 Mr. Hayes served as Executive Assistant of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment and the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief. His files include letters, memoranda, reports, minutes of special committee meetings, copies of speeches by PECE officials, copies of press conferences of Colonel Woods, newspaper clippings, congressional bills, and publications of the PECE, the POUR, other Government agencies, and social welfare organizations. These records relate to economic conditions throughout the country; the furtherance of local relief programs; the promotion of programs for gardens, home modernization, public and semipublic works, employment stabilization, and business recovery; publicity activities of the Emergency Committee; the collection and distribution of information on methods of handling unemployment and relief problems; proposed Federal unemployment relief and public works legislation; and the preparation of a history of the Committee. Arranged alphabetically by subject, type of material, or name of person. Most of the publications are filed at the end of the series. RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS SECTION GENERAL RECORDS. Oct. 1930-June 1932. 4 ft. 13 Correspondence with Committee and staff members, construction groups and individuals, and other persons; memoranda; reports; sample forms of the Public Works Section; completed questionnaires; statistical tabulations; press clippings; lists of members of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief, its field organization, and affiliated committees; public school directories; and congressional and private builders' publications. These records relate to PECE and POUR activities in securing information on the status of public and semipublic construction projects, the promotion of these projects, and office management matters. Arranged alphabetically by subject, type of material, name of construction organization, or name of person. At the end of the series are tabulations and publications. PUBLIC WORKS QUESTIONNAIRES AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE. Dec. 1930-June 1932. 28 ft. 14 Questionnaires pertaining to the construction of educational institutions and other public works. The questionnaires and correspondence were exchanged with county and city superintendents of schools, and also with college, county, and city officials. They were designed to elicit information on actual or estimated expenditures in 1931 and 1932 for construction, maintenance, repairs, and alterations. The records are in two parts: those relating to educational institutions and those relating to other public works, with the materials in each part arranged alphabetically by name of State and thereunder alphabetically by name of city. For related records see entries 15 and 16. LISTS OF OFFICIALS OF SCHOOLS, COUNTIES, AND CITIES. 1932. 2 ft. 15 Apparently copies of transmittal sheets by which questionnaires on school and other public and semipublic construction were sent to these officials. In effect, they constitute a list of the officials. Arranged alphabetically by State, thereunder by city, and thereunder by county. For related records see entries 14 and 16. PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS SUMMARIES. Nov. 1930-June 1932. 69 ft. 16 Cards, 5" x 8", and cards and slips, 3" x 5", containing summary data on contemplated and contracted-for Federal, State, county, and municipal public works programs and projects and quasi-public works projects. Data include information on the project's nature, place, ownership, names of engineer and architect, construction specifications, and amount spent or to be expended. Arranged according to broad project types and thereunder generally by State, with further sectional breakdowns by city and county. For related records see entries 14 and 15. RECORDS OF THE RELIEF DIVISION OFFICE FILES OF PORTER LEE. 1930-31. 10 in. 17 Mr. Lee served as Chief of the Relief Division of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment. The records include questionnaires of the Association of Community Chests and Councils and of the Family Welfare Association of America, completed by community chest and associated charitable organizations, with related correspondence regarding relief resources and employment measures in their communities; statistics of urban unemployment, supporting the necessity for Federal aid; correspondence concerning emergency relief loans to individuals; PECE issuances on the Committee's activities; and congressional publications regarding proposed Federal public works and legislation for veterans' relief. Arranged alphabetically by name of organization and type of material. "COMMUNITY PLANS AND ACTION" BULLETINS. 1931-32. 1 in. 18 Processed reports based on the experience of active programs, which were issued by the PECE and the POUR in order to furnish guidance to communities throughout the country regarding such emergency measures as "made work" and unemployment relief programs, the advancement of public and private construction, the care of the transient and homeless unemployed, home gardens, and the back-to-school movement. Arranged numerically, 1-13. RECORDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL DIVISION GENERAL RECORDS. 1930-July 1932. 4 ft. 19 Correspondence with industrial, business, and educational organizations, trade associations, regional advisers, and individuals; telegrams; memoranda; reports; plans; copies of radio addresses by industrial and other leaders; newspaper clippings; completed questionnaires; and miscellaneous Government and private publications. These records relate to business, employment, and relief conditions; activities of local relief committees; the Division's promotion of employment stabilization and business recovery plans, including the spreading of work and public and semipublic construction; the Division's radio programs; and its gathering and distribution of data on the foregoing subjects. Arranged by subject, type of material, and name of firm, trade association, or person. RECORDS OF THE WOMEN'S DIVISION GENERAL RECORDS. 1930-31. 3 ft. 20 Letters; memoranda; telegrams; reports; issuances of the Women's Division; copies of radio addresses by PECE officials and other persons; bibliographies; lists of women leaders, organizations, and home economics experts; Government and private publications; and press clippings covering the activities of the Division as well as other phases of the work of the PECE. The records relate to the unemployment problem in the United States and to proposed solutions; the Division's conduct of campaigns for home improvement and repair, home gardens, prudent spending, and economical and nutritious food; activities of women's groups organized to assist the unemployed in finding jobs and to provide direct relief to the needy; the question of replacement of married women workers whose husbands held jobs; the Emergency Committee's promotion of public works; and office management matters. Arranged alphabetically by subject, organization, and type of material. |