RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON POSTAL ORGANIZATION. 1967-68. 33 lin. ft. This Commission was established April 8, 1967, by Executive Order 11341 to recommend better ways of organizing and operating the postal service. It concluded its business in July 1968. The records consist of drafts of the Commission's reports; minutes; alphabetical subject files relating to the Commission's functions, activities, and administration; rejected proposals for studies; "chronological files" of the Commission's correspondence, memorandums, reports, and speeches; staff studies; papers of consultants; contract files; administrative and personnel records; and press releases and clippings. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: "Commission Hearings" and "Commission Interviews: Prominent Individuals" among the records. Restrictions: Access to these records is subject to the approval of the Postmaster General or his authorized representative. Specified by: Post Office Department. RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S This Committee was appointed by the President on June 3, 1967, to prepare a report on ways to stimulate rebuilding depressed areas of American cities. The study focused on the role of the private sector of the economy in rebuilding urban housing and methods enlarging the size and skills of the labor force available for rehabilitative work. The Committee was terminated when its report was submitted to the President on August 31, 1968. Its records include ininutes, reports, correspondence, and other records relating to legislative research, housing goals, research and technology, manpower, and land. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Minutes of the Committee's meetings and the Executive Director's files; correspondence of Committee members; correspondence with the White House; and the Committee's interim report to the President (not released or intended for release). Restrictions: Access to these records is limited to persons having the written permission of an authorized member of the White House Staff. Specified by: The Committee. RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS YEAR 1968. 1968-69. 1 lin. ft. This Commission was appointed by Executive Order 11394 of January 30, 1968, to "promote the effective observance in the United States of 1968 as the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights." The order stipulated that the Commission provide a focus for the interest of official bodies sharing its purpose and enlist the cooperation of organizations planning to participate in the observance. The Commission could engage in other activities it deemed appropriate, such as conducting studies, issuing reports and other publications, and holding public or private meetings at times to be determined by the Chair man. The records include copies of documents relating to the Commission's establishment, minutes, agendas, working papers, reports of committees, speeches, articles, correspondence, press clippings, programs of the Commission's three conferences, papers pertaining to related conferences (the Montreal Assembly and the Tehran Conference), a list of publications, proclamations of Governors, photographs (62 items), a set of the Commission's publications, and sound recordings (25 items) of conferences and radio broadcasts. RECORDS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION (RECORD GROUP 63) The committee on Public Information was created by an Executive order of April 13, 1917, with George Creel as Chairman and the Secretaries of State, War, and the Navy as ex officio members. Its functions were to release Government news during World War I, sustain morale, and administer voluntary press censorship. Authors, artists, professors, and volunteer speakers (the "four minute men") contributed their services. Commissioners were stationed at major foreign capitals to represent the Committee. After July 1, 1918, the work of the Committee was curtailed, and after the signing of the Armistice its domestic activities were discontinued. Some of the foreign work was continued until June 30, 1919, when the Committee ceased to function. By an Executive order of August 21, 1919, the Committee was abolished and the liqui dation of its affairs assigned to the Council of National Defense. Some of the Committee's records were distributed among other agencies and never reassembled. In 1928, 1930, and 1962 many of the remaining routine records were disposed of under congressional authority. Documents relating to the "German-Bolshevik conspiracy," procured by Edgar Sisson in Russia in 1918, are among records of the White House Office (see RG 130). See Committee on Public Information, Complete Report of the Chairman (1920); George Creel, How We Advertised America (New York, 1920); Waldo G. Leland and Newton D. Mereness, comps., Introduction to the American Official Sources for the Economic and Social History of the Great War (New Haven, 1926); and James R. Mock and Cedric Larson, Words That Won the War (Princeton, 1939). There are 92 cubic feet of records dated between 1917 and 1919 in this record group. RECORDS. 1917-19. 110 lin. ft. These consist of general correspondence and other records of the Chairman and Associate Chairman; records of nearly all divisions concerned with domestic activities, including reports and correspondence relating to the preparation and distribution of information, the use of motion picture film and photographs, the work of the "four minute men," the war work of women, copy prepared for publication, bulletins, copies of speeches, photographs, news releases, and card lists of speakers; records of the Director of the Foreign Information Section and of the divisions concerned with foreign activities, including correspondence with representatives abroad, telegrams, press releases, posters, and reports relating to the gathering of data abroad and the dissemination of information about the United States in foreign countries; and some records of officials in the Soviet Union and commissioners at Paris, Rome, Madrid, The Hague, London, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Lima. RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S ORGANIZATION ON on The President's Organization Unemployment Relief and its predecessor, the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, were established to stimulate and coordinate employment and relief activities during the economic depression that began in 1930. The Emergency Committee had been preceded by a committee organized on October 17, 1930, of six Cabinet members and the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. On October 21, 1930, the President appointed Col. Arthur Woods to organize and chair a special committee of industrialists, economists, and Government officials. The Emergeney Committee (the Woods Committee) was to work in an advisory and facilitative capacity with State and local governments and quasi-public and private organizations. On August 19, 1931, the Emergency Committee was reorganized as the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief, with Walter S. Gifford as Director. The President appointed a nationwide Advisory Committee to assist Gifford. Through committees created from the membership of the Advisory Committee, the Organization worked with relief and employment agencies in sponsoring programs, encouraged public works construction, and served as a clearinghouse for ideas and information. It was termi nated June 30, 1932, when Congress failed to appropriate funds to continue its work. See Erving P. Hayes, Activities of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, 1930-31 (Concord, 1936). There are 107 cubic feet of records dated between 1930 and 1933, with a few dated as early as 1928, in this record group. RECORDS. 