1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 7517 titioning consideration of their resolution 178. Also, petition of the chef de gare, tton of· S. 1138, a biU to extend education with reference to recommending the coun­ Voiture No. 165, La Societe des 40 Hommes and training benefits to veterans, who en­ sel of George Washington in coping with et 8 Chevaux, Medford, Oreg., petitioning tered military service from February 1, 1955, present perils to mankind; to the Commit­ consideration of their resolution with ref­ and as long as the draft shall continue; to tee on Foreign Affairs. erence to requesting favorable considera- the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Address by Hon. Jennings Randolph, of In implementing this concern, our work­ icine for the purpose of offering basic in­ shop here has kept pace with the develop­ struction in rehabilitation. West Virginia, at Dedication of Shel­ ment in the philosophy of the sheltered The Veterans' Administration is pioneer­ workshop movement. We have, in keeping ing new fields through its current study of tered Workshop and Rehabilitation with the development of the Goodwill In­ occupations held by epileptics and the home­ - Center Building, Davis Memorial Good­ dustries nationally, advanced from the con­ bound disabled-hoping to achieve for these cept of the sheltered workshop as primarily groups what its previous studies did for the will ~ndustries, Washington, D.C. and almost exclusively a place of terminal blind and paraplegics. employment, to the acceptance of a dual Thus, on many fronts there are signs of EXTENSION OF REMARKS function-on the one hand, offering con­ real and substantial progress. However, OF tinuous or recurrent employment for those there remain several specific areas in which for whom opportunities in competitive em­ there is a compelling need for greater ef­ HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH ployment do not exist, and on the other, fort-each of which ultimately resolves it­ providing a transitional and diagnostic work self into a question of communicating our OF WEST VIRGINIA experience for those who will graduate into message to the larger national community. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES competitive employment. I need not labor here the general problem Tuesclay, May 5, 1959 The ability to perform adequately this of creating a more favorable climate for the dual function is now assured, not only by employment of the physically handicapped. Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, I ask these new physical facilities, but also by For you ladies and gentlemen are well aware unanimous consent to have printed in the the excellent professional team of the of this and of the employment record of CONGRESSIONAL RECORD an address deliv­ Davis Memorial-including a. physician, handicapped persons-in such matters as ered by me at the dedication of the nurse, medical social worker, psychologist, safety, low absenteeism and low turnover, Sheltered Workshop and Rehabilitation occupational therapist, physical therapist, and high productivity. and prevocational supervisor. However, I would like to refer you to an Center Building, Davis Memorial Good­ Thus ha'S almost a quarter of a century's observation made somewhat more than a year will Industries, Washington, D.C., May striving finally been rewarded with the physi­ ago, by Mr. A. J. Hayes, president, the Inter­ 3, 1959. cal and professional facilities necessary to national Association of Machinists. As Mr. There being no objection, the address carry on the thrilling and dramatic task­ Hayes stated: was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, the task of restoring disabled men and "In our goal to place the handicapped in as follows: women to lives of fruitful, constructive, and jobs, we are still not being fair with prospec­ independent endeavor. tive employers in most cases. We produce REMARKS BY U.S. SENATOR JENNINGS RAN­ The growth of our facilities and achieve­ records proving that the handicapped are DOLPH AT THE DAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL ments here in Washington has been paral­ able, loyal, productive and safe workers. But INDUSTRIES DEDICATION OF THE SHELTERED leled by advancement throughout the Nation in the vast majority of our States, we leave WORKSHOP AND REHABILITATION CENTER as well. The Goodwill Industries together employers of handicapped workers open to BuiLDING, WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 3, 1959 provided training, rehab1litation, and em­ unfair liability in case of injuries to the General Maas, President Dulin, officers and ployment last year for some 32,000 men and handicapped. It is true that 43 of our 48 members of the board of trustees, staff mem­ women, with wages of $16,500,000 going to State workmen's compensation laws have bers of the Davis Memorial Goodwill Indus­ persons in training and workshop employ­ provisions for some sort of second injury tries and guests, today we begin the ob­ ment. fund. But the real