reported the bill, with amendments, to the House (H. Rept. 181) on March 17 and requested a rule. A resolution introduced by the chairman to consider this bill was adopted by the House. H.R. 3584, with committee amendments, passed the House on June 1, 1965.

The bill would require coal mines now exempt from the act (mines employing 14 or fewer workers underground) to comply with the safety provisions of the act.

Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1965

On May 18, 1965, Chairman Powell introduced H.R. 8259, the administration's recommendations for amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (identical bills by Mr. Roosevelt, H.R. 8260, and Mr. Dent, H.R. 8261). The subcommittee commenced hearings on these proposals, and all bills pending before the committee to amend the act. Included among these were H.R. 1022 by Mr. Gilbert to increase the minimum wage rate to $2 an hour; H.R. 1149 by Mr. Roosevelt to provide for a 35-hour workweek; H.R. 1546 by Mr. Holland to provide for a 32-hour workweek; H.R. 8093 by Mr. Dent to increase the minimum wage percentage applicable to handicapped workers employed in sheltered workshops; and H.R. 8109 by Mr. Roosevelt to establish a minimum wage rate for persons employed in agriculture and extend the child labor provisions of the act to certain children in agriculture and for other purposes.

The subcommittee held 28 days of hearings on these proposals, receiving testimony from almost 100 witnesses and more than 100 additional statements and supplemental material which were inserted into the four volumes of official hearing record.

After several days of executive sessions the subcommittee, on August 4, 1965, reported to the full committee a clean bill, H.R. 10275, which reflected substantial amendments made to H.R. 8259. The full committee reported a further amended bill, H.R. 10518 to the House on August 25, 1965 (H. Rept. 871). A rule was requested on August 25, but no hearings were scheduled by the Rules Committee. Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965

Messrs. Roosevelt and Reid introduced two identical bills, H.R. 8998 and H.R. 8999, designed to strengthen and improve the enforcement procedures of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (equal employment opportunity). The subcommittee held 1 day of hearings on these bills. Subsequent to that hearing Chairman Powell introduced a bill to more effectively achieve the purposes of the first two bills. Introduction of Mr. Powell's bill, H.R. 9222, was accompanied by the introduction of 15 identical bills by members of the committee and two bills by other House members.

The subcommittee held 3 days of hearings on H.R. 9222, and on July 26, 1965, reported the bill, with amendments, to the full committee. The full committee reported the amended bill as a clean bill H.R. 10065 by Mr. Hawkins, on August 3, 1965 (H. Rept. 718). A rule was requested on August 3, but no hearings were held by the Rules Committee. House Resolution 506, a 21-day resolution, introduced by Chairman Powell on August 9, was passed on September 13, 1965, placing the bill before the House for future consideration.

Permissible uses of jointly administered union trust funds

On August 5 the subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 7720, by Mr. Dent. The bill would amend section 302 (c) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, to permit the participation of retired employees of employers, employees of certain labor organizations, and employees of certain trust funds, as well as certain self-employed persons to participate as beneficiaries of welfare and pension trust funds.

On August 31, 1965, the subcommittee reported the bill, with amendments, H.R. 10774, to the full committee and on September 20, 1965, the full committee reported the bill to the House (H. Rept. 1039). H.R. 10774 passed the House on October 5, 1965, under suspension of rules.

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR

During the 1st session of the 89th Congress this subcommittee has been responsible for seven bills which have been reported to the House of Representatives by the Committee on Education and Labor.

Five of these bills have been sent to the President. Of the remaining two bills, one is pending in the Rules Committee; one is pending in the Senate.

Arts and humanities

One bill, H.R. 4714, making a technical amendment to the National Cultural Development Act of 1964, was considered directly by the Committee on Education and Labor by unanimous consent, without prior formal action by the subcommittee. This became Public Law 89-125.

At the beginning of the 89th Congress, more than 100 bills were introduced relating to the humanities and the arts. Hearings were scheduled on these bills and a first, so far as the Committee on Education and Labor was concerned, was established.

