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Harry Truman: I consider it necessary and desirable that these facilities of the Department of Labor should now be augmented by the…

On the recordJanuary 18, 1948
I consider it necessary and desirable that these facilities of the Department of Labor should now be augmented by the other major operating agencies in the field of employment--the United States Employment Service and the Bureau of Employment Security.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1948.

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