fact is that fewer servance of the 25th anniversary of the Good­ In the Federal-State program of voca­ than a dozen States have second injury funds will Industries in Washington. Today we tional rehabilitation there has also been of the type which really a{)complish their dedicate this rehab1litation center building to marked progress during the past year. · Ac­ objective. The rest of them leave employ­ the further advancement of the cause for cording to Secretary Flemming, in his section ers wide open to extensive and unfair liabil­ which so many of you have worked so tire­ of the recent special report to the President ity for subsequent injuries to handicapped lessly and devotedly-the cause of justice, from the Committee on Employment of the persons. The result, of course, is to deny not charity, for the handicapped-the justice Physically Handicapped: "Another measure handicapped job applicants a fair oppor­ of equality of opportunity. of growth is the fact that over a quarter of a tunity of finding employment." This building crowns with success the ef­ million handicapped persons were served by Thus, the revision of State laws in this forts of many years, the hopes we have so the State rehabilitation agencies last year." field offers us, I believe, one of the major long maintained for expanding opportuni­ While, and I again quote from Secretary challenges in the effort to further equality of ties to the disabled, and offers rich reward Flemming,"* • * nearly 75,000 handicapped opportunity for the handicapped. for the sacrifices and discomforts that staff individuals received rehabilitation services In closing, I would now like to address the members and workers have borne during this and were established in useful jobs. This relationship of employment of the handi­ period of transition. It is with gratitude and was an increase of more than 3,000 over the capped to the needs of our Nation's produc­ thanksgiving to all of those who have con­ previous year." tive s:sstem as a whole. It is estimated­ tributed to its realization that we observe Similar progress has been achieved in the· according to the U.S. Department of La.bor­ this latest milestone in the growth of the field of research and the training of profes­ 'that some 74 million employees will be Davis Memorial. It is indeed a fitting climax sional personnel-the two areas on which needed to produce the $560 billion gross na­ to our first quarter century of existence and the future depends most heavily for con­ tional product set as a goal for 1965. a hopeful portent of the future. tinued development. In 1958 the Office of On the basis of recent trends- and as­ We h ave traveled far from those modest Vocational Rehabilitation approved grants suming a prosperous peacetime economy­ beginnings in 1935 when the operations of for 81 new research projects covering a wide we may reasonably expect to have a total the Davis Memorial were limited to the range of rehabilitation problems, while cur­ labor force of approximately 79 million in workshop offering employment to a compara­ rently there are more than 150 such projects 1965. This 79 million labor force would in ­ tive handful of disabled men and women. underway. clude an estimated 3 million persons in the In those 24 years the Goodwill Industries Today, as a result of Federal training, Armed Forces, a minimum of 2 million un­ here in Washington has employed over grants from the Office of Vocational Reha­ employed, and the remainder-74 million Jn 7,000 workers at wages totaling more than bilitation, more than 300 graduate students civilian employment. Thus it would appear that the 1965 labor supply will be numer­ $5 million. finish their work each year to enter State While today, with an annual budget ap­ ically adequate. proaching the million dollar mark, employ­ and private agencies, compared to about a But what are the full implications of this ment has reached 275 daily, and in 5 years dozen a year prior to the OVR program. figure? Half of this increase of almost 10. is expected to be doubled. Yet such statis­ In addition, training grants were made last inillion will be accounted for by women­ t ics do not alone tell the full story. year to 30 approved residency training pro-­ most of whom will be in the younger and For today, as in the past, the concern o~ grams in physical medicine and rehabilita­ older. age groups. Among men, the largest the Davis Memorial has been for the dis­ tion, covering traineeships for approximately increase will be in the 14-24 age group­ abled man or woman as an individual per­ 145 physicians,· while grants have also been young men entering the labor force for the son-not as a figure on the balance sheet. made to 25 of the 82 approved schools of med- first time.· The next-largest increase will be ,7518 - CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD--- - HOUSE- May -5- in the 45-54 age group, and the remainder, association, itself, is the oldest tr!'tde asso­ tions: First, are we really prepared to meet a 1 million, in the 55 years-and-over group.