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68TH CONGRESS j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -' R vA 'or
7st Se. sion f . 36
TO CREATE A NEGRO INDUSTRIAL MMUTSS1O
JUNE 2, 1924.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the union and ordered to be printed
Mr. FOSTER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 3228]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill
3228, creating a negro industrial commission, having considered the
same, report favorably thereon and recommend that die bill be passed.
[1. R. 3228, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session]
A BILL To create a negro industrial commission
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That there shall be created a negro industrial
commission, which shall consist of five members, at least three of whom shall be
members of the Negro race, to be appointed by the President of the United States,
who shall ho'd office for four years unless removed for good cause shown, and
whose position shall in no way be political; that they shall be nonpartisan, and
whose salary shall be fixed by the President of the United States: Provided,
however, That the salary of each member shall not exceed $5,000 per annum,
except in the case of the chairman, who shall be designated by the President of
the United States, and whose salary shall not exceed $7,000 per annum; that
said commissioners shall be entitled to the usual per diem and necessary expenses
that are usually allowed officers of the Government when absent from their official
station for the conduct of official business.
SEC. 2. That said commission is authorized to appoint such necessary clerks,
agents, or investigators, attorneys, and assistants as may be necessary for the
conduct of the business for which said commission is created, or such other work
that may be assigned to said commission by the President of the United States,
or any of the departments of the Government of the United States touching any
problem or matter affecting the negro, whose salary shall be fixed by the commis-
sion and approved by the chairman of said commission.
SEC. 3. That said commission shall be provided by the Secretary of the Treasury
with suitable quarters in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for the
transaction of the business coming before said commission.
SEc. 4. That the duties of the negro industrial commission created by this act
shall be to study the economic conditions of the negro; to study the labor prob-
lems in which the negro is interested; to stimulate and encourage thrift and
industry among the negroes of this country; to promote the general welfare of
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