Bureau of Labor Standards

Bureau of Labor Standards salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for the promotion of industrial safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial relations for labor and industry; performance of safety functions of the Secretary under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 784(c)) and the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as amended (72 Stat. 835); performance of the functions vested in the Secretary by title I of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 159(f) and (g)) and by sections 8 (b) and (c) of the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (72 Stat. 997); and not less than $224,472 for the work of the President’s Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, as authorized by the Act of July 11, 1949 ( 63 Stat. 409); $2,488,000: Provided, That no part of the appropriation for the President’s Committee shall be subject to reduction or transfer to any other department or agency under the provisions of any existing law; including purchase of reports and of material for informational exhibits and expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the work of the Bureau of Labor Standards.