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forth in the budget for the fiscal year 1953: Provided, That not to
exceed $134,000 shall be available for administrative expenses (to be
computed on an accrual basis) of the Corporation, covering the cate-
gories set forth in the 1953 Budget estimates for such expenses.
[Total, Virgin Islands Corporation, $1,756,000.]

TITLE III-EMERGENCY FLOOD AND STORM

REPAIRS

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

EMERGENCY FLOOD AND STORM REPAIRS

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse applicable appropriations for the cost of personnel, supplies, and facilities, diverted for the repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of structures, buildings, or other facilities, including equipment, damaged or destroyed by flood or storm, $1,350,000, to remain available until June 30, 1953.

TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or 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 has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person 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 engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 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 or fund 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 substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided further, That in cases of emergency, caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage, persons may be employed for periods of not more than thirty days and be paid salaries and wages without the necessity of inquiring into their membership in any organization.

SEC. 402. (a) No part of the money appropriated by this Act to any department, agency, or corporation or made available for expenditure by any department, agency, or corporation which is in excess of 90 per centum of the amount required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates for personal services heretofore sub

$134,000 (corporate funds)

1, 350, 000

mitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1953 contemplated would be employed by such department, agency, or corporation during such fiscal year in the performance of

(1) function performed by a person designated as an information specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion picture expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or

(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons performing the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, editing, typing, duplicating or disseminating public information, publications or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine articles, photographs, motion picture and similar material, shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the functions described in (1) or (2).

(b) This section shall not apply to the preparation for publication of reports and maps resulting from authorized scientific and engineering investigations and surveys, to photography incident to the compilation and reproduction of maps and reports, or publications of the National Park Service, or to photocopying of permanent records for preservation.

SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation or authorization contained in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any incumbent appointed to any civil office or position which may become vacant during the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1952: Provided, That this inhibition shall not apply to—

(a) not to exceed 25 per centum of all vacancies;
(b) positions filled from within the department;

(c) offices or positions required by law to be filled by appointment of the President and with the advice and consent of the Senate;

(d) positions the personnel of which are engaged in health and safety, law enforcement, soil and moisture, and activities in the field, exclusive of administrative personnel not directly connected with such activities;

(e) seasonal and casual workers;

(f) employees of the Bureau of Mines;

(g) employees of the Geological Survey;
(h) employees in grades CPC 1, 2, and 3;

(i) salaries and expenses, Office of the Secretary;

(j) employees paid wholly from trust funds, or funds derived by transfer from trust accounts, or to employees paid from appropriation of, or measured by, receipts:

Provided further, That when the total number of personnel subject to this section has been reduced to 90 per centum of the total provided for in the budget estimates, such limitation may cease to apply and said 90 per centum shall become a ceiling for employment during the fiscal year 1953, and if exceeded at any time during fiscal year 1953 this provision shall again become operative.

SEC. 404. (a) No appropriation or authorization contained in this Act shall be available to pay—

(1) for travel of personnel,

(2) for personal services of personnel above basic rates, or (3) for transportation of things (other than mail), more than 90 per centum of the amount which the budget estimates heretofore submitted in connection with such appropriation or authorization contemplated would be expended therefrom for such purposes, respectively; and the total amount of each appropriation, any part of which is available for any such purpose, is hereby

reduced by an amount equal to 10 per centum of the amount requested in such budget estimates for such purpose, less an amount representing the reduction, if any, between the amount requested for personal services in budget estimates and the amount appropriated herein for such services.

(b) This section shall not apply to appropriations for—

(1) activities for health and safety, law enforcement, soil and moisture, and activities in the field, exclusive of administrative employees not directly connected with such activities;

(2) seasonal and casual workers;

(3) the Bureau of Mines;

(4) the Geological Survey;

(5) employees in grades CPC 1, 2, and 3;

(6) salaries and expenses, Office of the Secretary; and

(7) activities paid wholly from trust funds, or funds derived

by transfer from trust accounts, or to activities paid from appropriations of, or measured by, receipts.

