White House Press Release, Executive Order Number 9617

IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 19, 1945 262, EXECUTIVE ORDER 9617 TRANSFER OF CERTAIN AGENCIES AND FUNCTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Con- stitution and the statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided herein, all functions, agencies, officers, employees, records, property, and funds of the War Manpower Commission, established by Executive Order 9139 of April 18, 1942, are hereby transferred to the Department of Labor and shall be administered under the supervision, direction, and control of the Secretary of Labor. (b) All of the functions of the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, exclusive of so much thereof as re- lates to the functions of the Procurement and Assignment Service transferred by paragraph 5 of this order, are trans- ferred to the Secretary of Labor. FRUMAN (c) The War Manpower Commission is hereby NARA terminated. (d) In order to maintain the essential coordina- tion of public employment service and unemployment compensa- tion functions and to avoid any necessity for establishing duplicate public employment office facilities, the Department of Labor is directed to provide for making available to agencies charged with the administration of unemployment compensation laws such services, information, and facilities by the United States Employment Service as the Secretary of Labor shall find not inconsistent with the purposes of this order. To the ex- tent that Federal funds under the jurisdiction of the Social Security Board are involved in the effectuation of this section, services, information, and facilities shall be furnished only when, and to the extent that the Social Security Board shall approve. 2. (a) The National War Labor Board, established by Executive Order 9017 of January 12, 1942, and all of its functions, officers, employees, records, property, and funds are hereby transferred to the Departmen of Labor and shall, except as otherwise provided in this order, be administered under the supervision, direction, and control of the Secretary of Labor. (b) The National War Labor Board in the Depart- ment of Labor shall be in all respects subject to and governed by such policies, consistent with law, as the Secretary of Labor shall prescribe; and so much of the functions of the Board as is required to effectuate this subsection is trans- ferred to the Secretary of Labor. The provisions of this section notwithstanding, decisions made by the National War Labor Board in individual cases brought before it pursuant to law shall not be subject to modification by the Secretary of Labor but shall have the same degree of finality as ex- isted prior to the issuance of this order. (OVER)