Kentucky: 620 South Fifth Street, Louisville 2, Ky.

Louisiana: 742 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge 1, La.

Maine: 331 Water Street, Augusta, Maine. Maryland: 935 O'Sullivan Building, Baltimore 2, Md.

Massachusetts: 881 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.

Michigan: 800 Boulevard Building, 7310 Woodward, Detroit 2, Mich.

Minnesota: 369 Cedar Street, St. Paul 1,

Minn.

Mississippi: 1091⁄2 North State Street, Jackson, Miss.

Missouri: 310 East Capitol Avenue, Post Office Box 86. Jefferson City, Mo.

Montana: 332 Fuller Avenue, P. O. Box 1718, Helena, Mont.

Nebraska: 1220 North Street, P. O. Box 1033, Lincoln 1, Nebr.

Nevada: 309 North Virginia Street, P. O. Box 2071, Reno, Nev.

New Hampshire: 32 South Main Street, Concord, N. H.

New Jersey: 219 East Hanover, P. O. Box 170, Trenton, N. J.

New Mexico: 111 South Sixth Street, Post Office Box 1356, Albuquerque, N. Mex.

New York: 11 West Forty-second Street, New York 18, N. Y.

North Carolina: Caswell Building, Box 2209, Raleigh, N. C.

North Dakota: 3051⁄2 North Broadway, Bismarck, N. Dak.

Ohio: 427 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus 6, Ohio.

Oklahoma: 600 Colcord Building, Oklahoma City 2, Okla.

Oregon: 300 Central Building, Portland 5, Oreg.

Pennsylvania: 1835 North Third Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Rhode Island: 901 Union Trust Building, Providence, R. I.

South Carolina: Federal Land Bank Building, 1401 Hampton Street, Columbia, S. C.

South Dakota: 4221⁄2 South Main Street, Aberdeen, S. Dak.

Tennessee: 1110 Warner Building, Nashville 3, Tenn.

Texas: 204 Brown Building, Austin, Tex. Utah: 610 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Vermont: 7 School Street, Montpelier, Vt. Virginia: 306 Broad-Grace, Arcade Building, Richmond, Va.

Washington: 201 Ranke Building, Seattle,

Wash.

West Virginia: 614 Chamber of Commerce Building, Charleston, W. Va.

Wisconsin: 121 State Office Building, 1 West Wilson Street, Madison 8, Wis.

Wyoming: P. and R. Building, Post Office Box 760, Casper, Wyo.

Alaska: Goldstein Building, Post Office Box 471, Juneau, Alaska.

Hawaii: Post Office Box 3680, Honolulu 11, T. H.

Puerto Rico: 5 Barbosa Street, Post Office Box 4384, San Juan 22, P. R. District of Columbia: 1624 H Street NW., Washington 25, D. C.

(4) Functions and location of United States Employment Service local offices. (1) The United States Employment Service local office is the point at which all United States Employment Service functions and services are provided for veterans, other workers and employers. Employers may submit their requirements and request the referral of qualified workers or assistance in matters directly related to the filling of job openings. Workers in search of employment may apply and request referral to suitable jobs. Handicapped workers are given special treatment and assistance in finding suitable jobs if they require it.

(ii) Claims arising under the wartime programs of the War Manpower Commission for the temporary migration into the United States of certain foreign workers are filed in United States Employment Service local offices.

(iii) State Unemployment Compensation and Servicemen's Readjustment Allowance claims are filed in the local United States Employment Service offices in those States in which the State Unemployment Compensation agency has so requested. Such claims are made on forms provided by the appropriate State Unemployment Compensation agency.

(iv) Approximately 1,750 United States Employment Service local offices are maintained in cities and towns throughout the Nation. In addition, there are approximately 2,500 itinerant points where part-time employment service is provided by staff traveling from regularly established local offices. The office of each State Director maintains, for the information of the public, a directory of all United States Employment Service local offices and itinerant points within the State. The services of the United States Employment Service are available upon informal request at any United States Employment Service local office. The locations of such local offices may be found in the telephone directory of most cities throughout the country. No formal procedures or forms are prescribed or required.

