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1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - ·HOUSE 2965 A. J. Hardin Peterson, Cochrane B_uilding, A. Manly Sheppard, 1001 15th Street NW.. A. -P. K. · Ward; 219 Washington Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. B. Peoples Lobby, Inc., 1337 21st Street B. Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, 24 B. Joint Committee _ of · Consumers and NW., Washingtcm, D. C. Branford Place, Newark, N. J. Small· Producers of Natural Gas, room 219, Washington Hotel, Washington, D. C, A. Ada E. Pruitt, 5814 Nevada Avenue NW., A. Southwestern Peanut Shellers Associa tion, Box 48, Durant, Okla. A. Myron Weiner, 917 15th Street NW., Washington, D. C. Washington, ·D. C. B. The Far East Group, Inc., 917 15th A. Purc~ll , & -Nelson, 910 17th Street NW., A. Spencer, Moore & Whalen, 2000 Massa Street NW., Washingto_n, D. C. Washington, D. C. chusetts Avenue NW., Washington, D. C. B. Devalin Corp., 120 Wall New B. Edward Martin Hinsberger, 55 ·Wall A. Mrs. Anna Kelton Wiley, 2345 Ashmead S~reet; Street, New York, N. Y. York,N. Y. Place, Washington, D. C. B. The Women's City Club, 1733 I Street A. W1lliam T. Stephens, 700 Washington NW., Washington, D. C., et al. A. Purcell & Nelson, 910 17th Street NW., Building, Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. B. American Utility Trailer Rental Asso A. A. E. Wilkinson, 417 Investment Build B. Little & Christman, 120 Wall Street, New ciation, 700 Washington Building, Washing ing, Washington, D. C. York, N. Y. ton, D. C. B. The Anaconda Co., 616 Hennessy Build ing, Butte, Mo~t. A. Frank L. Roberts, 740 lltl- Street NW., A. Richard E. Vernor, 1701 K Street NW., Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. A. Wilkinson, Cragun, Barker & Hawkins, B. Chrysler Corp., 341 Massachus.etts Ave- B. American Life Convention, 230 North 744 Jackson Place, NW., Washington, D. C. nue, Detroit, Mich. ' Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. B. Spokane Indian Tribe, Wellpinit, Wasli.

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Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Armenian and signed a document that was later to be absorbing it into an unnatural state of known as the Atlantic Charter. In the At totalitarian domination where it has re- Independence lantic Charter, the United States pr.oclaimed mained. · to the world that: " [We) respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of govern Although the small Armenian country EXTENSION OF REMARKS ment under which they will live; and . . • later lost her independence as a self OF [We] wish to see soverign rights and self governing political state, she represents government restored to those who have been more than a match against the godless HON. JOSEPH R. McCARTHY forcibly deprived of them." materially minded rulers in the Krem OF WISCONSIN After the war, at Yalta and Teheran, the lin. Animal and selfish ambitions con IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Roosevelt administration callously forsook tinue to guide the Soviet rulers in their the high principles on behalf of which mil Mo,riday, Februar,y 20, 1956 lions of young men died. It is a matter of domination of Armenia. national honor that we reestablish these But Armenia offers more than an equal Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, I match against the Soviet imperialists if ask unanimous consent to have printed principles today as the objectives of Ameri can foreign policy. We dare not rest until other qualities are taken into account. in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a state the blight of communism has been erased For within the hearts of these brave peo ment I have prepared on the anniversary from the face of the earth; until freedom ple rest qualities which the Soviets un of Armenian independence. and independence is restored to all of those wisely disclaim, but qualities freedom There being no objection, the state people who are now in slavery. loving nations know to be indispensable ment was ordered to be· printed in the to their lasting and ultimate peace, prog RECOR~, as follows: gress; and freedom. These are the STATEMENT BY SENATOR MCCARTHY mighty spiritual and moral forces pro On February 18, 1921, 35 years ago, the Armenia vided by faith in God and proved by a people of Armenia waged the only success look into history. The lesson of history ful revolution in history against an estab EXTENSION OF REMARKS shows quite vividly that whenever a na lished Soviet Government. OF tion uses sheer material force as a weap In the years just prior to tl}.is revolt, and on of conquest, that nation does not following the Second World War, the Com munists took over Armenia and subjected HON. GERALD R. FORD, JR. long endure. that country to a vicious reign of terror, OF MICHIGAN And history illustrates, as it will again, killing, jailing, and exiling thousands of peo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the power of right and spiritual ple. Finally, on February 18, 1921 the people wisdom turns the tide against an al of Armenia rose, as ·a man, and drove out Monday, February 20, 1956 leged sense of godless materiality. The the Communist tyrants. To be s.ure, A!-. tide will turn again in favor of the Ar- menian independence was short-lived. Be Mr. FORD. Mr. Speaker,·on February 18 each year nationality groups over . menians and other Soviet-dominated fore long, Red Army hordes once again in countries when vigilant hopes and vaded this little country, and put the Ar large portions of the globe should pause menian peoplil back in chains. But Feb to thank the Almighty that their_lands dreams of the vanquished take actual ruary 18, 1921, will live in history as a offer a present and ever available oppor form in a return to their rightful na stirring example of man's devotion to free tunity for free individual expression. tional identity of freedom and inde dom, and of his willingness to fight for that The inhabitants of many nations do not pendence. freedom against insuperable odds. The share these same opportunities as we in Armenian people still, to this day, live un der the heel of the most brutal tyranny America and other members of the free ever known; but they live and hope and pray world. The brave Armenian people Nineteenth District Poll for the day when they wm regain their free represent one such group whose geo dom. · graphical boundaries have been swal EXTENSION OF REMARKS I think it is fitting that we in the United lowed into the Soviet orbit of domination. OF States today, on the anniversary of the February 18 is a day to remind us of heroic Armenian uprising, pay ti:ibute to Armenia. For it was just 31 years ago HON. JAMES M. QUIGLEY the Armenian people. It is fitting that we that the Armenian people staged the only OF PENNSYLVANIA. once ag~in dedicate ourselves to the reestab lishment of freedom in this oppressed land. successful