[United States Department of Labor Fifty-Fifth Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1967]
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Fifty-Fifth Annual Report
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FISCAL YEAR 1967
Willard Wirtz, Secretary
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Secretary of Labor.................................Willard Wirtz
Executive Assistant to the Secretary.............Frank W. Erwin
Special Assistant to the Secretary for Economic Policy..................................Arthur M. Ross 1
Special Assistant to the Secretary for Legislative Affairs..............................Samuel V. Merrick
Special Assistant to the Secretary...............Gerald W. Bush
Special Assistant to the Secretary...............Arthur A. Chapin
Director, Office of Information, Publications and Reports .....................................John W. Leslie
Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance (EEO) ...........................................Edward C. Sylvester, Jr.
Director, Office of Policy Planning and Research. . Philip Arnow2
Under Secretary ...................................James J. Reynolds3
Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary.......John N. Gentry3
Deputy Under Secretary...........................Millard Cass
Assistant Secretary for Manpower...................Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Deputy Assistant Secretary.......................Frank Borda4
Manpower Administrator ..........................Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Associate Manpower Administrator for Policy,
Evaluation, and Research and Director, Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation, and Research ....................................Curtis C. Aller
Administrator, Bureau of Employment Security.....................................Robert C. Goodwin
Administrator, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training ....................................Hugh G. Murphy
Administrator, Bureau of Work Programs.......Jack Howard
Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations .......................................Thomas R. Donahue3
Administrator, Labor-Management Services Administration................................Thomas R. Donahue3
Director, Office of Labor-Management and Welfare-Pension Reports.....................Frank M. Kleiler
Director, Office of Veterans’ Reemployment Rights......................................Hugh W. Bradley
Director, Office of Employee-Management Relations Services..........................Beatrice M. Burgoon
Director, Office of Labor-Management Policy Development .........................James E. Jones, Jr.
Administrator, Wage and Hour and Public
Contracts Divisions.........................Clarence T. Lundquist
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs...George L-P Weaver
Deputy Assistant Secretary and Administrator, Bureau of International Labor Affairs.......Harry Weiss
Assistant Secretary for Labor Standards.........Esther Peterson
Deputy Assistant Secretary .................David A. Swankin’
Director, Women’s Bureau....................Mary Dublin Keyserhng
Director, Bureau of Labor Standards....... Nelson M. Bortz
Director, Bureau of Employees’ Compensation. . Thomas A. Tinsley
Chairman, Employees’ Compensation	___
Appeals Board.............................Theodore M. Schwartz
Commissioner of Labor Statistics ...............Arthur M. Ross
Deputy Commissioner ........................Robert J. Myers
Solicitor	..............................Charles Donahue
Deputy Solicitor’	’	’	...............Edward D Friedman
Assistant Secretary for Administration..........Leo S. Hudson
Deputy Assistant Secretary............................... .
Assistant Assistant Secretary...............Edward J. McVeigh
Librarian.................................Margaret F. Brickett
1	Appointed June 14, 1967.
2	Appointed Nov. 18, 1966.
3	Appointed Mar. 8, 1967.
4	Appointed Sept. 15, 1966.
5	Appointed Mar. 26, 1967.
3 Died July 7, 1967.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
ANNUAL REPORT, 1967
Contents
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Report of the Secretary of Labor.......................... 1
Appendix tables.......................................... 23
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF LABOR
The meaningful report of the work of the Department of Labor in 1967 would omit anything that happened in the Department and would be about what happened in the lives of American wage earners; for this was a year of reassertion of individual values and of increased questioning of the relevance of institutional achievements.
That more meaningful report would not separate out this one Department’s contributions to the current assault on poverty, ignorance, and bigotry; for it is one of the unprecedented characteristics of this attack that it has been an essential combination of what were previously divided actions.
Nor would that report use previous accomplishment as a measure of current achievement; for the most basic thing happening today in the American society is the recognition of the human potential —rather than any precedent—as the only proper measurement of present endeavors. And “economic indicators” would yield to “social indicators”—as a reflection of the fact that the economy is only a servant of the human purpose.
This is not that more meaningful report. There are not the means at hand to prepare it. What is in fact reported can only borrow a little of validity from recognizing and pointing out the larger context in which the work of the men and women in the Department find our ultimate relevancy. This is reflected, editorially, only in organizing this 1967 report more around the identification of human purposes than programs or bureaus.
Full and Meaningful Employment
A sixth successive year of national prosperity focused attention on that kind of unemployment which remains even when the economy is functioning uncommonly well and on a sustained basis. Unemployment, and underemployment and subemployment, have emerged as human, not just economic, conditions.
It was a source of proper national pride that in 1967 between U/2 and 2 million persons who would otherwise probably have been idle were in school, in training, or on jobs as a result of new and more direct approaches to the problems of severe disadvantage.
In 1967, two factors guided the marshaling of public and private resources to insure that everyone might enjoy the economic reward and self-respect that flow from productive employment.
First, it was recognized that further economic growth would not alone rescue prosperity’s disadvantaged—the ill-educated, the unskilled, the victims of prejudice, the aged, the unhealthy. The
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employment problems of prosperity’s disadvantaged are individual, not just economic, and have to be met on a personal basis.
Second, the manpower programs were focused more sharply on particular areas in which unemployment and underemployment were concentrated. These efforts were also focused on the very hardest cases: people who cannot move immediately into permanent jobs because of individual drawbacks.
The need for concentrating the “firepower” of the manpower programs became crystal clear following a series of comprehensive surveys made during the year in target slum areas of major U.S. cities.
These surveys revealed, in the starkest terms, that there are two Americas—one characterized by general affluence and comfort, the other by grim deprivation and daily misery.
Providing the first detailed information on the depth of the employment plight of inner-city residents, these surveys showed a jobless rate in these areas 3 times that of the Nation as a whole— with 1 out of every 3 residents of these blighted city areas suffering a serious employment problem.
The basic concept of the concentrated job effort is to provide in one contract with one sponsor in a target area all services necessary to enable a slum resident to find and hold a steady job at a living wage.
Most importantly, the program is not one where government “goes it alone.” The effort relies heavily on the resources and cooperation of employers in the community.
In addition to the Concentrated Employment Program, the Department of Labor continued to provide a wide range of services to other American workers with special needs.
In 1967, all State employment security agencies were engaged in a “Human Resources Development Program” that seeks to identify the seriously disadvantaged and help them overcome their personal employment problems. Offering counseling, placement, and followup services, the program features referral of the disadvantaged to jobs, training, or other services they might need to become productive workers. It brings residents of low-income neighborhoods into meaningful contact with the manpower services that seek to lead them as swiftly as possible to full-time jobs.
Through its wide scope of job programs and services, the Department of Labor continued to provide special help for groups of citizens with special problems.
Alarmingly, youth continued to suffer an unemployment rate 3 times as great as that of the rate for all workers.
To channel disadvantaged youth toward meaningful and productive lives, Youth Opportunity Centers were operated by State
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employment services in strategic locations across the Nation. These centers provide young people with a host of services and refer them either to jobs or to such worthwhile programs as the Neighborhood Youth Corps or the Job Corps. By the end of the fiscal year, 167 centers in 128 areas had registered more than 1.1 million youth aged 16 to 22 and had placed 319,000 in jobs.
Apprenticeship Information Centers were serving youths in areas with large concentrations of minority groups in 26 major cities across the country. At these centers, young people were given current information on apprenticeship requirements and openings in nearby industries, and hundreds were referred for placement.
In addition, the Department played a major part in the President’s Youth Opportunity and Stay-in-School Campaigns during the fiscal year.
Under the summer campaign, more than 1 million jobs were provided 16- to 21-year-old youths. Mostly in the private sector of the economy, these jobs enabled a large body of young people to earn enough money to continue their education. Still other youths were to launch work careers because of this summer program.
The Stay-in-School effort probably resulted in an additional 900,000 young people staying in school. The Department joined forces with other Federal agencies in rallying the support of private industry, agriculture, and labor in steering young Americans back to school in the fall.
Federal demonstration projects were conducted in five cities to develop new and improved methods of serving older workers. Funds were allocated to State employment services for 291 new positions to staff older worker service units in 20 major cities. During the year, more than 1.2 million applicants 45 years of age and over were placed in nonagricultural jobs through State employment services.
Handicapped persons filed a record of 507,100 new applications with employment service offices in fiscal 1967—9.4 percent more than in the preceding year. Placement of handicapped persons totaled more than 303,300.
As the minority-group unemployment rate remained at least twice as high as the general rate, the Department intensified its efforts to improve employment conditions for members of minority groups. Almost one-third of the estimated 275,000 enrollees receiving skill training under the Manpower Development and Training Act were non white or Spanish-speaking; these groups comprised more than half of the enrollment in the Neighborhood Youth Corps out-of-school program.
Notable in the efforts to promote fuller use of women workers was the special emphasis given to providing day-care facilities for the children of low-income working mothers.
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In view of the increasing number of servicemen returning to civilian life, special employment services for veterans played an important part in the Department’s overall program. These services include preferential job placement and counseling in State employment security agencies, apprentice training, occupational training under the Manpower Development and Training Act, unemployment compensation, and provision of vital occupational outlook information. The Department cooperated with the Department of Defense in planning pilot training projects to groom military personnel for civilian jobs before they leave the Armed Forces.
The Department also determined specific training needs of several other areas with suitable training facilities for similar projects.
The year saw further progress toward increasing the employment opportunities and bettering the living and working conditions of farmworkers. Agricultural employers were provided with labor supply information, and efforts were made to coordinate large segments of the migrant labor force to meet the demand for workers at times of need.
In addition, a full range of employment services was brought to residents of rural areas of 18 States through the Smaller Communities Program, in which mobile units are sent into isolated areas. Several manpower projects explored the problems of preparing rural youth for work in urban areas. Rural residents benefited from Federal job-training and work-experience programs.
So, in 1967, a series of strategic programs operated to insure that every citizen has, in President Johnson’s words, “an opportunity to unlock his own potential.”
In fiscal 1967, 312,000 training opportunities were provided under MDTA, bringing to 1,039,600 the number of such opportunities made available since 1962.
Experimental and demonstration (E&D) activities are conducted through grants or contracts to public and private organizations to meet more effectively the job and training needs of the disadvantaged. During the fiscal year, nearly 100 of these projects were contracted for under MDTA.
The Department’s efforts to promote apprenticeship paid rich dividends in 1967 as the most significant gains in recent years were made in this area. At midyear, nearly 208,000 apprentices were in training under programs registered with the Department or State apprenticeship agencies. In calendar 1966, about 85,000 new apprentices were registered—an increase of 16,500 over the year.
The Department continued to seek equal opportunity in apprenticeship in 1967. In States where it is the registration agency, the Department made a determined effort to have sponsors with more than five apprentices in their program come into voluntary compli
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ance with regulations on nondiscrimination in apprenticeship. One of the most significant developments in this area was the establishment of a top-level committee comprised of departmental officials and five general presidents from the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, to deal with problems in construction apprenticeship.
Several programs under the antipoverty law—the Economic Opportunity Act—seek to eliminate barriers to employment of disadvantaged persons through work-experience and training programs. These include the Neighborhood Youth Corps, New Careers, Operation Mainstream, and a Special Impact effort to help the urban poor.
Since its inception in 1965, the Neighborhood Youth Corps has helped more than 1 million young people from low-income families to stay in school, return to school, or prepare for permanent jobs. In fiscal 1967, more than half a million youth worked in nearly 1,500 hometown projects—projects initiated, developed, and sponsored by public and private organizations in local communities. Each kind of project seeks to meet the needs of a particular group of young men and women from low-income families, and to assist them in reaching distinct goals. Project sponsors have included community action agencies, public schools, conservation groups, forestry and rural development agencies, State and municipal agencies, Indian tribes, and libraries and hospitals. In 1967, the program helped over 390,000 poor youths to continue their education and over 160,000 out-of-school and unemployed youths to gain invaluable work experience, enabling many of them to launch job careers.
The New Careers, Operation Mainstream, and Special Impact programs were created under 1966 amendments to the antipoverty law. Each program, in a different way, strives to prepare the disadvantaged for a world of work that all too often has been cold or closed to them all their lives. Holding out bright new promise for the unemployed and underemployed, these programs were just getting their first head of steam in 1967.
New Careers involves the restructuring of jobs in such services as health, education, welfare, and public safety to provide meaningful careers for individuals from low-income families and to make more effective use of professional staffs. The disadvantaged are being trained for new careers, while nurses, doctors, teachers, laboratory technicians, social workers, law enforcement officials, and counselors are being freed from duties requiring less than professional skills.
Operation Mainstream seeks to rehabilitate individuals and communities through projects that improve the local environment. The program provides training for low-income adults who build roads,
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drainage ditches, sewer lines, and water sheds, eliminate air and water pollution hazards, protect wildlife, conserve natural resources, and develop community cooperatives. Training projects are located in areas with high unemployment or with little or no industrialization.
Special Impact seeks to attack the critical problems that plague urban areas with high concentrations of low-income residents. Unemployed and underemployed youths in these areas who are 16 or over receive work-training and experience in projects that reshape the social and physical environment of their neighborhoods. Project activities may include renovating houses or apartments, improving health facilities, developing vestpocket parks, expanding community programs, or developing recreational facilities. Priority is given to projects that provide a wide range of services and lead to permanent jobs.
At the same time, efforts continue to help working citizens in other ways, including the provision of income maintenance for the jobless.
Financial Aid for the Jobless
When a man or woman gets laid off from work, a series of major problems usually develops. Probably the biggest problem is figuring how to make ends meet until another job can be found.
One of the goals of the Nation’s income-maintenance program is to help ease the suffering that so often results from involuntary joblessness. Unemployment insurance benefits help workers to pay basic living expenses between jobs. Moreover, by sustaining purchasing power, these benefits serve as a stabilizing influence on the country’s economy.
In 1967, some 55 million workers in commerce, industry, and government, including the Armed Forces, were covered under the Federal-State unemployment insurance system administered by the Department of Labor. In addition to the workers covered under this system, 700,000 railroad workers were insured against unemployment under a system administered by the Railroad Retirement Board.
During the year, 5 million workers—many of them family breadwinners—were paid $2 billion in unemployment insurance benefits under the Federal-State system. These jobless persons received an average weekly payment of $41.05 for an average of 11.1 weeks for all beneficiaries and 20.9 weeks for those exhausting their entitlement. Unemployed Federal civilian workers received $41.08 for an
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average of 14.9 weeks and ex-servicemen $41.26 for an average of 9.3 weeks.
