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May 1, 1947
CONFIDENTIAL: To be held in STRICT CONFIDENCE and no portion, synopsis,
or intimation to be given out or published until the READING of the
President's Messages transmitting to Congress Reorganization Plans
Numbers 1 and 2 of 1947 has begun in either the Senate or House of Rep-
resentatives. Please exercise care to avoid premature publication or
radio announcement.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
The President today transmitted to Congress Reorganization
Plans Numbers 1 and 2 of 1947 which would preserve wartime improve-
ments made in Government organization through Executive Orders issued
under the First War Powers Act.
Unless such action is taken, a number of functions and ac-
tivities, shifted between and within agencies during the war period,
will revert to their previous locations upon expiration of the Act.
Included in the Plans are provisions which would transfer
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United States Employment from the Federal Security Agency to the
Department of Labor, where it is now administered under a wartime
Executive order, and continue the War Assets Administration as an agency
upon expiration of the War Powers Act. Provision is also made for im-
proving the administration of acts relating to wages and hours on Federal
public works contracts.
The First War Powers Act will terminate six months after the
end of the war or at such earlier date as Congress may determine by con-
current resolution or the President may designate.
In his message transmitting the Plans to Congress the President
pointed out that approximately 135 Executive orders, including those
overhauling the internal organization of the War and Navy Departments
and establishing most of the emergency agencies, had been issued under
Title I of the First War Powers Act.
ithout the ability, which these provisions afforded, to ad-
just the machinery of Government to changing needs, it would not have
been possible to develop the effective hard-hitting organization which
produced victory, " he stated.
All of the provisions in the Plans transmitted to Congress,
he said, represented definite improvements in administration.
"Several are essential steps in demobilizing the war effort.
The arrangements they provide for have been reviewed by the Congress
in connection with appropriation requests. Since the Plan does not
change existing organization, savings cannot be claimed for it.
However, increased expense and disruption of operations would result
if the present organization were terminated and the activities reverted
to their former location. 11
The President also stated that there were changes made under
Title I of the First War Powers Act and not included in the two plans
upon which action should be taken before the expiration of the Act.
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