full-scale uprising against es IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES On August 12, 1941, the President of the tablished Soviet Government. This Monday, February 20, 1956 United States and the Prime Minister of hard-won freedom was soon blotted out, Great Britain met together aooard · an for it did not take Red terrorists long Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. S_peaker, under American warship in the Middle Atlantic, to again flow into , this .small country, leave to revise and extend my remarks, '2966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE ~ . February 2q ,~ .I include the tabulated results of a poll I think it reflects. well the intelligence Members may read some significance I. of opinion I have conducted in the con and interest of the voters of this area. in the results of this particular poll in gression district which I represent. Those who responded had to furnish sofar as they reflect the thinking of Late in December I .mailed question their own envelope_ and stamp. The President Eisenhower's new neighbors. comments. which accompanied so many The President and Mrs. Eisenhower re naires to every 10th name appearing on cently became official, voting residents of the voting lists in the 3 counties of the of the returns are indicative of the care the 19th district when they registered at !19th district. -The ·· response · has · been ful thinking with which the respondents the Adams County Court House in ! most excellent, running about 12 percent. approached. their answers. Gettysburg. l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-,-~~~~~~~--.~~~-:-~~~-,-~~~~~~~ 19th district Adams Cumberland York Questions Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent ------· -'-' ---'------•-y_e_s___ n_o __ Y_es __ n_o __ Y_es __ n_o __ Y_es __ n_o_

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Do you favor, at this time, a reduction in Federal taxes? ------58 42 54 46 55 45 60 40 ' If your answer was "yes" indicate which of the following methods would be fairest: (a) Increase in personal exemptions __ .______;. ______------72 58 ------80 81 6 ------3 9 5 5 ------4 7 2 3 ------2 ! 24 30 ~ n-JUl~~}~~fil?i~;~illii~=~~~~~(~=~=~~[[=[[~=~=(~=~(~~=:((~~~~((=(~[(((=(~~ 56 44 ~ ' -----38- 68 32 · I! your answer was "yes" indicate the proposals which appear to oiler the best solution: 22 8 18 30 (a) Fixef _~i~:~J°~l~ity ======17 8 ------17 23 2. 100 percent of paritY------5 ------1 7 (b) So-called soil fertility bank _____ ·------17 15 ------25 15 (c) Direct farm subsidies on all crops, similar to present program for wooJ ______8 6 9 (d) Increased market research ____ -_------_------_: ____ ----- __ ------_-- --___ _ 34 19 35 36 (e) Use of present surpluses to feed world needY------•------~ -- 71 . 53 68 75 (f) Combination of all above ______------~------17 10 26 41 If your answer was "no" indicate whether we should: (a) Abolish all farm aid programs------· 37 39 43 35 ,3. Do you favor(b) Continue a program with of Federalpresent :flexibleaid to education? price support ______program______------______----- _- 63 32 57 53 75 25 80 20 73 27 78 22 If your answer was "yes" indicate the programs you believe most justifiable: • (a) Grants to States for school construction ..••.------35 42 29 45 (l>) Aid to teacher-training institutions ______------______-----______14 ------13 10 16 (c) Grants to help defray teacher salary costs .•· ------ 24 25 32 22 (d) Grants to help defray administrative costs------~------ 6 4 3 7 (e) Federal guaranties of local school bonds.------13 2 10 16 (/) Combination of all above ______------48 33 31 54 4. Should the Federal Government concern itself with the problem of rising costs of medical services and i. · care? ______----______64 36 57 43 54 46 67 33 U your answer was "yes" indicate your preference of the following suggested programs: (a) Healthfusurance modeled along lines of social securitY------58 42 45 63 (b) Increase funds available ior .hospital constrqction ______14 19 14 (e) Provide grants to operate hospitaJs ______c ______·rn 13 14 16 14 17 "' 16 19 17 23 22 33 ·21 ~~~(f) ~~~f:i~e~~1;:~~c~:r:~li~~~~~s--~======Federal guaranties against losses to private health insurance and hospitalization plans ____ _ 11 12 11 11 24 . 8. Should•' we(g) continueCombination to.have of allFederal of the housing above ___ programs? ------______-_ 17 22 25 65 35 67 33 70 30 64 36 If your answer was "yes" are you satisfied that present policy is providing an adequate program? __ 49 51 31 69 60 40 48 52 U not, indicate whether any of the following moves are necessary for improvement: (a) Permitting FHA to insure cooperative projects------21 42 16 21 (b) Increasing direct loans to veterans ______; ______31 68 -34 26 (c) Expandin~public housing programs------40 100 00 28 (d) Combination of all above ______-----______------____ _ 59 20 .- 55 65 e. Are you satisfied with present foreign policy programs?------39 61 53 47 46 54 36 64 11 your answer was "no" indicate whether you favor the following: 57 74 46 58 7 15 5 6 ~g~(c) Withdraw~~~i~~t~r~~~~ft~nk~~~~~~~======from aJl overseas commitmelits------= =·------======~ ------~======11 15 11 12 (d) Strive to strengthen United Nations------ 63 95 ______. _ 1 .. 46 ,...-_----r- 63 (e) Continue foreign economic aid programs as is------ 10 27 9 8 (/) Increase tempo of foreign economic aid------14 15 11 15 (g) Further emphasize point 41)rogram o:f technical assistance to underdeveloped areas ______44 73 34 '1. In the light of existing world tensions, should we: _ 43 ------(a) .Increase _our military strength ______------___ __------______---___ ------____ _ 44 42 54 43 (b) Continue military establishment at present levels_------ 50 54 45 ------50 (c) Make further national defense cuts------6 4 1 7 (d) If you checked (a) above, do you then believe we should adopt universal military training? __ _ 73 27 63 37 84 16 72 28 8. Do you feel that the Taft-Hartley Act provides the fairest basis for Federal supervision of labor-management relations? ______·--·------49 51 58 42 52 48 47 53 11 your answer was "no" indicate whether it should be: (a) Repealed witb no replacement _____ ------. 8 7 10 8 (b) Repealed and replaced with a perfected version of the Wagner A ct______~ ___ : ______56 47 (c) Amended to meet the objections of labor__ :______55 57 36 32 24 40 (d) Amended to meet the objections of management ______22 20 20 23 9. Both major political parties have recommended amendments to McCarran-Walter immigration law. Do you agree? ______--~-----"- ___ ------______----- __ _ 75 ·25 71 29 80 20 74 26 If you answered "yes" indicate whether: . (a) Quota system should be abandoned------ 8 17 4 8 (b) Unused quotas should be transferred to countries where they are oversubscribed_-__ ------ 35 28 36 35 (c) Temporary adjustments should be made ·by extension of and amendments to Refugee Relief Act ______-- -- ___ __-- _------62 63 60 62

