Y4. Ap6/2: L11/956 WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1956 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 5046 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1956 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 5046 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF 62284 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1955 LABOR-HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1956 MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1955 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in room R-82, the Capitol, Hon. Lister Hill (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Hill, Chavez, Stennis, Hayden, Thye, Dworshak, and Potter. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENTS OF JAMES P. MITCHELL, SECRETARY OF LABOR; ARTHUR LARSON, UNDER SECRETARY; J. ERNEST WILKINS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS; JAMES E. DODSON, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT SECRETARY; AND V. S. HUDSON, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN Senator HILL. The committee will kindly come to order. We happen to have with us this morning, gentlemen, Secretary of Labor Mitchell. He has with him, Under Secretary Arthur Larson; Mr. Wilkins, Assistant Secretary for International Labor Affairs; James E. Dodson, Administrative Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Hudson, Assistant Administrative Assistant Secretary. The budget estimates for the Department of Labor amount to a total of $470,116,000, not including the annual indefinite appropriation for the employees' compensation fund estimated to require $44,700,000 in the coming year. The House allowed $417,792,000, a reduction of $52,323,100, or 11.12 percent, under the estimate. Of the reduction, $50 million was made in two accounts, $30 million in "unemployment compensation for veterans" and $20 million in "unemployment compensation for Federal employees." It seems though that the Congress is obligated in view of the authorizing statutes to provide whatever funds are required to pay these benefits to the returning unemployed veteran and to the unemployed Federal employee. And of the total estimate for $470,116,000 for the Department, there is budgeted for grants, subsidies and contributions $439,701,179, or 93.53 percent of the total request, which embraces grants to States |