(c) Information and requests. Rules of the Department of Labor on disclosure of official information, set forth in §§ 2.7 and 2.8 are also applicable to the United

States Employment Service. Requests for general information concerning the work of the Service should be addressed to the Director, United States Employment Service, Department of Labor Building, Washington 25, D. C., or to the nearest regional office at the locations listed above.

§ 2.013 Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee-(a) Functions. Pursuant to authority contained in Executive Order 9656 of November 15, 1945 (3 CFR, 1945 Supp.) and under the general supervision of the Secretary of Labor, to facilitate production, promote harmonious labor relations and stabilize wages, hours and working conditions in the shipbuilding industry through administering, interpreting and securing compliance with the four Zone Standards Agreements, covering basic wages and working conditions in the shipbuilding industry in the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, and Great Lakes Zones. These Agreements are tripartite agreements among shipbuilding labor, shipbuilding management and Government (Navy, War and Labor Departments, and U. S. Maritime Commission).

(b) National organization. The Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee has 31 members, as follows:

Labor Department-1 member (the Chairman).

Shipbuilding management-12 members. AFL Metal Trades Department-6 members.

CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America-6 members.

Procurement agencies (1. e.) Navy Department, War Department and U. S. Maritime Commission)-2 members each.

The Committee engages in the following activities:

Develops procedures for annual and, where necessary, special reviews of the wage rates established by the National Shipbuilding Conference of May 16, 1942, and subsequently ratified, by tripartite conferences, referenda of the parties and other appropriate means; and recommends and takes appropriate steps to bring about such changes in wage rates as the review indicates are required.

Conducts tripartite zone conferences for the purpose of amending such terms of individual Zone Standards Agreements as are not national in scope.

Considers and determines, through regular quarterly and special meetings

and by other appropriate means, all questions with respect to the interpretation, application, and coverage of the Zone Standards Agreements as amended, and the securing of compliance therewith.

Performs such other activities as are consistent with the Zone Standards Agreements as amended, and with the purpose of the Committee.

(c) Field organization. The Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee has no field offices or representatives.

(d) Requests and information. All requests for information and interpretations should be addressed to the Chairman, Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee, United States Department of Labor, Washington (25), D. C.

INSPECTION OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, OPINIONS, AND ORDERS [ADDED]

§ 2.7 Official records; availability for inspection. All papers and documents made a part of the official record in agency proceedings conducted by the Department of Labor in connection with the issuance, amendment or repeal of regulations or determinations having general or industry-wide effect, shall be made available for public inspection at reasonable times during business hours, upon request addressed to the issuing bureau or agency of the Department or to the Office of the Solicitor, Department of Labor Building, Washington 25, D. C.

Papers and documents made a part of the official record in connection with the making of determinations addressed to named persons, except insofar as such materials are made available to public inspection pursuant to § 2.8, and reports and returns required to be filed with the Department of Labor, shall be made available for inspection at reasonable times during business hours, upon written request therefor, addressed to the Secretary of Labor, Department of Labor Building, Washington 25, D. C., to persons properly and directly concerned. Such request must set forth (a) the interest of the applicant in the subject matter, and (b) a description of the specific materials desired to be inspected. Any such request will be denied as to any papers, documents, reports, or returns for good cause found by the Secretary or

his duly authorized representative to be confidential.

When permission to inspect records is granted, arrangements will be made where practicable for inspection of such records at regional offices of the Department.

§ 2.8 Opinions and orders; availability for inspection. All final opinions or orders in the adjudication of cases (except those required for good cause to be held confidential and not cited as precedents) and all rules, as defined in the Administrative Procedure Act (Pub. Law 404, 79th Cong., 60 Stat. 237; 5 U.S.C., Sup., 1001 et seq.), issued by the Department of Labor will be made available for public inspection at reasonable times during business hours. Persons desiring to inspect such material may communicate with the Solicitor of Labor or the Director of Information, Department of Labor Building, Washington 25, D. C., or the regional attorney at the nearest regional office of the Department of Labor.

