Requirements of the War Production Board, that the collection of statistics under this program will not interfere with the manpower required for war production; that, on the contrary, the periodic surveys of employed and unemployed, which are a part of this program would, under many circumstances, be helpful to war production; moreover, that the coordinated statistical program would, in the opinion of their office, be of paramount importance in reconversion.

STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

I would like to call your attention to statements by the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee during the discussion of this whole matter in the Committee of the Whole House.

Mr. Cannon said:

I do not recall, in my service on the Committee on Appropriations, any measure on which we have had as many requests from representative business organizations, labor organizations, commercial organizations throughout the country as we have had for this item. Everyone realizes that the European phase of the war will be concluded in 1945, and certainly the Japanese war should be over not later than 1946.

Senator MCKELLAR. I hope Mr. Cannon is right, but I have done some predicting that is entirely wrong about this war.

Mr. RICE (Continuing) :

We must not make the mistake this time we made after the last war and find ourselves suddenly confronted by peacetime conditions for which we have made no preparations.

Mr. Chairman, I had not noted for your record before

Senator MCKELLAR. I want to make this statement: That as acting chairman of this committee, I have just asked our clerk-it can be verified if I am wrong-I have not received a single request from any manufacturers that this item be included, not a single one. It is remarkable that all the requests go to the House and none come to the Senate, because I believe we still have a function to pass on legislation. I want the record to show that they all went to the House and didn't come to us here.

Mr. RICE. I think, Mr. Chairman, that in the main they go directly to the executive agencies in the Government, to which businessmen look to get information. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has handed me, within the last few days, several letters they have received

REQUEST FOR LETTERS RECEIVED BY DEPARTMENTS REQUESTING ITEMS INCLUDED IN PROPOSED PROGRAM

(See also p. 205)

Senator MCKELLAR. I would like you to bring up-not to go in the record-all the letters that you have received, so that we can be informed and so that the committee can have them before it. If you will send them to the committee I will be obliged.

Mr. RICE. The executive agencies have thousands of letters, sir. Senator MCKELLAR. All right. Let those thousands of letters come. It won't hurt anything.

Senator MCCARRAN. On this subject.

Mr. RICE. Requesting data of this type.

May I ask you to listen to excerpts from a letter of the ColgatePalmolive-Peet Co.?

This is a personal letter to a member of my staff from an officer of the company:

It was good news to learn that such excellent progress was being made toward the taking of the 1944 census of manufacturers. I guess none of us have fully realized how valuable was the census data until it was no longer made available to us. The census of manufacturers will speed up intelligent planning and will undoubtedly reduce the number of errors which manufacturers otherwise would make because of lack of official data.

Here is one addressed to the United States Chamber of Commerce by the manager of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade of Philadelphia:

Re business census data, we are in entire accord with this plan. If there is anything that we can do from this end to bring this matter to a conclusion, please advise.

Here is another one to the United States Chamber from the Chamber of Commerce of Chambersburg, Pa.

We are quite pleased that the Federal Government is going to undertake the gathering of business census data for the years following 1939.

Another one from the Chamber of Commerce and Civics of Orange and Plainwood, N. J.:

Respecting the proposed income survey to be made by the Bureau of the Budget

that, of course, is not correct—

we shall be very glad to cooperate with the Federal agencies. We are greatly interested in the subject of this undertaking and hope it will develop accurate and helpful information which will be of assistance to us.

Senator MCCARRAN. Those letter all appear, as I hear you read them, in reply to letters sent out by some agency. Is that true?

Mr. RICE. This is what happened, Senator. The Bureau of the Budget has an advisory committee made up of representatives of seven Nation-wide business organizations, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and five others. This committee established panels of businessmen to come to Washington to advise us on parts of this program. It was natural for these business organizations to inform their members about the program through their periodic bulletins. They are interested and it is public information. The letters I have read you came back voluntarily in response to this information. They are unsolicited.

INFORMATION ON VOLUME OF REQUESTS RECEIVED

(See also p. 205)

I have here a classified summary of unsolicited requests for information on consumer incomes, consumer expenditures, and savings which were received by one Federal agency between June 1942 and November 1944. A total of 1,315 names were in this classification, of which 450 were business firms and organizations. A few of the latter have been alphabetically arranged, starting with the American Smelting & Refining Co., American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and so on. I will leave this for your record, if you choose.

(The document referred to follows:)

Requests for information on consumer incomes, expenditures, and savings received by Office of Price Administration June 1942 to November 1944

Business groups:

Manufacturers, distributors, etc

Banks and insurance companies.

Business and trade association, chambers of commerce_

Marketing, advertising, broadcasting companies_.

Publishing companies, magazines, newspapers_.

SAMPLE LIST OF REQUESTS FROM BUSINESS GROUPS FOR INFORMATION ON CONSUMERINCOMES, EXPENDITURES, AND SAVINGS

The following list of business firms represents a sample of the letters received by the Office of Price Administration during 1943 and 1944 for information on the distribution of consumer income and on consumer expenditures and savings.

MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, ETC.

