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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-035
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to provide coverage for employees of large enterprises engaged in retail trade or service and of other employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, to increase the minimum wage under the Act to $1.25 an hour.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-020
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to amend section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act to permit common-situs picketing at a construction site.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-019
This folder contains material related to the legislative plans of various agencies for the 87th Congress, 2nd Session, which began in January 1962. In addition to information from the Council of Economic Advisers, there are also proposed legislative programs submitted by the Post Office Department, Civil Service Commission, United States Information Agency, General Services Administration, Panama Canal Zone Government, Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Department of Labor, and Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-059
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 3102, to reduce the maximum workweek to 35 hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-041
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor proposed report on H.R. 6501, to provide extended unemployment compensation to workers who lost their jobs by reason of the embargo on the importation of raw materials of Cuban origin. It also includes a copy of a similar bill, H.R. 8021.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-029
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to authorize the establishment of a Youth Conservation Corps to provide healthful outdoor employment for young men and to advance the conservation, development, and management of natural resources and recreational areas, and to authorize local youth employment programs. This legislation was known as the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-025
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill entitled the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-024
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Labor Department draft bill entitled the Occupational Safety Act of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-018
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the second draft of the President's Manpower Report that was required under section 104 of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-004
This folder contains a memorandum by the Department of Labor with the agency's recommendations for the 1964 legislative program to combat poverty. It includes a related report on proposed programs to enable people to break out of poverty cycles, to provide better living environments, and to provide adequate income.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-002
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning a proposal from the Department of Labor to collect data on job vacancies. Types of items include correspondence and memoranda.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-005
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the publication of employment and unemployment statistics. Types of items include memoranda, charts, and news clippings. The file also contains two issues of the Department of Labor's monthly report on the labor force (May 1962, April 1962).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF23-011
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Labor. Types of material include letters, memoranda, speeches, press releases, news clippings, and charts. Correspondents include W. Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor), John W. Lehman (Bureau of Labor Statistics), John W. Lewis (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor), Esther Peterson (Assistant Secretary of Labor), Robert C. Goodwin (Bureau of Employment Security), and Arthur J. Goldberg (Secretary of Labor). The file also contains suggested material for a speech on "The Year 2000"; a report of the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy regarding pension funds and retirement programs; information for a meeting with Reiulf Steen, a member of the Norwegian parliament (26 February 1962); and a speech by Heller on "Statistics for Economic Outlook" (29 September 1961).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-002
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning employment and unemployment. In addition to numerous internal Council of Economic Advisers memoranda, other items include a paper by Otto Eckstein titled "Perspectives on Employment Under Technical Change"; various U.S. Department of Labor press releases and monthly labor force reports; a draft discussion paper by Albert Rees on the nature of the unemployment problem; and a paper by R. A. Gordon titled "Some Comments on Employment Policy in Europe and the United States."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-013
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the first four chapters of a Manpower Report drafted by the Labor Department, as directed by Section 104 of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-012
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the Labor Department's Manpower Report.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-007
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Labor Department draft bill entitled the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendments of 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-017
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the Labor Department's proposed draft of a presidential message to Congress on the Automation Council and Fair Labor Standards Act, which would establish a national commission on automation and technological progress.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-016
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on the proposed Service Contracts Act of 1963, to provide wage standards for persons engaged by Federal contractors or subcontractors to furnish services or maintenance work to Federal agencies.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF75-001
This folder contains material pertaining to the President's Committee on Corporate Pension Funds and Other Private Retirement and Welfare Programs, which was formally established in March 1962 to review legislation and public policy relating to those programs. Walter W. Heller represented the Council of Economic Advisers on the committee. The bulk of the file consists of a final draft of the committee's report, Fulfilling the Promise of the Private Pension System (May 1964), and a previous provisional report submitted to the President in November 1962. An assessment by the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy (December 1963) appears as an appendix to the final report. Other types of material include correspondence, memoranda, and charts. Also of note are a report by the U.S. Department of Labor on private pension plans and manpower policy, and minutes from the committee's meeting on 1 November 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-016
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to authorize training and employment programs for youth including on-the-job and other appropriate training, local public service programs, and conservation programs. The legislation was known as the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-015
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to amend the Welfare and Pension Plan Disclosure Act with respect to the method of enforcement and to provide certain additional sanctions. The legislation was known as the Welfare and Pension Plan Disclosure Act Amendments of 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-014
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill relating to the occupational training, development, and use of the manpower resources of the nation. The legislation was known as the Training and Manpower Act of 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-009
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill defining the term "wages" under the Davis-Bacon Act, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings in the United States and the District of Columbia. The file also includes misfiled material on another bill, H.R. 1163, to amend section 510 of the Interstate Commerce Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-006
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Labor draft bill to amend Title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide, in connection with the employment of workers from Mexico, protection for the employment opportunities of agricultural workers in the United States.