LIST OF AUTHORS OF PREPARED STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS Andersen, Frank N., chairman, building committee, Saginaw General Page 7703 Anderson, H. W., General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich... 7336 7744 Ballenger, John F., manager, Bureau of Old-Age Assistance, Social Security 7635 7712 Beers, Amy, R. N., superintendent of Hackley Hospital, Muskegon, 7721 Beukema, John C., secretary-manager, Greater Muskegon Chamber of 7715 7652 Briggs, George H., chairman, Improvement Associations Committee, 7693 Brown, Vernon J., auditor general, Lansing, Mich Burch, Lewis D., director of industrial relations, Nash-Kelvinator Cor- Bush, Lester C., manager, Muncie Chamber of Commerce, Muncie, Ind.. Carlton, C. C., Motor Wheel Corporation, and president, Automotive Carpenter, O. F., associate district representative, district No. 13, Michi- Cody, Dr. Frank, superintendent of public schools, board of education, Cassidy, Florence G., secretary, nationality committee, Council of Social 7670 7643 Conder, director of labor relations, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Mich 7322 7665 Current, Gloster B.. executive secretary, Detroit branch, National Asso- 7670 7525 Division of Civilian Supply, Office of Production Management, Washington, D. C... 7453 Division of Defense Housing Coordination, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D. C.. 7568 Douglas, Bruce H., M. D., commissioner, department of health, Detroit, 7603 Dunne, Walter J., director, department of social welfare, Wayne County, 7678 Eade, Lt. Comdr. Walter F., United States Naval Reserve, inspector of naval aircraft, United States Navy, Detroit, Mich. 7294 Edwards, George, director-secretary, Detroit Housing Commission, 7240 Elliott, C. H., city manager, Plymouth, Mich. 7674 Elliott, Eugene B., superintendent, State of Michigan Department of 7570 Fauri, F. F., supervisor, State bureau of social security, Lansing, Mich. 7565 7575 Geyer, Eldon C., superintendent of schools, Battle Creek, Mich Hall, Willis L., manager industrial department, Detroit Board of Com- Hartung, Isaac, secretary, Macomb County Board of Social Welfare, 7688 Hill, L. Clayton, general manager, Murray Corporation of America John R. Council, of Improvement Associations Committee, Royal Oak 7693 Klager, Benjamin, superintendent of schools, Bay City, Mich 7698 Krauss, Eugene A., housing manager, Defense Housing Division of Federal 7726 Maxwell, A. J., Bay City Chamber of Commerce, Bay City, Mich.. 7697 7688 Michigan historical records survey project, Work Projects Administration, 7587 Nelson, J. Harry, city manager, city of Bay City, Mich.. 7696 Nicol, Eric A., acting chief, Labor Supply Branch, Labor Division, Office 7488 Shafer, J. J., superintendent of schools, Midland, Mich.- Stanchfield, Paul L., chief of research, statistics and planning section, Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission, Lansing, Mich.- Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, Ind.. Ten Brink, James, superintendent of Muskegon County public schools, Thomas, R. J., international president, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers, Congress of Industrial Organizations, 7742 7733 Van Wagoner, Hon. Murray D., Governor of Michigan, Lansing, Mich... 7070 Waldron, Robert, personnel director, Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, For greater convenience the Detroit hearings are published in two volumes. This volume, under the title, "Part 18. Detroit Hearings (Industrial Section)," includes the testimony of all witnesses except Prof. E. B. Hill, of the farm-management department of Michigan State College, who appeared before the committee to discuss agricultural migration and related subjects exclusively. Dr. Hill's testimony, together with his prepared statement and other papers dealing with various phases of Michigan agricultural migration, appears in the second volume of these hearings, under the title, "Part 19. Detroit Hearings (Agricultural Section)." XII NATIONAL DEFENSE MIGRATION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MORNING SESSION Washington, D. C. The committee met at 9:30 a. m., in the Federal Building, Detroit, Mich., pursuant to notice, Representative John H. Tolan (chairman) presiding. Present were: Representatives John H. Tolan (chairman), of California; Laurence F. Arnold, of Illinois; Frank C. Osmers, Jr., of New Jersey; Carl T. Curtis, of Nebraska, all as members of the committee; and, as guest of the committee, Representative Fred L. Crawford, of Michigan. Also present: Dr. Robert K. Lamb, staff director; John W. Abbott, chief field investigator; Francis X. Riley and Jack B. Burke, field investigators; and Ruth B. Abrams, field secretary. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. I wish to announce for the record that Mayor Edward J. Jeffries is absent from the city of Detroit. His secretary, Mr. Alfred S. Colinski, has extended to us every courtesy. Governor Van Wagoner, you will be our first witness. TESTIMONY OF HON. MURRAY VAN WAGONER, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN The CHAIRMAN. Governor Van Wagoner, I would like to say to you at the beginning of this hearing that your prepared statement has been gone over carefully, and I think it is a very valuable contribution to the record of this committee. I might explain briefly, Governor, that this committee was originally known as the Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens. We started our hearings in New York, knowing that it was not just California which had that problem to face, and we heard Mayor LaGuardia inform us that the State of New York had spent millions of dollars for the care of nonsettled citizens, and that hundreds of such citizens had been transported to their homes. From New York we went to Montgomery, Ala.; Lincoln, Nebr.; Chicago; Oklahoma City; San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We found that there were about 4,000,000 people on the road, traveling between States. |