DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1972 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1971 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 1114, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Norris Cotton presiding. Present: Senators Magnuson, Cotton, and Fong. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES D. HODGSON, SECRETARY OF LABOR ACCOMPANIED BY: MALCOLM R. LOVELL, JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR MAN- ARTHUR A. FLETCHER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EMPLOY- GEORGE C. GUENTHER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCCUPA- GEOFFREY H. MOORE, COMMISSIONER OF LABOR STATISTICS PETER G. NASH, SOLICITOR FRANK G. ZARB, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINIS- CONRAD M. JONES, DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET OFFICER SUBCOMMITTEE PROCEDURE Senator COTTON. The committee will come to order. The chairman, Senator Magnuson, is over answering a quorum call and asked me to start the hearing. He will be here within 5 minutes. The chairman, Senator Magnuson, has this statement, which I will read for him. This morning we begin hearings on the fiscal year 1972 Labor-HEW appropriations bill. Although the House has not passed the bill, it is my understanding that the House committee expects to mark up and report the bill in the near future. Hopefully, we will receive the bill soon in order that this committee can complete the hearings, mark up, and report the bill to the Senate prior to the August recess. To accomplish this objective will require a strong effort by all of us. Today, we will begin with the Department of Labor. We are pleased to have with us today the Secretary of Labor, the Honorable James D. Hodgson, and his staff to discuss the Department of Labor programs and budget for the fiscal year 1972. BUDGET REQUEST AND 1971 APPROPRIATION For the record, the comparable appropriations for fiscal year 1971 were $2,229,604,881. Your request this year is $2,171,834,000 new obligational authority. Those figures, of course, exclude the trust funds and allocations provided by the delegated programs. I understand that the Department of Labor is administering programs for which over $3 billion has been requested for this year however. BIOGRAPHY Mr. Secretary, your biographical sketch will be made part of the record at this point. (The biography follows:) JAMES D. HODGSON James D. Hodgson was sworn in as Secretary of Labor on July 2, 1970. Previous to his appointment to the post he was serving as Under Secretary of Labor. Immediately before entering government service, Mr. Hodgson had been Corporate Vice President for Industrial Relations at Lockheed Aircraft + Corporation in Burbank, California. Mr. Hodgson was employed at Lockheed from 1941 to the time of his appointment as Under Secretary, except for the years from 1943 to 1946 when he served as an air combat intelligence officer in the U. S. Navy. Prior to being named Vice President at Lockheed he held a number of personnel and labor relations positions, including the post of Corporate Director of Industrial Relations. Before coming to Lockheed, he was supervisor of youth employment for the State of Minnesota and worked for the Dayton Company, a Minneapolis department store. Mr. Hodgson has also served as Consultant to the State of California on Manpower matters, as Community Advisor to the Institute of Industrial Relations, U.C.L.A., and as a member of the Los Angeles Mayor's Labor-Management Executive Committee. Born in Dawson, Minnesota, on December 3, 1915, Mr. Hodgson received an A.B. Degree from the University of Minnesota in 1938. He also did graduate work at the University of Minnesota and the University of California at Los Angeles. He was an instructor in Labor relations for five years at the latter university. In May of this year Mr. Hodgson was the recipient of the University of Minnesota's Distinguished Achievement Award. He has authored such articles as "Employing the Unemployables," in the Harvard Business Review, "Automation" in the University of Michigan Quartely, and "Federal Regulation of Unions" in the Harvard Business School Publication Management Thinking. Mr. Hodgson is married to the former Maria M. Denend of San Francisco, California. The couple has a married daughter, Mrs. R.J. Nachman of Boulder, Colorado, and a son, Frederic of Malibu, California. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson live in Washington, D.C. |