1 Senator Purtell was temporarily appointed to the Subcommittee on Labor in lieu of Senator Smith of New Jersey for the consideration of S. 2663. II Barrett, Frank E., city manager of the city of Lowell, Mass.- Belanger, J. William, president of the Massachusetts State CIO--- Blier, Bernard, secretary, city planning commission, Scranton, Pa., 469 382 Boyer, Harry, president, Pennsylvania CIO Council, AFL-CIO-- Broggi, Carl J., commissioner, department of development of indus- Buckley, Hon. John J., mayor of the city of Lawrence, Mass_-. Callahan, John, president, Massachusetts State A. F. of L.--- Carignan, George E., manager, New Bedford Textile Workers Union Clark, Hon. Joseph S., Jr., former mayor of Philadelphia, Pa- Clifton, Albert G., legislative agent, Massachusetts State CIO_ Coleman, Hon. Kerin F., mayor of Woonsocket, R. I------ Crumm, C. B., president, United Labor Counsel of Blair County-. Dilworth, Hon. Richardson, mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.... Dirksen, Hon. Everett McKinley, United States Senator from the State Dorris, Paul, State industrial commissioner, Carterville, Ill__ Farrell, William J., executive director, Industrial Foundation of Freeman, Hon. Orville L., Governor of the State of Minnesota___. 268 386 Burns, Hon. Arthur F., chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, to Hon. Frederick G. Payne, September 6, 1955---- Flemming, Hon. Arthur S., Director, Office of Defense Mobiliza- tion, to Hon. Frederick G. Payne, August 11, 1955---. Lovell, Ralph M., Sanford-Springvale Chamber of Commerce, San- ford, Maine, to Hon. Margaret Chase Smith, December 28, 1955- MacLeod, Robert B., Chairman, Greater New Bedford Foundation, Bedford, Mass., to Hon. John F. Kennedy, February 6, 1956___ Mitchell, Hon. James P., Secretary of Labor, to Hon. Frederick Van Zandt, Hon. James E., to Hon. Matthew M. Neely. Weeks, Hon. Sinclair, Secretary of Commerce, to Hon. Frederick List of State and Federal officials attending sink-or-swim meeting held Message to the 68th Michigan Legislature by Hon. G. Mennen Wil- liams, Governor of Michigan, January 12, 1956– 19 major chronic labor surplus areas_- Problem of employing young people adjudicated delinquent__. Report on recommendations made to the President by the Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Development Commission, August 10, 1954 Report on the economy of Washington County, Maine_- 99 21 223 359 315 73 AREA REDEVELOPMENT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1956 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room P-63, United States Capitol, Senator Paul H. Douglas (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Douglas, Neely, Kennedy, and Goldwater. Also present: Stewart E. McClure, staff director; Roy E. James, minority staff director; John Forsythe, general counsel to the committee; Frank Cantwell and Michael Bernstein, professional staff members; and James J. McTigue, consultant. Senator DOUGLAS. We have met to consider Senate bill 2663, which was introduced on the 28th of July by a number of Senators, dealing with the depressed areas of the country, and which was referred to this subcommittee by a letter dated November 10, 1955. I wish to announce that for the purpose of considering S. 2663, Senator William Purtell of Connecticut has been temporarily appointed to the Subcommittee on Labor in lieu of Senator Smith of New Jersey. Last winter the Joint Committee on the Economic Report unanimously declared that even in an expanding economy there were distressed conditions which existed in certain industries and regions, and definite action was recommended to meet this situation. In a supplementary opinion signed by Senator Sparkman, Senator O'Mahoney and myself, and Representatives Patman, Bolling, Mills, and Kelley, greater emphasis was laid upon distressed industries and localities in pages 17 through 23 of the report, in which we declared it to be our opinion that the economic report of the President did not deal adequately with the needs of distressed industries and localities, and we presented the figures drawn from 44 major and 100 smaller labor market areas which had been classified by the Department of Labor as being in group 4 of high unemployment in January of 1955. (See appendix.) There has, of course, been a real economic improvement since that date, which we are all very happy to have had occur, and national productivity and national income are at high levels, but it is still true that in many areas, though not as many as last year, there are depressed economic conditions; tens of thousands of families are suffering acutely from want of earnings, living wholly on relief, with little hope of getting a local job. In these areas, human morale and family conditions are deteriorating. It has always seemed to me that it is proper for the Government 1 |