The initial hearing, when Government witnesses were scheduled, was conducted jointly with the Special Subcommittee on the Arts and the Humanities of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. One other joint hearing was conducted. Witness schedules were coordinated with those of the Senate counterpart so that those experts coming from out of town appeared before both subcommittees on the same day.

During the course of the hearings the two subcommittee chairmen, acting together, requested the President to submit a draft bill. This was done. Further hearings were conducted, and the subcommittee approved the bill, which was later amended by the full committee, emerging as H.R. 9460. This bill was enacted by the House on September 15, as an amendment to S. 1483. The Senate accepted the House amendments and sent the act to the President, who signed it into law (Public Law 89-209) on September 29, 1965.

This legislation was a landmark act. The first proposal for Federal support of the arts was made in 1826.

Repeal of section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley

The subcommittee managed the first major change in the Nation's basic labor law since 1947. H.R. 77, introduced on January 3, and other identical and similar bills, proposed the repeal of section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended. This section per

mits States to enact laws prohibiting the so-called union shop to be a matter for collective bargaining between management and labor.

Extensive hearings were conducted on H.R. 77 and related bills, which, when published, required 1,107 pages. The subcommittee and the full committee reported the bill, H.R. 77, without amendment. On July 26 the House adopted a rule, using the new 21-day procedures of the rules of the House, and thereafter the bill was debated for 5 hours. It was passed on July 28, on a record vote, after a motion to recommit was defeated. H.R. 77 is pending in the Senate. Common situs picketing

When the National Labor Relations Act was originally enacted it did not apply to the construction industry. When the amendments to the act embodied in the Taft-Hartley Act were adopted in 1947, the act was extended to the construction industry.

Soon thereafter, in Denver, Colo., the members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers picketed an entire building construction project (an office building) because the electrical subcontractor employed nonunion workers. The National Labor Relations Board ruled that this action violated the prohibition against secondary boycotts contained in section 8(b) (4) of Taft-Hartley. Subsequently many efforts have been made to change the wording so that common situs picketing, at a construction project, is not a true secondary boycott.

This subcommittee conducted hearings on H.R. 6411 and related bills. Following hearings, the subcommittee reported a bill, with amendments. During full committee consideration, the bill was further amended. These amendments were reflected in H.R. 10027, which was reported to the House on September 21. A rule was requested. It is pending.

Service Contract Act

During the past 20 years the practice has grown, on the part of Government and private industry, of contracting out many housekeeping chores, i.e. janitorial, maintenance, food service, stevedoring, and the like. There has been no statutory provision that has required the Federal Government, in its contracting policies, to protect local or area working standards, other than the universal application of the 8-hour law. Construction projects are protected under the Davis-Bacon Act; contracts for the procurement of supplies are protected by the Walsh-Healey Act.

The subcommittee reviewed this problem in depth during the 88th Congress and reported a bill, which died with the Congress. This year a new bill, H.R. 10238, with administration endorsement, was submitted. It was heard, amended, and enacted under suspension of the rules on September 7. The Senate approved the bill, with an amendment, on October 1. The House accepted the Senate amendment on October 6, and sent the bill to the President. Signed October 21 (Public Law 89-286).

Deaf

The subcommittee managed two bills designed to improve educational opportunities for the deaf. The first bill, H.R. 7031, authorizes the establishment of a National Technical Institute for the Deaf. This is designed to provide postsecondary, technical training for the

deaf, whose only other postsecondary educational opportunity is provided at Gallaudet College, the only such school in the world, which has limited facilities and offers only liberal arts curriculum.

This bill was heard on April 27, reported to the full committee with technical amendments on April 29, and reported to the House on May 6. It was passed by the House under suspension on May 17; by the Senate on May 26; and signed (Public Law 89-36) by the President on June 8.

