COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS The complete list of your committee's printed reports is as follows: 1Hoarding and Strategic Materials: Hearing before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, December 20, 1950. Regulation W-Automotive: Hearing on the effect of regulation W on automotive sales and financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950. Progress Report No. 1: Discussion of Defense Production Act, Eric Johnston and Michael DiSalle, February 9, 1951. Progress Report No. 2: To hear Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, February 8, 1951. Progress Report No. 3: Wage Stabilization Board and Defense Production Administration, February 13, 1951. 1 Progress Report No. 4: To hear Michael V. DiSalle, Director, Office of Price Stabilization, March 2, 1951. Progress Report No. 5: Secretary Charles F. Brannan and Michael V. DiSalle on cotton controls, March 8, 1951. Progress Report No. 6: Manly Fleischmann, Administrator, NPA, on tax amortization program, March 19, 1951. 1 Progress Report No. 7: Charles E. Wilson, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, on his April 1 report to the President; opinion on Government contracts by Robert L'Heureux, April 4, 1951. Progress Report No. 8: William H. Harrison, Administrator, Defense Production Administration, tax amortization and certificates of necessity, April 12, 1951. 1 Progress Report No. 9: Witnesses on the meat production and supply situation, June 13 and 15, 1951. 1 Progress Report No. 10: Charles E. Wilson, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization: Manly Fleischmann, Administrator, Defense Production Administration; and Michael V. DiSalle, Director, Office of Price Stabilization, price regulations, allocations, and priorities, November 26 and 27, 1951. 1 1 Progress Report No. 11 (S. Rept. No. 1061): Steel, copper, and aluminum allocations survey, January 15, 1952. Progress Report No. 12: Gordon Dean, Chairman, and others from the Atomic Energy Commission, discussion of Savannah River project, November 27, 1951. 1 Progress Report No. 13 (S. Rept. No. 1107): Machine tools, January 23, 1952. Progress Report No. 14 (S. Rept. No. 1310): World supply, United States pro 1 1 duction, consumption, imports and exports of steel, copper, and aluminum, and domestic requirements and allocations, March 17, 1952. Progress Report No. 15 (S. Rept. No. 1062): Electric power study, January 15, 1952. 1 Progress Report No. 16: Charles E. Wilson, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, and Manly Fleischmann, Administrator, Defense Production Administration, on second quarter 1952, allocations, January 9, 1952. 1Progress Report No. 17: Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce: Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner, Bureau of Public Roads; and Vice Adm. Edward Cochrane, Administrator, Maritime Commission, on second quarter 1952 allocations, January 15, 1952. Progress Report No. 18: Arthur S. Flemming, Assistant to the Director-Manpower, and Rodolfo A. Correa, General Counsel, Office of Defense Mobilization, on procurement in labor-surplus areas, February 6, 1952. Progress Report No. 19: Various witnesses on the Canadian aluminum proposals May 20 and June 2, 1952. 1 Progress Report No. 20 (S. Rept. No. 1987): Aluminum program, June 30, 1952. Progress Report No. 21: Henry H. Fowler, Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, on current and future defense activities, October 1, 1952. Progress Report No. 22 (S. Rept. No. 2): A study of consumer commodity prices and margin spreads, October 22, 1952. 1 Supply exhausted; no longer available. 1 Progress Report No. 23: Hearing on price control and OPS activities, November 19, 1952. Progress Report No. 24 (H. Rept. No. 1): Aluminum expansion program and competition, January 2, 1953. Progress Report No. 25 (S. Rept. No. 154): Review of tax amortization program, April 20, 1953. Progress Report No. 26: Hearing, ODM, Munitions Board, and GSA on Defense Manpower Policy No. 4, May 4, 1953. Progress Report No. 27: Witnesses from Government agencies on proportion of Government contracts awarded to small-business concerns, March 8, 1954. Progress Report No. 28: Witnesses in the matter of loans to the United States Tin Corp., under the Defense Production Act, July 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, and 29, 1954. Progress Report No. 29 (H. Rept. No. 2): United States Tin Corp. loans, January 5, 1955. Progress Report No. 30: Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director, Office of Defense Progress Report No. 34: To hear Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, on defense mobilization programs, April 11, 1956. Progress Report No. 35: To hear True D. Morse, Under Secretary of Agriculture, and Spencer S. Shannon, Director of the Office of Minerals Mobilization, Department of the Interior, on defense mobilization programs, April 16, 1956. Progress Report No. 36: Study of supply and distribution of nickel, January 8, 1957. Progress Report No. 37: Supplementary report to study of supply and distribution of nickel by the Secretary of Commerce, February 