In 1967, the trend toward higher weekly benefits and more stringent qualifying requirements continued as several States amended their unemployment insurance laws.
Sixteen States increased their maximum weekly benefits from $2 to $10, with four of these States providing for automatic adjustment in weekly benefits in accordance with changes in average State wages. Increases also became effective in the District of Columbia and 15 States that had previously adopted provisions for automatic adjustment of the maximum weekly benefit. At the end of the year, the maximum weekly benefit ranged from $28 in Puerto Rico to $66 in Hawaii. It was $45 or more in 30 States that accounted for over 58 percent of the Nation’s covered workers, and at least $50 in 19 States with 41.8 percent of the covered workers.
Other forms of financial aid for the jobless are also administered by the Department.
In 1967, some 128,000 persons taking basic educational and vocational training under the Manpower Development and Training Act were paid approximately $137 million in allowances. These allowances permitted trainees to sustain themselves and their families and helped defray separate living and transportation costs when training was provided away from their home areas.
Also during the year, 2,734 workers who lost their jobs involuntarily participated in labor mobility projects under the MDTA and were paid about $900,000 in loans and grants to relocate to full-time employment in other areas.
Some workers who lose their jobs as a result of a trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965. In 1967, 1,340 workers of automotive products manufacturing and parts assembly plants or components that cut back or closed because of the trade agreement were paid $1,878,800 in adjustment assistance allowances by five States.
The Department administers six Federal workmen’s compensation laws to protect covered employees in the event of a work injury. An estimated 4.5 million employees are protected under these laws, including 2.9 million civilian employees of the Federal Government and more than 300,000 employees of private industry in the District of Columbia. As a result of historic liberalization of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act benefit structure during the fiscal year, costs jumped nearly $14 million over the previous year’s level to $89,093,209. This represented an over-the-year increase of 18.5 percent. The largest expenditure, $44.9 million, went as disability compensation for regular civilian Federal employees. The largest
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group of private employees subject to Federal workmen’s compensation administration are those covered by the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. Under this law, the estimated evaluation of cases closed (excluding medical costs) was $15,434,036, slightly lower than the figure for the previous year.
Decent Wages and Working Conditions
Activity increased during the year to insure that Americans are paid decent wages and work under good conditions. For nearly 30 years, the Fair Labor Standards Act, with its minimum wage and other vital provisions, has stood as a mighty bulwark for human dignity and economic progress. In today’s fight against poverty and disadvantage in big-city and rural slums, this law assumes even greater importance. The most far-reaching improvements ever made in the act become effective during 1967.
On February 1, 1967, amendments increased the minimum wage for 32.3 million workers who were already covered by the law and brought over 9 million more employees under its provisions. In addition to the minimum wage, this law offers a wide range of other vital protections for our working people. It contains overtime pay provisions, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the payment of wages, and regulates employment of children and youth.
As a result of the 1966 amendments, the law now covers more than 41 million workers. Thus, an ever-increasing number of working Americans are earning more pay and can build better futures for their families and themselves.
Of the 9 million employees covered by the minimum wage for the first time, 3.1 million are in services, 2.4 million in government, 2.2 million in retail trade, 600,000 in construction, and 500,000 in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. These industries account for more than 95 percent of the total extension.
The law applies to employees individually engaged in or producing goods for interstate commerce, and to employees in certain enterprises. The extension of coverage was achieved through broadening the definition of a covered enterprise and the revision or elimination of some exemptions. The dollar-volume test for coverage of enterprises was reduced from $1 million to $500,000 in gross annual business volume effective February 1, 1967, and to $250,000 beginning February 1, 1969. Coverage was extended without a dollar-volume test to employees of laundries and drycleaners, construction enterprises, non-Federal hospitals, resident-care facilities, elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education, whether public or private.
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These new amendments provided more than one pay standard. For employment that was covered before the amendments, the minimum wage was increased from $1.25 to $1.40 an hour on February 1, 1967, and to $1.60 a year later. For newly covered nonfarm work, the minimum was set at $1.00 an hour effective February 1, increasing by 15 cents a year until reaching a $1.60 rate on February 1, 1971. The initial minimum wage rate for covered farmwork is also $1.00 an hour, and will reach a minimum of $1.30 on February 1, 1969.
The expanded coverage under the new amendments for workers in such activities as laundries, hotels, restaurants, farms, hospitals, and resident-care facilities was of particular significance to nonwhite and women workers, who were heavily concentrated in these fields.
For the first time, the law requires a minimum age of 16 years for employment at any time in agricultural occupations which are declared particularly hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.
The 1966 amendments to the wage-hour law required the drafting of many new or revised provisions for the regulations under the act, resulting in a substantial increase in the number of legal opinions and interpretations in the area of labor standards. Extensive in character, the amendments created new and novel legal questions, including the constitutionality of some of its new provisions. Substantial work was required to revise existing interpretative bulletins and to issue new ones in light of the amendments.
Investigations by the Department of Labor play an indispensable role in protecting the rights of working people under the law. In 1967, these investigations found that 368,582 employees were due $76.1 million under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, and the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act. These underpayments included: overtime, $53.7 million; minimum wage, $18.8 million; equal pay, $3.3 million; and the Service Contract Act, $263,000. In addition, employers agreed to pay 194,496 employees $26.7 million in illegally withheld wages found due in investigations. Investigations to determine compliance with the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Public Contracts Act turned up 18,536 minors illegally employed.
On the litigation front, 1,817 cases, a new high, were instituted in 1967 under the FLSA and PC A. Twenty criminal prosecutions were instituted. Under both of these laws, 1,741 cases were closed with payment of back wages to employees in 887 cases.
One of the most significant litigation achievements was the district court decision upholding the validity of the 1966 extension of the Federal minimum wage to public school and hospital employees. Twenty-eight States joined in the action seeking to enjoin enforce
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ment of this extension on the grounds it was unconstitutional. But the court denied the injunction.
Two landmark decisions regarding equal pay for women were rendered. In the first such case to be decided, the Nevada District Court ordered the pay of two women laboratory analysts raised to that of a man analyst. This case established the principle that men and women who perform substantially equal work cannot be paid at different rates for all hours worked simply because some specific identifiable part of their time is spent in performing other different duties and that, in such circumstances, a differential is justifiable for only the hours spent on different work.
In the second case, the employer was required to raise the wages of women to the same rate paid to men with whom they worked in an assembly-line packaging operation.
In 1967, the Nation continued to make impressive strides toward achieving better and safer conditions on the job for American workers. An upsurge of both State and Federal legislative activity brought impressive gains to the Nation’s wage earners. State legislatures enacted nearly 600 new labor laws that provide a broad spectrum of improved protections. These include:
—A new minimum wage law in Nebraska and major improvements in 11 other States.
—Increased protection under safety or workmen’s compensation laws in 17 States for workers exposed to radiation hazards.
—Increased benefits or other improvements in workmen’s compensation protection in about half of the States.
—Greater protection of workers’ earnings against wage garnishment in six States.
Safety standards were developed to protect workers in a variety of employment areas. This included safety and health standards under the 1966 Arts and Humanities and Vocational Rehabilitation Acts, the Service Contract Act, and the Public Contracts Act.
The disclosure of a high incidence of lung cancer among uranium miners stirred the conscience of the Nation in 1967. As a result of this disclosure, radiation standards for uranium mines engaged in public contracts were developed to protect the lives of miners. Effective on June 12, 1967, the standards call for a reduction of ionizing radiation to 1 working level by July 1969 and to a .3 working level 6 months later. State exposure limits were reduced following issuance of this order under the Public Contracts Act.
In line with the Secretary of Labor’s order, the Federal Bureau of Mines is conducting compliance inspections in uranium mines. By the end of the fiscal year, the Bureau of Mines had made 106
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inspections of these mines, finding 84 violating the radiation exposure limits set by the Department. Action was initiated to bring the violating mines into compliance.
There was other noteworthy progress on the job safety front.
The injury frequency rate in longshoring dropped for the seventh consecutive year since the Department began administering safety and health regulations under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. The longshoring rate dropped 6 percent from 1965 while the shipyard rate fell by 9 percent. Study and investigations of particularly hazardous operations in these fields resulted in several proposed new regulations.
Mission SAFETY-70, President Johnson’s program to reduce injuries to Federal employees 30 percent by 1970, continued to show progress. A 12.7 percent cut in injuries has brought the Government nearly halfway to its goal. Since the program was launched in 1965, an estimated 10,000 work injuries have been prevented and nearly $8 million saved in direct costs.
With women playing an increasingly important role in the work force, the Department focused more intently than ever on easing the plight of disadvantaged women workers. It sought to upgrade household employment to assist disadvantaged women and girls who often turn to this type of work for lack of other skills.
It also provided technical assistance and advice to public and private agencies concerned with equal employment opportunities for women. Information for use in formulating policy was supplied to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, other Federal agencies, and appropriate agencies in those States with laws relating to sex discrimination. Amendments to fair employment practice programs in Connecticut, Idaho, Michigan, and Nevada brought to 15 the number of jurisdictions with laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of sex.
Efforts to improve the status of women were carried forward by the Interdepartmental Committee and Citizens’ Advisory Council on the Status of Women, for which the Department serves as secretariat. Four task forces of the Advisory Council were appointed to review and update recommendations of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women: Family Law and Policy, Health and Welfare, Labor Standards, and Social Insurance and Taxes. The Department also joined a variety of organizations in sponsoring numerous major conferences dealing with such topics as expanding employment opportunities for women, household employment, the need for day-care facilities, women in poverty, and continuing education for women.
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Labor-Management Relations
As the U.S. economy has grown larger and more complex, its components have become more interdependent. It is increasingly more important for labor and management organizations to work together out of mutuality of interest. Gone forever is the era when a labor dispute could be considered as a problem involving only the two parties; today, a work stoppage in any major industry can have major repercussions throughout the economy.
In 1967, the Department of Labor continued to carry out vital functions in the field of labor-management relations. It continued to administer important laws and to protect the rights of labor, management, and workers, while encouraging a spirit of cooperation toward achieving our common goal—further economic growth and prosperity for all citizens.
One of the major developments on the industrial relations front was the launching of an early-warning system to pinpoint potential disputes which could affect the national interest. The Labor Department provided detailed background on collective bargaining issues and positions, along with supplementary status reports, in about 50 different bargaining situations in such key industries as electrical products, communications, oil, trucking, rubber, publishing, meatpacking, shipbuilding, maritime, railroad, airline, and defense products.
The Department also provided support to ad hoc boards established to investigate disputes of national significance and assisted four Presidential Emergency Boards set up under the Railway Labor Act to inquire into major disputes in the railroad and airline industries. In two instances all of the principal railroads of the Nation were involved. Other disputes panels receiving the agency’s support were the Maritime Pension Study Panel, the President’s Missile Sites Labor Commission, and the San Francisco Nurses’ Factfinding Panel.
In May 1967, the Teamsters Union asked the Department to oversee the referendum on its newly negotiated national agreement. Involving more than a quarter-million ballots, the referendum was the largest ever conducted by mail to ratify a collective bargaining contract. Department officials participated in the counting of the ballots around the clock from the initial preparation to the final verification of results.
The Department continued a long-range study of the longshore industry during the year. The study is aimed at helping the parties improve the collective bargaining relationship to avoid breakdowns in future negotiations in an industry so vital to the country.
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The number of employees represented by labor organizations in the Federal service grew during the year to more than 1 million in over 1,170 bargaining units covered by some 600 agreements. The Department participated in several Civil Service Commission workshops covering negotiations and implementing labor agreements and programs. Along with the Commission, the Department reviews agency practices regarding employee representation and recommends new procedures to fit changing conditions. A primary responsibility of the Department in this field is to nominate arbitrators to rule on problems arising during the establishment of bargaining units in the Federal service.
During the year, the Department was active in administering two laws in the labor-management area—the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (WPPDA).
LMRDA requires labor organizations to report for public disclosure their financial activities and regulates certain internal procedures of labor organizations, particularly those dealing with the election of officers and the imposition of trusteeships. Under certain conditions, employers, labor relations consultants, union officers and employees, and surety companies are subject to the act’s reporting provisions. At year’s end, 51,507 disclosures files of reporting labor organizations were active.
To promote voluntary compliance with the law’s provisions, the Department gave extensive technical assistance—and information —to labor organizations and others subject to the act. A total of 125,000 publications on the law’s requirements was distributed to those concerned and Department staff members participated in labor affairs events and university-sponsored programs for union members and officials.
Since most violations of the law are either inadvertent or due to misunderstanding, legal action is instituted only when willful violations are indicated. During the year, approximately 6,400 investigations were completed under the law. As a result, unions submitted more than 5,000 delinquent financial reports and amended other financial reports to correct deficiencies.
Under LMRDA, 26 civil actions involving the Department were instituted in Federal district courts, 16 civil cases were presented to the courts of appeals for review, and six petitions for writs of certiorari, including two cases involving criminal provisions of the act, were filed in the Supreme Court. Sixty-nine individuals were indicted under the criminal provisions of LMRDA, leading to 54 convictions and two acquittals.
The WPPDA requires that administrators of welfare or pension benefit plans with 100 or more participants file plan descriptions
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with the Department of Labor. It also requires bonding for personnel who are in a position to cause a loss to a plan through fraud or dishonesty. There are criminal penalties for embezzlement, false reporting, bribery, or kickbacks involving welfare and pension plans.
At the end of the fiscal year, approximately 161,000 active employee-benefit plans were on file with the Department. The entire listing of reporting plans was revised and updated during the year. Information had been received and processed for approximately 135,-000 plans. Some 33,000 of the 161,000 active plans provided retirement benefits and the remaining 128,000 provided only welfaretype benefits.
To assist all those responsible for filing reports, the Department conducted nearly 130 workshops across the country and distributed 200,000 technical-assistance publications to interested parties.
It also conducted about 900 investigations of delinquent and deficient reporting and financial cases. Compliance with the law’s provisions was effected in these cases primarily through correspondence and by individual contact with the responsible party.
Data Collection and Analysis
In its efforts during the year to promote the general welfare of American wage earners, the Department mustered new social and economic data.
Surveys were conducted in the slum areas of 10 cities in the continental United States and Puerto Rico to uncover the extent of unemployment and underemployment. These surveys played a major part in developing concentrated employment programs in various slum areas of the country.
