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Calendar No. 856
81ST CONGRESS SENATE REPT. 852
1st Session Part 2
REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1949 TRANSFERRING
THE BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
AUGUST 12 (legislative day, JUNE 2), 1949.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HUMPHREY, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive
Departments, submitted the following
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany S. Res. 151]
The minority is of the opinion that Senate Resolution 151, which
was referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive
Departments, should be rejected by the Senate. In this way Re-
organization Plan No. 2 of 1949, transferring the Bureau of Employ-
ment Security from the Federal Security Agency to the United States
Department of Labor, will become effective in accordance with the
recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive
Branch of the Government.
SUMMARY STATEMENT
The most important problem our Nation faces today is to maintain
maximum employment. The transfer of the Bureau of Employment
Security to the Department of Labor will help achieve that objective
by placing the employment service and unemployment compensation
functions of the Government in the agency which analyzes and pro-
motes job opportunities as distinguished from merely giving financial
assistance to the unemployed. During the years 1945 to 1948,
when the Employment Service was in the Department of Labor,
this service received more job orders and placed more people in jobs
than in any other peacetime year since the Wagner-Peyser Act was
enacted in 1933.
Emphasis on finding the job for the worker reduces the amount
which employers and the public will have to pay as unemployment
compensation. Cash benefits, although essential, are a poor substi-
tute for the earnings from a steady job because they constitute merely
a fraction of the worker's regular wages. The minority feels very
strongly that the prosperity and well-being of the worker as well as
the extent of the unemployment-compensation burden on the Nation](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/rnpnnus0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)