The other bill considered expands and enriches the program of providing captioned films for the deaf. Hearings on H.R. 10158 and H.R. 10768 and related bills were conducted on September 14, and H.R. 10768 was immediately reported to the full committee. On September 20, the committee reported an identical Senate bill, S. 2232, which the House passed and sent to the President on October 5, under suspension. Signed into law October 19 (Public Law 89-258).

SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR

The Select Subcommittee on Labor held 22 days of hearings during the 1st session of the 89th Congress. It considered four subjects and reported two bills, one of which passed the House and one which became law. In addition, the subcommittee held four joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Employment and Manpower of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. The subject of this set of hearings was the 1965 Manpower Report of the President.

Manpower Development and Training Act

Mr. Holland introduced H.R. 4257, to amend the Manpower Development and Training Act, on February 3. An identical bill was introduced by Chairman Powell. H.R. 4270 by Mr. Perkins, to provide 100-percent Federal financing, was also considered. After 8 days of hearings and one executive session, H. R. 4257 was reported with amendments to the committee on February 24. On March 15, H.R. 4257 was reported with amendments to the House (H. Rept. 170).

The bill extends full Federal financing for 1 year and requires after that a 10-percent, non-Federal contribution, in cash or in kind, to the costs of training programs, other than the costs of training allowances which are still federally financed. Training was extended to 104 weeks. Area Redevelopment Act training programs were brought under MDTA.

A rule was granted on March 25. The bill passed the House, amended, on April 1 by a vote of 392 to 0. S. 974, a companion bill passed by the Senate on March 16, was substituted for it and passed the House. Members of the committee participated in a conference on S. 974, and the agreed-upon compromise bill (which extends the act to June 30, 1969) was accepted in both Houses in April. On April 26 it became Public Law 89-15.

Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act

H.R. 6961, to promote health and safety in metal and nonmetallic mineral industries, was introduced by Mr. O'Hara on March 31. A companion bill was introduced by Mr. Clevenger. Five days of hearings were held in May, and the bill was reported to the committee on May 13. The bill provides for Federal inspection by the Interior Department of metallic and nonmetallic mines, expansion of health

and safety education of mineworkers, establishment of advisory boards to develop codes of health and safety standards, and establishes mandatory standards dealing with major hazards and the reporting of health and safety information. The bill also provides for assumption of jurisdiction by the States if the State agency submits a plan meeting standards set forth in the bill.

A clean bill was ordered reported to the House on June 24. The bill was reconsidered by the committee on July 8 and reported to the House with amendments (H.R. 8989) on July 8 (H. Rept. 606). The bill was considered by the Rules Committee on July 29 and August 12, a rule being granted on the 12th. H.R. 8989 passed the House, amended, by a voice vote on September 2.

Employment problems of the older worker

The subcommittee began a series of hearings on the employment problems of the older American worker. This was in part a response to the report of the Secretary of Labor entitled "The Older American Worker: Age Discrimination in Employment" and to several measures, referred to the subcommittee, to prohibit unjustifiable discrimination in employment on grounds of age, to establish a Bureau of Older Workers in the Department of Labor, and to provide grants to private nonprofit organizations engaged in assisting older workers to find employment. Mr. Holland introduced H.R. 10634, to establish a National Commission on Older Workers, and a companion bill was introduced by Mr. O'Hara (H.R. 10635).

Five days of hearings were held, and hearings were adjourned on September 29 subject to the call of the Chair.

Federal Employees' Compensation Act

The subcommittee held 4 days of hearings (September 8, 14, 15, and 16) on H.R. 10721, by Mr. Hathaway, a bill to amend the Federal Employees' Compensation Act by increasing payments, raising ceilings on payments, and providing for continued benefits to and on account of dependent children still receiving an education. In addition to H.R. 10721, which embodied Labor Department proposals, the subcommittee considered H.R. 10865 by Mr. O'Hara, and a number of other bills to amend the Compensation Act. Executive sessions were held on September 28 (an informal meeting) and October 13. A final executive session was called for October 14, but was canceled because of the absence of a quorum. The subcommittee expects to be able to report a bill to the committee early in the next session.