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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

JOHN FRANKLIN FORT, Chairman.

VICTOR MUrdock.

HUSTON THOMPSON.

WILLIAM B. COLVER.

J. P. YODER, Secretary.

JUN 25 1920

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

1919.

INTRODUCTION.

WASHINGTON, D. C., November 15, 1919.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

During the first four months of the last fiscal year the Federal Trade Commission centered its activities on such work as would aid in successful prosecution of the war. Even after the signing of the armistice early in November and, indeed, for many months thereafter, the Commission has responded to calls from other branches of the Government to do post-bellum work, which necessarily has been of great importance.

This war work of the Commission, performed in every instance by direction or request, was chiefly that of cost finding for all the great array of materials necessary in the prosecution of war.

The Commission feels justifiably proud of its claim that it was among the first of all independent arms of the Government to demobilize its war forces and return to a peace-strength basis. When the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, the Commission had a personnel of between 650 and 700 employees. While it was impossible immediately to reduce this staff to a peace strength, notable reductions were made from time to time as the work of the war grew lighter until on June 30, 1919, the Commission had 367 employees. Nearly 25 per cent of its personnel was in the military or naval service. Federal Trade Commission employees responded to Liberty loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., K. of C., Salvation Army, and other patriotic appeals with a total of more than $400,000.

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