The Committee became inactive after CARTOGRAPHIC AND Cartographic records, 1905-33 (32 ca. 1929; an incomplete set of mimeographed publications entitled “Geographic News," containing information about map, atlas, and geographic book accessions, 1931-33; and an atlas, showing changes in the economic development of States and regions during the period 1929-48. Audiovisual records, 1899-1939 (10,100 items), consist of photographs relating to Bureau functions and made in more than 80 countries of people, institutions, ways of life, transportation facilities, and agricultural and industrial commodities, 1899-1939; and of Bureau personnel, 1913-30. RECORDS OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION (RECORD GROUP 91) The Inland Waterways Corporation, with the Secretary of War as incorporator, was created by an act of June 3, 1924. It was given responsibility for functions assigned to the Secretary by Act the Transportation of 1920 (amended in 1924, 1928, and 1934), including administration of U.S. inland water transportation facilities and coordination of rail and water transportation in the United States. Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939 transferred the Corporation to the Department of Commerce. It was sold to the Federal Waterways Corporation under a contract of July 24, 1953, and renamed the Federal Barge Lines, Inc. An act of July 19, 1963, provided for the liquidation of the Corporation. The Corporation, on funds derived from its transactions, operated barge lines on the Mississippi, Missouri, and Warrior Rivers and the Warrior River Terminal Company short-rail line. It also sold and leased its transportation facilities to private management, conducted investigations of waterway traffic and types of equipment suitable for waterways, and constructed water terminals. There are 45 cubic feet of records dated between 1932 and 1953 in this record group. RECORDS. 1932-53. 54 lin. ft. Records of the Washington office consist of correspondence of Department of Commerce officials, relating to Corpora tion affairs, 1938-44; correspondence of the Corporation with other Government agencies, 1939-44, and with private inland waterway operators and others concerning the appointment of the Advisory Board, 1939-42; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1944-52; correspondence of Advisory Board Chairman South Trimble, Jr., 1939-53; subject and reference files, 1939-52; labor agreements, 1940-46; records relating to construction programs, 1946-50; proposals by private groups to purchase the Corporation, 1950-53; periodic and operation reports, statistics, and issuances, 1935-53; opera tion accounts and fiscal records, 194553; and organization charts, 1940-53. Also specifications and blueprints of towboats and drawings and blueprints relating to river terminals, 1938-46, and charts relating to hydrographic surveys of the Mississippi River, 1948-52. There are photographs of operations of barge lines, 1948-52, and a motion picture (1 reel) portraying a map of inland waterway routes in the Mississippi River region from Minnesota and Lake Michigan to New Orleans and showing the christening of the packet boat Mark Twain at Jeffersonville, Ind., 1932. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Records of the Washington office, Inland Waterways Corporation, 1939-53. Restrictions: No one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the records officer of the Department of Commerce. Specified by: Department of Commerce. RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCTION AUTHORITY (RECORD GROUP 277) The National Production Authority (NPA) was established in the Department of Commerce on September 11, 1950. The NPA was responsible for developing and promoting production and supply of materials and facilities necessary for military defense, for determining that needs of the civilian economy were adequately represented in the defense effort, and for ensuring that small businesses were participating in defense contracts. It was abolished and its functions were merged with those of the Business and Defense Services Administration by an order of the Secretary of Commerce, October 1, 1953. deliberations of advisory and planning committees, managerial problems, program planning, interagency and congressional relations, and general policies with regard to the allocation of scarce commodities; subject files of special assistants to the Administrator, 1950-53; records of the Office of the Executive Secretary, 1951-53, consisting of files. relating to the operations review program, and historical reports on defense production; Appeals Board case files, 1951-53, with a related index; case records and subject files, 1951-53, of the Office of the Chief Hearing Commissioner; records of the Office of Public Information, 1950-53, consisting of press releases, delegations, motion pictures, and sound recordings; and records of the Office of the General Counsel, 1950-53, consisting of general correspondence, subject files of assistants, and compliance and enforcement case files of the Compliance Division. There are also records of the Office of the Assistant Administrator for Administration, consisting of administrative orders and instructions, 1950-53, of the Administrative Coordination Branch, Budget and Management Division; files of the Office of Industry Advisory Committees, relating to committee meetings, 1950-53; records of the Office of Small Business, relating to production equipment in small plant modernization, 1950-52; case files, 1950-51, of the Tax Amortization Division, Facilities and Construction Bureau; records of the Chemical, Rubber, and Forest Products Bureau, consisting of policy files and regulations, 1942-53, of the Containers and Packaging Division, and files of the Lumber and Wood Products Division, 1941-53, including correspondence relating to NPA dealings with foreign governments and statistical records; records of the Industrial and Agricultural Equipment Bureau, including subject files of the Metalworking Equipment Division, 1950-53, and tax amortization case files and requirement summaries of the General Industrial Equipment Division, 1950-53; and records of the Textile, Leather, and Specialty Equipment Bureau, consisting of tax amortization case files of the Service Equipment Division, 1950-53, and subject files, 1951-52, of the Textile and Clothing Division. Also records of the Policy Coordination Bureau, including minutes and administrative issuances, 1950-53; subject files of the Administrative Office, 1942-53; controlled materials reports and other files of the Program Coordination Division, relating to mobilization and requirements, 1951-53; subject files and issuances of the Control Operations Division, 1950-53; general and procedures development files, 194153, of the Priorities and Directives Division; subject files, 1951-53, of the Foreign Division; files of the Director of the Civilian Requirements Division, 1951-52; and statistical reports, publications, and administrative issuances of the Statistical Standards Division, 194253. Also included are Defense Production Administration planning and programing records, 1952; NPA records arranged and maintained by the Executive Secretary of the Defense Production Administration, including copies of organizational statements, orders, regulations, rules of procedure and practice, records concerning the organization and operation of interagency and advisory committees, and transcripts of interviews with officials prepared for historic documentation, 1950-53; and a set of manuals, proj ect authorizations, office notices, and general progress reports, 1950-53. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR GENERAL RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (RECORD GROUP 174) The present Department of Labor was created by an act of March 4, 1913, as one of the successor agencies of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Although a Department of Labor had previously existed, it was without Cabinet rank and was the predecessor agency of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (see RG 257). The Department has jurisdiction over matters relating to the welfare of American wage earners, including the improvement of their working conditions and the advancement of profitable employment opportunities. See U.S. Department of Labor, The Anvil and the Plow: A History of the United States Department of Labor (n.d.). There are 1,021 cubic feet of records dated between 1907 and 1968 in this record group. RECORDS. 1907-68. 1,426 lin. ft. These consist of minutes of departmental and other committees, reports, correspondence, memorandums, issuances, and press clippings comprising a central file of the Office of the Secretary of Labor, 1913-33 (with a few records dated as early as 1907 and administrative records to 1942). Records of Secretaries William B. Wilson, 1913-21, Frances Perkins, 1933-45, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 1945-48, Maurice J. Tobin, 1948-53, Martin P. Durkin, 1953, James P. Mitchell, 1953-60, Arthur J. Goldberg, 1961-62, and Willard W. Wirtz, 1962-67; of Under Secretaries Michael J. Galvin, 1941-50, David A. Morse, 1946-48, Lloyd A. Mashburn, 1953, Arthur Larson, 1954-57, and James T. O'Connell, 1957-60; of Deputy Under Secretary Millard Cass, 1947-66; of Assistant Secretaries McLaughlin, 1938-41, Charles ས. E. Dimock, 1939, Daniel Tracy, 1940-46, Edward C. Moran, Jr., 1945, John W. Gibson, 1945-51, Philip M. Kaiser, 194853, Ralph Wright, 1949, Robert T. Creasey, 1949-52, Spencer Miller, Jr., 195354, John J. Gilhooley, 1957-60, Jerry R. Holleman, 1961-62, and James J. Reynolds, 1961-65; of the assistant secretary for administration and his predecessors, the chief clerk, and the budget officer, 1942-68; and of Special Assistants to the Secretaries Hugh L. Kerwin, 1913-20, Richardson Saunders, 1933-39, Louis Sherman, 1945-47, Charles W. Straub, 1948-52, Thacher Winslow, 1948-52, Charles O'Dell, 1954-56, Albert L. McDermott, 1954-60, Aryness Joy Wickens, 1956-59, Stephen N. Shulman, 196162, Samuel V. Merrick, 1961-63, and Seymour Wolfbein, 1962-67. Records of Secretaries of Labor, relating to their memberships on the Trade Policy Committee, 1958-63. Records of the Wage Determination Branch of the Office of the Solicitor, relating to the enforcement of the DavisBacon Act of 1931, consist of administrative files, 1941-43, prevailing wage-rate case files, 1931-45, and "county files" containing data from which wage rates on Government contracts were determined, 1941-47 (in WNRC). Also records relating to the Conciliation Service, 1919, and the Division of Negro Economics, 1919-21. Office of Information records, consisting of correspondence and subject classified files, 1933-62; texts of speeches and other public statements, including scripts for radio broadcasts of Secretaries Perkins, 1933-45, 1933-45, and Schwellenbach, 1945-48, and of Assistant Secretaries D. A. Morse, Philip Hannah, and John T. Kmetz, 1946-48; informational issuances, such as press releases and statements, 1948-60; and records of the departmental World War II historical program, consisting of reports, correspondence, memorandums, and drafts of histories, 1942-47. A general file of the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Economic Policy and Programs, 1949-50; files of the Management-Labor Policy Committee on Defense Manpower, consisting of agenda, summary and verbatim minutes, documents submitted for consideration, correspondence, and issuances, 1950-51; case files of the departmental Defense Manpower Administration on its advisory reports to the Wage Stabilization Board, regarding the latter's "rare and unusual" wage adjustment cases, 195153; and records of the Program Planning and Review Committee, including agenda, minutes, summaries of actions, memorandums, issuances, reports, and correspondence, 1955-62. on Reports, studies, and administrative files of the Division of Research and Investigation, U.S. Commission Industrial Relations, 1912-15; records of the President's Mediation Commission, including transcripts of hearings at Globe, Clifton, and Bisbee, Ariz., 1917; and reports, correspondence, and memorandums relating to Commission activities, 1917-18. Photographs (19 items) of Secretaries M. J. Tobin and M. P. Durkin and of the 40th anniversity celebration of the Department, 1949-54, and a sound recording of President Truman's address to the President's Conference on Industrial Safety, 1949. Microfilm Publication: Reports of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations, 191215, T4, 15 rolls. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS I. Records: Records of the immedi- and special assistants to the Secretaries of Labor. Restrictions: For a period of 20 years subsequent to the accession of such records by the National Archives, unless a shorter or longer period of time is specified in the transfer agreement, no one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except as authorized by the Secretary of Labor, the Assistant Secretary for Administration, or a representative of either. Provided further: that where a different restriction is specified for any other records of the Department of Labor accessioned by the National Archives, such restriction shall also apply to any related correspondence, references, etc., which may be included in records described above in part I Records. Specified by: Secretary of Labor. II. Records: General file of the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Economic Policy and Programs, 1949-50. Restrictions: Before January 1, 1974, no one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except as authorized by the Secretary of Labor, the Assistant Secretary for Administration, or a representative of either. Specified by: Secretary of Labor. III. Records: Records of the Program Planning and Review Committee, 1955-62. Restrictions: Before January 1, 1972, no one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies |