transferred to the Administrator. The Air Safety Board was abolished and its functions were transferred to the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Civil Aeronautics Board and the Administrator were transferred to the Department of Commerce, with the proviso that the Board should exercise its functions of rulemaking, adjudication, and investigation independently of the Secretary of Commerce. Reorganization Plan IV further provided that the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, whose functions would be administered under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Commerce, and the Civil Aeronautics Board would constitute the Civil Aeronautics Authority. However, the Civil Aeronautics Authority performs no functions, all of its responsibilities being discharged by either the Civil Aeronautics Administration or the Civil Aeronautics Board.

CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION

The Administrator of Civil Aeronautics is appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The organization through which the Administrator exercises his functions is designated as the Civil Aeronautics Administration by Departmental Order No. 52 of the Secretary of Commerce.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATOR

In accordance with the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act, as amended, the Administrator is empowered and directed to encourage and foster the development of civil aeronautics and air commerce in the United States and abroad, to encourage and make plans for the orderly development of civil airways and the establishment thereof and landing areas, to install and maintain air navigation facilities, to perform the functions of aircraft registration and safety regulation described in titles V and VI of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (except the functions of prescribing safety standards, rules, and regulations and of suspending and revoking certificates after hearing), to exercise the power contained in section 1101 of the Civil Aeronautics Act relating to air hazards, and to exercise the powers and perform the duties contained in the Washington National Airport Act of 1940; is responsible for the enforcement of safety rules, regulations, and standards; the emergency suspension of certificates, and the compromise of civil penalties for violations of titles V and VI of the Civil Aeronautics Act; recommends to the Civil Aeronautics Board proposed standards, rules, and regulations designed to promote safety in air commerce.

ACTIVITIES

Safety regulations.-Determines original and continuing compliance with applicable safety standards and issues appropriate airman, aircraft, air carrier operating, air navigation facility, and air agency certificates and ratings and other aeronautical documents; registration of aircraft, recordation of aircraft conveyances, maintenance of records of persons and things subject to regulation; issuance of permits for operation of foreign civil aircraft into and within the United States; enforcement of civil aviation rules and regulations; examination and inspection of interstate, overseas, and foreign scheduled air carrier operations; examination of persons and material for rating and certification; issuance of emergency suspension of safety certificates subject to ratification by the Administrator.

Aviation information.-Collection and dissemination of information relative to civil aeronautics; compilation and publication of statistics and other data pertinent to the development of air commerce and the aeronautical industry; compilation and distribution to civilian airmen, service airmen, and other interested persons of current information pertaining to airports and air navigation facilities on civil airways; editorial review of material used in aeronautical education; preparation and distribution of visual and other types of safety educational materials; the maintenance of a comprehensive aeronautical research library.

Federal airways. This activity covers the planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of the Federal Airways System, which has been extended throughout Alaska and other United States possessions and now totals 45,393 miles of airways implemented with air navigation facilities for day and night contact and instrument operations, not including the transoceanic routes. The duties include aerial and ground surveys for lay-out of new routes; selection of sites; preparation of plans and specifications for facilities; supervision of construction, negotiation of power, communication, and telephone contracts; purchase and installation of radio range and communication equipment; operates the airways traffic control system; maintains and operates Government-owned air navigation facilities on the Federal Airways System.

Technical development.-Engages in development work, engineering, flight, and service testing in the fields of aircraft components and accessories, air navigation devices, airports, and radio navigation and communication.

Staff Programs Office.-Serves the Administrator in planning and coordinating activities involving program planning, the Air Coordinating Committee, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and aeronautical standardization.

Aviation training.-This office, through its Education Division, brings to schools and colleges the benefit of the Administration's technical services and experiences in all phases of aviation with the primary aim of promoting understanding of and participation in aviation activities. It also administers and supervises Government programs involving the aeronautical training of foreign nationals in this country. It encourages and assists the widespread development of civilian flight training. This office also conducts such training and educational programs as are required to serve the needs of the Administration for qualified personnel.

Federal airport program.-The Administrator formulates broad policies, develops and presents plans for, directs and coordinates the execution of a national system of airports suitable and adaptable to the future needs of civil aviation and national security. The Administrator makes plans for the orderly development of airports throughout the United States, Territories, and possessions, renders airport advisory services to public agencies and civic groups, prepares and distributes bulletins and publications on airport planning and design, collects and maintains information on facilities available at all civil airports. The Administrator directs and supervises the Federal airport program and fosters State and local legislation needed to facilitate airport development and protect the approaches to airports by zoning and property acquisition.

