Mr. EDWARDS. We thank you for your indulgence, patience, and courtesy. Mr. EDMONDSON. Thank you very much. The other matter we had scheduled here for this morning, I regret very much, time has run out on us with reference to it, and it is a matter on which we will certainly give priority at the next meeting of the subcommittee. And I want to thank our witness from the Department who has been here through the morning standing by, Dr. McKelvey. Doctor, will you please forgive us for not reaching that. I had been hopeful we would. But I think I can plead that my share of the time that was used here this morning was relatively small, and I am not going to take all of the blame for not getting to you. Mr. MCKELVEY. That is quite all right. Mr. EDMONDSON. There is one statement that has been referred from James A. Brownlow, president, Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in connection with H.R. 84, and if there is no objection, and I am confident there is none, it will be made a part of the record at this point. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The statement referred to follows:) STATEMENT OF JAMES A. BROWNLOW, PRESIDENT, METAL TRADES Chairman Edmondson and members of the subcommittee, my name is James A. Brownlow. I am president of the Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO, with offices in the AFL-CIO Building, 815 16th Street NW., Washington, D.C. We indeed appreciate the opportunity of presenting to your subcommittee, for its consideration and record, the position of the metal trades department and its affiliated international unions with reference to H.R. 84, introduced by Chairman Edmondson, and the similar bills introduced by Representatives Thomson, Montoya, Baring, Pfost, McVey, Morris, and Olsen. The metal trades department has a deep and continuing interest and concern in the problems faced by the workers in all of our domestic non-ferrous-metals industries, including the lead and zinc industry. Our department is composed of 20 international unions, many of which have substantial membership employed in various of the non-ferrous-metals industries, and, in addition, our department has numerous local metal trades councils functioning in nonferrous metals and a nonferrous (district) metal trades council which serves to assist our various local councils and affiliated local unions in this industry in coordinating their activities. Actions taken by the conventions of both our nonferrous metals council and the metal trades department express our deep concern with the continuing problems faced by our membership employed in the various nonferrous metals industries. We have long recognized the need for the development of an effective, long-range program for our domestic nonferrous metals industries. This should be designed so as to assure their capability of meeting our national needs in times of emergency. These industries must be able to anticipate reasonably stable markets and prices for their products which will allow for the recovery of costs of production and a reasonable profit. Any long-range policy must also be designed to assure to the workers in these industries a maximum stability of employment and a full opportunity to move forward with further necessary and desirable improvements in their wages and werking conditions through collective bargaining. As we have pointed out on numerous occasions, it is extremely difficult for the workers in our nonferrous industries to see any equity in a situation which has allowed foreign producers utilizing the advantages of their lower costs and particularly, their lower wage rates, to take over substantial portions of our U.S. markets, threaten the job security of our American workers and jeopardize their opportunity to obtain and enjoy continuously improved standards of life and living as American citizens. We realize that the various so-called small producers' bills presently receiving the consideration of the subcommittee in no sense constitute a substitute for a long overdue, long-range program needed in lead and zinc and the other nonferrous industries. Pending the development of such an adequate long-range nonferrous metals program, we can well understand the need for passage of bills such as those before the subcommittee, so as to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small producers in order to help conserve our reserves of these metals and to provide employment opportunities for unemployed workers from these industries. While we do not desire to burden the record with figures which we know are available to the committee from competent sources, we do call its attention to the fact that the lost mining production in lead and zinc in 1960 as compared to the average in the years 1947-49 indicates a loss of production of over one-third of a million tons which is approximately one-third of our average annual domestic production of lead and zinc during the 1947-49 period. We are aware of the urgent need for action of the type indicated in these bills and of the fact that a similar bill was passed by the 86th Congress but pocketvetoed in September of last year by President Eisenhower. The metal trades department strongly supports the current efforts being made to develop an adequate long-range mining and minerals program and until such program becomes a reality, recognizes and supports the lead and zinc small producers' program as set forth in H.R. 84 and most of the other bills which the committee has before it. Mr. EDMONDSON. The subcommittee stands adjourned. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, the subcommittee was adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair.) INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS ON H.R. 6630 and H.R. 6945 BILLS TO AMEND THE ACT OF MAY 25, 1920, RELATING TO CONVEY- COMPANIES H.R. 3229, H.R. 3346, and H.R. 5745 BILLS TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISPOSITION BY THE SECRETARY OF H.R. 6161 A BILL TO VALIDATE A CERTAIN CONVEYANCE OF LAND IN H.R. 7436 A BILL TO VALIDATE THE CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN LAND IN H.R. 7550 A BILL TO VALIDATE THE CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN LAND IN THE JUNE 29 AND 30, 1961 Serial No. 9 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 74192 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1961 DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Statement of L. W. Butterfield, general attorney, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Hon. Glenn Cunningham, a Representative in Congress from the M. E. Frey, assistant land and tax commissioner, Great Northern Ry.... Thomas B. Hutcheson, chief engineer, Seaboard Air Line RR. Co... Karl S. Landstrom, Director, Bureau of Land Management, accom- C. E. Lisitzky, president, A & B Schuster Co., Holbrook, Ariz.. F. J. Melia, vice president and western general counsel, Union Pacific H. A. Phillips, assistant director, industrial development, Denver & Page 111 15 124 107 121 12 22, 44 108 109 85 119 George R. Powe, assistant general manager, properties and industrial 100 Hon. D. S. Saund, a Representative in Congress from the State of 12 Certified Concrete Co., letter from Earl J. Brubaker, president__ Hon. John P. Saylor, a Representative in Congress from the State of Jeremiah C. Waterman, general attorney, Southern Pacific Co., accompanied by Roy Jerome, attorney, Southern Pacific Co.---Material submitted for the record: AAA Van & Storage Co., Oceanside, Calif., letter from N. J. Gallagher. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., letter from James W. Grady, 17 65, 82 136 137 137 138 139 Diversified Builders, Inc., letter from E. S. Pulley, assistant secretary. 139 140 140 141 Don Hubbard Contracting Co., Encinitas, Calif., letter from.... 141 133 Ray Jameson, X Y Ranch Co., Brawley, Calif., letter from_ 141 141 142 Hon. John J. McFall, a Representative in Congress from the State of 20 Hon. John E. Moss, a Representative in Congress from the State of 19 Hon. George P. Miller, a Representative in Congress from the State 20 The Olathe Elevator, Inc., Olathe, Colo., letter from. 142 Pacific Salt & Chemical Co., Los Angeles, Calif., letter from.... 143 134 St. Malo Lumber Co., Oceanside, Calif., letter from 143 Washita Valley Grain Co., Pauls Valley, Okla., letter from. 143 Valley Concrete Co., Rocky Ford, Colo., letter from. 143 144 The Western Drilling Tool & Supply Co., Inc., Chanute, Kans., 144 III |