Volume 50
Public Law 75–889
To provide for the taking of a census of partial employment, unemployment, and occupations, and for other purposes.
Approved August 30, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the taking of a census of partial employment, unemployment, and occupations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That to provide
Unemployment, etc., census.
Taking of, directed on or before April 1, 1938.
information concerning the numbers, classes, and geographical distribution of persons in the United States partially employed and unemployed and their dependents and income, and concerning industries and occupations of partially employed and unemployed persons to aid in the formulation of a program for reemployment, social security, and unemployment relief for the people of the United States, the President shall cause to be taken on or before April 1, 1938, a census of partial and total unemployment, and occupations, and including such other related information as shall be deemed in the public interest in the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia and the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska.
The questions to be included in this census and the detailed
Questions to be included.
Determination by committee.
information to be enumerated shall be determined upon by a committee consisting of the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Works Progress Administrator, the Chairman of the Social Security Board, the Chairman of the Central Statistical Board, and the Director of the Census, or their authorized representatives.
Sec. 2.
The provisions, including penalties, of the Act approved
Provisions of existing law to govern taking.
June 18, 1929 (46 Stat. 21; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 13, ch. 4), except sections 9 to 11, inclusive, thereof, shall, so far as not inapplicable, apply to the taking of the census provided for in section 1 of this Act: Provided, however, That temporary personnel required
Provisos.
Temporary personnel.
to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be appointed without regard to the Classification Act of 1923: Provided further, That
Assistance by Federal agencies.
the administering agency is authorized to call upon the other departments or agencies of the Federal Government for information relating to, and for assistance in connection with the census herein provided for; and the administering agency is authorized to cooperate with and to use the information secured by such State and local agencies as may have data pertinent to this census.
Sec. 3.
To meet the expenses of this Act the Secretary of the
Funds for expenses.
Ante, p. 352.
Treasury is authorized to make available from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937 such an amount as the President may determine to be necessary.
Sec. 4.
The President is authorized to make such rules and regulations
Rules and existing provisions.
as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and such provisions of the Census Act of 1902, as amended, as are applicable.
Approved, August 30, 1937.