UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 
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(b) In carrying out the provisions of this act the director general is authorized 
and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lockouts to appli- 
cants for employment. 
(c¢) In carrying out the provisions of this act the director general is authorized 
to provide for establishing employment offices for individual occupations. 
Sec. 12. The director general, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, 
is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to 
carry out the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 13. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to extend 
to the United States Employment Service and to the system of employment 
offices operated by it in conformity with the provisions of this act, and to all 
State employment systems which receive funds appropriated under authority 
of this act, and to all cooperative Federal and State employment systems operated 
under agreements made as provided in this act, the privilege of free transmission 
of official mail matter. 
[H. R. 8374, Seventy-first Congress, second session} 
A BILL To provide for the establishment of a national employment system 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
in Congress assembled, That in order to promote the establishment and main- 
tenance of a national 'system of public employment offices the United States 
Employment Service is hereby created a bureau of the Department of Labor. 
There shall be a director general of such bureau, who shall be appointed by the 
President. There shall be appointed by the Secretary of Labor a woman assist- 
ant director general who, subject to the director general, shall have general super- 
vision of all matters relating to the securing of employment for women, and 
there shall also be appointed such other assistants and employees in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this act. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be the province and duty of the said bureau, under the 
Secretary of Labor, to establish and maintain a national system of employment 
offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified to engage in gainful 
occupations; and to assist in establishing and maintaining systems of employ- 
ment offices in .the several States and political subdivisions thereof, and to 
coordinate the public employment offices throughout the country by furnishing 
and publishing information as to opportunities for employment, by maintaining 
a system for clearing labor between the several States, by establishing and 
maintaining uniform standards, policies, and procedure, and by assisting in the 
transportation of workers to such places as may be deemed necessary for the 
purposes of securing employment: Provided, however, That in the securing of 
employment preference shall be given in the following order: 
(1) To citizens of the United States and of the State, District, or Territory 
in which the work is to be performed, who have been honorably discharged from 
the military or naval forces of the United States, and who are qualified to perform 
the work to which the employment relates; 
(2) To citizens of the United States who are bona fide residents of the State, 
District, or Territory in which the work is to be performed, and who are qualified 
to perform the work to which the employment relates. 
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there 
is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $———— for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1930, and for each fiscal year thereafter up to and including 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932; that not less than 75 per centum of the 
money apporpriated under this act shall be allotted by the Secretary of Labor 
among the several States on the basis of their respective populations to be avail- 
able for the purpose of establishing and maintaining systems of public employ- 
ment offices in the several States in accordance with the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 4. That the director general, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, 
is hereby authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions 
of this act. 
Sec. 5. That this act shall take effect immediately.