American Smelting & Refining Co., New York, N. Y.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York, N. Y.
Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, Lancaster, Ohio.
Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Atlas Corporation, Jersey City, N. J.

Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y.

Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

California Packing Corporation, San Francisco, Calif.

Celanese Celluloid Corporation, New York, N. Y.

Central Soya Co., Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind.
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Jersey City, N. J.

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, Calif.
Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., Santa Monica, Calif.

Du Pont (E. I.) de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del.
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y.

Emerson Drug Co., Baltimore, Md.

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

General Foods Corporation, New York, N. Y.

General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.

General Motors Corporation, New York, N. Y.

Gorham Co., Providence, R. I.

Greyhound Corporation, Chicago, Ill.
Heinz (H. J.) Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Hercules Powder Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.

Hills Brothers Co., New York, N. Y.

Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Mass.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wis.

Lehn & Fink Products Corporation, Bloomfield, N. J.

Lerner Shops, New York, N. Y.

Lilly (Eli) & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.

Macy (R. H.) & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.

Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Pictures, New York, N. Y.

Moores & Ross Furnas Ice Cream Co., Columbus, Ohio
Norge Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Detroit, Mich.
Omar Inc., Omaha, Nebr.

Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Pabst Sales Co., Chicago, Ill.

Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa.
Pepperell Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass.
Philco Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa.
Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
Princeton Worsted Mills, Trenton, N. J.
Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, Ill.

Radio Corporation of America, Camden, N. J.
Ruppert (Jacob) Brewery, New York, N. Y.
Safeway Stores, Inc., Oakland, Calif.

Schlitz (Joseph) Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Seagram-Distillers Corporation, New York, N. Y.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Standard Brands Inc., New York, N. Y.

Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, Ind.

Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Vantine (A. A.) Products Corporation, New York, N. Y.

Vick Chemical Co., New York, N. Y.

Walton Rice Mill, Inc., Stuttgart, Ark.

Western Electric Co., Chicago, Ill.

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation, Wyandotte, Mich.

BANKS

Bankers Trust Co., New York, N. Y.

Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., New York, N. Y.
Chase National Bank, New York, N. Y.

First National Bank of Boston, Boston, Mass.

First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, New York, N. Y.

National City Bank of New York, New York, N. Y.

INSURANCE COMPANIES

Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York, N. Y. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America, New York, N. Y.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, N. Y.

Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, New York, N. Y.
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, N. J.

BUSINESS AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York, N. Y.
American Bankers Association, New York, N. Y.

American Newspaper Publishers Association, New York, N. Y.

Brewing Industry Foundation, New York, N. Y.

Independent Grocers' Alliance of America, Chicago, Ill.

Institute of Carpet Manufacturers of America, Inc., New York, N. Y.

National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D. C.

National Association of Transportation Advertising, Inc., New York, N. Y.

National Electrical Manufacturers Association, New York, N. Y.

San Francisco Hotel Association, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.

Tobacco Merchants Association of the United States, New York, N. Y.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

California State Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, Calif.
Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis, Ind.
New Haven Chamber of Commerce, New Haven, Conn.
San José Chamber of Commerce, San José, Calif.

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING COMPANIES

Ayer (N. W.) & Son., Philadelphia, Pa.

Blackett-Sample-Hummert Advertising, Chicago, Ill.
Brantley (J. Carson) Advertising Agency, Salisbury, N. C.
Brooke, Smith, French & Dorrance, Inc., Detroit, Mich.
Compton Advertising, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Humphrey (H. B.) Co., Boston, Mass.
Industrial Surveys Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill.
Marschalk & Pratt Co., New York, N. Y.
Mathes (J. M.), Inc., New York, N. Y.
Maxon, Inc., Detroit, Mich.

McCann-Erickson, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Meldrum & Fewsmith, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

Noyes & Sproul, Inc., New York, N. Y.

Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., New York, N. Y.

Stewart (Paul W.) and Associates, New York, N. Y.

Storm (Charles M.) Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.

Thompson (J. Walter) Co., New York, N. Y.

Tracy, Kent & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.

Walker & Downing, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Young & Rubicam, Inc., New York, N. Y.

BROADCASTING COMPANIES

Blue Network, Blue Network Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., New York, N. Y.
WLW, The Crosley Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio.

WOR, Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inc., New York, N. Y.

PUBLISHING COMPANIES

Capper Publications, Inc., Topeka, Kans.

Condé Nast Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., New York, N. Y.
Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Fawcett Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Hearst Magazines, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Ideal Publishing Corporation, New York, N. Y.
Macfadden Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Meredith Publishing Co., Des Moines, Iowa.

MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

America, National Catholic Weekly, New York, N. Y.

American Agriculturist, Ithaca, N. Y.

American Banker, New York, N. Y.

American Weekly, New York, N. Y..

Business Week, New York, N. Y.

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.

Department Store Economist, New York, N. Y.

Drug Topics, New York, N. Y.

Esquire, New York, N. Y.

Fortune Magazine, New York, N. Y.

Hartford Times, Hartford, Conn.

Herald Tribune, New York, N. Y.

Holland's, the Magazine of the South, Dallas, Tex.

Life, New York, N. Y.

Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.