This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1953".

Approved July 9, 1952.

NOTE.

Total, Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1953---

In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1953 carried in the foregoing annual appropriation act, the following additional amounts are available for the Interior Department for such fiscal year:

Permanents and indefinites (general and special accounts (pp. 516-520))

Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953 (pp. 237, 251).

$541, 729, 845

$69, 735, 395
3,727, 500

[blocks in formation]

Grand total, Department of the Interior exclusive of trust funds under permanent appropriations

For trust funds, see pp. 516-520.

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LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY APPROPRIATION

ACT, 1953

[PUBLIC LAW 452-82D CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 575-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 7151]

By the Act making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal
Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1953, and for other purposes, approved July 5, 1952.

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, 1953, namely:

TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary), including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase of not to exceed one passenger motor vehicle (at not to exceed $3,000) for replacement only; teletype news service; and payment in advance when authorized by the Secretary for dues or fees for library membership in organizations whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; $1,376,000

[For increase in limitation on amount available for purchase of am automobile, see p. 235.]

[For appropriation for 1953 for Defense Production Activities, see p. 251.] Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor: For expenses necessary for the Office of the Solicitor, $1,764,600: Provided, That the compensation of the Solicitor shall be $14,800 per annum.

Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Standards: For expenses necessary for the promotion of industrial safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry; performance of safety functions of the Secretary under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U. S. C. 784 (c)); performance of the functions vested in the Secretary by title I of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 159 (f) and (g)); and not to exceed $75,000 for the work of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, as authorized by the Act of July 11, 1949 (63 Stat. 409), including purchase of reports and of material for informational exhibits; and expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Standards; $624,000. Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment Rights: For expenses necessary to render assistance in connection with the exercise of reemployment rights under section 8 of the Selective Train

$1,376,000

1,764, 600

624,000

ing and Service Act of 1940, as amended (50 U. S. C., App. 308), the
Service Extension Act of 1941, as amended, the Army Reserve and
Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940, as amended, and section 9 of
the Universal Military Training and Service Act, and, under the Act
of June 23, 1943, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 1472), of persons who
have performed service in the Merchant Marine, $285,700-
[Total, Office of the Secretary, $4,050,300.]

BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training, as authorized by the Act of August 16, 1937 (29 U.S. C. 50), $2,700,000-

BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the general administration of the employment service and unemployment compensation programs, including temporary employment of persons, without regard to the civil-service laws, for the farm placement migratory labor program; for cooperation with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Secretary of State in negotiating and carrying out agreements relating to the employment of foreign agricultural workers, subject to the immigration laws and when necessary to supplement the domestic labor force; and not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $4,983,000, of which $1,100,000 shall be for carrying into effect the provisions of title IV (except section 602) of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.

Grants to States for unemployment compensation and employment service administration: For grants in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended (29 U. S. C. 49-49n), for carrying into effect section 602 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, for grants to the States as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 501-503), including, upon the request of any State, the purchase of equipment and the payment of rental for space made available to such State in lieu of grants for such purpose, and for necessary expenses in connection with the operation of employment office facilities and services in the District of Columbia, $183,560,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be available only to the extent that the Secretary finds necessary to meet increased costs of administration resulting from changes in a State law or increases in the numbers of claims filed and claims paid or salary costs over those upon which the State's basic grant (or the allocation for the District of Columbia) was based, which increased costs of administration cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 302 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, the Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State found to be in compliance with the requirements of the Act of June 6, 1933, and, except in the case of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the provisions of section 303 of the Social Security Act, as amended, such amounts as he determines to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of its unemployment compensation law and of its public employment offices: Provided further, That such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and the Post. Office Department shall be used for the payment, in such manner as said parties may jointly determine, of postage for the transmission

$285, 700

2,700,000

4, 983, 000

183, 560,000

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