Other studies focusing on manpower policy issues—nonparticipation in the work force, the job situation in slums, and employment and unemployment estimates for specific metropolitan areas—were begun. These activities are vital in efforts to find work for the disadvantaged. The Department also published projections of the labor force by color to 1980 and State labor force projections for 1970 and 1980.
In decisionmaking by Government and by private industry, the Department’s statistics on manpower programs, the labor force, employment, unemployment, prices, wages, hours of work, productivity, and work stoppages were of crucial importance during the year.
A significant achievement in the field of employment analysis was the development of a monthly hours-and-earnings series representing all 44 million production and nonsupervisory payroll workers
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in the private nonagricultural economy. This new series, much more comprehensive than the traditional one for factory production workers, was introduced in May 1967.
The 1968-69 edition of the “Occupational Outlook Handbook,” which furnishes information on job opportunities in about 700 occupations and 30 industries, was being readied for publication. This book, considered a requisite in counseling young people for careers, reevaluates the effects of recent economic, social, and technological developments upon occupational requirements in the U.S.
Several other manpower studies were completed, including manpower projections for health workers, scientists and engineers, and State and local government workers, all of whom are in rapidly growing fields.
National concern about increases in unit labor costs and prices sharpened interest in the measurement and analysis of productivity. The Department developed a quarterly series of indexes of output per manhour for the private nonfarm sector of the economy. Progress was made toward the Department’s goal of developing indexes of output per manhour for all industries with employment of 50,000 or more. New indexes were published for the air transportation and the aluminum rolling and drawing industries, while work neared completion for motor vehicles, radio and television, bakery products, foundry, household appliances, and soft-drink industries.
As a part of the agency’s effort to analyze and evaluate technological change, a study of “Technology and Manpower in the Textile Industry of the 1970’s” was being made. One of a series on major industries, this study projects the impact of technological change on productivity, employment, occupational requirements, and labormanagement relations. A summary of developments in the health service industry indicated that manpower shortages will continue over the next decade despite new laborsaving devices and increased efforts to expand the supply of health workers.
As the interest in prices intensified, new attention was directed to the Department’s price indexes as barometers of inflationary pressures. A major revision of the Wholesale Price Index was carried out during the year. In addition to a complete reweighting to reflect 1963 shipments of commodities, the index underwent a major reclassification. A new calculation procedure and machine program was implemented. More than 200 commodities were added to the index and new preliminary monthly estimates were developed to provide an earlier measure of wholesale price trends. Beginning with the March 1967 indexes, the Department initiated a new system of jointly releasing the Consumer Price Index and the Wholesale Price Index.
Meanwhile, major work on consumer spending habits was under
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way. At the end of the fiscal year, revision of two Department standard budgets that define moderate living standards for a city worker’s family of four and a retired couple (at autumn 1966 costs) was nearly completed.
The Department’s first survey of wages and related benefits in the hospital industry was completed. This study, made in connection with the Department’s new minimum wage and overtime responsibilities in the area of hospitals, was included in the report to the Congress on minimum wage and maximum hours standards under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Separate reports were also prepared on retail trade and laundries. The study covered 2 million nonsuper-visory workers in government and private hospitals.
Several new types of studies of employee benefit plans were undertaken. In cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department has begun to study terminations of pension plans over a 10-year period. A similar study of profitsharing plans is in progress.
The agency’s program of collective bargaining analysis moved into the issues in which seniority is important. This includes promotion, transfer, layoff, and recall policies. Data on paid vacations and paid holiday practices in union agreements were issued in 1967. The Department expanded its listing of contract expiration dates from all agreements covering a minimum of 5,000 workers to those covering at least 1,000 workers.
The most important foreign labor study published by the Department during the year was “Wages in Japan and the United States: Report on the Joint United States-Japan Wage Study.” Reports on labor laws and practice in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, and Lebanon were also published and similar studies for seven other countries were completed. Among the special studies issued during the year were four on the Soviet Union, covering such areas as labor controls, economic incentives, and worktime required for consumer purchases.
Manpower data collection and analysis and manpower program evaluation are essential for the Department in advising or guiding manpower program administrators, Congressmen, State and local manpower officials, community action groups and educators. Continued efforts were made to improve statistical reporting on manpower operational programs. Special reviews and analytical evaluation studies were conducted. Reports prepared for publication included: (1) A study on earnings mobility of MDTA trainees; (2) a review of training activities under MDTA; and (3) a profile of the changing characteristics of MDTA trainees. Considerable information was supplied to other agencies concerned with manpower program statistics. The data included extensive statistical compilations designed and prepared for the House Select Subcommittee on
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Labor for its review and consideration of federally supported manpower programs in relation to the national antipoverty effort.
A December 1966 survey of applicants in seven cities indicated that lack of training, police records, garnishment records, age, and transportation problems are serious barriers to employment in slum neighborhoods.
Of the 150 major areas classified regularly regarding the adequacy of labor supply, 9 were rated in June 1967 as having substantial unemployment, compared with 13 the year before and 21 two years earlier. All told, 59 major labor areas were given a low-unemployment rating in June 1967—the same as in 1966 but 19 more than 2 years before.
Pilot surveys of employer job vacancies were carried out in 10 areas by State employment security agencies. Information obtained included employers’ total vacancies, hard-to-fill vacancies, wages offered by occupation, and summer and future job openings.
In the absence of job-vacancy data for all areas, quarterly State employment security agency surveys of unfilled job openings in 77 areas were analyzed by occupation, area, duration, and the reasons why jobs were unfilled for a month or more. Information was used in matching jobs and jobseekers, counseling, job development, determining shortage occupations for immigrant certification under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and establishing manpower training programs.
The Department’s monthly inventory of job openings lists jobs which cannot be filled locally or within a State. In fiscal 1967, listings increased 12.5 percent from 1966 to more than 578,000. More than 185,000 of those job openings were filled by employment service offices.
Progress was also made in devising tests for the disadvantaged. Research in U.S. Employment Service tests included development of tools and techniques for use with the disadvantaged, e.g., a nonreading form of the General Aptitude Test Battery and job readiness achievement tests of basic reading and arithmetic skills. The research was aimed at tests for “selecting in” the disadvantaged for training and job placement rather than “selecting out.” A contract was signed with the National Urban League to investigate in Pittsburgh and New Orleans the effectiveness of USES tests in job placement of nonwhites and in helping applicants obtain higher-level jobs, and to try out new tools and techniques for use with the disadvantaged.
During fiscal 1967, a series of comprehensive evaluation studies was completed in order to provide administrators of manpower programs with basic information on the progress, results, and direction of manpower programs and recommendations for their further improvement. Studies completed during the year include a nationwide
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study of the comparative status of MDTA completers, dropouts, and persons not enrolled at least 1 year after completion of MDTA programs. Findings indicated that training under MDTA had a substantially beneficial impact on trainees, compared with those not enrolled—from the standpoints of increasing the rate of employment, reducing both the rate and duration of unemployment, and improving their earnings.
International Activities
The Department’s efforts on behalf of working men and women were not confined to the boundaries of the United States in 1967. Highlighting the Department’s international activities were:
•	Participation in the negotiations and successful conclusion of the sixth multilateral tariff conference (Kennedy Round) at Geneva, Switzerland.
•	Participation in the development of a joint policy statement and recommended course of action to improve labor-management relations of U.S. overseas firms.
•	Co-sponsorship, with the Department of State, of a major conference of U.S. labor attaches in 18 Near East, South Asia, and East Asia countries in New Delhi, India.
•	Fulfillment, through the AID-sponsored Department of Labor International Technical Assistance Corps (DOLITAC), of 58 technical-assistance assignments in 25 less-developed countries to help them achieve sound economic development within the framework of democratic principles an<^ institutions.
•	Work toward implementing the recommendations of a special manpower mission that visited Vietnam in July 1966. The mission was headed by a top Department official.
The Department continued to play an active role in the work of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations (UN), and regional economic organizations.
The U.S. delegation was active in the work of the technical and political committees of the 51st Session of the International Labor Conference. With 109 countries represented, the Conference adopted a number of conventions and recommendations on technical items consistent with U.S. policy. These included decisions regarding maximum weight to be carried by one worker, invalidity, old age and survivor’s pensions, grievances, and communications between management and workers.
The Department also participated in a number of regional economic and social organizations during 1967.
In the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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(OECD), it continued to represent the United States in the Manpower and Social Affairs Committee and assisted other Government agencies by providing advisers for U.S. delegates to the Economic Policy Committee, the Scientific and Technical Personnel Committee, and numerous working parties and experts’ groups. The OECD is primarily concerned with finding solutions to internal social and labor problems besetting the 21 most highly developed non-Communist countries.
The Department also took part in the overall administration of the Foreign Service and was represented on the board of examiners, the junior officer selection board, and the annual Foreign Service selection board exercise.
In addition, the Department participated in several cultural exchange programs through the State Department to create greater understanding abroad of the U.S. worker’s role in society and to provide officials of foreign labor unions, governments, and other organizations with an opportunity to make on-site studies of the people and institutions of this country. Through international exhibits, the agency tells the story of the American worker—his way of life, his standard of living, the freedoms he enjoys. In fiscal 1967, the Department participated in four international fairs, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; Poznan, Poland; Budapest, Hungary; and Bangkok, Thailand. In Poland and Yugoslavia, scores of managerial and professional workers attended labor technical seminars conducted by American specialists.
General Administration
As a Nation marshaled its resources to develop the full potential of all citizens in 1967, the Department strengthened its administrative lines to meet a wide range of social and economic problems.
High priority was given to the continued development of an overall Department management system that would be fully responsive to the governmentwide planning, programing, and budgeting system. Progress was made toward integrating the management system so that the agency might respond more effectively to the Nation’s myriad manpower problems—and attendant social and economic problems.
To provide the Secretary with greater support in the manpower area, the operations and organization of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration were restructured. The Department’s functions of management systems development, program analysis and review, financial systems, and audit were also strengthened.
Most importantly, the year was marked by increased activity
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toward achieving better cooperation between Federal, State, and local agencies involved in the country’s fight against human disadvantage.
The Department also established a research program aimed at identifying the training and education needs of occupations in the manpower field and to forecast the needs for the next decade.
It was not surprising that the agency would look inward and see what action could be taken to open up new job opportunities for its own employees. To carry out the Department’s commitment to provide the maximum utilization of its employees, a skills-and-interests survey was made of all nonprofessional workers. The canvass dealt with promotional opportunities, new careers, and training and educational needs. The Department also increased its efforts to provide job opportunities at all levels for members of minority groups and the disadvantaged.
Another major development in the personnel area was the signing of a collective bargaining agreement between the Department and the National Council of Field Labor Lodges, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO. The agreement covers all nonsupervisory employees in the agency’s field service.
Diagrammatic sketches and a tentative drawing of the proposed new Department of Labor Building were endorsed during the year by the Fine Arts Commission, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the Department.
A Look to the Future:
Years of Continuing Responsibility
This report catalogs substantial progress in 1967 toward building a society founded on unshakeable social and economic justice. It provides further evidence that man can, if he only will, shape an order in which everyone has the opportunity to fulfill his or her aspirations and live in self-respect.
The report also focuses on many of the roadblocks still standing in our path to national greatness.
Clearly, one of the challenges facing us is that of continuing the momentum that has gathered in the 6^ years of record economic expansion—an expansion that has pushed unemployment downward and employment, wages, profits, and productivity to new heights.
In 1967, this general economic and social well-being was a source of immense national pride and satisfaction. But, as each one of us has become acutely aware, a large body of our citizens, concentrated mostly in big-city slums, continue to lead lives darkened by despair and uncertainty. Our progress has bypassed them.
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America cannot fail prosperity’s dispossessed. As President Johnson declared:
“Let it be said that in our time, we pursued a strategy against poverty so that each man had a chance to be himself.
“Let it be said that in our time, we offered him the means to become a free man—for his sake, and for our own.”
As we face the future, we have the wealth, energy, and resources to provide every American citizen with maximum opportunity from childhood to old age. History will decide whether we had the will.
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Appendix Tables
Page
Nonfarm placements by the Federal-State employment service ........ 25
Selected employment service activities, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by
State for fiscal year 1967 ...................................... 25
Training opportunities and Federal funds authorized under the Manpower Development and Training Act, 1963-67 ....................... 27
Training opportunities and funds authorized under the Manpower
Development and Training Act, by program, fiscal year 1967 ...... 27
Registered apprentices, 1941-66 ................................... 31
Significant provisions in State unemployment insurance laws, June 30, 1967 .............................................................. 32
Benefit data under State unemployment insurance programs, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by State for fiscal year 1967 ..................... 35
Subject employers and other selected data under State unemployment insurance programs, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by State for fiscal year 1967 .............................................................. 38
Unemployment compensation for Federal employees, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by State for fiscal year 1967 ......................... 40
Unemployment compensation for ex-servicemen, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by State for fiscal year 1967 ................................. 42
Denials under State programs, U.S. totals for 1958-67 and by State for fiscal year 1967 .................................................. 44
Puerto Rico: Minimum hourly wage rates in effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act, June 30, 1967 ...................................... 46
Virgin Islands: Minimum hourly wage rates in effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act, June 30, 1967 ................................ 52
American Samoa: Minimum hourly wage rates in effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act, June 30, 1967 ................................ 53
Minimum wage determinations under the Public Contracts Act, June 30, 1967 .......................................................... 53
Investigation findings under the Fair Labor Standards, Public Contracts, and McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Acts, 1958-67 ................ 55
Investigation findings under the Fair Labor Standards, Public Contracts, and McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Acts, by region, fiscal year 1967 .............................................................. 56
Number of minors found employed in nonagricultural establishments in violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards
Act ............................................................. 57
Number of minors found employed on farms in violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act................... 58
Learner certificates in effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act, June 30, 1967 .......................................................... 60
Minors found employed on farms in violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, by age and school grade, fiscal year 1967 .............................................................. 61
Nonlocal minors found employed on farms in violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, by age and school grade, fiscal year 1967 ........................................... 61
Number of minors found employed in violation of hazardous occupations orders issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act, fiscal year 1967 .............................................................. 62
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Appendix Tables—continued
Page
Maritime program statistics, fiscal year 1967 .......................... 62
Labor-management disclosure filings, fiscal year 1967 .................. 63
Welfare and pension benefit plans activity report....................... 63
Appropriations and trust fund authorizations, fiscal year 1967 ......... 64
Number of employees on Labor Department rolls, June 30, 1967 ........... 64
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NONFARM PLACEMENTS BY THE FEDERAL-STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Occupations and industries	Fiscal year 1967	Fiscal year 1966	Percent change in 1967
Total							 6,138,100	6,586,800	-6.8
By occupation:			
Professional, technical, managerial			 273,700	278,300	-1.7
Clerical and sales...							981,800	975,100	+0.7
Clerical							 704,400	INA	INA
Sales.										 277,400	INA	INA
Service and other...							 1,965,900	INA	INA
Domestic								 1,005,900	INA	INA
Service except domestic							 905,900	INA	INA
Industrial.							2,916,600	INA	INA
Processing								 263,000	INA	INA
Machine trades								 279,400	INA	INA
Bench work					 479,500	INA	INA
Structural work...				 546,500	INA	INA
Miscellaneous...							 1,348,300	INA	INA
By industry:			
Construction..							369,600	439,100	-15.8
Manufacturing..						 1,519,900	1,648,400	-7.8
Durable goods					 771,300	853,900	-9.7
Nondurable goods			 748,600	794, 500	-5.8
Transportation and public utilities			 284,700	256,600	+11.0
Trade.						 1,387,900	1,484,400	-6.5
Services				-				 2,154,600	2, 317,000	-7.0
Nonhousehold			 1,070,100	1,089,900	-1.8
Household					 1,084,500	1, 227,100	-11.6
Government..				 273,400	282,900	-3.3
Other							 147,900	158,600	-6.7
INA: Information not available because of change in “Dictionary of Occupational Titles” structure.
