The Department of Labor and Industry

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Identifikator:: 1827881585

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221260

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The Department of Labor and Industry

Place of publication:: Harrisburg

Publisher:: Dep. of Labor and Industry

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 68 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Bureau of rehabilitation

Collection:: Economics Books

BUREAU OF REHABILITATION The Bureau of Rehabilitation was ereated for the purpose of rehabilitating, or rendering, physically handicapped persons fit to engage in remunerative oceupations. Pennsylvania, as a Commonwealth, recognized in 1919 the necessity for restoring to useful productive activity and self-supporting efforts, so far as pos- sible, the vietims of the thousands of accidents oe- curring annually in its industries. That realization followed the efforts of all nations, engaged in the great war, to ac- complish similar results for the battle and disease victims of national hostilities. The wounded and disabled eivilians in industry exceed, in any great industrial community, over a period of years, the numbers from such community disabled in armed conflict. That condition is particularly true of Pennsylvania with its coal mines, great iron and steel mills, and extensive transportation lines. ““Rehabilitation’’ was chosen as the title of the bureau created in the Department of Labor and Industry during the legislative session of 1919, following the enactment, in 1915, of workmen’s compensation legislation, for the benefit of industrial accident victims. The Bureau of Rehabilitation was not ereated to dole charity or relief payments to disabled persons; it was not intended to attempt to restore to occupational activity, aged or helpless persons requiring sustodial care, blind or deaf persons under the care of any State or semi-State institutions, epilepties, feeble-minded persons, or any per- son not susceptible, physically and mentally to occupational rehabilita- tion. Consequently, the legislative intent of the Act was plain. The Bureau of Rehabilitation is to confine its efforts toward restoring to useful occupations persons physically handicapped, whose handicaps, however, are not so severe as to render them incapable of performing suitable, if specialized, tasks. The purpose of the legislation, although evidently humanitarian, was primarily economic. It was to coordinate under State auspices the many similar efforts toward rehabilitation by individual disabled persons, relief organizations, employers and employes. An Act of Congress, which became effective June 2, 1920, by ap- proval of the President, recognized rehabilitation as a national issue, and granted Federal aid to the States in total amount of $1,000,000 a year, such portion going to each State as the population of such State compared with the total population of the whole country, with the further proviso that the States must formally accept such Federal funds and expend for the same purpose an amount equal to that ex- pended from Federal funds. Pennsylvania accepted the Federal co- operation by legislation in 1921. WHAT CAN THE BUREAU OF REHABILITATION DO? William S. Crozier Director The legislation in Pennsylvania, for the restoration of its disabled »itizens to useful activity, empowers the Bureau of Rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Industry: 10

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