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More specifically the Committee recommends:

The expansion, diversification, and improvement of educational opportunities to improve the availability and quality of education for both young people and adults, and to develop flexible programs of academic and vocational study at all levels of education.

The rapid extension of training programs to provide for the unemployed for whom new jobs are not immediately available; similar expansion should take place in the opportunities available for the employed, including even highly skilled workers, to assist them in meeting new job demands.

The expansion and strengthening of apprenticeship programs and greater use of preapprenticeship programs.

A strengthening of the employment service's recruitment and placement functions particularly for technicians and professional personnel and for employed persons.

A program of counsel and financial assistance to aid the mobility of workers willing to undertake employment in other communities.

The improvement of collection and use of information on employment and unemployment, particularly—and this is being attempted-initiation of a series on job vacancies sufficiently detailed to be useful for operational purposes.

An enlargement of programs to bring jobs to the worker.

More adequate levels of unemployment compensation so that these payments could act more effectively as an automatic stabilizer of the economy. Finally the Committee suggests that more attention might usefully be given to the question of how the unemployment insurance system could be used constructively to encourage mobility and retraining of unemployed workers; it approves the U.S. Government's efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the public employment services, in apprenticeship, in the new training programs and in basic education.

Senator CLARK. We meet today to take testimony on S. 2958, offered by Senator Nelson, of Wisconsin, who ordinarily would be the first witness. However, I see he has been detained by other business and in order to accommodate Senator Boggs, of Delaware, whom we are very happy to welcome here, I am going to ask him to present the mayor of Wilmington, Mr. Babiarz.

Mayor, we are happy to have you here and particularly happy to have you sponsored by our colleague, Senator Boggs.

STATEMENT OF HON. J. CALEB BOGGS, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF DELAWARE

Senator BOGGS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. I consider it a very great honor and privilege as well as a pleasure to welcome the mayor of Wilmington, Del., to Washington this morning and to have the pleasure of presenting him to the committee. Mayor John E. Babiarz, of Wilmington, will make a presentation on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. I want to say that Mayor Babiarz and I, while we may be in opposite parties, have been, I am proud to say, good friends and have worked together over the years on matters of public interest to our State and city.

It is a privilege to present him. I know he will have a worthwhile message this morning.

Senator CLARK. Thank you very much, Senator Boggs. In view of my own dim past as mayor of Philadelphia, I have some understanding of the problems which have confronted the mayor of Wilmington. I have a very substantial admiration for the way in which he has measured up to their solution.

Thank you very much for being here. I understand you have other engagements and will not be able to stay with us.

Mayor BABIARZ. That is correct.

Senator CLARK. Now I will ask to have S. 2958 printed in the record at this point.

(The bill follows:)

88TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION

S. 2958

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JUNE 26, 1964

Mr. NELSON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

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A BILL

To conserve the human and natural resources of the Nation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

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3 That this Act may be cited as the "Human and Resource

4 Conservation Act of 1964”.

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FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

SEC. 2. Throughout the United States, the wise develop7 ment, conservation, and utilization of our natural resources 8 requires an immediate and urgent effort. Much useful work 9 can be accomplished on Federal lands and on State, county, 10 and city parks, recreational areas, and other lands. The 11 development of recreational areas, path and park develop

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1 ment, conservation of streambeds and the forest lands are 2 only a few of the countless projects which command atten3 tion. At the same time, there are substantial numbers of 4 men, many of whom have little education and poorly 5 developed skills, who are unemployed. The longer these

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men are left idle, are unable to find useful work, the deeper

they will become entrenched in a cycle of poverty. The 8 United States can achieve its full economic and social poten

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9 tial as a nation only if its natural resources are conserved and individual has the opportunity to obtain useful employ11 ment and to develop his capabilities. It is, therefore, the

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policy of the United States to provide a program to conserve 13 both the natural and human resources of the Nation by 14 putting unemployed men to work on constructive conserva15 tion projects and, where necessary, to provide training which can help these men develop their potential skills and capa17 bilities to higher levels. It is the purpose of this Act to

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strengthen, supplement, and coordinate efforts in furtherance 19 of this policy by assisting to carry out programs in the fields 20 of conservation and the development of natural resources and

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men and, where necessary, offering new work training pro

grams to increase the employability and education of these

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1 NATIONAL HUMAN AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION COUNCIL 2 SEC. 3. (a) There is hereby established a National 3 Human and Resource Conservation Council (hereinafter 4 referred to as the "Council") which shall be composed of a 5 representative from each of the Departments of Defense, 6 Interior, Agriculture, Labor, and Health, Education, and 7 Welfare to be appointed by the head of the department and 8 a representative from the Office of Economic Opportunity 9 to be appointed by the Director of such Office. Members 10 serving on the Council under the provisions of this sub11 section shall receive no additional compensation for such 12 service but shall be reimbursed for travel and other necessary 13 expenses in carrying out such service. The Council shall 14 consult with and advise the Chairman, appointed pursuant 15 to subsection (b), in carrying out his functions, including 16 coordination with all segments of the Federal Government. 17 (b) The Chairman of the Council (hereinafter re18 ferred to as the "Chairman") shall be appointed by the 19 President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 20 He shall administer the provisions of this Act, and shall be 21 compensated at the rate of $20,500 per annum.

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(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5 (b) 23 of the Reorganization Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 1332–1333 24 (b)), at any time after one year from the date of enactment

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1 of this Act, the President may, by complying with the pro

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SEC. 4. In order to carry out the purposes of this Act, 7 the Chairman shall assist and cooperate with State and 8 local and Federal agencies in the planning and execution 9 of projects he deems to be useful for the conservation and 10 development of natural resources. For this purpose, the 11 Chairman is authorized to enter into agreements providing 12 for payment out of funds appropriated for the purpose of this 13 Act of such part of the costs, as he determines in accordance 14 with section 5, of State, local, and Federal programs sub15 mitted hereunder if he determines, in accordance with such 16 regulations as he may prescribe that

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(1) the program will contribute to the conservation, development, or management of natural resources of a State or community or the Nation or to the development, management, or protection of State, community, or Federal recreational areas;

(2) the program will not result in the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services;

(3) the rates of pay and other conditions of em

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