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES, U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967
Total	Placements
Fiscal year and State	New applica- counseling Individuals ----------------------------------------
tions1 interviews tested Nonagri- Agricultural cultural
1958							 10,412,879	1,542,846	1,349,924	5,235,910	8,709,763
1959					 9,368,746	1,734,170	1,609,536	5,703,458	9,615,163
1960...				 9,598,604	1,785,541	1,760,754	6,082,753	9,747, 116
1961				 10,605,108	1,783,310	1,799,730	5,591,089	9,004,319
1962					 10,413,532	2,020,549	2,176,709	6,506,008	9,028,451
1963....			11,045,696	2,088,332	2,300,436	6,632,252	7,923,543
1964				 10,924,071	2,008,356	2,337,758	6,453, 858	7,124,933
1965				 10,944,255	2,114,538	2,481,925	6,329,678	6,047,130
1966....			10,625,700	2,285,316	2, 594,175	6,586,827	4,338,857
1967				  10,773,823	2,399,120	2,277, 114	6,138,034	4,144,717
Alabama.				201,276	29,553	45,266	111,971	45,036
Alaska.			19,246	4,862	5,355	10,996	142
See footnote at end of table.
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SELECTED EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES, U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967—Continued
Fiscal year and State	New applications 1	Total counseling interviews	Individuals tested	Placements	
				Nonagricultural	Agricultural
Arizona				119,446	10,986	23,481	88,777	475,901
Arkansas		173,114	33,465	47,430	118,450	125,113
California			1,458,502	224,397	208,245	625,041	218,775
Colorado			135,959	32,892	43,020	94,768	50,630
Connecticut		146,496	33,690	21,871	79,187	14,030
Del ware		16,192	10,068	4,910	7,193	7,671
District of Columbia.			83,274	19,022	19,864	53,127	0
Florida				272,426	56,728	63,419	205,241	231,266
Georgia		201,057	35,525	46,725	146,993	29,659
Guam...			2,219	129	10	1,607	0
Hawaii		40,343	6,795	4,916	10,718	1,477
Idaho				54,348	8,723	12,115	31,485	73,669
Illinois						347,053	104,855	76,230	199,581	67,486
Indiana		241,016	36,251	37,687	121,441	48,511
Iowa				92,589	17,615	23,820	71,493	25,496
Kansas		101,522	31,727	25,890	73,853	10,140
Kentucky			153,720	60,976	53,364	58,360	62,549
Louisiana				149,883	21,889	44, 542	88,821	40,255
Maine				51,158	16,344	16,309	22,003	4,828
Maryland		139,981	37,914	28,390	81,713	87,826
Massachusetts		328,982	80,688	41,064	141,429	32,208
Michigan				506,002	81,136	74,236	224,863	95,775
Minnesota			214,145	42,050	62,427	104,588	21,463
Mississippi		171,316	57,646	47,396	94,701	167,273
Missouri				240,337	48,449	50,210	110,245	28,963
Montana				56,013	28,011	15,634	35,599	30,097
Nebraska		66,092	16,084	29,102	50,234	17,738
Nevada		53,738	9,369	8,302	26,502	3,052
New Hampshire				38,618	10,764	7,199	15,775	1,864
New Jersey				335,571	77,886	36,229	153,567	81,267
New Mexico		59,438	12,681	14,415	34,143	20,973
New York		830,833	277,844	152,606	753,863	91,249
North Carolina			244,761	41,580	72,475	108,518	419,593
North Dakota		35,301	6,110	10,316	25,628	14,937
Ohio				510,426	74,317	96,044	224,575	144,613
Oklahoma		147,462	32,508	34,875	171,955	123,318
Oregon		140,581	31,987	21,530	64,750	193,269
Pennsylvania		562,835	174,462	104,254	284,331	284,626
Puerto Rico		202,824	27,921	24,694	46,691	10,741
Rhode Island			47,346	16,049	8,579	22,985	231
South Carolina		125,416	22,414	34,638	68,207	83,402
South Dakota 		32,659	9,023	13,726	23,191	6,058
Tennessee				176,267	34,475	56,078	116,433	27,090
Texas				711,018	181,393	204,253	535,861	303,068
Utah						61,997	18,462	28,064	39,291	16,438
Vermont		23,264	5,550	3,306	12,266	413
Virginia		179,450	51,332	64,090	110,619	82,081
Virgin Islands		2,288	572	1,115	1,248	0
Washington				180,797	29,993	35,865	119,082	198,243
West Virginia		87,718	18,058	12,197	23,998	1,610
Wisconsin		180,064	40,983	55,735	75,334	15,968
Wyoming				19,444	4,917	3,601	14,743	6,636
i The number of applications taken should not be interpreted as a measure of the total number of new job applicants at employment service offices, since there are some types of applicants for whom written applications are not taken.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FEDERAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT,1 1963-67
Program
Fiscal year	Total	On-the-job Institutional 	 Other-than- Total	OJT (only)	Coupled skill training
Training opportunities						
(rounded to nearest hundred):						49,800
Total		1, 039, 600	634,200	355,600	259,500	96,100	
1967...			312, 000	132,300	152,700	98,100	54,600	27, 000
1966....		314,500	169,200	122, 500	98,700	23,800	22,800
1965		233,700	168,900	64,800	47,100	17,700 ...		
1964		122,900	109,600	13,300	13,300 ..				 _ 		
1963....			56,500	54,200	2,300	2,300 ..		 ...	
Federal funds2
(rounded to nearest thousand):
Total		.... $1,185,954,000	$963,829, 000	$198, 513,000	$104,416,000	$94,097, 000	$23, 612,000
1967		346,711,000	240,813,000	93,713,000	36,776,000	56, 936,000	12,185,000
1966		365,104,000	292,642,000	61,035,000	36,611,000	24, 424,000	11,427,000
1965		281,595,000	245, 049,000	36,546,000	23,810,000	12, 737,000	
1964.		140,754,000	134,339,000	6,415,000	6,415,000		
1963	 .	51,788,000	50,986,000	802,000	802,000	_________	
1	Includes persons referred to institutional and on-the-job training from experimental and demonstration projects and funds authorized for their training. Does not include persons who received special services only nor funds authorized to provide the special services. Funds authorized for special services were as follows: Fiscal year 1963, $2,919,000; fiscal year 1964, $6,068,000; fiscal year 1965, $15,445,000. Beginning July 1, 1965, includes authorizations for trainees and funds for redevelopment areas under sec. 241 of the MDTA.
2	Public Law 87-415, sec. 231, provides for non-Federal contributions in cash or in kind of not less than 10 percent of the total cost for training in institutional projects effective with the beginning of fiscal year 1967.
Note—Detail may not add to totals because of rounding.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, BY PROGRAM,1 FISCAL YEAR 1967 A. Summary All Programs
[In thousands]
	State or Territory	Training — opportunities	Program authorizations		
			Total	Funds2	
				Federal	Non-Federal2	
Total..	—			294.5	$333,362	$322,716	$10,646
Alabama					5.2	5,108	4,944	165
Alaska		_________________			.4	814	788	26
Arizona		____________________			1.8	2,700	2,566	135
Arkansas						3.1	2,893	2.810	83
See footnotes at end of table.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER
DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, BY PROGRAM,1 FISCAL YEAR 1967—
Continued
A.	Summary All Programs—Continued
Program authorizations Training ---------------------------------------------------—
State or Territory	opportunities	Funds2
Total ----------------------------------
Federal Non-Federal’
California						 42.3	49,073	47,978	1,095
Colorado.					 1.9	3,000	2,920	81
Connecticut					 4.2	4,297	4,124	173
Delaware					 .7	635	608	26
District of Columbia.						 4.0	3,013	2,980	33
Florida						  4.6	5,137	4,985	152
Georgia			 4.8	5,516	5,349	167
Guam		0)	46	44	2
Hawaii							  .4	679	657	22
Idaho						 .5	858	830	28
Illinois.							 14.1	19,041	18,438	604
Indiana						  5.4	6,243	6,057	186
Iowa			 3.0	4,121	4,010	112
Kansas			 3.6	3,155	3,044	111
Kentucky.					 4.0	5,067	4,882	185
Louisiana							 4.5	4,528	4,397	131
Maine					2.0	1,696	1,583	113
Maryland					 9.0	6,742	6,620	122
Massachusetts							 11.5	11,538	11,188	349
Michigan..						 9.6	13,273	12,914	359
Minnesota			 3.5	4,714	4,561	154
Mississippi.					 2.8	3,673	3,583	90
Missouri						 4.7	8,630	8,410	220
Montana				 .9	1,293	1,261	32
Nebraska					 1.1	1,688	1,637	51
Nevada					 .7	940	912	27
New Hampshire					 .9	1,102	1,063	39
New Jersey							  15.7	13,551	13,355	195
New Mexico						  .7	1,156	1,100	56
New York						 32.5	40,083	38,165	1,917
North Carolina..						 5.9	5,925	5,724	201
North Dakota					 .8	1,531	1,504	28
Ohio							 12.9	16,426	15,844	582
Oklahoma						 3.9	3,206	3,051	155
Oregon						 3.2	2,994	2,912	82
Pennsylvania				 17.7	19,662	18,961	700
Puerto Rico					4.1	2,537	2,481	55
Rhode Island				 .9	1,300	1,143	158
South Carolina			5.1	3,474	3,361	113
South Dakota					 .8	1,372	1,333	39
Tennessee...							  4.9	5,335	5,206	129
Texas				 12.5	13,086	12,762	324
Utah								 1.1	1,401	1,336	65
Vermont					 .5	516	493	23
Virginia					 3.8	3,799	3,670	129
Virgin Islands						 .2	72	64	7
Washington								  4.6	5,297	5,099	199
West Virginia.							  2.4	2,626	2,553	73
Wisconsin			 4.9	6,091	5,759	332
Wyoming						  .4	712	698	14
See footnotes at end of table.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER
DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, BY PROGRAM,1 FISCAL YEAR 1967—
Continued
B.	Institutional Training Program
[In thousands]
State or Territory
Training opportunities
Funds
Total________________________________________________________________
Alabama_____________________________________________________________________
Alaska......................................................................
Arizona_____________________________________________________________________
Arkansas.___________________________________________________________________
California__________________________________________________________________
Colorado____________________________________________________________________
Connecticut_________________________________________________________________
Delaware____________________________________________________________________
District of Columbia._______________________________________________________
Florida_____________________________________________________________________
Georgia_____________________________________________________________________
Guam........................................................................
Hawaii._______________________________________________________________________
Idaho_______________________________________________________________________
Illinois____________________________________________________________________
Indiana.....................................................................
Iowa________________________________________________________________________
Kansas..____________________________________________________________________
Kentucky____________________________________________________________________
Louisiana......................................................................
Maine.......................................................................
Maryland..__________________________________________________________________
Massachusetts.._____________________________________________________________
Michigan____________________________________________________________________
Minnesota_______________________________________________________________________
Mississippi_________________________________________________________________
Missouri_______________________________________________________________________
Montana_____________________________________________________________________
Nebraska____________________________________________________________________
Nevada______________________________________________________________________
New Hampshire.________________._____________________________________________
New Jersey..________________________________________________________________
New Mexico__________________________________________________________________
New York____________________________________________________________________
North Carolina______________________________________________________________
North Dakota________________________________________________________________
Ohio___________________________________________________________________________
Oklahoma.......................................................................
Oregon......................................................................
Pennsylvania...______________________________________________________________
Puerto Rico___________________________________________________________________
Rhode Island____________________________________________________________________
South Carolina______________________________________________________________
South Dakota._______________________________________________________________
Tennessee___________________________________________________________________
Texas________________________________________________________________________
Utah________________________________________________________________________
Vermont.____________________________________________________________________
Virginia____________________________________________________________________
Virgin Islands_________________________________________________________________
Washington.....................................................................
West Virginia_______________________________________________________________
Wisconsin...................................................................
