Box 96: 81st Congress, Legislative Files: Wage and Hour Law - Equal Pay for Equal Work for Women (1949- 1951).
Legislative Reference Material: Aging - Equal Pay for Equal Work for Women
F 1: Wage and Hour Law.
a. Correspondence: re: Wage and Hour Law.
b. Analysis of Butler Amendment to Wage-Hour Bill S. 653 (H. R. 5856) Increasing Exemption Relating to Switchboard Operators.
F 2: War Claims Commission.
General Correspondence: re: War Claims Act.
F 3: Wine Tariff.
a. Correspondence: re: reduction in tariffs on wine.
b. Drafts of letters.
c. Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: tariff reductions on foreign wines (July 10, 1950).
d. Copies of clippings.
e. Booklet: Dinuba California - Home of Raisin Day.
F 4: World Health.
Correspondence: re: House Joint Resolution #334 raising the ceiling of the appropriation to the World Health Organization.
F 5: Aging, Problems of.
a. Draft of H. Res. - .
b. Draft of Suggested Resolution on Problems of the Aging.
c. H. Res. 473: Douglas: re: aging and employment..." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Rules.
d. Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: employment problems of older workers. (February 15, 1950).
e. Congressional Record (copy): Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Employment for Older People." (March 23, 1950).
f. Copies of clippings.
g. Information Sheet: "An Emeritus Faculty Union For The University of Illinois.
h. Programs for an Aging Population A Progress Report to the Federal Security Administrator by the Working Committee on the Aging." (March 17, 1950).
i. Article: "Demands Rise With Age Groups Toys for Young, Pensions for Old."
j. Pamphlet: "Conference on Aging." 2 copies.
F 6: Anti-Lynch.
a. H. R. 788: Douglas: "For the better assurance of the protection of persons within the several States from mob violence and lynching, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
b. H. R. 795: Douglas: "To declare certain rights of citizens of the United States and for other persons within the several States from mob violence and lynching, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
c. Testimony of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Anti-lynching Bill H. R. 795 and other bills pertaining to anti-lynching. 2 copies.
F 7: Anti-Poll Tax.
a. Script.
b. Pamphlet: "A Woman's Fair Question: What Is The Poll Tax To Me?" by Helen Gahagan Douglas.
c. H. R. 2395: Douglas: "Making unlawful the requirement for the payment of a poll tax as a prerequiste to voting in a primary or other election for national officers." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on House Administration.
d. H. R. 779: Douglas: "Making unlawful the requirement for the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to voting in a primary or other election for national officers." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on House Administration.
F 8: Army Engineers: Reorganization.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 6920.
b. H. R. 6920: Douglas: "To provide for the carrying out of the recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government relating to the Department of the Interior." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.
F 9: Atmospheric Pollution Research Act.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 9379.
b. Second Interim Report on the Smog Problem in Los Angeles County, Stanford Research Institute 1949. 64 pages.
c. Remarks of Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas on Atmospheric Pollution.
d. Congressional Record: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "We Need Clean Air." July 10, 1950.
e. Release by Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: "A Federal Research Program Aimed at Combating Atmospheric Pollution." (August 7, 1950).
f. Copy of clipping.
g. H. R. 9379: Douglas: "To authorize research and experimentation on health hazards of atmospheric pollution and on methods for preventing atmospheric pollution, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). 2 copies.
h. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Atmospheric Pollution.
F 10: Cancer Research.
a. Hearings on H. R. 4502: "Mobilization of World's Cancer Experts." (1946).
b. H. R. 790: Douglas: "To authorize and request the President to undertake to mobilize at some convenient place in the United states an adequate number of the World's outstanding experts, and coordinate and utilize their services in a supreme endeavor to discover means of curing and preventing cancer." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Foreign Affairs.
F 11: Children's Day.
a. Correspondence: re: H. J. Res. 425.
b. Testimony of Honorable Helen Gahagan Douglas of California on H. J. Res. 425, "To establish a National Children's Day."
c. Flyer: "Children's Day and Children's Week."
F 12: Civilian Conservation Corps.
a. Correspondence: re: reestablishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
b. Statement of Senator James E. Murray on the Proposal to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps. (January 20, 1950).
c. H. R. 7463: Douglas: "To reestablish a Civilian Conservation Corps; to provide for the conservation of natural resources and the development of human resources through the employment of youthful citizens in the performance of useful work, including job training and instruction in good-work habits; and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Education and Labor.
d. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Establishment of a Civilian Conservation Corps" (February 28, 1950).
e. Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: the bill to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps. (February 28, 1950).
f. Copy of clipping.
g. Statement of Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California Favoring Passage of H. R. 7463, Introduced by Her, and an Identical Bill, H. R. 7462, by Rep. Reva Beck Bosone of Utah to Establish A Civilian Conservation Corps Before House Public Lands Subcommittee, May 15, 1950.
h. Release by Helen Gahagan Douglas (May 17, 1950).
i. Pamphlet: "Million Dollar Ideas."
F 13: Colorado River Water (Adjudication).
a. Correspondence: re: H. J. Res. 96.
b. Draft of H. J. Res. - : "Granting the consent of Congress to joinder of the United States in suit in the United States Supreme Court for adjudication of claims to waters of the Colorado River System." (December 31, 1947).
c. H. J. Res. 96: Douglas: "Granting the consent of Congress to joinder of the United states in suit in the united States Supreme Court for adjudication of claims to waters of the Colorado River System." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
d. Statement by Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. J. Res. 63.
e. Copy of clipping.
F 14: Committee on Investigating Committees.
H. Res. 14: Douglas: re: "Creation of a select committee..." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee of Rules.
F 15: Compensation in Case of U.S. vs. Doheny Executors.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 2443.
b. H. R. 5170: Reed-Illinois: "To authorize the payment of additional compensation to special assistants to the Attorney General in the case of United States against Doheny Executors." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on the Judiciary.
c. Hearings on H. R. 2443: "Additional Compensation to Special Counsel in Case of Doheny Executors." (1949).
F 16: Disabled Veterans.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 786.
b. H. R. 786: Douglas: "Defining benefits to disabled veterans and their dependents." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Veterans` Affairs.
F 17: Economic Expansion Act.
a. H. R. 2756: Spence: "To implement the established national policy of promoting maximum employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session. (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
b. Report: Dewey Anderson, Wilfred Lumber, and John Shott: "Unemployment It's Here Let's Stop It Now!" (June 1949).
c. Fact Sheet: "Unemployment: It's Here - Let's Stop It Now." (June 19, 1949).
d. H. R. 5666: Douglas: "Declaring the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power and setting forth ways and means of achieving these objectives." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949).
e. H. R. 5774: Douglas: "To provide specific measures in furtherance of the national production, and purchasing power, as established in the Employment Act of 1946." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
f. Congressional Record: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "The Hottest Story in the World Today." (March 2, 1945).
g. Draft of a letter.
F 18: Employment Assistance.
a. Correspondence: re: unemployment.
b. H. R 7444: Douglas: "To deal with areas of serious unemployment, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Public Works.
c. Release by Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: bill entitled "The Employment Assistance Act of 1950" (February 27, 1950).
F 19: Employment of Amputees.
H. Con. Res. 134: Douglas: re: employment of persons with amputation of any limb..." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
F 20: Equal Pay for Equal Work for Women.
a. H. R. 797: Douglas: "Providing equal pay for equal work for women, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
b. H. R. 2438: Douglas: "Providing equal pay for equal work for women and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
c. Flyer: "Facts on Women Workers." (August - September 1949).
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