21, 1957. Progress Report No. 38: To hear Franklin G. Floete, Administrator of the General Services Administration, on the activities of GSA under the Defense Production Act, May 21, 1957. Progress Report No. 39: To hear the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Administrator of GSA on activities under the Defense Production Act, including loans and guaranteed loans, May 28, 1957. Progress Report No. 40: Report on reducing our vulnerability to attack, June 4, 1957. Progress Report No. 41: To hear the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Administrator of GSA on activities under the Defense Production Act, including aluminum contracts and tax amortization, July 30, 1957. Progress Report No. 42: To discuss the adequacy of preparedness programs to meet nuclear attack and limited-scale war; to hear the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization and representatives of the Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture, July 10, 1958. Progress Report No. 43: Reports submitted by the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization on recommendations in the Eighth Annual Report of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, June 24, 1959. Progress Report No. 44: Mobilization programs of Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and Business and Defense Services Administration, August 18, 1959. Progress Report No. 45: Review of industrial mobilization and administration of priorities and allocations by Department of Commerce; review of emergency preparedness programs of Office of Emergency Planning, October 4, 1965. Progress Report No. 46: Hearing-Mobilization Programs of the Office of Emergency Planning, June 16, 1967. Progress Report No. 47: Hearing-Mobilization Programs of the Department of the Interior, June 19, 1967. Progress Report No. 48: Hearing-Mobilization Programs of the Business and Defense Services Administration, Department of Commerce, June 23, 1967. Progress Report No. 49: Hearing-Mobilization Programs of the General Services Administration, June 24, 1967. 1 Supply exhausted; no longer available. 'First Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1951 (S. Rept. No. 1040, 82d Cong.). 1 Second Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1952 (S. Rept. No. 3, 83d Cong.). 1 Third Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee of Defense Production, 1953 (H. Rept. No. 1097, 83d Cong.) 1 1 Fourth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1954 (H. Rept. No. 1, 84th Cong.). Fifth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1955 (H. Rept. No. 1669, 84th Cong.). 1 1 Sixth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1956 (H. Rept. No. 1, 85th Cong.). Seventh Annual Report of Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1957 (H. Rept. No. 1172, 85th Cong.). Eighth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1958 (S. Rept. No. 1, 86th Cong.). Ninth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1959 (H. Rept. No. 1193, 86th Cong.). Tenth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1960 (S. Rept. No. 1, 87th Cong.). Eleventh Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1961 (S. Rept. No. 1124, 87th Cong.). Twelfth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1962 (S. Rept. No. 3, 88th Cong.). Thirteenth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1963 (H. Rept. No. 1095, 88th Cong.). Fourteenth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1964 (H. Rept. No. 1, 89th Cong.). Fifteenth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1965 (S. Rept. No. 942, 89th Cong.). Sixteenth Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, 1966 (H. Rept. No. 1, 90th Cong.) EXECUTIVE SESSIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS (Not printed) November 30, 1950: Organizational meeting. November 8, 1951: To hear John H. Williams, Chief, Office of Industrial Equipment, Munitions Board, on Machine Tool Program. May 8, 1952: To hear officials of the Office of Price Stabilization and representatives of the lumber industry on price controls. April 17, 1953: Organizational meeting. March 8, 1954: To hear Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization on nickel supply situation. May 17, 1954: To hear Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization on U.S. defense positions for metallurgical manganese ore in relation to proposed expansion of domestic purchase program and discussion of machine tool program. March 9, 1955: Organizational meeting. March 10, 1955: To hear Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of Office of Defense Mobilization on procurement of critical materials. May 15, 1956: To hear Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization; and Hon. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce; on nickel supply and programs for expansion. June 8, 1956: To hear Mr. Willard F. Rockwell and representatives from the Office of Defense Mobilization and Department of Commerce on nickel supply and distribution. February 8, 1957: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. February 20, 1958: To hear Mr. Gordon Gray, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, on the adequacy of mobilization plans and programs to meet nuclear attack as well as limited scale war, including plans for the continuity of production. February 21, 1958: A continuation of the testimony of Mr. Gordon Gray, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, on the adequacy of mobilization plans 1 Supply exhausted; no longer available. and programs to meet nuclear attack as well as limited scale war, including plans for the continuity of production. February 19, 1959: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. Discussion of proposed study of missile fuels and propellants. May 29, 1959: To hear the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and the Administrator of the General Services Administration on Defense Production Act inventories and related matters. March 8, 1961: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. March 7, 1963: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. February 11, 1965: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. January 24, 1967: Organizational meeting to elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and for the adoption of rules. THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950,1 AS AMENDED 2 AN ACT To establish a system of priorities and allocations for materials and facilities, authorize the requisitioning thereof, provide financial assistance for expansion of productive capacity and supply, provide for price and wage stabilization, provide for the settlement of labor disputes, strengthen controls over credit, and by these measures facilitate the production of goods and services necessary for the national security, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles, may be cited as "the Defense Production Act of 1950." TABLE OF CONTENTS Title I. Priorities and allocations. Title II. Authority to requisition and condemn.3 Title III. Expansion of productive capacity and supply. Title IV. Price and wage stabilization. Title V. Settlement of labor disputes.* Title VI. Control of consumer and real estate credit.5 DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. In view of the present international situation and in order to provide for the national defense and national security, our mobilization effort continues to require some diversion of certain materials and facilities from civilian use to military and related purposes. It also requires the development of preparedness programs and the expansion of productive capacity and supply beyond the levels needed to meet the civilian demand, in order to reduce the time required for full mobilization in the event of an attack on the United States. In order to insure productive capacity in the event of such an attack on the United States, it is the policy of the Congress to encourage the geographical dispersal of the industrial facilities of the United States in the interest of the national defense, and to discourage the concentration of such productive facilities within limited geographical areas which are vulnerable to attack by an enemy of the United States. In the construction of any Government-owned industrial facilities, in the rendition of any Government financial assistance for the construction, expansion, or improvement of any industrial facilities, and in the procurement of goods and services, under this or any other Act, each department and agency of the Executive Branch shall apply, under the coordination of the Office of Defense Mobilization, when practicable and consistent with existing law and the desirability for maintaining a sound economy, the principle of the geographical dispersal of such facilities in the interest of national defense. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall preclude the use of existing industrial facilities. 1 Public Law 774, 81st Cong., 64 Stat. 798, Sept. 8, 1950, 50 U.S.C. App. §§ 2061-2166. 2 Joint Resolution of June 30, 1951, 65 Stat. 110; Defense Production Act Amendments of 1951, 65 Stat. 131, July 31, 1951; Defense Housing and Communities Facilities and Services Act of 1951, sec. 602, 65 Stat. 313, Sept. 1, 1951; Defense Production Act Amendments of 1952, 66 Stat. 296, June 30, 1952; Defense Production Act Amendments of 1953, 67 Stat. 129, June 30, 1953; Federal Employees Salary Increase Act of 1955, sec. 12(c) (1), 69 Stat. 180, June 28, 1955; Joint Resolution of June 30, 1955, 69 Stat. 225; Defense Production Act Amendments of 1955, 69 Stat. 580, August 9, 1955; Act of June 29, 1956, 70 Stat. 408; Act of June 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 241; Act of June 30, 1960, 74 Stat. 282; Small Business Act Amendments of 1961, sec. 5(b), 75 Stat. 667, Sept. 26, 1961; Act of June 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 112; Act of June 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 235; Act of June 30, 1966, 80 Stat. 235. 3 Authority to condemn added July 31, 1951; title terminated at the close of June 30, 1953. Authority terminated at the close of April 30, 1953. Control of consumer credit terminated June 30, 1952. Control of real estate credit terminated at the close of June 30, 1953. 85-568--68-27 399 |