Wyoming_____________________________________________________________________
121.6	$219,974
2.1	3,600
.3	730
.8	1,833
1.5	2,304
12.6	32,482
.7	2,203
2.3	2,581
.2	394
2.6	2,236
2.4	3,720
1.9	3,107
(9	44
.3	532
.2	672
8.1	12,90
2.5	3,737
1.4	2,639
.9	2,234
1.6	3,774
1.5	3,541
1.1	1,155
3.8	4,115
5.1	8,119
4.6	8,626
2.2	3,746
1.1	2,584
2.1	4,907
.5	825
.8	1,509
.4	687
.5	863
3.9	7,179
.4	906
11.6	25,598
2.1	4,166
.5	1,140
6.0	10,346
2.5	2,349
1.2	1,770
6.1	10,741
1.6	2,079
.5	887
1.9	2,585
.3	895
1.9	3,492
5.1	8,713
.6	1,054
.3	372
2.0	2,697
.1	48
2.9	3,746
1.0	1,828
2.4	4,376
.2	609
See footnotes at end of table.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER
DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, BY PROGRAM,1 FISCAL YEAR 1967—
Continued
C. On-the-Job Training Program
[In thousands]
State or Territory	Total		OJT (only)		Coupled	
	Training opportunities	Funds	Training opportunities	Funds	Training opportunities	Funds
Total		146.0	$90,557	95.0	$35,610	50.9	$54,947
Alabama		1.8	866	1.3	438	.4	428
Alaska		.1	58	(9	17	(9	41
Arizona		1.0	733	.5	248	.5	485
Arkansas		....	1.6	506	1.4	379	.2	127
California			23.8	12,502	17.5	7,229	6.3	5,273
Colorado		1.2	717	.5	184	.7	533
Connecticut		1.8	1,484	.8	425	.9	1,059
Delaware		.4	215	.3	29	.2	185
District of Columbia		1.5	744	.5	129	1.0	615
Florida.				2.2	1,265	1.7	761	.5	504
Georgia		2.9	2,241	1.5	722	1.4	1,519
Guam											
Hawaii		.1	126	.1	88	(9	38
Idaho					.2	158	.2	115	.1	42
Illinois					6.1	5,538	3.8	1,615	2.3	3,923
Indiana...			2.8	2,320	.5	237	2.3	2,083
Iowa		1.5	1,371	.2	131	1.3	1,240
Kansas				2.7	811	.6	249	2.1	561
Kentucky...			2.4	1,108	2.1	917	.3	190
Louisiana		3.0	855	2.9	754	.1	100
Maine		.9	428	.7	238	.1	190
Maryland		1.7	1,896	.4	170	1.3	1,726
Massachusetts		3.0	2,163	1.9	992	1.1	1,172
Michigan		5.0	4,288	2.7	1,013	2.3	3,275
Minnesota 	 	 ...	1.3	815	.9	380	.4	435
Mississippi.			1.7	998	1.2	465	.5	533
Missouri				2.7	3,504	1.1	441	1.6	3,064
Montana		.4	436	(9	22	.4	412
Nebraska				.3	128	.3	63	.1	66
Nevada		.3	225	(9	6	.3	219
New Hampshire		.4	199	.3	69	.1	130
New Jersey		9.3	4,565	7.4	2,254	1.9	2,312
New Mexico		.2	194	.2	83	.1	111
New York		18.9	11,267	14.9	5,142	4.0	6,125
North Carolina		3.8	1,558	2.5	720	1.3	839
North Dakota		.3	363	.1	33	.2	330
Ohio		4.0	3,192	2.1	963	1.9	2,229
Oklahoma				1.4	702	1.3	627	.1	74
Oregon		2.0	1,143	1.6	798	.4	345
Pennsylvania				9.0	6,938	4.4	1,640	4.6	5,297
Puerto Rico		2.5	403	2.5	397	(9	6
Rhode Island.. 	 		.3	256	.1	53	.2	203
South Carolina		3.3	775	3.1	662	.1	113
South Dakota		.5	437	.3	124	.2	313
Tennessee		2.9	1,714	2.1	944	.8	770
Texas		4.7	3,412	2.3	1,061	2.5	2,351
Utah		.5	282	.2	86	.3	195
Vermont				.2	121	.1	31	.1	90
Virginia				1.8	972	1.2	502	.6	470
Virgin Islands		(9	17	(0	17		
Washington		1.7	1,352	.8	339	1.0	1,013
West Virginia		1.4	725	.3	124	1.0	601
Wisconsin		2.5	1,383	1.6	435	.9	948
Wyoming			.1	89	.1	48	(9	41
See footnotes at end of table.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE MANPOWER
DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, BY PROGRAM,1 FISCAL YEAR 1967—
Continued
D. Other-Than-Skill Training
[In thousands]
State or Territory	Training	Funds
opportunities
Total_______________________________________________________________________        27.0	$12,185
Alabama..______________________________________________________________________________    1.4	478
California_____________________________________________________________________________    5.9	2,994
Connecticut_________________________________________________________________________________ .	1	59
Maryland.________________________________________________________________________________      3.4	609
Massachusetts_____________________________________________________________________________    3.4	906
New Jersey_________________________________________________________________________________ 2.5	1,611
New York___________________________________________________________________________________  2.0	1,300
Ohio--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   3.0	2,307
Pennsylvania_________________________________________________________________ 2.6	1,283
Texas____________________________________________________________________________________     2.6	638
1	Excludes authorizations for trainees and funds for redevelopment areas under sec. 241 of the MDTA.
2	Public Law 87-415, sec. 231, provides for non-Federal contributions in cash or in kind of not less than 10 percent of total cost for training in institutional projects effective with the beginning of fiscal year 1967.
3	All non-Federal funds authorized were for institutional projects.
4	Less than 50 trainees.
Note.—Detail may not add to total because of rounding.
REGISTERED APPRENTICES, 1941-66
[Adjusted to account for reporting revisions]
Year	In training on Jan. 1	New registrations 1	Completions	Cancellationsi 2	In training on Dec. 31
1941		18,300	14,177	1,289	5,051	26,137
1942				26,137	20,701	2, on	4,683	40,144
1943.					40,144	11,661	1,715	6,975	43,115
1944		43,115	7,775	2,122	8,197	40,571
1945		40,571	23,040	1,568	5,078	56,965
1946.	.>		56,965	84,730	2,042	8,436	131,217
1947			131,217	94,238	7,311	25,190	192,954
1948		192,954	85,918	13,375	35,117	230,380
1949		230,380	66,745	25,045	41,257	230,823
1950.			230,823	60,186	38,533	49,747	202,729
1951		202,729	63,881	38,754	56,845	171,011
1952 3				172,477	62,842	33,098	43,689	158,532
1953				158,532	73,620	28,561	43,333	160,258
1954				160,258	58,939	27,383	33,139	158,675
1955			158,675	67,265	24,795	26,423	174,722
1956				174,722	74,062	27,231	33,416	188,137
1957 3		189,684	59,638	30,356	33,275	185,691
1958				185,691	49,569	30,647	26,918	177,695
1959...			177,695	66,230	37,375	40,545	166,005
I9603			172,161	54,100	31,727	33,406	161,128
1961		161,128	49,482	28,547	26,414	155,649
1962			155,649	55, 590	25,918	26,434	158,887
1963				158,887	57,204	26,029	26,744	163,318
1964		163,318	59,960	25,744	27,001	170,533
1965			170,533	68,507	24,917	30,168	183,955
1966					183,955	85,031	26,511	34,964	207,511
1967.			207,511			—	
i Includes reinstatements.
2 Cancellations are not synonymous with "dropouts," since they include layoffs, discharges, out-of-State transfers, upgrading within certain trades, and suspensions for military service, as well as voluntary "quits."
3 Major revisions in reporting system effected this year.
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Massachusetts......... 1	13 weeks______ 10-16	252.00- 0	175.00	700.00	50-0	1,500.00- (2)	1,540.00	4,163.89
Mississippi........... 4	20	weeks............  8	96.00	130.01	288.00	30	780.00	754.01	2,337.01
Missouri.............. 4	20	weeks_____________ 3	78.00	63.75	’255.00	45	1,170.00	1,100.01	’ 3,510.00
Montana............... 1	20	weeks’.....	15	195.00	285.00	427.50	34	884.00	855.00	1,282.50
SIGNIFICANT PROVISIONS IN STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE LAWS, JUNE 30, 1967*—Continued
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BENEFIT DATA UNDER STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAMS, U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR
1967
See footnotes at end of table.

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Nebraska______________ 30,546	3,476	1.4	15,781	3,263	98.06	35.79	39.8	22.4	10.8	17.4	3,503	21.6
Nevada _______________ 52,858	6,075	4.8	22,994	5,729	122.83	43.05	34.7	22.8	13.0	21.1	5,518	24.5
New Hampshire_________ 29,492	2,030	1.2	12,348	1,419	97.39	37.52	36.9	26.0	6.0	23.0	106	1.3
New Jersey_________ 543,965	56,667	3.2	240.599	54,609	123.83	40.92	32.8	23.7	11.8	21.0	49,905	21.8
New Mexico____________ 47,479	4,703	2.7	16,210	3,925	99.00	31.15	31.2	28.8	12.6	24.7	1,966	12.0
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New York--------- 1,779,840	164,342	3.1	605,044	150,556	125.71	43.01	33.4	26.0	12.9	26.0	83,432	12.8
North Carolina----- 254,097	21,531	1.9	100,435	17,688	88.64	28.02	29.8	26.0	9.2	24.2	11,451	13.3
North Dakota-------- 14,530	2,514	3.2	7,867	2,210	94.37	41.38	43.4	23.7	14.6	21.5	1,584	17.2
Ohio--------------- 432,661	38,944	1.5	168,238	30,144	125.32	40.45	31.7	25.2	9.3	24.0	14,422	10.3
Oklahoma------------ 77,225	9,951	2.3	27,011	7,355	102.79	27.35	26.3	27.8	14.2	23.6	7,372	26.5
SUBJECT EMPLOYERS AND OTHER SELECTED DATA UNDER STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAMS,1 U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967
Maryland__________ 54,987	848,464
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Massachusetts_____ 106,915	1,642,517	3,600(1/62)	133,360	2.42	10,932	90,686	1.6	304 845
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, 1 U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967
40
i Excludes data on persons claiming benefits jointly under Federal and State Ul programs.	5 Beginning with July 1959, excludes joint State-UCFE payments.
2 Data for fiscal year 1967 represent average for 12 months ended Dec. 31, 1966; fiscal year	6 Includes the Federal portion of joint State-UCFE payments.
1967 data are not available.	7 Includes payments for partial unemployment. Beginning with July 1959, excludes joint
3 Beginning with fiscal year 1959, excludes joint State-UCFE claims.	State-UCFE payments.
< Prior to November 1958, includes all UCFE beneficiaries.	8 Includes 15,170 employees not distributed by State.
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR EX-SERVICEMEN, 12 U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967
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DENIALS UNDER STATE PROGRAMS, U.S. TOTALS FOR 1958-67 AND BY STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967
Refusal of suitable work	Per 1,000 Number	claimant contacts3	63,421	0. 5 77,269	.7 78,476	.8 80,954	.6 95,325	.9 86,605	.8 82,403	.9 76,581	.9 78,074	1.2 68,211	1.0	143	.2 79	.4 458	1.1 364	.7 12,450	1.1 260	.8 1,275	1.3 144	.6 253	1.2 743	.8 1,199	1.4 263	.9 349	1.4 2,635	1.0 914	.9 204	.6 288	.8 388	.9 506	.6 417	1.3 2,921	3.4
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45
PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967
Industry (part number >) and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Agriculture—1966 coverage (part 727):
Sugar cane classification ____________________________________________________________________ $0.55	Apr. 28,1967
Do......................................................................................        .57	Feb. 1,1968
Coffee classification...................................................................    ...	.50	Apr. 28,1967
Tobacco classification........................................................................        .45	Do.
Do...................................................................................   -	.47	Feb. 1,1968
Dairy farms classification......................................................................      .55	Apr. 28,1967
Do..................................................................—.........................  .57	Feb. 1,1968
Cattle classification............................................................................     .50	Apr. 28,1967
Pineapple classification______________________________________________________________________ .57 Do.
Do...............................................................................—-..............59	Feb. 1,1968
Tomatoes and peppers classification..--------------------------------------------------------- .55 Apr. 28,1967
Do__________________________________________________________________-___________________ .57 Feb. 1,1968
Agriculture classification.......................................................................     .55	Apr.	28,1967
Do......................................................................................        .57	Feb.	1,1968
Floriculture classification_____________________________________________________________________      .53	Apr.	28,1967
Do.......................................................................................        55	Feb.	1,1968
Other agricultural activities classification......................................................    .45	Apr.	28,1967
Do........................................................................................      .47	Feb.	1,1968
Alcoholic beverage and industrial alcohol (part 619):
Previously covered classification..............................................................      1-40	Apr.	2,1967
1966 coverage classification------------------------------------------------------------------       1.00	May	12,1967
Do.................................................  —..............-......................... 1.15	Feb. 2,1968
Artificial flower, decoration, and party favor (part 688):
Employments covered prior to 1961 amendments...................................................      1.10	Apr. 2,1967
1961 coverage classification.................................................................        1.40	Do.
1966 coverage classification   --------------------------------------------------------------- 1.00	May 12,1967
Do..................................................................      —..................  1.15	Feb. 1,1968
Banking, insurance, and finance (part 661):
Previously covered classification------------------------------------------------------------- 1.40	Apr. 2,1967
1966 coverage classification------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.00	May 12,1967
Do............................................................—-.................-............ 1-15	Feb. 1,1968
Button, jewelry, and lapidary work (part 616): Gem stone, industrial jewel, and precious jewelry classification......................................   1.40	Apr. 2,1967
Button and buckle classification______________________________________________________________---	• 89J£ Do.
Hair accessories classification..............................--------------------------------- 1-12 Do.
Hair ornaments classification.......................................-...........-------------- 1.14 Do.
Metal expansion watch band classification_____________________________________________________ 1.29 Do.
Rosary and native jewelry classification__________________________________---..........................67	Do.
Plastic costume jewelry classification.....................................................   -	-94 Do.
General classification____________________________________________________—------------------- 1-01 Do.
1961 coverage classification...................................................................      1.40	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Button and buckle classification.....................—---------------------------------- • 89J£ May 12,1967
Do............................................................................—-	1.02^ Feb. 1,1968
Rosary and native jewelry classification------------------------------------------------ .67	May 12,1967
Do................................................      -.......-...........................  n	Feb. 1,1968
Plastic costume jewelry classification-------------------------------------------------- .94	May 12,1967
Do................................................................    -.............—-	1-07^ Feb. 1,1968
General classification..........................-...........---------------------------- 1-0° MaY 12,1967
Do................................................................    -................... 1.15	Feb. 1,1968
Chemical, petroleum, and related products (part 670):
Agricultural chemicals, fertilizer mixing, hormones, antibiotics, and adrenalin, petroleum refining, and pipeline coating tapes classification...---------------------------------------- 1.40 Apr. 2,1967
Drugs, medicines, bay oil, aromatic alcohol,	and	toilet	preparations classification------	1.20	Do.
Miscellaneous chemical and petroleum products	classification................................... 1.40	Do.
Oil well drilling classification.............................................................. 1.40	Do.
Industrial inorganic chemicals classification.......................-------------------------- 1.40 Do.
Salt extraction classification---------------------------------------------------------------- 1.32>g	Do.
