This bill proposes, as I have said, to destroy the Federal Employment Service in the Department of Labor, which has developed out of many years of experience, and to substitute for it 48 practically independent agencies, each under State control, the Federal Government paying for them as to 50 percent, and based not upon economic need of the particular State but upon mathematical ratio to population.
Herbert Hoover: “This bill proposes, as I have said, to destroy the Federal Employment Service in the Department of Labor, which has…”
On the recordMarch 7, 1931
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Statement on the Disapproval of a Bill To Provide for the Establishment of a National Employment System
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