In normal years the Bureau of Mines trains at least 90,000 miners in first aid. However, so many shocking coal-mine disasters have occurred in the past 11⁄2 years that first aid and rescue training must be extended and intensified if these catastrophes are to be halted; it is therefore anticipated that at least 100,000 men will be trained in 1942 in the coal mining, metal mining, nonmetallic mining, quarrying, and petroleum industries.

Every member of every class in first aid receives a copy of the manual to be used, first, as a textbook and later for reference. However, the Bureau's printing budget for 1941 is already so crowded with proposed expenditures for defense activities that only 60,000 copies of the manual can be printed. These will cost $11,400, if current charges at the Government Printing Office are not revised upward. The deficit of 30,000 copies will therefore have to be made up in 1942, necessitating the printing of 120,000 copies (130,000 if 100,000 men are trained) which will cost approximately $22,800 ($24,700 if 100,000 men are trained).

The administration has promised that the health and safety of workers in defense industries are to be guarded. There is no better way to protect employees of the mining industries (essential to defense as the producers of fuels, metals, and nonmetallics) than to train them to do their work safely and to help others efficiently if accidents occur. The increase of $6,710 in printing funds for 1942 is therefore justified if the administration's safety program is to be followed and is, in fact, at least $4,690 less than the First-Aid Manuals will cost.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

The sum of $48,000 is requested for the Fish and Wildlife Service. This is an increase of $5,200 over the total funds, $42,800, available during the current fiscal year to the two constituting and merged bureaus-$27,500 for the Bureau of Biological Survey and $15,300 for the Bureau of Fisheries.

The increase of $5,200 is needed to enable the Service to print part of an accumulation of completed reports and an increasing number of new manuscripts on wildlife and fishery research. These have thus far been uncompleted and unpublished for lack of printing funds, and the value of the research work reported on but not made available to the public is therefore not fully realized.

Of the increase requested, $2,500 will be used for wildlife-research bulletins and North American faunas and reprints, and $2,700 will be used for fishery investigational reports.

Statement showing amounts expended for printing and binding, fiscal year 1940, estimated expenditures for fiscal year 1941, and estimated requirements for fiscal year 1942

Statement showing amounts expended for printing and binding, fiscal year 1940, estimated expenditures for fiscal year 1941, and estimated requirements for fiscal year 1942-Continued'

Statement showing amounts expended for printing and binding, fiscal year 1940, estimated expenditures for fiscal year 1941, and estimated requirements for fiscal year 1942-Continued'

Statement showing amounts expended for printing and binding, fiscal year 1940, estimated expenditures for fiscal year 1941, and estimated requirements for fiscal year 1942-Continued

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I will ask Mr. Rich to take charge of the examination in connection with this item.

INCREASE FOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Mr. RICH. Mr. Burlew, in this item I notice that for the office of the Secretary you have an increase of $3,200. Will you explain that particular item?

Mr. BURLEW. It is principally for blank forms, letterheads, and for the binding of books in the law library. The law library is in bad shape, and many of the books require rebinding. These books are used by other offices of the Department and they are also used by other Government agencies. Of the increase requested, $1,000 are for the purpose of binding books of the law library, and $1,200 are for bulletins to be issued by the Division of Information. The balance of it is for blank forms, letterheads, and so forth.

Mr. RICH. Do you feel that increase is necessary?

Mr. BURLEW. Yes, sir; especially in the law library. Of course, the blank forms and letterheads are required because of the increased activities of offices under the Secretary.

BITUMINOUS COAL COMMISSION

Mr. RICH. There is one question I would like to ask in reference to the Bituminous Coal Commission.

Mr. BURLEW. We have no request for an appropriation this year for that. It expires on April 25.

Mr. RICH. Do you feel that it is going to be continued?

Mr. BURLEW. We hope so. The House committee completed hearings on the question of extension on yesterday, and they went into executive session on it this morning. We do not know what the action will be, but we are hoping it will be continued. We think it is necessary to continue it, and in the event it is continued, we will come for a supplemental appropriation.

Mr. RICH. It is eliminated from the bill now?

Mr. BURLEW. Yes, sir.

Mr. RICH. If it is going to be continued, it seems to me there should be a revision of it. Is there any recommendation for a revision of it, or will it function along practically the same lines on which it has been going for the past 3 or 4 years?

Mr. BURLEW. No, sir; it is being gradually reorganized, because the duties have changed. Since the minimum prices have been fixed, the principal job will be policing the coal operators to see that they comply with the regulations. We will have to set-up quite a compliance force.

Mr. RICH. In other words, you will compel them to obey it. We are getting pretty much into the situation now where the people who are trying to do business are going to be compelled to agree to and observe regulations set-up by the departments.

Mr. BURLEW. They have already agreed to it. In other words, there is a penalty if they do not agree. They contribute a sum for the work done by the Coal Division. The minimum prices have been fixed, and if they do not enforce the minimum prices, there will be chaos in the industry, and we will have what we had before the Bituminous Coal Commission was set up.