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number *) and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Chemical, petroleum, and related products (part 670)—Continued
1961 coverage classifications: Bay oil and aromatic alcohol............................................................         $1.20	Apr. 2,1967
General..._____________________________________________________________________________ 1.40 Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Salt extraction classification...__________________________________________________________   .64	May	12,1967
Do................................................................................        79	Feb.	1,1968
General classification__________________________________________________________________     1.00	May	12,1967
Do..................................................................................    1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Children’s dress and related products (part 610):
Hand-embroidery classification_____________________________________________________________ ,89)£ Apr. 2,1967
Other operations classification____________________________________________________________ 1.13J^	Do.
1961 coverage classification_______________________________________________________________ 1.40	Do.
1966 coverage classifications: Hand-embroidery classification.............................................................. . 89J^ May 12,1967
Do................................................................................ 1.02^	Feb.	1,1968
Other operations classification________________________________________________________ 1.00	May	12,1967
Do-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Communications, utilities, and transportation (part 671):
General classification_____________________________________________________________________ 1.40	Apr.	2,1967
Other workers in motor carrier transport and express classification__________________________ 1.31	Do.
1961 coverage classifications: Telephone switchboard operators classification................................................    1.40	Do.
Tugboat and towboat seamen classification.................................................   1.40	Do.
Other seamen classification............................................................      1.29	Do.
1966 coverage classification.............................................................        1.00	May	12.1967
Do...............................................................................            1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Construction—1966 coverage (part 726)...........................................................      1.00	Apr.	20,1967
Do....................................................................................           1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Construction, business service, motion picture, and miscellaneous (part 672): Previously covered classification..................................................................   1.40	Apr.	2,1967
1966 coverage classification_______________________________________________________________      1.00	May	12,1967
Do_________________________________________________________________________________          1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Corsets, brassieres, and allied garments (part 614): Pre-1961 coverage classification...............................................................       1.26	Apr.	2,1967
1961 coverage classification................................................................     1.40	Do.
1966 coverage classification.................................................................... 1.00	May	12,1967
Do........................................................................................   1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Education—1966 coverage (part 725)......................................................................95	Apr.	14.1967
Do........................................................................................       1.05	Feb.	1,1938
Electrical, instrument, and related products (part 606):
Classification A (shaver and hair dryer, storage battery, drafting machine, electrical
terminal and connector, television antenna and lead-in cable, and portable hand tools). 1.40 Apr. 2,1967
Classification B (electric irons, toaster elements, and hot water heaters; exposure meters, ammeters, voltmeters, accelerometers, and panel instruments; circuit breakers and service entrance equipment; armatures and field coils; switches and fluorescent starters; coils, including magneto coils, and breakers; solenoids; relays, including telephone-type relays, power-type relays, and magnetic relay elements; electric wave filters; gyroscopes and related equipment; lighting fixtures and fluorescent lighting lamps (except light bulbs and Christmas lighting sets); floor polishers; soldering guns; electronic heating devices; electronic controls for auto headlight dimmers; electronic data processing machines and systems; soil moisture testing equipment; aircraft test instruments; strain gauge transducers; photoelectric cells; tape recorder heads and erase head assemblies; electronic guns for television picture tubes; and the repair and rewinding of electric motors and other electrical equipment).......... 1.40 Do.
Classification C (capacitors, transistors, coils and coil forms, hermetic seals, crystal units, rectifiers, electronic tubes, television picture tubes, television sets, refrigerators, phonograph pickup cartridges, electric baseboard heating units, heating pads and massage pads, Christmas lighting sets, thermometers, drafting instruments, surgical administration sets, and watches)____________________________________________________ 1.40 Do.
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number') and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Electrical, instrument, and related products (part 606)—Continued
Classification D (lenses)--------..-------------------------------------------------- $1.29 Apr. 2,1967
Classification E (transformers, wire-wound resistors, magnetic recording tape, television chassis subassemblies, fractional horsepower motors, telephone hand sets, test equipment and switchboards, microphones, glass sealed reed switches, electronic controls for light dimmers, repair assembly and remodeling of telephones and telephone equipment,
disposable surgical blades and combination sets, and rods for automobile antennas)— 1.40 Do. Classification F (all products and activities not specifically included in any other classifica-
tion of the industry).........................................-..................-............. 1-32)3 Do.
1961 coverage classification-------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.29 Do.
1966 coverage classification____________________________________-------------------------------- 1.00 May 12,1967
Do......................................................................-.................. 1.15 Feb. 1,1968
Fabric and leather glove (part 603): Hand-sewing on fabric gloves classification......................................................... .33)3 Apr. 2,1967
Hand-sewing on leather gloves classification___________________________________________________■ 58	Do.
Other operations on hand-sewn gloves classification............................................. .95	Do.
Machine and other operations on machine-sewn gloves classification------------------------------ 1.17)3 Apr. 2,1967
1961 coverage classification____________________________________________________________________ 1-17)3 Do.
1966 coverage classification_________________________________________________________________________   1-00	May	12,1967
Do...........................................................................................         1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Fabricated plastic products (part 690): Dinnerware, sprayer, and vaporizer classification---------------------------------------------------------   1-40	Apr.	2,1967
Phonograph record classification..-------------------------------------------------------------- 1-40	Do.
Wall tile classification________________________________________________________________________ 1.17)3	Do.
General classification__________________________________________________________________________ 1.06)3	Do.
1961 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________________95	Do.
1966 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________        -95	May	12,1967
Do___________________________________________________________________________________________        1.09	Feb.	1,1968
Food and related products (part 673): Yeast and canned tuna fish classification_______________________________________________________________       1-40	Apr.	2,1967
Canning and preserving classification___________________________________________________________ 1.15)3 Do.
Citron brining and fruit, vegetables, nut, and green coffee packing classification.....................94	Do.
Sun-drying of bananas classification___________________________________________________________________90)3	Do.
General classification.......................................................................... 1.18)3 Do.
Biscuit, cracker and bread, rice and lard, and animal feeds in employment covered prior to 1961 amendments classification________________________________________________________________________ 1-40	Do.
Biscuit, cracker and bread, rice and lard,	and animal feeds 1961 coverage classification..	1.40	Do.
Ice cream, ices, and similar frozen products in employments covered prior to 1961 amendments classification__________________________________________________________________________________ 1-29	Do.
Icecream, ices, and similarfrozen products chauffeursl961 coverage (subgroup A) classification__________________________________________________________________________________________ 1-40	Do.
Ice cream, ices, and similar frozen products all other workers 1961 coverage (subgroup B) classification _________________________________________________________________________________ 1-12	Do.
Milk and milk products in employment covered prior to 1961 amendments classification.. 1.18)3	Do.
Milk and milk products 1961 coverage classification_____________________________________________ • 98)3 Do.
Soft drink classification....................................................................... 1-23	Do.
1961 coverage classification number 1 (packing of frozen fish; the bottling or canning of olives, capers, and oils; pressmen and pressmen helpers in the manufacture of alimentary pastes; and the canning and preserving of food products) ---------------------------------- 1.15)3 Do.
1961 coverage classification number 2 (roasting of coffee and the manufacture of alimentary pastes, except those occupations included in other classifications of the industry)....................94 Do.
1961 coverage classification number 3 (all activities of employees covered by the act only by reason of the 1961 amendments that are not included in any other classification of the industry)......................................................................................-89)3 Do.
1966 coverage classification.................................................................... .85 May 12,1967
Do.........................................................-............-.................. 1-00 Feb. 1,1968
Handkerchief, scarf, and art linen (part 608):
Hand-sewing classification----------------------------------------------------------------------	-38 Apr. 2,1967
Other operations classification----------------------------------------------------------------- ■ 62)3 Do.
Hand-sewing on oblong scarves classification...........................................................86 Do.
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number>) and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Handkerchief, scarf, and art linen (part 608)—Continued Other operations on oblong scarves classification..................................................  $1.04	Apr. 2,1967
1961 coverage classification...................................................................   1.04	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Hand-sewing classification..............................................................      .38	May 12,1967
Do............................................................................          .42%	Feb.	1,1968
Other operations classification__________________________________________________________     62%	May	12,1967
Do..................................................................................     75%	Feb.	1,1968
Hand-sewing on oblong scarves classification...............................................   .86	May	12,1967
Do-.—.........................................................................          .98%	Feb.	1,1968
Other operations on oblong scarves classification.........................................   1,00	May	12,1967
Do..............................................................................        1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Hosiery (part 687): Women’s hosiery classification....................................................................      97	Apr.	2,1967
Other hosiery classification .....................................................................94	Do.
1961 coverage classification................................................................ 1.06%	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Women’s hosiery classification_______________________________________________________________97	May 12,1967
Do............................................................................... 1.11	Feb. 1,1968
All other hosiery classification............................................................   94	May 12,1967
Do....____________________________________________________________________________ 1.07% Feb. 1,1968
Hospital and related institutions—1966 coverage (part 724):
Classification A (all activities performed by medical technologists, laboratory technicians, registered nurses, X-ray technicians, laboratory assistants, skilled arts and crafts employees, and drivers)....................................................................        1.00	Apr.	14,1967
Do___________________________________________________________________________________        1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Classification B (all activities performed by office clerks, cooks, and semiskilled arts and crafts employees)____________________________________________________________________________     .90	Apr.	14,1967
Do...................................................................................        1.00	Feb.	1,1968
Classification C (all activities except those within classification A and classification B)_	.80	Apr.	14,1967
Do....................................................................................        .90	Feb.	1,1968
Hotel and motel—1966 coverage (part 728):
Hotels, motels, apartment hotels, and tourist courts with 100 or more sleeping rooms classification....---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.00	May 5,1967
Do------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.15	Feb. 1,1968
Arts and crafts workers in hotels, motels, apartment hotels, and tourist courts with fewer
than 100 sleeping	rooms classification______________________________________________________     1.00	May	5,1967
Do..----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Other workers in hotels, motels, apartment hotels, and tourist courts with fewer than 100 sleeping rooms classification__________________________________________________________________   .85	May	5,1967
Do---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       1.00	Feb.	1,1968
Laundry and cleaning—1966 coverage (part 723):
Driver classification_________________________________________________________________________       1.00	Apr.	8,1967
Do......................................................................................        1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Other activities classification_____________________________________________________________       .76	Apr.	8,1967
Do.......................................................................................     .89	Feb.	1,1968
Leather, leather goods, and related products (part 602): Belt classification________________________________________________________________________________       1.23	Apr.	2,1967
Hide curing classification____________.........................................................   1.40	Do
Leather tanning and finishing classification................................................ 1.00	Do.
Sporting and athletic goods classification__________________________________________________ 1.00	Do.
General classification..................................................................... .98%	Do.
1961 coverage classification................................................................ .98%	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Hide curing,	leather	tanning,	belt, sporting and athletic goods classification—..........	1.00	May	12,1967
Do................................................................................ 1.15	Feb.	1,1968
General classification................................................................ .98% May 12,1967
Do...................................................................................   1.13	Feb.	1,1968
Local transit—1966 coverage	(part 722)..........................................................     1.00	Apr.	8,1967
Do.............................................................................................   1.15	Feb.	1,1968
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number *) and classification
Lumber and wood products (part 675):
Carpet grippers classification.________________________________________________________________
Furniture and miscellaneous wood products classification...____________________________________
Kitchen cabinet classification_________________________________________________________________
Lumber, millwork, and balsa wood toys classification___________________________________________
Swimming pool equipment classification.........................................................
1961 coverage classifications: Billiard table classification_________________________________________________________________
Table top and kitchen cabinet craft masters and supervisors classification...............
General classification___________________________________________________________________
1966 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________
Do.......................................................................................
Men's and boys’ clothing and related products (part 615):
Work clothing and separate trousers classification_____________________________________________
Military-style hats and caps classification____________________________________________________
General classification.........................................................................
1961 coverage classification...................................................................
1966 coverage classifications:
Suits, coats, and similar items classification.__________________________________________
Do...................................................................................
Trousers classification..................................................................
Do___________________________________________________________________________________
General classification___________________________________________________________-
Do...................................................................................
Metal, machinery, transportation equipment and allied products (part 604):
Fabricated wire products classification--------------------------------------------------------
Metal spring classification____________________________________________________________________
Slide fastener classification..................................................................
Wire drawing classification____________________________________________________________________
General classification_________________________________________________________________________
1961 coverage classification...................................................................
1966 coverage classification...................................................................
Do_______________________________________________________________________________-.......
Needlework and fabricated textile products (part 612):
Knit gloves classification_____________________________________________________________________
Crocheted slippers classification______________________________________________________________
Hand-crocheting and hand-embroidery of crocheted hats classification...........................
Other operations on crocheted hats classification________________________________________________
Slacksand related products classification..____________________________________________________
General classification_________________________________________________________________________
1961 coverage classification-------------------------------------------------------------------
1966 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________
Do............................................................................          -
Paper, paper products, printing, and publishing (part 677):
Employments covered prior to 1961 amendments classification____________________________________
1961 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________
1966 coverage classification.._________________________________________________________________-
Do.......................................................................................
Restaurant and food service—1966 coverage (part 729):
Tipped employee classification_________________________________________________________________
Do---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other employees classification_________________________________________________________________
Do.......................................................................................
Retail trade—1966 coverage (part 721):
Grocery stores, general dry goods stores, apparel stores, accessories stores, and drug stores classification--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do______________________________________________________________________-...............-
Other retail establishments classification_____________________________________________________
Do.______________________________________________________________________________________
Hourly	Effective
rate date
$1.40	Apr.	2,1967
1.02		Do.
1.11		Do.
1.15^		Do.
1.40		Do.
1.40	Do.	
1.40	Do.	
1.02	Do.	
1.00	May	12,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
1.17	Apr.	2,1967
1.29		Do.
1.10		Do.
1.01		Do.
1.00	May	12,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
.80	May	12,1967
1.00	Feb.	1,1968
• 97^	May	12,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
1.40	Apr.	2,1967
1.36^		Do.
1.36		Do.
1.40		Do.
1.40		Do.
1.29		Do.
1.00	May	12,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
1.13	Apr.	2,1967
1.09		Do.
.87		Do.
1.17^		Do.
1.24^		Do.
1.24^		Do.
1.40		Do.
1.00	May	12,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
1.40	Apr.	2,1967
.90^		Do.
