78TH CONG., 2D SESS. - CH. 302-JUNE 28, 1944 including newspapers, books of reference, and periodicals, and not to exceed $88,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $493,000. Commissioners of Conciliation (national defense) : For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to perform conciliation services in situations growing out of employment in industries under the national defense program, including personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and printing and binding, $1,721,000. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available in an amount not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings, conferences, or conventions concerned with labor and industrial relations when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS Salaries and expenses: For personal services including temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typists in the District of Colum- bia, and including also experts and temporary assistants for field service outside of the District of Columbia; purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and materials for reports and bulletins of said Bureau; $1,312 300, of which amount not to exceed $1,160,000 may be expended for the salary of the Commis- sioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be avail- able, in an amount not to exceed $2,000, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses neces- sary to enable the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in relation to the national security and defense, to perform the functions authorized by the Act of June 13, 1888, and other Acts (29 U. S . C . 1); to continue occupational outlook surveys throughout the United States; and to conduct studies relative to problems con- nected with labor likely to arise upon the termination of the existing emergent conditions in connection with defense activities throughout the United States, such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise prop- erly chargeable to the appropriations under the Department of Labor for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, including reimbursement to employees, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for expenses of travel performed by them in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations in the field, and printing and binding, and not to exceed $15,000 for the temporary employment of experts without regard to the civil service and classification laws; $1,510,400. CHILDREN'S BUREAU Salaries and expenses: For expenses of investigating and reporting upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality; per- sonal services, including experts and temporary assistants; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children's Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distri- bution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, and other necessary expenses; Attendance at meet- ings. Attendance at meet- ings. Post, p. 866. 25 Stat. 182. 20 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, S 1. Temporary employ- ment of experts. 58 STAT.] 549
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