A Bill To Make Labor Organizations Sub - been unable to prosecute labor organiza - that protection, they deny it to him. He ject to the Antimonopoly Laws . tions for violations of the antimonopoly is being discriminated against, and I laws. Labor organizations can merge or don't think it is fair to him-or right. , combine, or their leaders can conspll:e Why should the labor racketeers, with EXTENSION OF REMARKS without restrictions, whether or not they out the support of the workers, be above OF conspire in· restraint of trade or against the law? W.hy should they make rules HON.-EDGAR W. HIESTAND the freedom of the worker. ~ and regulations arid issue mandates to OF CALIFORNIA The document most important to the the workers withoiit ·the workers' knowl IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES worker and the in5}ividual citizen is the edge and consent?.. - Constitution of the United States-and That is "our free America Monday, February 20, 1956 not as our · th~ Bill of Rights: That is the last pro :forefathei:s founded it. It is not the Mr. IDESTAND. Mr. S:Peaker, for tection of his. f reecfom. If our Federal much praised freed.o.m of the individual .some years the Federal Government has laws specifically exempt the worker from which made our country great. It is 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2967 a tyranny over the individual and that nues and would have to be borne by the cent each, and so forth. It will be a tyranny is now condoned by law. Nation's taxpayers. The percent of the burden on all of the taxpayers for gen I am now introducing a bill to free Federal tax burden by States as com erations·to come. millions of workers of the United States puted by the Tax Foundation shows that Based on repayment schedules pre from that tyranny. I propose to make less than 2 percent of this required Fed sented to the House and Senate Interior labor organizations subject to the anti eral subsidy would be borne by the tax Committees by the United States Bu monopoly laws protecting tne individual payers of the States of Colorado, New reau of Reclamation, and the percentage citizen against any other form of mo Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, the chief of Federal taxes paid by each State, as nopoly. beneficiaries of the projects. For ex computed by the Tax Foundation of New The great prosperity we have built has ample, the State of New York would pay York City and Washington, D. C., here provided 3 million more jobs and ·the over 12 percent, Ohio about 6 percent, in tabular form are the costs, State by highest wages in history. We have Illinois and Pennsylvania about 7 per- State: checked the inflation and held the cost Cost the States of the Colprado River storage,project of living level for these 3 years. The to American workingman and his family are now better off than ever, financially. Actually authorized Authorized and contemplated We must protect this standard by all p;~~~~ff 1~~~~~-,--~~~~.....:.1.~~~~~~~~~~- taxes Cost of interest Cost of interest means. borne by Cost of project on construction Cost of project on construction My bill would restore to the individual the States construction allocated to construction allocated to . worker the protection of the Federal irrigation irrigation ·courts. I am for the American workingman. Alabama __ ------0. 93 $10, 164, 900 $13, 280, 400 $15, 354, 300 $31, 8R9, 700 Arizona ___ ------• 41 4, 481, 300 5, 854, 800 6, 769, 100 14,058, 900 But he has been tricked, swindled and Arkansas ______------______.48 5, 246, 400 6, 854, 400 7, 924, 800 16, 459, 200 coerced into doing things in which he California __ ------9.22 100, 774, 600 131, 661, 600 152, 222, 200 316, 153, 800 Colorado __ ------1. 01 11,039, 300 14,422, 800 16, 675, 100 34, 632, 900 does not believe, simply to get or hold Connecticut______------______Delaware ______1. 88 20, 548, 400 26, 846, 400 31, 038, 800 64, 465, 200 his job and provide for his family. Florida ______. 50 5, 465,000 7, 140, 000 8, 255, 000 l 7, 145, 000 Georgia ______1. 47 16, 067, 100 20, 991, 600 24, 269, 700 50, 406, 300 Specifically, my bill repeals two sec 1. 30 14, 209, 000 18, 564,000 21, 463, 000 44, 577, 000 tions of the Clayton Anti-Monopoly Act, Idaho __ ~------. 26 2, 841, 800 3, 712, 800 4, 292, 600 8, 915, 400 Illinois __------_------_ 7. 64 83, 505, 200 109, 099, 200 126, 136, 400 261, 975, 600 section 17, which at present exempts Indiana ___ ------2. 55 27, 871, 500 36, 414,000 42, 100, 500 87, 439, 500 labor organizations from compliance IowaKansas __ ------______1. 21 13, 225, 300 17, 278, 800 19, 977, 100 41, 490, 900 with the act by stating that nothing in . 97 10, 602, 100 13, 851, 600 16, 014, 700 33, 2Gl, 300 1. 01 11, 039, 300 14, 422, 800 16, 675, 100 34, 632, 900 the act shall be construed as making 1. 09 11, 913, 700 15, 565, 200 17, 995, 900 37, 376, 100 Maine ______======------_- ======---___== labor organizations illegal combinations Marylandfg:;~~~~r~ _____ ~ ______=~==______=====~ . 38 4, 153, 400 5, 426, 400 6, 273, 800 13, 030, 200 or conspiracies in restraint of trade. Massachusetts ______1. 95 21, 313, 500 27, 846, 000 32, 194, 500 66, 865, 500 Michigan. ______3.23 35, 303, 900 46, 124, 400 53, 327, 300 110, 756, 700 The other one is section 52 which pro 5. 78 63, 175. 400 82, 538, 400 95, 427, 8QO 198, 196, 200 Minnesota_----______1. 68 18, 362, 400 23, 990, 400 27, 736, 800 57, 607, 200 vides that Federal courts at present can .46 5,027, 800 6, 568, 800 7, 594, 600 15, 773, 400 not restrain either side in a labor dispute 2.48 27, 106, 400 35, 414, 400 40, 944, 800 85, 039, 200 Montana_------~E;~s~~f~i~ == = = .-----_------======__ = ------= = = : == . 31 3, 388, 300 4, 426, 800 5, 118, 100 10, 629, 900 unless there is imminent danger or ir Nebraska ______. ______. 73 7, 978, 900 10, 424, 400 12, 052, 300 25, 031, 700 reparable injury for which there is no Nevada. __ ------.16 1, 748, 800 2, 284, 800 2, 611, 600 5, 486, 400 adequate remedy at law and which lists New Hampshire ______. 27 2, 951, 100 3, 855, 600 4, 457, 700 9, 258, 300 New J erseY------3. 62 39, 566, 600 51, 693, 600 59, 766, 200 124, 129, 800 a number of activities which may not be New YorkMexic _o______------~ ------. 31 3, 388, 300 4, 426, 800 5, 118, 100 10, 629, 900 considered in violation of any Federal 14. 75 161, 217, 500 210, 630, 000 243, 522, 500 505, 777. 500 North Carolina ______1.38 15, 083, 400 19, 706, 400 22, 783,800 47, 320, 200 law. In effect, it restores the protection North Dakota ______.22 2, 404, 600 3, 141, 600 3, 632, 200 7, 543, 800 of the courts in such cases. Ohio __ ------· 6.39 69, 842, 700 91, 249, 200 105, 498, 900 219, 113, 100 Oklahoma ______.99 10, 820, 700 14, 137, 200 16,344, 900 33, 947, 100 Repealing the exemption of labor or Oregon. ______------______. 95 10, 383, 500 13, 566,000 15, 684, 500 32, 575, 500 ganizations from Federal antimonopoly Pennsylvania ___ ------7. 53 82, 302, 900 107, 528, 400 124, 320, 300 258, 203, 700 Rhode Island ______. 