Philip Booth Dies, Labor Dept Official
Philip ;Booth; 74, a retired Labor Department official and Ûªformer Washington resident who was an authority, on Social Security and unemployment compensation laws* died Sunday at his home in San Diego, Calif., after a heart attack.</br></br>Mr; Booth came to Washington in 1936 and i joined the Federal Security Administration, where ! he worked on projects dealing with Social Secu-1 rity. He joined the Labor Department during the i 1940s. During World War II, he worked on the settlement of Jewish refugees in this country.</br></br>During the late 1950s, Mr. Booth served with the International Labor Organization in Geneva. He was chief of state programs for compliance and legislation in LaborÛªs unemployment division for three years before retiring in 1962.</br></br>Between 1962 and 1973, he taught at the University of MichiganÛªs school of social work and wrote ÛÏSocial Security in America.Û Since moving to San Diego in 1973, he had been a consultant to the National Committee on Unemployment Com-, pensation.</br></br>Mr. Booth was born in Minnesota and reared in Chicago. He earned a bachelorÛªs degree at the University of Arizona and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Washington, he taught in Chicago and worked with the Chicago Federation of Labor.