OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

EMPLOYMENT, MANPOWER, AND POVERTY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 3164

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR CONTINUED PROGRESS IN THE
NATION'S WAR ON POVERTY

S. 2908

A BILL TO AMEND THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964
TO PREVENT CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF COMMUNITY ACTION
AGENCIES AND VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO AMERICA FROM
ENGAGING IN PERNICIOUS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

S. 3139

A BILL TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF COMMUNITY
ACTION PROGRAMS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

JUNE 21, 22, 23, AND 24, 1966

65-922 O

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1966

Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts-

Sargent Shriver, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, accompanied

by Bert Harding, Deputy Director; Don Baker, General Counsel; J. A.

Kershaw, Assistant Director for Research, Programing, Planning and

Evaluation; and Robert Cassidy, Deputy Director of Management-----

Hon. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of New

Jersey..

JUNE 22, 1966

Hon. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor; accompanied by Stanley

Ruttenberg, Assistant Secretary of Labor; Jack Howard, Administrator,

Neighborhood Youth Corps; and Mark C. Battle, Deputy Administrator,

Neighborhood Youth Corps___

Mitchell Sviridoff, president, National Association for Community Devel-

opment; accompanied by John Bullitt, director, New Jersey Office of

Economic Opportunity; and Wallace Edgerton, executive director, Na-

tional Association for Community Development---

JUNE 23, 1966

Hon. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; ac-

companied by Ralph K. Huitt, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education,

and Welfare for Legislation; Lisle C. Carter, Jr., Assistant Secretary

of Health, Education, and Welfare for Individual and Family Services;

and Ellen W. Winston, Commissioner of Welfare___

Hon. George A. Smathers, a U.S. Senator from the State of Florida___

Hon. John V. Lindsay, mayor, city of New York, N.Y_.

JUNE 24, 1966

Theodore Voorhees, president, National Legal Aid & Defender Associa-

tion; Orison S. Marden, president-elect, American Bar Association;

Revius O. Ortique, Jr., president, National Bar Association; John W.
Cummiskey, vice president, National Legal Aid & Defender Associa-
tion; and Lowell R. Beck, staff members, Amercan Bar Association;
composing a panel___.

Richard Fulton, United Business Schools Association, presenting the state-

ment of Harrison Myers, Jr., Sawyer School of Business, Los Angeles,

Calif.

Alfred R. Seigle, chairman, board of directors, Crusade for Opportunity;

Rev. Charles Fahey, assistant director, Catholic Charities, Syracuse,

N.Y.; Mrs. Laura Reed, chairman, Westside Neighborhood Board; Miss

Evelyn Price, chairman, Eastside Neighborhood Board; Rev. Louis

Walker, chairman, Tallman Neighborhood Board; and Mrs. Minna

Buck, acting director, Crusade for Opportunity; comprising a panel----