Scope and Contents Papers relating to the policy concerning small business, labor, unemployment, the wage-price relationship, and Social Security.

Scope and Contents Documents from 1935, 1949, and 1950 only, relating to small business policy, particularly in regard to the Small Business Act (O' Mahoney bill), which Congress passed in 1950.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and reports concerning labor issues. Primary topics for the papers covering 1936-1940 are the wage-price relationship, working hours, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Those covering the war years, 1940-1945, relate to wage-price controls and their effect on inflation. Papers from 1945-1950 discuss the Murray Full Employment Bill, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the employee conflict at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Scope and Contents Reports and memoranda on the Social Security system. The Federal Reserve Board was concerned about the large reserves held by Social Security for pensions and about the 1939 proposal to increase the Social Security tax.