-903^	May	12,1967
1.04	Feb.	1,1968
1.00	May	5,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
.85	May	5,1967
1.00	Feb.	1,1968
.90	Apr.	8,1967
1.05	Feb.	1,1968
1.00	Apr.	8,1967
1.15	Feb.	1,1968
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number >) and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Retailing, wholesaling, and warehousing (part 683):
Employments covered prior to 1961 amendments classification____________________________________ $1.40 Apr. 2,1967
Retailing 1961 coverage classification......................................................... 1.12	Do.
Other 1961 coverage classification_____________________________________________________________ 1.40	Do.
1966 coverage classification______________________________________________________...........	1.00 May 12,1967
Do______________________________._________________________________________________________ 1.15 Feb. 1,1968
Rubber products (part 720):
Rubber bucket classification___________________________________________________________________ 1.10 Apr. 2,1967
Rubb" footwear classification__________________________________________________________________ 1.15J^	Do.
Tire recapping classification__________________________________________________________________ 1.40	Do.
Miscellaneous rubber products classification.__________________________________________________ 1.40	Do.
1961 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________ 1.23	Do.
1966 coverage classification_______________________________________________________________________  1.00	May	12,1937
Do..____________________________________________________________________________________        1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Shoe and related products (part 601):
Previously covered classification_______________________________________________________________     1.01	Apr.	2,1967
1966 coverage classification_____________________________________________________________________    1.00	May	12,1967
Do______________________________________________________________________________________        1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Stone, clay, glass, cement, and related products (part 678):
Abrasive products, cement, dry cement mixes, glass and glass products, hot asphaltic plant mix, ready-mixed concrete, concrete block and tile, concrete pipe, pre-cast concrete construction components, structural clay products, and ceramic floor and wall tile classification....________________________________________________________________________ 1.40 Apr. 2,1967
Artificial teeth classification..............................................................        1.40	Do.
Asbestos cement products, high purity silicon, and crushed stone, sand, and gravel classification________________________________________________________________________________       1.40	Do.
Art pottery classification....................................................................        .84	Do.
Mica classification____________________________________________________________________________ 1.07Do.
Vitreous and semi-vitreous china food utensils classification.................................. 1.13	Do.
General classification......................................................................... 1.26	Do.
1961 coverage classifications:
Terrazzo and marble tiles classification__________________________________________________ 1.34J^	Do.
General classification______________________________________________________________________ .84 Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Terrazzo and marble tiles classification_______________________________________________________ 1.00	May	12,1967
Do...............................................................................          1.15	Feb.	1,1968
General classification_______________________________________________________________________    .84	May	12,1967
Do____________________________________________________________________________________      .96	Feb.	1,1968
Straw, hair, and related products (part 613):
Artists'brush and native handicraft products classification._________________________________________ .83	Apr.	2,1967
Hair and bristles processing and other straw, hair, and related products classification.—. . 84	Do.
Hair piece and doll wig classification_________________________________________________________ . 98	Do.
1961 coverage classification___________________________________________________________________ 1.01 Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Hair piece and doll	wig	classification___________________________________________________     .98	May	12,1967
Do.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------       1.12	Feb.	1,1968
Artists’brush	and	native	handicraft products classification_________________________________ .83	May	12,1967
Do.....................................................................................          .96	Feb.	1,1968
Hair bristles processing and other straw, hair, and related products classification_______	. 84 May 12,1967
Do.__________________________________________________________________________________       .96	Feb.	1,1968
Sugar manufacturing (part 689):
Previously covered classification_______________________________________________________________     1.24	Apr.	2,1967
1966 coverage classification______________________________________________________________________   1.00	May	12,1967
Do........................................................................................      1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Sweater and knit swimwear (part 611):
Previously covered classification...............................................................     1.31	Apr.	2,1967
1966 coverage classification....................................................................     1.00	May	12,1967
Do .........................................................................................    1.15	Feb.	1,1968
See footnote at end of table.
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PUERTO RICO: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR
LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry (part number1) and classification	Hourly Effective
rate date
Textile and textile products (part 699): Bag cleaning and repairing classification..............................................................   $0.95	Apr. 2,1967
Broad woven fabrics classification............................................................ 1.06)3 Do.
Hooked rug classifications:
Multiple-needle power-driven machine	operations.................................. 1.14	Do.
Other operations............................................................................ . 87)3 Do.
Mattress and pillow classification............................................................ 1.40	Do.
Yarn classification___________________________________________________________________________ 1.06)3	Do.
General classification...........................................................       ...... 1.03)3 Do.
1961 coverage classifications:
Mattresses and bedsprings craft masters and supervisors classification___________________ 1.40	Do.
Mattresses and bedsprings skilled workers classification_____________________________________ 1.40	Do.
General textile and textile products classification...................................... 1.17)3	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Mattresses without springs, quilts, pillows, and related products classification_________	. 90 May 12,1967
Do...................................................................................       1.10	Feb.	1,1968
General classification.......................................................................    1.00	May	12,1967
Do................................................................................          1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Tobacco (part 657): Filler hand stemming classification...................................................................      .57	Apr.	2,1967
Filler tobacco processing classification______________________________________________________ .56	Do.
Machine threshing, other operations classification____________________________________________ 1.01	Do.
Wrapper type tobacco processing classification.................................................. 1.04	Do.
General classification........................................................................ 1.26)3	Do.
1961 coverage classification..................................................................... 1.26)3	Do.
1966 coverage classification...................................................................       1.00	May	12,1967
Do......................................................................................         1.15	Feb.	1,1968
Women's and children’s underwear and women’s blouse (part 609): Hand-sewing classification..........................................................................        .95	Apr.	2,1967
Other operations classification_______________________________________________________________ 1.12	Do.
1961 cover ge classification.................................................................         1.12	Do.
1966 coverage classifications:
Blouse classification.....................................................................        .85	May	12,1967
Do.....................................................................................          1.00	Feb.	1,1968
General classification.....................................................................       .90	May	12,1967
Do......................................................................................        1.10	Feb.	1,1968
1 "Part number" refers to title 29, chapter V, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
VIRGIN ISLANDS: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967
Industry and classification (part 694)1	Hourly Effective
rate date
Air transportation............................................................................. 51.40 Apr. 2,1967
Alcoholic beverages and industrial alcohol..................................................... 1.34)3	Do.
Banking, real estate, accounting, and insurance................................................ 1.40	Do.
Bay rum and other toilet preparations............. .............................................. 1.40	Do.
Communications and public utilities.............................................................. 1.40	Do.
Distribution, trucking, and construction-...................................................... 1.40	Do.
Jewelry, pen, thermometer, industrial belting,	and miscellaneous metal products________________ 1.40	Do.
Shipping, marine transportation, and ship and boat building:
General classification.................................................................... 1.40	Do.
Seamen classification................................................................... 1.29	Do.
Miscellaneous industry:
Wool yarn classification.................................................................. 1.17)3	Do.
General classification.................................................................... 1.40	Do.
1966 coverage............................................................    ...................... 1.00 Apr. 8,1967
Do........................................................................................ 1.15 Feb. 1,1968
1 Refers to title 29, chapter V, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
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AMERICAN SAMOA: MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967
Industry and classification (part 697)1	Hourly Effective
rate date
Fish canning and processing and can manufacturing industry_________________________________ $1.05 June 24,1967
Do....................................................................................        1.10	June 24,1968
Shipping and transportation industry:
Classification A (seafaring).__________________________________________________________ . 55 June 24,1967
Classification B (other activities)........................................................   1.10	Do.
Do................................................................................       1.15	June 24,1968
Petroleum marketing industry..................................................................    1.15	June 24,1967
Do..................................................................................          1.20	June 24,1968
Construction industry______________________________________________________________________ .75 June 24,1967
Do...................................................................................          .80	June 24,1968
Hospitals and educational institutions industry___.................__________......________ .62 July 1,1967
Do_____________________________________________________________________________________ .70 July 1,1968
Hotel industry..............................................................         .65 June 24,1967
Do..........................................................................................    70	June 24,1968
Retail trade industry..........................................................................    .80	June 24,1967
Do...................................................................................          .85	June 24,1968
Miscellaneous industry:
Previous coverage classification_______________________________________________________ .90 June 24,1967
Do................................................................................        .95	June 24,1968
1966 coverage classification............................................................       .80	June 24,1967
Do.........................................................................................85	June 24,1963
1 Refers to title 29, chapter V, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
MINIMUM WAGE DETERMINATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC CONTRACTS ACT,1 JUNE 30, 1967
Industry
Minimum Effective Employment at less then hourly date2 determined rates2 wage rate
All industries and localities except those indicated below..
Battery:
Lead-acid storage battery branch.....................
Dry primary battery branch...........................
Other battery branch.................................
Bituminous coal (including lignite):
Districts:
1—Eastern Pennsylvania..........................
2—Western Pennsylvania..........................
3—Northern West Virginia........................
4—Ohio..........................................
5—Michigan......................................
6—Panhandle.....................................
7—Southern No. 1...............................
8—Southern No. 2................................
9—West Kentucky.................................
10—Illinois......................................
11—Indiana.......................................
12—Iowa..........................................
13—Southeastern..................................
14—Arkansas-Oklahoma.............................
15—Southwestern..................................
16—Northern Colorado.............................
17—Southern Colorado.............................
18—New Mexico....................................
19—Wyoming.......................................
20—Utah..........................................
21—North Dakota-South Dakota.....................
$1.40 Feb. 1,1967 («).
1.80 1.41	Dec. 11,1963 	do	
1.41		do	 Auxiliary workers $1.40, effective Feb. 1,1967.
2.745	Oct. 20,1958 Feb. 1,1967.
2.745		do	
2.745		do	
2.745		do	
1.40	Feb. 1,1967 (<).
2.745	Oct. 20,1958
2.745		do	
2.745		do	
2.59		do	
2.745		do	
2.78		do	
1.40	Nov. 25,1955 (<)•
2.515	Oct. 20,1958
2.59		do	
2.59		do	
2.796		do	
2.796		do	
2.796		do	
2.82		do	
2.82		do	
2.226	Nov. 25,1955
See footnotes at end of table.
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MINIMUM WAGE DETERMINATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC CONTRACTS ACT,1 JUNE 30, 1967—Continued
Industry	Minimum hourly wage rate	Effective date2	Employment at less then determined rates3
Bituminous coal (including lignite)—Continued Districts—Continued 22—Montana								$2.846	Oct. 20,1958	
23—Washington.			2.735		do		
Conveyors and conveying equipment			1.70	Aug. 24,1963	
Drugs and medicine				1.45	Feb. 21,1962	
Electric lamp									1.65	Apr. 12,1963	
Electron tubes and related products: Solid-state semiconductor devices branch		1.40	Feb. 1,1967	0).
Electron tubes branch				1.42	Jan. 7,1961	
Electronic equipment.			1.42	May 4,1963	
Engines and turbines: Steam engines, turbines, and turbine generator sets branch...	1.71	Oct. 30,1963	
Internal combustion engines branch				1.69		do		
Evaporated milk.			1.68	Jan. 15,1960	Probationary workers
Metal business furniture and storage equipment			1.43	June 10,1961	$1.63 for not more than 160 hours.
Miscellaneous chemical products and preparations: Product group 1 (specialty cleaning, polishing, and sanitary preparations; surface active agents, finishing agents and sulfonated oils and assistants; and agricultural chemicals).	1.42	Dec. 4,1961	
Product group 2 (adhesives, glues, mucilage, cements and sizes; gelatin; household tints, dyes, and bleaches; bluings; writing inks; essential oils; industrial compounds; automotive chemicals; and evaporated salt)		1.80		do		
Office, computing, and accounting machines				1.55	Mar. 12,1962	
Paint, varnish, and related products				1.50	July 24,1958	Probationary workers
Paper and paperboard containers and packaging products: Nontextile bags branch						1.40	Feb. 1,1967	$1.40 for not more than 480 hours. (0.
Corrugated and solid fiber boxes branch			1.53	Feb. 3,1961	Beginners or probationary
Sanitary food containers branch					1.40	Feb. 1,1967	workers for not more than 240 hours at not less than a minimum wage of $1.48 an hour. 0).
Wrapping products branch				1.40	....do		(<)•
Paper and pulp: Primary paper and pulp branch			1.75	Sept. 16,1961	
Rag paper and pulp branch						1.54	....do		
Converted sanitary paper products branch			1.55		do		
Building paper and building board branch				1.64	....do		
Photographic and blueprinting equipment and supplies.		1.52	June 10,1961	
Pumps and compressors.				1.65	June 11,1963	
Scientific, industrial, and laboratory instruments: Electrical indicating instruments and service test equipment..	1.40	Feb. 1,1967	(‘).
Other products				1.50	June 28,1963	
Soap and related products	  -	1.50	Dec. 8,1958	
Tires and related products					1.77	June 3,1960	Beginners or proba-
			tionary workers $1.67 for not more than 160 hours.
> Determinations are not enforced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.
3	Rate applies to contracts subject to the Public Contracts Act, bids for which are solicited or negotiations otherwise commenced on or after the date specified.
3	Handicapped workers, student-learners, and apprentices in any industry may be employed at wages lower than the determination minimum pursuant to the certification standards and procedures prescribed in section 50-201.1102 of the general regulations under the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.
< Learners may be employed at wages lower than the wage determination minimum if certificated in accordance with the learner regulations (29 CFR Part 522) issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
54
INVESTIGATION FINDINGS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS, PUBLIC CONTR
disclosures were reported.	investigation who were covered by, and not exempt from, the minimum wage provisions of the acts,
s The figure shown is an unduplicated count of employees found underpaid.
56
NUMBER OF MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED IN NONAGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT			
Region and State	Number of minors found illegally employed		
	Total	Under 16 years of age	16-17 years of age in hazardous occupations
All regions		*14,237	i 5,289	i 8,948
Atlanta				1,385	651	734
Florida	.		456	251	205
Georgia		448	208	240
North Carolina								317	95	222
South Carolina									164	97	67
Birmingham..						1,315	569	746
Alabama								393	156	237
Arkansas							254	103	151
Louisiana...		365	158	207
Mississippi...						303	152	151
Boston.								522	136	386
Connecticut..							103	3	100
Maine								68	33	35
Massachussetts								204	62	142
New Hampshire							63	25	38
Rhode Island						32	0	32
Vermont.						52	13	39
Chambersburg						824	207	617
Delaware							9	5	4
District of Columbia								12	5	7
Maryland							188	30	158
Pennsylvania.						615	167	448
Chicago						2,767	1,159	1,608
Illinois						527	158	369
Indiana								419	230	189
Michigan.								731	338	393
Minnesota						118	35	83
Ohio			862	358	504
Wisconsin								110	40	70
Dallas						3,129	1,074	2,055
New Mexico						57	17	40
Oklahoma							614	150	464
Texas				2,458	907	1,551
Kansas City				1,316	432	884
Colorado						100	42	58
Iowa.		152	36	116
Kansas.		210	74	136
Missouri		441	74	367
Montana.					23	5	18
Nebraska			85	34	51
See footnote at end of table.
