Box 98: Legislative Reference Material: Investigations Committee - Physically Handicapped.
F 1: Investigations Committee.
a. Correspondence: re: H. Res. 14 and H. R. 4564.
b. H. Res. 14: Douglas: "Creating a select committee..." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Rules.
F 2: Kindergarten and Nursery School Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: Educational Programs.
b. H. R. 2362: Douglas: "To promote the general welfare through the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in providing more effective programs of public kindergarten or kindergarten and nursery school education." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Education and Labor.
c. H. R. 793: Douglas: "To promote the general welfare through the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in providing more effective programs of public kindergarten or kindergarten and nursery school education." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Educational and Labor. 2 copies.
d. S. 1216: Pepper: "To promote the general welfare through the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in providing more effective programs of public kindergarten or kindergarten and nursery school education." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
e. Statement: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Extending Educational Opportunities of Children Under Six in Public Education." (August 6, 1949).
F 3: Kings River.
a. Correspondence: re: Kings River water problems.
b. Release: "Congressman White Introduces Bill to Develop Electric Power on Kings River" (June 21, 1949).
c. Flyer: P. G. and E. Progress. (December 1949).
d. Committee Print: re: "North Fork Kings River Development, California."
e. H. R. 5264: White - CA: "To authorized the Secretary of the Interior to undertake the North Fork Kings River development, California, as an integral part of the Central Valley project, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Public Lands.
f. H. R. 6919: Douglas: "To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to undertake the North Fork Kings River development, California as an integral part of the Central Valley project, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Public Lands.
g. Release: Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Kings River (March 30, 1950).
h. Statement of Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: H. R. 5264.
F 4: Legal Status of Women.
a. H. J. Res. 68: Mrs. St. George: "Proposing an amendment to the construction of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
b. Draft of a bill.
c. H. R. 789: Douglas: "To establish a commission on the legal status of women in the United States to declare a policy as to distinctions, based on sex, in law and administration, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary. 2 copies.
d. H. R. 2396: Douglas: "To provide for the investigation of discriminations against women on the basis of sex, to establish policies for the removal of such discriminations, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
e. Various drafts.
F 5: Legislation Introduced by Helen Gahagan Douglas, 80th Congress.
a. Congressional Quarterly (May 3, 1950).
b. H. R. 5627: Douglas: "To establish a uniform system of bankruptcy through out the United States", approved July 1, 1898, as amended, with respect to farmer-debtor relief." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Judiciary.
c. H. R. 5823: Douglas: "To continue rent control until June 30, 1950, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
d. H. R. 6382: Douglas: "To provide a coordinated anti-inflation program." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
e. H. R. 6986: Douglas: "To provide that certain mortgages and loans shall not be eligible for insurance or guaranty under the National Housing Act of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 unless a warranty is provided against structural and other defects in construction of the dwelling involved." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
F 6: Legislation Introduced by Helen Gahagan Douglas, 81st Congress.
a. List of legislation introduced by Helen Gahagan Douglas in 81st Congress.
b. P. L. 81-171 (S. 1070): "To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes."
c. H. Res. 14: Douglas: "Investigating Committees." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Rules.
d. H. J. Res. 96: Douglas: "Adjudication of Colorado River Claims." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
e. H. R. 786: Douglas: "Defining benefits to disabled veterans and their dependents." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
f. H. R. 787: Douglas: "To provide that certain mortgages and loans shall not be eligible for insurance or guaranty under the National Housing act or the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 unless a warranty is provided against structural and other defects in construction of the dwelling involved." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
g. 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.
h. H. R. 792: Douglas: "To prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
i. H. R. 793: Douglas: "To promote the general welfare through the general welfare through the appropriations of funds to assist the States and Territories in providing kindergarten or kindergarten and nursery school education." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
j. H. R. 794: Douglas: "Relating to migratory farm labor." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Agriculture.
k. H. R. 795: Douglas: "To declare certain rights of citizens of the United States, and for the better assurance of the protection of such citizens and other persons within the several States from mob violence and lynching, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
l. H. R. 2291: Douglas: "To provide more adequate and effective rent control until June 30, 1951, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Banking and Currency.
m. H. R. 2394: Douglas: "To create the FDR Memorial Redwood Forest, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Agriculture.
n. H. R. 2395: 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." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on House Administration.
o. H. R. 2396: Douglas: "To provide for the investigation of discriminations against women on the basis of sex, to establish policies for the removal of such discriminations, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
p. 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.
q. H. R. 2567: Douglas: "To amend the Hospital Survey and Construction Act (title II of the Public Health Service Act), to extend its duration and provide greater financial assistance in the construction of hospitals, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
r. H. R. 3339: Douglas: "To establish a Federal Commission on Services for the Physically Handicapped, to define its duties, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
s. H. R. 3388: Douglas: "To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on the Judiciary.
t. H. R. 4472: Douglas: "To provide for direct Federal loans to meet the housing needs of moderate income families, to provide liberalized credit to reduce the cost of housing for such families, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Bankruptcy and Currency.
u. H. R. 4647: Douglas: "To provide authorization for additional funds for the extension and improvement of post-office facilities at Los Angeles, California, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Public Works.