52 5, 683, 600 7, 425, 600 8, 585, 200 17, 830, 800 laws would make them obey the laws that South Carolina ______.65 7, 104, 500 9, 282, 000 10, 731, .500 22, 288, 500 other organizations have to obey. Any South Dakota ______. 24 2, 623, 200 3, 427, 200 3, 962, 400 8, 229, 600 labor organization which is sincerely op Tennessee ___ --______------_ 1.17 12, 788, 100 16, 707, 600 19; 316, 700 40, 119,300 Texas. __ ------4.05 44, 266, 500 57, 834, 000 66,865, 500 138, 874, 500 posed to monopolies, and which is truly Utah. ___ ------_------____ .34 3, 716, 200 4, 855, 200 5, 613, 400 11, 658, 600 representing the best interests of the Vermont._------.16 1, 748, 800 2, ·284,800 2, 641, 600 5, 486, 400 Virginia ______1.48 16, 176, 400 21, 134, 400 24, 434, 800 50, 749, 200 American workers,.! believe surely should Washington ______------_____ 1. 57 17, 160, 100 22, 419, 600 25, 920, 700 53, 835,300 welcome this legislation. West Virginia ______. 71 7, 760, 300 10, 138, 800 11, 722, 100 24,.345, 900 Wisconsin ______2.05 22, 406, 500 29, 274,000 33, 845, 500 70, 294, 500 I am sure the adoption of this Wyoming _____ ------.15 1, 639, 500 2, 142, 000 2, 476, 500 6, 143, 500 monopoly measure will be for the best District of Columbia, Hawaii, interests of America and its vast groups Alaska, etc_------·l. 41 15, 411, 300 20, 134, 800 23, 279, 100 ~,348,900 of workers and citizens. TotaL ______-~ ______--- 100. 00 1, 093, 000, 000 1, 428, 000, 000 1, 651, 000, 000 3, 429, 000, 000

Total direct construction costs of the pendence was celebrated and observed Upper Colorado Project's Terrific Costs. overall project of $1,651,000,000 when on February 16. I ask unanimous con Would Be Borne by Nation's Tax- added to the interest on irrigation phases sent to have printed in the CONGRESSIONAL - of $3,429,000,000 totals $5,080,000,000. RECORD a statement which I have pre payers This, of course, dictates the defeat of pared in that respect. the ·proposal. There being no objection, the state EXTENSION OF REMARKS ment was ordered to be printed in the OF RECORD, as follows: HON. GORDON L. McDONOUGH STATEMENT OF SENATOR HRUSKA Thirty-eighth Anniversary of Lithuanian Mr. President, it is again an honor to sa OF CALIFORNIA Independence lute the gallant nation of Lithuania and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lithuanian people everywhere on the 38th Monday, February 20, 1956 anniversary of Lithuanian independence. EXTENSION OF REMARKS Although it was short-lived, snuffed out Mr. McDONOUGH. Mr. Speaker, 98 OF in the clash of totalitarian giants in the percent of the upper Colorado River Baltic, Lithuania's freedom has been a par project's cost would be borne by the tax HON. ROMAN L. HRUSKA ticular inspiration to freedom-loving peoples payers of the 44 States in which the everywhere. That Lithuania still fights OF NEBRASKA against heavy odds for her freedom is a. project is not located. This hidden sub IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES sidy for the four States benefited is un monunrent to the courage and determination Monday, February 20, 1956 of her people and to the eternal attraction conscionable. Total direct and hidden of the torch of liberty. costs run to $5 billion. It cannot and Mr. HRUSKA. Mr. President, the Since the 16th century, Lithuanians have would never be repaid from project reve- 38th anniversary of Lithuanian inde- worked tirelessly for their freedom. But 2968 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE February 20 located in a strategic comer· of turbulent -33% percent or a one.;.third cut in the protection for the farmers. The farmers Europe, Lithuania became a prize for the net income of the farmers of America. are not willing to accept and must not be aggressive drives of land-hungry govern and their families since the year 1952, compelled to accept the controls of the ments. Hard-won independence, declared on Feb and during the past 6 months the farm soil-bank program without rigid 100- ruary 16, 1918, ended in the now-familiar ·income picture has grown much worse. percent parity price support protection. treachery of Communist dictators who casu Although the total farm production The main opposition presented by oppo ally added more peace treaties and nonag for the year of 1955 was 12 percent nents to parity price support protection gression pacts to the waste pile as they greater than in 1947, gross farm income .for the farming industry is an exagger forced another 3 million people under their . was 9.4 percent below 1947 and net farm ated complaint against accumulated yoke. ·income was down 38 percent. During farm ·surpluses. Perhaps most significant to the people of my State of Nebraska are the well-docu the same period national inc'ome from Mr. Speaker, for all of the 8 years from mented reports of the ordeal of enslaved .nonagricultural sources increased about , 1947-the first year after demobiliza- Lithuanians, are those dealing with the 68 percent and farm production expenses tion-through 1954, the average annual collectivization of a once prosperous agricul- increased 11.4 percent. The parity ratio, "surplus" of this type, for all farm prod. ·tural economy. The drive for collectiviza which measures the relationship between ucts lumped together, has been only 1.6 tion of Lithuania's traditional family farms prices received by farmers and prices . percent of annual production, with an began in 1947. It was ruthless oppression paid by farmers, dropped from 115 in excess production in 5 years and a de- culminating in collectivization Of 99 percent of the farms into the kolkhozes-the Soviet 1947 to 80 in January of this year. ficiency in the other 3. collective farm. The farmers are the victims of a cost- According to the omcial figures from Testimony before the House Select Com price squeeze, and while the farmers' the Commodity Credit Corporation, De mittee on Communist Aggression in the 83d income has steadily declined,-big -busi- cember 31, 1955, we have a surplus supply Congress painted a tragic picture of the de ness corporation profits have gone up of corn which would last 3 months and terioration of Lithuanian agriculture in the higher .and higher. Big business manu- 19 days; present supply of wheat would kolkhoze system. facturers, processors, commodity mar- last 13 months and 10 days; butter, 1 The efficiency of the collectivized farmer kets, packers, stock markets, transporta- month and 14 days; mill{., 1 month and dropped sharply. Production per hectare of Lithuania's basic crops fell off-in wheat from tion carriers, et cetera, have more than 2·7 days; barley, 4 months and 14 days; 24 bushels per hectare'to 10, and in rye from doubled and redoubled their net profits. oats, 24 days; and soybeans, 29 days. 25 bushels to 11. Lithuania's livestock pop General Motors Corp. reported a net in- Quite aside from.the fact that accumu ulation has declined-from 1,200,000 head come of more than a billion dollars for lated farm "surpluses" could be used ad of sheep to only 260,000 and from more than last year. vantageously both at home and abroad, 1 million head of hogs to 315,000. Mr. Speaker, I say that the Republi- they are not in the aggregate excessively The achievements of our free enterprise can publicized Eisenhower "prosperity large as an emergency reserve. If war farmer stand in stark contrast. The select committee concluded in its and peace program" is a gross misrepre- should break out or a national catas report to the House, "The expropriation of sentation, and a grave danger to our na- trophe occur, a total accumulation of private property destroyed the very founda tional economy when it is revealed in farm products amounting to less than tion of the Lithuanian economy and turned the light of the fact that one of many one-third of 1 year's normal production her prosperous population into paupers." big profiteering ·corporations-General would be a minimum safeguard. Indeed, The iron control of Lithuania by .the Motor~reaped a profit last year equal we would be more safe if we had more Kremlin appears complete. But, as free men to one-tenth of the total combined an- surplus farm products in reserve stor everywhere know, it is not. The determina tion of once independent nations and peoples nual net income of 22 million loyal age. We now have an inventory of over to regain their freedom can never be stamped American farm people. $100 billion worth of military equipment out. Another example of the Eisenhower and supplies. How large, in comparison, As long as we contir..ue to remind these "boom-prosperity and peace" program is is the $8 billion our Government has in enslaved people that they are not forgotten the profits of- Armour Packing Co. vested in surplus stores of food and fiber, · and as long as we continue to reassert in Profits of this company increased 600 and which could at any time be liqui ourselves our determination to protect our percent in the year 1955. All other pack- dated for sale at world markets outside own freedom, we can confidently look for ward to the day when these indomitable ing companies and processors report the the United States? Lithuanians will again achieve the right of greatest profits ever known in their op- Mr. Speaker, there would be no farm self-determination. erations. surpluses if home consumption was ex- Mr. Speaker, the farmers of America panded and exports of farm products en do not object to big business· profits- larged. But unfortunately for the farm we favor such profits if not unreason- ers of America, the Republican Adminis able. The farmers do not wish to injure tration now in power protects foreign Third Anniversary of the Farmer's or p:1.·event anyone's prosperity but they agriculture from American farm exports Betrayal are entitled to their rightful share of in order to increase the exports of the the prof.its from our national resources manufacturing industries. EXTENSION OF REMARKS and prosperity. - Big business and big industry are pro- OF During this phony "boom" period, the tected by the Eisenhower Administration Eisenhower Administration has con- by Government subsidies and special tax HON. MORGAN M. MOULDER sistently fallowed a course of action de- privileges to enable them to maintain OF MISSOURI signed to force farm prices down. On certain ·price charges and limit output. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVF.8 every occasion when the so-called ftexi- Farmers are compelled to buy·in a pro ble price support law permitted, the ad- tected administered price market asking, Monday, February 20, 1956 ministration has reduced the support "What is your price I am compelled to' ·Mr. MOULDER. Mr. Speaker, 3 price when and if it was above the free pay?" Farmers· must sell in competition years ago on January 20, 1953, the Eisen market level. with millions of other farmer sellers to a hower Big-Business-Benson Administra Mr. Speaker, I opposed and voted monopolistic-type market, taking what tion was inaugurated. The ensuing 3 against the flexible or sliding scale farm they are o:ff ered as set by the .monopo years have witnessed a steady downward price support bill when presented by the listic market price. drift of farm prices and pu,rchasing Republican Leadership and passed here Mr. Speaker, big business corporation power. The decline in net incomes of by the Eisenhower Administration and profits, after taxes, have increased· by farmers have been even more severe be- Republican Congress 2 years ago. In- more than 36 percent since 1952. During . cause farmers' operating and living stead I favored a 100-percent . parity this same period farmers' net income has costs have not decreased; 'in fact, the price for all farm products, and I sup- decreased by niore than 30 percent. The cost of many items have increased. ported and voted for a continuation -of consumers of food and farm products are The total net incomes o:f farmers in 90-percent parity price support program · not deriving any benefits from falling 1952, the year Mr.' Eisenhower was as was presented for a vote on the :fioor farm prices. The average prices received elected President, was $15 billion. By of the House at that time. by farmers for all products are now 26 the third .quarter of 1955, the total an The Eisenhower Administration of our · percent lower than in 1951, but the food nual net income was reduced to $10 bil agriculture programs has opposed and prices paid by consumers are about the lion. This represents a decrease of · continues to oppose 100-percent· parity · same as in the year 1951. For example, 1956, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2969 prices received by producers of beef cat for school lunch programs, and we must I made before the Decalogue Society in tle in mid-December 1955 were equiva vigorously expand and increase export of Chicago, on February 18, 1956. ' - lent to only 67.1 ·percent of the 1947-49 farm products. There being no objection, the address average, but the cost of beef to the con Mr. Speaker, the only action that will was ordered to be printed in the RECORD: sumer has not decreased. solve the problem is legislation that will as follows: . · Mr. Speaker, it is a sad state of affairs. ~top the fall in farm family income and I accept your award and thank you for when farmers are becoming worse off raise it to a level commensurate with a ~t. It means a great deal to me to receive while others are prospering. It shocks fair opportunity for farmers ·in an this evidence that the struggles some of us human instincts and commonsense to otherwise expanding and prosperous have been waging in Washington are ap proved and supported here in the heartland see cutbacks in production and hear national economy. Existing law per of America. talks of "surpluses" while millions of mits and authorizes in general, but does I have long known of this distinguished American families lack adequate diets not