[CHAPTER 302-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 4899]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, namely:

TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $454,500.

Salaries and expenses, Office of Secretary (national defense): For expenses necessary for the administration of the Davis-Bacon Act and Executive orders dealing with premium pay in war industries and for the work of the Wage Adjustment Board, pertaining to building construction contracts financed by Federal funds, including personal services in the District of Columbia, contract stenographic reporting services, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, travel expenses, and printing and binding, $100,000.

Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for other necessary expenses in the field, including contract stenographic reporting services, $834,600. Contingent expenses: For expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, for which appropriations for expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, Soap, sponges, laundry, not exceeding $1,000 for streetcar fares; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motortrucks; maintenance, operation, and repair of four motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles; freight and express charges; commercial and laborreporting services; postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals and, when authorized by the Secretary of Labor, dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $8,000; contract stenographic services; and teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $1,100); $170,050.

Traveling expenses: For traveling expenses under the Department of Labor, $1,061,800: Provided, That all funds transferred to the Department of Labor from any other department or agency under section 601 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (31 U. S. C. 686), and available for travel, and all funds appropriated for traveling expenses under this title, shall be available to reimburse employees at not to exceed 3 cents per mile for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field.

Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $268,900.

Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards: For salaries and other expenses, including purchase and distribution of reports, and of material for informational exhibits, in connection with the promotion of health, safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry, $171,300.

Salaries and expenses, safety and health program (national defense) For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to conduct a program of safety and health among employees engaged in national defense industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $169,200.

Salaries and expenses, Division of Labor Standards, Department of Labor (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to liquidate during the fiscal year 1945 the existing organization of the Working Conditions Service, including payment of accumulated and accrued annual leave of employees separated from the Government service due to the discontinuance of this Service; such travel as may be necessary to the accomplishment of the said liquidation; and the termination of existing leases for office space an indeterminate amount to be derived from the unexpended and unobligated balance of the appropriation made to the Division of Labor Standards (national defense) in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1944, approved December 23, 1943, not exceeding $40,000.

The appropriation under this title for traveling expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Division of Labor Standards when called by the Division of Labor Standards with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Division of Labor Standards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

Commissioners of Conciliation: For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (5 U. S. C. 611), including newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals, and not to exceed $88,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia,

Commissioners of Conciliation (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to perform conciliation services in situations growing out of employment in industries under the national defense program, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $1.721,000.

The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings, conferences, or conventions concerned with labor and industrial relations when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Salaries and expenses: For personal services including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typists in the District of Columbia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau; $1,312,300, of which amount not to exceed $1,160,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia.

The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in relation to the national security and defense, to perform the functions authorized by the Act of June 13, 1888, and other Acts (29 U. S. C. 1); to continue occupational outlook surveys throughout the United States; and to conduct studies relative to problems connected with labor likely to arise upon the termination of the existing emergent conditions in connection with defense activities throughout the United States, such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, including reimbursement to employees, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field, and printing and binding, and not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of experts without regard to the civil service and classification laws; $1,510,400.

CHILDREN'S BUREAU

Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; personal services, including experts and temporary assistants; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children's Bureau

and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses; $376,600, of which amount not to exceed $329,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

Salaries and expenses, child labor provisions, Fair Labor Standards Act: For all authorized and necessary expenses of the Children's Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals; and reimbursement to State and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, as authorized by section 11 of said Act; $255,000.

Salaries and expenses, maternal and child welfare: For all authorized and necessary administrative expenses of the Children's Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it by title V of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended, including personal services, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies; services; equipment; newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals; $420,800: Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this title shall be used to promulgate or carry out any instruction, order, or regulation relating to the care of obstetrical cases which discriminates between persons licensed under State law to practice obstetrics: Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not be so construed as to prevent any patient from having the services of any practitioner of her own choice, paid for out of this fund, so long as State laws are complied with.

Salaries and expenses, emergency maternity and infant care (national defense): For necessary expenses of the Children's Bureau in performing the duties imposed upon it in carrying out the program for emergency maternity and infant care, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise chargeable to the appropriations of the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $43,000.

Grants to States for emergency maternity and infant care (national defense): For grants to States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, to provide, in addition to similar services otherwise available, medical, nursing, and hospital maternity and infant care for wives and infants of enlisted men of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades in the armed forces of the United States and of Army aviation cadets, under allotments by the Secretary of Labor and plans developed and administered by State health agencies and approved by the Chief of the Children's Bureau, $42,800,000, of which not more than 22 per centum may be allotted to the States for administrative expenses from the date of this Act on the basis of need as determined by the Chief of the Children's Bureau: Provided, That the amount herein appropriated shall constitute one fund with the unexpended balance of amounts heretofore appropriated under this head.

Grants to States for maternal and child health services: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children, as author

ized in title V, part 1, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (42 U. S. C. 701), as amended, $5,820,000: Provided, That any allotment to a State pursuant to section 502 (b) shall not be included in computing for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of section 504 an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the State.

Grants to States for services for crippled children: For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve services for crippled children, as authorized in title V, part 2, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (42 U. S. C. 711), as amended, $3,870,000.

Grants to States for child-welfare services: For grants to States for the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children's Bureau, to cooperate with State public-welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening public-welfare services for the care of homeless or neglected children, or children in danger of becoming delinquent, as authorized in title V, part 3, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (42 U. S. C. 721), as amended, $1,510,000.

In the administration of title V of the Social Security Act, as amended, for the fiscal year 1945, payments to the States for any quarter of the fiscal year 1945 under parts 1, 2, and 3 may be made with respect to any State plan approved under such respective parts by the Chief of the Children's Bureau prior to or during such quarter, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any period prior to the quarter in which such plan is submitted to the Chief of the Children's Bureau for approval.

The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $11,000, for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the administration of work of the Children's Bureau under the Fair Labor Standards Act and under title V, parts 1, 2, and 3. of the Social Security Act, as amended, when called by the Children's Bureau with the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available also, in an amount not to exceed $6,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings related to the work of the Children's Bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor.

WOMEN'S BUREAU

Salaries and expenses: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau", approved June 5, 1920 (29 U. S. C. 11–16), including personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits; $189,600.

Salaries and expenses, Women's Bureau (national defense): For expenses necessary in carrying out and completing, in connection with national-defense activities, the provisions of the Act creating the Women's Bureau (29 U. S. C. 11-16), including items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses and travel, $55,000.

The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for expenses of attend