Washington National Airport.-The Administrator has control over, and responsibility for, the care, operation, maintenance, and protection of the Washington National Airport located at Gravelly Point, together with the power to make and amend such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary in the operation of this airport. The Administrator is also empowered to lease, upon such terms as he may deem proper, space or property within or upon the airport for purposes essential or appropriate to the operation of the airport.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

THE SECRETARY OF LABOR

The Secretary of Labor is charged with the duty of fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, improving their working conditions, and advancing their opportunities for profitable employment. The Secretary has authority to direct the collecting and collating of full and complete statistics of the conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the products of the same and to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them and to collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as may seem wise. The Secretary's duties also comprise the gathering and publication of information regarding labor interest and labor controversies in this and other countries; the promulgation and supervision of the enforcement of certain maximum hour, minimum wage, child labor, safety and health stipulations in connection with Government supply contracts; and to cause to be published such results of these investigations as may seem wise and appropriate.

The law creating the Department of Labor provides that all duties performed and all power and authority possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department at the time of the passage of the said law, in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by said act transferred to the Department of Labor, or any business arising therefrom or per taining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch, or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or advisory character or otherwise, are vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Labor. The Secretary of Labor is also given authority to make such special investigations and reports to the President or Congress as may be required by them or which may be deemed necessary, and to report annually to Congress upon the work of the Department of Labor.

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF LABOR

The Under Secretary performs such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or may be required by law. He becomes the Acting Secretary of Labor in the absence of the Secretary.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF LABOR

The three Assistant Secretaries of Labor perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or may be required by law.

SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR

The Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor performs such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary.

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS

The Office of International Labor Affairs is responsible for the supervision, direction, policy formulation, and coordination of the international activities of the Department, subject to the over-all policy guidance of the Under Secretary.

OFFICE OF INFORMATION

The Office of Information supervises all editing, illustrating, printing, and distribution of publications and reports. It acts as a liaison between the Department and the press, radio, and picture services, and other Government agencies concerned with the collection and dissemination of information and facts in which the Department has an interest. It acts as a clearing house for information prepared for the press and for labor and management groups as a result of the research, service, and regulatory programs of the Department. It correlates information on the results of specialized work along different lines and presents material so that it will be of the most practical value to wage earners and the general public.

LIBRARY

The duties of the librarian are to obtain and circulate currently to the staffs of the different bureaus such books and periodicals as they need in their investigations, to supply reference material and bibliographical assistance in connection with special inquiries, to prepare selected annotated bibliographies on special subjects, and to aid students of labor problems through reading-room service and correspondence.

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION

The Director of Personnel Administration serves as advisor to the Secretary of Labor and the Under Secretary on personnel matters and represents them with the bureaus of the Department, the Civil Service Commission, the Bureau of the Budget, the Federal Personnel Council, other Government agencies, and the public in general on personnel and related matters; is responsible for the preparation of correspondence on major personnel policies, for Congressional relationships on personnel matters; formulates policies, rules, regulations, standards and procedures governing personnel administration in the Department, and administers the personnel program; represents the Department in conferences with officers and employees and with employee organizations on personnel and related matters; performs such other functions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor.

OFFICE OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT

The Office of Budget and Management, under the supervision of the Director of the office, who is also the Chief Clerk and Budget Officer of the Department, is responsible for budgetary, administrative planning, accounting and auditing functions, the coordination of current programs of the several bureaus, the control of expenditutes from departmental appropriations, the procurement of supplies, equipment and printing and binding, and over-all service functions of the Department.

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR

The Solicitor is the chief law officer of the Department of Labor. Responsible to him are an immediate staff of assistants and various attorneys stationed in field offices of the Department throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico.

The Solicitor acts as legal adviser to the Secretary of Labor and to the other administrative officers of the Department. The Solicitor and attorneys on his staff perform legal services for the Wage and Hour Division and its Child Labor Branch, the Public Contracts Division, the Bureau of Labor Standards, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Women's Bureau, the United States Employment Service, the Bureau of Apprenticeship, the Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment Rights, and for other bureaus within the Department, and assist in the preparation of administrative rules and regulations and interpretations of statutes administered by the Department. They assist also in the preparation of and reports on proposed legislation. His staff prepares or reviews all contracts and bonds entered into by or with the Department.

The Solicitor's Office supervises the predetermination of prevailing rates of wages on Federal contracts pursuant to the Davis-Bacon law and the Federal Airport Act.

The Solicitor is in charge of the litigation of the Department in the courts. He represents the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division and the Secretary of Labor in all court actions involving the Fair Labor Standards Act. In litigation involving departmental activities handled by the Department of Justice, the Solicitor's Office assists in the preparation, trial, and briefing of the cases. Members of the staff of the Solicitor's Office prosecute complaints of violations of the Public Contracts Act, and represent the Department officials in administrative hearings.

The regional attorneys on the staff of the Solicitor act as legal advisers to the regional offices of the Department. Their principal activity relates to the administration and enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Public Contracts Act, and other laws under the jurisdiction of the Department.

BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP

The Bureau of Apprenticeship functions under the provisions of an act of August 16, 1937, "to enable the Department of Labor to formulate and promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to safeguard the welfare of apprentices and to cooperate with the States in the promotion of such standards."

In cooperation with national advisory committees appointed by the Secretary of Labor, the Bureau develops and formulates standards of apprenticeship for the training of skilled workers by industry. Such standards deal primarily with the welfare of the apprentice as an employed worker and cover such matters as adequate work experience, length of apprenticeship, provisions for supervision of apprentices, related technical instruction, and employer-employee participation in the training.

Through its field staff the Bureau, in cooperation with State apprenticeship agencies, endeavors to extend the application of these standards by bringing together employer and labor for the formulation of programs of apprenticeship and by giving technical and advisory service in the development of programs and in their maintenance and operation.

The office of the Director is responsible for the application of national policies with respect to apprenticeship through direction of the headquarters and field organization of the agency; for the encouragement of State apprentices activities; and for the maintenance of liaison with established State apprenticeship agencies. The headquarters staff acts as a clearing house for the national apprenticeship program. This is done by providing services for the review of apprenticeship programs with regard to conformity with accepted standards and practices and for the registration of apprentices and apprenticeship programs; by conducting research on matters affecting apprenticeship and compiling statistics regarding apprentices and apprenticeship programs; and by the preparation, publication, and dissemination of information for the advancement of understanding of apprenticeship and the creation of general interest in the training of skilled workers through apprenticeship.

BUREAU OF LABOR STANDARDS

To develop desirable labor standards in labor law administration, and labor legislation; to make specific recommendations concerning methods and measures designed to improve the working conditions of wage-earners; to promote amicable industrial relations and labor-management cooperation; in so doing to make directly available to interested organizations and persons the existing resources of the Department of Labor and pertinent material obtainable from public or private sources.

To strengthen State labor departments and through them assist industry and labor in reducing industrial accidents and occupational diseases; to promote Federal-State cooperation in labor-law administration and in the implementation of international labor standards; to exercise the authority and perform the functions conferred on the Secretary of Labor by the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 pertaining to the filing of certain data by labor organizations.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

The statutory functions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics are "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity." Other specific continuing duties have been added from time to time by acts or resolutions of Congress, by Executive order, and by the Secretary of Labor.

The Bureau collects data and publishes reports on employment, pay rolls, earnings, and hours of labor in manufacturing, trade, public service, building construction, and other industries; labor turn-over; labor supply; occupational outlook; productivity of labor; union wages and the wage situation in particular industries; industrial relations; industrial hazards; conditions of labor in foreign countries; consumers' cooperation; consumer and industrial prices; and changes in prices paid by families of wage earners and moderate-income workers in large cities of the United States. Special studies are made from time to time of a large number of other subjects affecting the welfare of workers.

The information acquired by the Bureau in the discharge of its duties is disseminated by means of special bulletins on specific subjects and the Monthly Labor Review.

BUREAU OF VETERANS' REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS

The Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment Rights was established by the Secretary of Labor under the acts of March 31, 1947 (Public Law 26, 80th Cong., ch. 26), and July 30, 1947 (Public Law 271, 80th Cong., ch. 361). Its function is to assist former members of the armed forces and of the merchant marine to exercise their reemployment rights as provided by section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and related reemployment statutes. The Director of the Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment Rights is responsible to the Under Secretary of Labor for the administration of the program. An Assistant for Field Liaison is responsible to the Director for the operation of field offices which are located in thirty-six principal cities.

Assistance to veterans and employers on reemployment problems is provided in local communities by local Veterans' Reemployment Rights committeemen who serve on a voluntary basis under the guidance of the Division's field representatives. Local offices of the State employment services affiliated with the United States Employment Service also serve as the initial points of contact for veterans seeking advice with respect to statutory reemployment rights. These local employment offices furnish published information and, when necessary, refer veterans to local Volunteer Reemployment committeemen, who in turn aid in resolving controversies with employers over reemployment rights by negotiation and voluntary settlement.

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These procedures are designed to promote the expeditious settlement within the local community of controversies between veterans and employers. versies not so resolved are forwarded by the Volunteer Reemployment committeemen to the nearest field representative of the Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment Rights, who makes further efforts to negotiate amicable settlement. In those cases where a settlement is not reached, the matter is referred to the local United States Attorney, if the veteran so requests. The veteran is entitled to be represented by the United States Attorney in court action if the latter is reasonably satisfied that the veteran is entitled to the benefits of the reemployment statutes.

UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

The United States Employment Service was established in the Department of Labor by act of Congress approved June 6, 1933. Its functions were to promote and develop a national system of public employment offices, to maintain a veterans' service to be devoted to securing employment for veterans, to maintain a farm placement service, to maintain a public employment service for the District