compel the executive branch to take society, with its noble name enshrining in and hundreds of millions of people else the necessary actions required to pro a word the basic rules of goodness and y.rhere in the world fear starvation. We tect and improve farm income. How godliness. all know enough of our economic his ever, the executive branch has not used I have the high privilege of knowing al tory to be worried when agriculture is this authority. On the record, there is most all the eminent persons who have re rolling downhill, because all general de no reason to believe or hope that the ceived this award before me, and I am proud, pressions have started on the farms, Eisenhower-Benson executive branch of indeed, to be included in that great com and conditions on the farms today our Government will extend or admin pany. At least one of your Members is an old threaten the lasting prosperity of all. ister adequate farm income protection friend, or rather a young friend of mine. I Mr. Speaker, the farm situation de programs as now authorized by laws in am glad to greet him here in his hometown mands immediate adjustment and effect. Passage of mandatory farm in as a rising star in the public firmament, a. emergency action by the Eisenhower come protection legislation will make man in whom brilliance of intellect is aptly Administration in order to prevent a the intent of Congress crystal clear; the joined with integrity of character-Con complete collapse and bankruptcy of absence of such mandatory legislation gressman SIDNEY YATES. It has been a privi the farmers of America. Laws now in may give the executive. branch some lege to know and to cherish this dedicated effect permit and authorize such action further excuse for its timidity and fail young man. The Decalogue Society and the ure to act. community should be proud of him. by the executive branch of the Govern Tonight I propose to discuss with you a. ment to protect and improve farm in Mr. Speaker, our great United States subject in which many o~ you, I am sure, come, and the failure and refusal of the has survived the tests of time, economic share a great interest with me-our immi Eisenhower Administration to effectively depressions and wars. From obscurity gration and citizenship laws. administer the farm laws now in effect and small beginnings four centuries ago, I am going to assume that there are none makes it even more necessary for the America has emerged into history as the present whom I need to convince that these Congress of the United States to enact most powerful and resourceful free na laws require amendment and modification mandatory farm income protection leg".'.' tion in the world. A nation only 400 tonight. I want to give you my judgment as to the kind of modification that 1s n·eeded islation. The practices .of monopolistic years old, against the 5,000 years of and the effort it will take to secure that kind market manipulations which are· cir India ; 400 years against the days of of modification. cumventing the operations of free mar Egypt that dates back centuries before - It should be unnecessary for me to point kets and enriching the few to the end the birth of Christ; 400 years against out that this is not a partisan matter. The of destroying the producer must be the life of China known by records to support for the McCarran-Walter Act was stopped. An immediate investigation date back as far as 2205 B. C. The 400 and is bipartisan. The opposition to it was should be conducted along the line most enlightened and liberty-laden and is bipartisan. provided for in my resolution, House years of mankind, which we ha.ve Any successful effort to modify the present Resolution 371, which I introduced Jan achieved by and through a philosophy law in a significant and meaningful manner of government that the welfare of all can only be a bipartisan effort. Indeed, this uary 12 of this year. issue is one of those which clearly cuts across What agriculture needs at this time the people is paramount to that of a party ilnes and disregards political amua.. is a blood transfusion, such as a pro privileged few. tions. duction payment plan, as advocated by Mr. Speaker, the farmers of America But this is not to say that political con Fred Heinke!, President of Missouri were the founders and pioneers of our siderations do not enter into the question Farmers Association. A production great Nation. It was indeed their lives at all. There are political considerations in payment plan could be put into effect and epochs that laid the convenient volved, in a very healthy and democratic in a very short time, and would not dis stepping stones which led to the indus way. Today, unlike the situation 4 years trial development, and the high stand ago, there is an aroused and Vigilant citizenry rupt normal channels of trade. Such a in some parts of the country, demanding plan should be made retroactive ard of living and security the people of changes in the law. So it becomes necessary through and for the year of 1955 as well America enjoy. And the farmers of for the President and Members of Congress as for 1956 and subsequent years or America are not only entitled to share to take cognizance of the question, and to until the farm surplus problem is in our national prosperity, their income, take a position on it. It now becomes pollt worked out. standard of living and opportunities ically impossible to ignore the question. . Mr. Speaker, I favor and will vigor must be equalized with other segments '.That is the way democracy functions ously support and vote for farm legisla of our economy or a national economic thank God for that. tion as outlined and proposed by the depression with bankruptcy and bread I anticipate that reform of our immigra lines will surely be upon us again. tion and citizensihp laws will be an impor National Farmers' Organization. The tant issue in the national elections of 1956, Department of Agriculture should im but not because all the members of one mediately establish a prlce floor of .not party are clearly for, and the others clearly less than $20 per hundredweight on against. No, nationally it will be a question butcher hogs and approximately $30 per Address by Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, of of which party has contributed and can con hundredweight on good to choice cattle. New York, Before the Decalogue So .. tribute most to the substantial revision of He has existing ·authority by law to do present law. It will also be a question, na so; however, if we need more specific · ciety of Chicago tionally, of what kind of revision will be mandatory legislation, then we must pledged by each party. In many districts of the country, there will enact such legislation, and· also provide EXTENSION OF REMARKS be lively and intensive discussion of this mandatory income protection for family OF issue by candidates for Congress, and even farm production of all commodities at 100 for local