73437 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2663 A BILL TO ESTABLISH AN EFFECTIVE PROGRAM TO ALLEVIATE CONDITIONS OF EXCESSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT IN CERTAIN ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED AREAS FEBRUARY 24, 25, 27, MARCH 20, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, AND PART 2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1956 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 CONTENTS Statements Anderson, Hon. Clinton P., United States Senator from the State of Balding, Paul H., Staunton Lions Club, Staunton, Ill--- Page 969 515 788, 811 Barnes, John, consultant, community development, Carbondale, Ill__ 682 Barron, Fred C., chairman-executive director, Employment Security Commission of New Mexico_ 979, 1006 Batt,William, Jr., executive secretary, Toledo Industrial Development Baur, Hon. Paul Schuh, mayor, Cairo, Ill. 1067 685 732 Beardsley Alice, community consultant, Southern Illinois University_ 621 657 Bozarth, M. L., director, Southern Illinois, Inc., Murphysboro, Ill-- 583 724 Brannon, William A., Metropolis, Ill. 724 Brewster, Clyde, director, Southern Illinois, Inc., Herrin, Ill__. Broadway, H. O., business agent, Carpenters Local Union No. 5, Golconda, Ill. 587 678 Brown, Harry, Thebes, Ill 711 Campbell, Maurice L., president, the Benton Civic and Industrial Association, Benton, Ill. 572 Cannon, James F., executive director, Benld-Gillespie Development 490 Cavanaugh, W. E., Gillespie Loans Club, Gillespie, Ill---. 499 Chandler, Jesse, chairman, Laborers' Association for Industrial Development, Eldorado, Ill_. 669 Chavez, Hon. Dennis, United States Senator from the State of New 961 Chulick, Walter J., superintendent, Community Consolidated School 510 Clark, Eddie, general manager, Illohmet Theaters, Inc.. 720 725 Clements, Hon. Earle C., United States Senator from the State of Kentucky 1109 Comte, Eugene, president, chamber of commerce, Murphysboro, Ill__. Cooksey, Ralph, district council, International Hod Carriers, Carbondale, Ill. 592 615 Cottam, Louis, chairman, Economic Development Commission of Taos, 994, 1009 Congill, Floyd, Hodcarriers' Labor Local No. 1320, Metropolis, Ill. Dillow, Harold, Tamms, Ill_ Douglas, John D., president, Rend Lake Conservancy District_. 724 725 687 974 710 577 548 674 Durfee, Charles W., president, Pope-Hardin County Farm Bureau, Statements-Continued Riley, George D., legislative representative of the AFL-CIO, and repre- Shoemaker, Perry M., representing the Chamber of Commerce of the Slayman, Charles H., Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Columbus, Ohio; accompanied by Albert E. Redman, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Columbus, Ohio____ Page 1051 938 726 679 860 883 Stadelbacher, Glenn, Cobden, Ill--- 708 Still, Louise, the National Consumers League. 1044 722 Sullivan, Maurice, president, Gillespie Businessmen's and Professional 504 Taft, Hon. Charles, mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and general counsel, 755 Taylor, C. M., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, West 619 Taylor, Clyde C., County Superintendent of Highways, Massac County, 721 Thunder, William Fire, delegate of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine 898 Thurmond, Hon. Neil, mayor, Johnson City, Ill__ 560 Tripp, Melba, executive director, Massac County, Ill., Housing Authority. 725 Truchot, Mrs. Teola, vice chairman, Fort Hall Business Council of the 953 Truitt, Lawrence, Hillsboro, Ill. 544 Tudor, Dr. William J., area development division, Southern Illinois 785 546 831 Wenzel, J. E., Progressive Miners of America_. Tuthill, Ernest, principal, Hillsboro schools, Hillsboro, Ill---- Veach, Stanley, superintendent Vienna grade school, Vienna, Ill__-- 650 518 506, 518 Wade, John, president, Hillsboro Commercial Association, Hillsboro, Watson, Mart, director, Community Development Committees, Eldo- White, Hugh, president, District 12, United Mine Workers of America. 541 644 494 586 703 Williams, Hon. G. Mennen, Governor of the State of Michigan.. 759 527 Williams, J. P., business agent, Carpenters Local Union No. 803_. 731 731 Wood, Logan, village president, Joppa, Ill_ 727 Wood, Richardson, vice president, J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, 1094 Wright, Hon. Warren, State treasurer, State of Illinois_-_. 685 Wright, William F., Jr., president, Sanford-Springvale Chamber of 852 Yeager, Hon. Louis, mayor of Litchfield, Ill____. 521 Zimmerman, William, Jr., field director of the Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc--- 890 Additional Information: Action Against Unemployment, Studies and Reports, New Series, No. 20, International Labor Office, Geneva, 1950; article on the British experience in developing depressed areas from a study of the International Labor Office---. 809 |