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condition. That is our common anxiety. Tt is our common obligation.
 It is our common necessity. And now, gentlemen, who has
presented to you yet how this bill undertakes to remedy that condition
 by its terms? What is this bill? What does it propose to do?
What machinery does it set up? Upon what theory does it proceed
to operate?
I want to lay down, if I may, four propositions with regard to it.
First, that it is unauthorized use of the power of appropriation to
control and regulate the internal police policy of the individual States
with respect to the establishment and operation of public and indirectly
 of private employment agencies.
The Cuarrman. You are now discussing 30607?
Mr. Emery. 3060 only, sir. To that alone shall I address myself.
The bill confers upon the Federal bureau and an executive officer
unprecedented authority to control the use of appropriation in order
to substantially establish and determine the policy of the States with
respect to the operation of their employment agencies and the placement
 and movement of labor through standards and regulations
exclusively prescribed by such Federal official and bureau.
And third, the policy proposed under the guise of cooperation
asserts the right and intention to coerce the individual States into
the acceptance of Federal policies as to the operation of their employment
 agencies by establishing such agencies within the States, whether
or not they are desired. Furthermore, such agencies are authorized
to be established and maintained in competition and conflict with
existing State agencies whenever such States do not agree to accept
and operate under the prescribed Federal policy.
And fourth, the policy of this bill is in plain contradiction with the
unanimous recommendation of the President’s Conference on Employment,
 September 26 to October 13, 1921, the Committee on Business
Cycles and Employment, the report of the Committee on Business
Cycles and Employment being a subcommittee of said conference, and
the recommendations of the Senate Committee on Education and
Labor investigating the causes and remedies for unemployment, report
No. 2072, Seventieth Congress, second session, February 25, 1929.
Now, Mr. Chairman, that I may not disappoint the distinguished
gentleman who addressed you a few moments ago, let me say that substantially
 none of the objections which he anticipated I should make
to you are those which I hope to present, and I desire to deal with the
utmost frankness with this committee with regard to the viewpoint
of the associations that I represent. If this were merely a proposal
to provide for the appropriation and support of a Federal employment
system which undertook to secure the cooperation of employment
agencies operating within the State, public in their nature, to coordinate
 these in order to secure more accurate, more timely and more
relevent information with respect to the State of employment in the
United States, we should be here to support and not to criticize the
existing proposal. But that, we will undertake to show, is not its
purpose, is not to be the effect of its operation, but that it goes far
beyond that. Indeed, I do not hesitate to say that it goes further
than any legislative proposal that has received the serious attention
of Congress in seducing and ultimately undertaking to coerce the
States into an adoption of a Federal policy and the acceptance of the