otnce. There will be some districts, percent of fair parity, by means of pro HON. HERBERT ff. LEHMAN of course, where this will not be an issue, duction payments in workable combina OF NEW YORK where no candidate will espouse a change in the law, and where there will be little in tions with price support loans, purchase IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES agreements and purchases. We must terest in the subject. But the number of Monday, February 20, 1956 such districts will be far fewer in 1956 than revitalize and expand Federal crop in in 1952. surance, expand use and . demand for Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. President, I ask . And by this we will be able to measure the farm · commodities, through domestic unanimous consent to have printed in great progress that has been made on this consumption expansion, such as milk the CoNGRESSI.ONAL RECORD an address front in the past 4 years. CII--187 2970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE February 20 _ Yes, we have made great progress in stim Then there are the many cruel, heartless But the President's proposals were ex ulating public interest in this question and unjust provisions for deportation, ret pressed in general terms. They were fine compared. to the situation exactly 4 years roactive in most cases, post facto law in words, as far as they went. The specific bills ago, when this act was before the Congress. some. There are today 125 sep.arate grounds which have been introduced to carry out the At that time there was no general public for deportation. President's general proposals, the Watkins interest whatever in this subject. There are scores of harsh and unreasonable Keating bills, fall rather short of the mark I remember the vain efforts some of us punishments for relatively minor misdemea set by the President's message. made in the Senate to engage in debate with nors. The dread penalty of banishment for The President sharply criticized the na the proponents of the McCarran-Walter bill. resident aliens is provided as casualty as tional origins quota system. But the For days we spoke to a chamber empty of a $5 fine. Watkins-Keating bills retain the national all Senators except the handful of us op There is no review or appea.Is procedure origins quota system. The Watkins-Keating posed to the bill. The sponsors of the bill for aliens who are dented visas. A consul's bills still discriminate against Asians, against gave us the silent treatment. The late decision is final and nonreviewable by any Jamaicans, and against natives of Trinidad Senator Pat McCarran made only 2 or 3 higher officer, board, or court. and other islands in the Caribbean. The appearances on the floor in ·behalf of his · These are just some of the categories of administration proposals discriminate against bill. And on those occasions, he spent most evils in the immigration provisions of the Africans. , This discrimination is on the basis of his time quoting excerpts from the pages law. of race and national origin. · of the Daily Worker to show that the Com There is also the nationality title of the I cannot, for the life of me, see why we munist Party was opposed to the legislation, act. That title, too, is a Pandora's Box. should hold back, why the Watkins-Keating and to suggest that we who fought the There are the distinctions between natu bills hold back, from repealing outright the McCarran-Walter Act were dupen of the ralized and native-born citizens. national origins quota system. Communrst Party. · . There are the encroachments on the status Those who oppose the elimination of the Today, that is still the main line of sup of citizenship acquired even by birth. national origins quota system will similarly porters of the McCarran-Walter Act--the There are the provisions for revocation of oppose, with all their might, the limited same tired, threadbare arguments. citizenship by judgment, without even the pooling of unused quotas as provided in the Well, those arguments do not attract as requirement of personal service. Watkins-Keating bills. These bills will be much suppo'rt as they did a few years ago. This listing is but a rough and almost characterized as an attack on the national It is no longer possible for any but the random sele'ction. origins quota system. If they are going to fanatic and the blind to charge that the You who are lawyers know that it takes have the name, why not the game? chief inspiration for the reform of our im cases and court decisions to give life to the The Watkins-Keating bills make no change migration and citizenship laws comes from law. Well, I wonder if you know that large in the second-class status now forced on the Communist Party. sections of the McCarran-Walter Act were naturalized citizens. Except for a partial . President Eisenhower has officially rec drafted after a careful study of every court exemption from automatic denaturalization ommended to the Congress a series of decision which the Immigration and Natu on accident of residence abroad, provided amendments to the McCarran-Walter Act. ralization Service had lost over a 20-year for certain veterans of war-time military Attorney General Brownell and the Justice period. service, the unjustifiable distinctions be Department drafted the President's rec tween naturalized and native-born citizens In every case in which a court had given are left intact in the law. To this continued ommendations. It will be interesting to life to the law, the McCarran-Walter Act ap see if the supporters of the McCarran-Walter acceptance by President Eisenhower of the plied an axe to remove every legal handrail concept of second-class citizenship I cannot Act now undertake to show that Mr. to which an alien might possibly cling if Brownell is a dupe of the Communist Party. and will not agree. . Let us get down to specifics. What do we the Immigration Service wanted to deport The same type of limited advance char mean by substantial revision of the Mc him; and to close every crack and crevice in acterizes other aspects of the Watkins-Keat CarraJ:.1-Walter Act? What is wrong with the law through which an alien might pos ing proposals. They do not go far enough. the act? Do the recomme11dations made by sibly enter, if the Consular Service and the They do not remedy some of the major evils President Eisenhower cure those defects? Immigration Service, for whatever reason, in the present law. Some are of question . The worst thing about the present law is didn't want him to enter. able merit. its spirit--the spirit of fear and suspicion This is the kind of law we now have on our But I shall not discuss them in detail to directed against every alien and even against statute books, and have had for the past 4 night. I have just begun my own intensive naturalized citizens. It is hard to dig this years. · study of them. I commend the President spirit out of the law by a few amendments. This law is one of the greatest