PART 3-REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS ON PUBLIC BUILDING AND PUBLIC WORK AND ON BUILDING FINANCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY LOANS OR GRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES

Sec.

3.9 Delegation to the Solicitor of Labor. [Added]

§ 3.9 Delegation to the Solicitor of Labor. The Secretary of Labor, in General Order No. 7, dated December 28, 1945,1 has delegated to the Solicitor of Labor his functions in connection with all correspondence, conferences, and matters relative to the administration and interpretation of the Copeland Act. (Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 948; 40 U.S.C. 276c) [Reg., Sept. 3, 1946, effective Sept. 11, 1946, 11 F.R. 177A-345]

1 Not filed with the Division of the Federal Register.

regulations, and standards promulgated thereunder.

(b) "State" includes the several States, the District of Columbia and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.

(c) "State agency" means the agency designated under Section 4 of the Wagner-Peyser Act as the agency to cooperate with the United States Employment Service.

(d) "State Director" means the individual responsible, subject to the overall direction and supervision of the chief official of the State agency or department in which the State service is located, for the proper and efficient administration of the State-wide system of public employment offices.

(e) "The United States Employment Service" means the Bureau in the Department of labor established pursuant to the Wagner-Peyser Act.

(f) "Director of the United States Employment Service" means the chief official of the United States Employment Service, responsible, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Labor, for the administration of the Bureau in the Department of Labor known as the United States Employment Service.

(g) "State Veterans' Employment Representative" means the individual assigned by the United States Employment Service to each State public employment service system, who is administratively responsible to the Chief of the Veterans' Employment Service of the United States Employment Service, for the execution, through the public employment service in the State, of the policies of the Veterans' Placement Service Board.

§ 21.2 Placement services—(a) Functions. Each State agency shall maintain, through its State and local employment offices, a placement service for the free use of employers, workers, and veterans and for the purpose of assisting employers to secure the number of workers possessing the occupational qualifications such employers require, and of assisting all workers to find promptly, jobs for which they are occupationally qualified and which are most advantageous to them. The State service shall promote the full use of its placement facilities, for the purpose of assuring the maximum of Job opportunities for veterans and other workers and the maximum recruitment and placement assistance for employers.

(b) Referrals in labor dispute situations. No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which (1) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or (2) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute. With respect to positions not covered by subparagraph (1) or (2) of this paragraph, any individual may be referred to a place of employment in which a labor dispute exists, provided he is given written notice of such dispute prior to or at the time of his referral.

(c) Inter-area and interstate clearance of labor. Each State agency shall cooperate with the United States Employment Service in the interstate recruitment and transfer of workers. Each State agency shall maintain an adequate system for the recruitment and transfer of workers between areas within the State.

(d) Multi-State labor market areas. With respect to any single labor market area covering parts of two or more States, the State agencies involved shall establish and maintain adequate arrangements and procedures to assure that workers and employers have full access to job opportunities and the available labor supply within the area, without regard to State boundaries.

§ 21.3

Employment counseling and selective placement services. Each State agency shall maintain an adequate local office employment counseling service for veterans and other applicants of employable age. Such employment counseling service shall assist the applicant to evaluate his potential abilities in relation to job requirements and employment opportunities. Local employment offices shall provide such special services and utilize such selective placement techniques as may be necessary to assist handicapped veterans and other applicants to secure employment in occupations which are suited to their physical capacities, interest, and abilities. Local offices shall establish and maintain cooperative relationships with other community and State agencies and organizations for the coordination and mutual improvement of vocational adjustment services. In those States where State boards, departments, or agencies exist which are charged with the administration of State laws for the vocational re