Department of Public Works--amending Social Security Act: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1265, a Bill to Establish a Department of Public Works, to Amend Certain Sections of the Social Security Act, and for Other Purposes. February 24 to March 10, 1939, Volume 4, Page 96Considers legislation establishing an executive Department of Public Works and revising the unemployment, old age and blind benefits, and state contribution sections of the Social Security Act. |
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Page 218 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor the general design and duties of which shall be 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.
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Page 1 - That there shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Commerce and Labor, and a Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who shall be the head thereof...
Page 2 - States in the ratio which the population in municipalities and other urban places, of five thousand or more, in each State bears to the total population in municipalities and other urban places, of five thousand or more, in all the States as shown by the latest available Federal census: Provided, that Connecticut and Vermont towns shall be considered municipalities regardless of their incorporated status.