talking again, and the Attorney General, too, for the It is a spirit which shows through every title points against America which the Commu forward strides they do make in this field. and chapter of the law. nist International has. We are held up to It is a pity that the administration isn't yet Now, I don't want to leave the impression ridicule because of this law-a powerful ready to recognize, publicly, the chief evils that I think there was nothing good in the country like ours-sound, prosperous, and in the law. McCarran-Walter Act. It had some good stable-but afraid to admit a Polish violinist Speaking for myself, I will go along with provisions, by which I mean that some few because he once signed a peace petition, or the President as far as his recommendations improvements over preexisting law were an Italian shoemaker, be<:ause he once be go but at the same time press for further made in the 1952 act. But for every con longed to a Communist-dominated labor advance. structive change made in 1952, a score or union. I will not cease to fight for the complete more of new restrictions were added. The We have lost more prestige abroad than elimination of the racist and bigoted na preexisting law was already cruel and we can compensate for with the Voice of tional origins quota system. vicious consisting of a long succession of America. This law, which the Daily Worker I will not cease to fight for the elimination antialien measures adopted by Congress criticizes for its own purposes here, is price of all distinctions between native and nat from U372 to 1952. Some of the worst of less grist for the Communist propaganda uralized American citizens. these provisions were added in 1950 as part mill abroad. I will not cease my efforts to remove the of the blunderbuss McCarran Internal Se In this law we sacrifice our international unnecessary harshness and injustice from curity Act. dignity. We gain nothing. We lose much. all sections of the McCarran-Walter Act. It is sometimes forgotten that the Internal But what are we to do about it? What Let us not deceive ourselves. The opposi Security Act was originally introduced in amendments do we seek? tion is going to be overwhelmingly strong. Congress as the Mundt-Nixon bill. In 1950 I have had a bill pending in Congress for The fight is not going to be over at the end it was taken over by the late Senator Mc 3 years, proposing a wholesale revision of the of this session. It is just going to get under Carran who proceeded to use it as the ve law, eliminating the national origins quota way. As a great President said of other leais hicle for a comprehensive set of drastic anti system, wiping out the distinctions between lation, "We have only just begun to fight." alien proposals, all of which became law in native-born and naturalzed citizens, restor But we can look forward to a joining of the summer of 1950, over President Truman's ing citizenship status to what the Founding :the issues. There will be public debate veto. Fathers conceived it to be, and establishing and discussion. I hope that we can get The bad provisions of present law are be standards of justice and equity for the treat some action in Congress. We must try our yond listing in a single speech. They num ment of all aliens, those seeking admission hardest, but temporary failure must not ber in the hundreds. There are so many here, and those already resident here. I have discourage us. that they can only be covered by category. 12 cosponsors on my bill in the Senate. The Here in Illinois, the home State of Abra There is the national origins quota sys same bill has been introduced in the House ham Lincoln, with the echoes of Lincoln Day tem, and the invidious racial and national by Congressman CELLER, and by 20 or 30 other speeches still resounding, I would like to discrimination which it bespeaks. Members of Congress. read an excerpt from a letter which Abra There are the impossible and endless re I must tell you frankly that it may be very ham Lincoln, wrote to a friend of his, quirements for admission. There are over difficult to get my comprehensive bill enacted Joshua Speed more than a hundred years 700 separate grounds for refusing admission at this session of Congress. What about ago. to an alien. Some requirements are literally President Eisenhower's prop-osals? "As a Nation," wrote Abraham Lincoln, impossible to fulfill. Some are purely mysti I was greatly gratified by the President's "we began by declaring that 'all men are cal, depending on the clairvoyance of the recommendations. They came a long way in created equal.' Consular Officer or the Immigration In the direction I have been pointing for 4 years. "We now practically read it, 'all men are spector. They were better than I had expected. .created equal except Negroes.' When the

dence may this dear land of liberty, with Merchant Marine Act of 19-36 so as to .SENATE all its privilege and power, be the ,quarry provide for the utilization of privately whence shall be fashioned the white owned shipping services in oonneetion TUESDAY., FEBRUARY 21, 1956 stones of -a new order whose alaba;ster · with the transportation of privately The Chap1ain, Re:v. Frederick Brown cities shall gleam undimmed by human owned motor vehicles of eertain person Harris, D. D., offered the following - want and woe. We ask it in the Re nel of ·the Department of Defense, with prayer: deemer's name. Amen. amendments, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. Lord God Almighty, who amidst the The message also announced that the shifting sands of time standest sure and _THE JOURNAL House had passed the following bills, in whose thr.one is forever steadfast, though On request of Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, which it requested the concurrence of often obscured by earthborn c1ouds, fram the Senate: everlasting to everlasting Thou art God. and by unanimous ·consent, the reading Thou Light that f'01lowest all -0ur of the Journal of the proceedings of H. R.101. .An act relating to the .admln- o 1stration by the Secretary of the Interior way, we would yield to Thee 1the flicker Monday, February 20, 1956, was dis pensed with. of .section 9, subsections (d) and (ej, of ing torch of our doubts, 'OUr fears, our the Reclamation Project Act of 1939; willfulness, and our m'Oral failure. At .H.R.1779. An act to author.iize the Sec this high altar in the temple ()f public MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE retary of the lnterior to .construct, operate, service, maintain in u.s, we beseech Thee, and maintain the Juniper division of the fi.deuty to our possible best, knowing that A message from the House of Repre W.apinitia · Federal , .reclamation pr(i)Ject, of those to whom much has been. given sentatives, by Mr. Maur-er, its reading Oregon; much will be required. Lift us to great clerk, announced that ·the House had H. R. 2108. An ae:t to .repeal certain laws ness tQ match these ns for