v. H. R. 4946: Douglas: "To repeal the excise tax on transportation of property, transportation of persons, and long distance telephone and telegraph." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
w. 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). Committee on Banking and Currency.
x. H. R. 5774: Douglas: "To provide specific measures in furtherance of the national policy of maximum employment, production and purchasing power, as established in the Employment Act of 1946." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
y. H. R. 6151: Douglas: "To repeal all Federal excise taxes, except those of a regulatory character." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
z. H.R. 6518: Douglas: "To provide a deduction for income tax purposes for housekeeping expenses of gainfully employed persons." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Ways and Means.
aa. H. Con. Res. 134: Douglas: "Employment of Amputees." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
bb. H. R. 6811: Douglas: "To assist cooperative and other nonprofit corporations in the production of housing for families of moderate income." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Banking and Currency.
F 7: Legislation Introduced by Helen Gahagan Douglas, 81st Congress.
a. H. R. 6919: Douglas: "To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to undertake the North Fork Kings River development, California, as an integral part of the Central Valley project, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Public Lands.
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.
c. H. Res. 473: Douglas: "Employment for the elderly." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Rules.
d. H. R. 7403: Douglas: "to amend the Social Security Act in order to prohibit the requirement of support form relatives as a condition of granting old-age assistance or aid to the needy blind." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Ways and Means.
e. H. R. 7444: Douglas: "To deal with areas of serious unemployment, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Public Works.
f. H. J. Res. 425: Douglas: "To establish a National Childrens' Day." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on the Judiciary.
g. 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.
h. H. R. 7617: Douglas: "To extend and improve the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance System, to provide insurance benefits for all aged and disabled persons, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Ways and Means.
i. H. R. 9522: Douglas: "To amend the Act of September 16, 1942, as amended, so as to facilitate voting by members of the Armed Forces and certain others absent from the place of their residence, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on House Administration.
j. H. R. 6382: Douglas: "To provide a coordinated anti-inflation program." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Banking and Currency.
k. H. R. 9465: Douglas: "To extend to personnel on active service with the Armed Forces during the military, naval, and air operations against the forces of the Government of North Korea certain benefits provided by law for veterans of World War II, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
l. H. R. 9522: Douglas: "To amend the act of September 16, 1942, as amended, so as to facilitate voting be members of the Armed forces and certain other absent from the place of their resident, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on House Administration.
m. H. R. 9737: Douglas: "To protect the internal security of the United States, to provide for the detention in time of emergency of persons who may commit acts of espionage or sabotage, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on the Judiciary.
F 8: Migrant Labor Camps.
a. Correspondence: re: H. R. 974, migrant labor camps.
b. Report: "The Migratory Labor Program" (July 1939).
c. H.R. 794: Douglas: "Relating to migratory farm labor." 81st Congress, 1st Session.
d. Chester Wright's Labor Letter.
F 9: Migratory Farm Labor.
a. Correspondence: re: migrant-farm labor.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. Booklet: Nancy Wagner and Thomas B. Keehn: "Social Action Our Robbery of American Migrants." (April 15, 1949). 39 pages.
d. H. R. 794: Douglas: "Relating to migratory farm labor." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Agriculture.
e. H. R. 3856: Douglas: "Relating to migratory farm labor." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Agriculture.
f. Suggested Additions to Title II of S. 138.
g. Proposals for revising and bringing up to date H. R. 3856 introduced in 1947 by Mrs. Douglas of California.
h. Senate Journal 1243 - George J. Hatfield: "Farm Labor Camps - No 5680."
i. Amendments to H. R. 4009 (draft). (May 9, 1949).
j. Booklet: "A Community Aroused."
k. Statement on Transfer of Farm Labor Camps Sec. 208 of H. R. 4009 (June 8, 1949).
F 10: Minimum Wage.
a. Correspondence: re: minimum wage.
b. A Brief Review of Labor Difficulties in the Bell System (June 24, 1949).
c. H.R. 5894: Lucas: "To provide for the amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
d. Statement for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas: re: Amend H.R. 5856, Sec. 13... (draft).
e. H. R. 5856: Lesinski: "To provide for the amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and for other purposes." 81st Congress, 1st Session (1949). Committee on Education and Labor.
f. Summary of Major Provisions of H. R. 5856.
g. Comparison of the Fair Labor Standards Act With Lesinski (H. R. 5856) and Lucas (H. R. 4272) Bills.
h. Comparison of Principal in (a) The Present Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage and Hour Law) (b) The new Lesinski Bill (H. R. 5856), and (c) The New Lucas Bill (H.R. 5894).
i. Verbatim - Congressional Record, Vol. 95, No. 160 (August 30, 1949).
F 11: Physically Handicapped.
a. Flyer: American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, Inc.
b. Congressional Record: Francis J. Myers: "Address of Paul A. Strachan, President, American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, to the Tri-State Conference of Handicapped, Pittsburg, PA., May 22, 1949." (June 8, 1949).
c. Remarks of John J. Sparkman - Alabama: re: S. 1066 (February 25, 1949).
d. Statement of Dr. Harvey Bartle, M.D. (July 15, 1949).
e. Statement of Paul A. Strachan (July 15, 1949).
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