Memorandum from Harold D. Smith to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment
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APR 25 1945
The Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Sir:
In a letter of August 26, 1944, President Roosevelt re-
quested the Director of the Budget, in conjunction with the
agencies concerned, to undertake the preparation of plans for
providing comprehensive information on industrial production,
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the status of industry, and the woll-being of the nation's
workers, needed for the reconversion of the nation's production
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energies to peaceful pursuits. The President submitted supple-
mental estimates for this program in a communication to you of
November 11, 1944, but most of the amounts were eliminated in
the House on points of order and were not restored in the
Senate. with changes made necessary by the intervening lapse
of time, estimates were again subnd tted by the President in
a
comaunication of January 31, 1945 (House Document No. 54) and
are now pending before the Deficiency Subcommittes of the House
Appropriations Committee
Meanwhile two items directly related to this program were
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included among the regular 1946 estimates for the Department
of Commerce. These were, first, $3,000,000 for a sample Census
of Population to be taken in April 1946, and second, $2,235,000
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for quarterly surveys of the labor force in the principal pro-
duction areas. Preparatory work for both of these activities
was included in an item of $990,000 which formed a part of the
program in House Document No. 54 still pending before the
Deficiency Subcommittee. The House Appropriations Committee
eliminated the two items mentioned from the 1946 Commerce bill
and a request for their restoration was not granted by the
Senate.
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It is of vital and immediate importance that the nation
be equipped with the basic economic information which would be
secured by the proposals to which I refer. Without adequate and
accurate facts on which to base business and governmental plans
in the days ahead we run serious risks.
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