Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 58 Part 1.djvu/591

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78TH CONG., 2 D SESS. - CH. 302-JUNE 28,1944 meet costs incurred by States in making available to the War Man- power Commission premises, equipment, supplies, facilities, and serv- ices, needed by the Commission in the operation and maintenance of employment office facilities and services, any sum so transferred and not expended in accordance with this proviso to be retransferred to this appropriation, $57,968,079: Provided further, That pending the return to State control after the war emergency of the Employment Service facilities, property, and personnel loaned by the States to the United States Employment Service, no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for any salary, to any individual engaged in employment-service duties in any posi- tion within any local or field or State office, which substantially exceeds the salary which would apply to such position and individual if the relevant State merit system applied and if State operation of such office had continued without interruption: Provided further, That no portion of the sum herein appropriated shall be expended by any Federal agency for the salary of any person who is engaged for more than half of the time, as determined by the State director of unemployment compensation, in the administration of the State unemployment compensation act, including claims taking but exclud- ing registration for work. TBAINING-WrITH-INDUSTRY SERVICE Training-within-industry service, War Manpower Commission (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission to promote and facilitate on-the- job training and maximum utilization of workers by industries and activities essential to the war by affording training to supervisory per- sonnel; including the temporary employment of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil service and classification laws; reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for official travel performed by employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; printing and binding (not to exceed $37,600); and travel expenses (not to exceed $360,000); $2,000 000. Migration of workers: To enable the War Manpower Commission to provide, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman of said Commission for the temporary migration of workers from foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere (pursuant to agree- ments between the United States and such foreign countries), for employment in the continental United States with industries and services essential to the war effort, including the transportation of such workers from points outside the United States to ports of entry of the United States and return (including transportation from place of employment in the United States to port of entry of the United States in any case of default by an employer to provide such trans- portation to a worker, in which event the employer shall be liable to the United States for the cost thereof), cost of temporary mainte- nance of workers in reception centers in foreign countries and in the United States, when necessary, reasonable subsistence and emergency medical care of such workers from the time of reporting for trans- portation to the United States or return to the country of origin until arrival at the destination, necessary assistance to meet emergency health and welfare problems while in the United States, when such assistance is not otherwise available to such persons, and guaranties of employment while in the United States to the extent agreed upon with the foreign country from which the workers are imported $2,465,000, of which not to exceed $123,000 shall be available for all Salary restrictions. 41U.S.0. 5. Migration of work- ers. 58 STAT.l 571