53 STAT.]
76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 249-JUNE 29, 1939
tions for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically
made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs
to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloths, file cases, towels, ice, brooms,
soap, sponges, laundry, streetcar fares not exceeding $1,200; pur-
chase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorcycles and motor-
trucks; maintenance, operation, and repair of two motor-propelled
passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes;
freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed
$1,200, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service,
typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; pur-
chase and exchange of law books, books of reference, newspapers
and periodicals, and, when authorized by the Secretary of Labor,
dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue
publications to members only or at a price to members lower than
to subscribers who are not members, not exceeding $5,300; contract
stenographic services; teletype service and tolls (not to exceed $900);
all other necessary miscellaneous expenses not included in the fore-
going; and not to exceed $25,000 for purchase of certain supplies
for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; in all, $233,620:
Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S . C . 5)
shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered
for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved
does not exceed the sum of $100.
Traveling expenses: For all traveling expenses, except traveling
expenses incident to the deportation of aliens, under the Department
of Labor, including all bureaus and divisions thereunder, $1,216,700.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart-
ment of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and
services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere,
$454,800, of which amount not to exceed $2,000 shall be available
immediately.
Division of Labor Standards, salaries and expenses: For salaries
and expenses, including purchase and distribution of reports, and
of material for informational exhibits, in connection with the pro-
motion of health, safety, employment, stabilization, and amicable
industrial relations for labor and industry, $218,500, of which amount
not to exceed $115,000, may be expended for personal services in
the District of Columbia.
The appropriation herein for traveling expenses shall be available
for expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants
at conferences concerned with the work of the Division of Labor
Standards when called by the Division of Labor Standards with
the written approval of the Secretary of Labor, and shall be avail-
able also in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attend-
ance at meetings related to the work of the Division of Labor Stand-
ards when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of
Labor.
Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor
to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creat-
ing the Department of Labor (5 U. S . C. 611) and to appoint com-
missioners of conciliation, telegraph and telephone service, and not
to exceed $67,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia,
$325.000: Provided, That persons now employed in such conciliation
work pursuant to authority contained under this head in the Second
Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, may be continued in
such employment and paid from the amount herein appropriated.
Liaison with the International Labor Organization, Geneva,
Switzerland, salaries and expenses: For a United States Labor Com-
missioner and other personal services in Geneva, Switzerland; com-
pensation of interpreters, translators, and porters; transportation of
921
Vehicles.
Books, periodicals,
etc.
Immigration
and
Naturalization Serv-
ice, purchase of certain
supplies.
Proviso.
Minor purchases.
R. S. §3709.
41U.S.C.§5.
Traveling expenses.
Post, p . 1319.
Printing and bind-
ing.
Division of Labor
Standards.
Attendance at meet-
ings.
Commissioners
conciliation.
37 Stat. 738 .
5U.S.C.§619.
of
Proviso.
Retention of certain
employees.
49 Stat. 587.
International Labor
Organization, Geneva.
Liaison with; expen-
ses.
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