latter Act, $308,817,000, of which $33,916,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That such total amount shall be available until expended for making payments required under said retirement Acts, and the amount not required for current payments shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of said Railroad Retirement Act of June 24, 1937. This title may be cited as the "Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1945". TITLE VII-EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION General administration: For all necessary expenses for the general administration of the War Manpower Commission, including not to exceed $10,000 for the employment of aliens, not to exceed $406,000 for printing and binding, and not to exceed $1,739,800 for travel expenses, $16,036,250. APPRENTICE TRAINING SERVICE Apprentice training service: For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training, including printing and binding (not to exceed $9,000), and travel expenses (not to exceed $77,700), $593,500. Apprentice training service (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training in national defense industries, including printing and binding (not to exceed $4,500), and travel expenses (not to exceed $92,600), $637,700. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE FACILITIES AND SERVICES Employment office facilities and services: For all necesssary expenses of the War Manpower Commission in connection with the operation and maintenance of employment office facilities and services, and the performance of functions, duties, and powers relating to employment service transferred to the War Manpower Commmission by Executive Order Numbered 9247, including the recruitment and placement of individuals for work or training in occupations essential to the war effort; such expenses to include contract janitorial services, at not to exceed $300 for any individual; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for official travel performed by employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official station; printing and binding (not to exceed $146,000); travel expenses (not to exceed $2,268,000); and rent in the District of Columbia: Provided, That payment of salaries may be made to employees while taking annual and sick leave based upon unused leave accrued under State regulations found by the Social Security Board to conform to the requirements of title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, and on the basis of State employment which had been financed in whole or in part from grants under title III of said Act, including payment for accrued leave to be substituted for leave without pay taken between January 1, 1942, and June 30, 1942, which payment shall not exceed in any case the amount payable for such purposes under Federal laws with respect to the maximum accumulation of such leave: Provided further, That the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission may transfer funds from this appropriation to the Social Security Board for "grants to States for unemployment compensation administration" as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended, to meet costs incurred by States in making available to the War Manpower Commission premises, equipment, supplies, facilities, and services, needed by the Commission in the operation and maintenance of employment office facilities and services, any sum so transferred and not expended in accordance with this proviso to be retransferred to this appropriation, $57,968,079: Provided further, That pending the return to State control after the war emergency of the Employment Service facilities, property, and personnel loaned by the States to the United States Employment Service, no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for any salary, to any individual engaged in employment-service duties in any position within any local or field or State office, which substantially exceeds the salary which would apply to such position and individual if the relevant State merit system applied and if State operation of such office had continued without interruption: Provided further, That no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for the salary of any person who is engaged for more than half of the time, as determined by the State director of unemployment compensation, in the administration of the State unemployment compensation act, including claims taking but excluding registration for work. TRAINING-WITHIN-INDUSTRY SERVICE Training-within-industry service, War Manpower Commission (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to promote and facilitate on-thejob training and maximum utilization of workers by industries and activities essential to the war by affording training to supervisory personnel; including the temporary employment of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for official travel performed by employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; printing and binding (not to exceed $37,600); and travel expenses (not to exceed $360,000); $2,000,000. Migration of workers: To enable the War Manpower Commission to provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman of said Commission for the temporary migration of workers from foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere (pursuant to agreements between the United States and such foreign countries), for employment in the continental United States with industries and services essential to the war effort, including the transportation of such workers from points outside the United States to ports of entry of the United States and return (including transportation from place of employment in the United States to port of entry of the United States in any case of default by an employer to provide such transportation to a worker, in which event the employer shall be liable to the United States for the cost thereof), cost of temporary maintenance of workers in reception centers in foreign countries and in the United States, when necessary, reasonable subsistence and emergency medical care of such workers.from the time of reporting for transportation to the United States or return to the country of origin until arrival at the destination, necessary assistance to meet emergency health and welfare problems while in the United States, when such assistance is not otherwise available to such persons, and guaranties of employment while in the United States to the extent agreed upon with the foreign country from which the workers are imported, $2,465,000, of which not to exceed $123,000 shall be available for all administrative expenses necessary for the foregoing, including not to exceed $12,000 for temporary employment of administrative personnel outside continental United States, not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding outside continental United States without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111), and not to exceed $25,800 for travel expenses: Provided, That no transportation of workers shall be allowed hereunder unless the employer and the worker have entered into a contract for employment approved by said Chairman or his designee, and unless said Chairman certifies that reasonably adequate use is being made of local labor supply: Provided further, That this appropriation shall remain available after June 30, 1945, for the purpose of fulfilling guaranties and other obligations theretofore incurred with respect to such foreign workers and for all other purposes connected with the protection and ultimate return of any workers theretofore transported: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the recruitment or transportation of workers for employment in agriculture. SEC. 702. The general provisions under the caption "Executive Office of the President-Office for Emergency Management", contained in the National War Agencies Appropriation Act, 1945, and applicable to the constituent agencies of the Office for Emergency Management contained therein and the general provisions in such Act applicable to all agencies therein shall be applicable in the same manner to the War Manpower Commission and the appropriations therefor contained in this title. SEC. 703. This title may be cited as the "War Manpower Commission Appropriation Act, 1945". TITLE VIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 801. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person. SEC. 802. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in subsitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 803. No part of any appropriation for training of defense workers contained in this Act shall be available for obligation for a period longer than sixty days after cessation of hostilities in the present war. SEC. 804. If at any time during the fiscal year 1945 the termination of the Act entitled "An Act to provide temporary additional compensation for employees in the Postal Service", approved April 9, 1943, or of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of overtime compensation to Government employees, and for other purposes", approved May 7, 1943, shall be fixed by concurrent resolution of the Congress at a date earlier than June 30, 1945, the appropriations contained in this Act shall cease to be available on such earlier date for obligation for the purposes of the terminated Act and the unobligated portions of appropriations allocated for the purposes of such terminated Act shall not be obligated for any other purposes of the appropriation during the fiscal year 1945. SEC. 805. This Act may be cited as the "Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1945”. [CHAPTER 303-2D SESSION] [H. R. 4967] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Military Establishment 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 Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes namely: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of War shall not be authorized to sell any military post, or reservation, nor part thereof, acquired or owned by the United States prior to July 2, 1940, nor shall he declare any such military post, or reservation, nor any part thereof, surplus for disposition by any other officer, board or commission: Provided further, That this prohibition shall not apply to nor prevent the transfer of real estate or other property to the Veterans' Administration for the care and treatment of veterans or to the Navy Department; * |