Georgia Official and Statistical Register 1983-84 - the Digital Library ...

Marketing Jimmy C. Bridges. Assistant Commissioner.Responsible for establishing and maintaining State Farmers©Markets; promoting the state©s major crops and developingprograms to improve marketing, handling and storage of agricultural products through commodities promotion; administering warehouse inspection to control the storage of grain,cotton, tobacco, and other commodities; and for promotingand developing export markets in foreign countries throughinternational trade.Plant Industry — E. Elmo Winstead. Assistant Commissioner. (Effective September I, 1984 responsibilities of entomology and pesticides were established under a separate division.) Enforces Georgia Seed Law, to insure purity, germination and correct labeling; in coordination with experimentstations, develops and produces high quality seed for Georgiafarmers; furnishes official grain grading service to farmers andto the feed and grain industry; registers each brand of feed,fertilizer and pesticide sold in the State; works to eradicate andcontrol agricultural pests and protect consumers from purchasing diseased plants; conducts tests of food, feed, fertilizer, seed,pesticides, lime, and other agricultural products to determinethat they meet State standards; provides agricultural advice tostate-owned institutions. Supervises field force of inspectorswho pull samples of seed, feed, fertilizer, pesticides, lime, andgrain.Dr. James Quigley ........... Associate State VeterinarianSharon Abercrombie ......................... DirectorFuel and Measures DivisionCurtis Williams ...................... State Oil ChemistEugene Dally .................. Director, Dairy DivisionCharles Mann ............... Director, Markets DivisionMike Bonner ............................... DirectorAtlanta State Farmer©s MarketRobert L. Williams .......................... DirectorInternational Trade DivisionRichey Seaton .............................. DirectorCommodities Protection DivisionWilliam Truby ............. Director, Warehouse DivisionJ. Ron Conley ............................... DirectorEntomology/Pesticides DivisionCecil Spooner............................... DirectorPlant Food, Feed and Grain DivisionDr. Wayne R. Guerke ............ Director, Seed DivisionDr. Earl Elsner............................... DirectorGeorgia Seed Development CommissionDr. John F. Williams .................... State ChemistDEPARTMENT OF LABORThe Department of Labor enforces all laws pertaining tolabor except those concerning workers© compensation. It regulates hours of labor in factories, labor organizations and laborrelations, and private employment agencies. The Departmentenforces laws prohibiting sex discrimination and discrimination against the handicapped. It also administers employmentsecurity (unemployment compensation) and programs requiredby Federal labor laws and regulations.Authority and responsibilities of the Department of Laborare enumerated in OCGA Title 34.The Commissioner of LaborThe Commissioner of Labor directs and supervises theDepartment of Labor, administers and enforces its laws, rulesand regulations, and directs its inspections and investigations.He is charged with reporting on the conditions of labor gener-ally in the State, promulgating rules to prevent occupationalaccidents and diseases, and with promoting the voluntary conciliation of labor disputes. The Commissioner is empowered toappoint the heads of all divisions and bureaus in the Department of Labor, except those under the Board of Workers©Compensation. The Commissioner is the custodian and administrator of the "unemployment compensation fund", which is aspecial fund, separate from all public monies or funds of theState.The Commissioner of Labor is elected at the same generalelection in which the Governor and other Constitutional Officers are elected. Each term of office is four years. Minimumqualifications for the office are citizenship for ten years, residence in Georgia for six years, and age of twenty-five years, asprovided for by the 1945 Constitution (Art. V.).HISTORY. The Department of Labor, with a Commissioner of Labor as its Executive Officer, was created by the Actof March 25, 1937 (Ga. L. 1937. p. 230). It succeeded theDepartment of Industrial Relations and the earlier Departmentof Commerce and Labor, created by Act of August 21, 1911(Ga. L. 1911, p. 133).The Unemployment Compensation Act of March 29, 1937(Ga. L. 1937, p. 806) authorized the Commissioner of Labor toset up, in the Department, a Bureau of Unemployment Compensation. The Act of March 8, 1945 (Ga. L. 1945, p. 331)changed the name of the Bureau to the Employment SecurityAgency.The Act of March 25, 1937, placed within the Department ofLabor, but outside the jurisdiction of the Commissioner ofLabor, an Industrial Board to administer the Workmen©sCompensation Act of August 17, 1920(Ga. L. 1920, p. 167).The Industrial Board evolved into the current Board ofWorkers© Compensation.Joseph D. Tanner, Sharpsburg.Commissioner, Department ofLabor, apptd. May 4, 1984 (to fillunexpired term of Sam Caldwell,res.)-date. Born Feb. 28, 1938 inJenkins Co., Ga. U. of Ga., Gen.Business Major. Director, StateGame and Fish Commission, Jan.1971-April 1972; Commissioner,Dept. of Natural Resources, April1972-May 1984. Two children.S. Sam Caldwell, Commissioner, Department of Labor,Jan. 1967-May 1984, resigned.Grady L. Cornish, Executive Assistant to the CommissionerJames A. Lowe, Deputy CommissionerField Services DivisionBuck C. Ethredge.......................... DirectorProgram Services DivisionDon R. Bryant............................. DirectorInternational OperationsLanis A. Forney............................ DirectorPUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONThe Public Service Commission, a Constitutional commission, supervises and regulates all intrastate common carriers,express companies, railroad or street railroad companies, dockor wharfage companies, terminal or terminal station compan-39