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NUMBER OF MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED IN NONAGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT—Continued
Region and State
North Dakota............................................
South Dakota............................................
Utah....................................................
Wyoming..................................................
Nashvilie....................................................
Kentucky................................................
Tennessee...............................................
Virginia................................................
West Virginia...........................................
New York City................................................
New Jersey..............................................
New York................................................
San Francisco................................................
Alaska.....................................................
Arizona.................................................
California..............................................
Hawaii..................................................
Idaho...................................................
Nevada..................................................
Oregon..................................................
Washington.................................................
Guam____________________________________________________
Santurce, P.R................................................—.
Puerto Rico....................... .....................
Virgin Islands.........................................
Number of minors found illegally employed
Total	Under 16 years of age	16-17 years of age in hazardous occupations
16	4	12
46	21	25
194	121	73
49	21	28
1,262	448	814
291	93	198
443	207	236
334	101	233
194	47	147
784	199	585
471	89	382
313	110	203
854	354	500
2	1	1
25	10	15
609	270	339
10	4	6
10	3	7
25	13	12
22	12	10
150	41	109
1	0	1
79	60	19
78	60	18
1	0	1
1 Includes 12 minors illegally employed under the provisions of both the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Public Contracts Act. In addition, 98 minors were illegally employed under PCA only.
NUMBER OF MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED ON FARMS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT
Region and State	Number of minors illegally employed			
	Total	14-15 years of age	10-13 years of age	9 years of age and under
Ali regions....						4,201	1,254	2,086	861
Atlanta				1,427	375	716	336
Florida....						 8	1	4	3
Georgia								 924	258	483	183
North Carolina						 66	16	38	12
South Carolina...				 429	100	191	138
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NUMBER OF MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED ON FARMS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT—Cont.
Number of minors illegally employed
Region and State	Total	14-15 years	10-13 years	9 years of age and
		of age	of age	under
Birmingham				 962	278	511	173
Alabama				 314	81	174	59
Arkansas				  145	54	74	17
Louisiana				 131	36	65	30
Mississippi				 372	107	198	67
Boston						-	 348	105	187	56
Maine				 348	105	187	56
Chambersburg							 21	7	10	4
Delaware..							-	14	2	9	3
Maryland					 7	5	1	1
Chicago				 490	160	232	98
Illinois							  23	15	7	1
Indiana...				 101	38	53	10
Michigan							  130	37	58	35
Minnesota									....	6	3	2	1
Ohio				   199	54	101	44
Wisconsin				 31	13	11	7
Dallas						-	 353	123	166	64
Oklahoma				 84	16	48	20
Texas					 269	107	118	44
Kansas City								 211	89	85	37
Colorado....					 85	43	32	10
Iowa							 11	2	7	2
Missouri...									 38	19	15	4
Montana...										 12	3	5	4
Nebraska					-	 3	3	0	0
Utah					62	19	26	17
Nashville						  54	18	28	8
Tennessee								 46	18	21	7
Virginia							 8	0	7	1
New York City...							 0	0	0	0
San Francisco.				 309	88	141	80
Arizona						 33	12	15	6
California						 276	76	126	74
Santurce, P.R					 26	11	10	5
Puerto Rico			 26	11	10	5
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LEARNER CERTIFICATES IN EFFECT UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, JUNE 30, 1967
1 Some plants hold more than one certificate.
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MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED ON FARMS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, BY AGE AND SCHOOL GRADE, FISCAL YEAR 1967 1
	Present or last grade’attended	Below normal grade for age
Age	Total	Never all	attended grades1 2	school	1 2 3 4 5 6	7	Percent of total 8	9	10 11 Number in age
interval
Total, all years.	4,166	68	220	329	467	531	573	652	598	404	210	102	12	1,837	44
5 years.		15	5	10											0	0
6 years			102	26	64	12										0	0
7 years			176	8	77	77	13	1								8	5
8 years		241	3	37	83	95	22	1							40	17
9 years.		314	5	17	70	109	82	31							92	29
10 years		405	3	7	32	90	135	105	33						132	33
11 years..		469	2	0	28	62	95	127	127	27	1				187	40
12 years...		582	3	1	10	45	93	123	150	138	16	3			275	47
13 years		621	3	2	6	21	52	91	139	175	115	17			314	51
14 years		679	8	2	9	22	38	64	126	146	148	99	17		415	61
15 years.		562	2	3	2	10	13	31	77	112	124	91	85	12	374	67
135 illegally employed minors were omitted for the following reasons: (1) 24 for whom no school information was available; (2) 11 who were in special ungraded classes.
2 The figures between heavy lines in the table indicate normal school attainment for that age child. On the basis of the usual standard of measurement, developed by the U.S. Office of Education, 6 to 7 is considered normal attendance in the 1st grade, 7 to 8 for the 2d grade, etc., with attendance of 1 grade each year.
NONLOCAL MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED ON FARMS IN VIOLATION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, BY AGE AND SCHOOL GRADE, FISCAL YEAR 1967 1
Present or last grade attended	Below normal grade
for age
	Total all grades2	Never attended school	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10 11	Number	Percent of total in age interval
Total, all years.	1,111	43	78	121	150	159	161	181	120	69	24	5 0	734	66
5 years		6	1	5										0	0
6 years			32	18	11	3									0	0
7 years.		45	5	27	9	3	1							5	11
8 years		77	2	24	36	14	1							26	34
9 years			81	3	7	27	29	11	4						37	46
10 years		82	2	2	17	29	25	3	4					50	61
11 years		122	1	0	14	27	40	26	14					82	67
12 years		148	1	0	5	19	35	43	34	10	1			103	70
13 years.			160	3	0	3	10	26	41	43	27	7			126	79
14 years.		201	5	1	6	11	16	33	53	44	24	8		169	84
15 years		157	2	1	1	8	4	11	33	39	37	16	5	136	87
120 illegally employed minors were omitted for the following reasons: (1) 13 for whom no school information was available; (2) 7 who were in special ungraded classes.
2 The figures between heavy lines in the table indicate normal school attainment for that age child. On the basis of the usual standard of measurement, developed by the U.S. Office of Education, 6 to 7 is considered normal attendance in the 1st grade, 7 to 8 for the 2d grade, etc., with attendance of 1 grade each year.
Note—Nonlocal minors are those who do not return to their permanent homes each day.
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NUMBER OF MINORS FOUND EMPLOYED IN VIOLATION OF HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS ORDERS ISSUED UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1967
Number of
Hazardous occupations order violated	minors
involved
Total employed in violation of one or more hazardous occupations orders *................... 10,547
Manufacturing or storage occupations involving explosives (order No. 1)............... ....................... 33
Motor-vehicle driver and helper (order No. 2).---------------------------------------...----------	6,766
Coal mine occupations (order No. 3)......................................................................      21
Logging and sawmilling occupations (order No. 4)...........................................................   307
Power-driven woodworking machines occupations (order No. 5)..............................................     642
Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiations (order No. 6).............. 1
Power-driven hoisting apparatus occupations (order No. 7)________________________________________ 1,900
Power-driven metal-forming, punching, and shearing machines occupations (order No. 8)____________ 376
Occupations in mining, other than coal (order No. 9)____________________.________________________ 30
Occupations involving slaughtering, meatpacking or processing, or rendering (order No. 10)..................  556
Power-driven bakery machines occupations (order No. 11)...................................................    120
Power-driven paper-products machines (order No. 12)---------------------------------------------- 185
Occupations in the manufacture of brick, tile, and kindred products (order No. 13)...........................  30
Occupations involving the operation of circular saws, bandsaws, and guillotine shears (order Mo. 14)...	345
Occupations in wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking operations (order No. 15).............................   93
Occupations in roofing operations (order No. 16)..__..___________________________________________ 215
Occupations in excavation operations (order No. 17).......................................................    113
i Represents an unduplicated count of the number of minors employed in violation of one or more hazardous occupations orders.
MARITIME PROGRAM STATISTICS, FISCAL YEAR 1967
Longshoring Shipyard >
Services:
Consultations...............................................      ...................... 6,198	2,604
Evaluation surveys..................................................................       323	141
Accident investigations.............................................................       390	189
Complaint investigations..............................................................     212	48
Ships inspected.................................................................        16,704	7,672
Recommendations:
Made______________________________________________________._____________ 3,110	1,746
Immediately corrected............................................................   2,909	1,616
Training:
Number of sessions____________________________________________________________________     348	349
Number in attendance_________________________________________________________________    7,733	7,315
Safety meetings:
Number of meetings------------------------------------------------------------------       490	249
Number in attendance--------------------------------------------------------------      12,743	5,507
Violations:
Cited..................................................................     -	956	983
Immediately corrected.................................................................     758	666
> Shipyard includes shipbuilding, shipbreaking, and ship repair activities.
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LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISCLOSURE FILINGS, FISCAL YEAR 1967
Activity	Number
Filings received during fiscal year 1967:
Labor organization information report (form LM-1).......................................................... 1,225
Labor organization financial reports:
Labor organization annual report (form LM-2)................................................. 14,207
Labor organization annual report (form LM-3).......................................................   39,695
Trusteeship reports:
Initial trusteeship report (form LM-15)._____________________________________________________ 130
Semiannual reports___________________________________________________________________________ 194
Terminal trusteeship information report (form LM-16)..................................................    77
Labor relations consultant reports:
Agreement and activities report (form LM-20)___________________________________________________ 52
Receipts and disbursements report (form LM-21)......................................................       4
Employer report (form LM-10)_______________________________________________________________________ 76
Labor organization officer and employee report (form LM-30)_______________________________________ 45
Surety company annual report (form LMSA S-l)______________________________________________________ 105
Active labor organizations for which reports were on file as of June 30, 1967__________________________ 51,507
Public Document Room activities during fiscal year 1967:
Number of visitors_________________________________________________________________________________ 2,384
Number of LMRDA reports examined__________________________________________________________________ 27,463
Copies of filings furnished on reimbursable cost basis:
Number of pages______________________________________________________________________________ 49,550
WELFARE AND PENSION BENEFIT PLANS ACTIVITY REPORT
Activity	Number
Filings received during fiscal year 1967—total, all reports____________________________________________ 123,704
Plan descriptions (form D-l)_______________________________________________________________________ 10,007
Amended plan descriptions..________________________________________________________________________ 19,718
Annual financial reports (form D-2)................................................................         54,975
Information report for small plans (form D-3)______________________________________________________ 39,004
Public Document Room activities during fiscal year 1967:
Number of visitors...______________________________________________________________________________ 1,232
Number of plans examined........................................................................... 26,115
Copies of filings furnished on reimbursable cost basis:
Number of pages_______________________________________________________________________________ 39,616
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APPROPRIATIONS AND TRUST FUND AUTHORIZATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1967
Appropriation
Positions
Amount
Manpower development and training activities__________________________________..	193	$392,589,538
Office of Manpower Administrator______________________._____.................	410	31,832,740
Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training..............................................      686	8,245,000
Limitation on grants to States..................................................       (290)	(524,000,000)
Unemployment compensation for Federal employees and ex-servicemen_______________ ____________ 77,798,000
Bureau of Employment Security:
Salaries and expenses.........................................................       207	2,622,000
Trust fund........................................................           (1,390)	(17,769,000)
Labor-Management Services Administration_______________________________________________  673	8,560,000
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions________________________________________   1,804	22,311,000
Bureau of Labor Standards....................................................... 289	3,822,000
Women's Bureau......................................................................      76	908,000
Bureau of Employees’ Compensation:
Employees’compensation fund_______________________________________________ ______________ 56,571,000
Chargeback costs...................................................      -	........... (32,625,000)
Salaries and expenses_____________________________________________________ 524	4,840,000
Trust fund------------------------------------------------------------ (7)	(67,000)
Bureau of Labor Statistics.................................................... 1,387	20,541,000
Bureau of International Labor Affairs___________________________________________________  93	1,341,000
Special foreign currency______________________________________________________ ______________ 75,000
Office of the Solicitor______________________________________________________________    479	5,575,000
Trust fund____________________________.___________________________________ ______________ (144,000)
Office of the Secretary________________________________________________________________  306	4,244,000
Trust fund....------------------------------------------------------------ (24)	(538,000)
Office of Federal Contract Compliance__________________________________________________   67	1,100,000
President's Committee on Consumer Interests...........................................    19	327,000
Total, general funds.------------------------------------------------ 7,213	643,302,278
Total, trust and other funds_________________________________________ (1,711)	(575,143,000)
Grand total_________________________________________________________ 8,924	1,218,445,278
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES ON LABOR DEPARTMENT ROLLS, JUNE 30, 1967
Bureaus
Total
Full-time employees
Other
Total D.C. Field Total D.C. Field
All bureaus___________________________________ 10,253 9,843 5,474 4,369	410	162	248
Manpower Administration:
Office of Manpower Administrator_________________
Office of Financial and Management Services......
Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation, and Research. Bureau of Work Programs:1_________________________
Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training____________
Bureau of Employment Security....................
Labor-Management Services Administration.............
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions.........
Bureau of Labor Standards............................
Women’s Bureau---------------------------------------
Bureau of Employees’ Compensation_________________
Bureau of Labor Statistics___________________________
Bureau of International Labor Affairs________________
Office of the Solicitor.............................
Office of the Secretary______________________________
Office of Federal Contract Compliance................
65	64	64		 1		1 		
215	171	171			44	44		
264	264	264								
464	454	188	266	10	7	3
677	675	125	550	2	1	1
1,907	1,899	1,353	546	8	8		
662	645	356	289	17	9	8
1,755	1,719	252	1,467	36	2	34
283	280	147	133	3	3		
80	75	65	10	5	5		
560	558	154	404	2	2		
1,735	1,537	1,149	388	198	17	181
201	180	160	20	21	18	3
498	469	299	170	29	22	7
840	807	683	124	33	22	11
47	46	44	2	1	1	—
* Allocation from the Office of Economic Opportunity.
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1968 O— 282-059
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