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The hearings are open and public, in striking contrast to the policy of sectecy followed by a House subcommittee, and the probability is that the Senate group will vote to restore many services knocked ont two weeks ago by the House. What the House did is never- theless instructive in revealing the an- tagonism of the Republican, * ‘economy bloc.” The House voted, at the recommen- dation of its Appropriations Committee, to cut $13,714,000 from the $31,850,- 000 proposed by President Truman for operating expenses of the Labor Depart- tment. This represented a 43-percent re- duction, The House also voted a virtual 50-percent cut in funds for the NLRB— a reduction which provoked ¢ expressions of disbelief. and despair from Republi- can Senators with intimate knowledge of industrial relations. A ‘ bureau-by- bureau breakdown is sufficient to show the homicidal spirit in which the “econ- omy bloc” functioned. HE NLRB. — The NLRB, which has the duty of administering the Wagner Act, asked $10 million from the Bureau of the Budget. The agency already is struggling under a backlog of 5,500 cases and strikes have occurred because the overburdened staff cannot process these cases with reasonable promptness. The Budget Bureau cut the NLRB figure to $8 million and the House cut it to $4 million. The effect of this cut, if sustained, would be to force the NLRB to reduce its staff from the 1,000 employed last June to 675. The cases going to the NLRB jumped enormously after the | War Labor Board was jettisoned by President Truman and the. agency’s funds for the current year were inade- quate to carry the new load. Bills now pending in both Houses would expand the NLRB’s function to cover jurisdic- tional strikes and some kinds of second- ary boycotts. How the Board can aug- ment its services and cut down its back- log of cases with reduced funds is a “ mnystery not explained by the House. in DEPARTMENT. — The services . most drastically attacked by the; House were the US Employment Service, the Wage-Hour ‘Division, the Division of Labor Standards, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Conciliation Service. The Employment Service was ridi- culed and berated in the secret hearings of the Appropriations subcommittee. A requested $3,913,000 was slashed to $900,000, leaving only enough money to do the bookkeeping on grants of $72 million to the several states. Eliminated by the House were the Bureau’s functions in codrdinating state practices - in employment agencies, in maintaining a national list of job oppor- tunities for scientific personnel, in,fur- nishing 1,800 state agencies with infor-. mation on job opportunities, demand dictionary of occupational titles—a clas- sification of occupations and job titles used by management and labor in’ bar- gaining and by state employment offices. The Wage-Hour Division, which en- forces the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Walsh-Healey Act, was cut 25 per- cent in the House bill. Regional offices would have to be cut from 13 to nine and the inspection service of the divi- sion reduced 25 percent. If such cuts in funds are coupled with enactment of the pending drastic portal-pay bills, admin-. istration of the wage-hour law will be out the window. Its repeal would be a more honest alternative. The Division of Labor Standards, which compiles information on safety regulations, state labor and workmen’s- compensation laws and collective-bar- gaining practices, would be wiped out by the House bill. A program in workers’ education—designed to give training for collective bargaining—would be trans- ferred to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. and supply. Also eliminated was the ~ artnet at _ —_ a be bo 4 co: th: Pa. aft shc tio) circ anc unc knc tot a si wat app ans\ afte fede nam