Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.—Continued Martin, Mrs. Pat, St. Louis, Mo., letter to Chairman Hawkins, dated Page 213 275 220 Moore, Ms. Lyvonne, St. Louis, Mo., re: Postal Service- 206 187 O'Neill, Hon. Thomas P., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the Phillips, Charles M., executive director, Wisconsin Catholic Con- ference, presented by Sr. Lois Vanderbeke, O.P., prepared statement Pinckney, John, University City, Mo., prepared statement of Pines, Lois, State representative from Newton, Mass., prepared state- Rosenbloom, David L., on behalf of Hon. Kevin White: Table I. Direct cost of unemployment in the city of Boston---- Rensberger, Billie, "Analysis of ADC Program," an article.. Residents of 2929 W. Orchard Street who support Hon. Henry Reuss and Hon. August Hawkins' employment bill, H.R. 50- Reuss, Hon. Henry S., a Representative in Congress from the State Letters received relating to The Equal Opportunity and Full Arnold, S. Margaret Ann, Milwaukee, October 7, 1975- Bares, S. Vera, Kensoha, Wis., October 6, 1975- Barkoviak, Sister Nancy, Milwaukee.. 270 285 285 Mather, Sister Lauretta, Milwaukee, October 14, 1975. Sibbel, Sister Laurissa, Central Provincial Unit, School Sis- ters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, October 7, 1975. Stickney, Father William D., St. Stephen's Episcopal Parish, St. Louis, Mo., letter to Chairman Hawkins and Hon. William Clay, Thurow, Lester C., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- 296 Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.-Continued Underwood, Brenda, American Indian Cultural Center, prepared Williams, Lorene, president, O'Fallon Community Corp., P.O. Box Williams, Robert, St. Louis Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, prepared statement of.. Williams, Sister Regina, Justice and Peace Center, petition for sup- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND FULL EMPLOYMENT Part 4 MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1975 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Milwaukee, Wis. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 390, Federal Courthouse, 517 East Wisconsin Avenue, the Hon. Augustus F. Hawkins (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Members present: Representatives Hawkins, Clay, and Buchanan. Also present: Representative Reuss. Staff members present: William Higgs, legislative assistant; Nat Semple, minority legislative associate; and Carole Schanzer, clerk. Mr. HAWKINS. The Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor is called to order. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the ninth day of a series of hearings that this subcommittee has held on H.R. 50, the Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act, which was initially introduced by Congressman Henry Reuss and myself in the present session of Congress and it is currently sponsored by 109 other Members of Congress. A similar bill, S. 50, has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Hubert Humphrey and is coauthored by five other Senators. For those in the audience who may not be familiar with H. R. 50, which is commonly called the full employment bill, let me just say it is a bill that would guarantee all adult American citizens the right to a job at adequate wages under decent conditions of work. It mobilizes both the executive branch and Congress to accomplish this objective through explicit implementing machinery. [Text of H.R. 50 with amendments follow:] [Print of H.R. 50 with amendments] A BILL To establish and guarantee the rights of all adult Americans able and willing to work to equal opportunities for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation; to mandate such national policies and programs as may be necessary to guarantee the free exercise of these rights; to provide explicit executive, legislative, and judicial machinery for the development and implementation of such policies and programs; to supplement the Employment Act of 1946 by relating the attainment and maintenance of genuine full employment to the restraint of inflation, the enlargement of social justice, the promotion of small business and competitive private enterprise, and other essential national purposes and priorities; and within this framework to provide for emergency action to help combat the present recession through vigorous programs to attain full employment without inflation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (1) SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act". INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby declares and establishes the right of all adult Americans able and willing to work to equal opportunities for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation. (b) The free exercise of this right by every American, regardless of sex, age, race, color, religion, or national origin, is essential to personal liberties, individual development, the prevention of inflationary shortages and bottlenecks, and the well-being of families, organizations, the national economy, and society as a whole. (c) Only under conditions of genuine full employment and confidence in its continuation is it easier to eliminate the bias, prejudice, discrimination, and fear which have resulted in unequal employment under unequal conditions of women, older people, younger people, members of racial, ethnic, national or religious minorities, veterans, the physically or mentally handicapped, former drug addicts and released convicts. (d) To the extent that Americans may not be able to exercise this right, (1) the country is deprived of the larger supply of goods and services made available under conditions of genuine full employment, of the trained labor power prepared to produce needed goods and services, and of the larger tax revenues received at all levels of government, without any changes in tax rates, under conditions of genuine full employment, (2) inflationary shortages and bottlenecks are created, (3) the job security, wages, salaries, working conditions, and productivity of employed people are impaired, (4) acute social conflicts are created among the many employees faced with imminent layoffs and among the many competitors for the small supply of existing job vacancies, (5) both pre-employed younger people and older people wanting to return to paid employment see their future prospects diminished or destroyed, (6) many small or competitive business enterprises are driven into bankruptcy or merger by declining markets and deepening recession, (7) families are disrupted, (8) individuals are deprived of self-respect and status in society, (9) physical and mental breakdown, drug addiction, and crime are promoted, and (10) Federal, State, and local governments are forced to expand their direct expenditures for unemployment compensation, public assistance, other forms of income maintenance and for remedial and protective services in the fields of criminal justice, drug addiction, and physical and mental health. (e) It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to enforce this right by (1) providing for whatever emergency action may be required to combat a current recession or depression and prevent the recurrence of such conditions, (2) developing and administering immediate, short-term and long-term policies and programs to attain and maintain genuine full employment, (3) relating genuine full employment to America's larger national purposes and priorities, (4) providing appropriate encouragement for full employment policies and programs by private enterprise, nonprofit agencies and State and local governments, and (5) establishing administrative and judicial appeals machinery available to any adult American who feels that he or she has been denied the exercise of the right conferred by this section. (f) The objectives of national policy set forth in this section shall be binding on all executive agencies and independent commissions established by Federal statute, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Such other national economic goals as price stability and a favorable balance of payments shall be pursued without qualifying, limiting, compromising, or undermining the rights and guarantees established in this Act. FULL EMPLOYMENT AND NATIONAL PURPOSES The Full Employment and National Purposes Budget SEC. 3. (a) In his or her Economic Report to the Congress required not later than January 20 of each year (15 U.S.C. 1021) or within 60 days of the passage of this Act whichever is the later, the President shall transmit, in updated form from year to year, a Full Employment and National Purposes Budget (herein |