REVOCATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 7744, AUTHORIZING THE SOLICITOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO ACT AS SECRETARY OF LABOR
WHEREAS Executive Order No. 7744 of November 19, 1937, authorizes the Solicitor of the Department of Labor to perform the duties of the Secretary of Labor under certain circumstances during the absence of the Secretary of Labor; and
WHEREAS Public Law 346, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved April 17, 1946, establishes in the Department of Labor the office of Under Secretary of Labor and three offices of Assistant Secretary of Labor, and provides in part that in the absence of the Secretary of Labor the Under Secretary of Labor shall perform the duties of the Secretary of Labor:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 179 of the Revised Statutes, and as President of the United States, and in the interest of the internal management of the Government, I hereby revoke the said Executive Order No 7744 of November 19, 1937.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 23, 1946.