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REGISTER
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1934

A ilT E O

NUMBER 83

Washington, Saturday , Apri/ 29, 7929
The President
In view of these considerations, I
should like to ask employers through out the country to give special consid eration to this problem of the middleE mployment W eek and E mployment aged worker, to review and re-examine S unday their current policies in order to deter BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF mine whether applicants who are over AMERICA
forty years of age are being given a fair opportunity to qualify for jobs, and to A PROCLAMATION
study their various departments and As industry and business make sub stantial progress towards recovery there processes with a view to seeing where are ever-increasing employment oppor the qualifications and abilities of these tunities for all groups. It is important to older applicants could be utilized. I
our social equilibrium that these oppor want to urge social agencies, labor ortunities be equitably shared, and that no ganizations, and the general public to group in the population shall feel itself join in giving this problem their earnest discriminated against in hiring policies. consideration:
It is particularly important that those NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN
men and women who have reached the D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United age where their family responsibilities States of America, do hereby declare the are at a peak receive their fair share of week beginning April 30, 1939, as Em the new jobs, and are at least allowed to ployment Week, and do hereby declare compete for these openings on the basis Sunday, April 30, 1939, as Employment of their actual qualifications, freed from Sunday, and urge all churches, civic or the handicap of an unfounded prejudice ganizations, Chambers of Commerce, against age alone.
veterans organizations, industry, labor, I am mindful of the fact th at among and the press, throughout the United those over forty years of age are a great States to observe that week and that body of our most experienced, able, and Sunday as Employment Week and Em competent workers; that this group as a ployment Sunday to the end that in whole is not sharing as fully as other age terest in the welfare of the older workers groups in the employment revival; that may be stimulated and employment op many of those over forty have lost their portunity afforded them.
jobs through no personal failing but be IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have cause of circumstances over which they, hereunto set my hand and caused the and their employers, had no direct con seal of the United States of America to trol; that among those over forty and be affixed.
still actively in the labor market are prac DONE at the City of Washington this tically the entire group of World War veterans whose average age is 46, a 26" day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirtygroup th at is surely entitled to look to our society for security and economic inde s e a l nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America pendence.
A committee of distinguished repre the one hundred and sixty-third.
F ranklin D R oosevelt sentatives of industry, labor, and the public has recently issued its report to By the President, the Secretary of Labor in which it ana C ordell H ull lyzes the factual basis for the alleged Secretary of State.
prejudice against hiring middle-aged workers and finds no good reasons that No. 2331
would support the continuance of this P.
R.
Doc.
39-1447;
Piled, April 28, 1939;
prejudice.
11:58 a. m.

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamations:
/Employment Week and Employ ment Sunday__ ________
Whitman National Forest, Oreg., enlargement____________

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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7A griculture:

Agricultural Adjustment Admin_m ration :
vVheat, 1940 crop, farm acre age allotments_________ 1716
Federal Surplus Commodities C o rp o ra tio n :
""Food order stamp regulations amended_____________ 1716
T itle 24H ousing C redit :

Home Owners Loan Corporatipn:
Agreements with sales and management brokers___
Jurisdiction of sales and man agem ent sections; listing, .--Limitation on amount of set tlement ______________
Review of appraisal file; when appraiser is broker_____
T itle 33N avigation gable W aters:

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War Department:
-TSylors Bayou, Tex., naviga tion regulations_______

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NOTICES
Securities and Exchange Commis sion:
International Paper and Power a n d International Paper Co., status as holding companies_____________ 1719
Notice of and orders for hear-4ngs:
/In tern atio n al Utilities Corp., . et al______ __________ 1722
-"Monongahela West Penn Pub lic Service Co________ 1721
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