COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
House oF REPRESENTATIVES
SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
GEORGE S. GRAHAM, Pennsylvania, Chairman
LEONIDAS C. DYER, Missouri. HATTON W. SUMNERS, Texas.
CHARLES A. CHRISTOPHERSON, South ANDREW J. MONTAGUE, Virginia.
Dakota. FRED H. DOMINICK, South Carolina.
RICHARD YATES, Illinois. HENRY 8r. GEORGE TUCKER, Virginia.
EARL C. MICHENER, Michigan. WILLIAM C. HAMMER, North Carolina.
ANDREW J. HICKEY, Indiana. TOM D. McKEOWN, Oklahoma.
i. BANKS KURTZ, Pennsylvania. GORDON BROWNING, Tennessee.
C. ELLIS MOORE, Ohio. EMANUEL CELLER, New York.
GEORGE R. STOBBS, Massachusetts.
FIORELLO BH. LAGUARDIA, New York.
HOMER W. HALL, Illinois. .
SARL G. BACHMANN, West Virginia.
CHARLES 1. SPARKS, Kansas.
CHARLES A. JONAS, North Carolina.
JHARLES E. SWANSON. Iowa.
GUILFORD 8. JAMESON, Clerk
ToEX W., GIRVIN, Assistant Clerk
WALLACE M. NESBITT, Assistant Clerk
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
House oF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
Wednesday, June 11, 1930.
The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. George S. Graham
chairman) presiding.
The CuairMaN. Gentlemen of the committee, we have before us
certain House bills and Senate bills relating to the subject of unem-
ployment. The hearing is set to-day for a presentation of the views
of those who are either advocates or opponents of these measures.
The bills on which these hearings were held are as follows: S. 3059,
3. 3060, H. R. 8374, H. R. 8655, H. R. 9560, H. R.. 11414, H. R.
12550 and H. R. 12551.
(8. 3059, Seventy-first Congress, second session]
AN ACT To provide for the advance planning and regulated construction of certain public works, for the
stabilization of industry, and for the prevention of unemployment during periods of business depression
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the “Employment
stabilization act of 1930.”
DEFINITIONS
Sec. 2. When used in this act—
(a) The term ‘‘board’’ means the Federal Employment Stabilization Board
sgtablished by section 3 of this act.