1928-33. 226 lin. ft. These include records of the Office of the Secretary, consisting of files of Edward Eyre Hunt, chiefly as Secretary of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes and as Executive Secretary of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, 1928-31; a card index of names of members and staff of the President's Organization and Emergency Committee, 1930-32, central files of the Emergency Committee, 1930-31, and central files of the Organization, 193132, comprising minutes, reports, issuances, correspondence, memorandums, and publications arranged by decimal classification schemes; records of the Office of the Director, consisting of files of Walter S. Gifford, 1931-32; records of the Office of the Assistant Director, consisting of files, 1930-33, of Fred C. Croxton (who served as a regional adviser, Acting Chairman of the Emergency Committee, Assistant Director of the Organization, and Chairman of its Committee on Administration of Relief), and correspondence, 1930-33; completed questionnaires from manufacturers on their employment practices and financial situations, 1932; correspondence with officials of State and city relief organizations and local public and private organizations, 1930-32; files of Executive Assistant Erving P. Hayes, 1930-33; and housekeeping records of the Office of the Chief Clerk, 1930-32. There are also records of the Public Works Section, consisting of questionnaires and project summaries relating to construction of public works, 193032, and correspondence, memorandums, reports, statistical data, publicity material, publications, and mailing lists relating to construction projects, 1930-32; office files of the Chief of the Relief Division, 1930-31, and issuances concerning programs for community action, 1931-32; records of the Industrial Division, consisting of reports, correspondence, memorandums, speechs, newsclippings, questionnaires, and publications relating to business, employment, relief conditions, and activities of local organizations, 1930-32; records of the Women's Division, consisting of files relating to activities of Division officials, 1930-31, and correspondence, reports, issuances, publicity material, mailing lists, and publications relating to women's work in providing relief and employment, and to the effect of unemployment on women's health and morale, 1930-31; records of the Statistical Division, consisting of correspondence, statistical data, work materials, reports, bibliographies, and issuances relating to economic conditions, employment, relief, and public works, 1930-32; and records of the Publicity Section, consisting of press releases, issuances, and other publications of the Emergency Committee and the Organization, with a related index, 193032, and correspondence, memorandums, minutes, reports, statistical data, and publicity material, 1930-32. In addition, there are records of committees of the Organization, consisting of correspondence of Chairman Eliot Wadsworth, minutes, and reports relating to the Committee on Cooperation with National Groups and Associations, 1931-32; files of Chairman Harry A. Wheeler and publications accumulated by the Committee on Employment Plans and Suggestions, 1930-32; and office files of the Washington representative of the Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources, 1913. There are also office files of field representatives, 1930-32. See Leo Pascal, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief, PI 137 (1962). RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD The National Resources Planning The NRPB and its predecessors served as national planning agencies concerned with development and use of the Nation's resources. Their major functions were to plan public works, coordinate Federal planning related to conservation and efficient use of national resources, conduct a research program of long-range studies as requested by the Congress or as directed by the President, and stimulate local, State, and regional planning. After 1939 the NRPB also performed special duties related to the war effort. There are 1,400 cubic feet of records dated between 1931 and 1943 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL This Board, established by the Employment Stabilization Act of February 10, 1931, collected information and prepared reports on employment and ess trends and provided assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies in planning public works. In 1934 the Board was abolished, and the Federal Employment Stabilization Office was established in the Department of Commerce as its successor. The functions of that Office, which was inactive after June 1935, were transferred to the NRPB by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939. Records of the Stabilization Board and its successor include reports, correspondence, memorandums, general subject and employment data files, charts, and graphs. RECORDS OF THE NRPB Central office classified files include minutes, reports, administrative and fiscal correspondence, records of special committees, records relating to NRPB publications and studies, and statistical data. Also records of three administrative divisions established to assist functional sections and committees engaged in particular studies, including general and technical reports and correspondence, records of the Full Employment Stabilization Unit of the Trends and Stabilization Section, and records of the Youth and Education Unit of Division A. This Division reported current business and employment trends; prepared studies about economics, finance, and fiscal policies and special trend studies on relief, technology, unemployment, population, and youth; and administered Science Committee activities relating to business and industrial research, including the compilation of the National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel, which the NRPB established in July 1940 in cooperation with the U.S. Civil Service Commission. (The War Manpower Commission of the Office for |