EXTENSIONS of REMARKS January 21, 1970 Mr

684 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 21, 1970 Mr. CABELL, Mr. GARMATZ, Mr. By Mr. CRAMER: of the House with respect to peace in the LOWENSTEIN, Mr. ROSENTHAL, Mr. H. Res. 787. Resolution to express the sense Middle East; to the Committee on Foreign PATTEN, Mr. ST GERMAIN, Mr. Ot of the House with respect to peace in the A1Iairs. TINGER, and Mr. GAYDOS): Middle East; to the Committee on Foreign H. Con. Res. 479. Concurrent resolution to Affairs. express the sense of the House with respect By Mr. DERWINSKI (for himself, Mr. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to peace in the Middle East; to the Commit CRANE, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. BIESTER, tee on Foreign A1Iairs. Mr. BROCK, Mr. FISH, Mr. GOODLING, Under clause 1 of rule xxn, .private By Mr. PEPPER (for himself, Mr. How Mr. HARVEY, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. bills and resolutions were introduced and ARD, Mr. BRASCO, Mr. CORMAN, Mr. HOGAN, Mr. HORTON, Mr. HUNT, Mr. severally referred as follows: FALLON, Mr. KARTH, Mr. MACDONALD JOHNSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. JoNAS, By Mr. CAREY: Of Massachusetts, Mr. HELSTOSKI, Mr. Mr. KLEPPE, Mr. McCLORY, Mr. Mc H.R. 15503. A bill for the relief of Domen O'NEILL Of Massachusetts, Mr. ADAMS, DONALD of Michigan, Mr. McEWEN, ico Marrone, his wife, Luisa Marrone, and Mr. MlKVA, Mr. TuNNEY, Mr. BIAGGI, Mr. PETTIS, Mr. RAILSBACK, Mr. their minor child, Luigi Marrone; to the Mr. HICKS, Mr. TIERNAN, Mr. BARING, SCOTT, Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin, Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. ANDERSON of California, Mr. Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. WILLIAMS, and By Mr. RYAN: BLATNIK, Mr. DADDARIO, Mr. CAREY, Mr. ZION): H.R. 15504. A bill for the relief of Cynthia Mr. RYAN, Mr. WRIGHT, Mr. STRATTON, H. Res. 788. Resolution to express the sense Maude Robinson; to the Committee on the Mr. CONYERS, and Mr. HECHLER of of the House with respect to peace in the Judiciary. West Virginia): Middle East, to the Committee on Foreign By Mr. THOMPSON of Georgia: H. Con. Res. 480. Concurrent resolution to Affairs. H.R. 15505. A blll for the relief of Jack B. express the sense of the House with respect By Mr. PERKINS (for himself and Mr. Smith and Charles N. Martin, Jr.; to the to peace in the Middle East; to the Commit AYRES): Committee on the Judiciary. tee on Foreign A1fairs. H. Res. 789. Resolution providing for the By Mr. UTT: By Mr. ASPINALL: expenses incurred pursuant to House Resolu H.R. 15506. A bill for the relief of Krikor H. Res. 786. Resolution to provide further tion 200; to the Committee on House Ad Garabed Ayvasian, Marian Ayvasian · (wife), funds for the expenses of the investigations ministration. Leon Ayvasian, Sita Ayvasian, Artinl Ayva authorized by House Resolution 21; to the By Mr. TAYLOR: sian, and Tgohi Ayvasian (chlldren); to the Committee on House Administration. H. Res. 790. Resolution to express the sense Committee on the Judiciary. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FANNIN NOTES INDUSTRY its domestic commodities and products from e:q>losive growth of imports currently PROBLEM imports. crippling the domestic shoe industry. As re Ideally, of course, all countries should be cently as 1959, for instance, shoe imports so constituted that tariffs wouldn't be neces equaled only 3.5 per cent of U.S. shoe pro HON. SAM STEIGER sary and there would be, literally, "free trade" duction but, last year, they equaled 37.5 per with everyone competing-no strings at cent of it, and the industry estimates that OF ARIZONA tached-with everyone else. But life is one by 1975 one out of every two pairs of shoes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thing, art is another, and free trade is an art !sold in the United States will be foreign Wednesday, January 21, 1970 that is as elusive today as it was when inter made. national commerce began. The industry, Fannin said, also reckons Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, The fact that the United States is, day by that for every 10 million shoes imported 1n the midst of an extremely difficult day, getting into an increasingly critical po (and there were 200 million of them in 1969) , inflationary situation it is ironic that we sition in its foreign ·trade is no particular there are roughly 3,000 job opportunities lost are also facing an international trade secret, but the very complexity of how we got for domestic shoe workers. into our current jam helps to obscure the Hurt even more, of course, is the consumer problem of such burgeoning proportions seriousness of it. As our production costs electronic industry. Of the total market of that it may threaten our domestic econ soar, the fewer goods we sell overseas. The 12.5 million television sets la!st year, for in omy. fewer goods we sell overseas, the more jobs stance, a full4.2 million of them, 33 per cent, In last Sunday's Arizona Republic, are lost domestically. came from abroad. The industry estimates business and financial editor Don Camp And, at the same time, the more foreign that the import share of this will rise to 43 markets we lose, the more American manu per cent of the market in the current year. bell printed an interview with Arizona's In the case of tape instruments, the battle Senator PAUL FANNIN outlining the scope facturers are tempted to move some of their operations abroad to compete more evenly. already has been decisively lost-a full 10.8 of this problem and some of the actions The result: the loss of even more jobs here million of the 11.9 million tape machines which must be taken if a trade crisis in the United States. sold la!st year, 90 per cent-were imported. is to be avoided. One of the more vocal advocates of ta.Jting This year, the industry expects the import of Senator FANNIN notes some of the com action in this area before the damage is ir share the market to rise to 92 per cent. plexities which have gotten us into our reversible is Arizona's senior U.S. Senator, But, while "Cheap foreign labor" is the Paul J. Fannin, whose concern is underscored traditional rallying cry of the protectionists, current international logjam and puts Fannin said, the whole problem is a. bit more forth some interesting and innovative by the fact that Arizona's role as a foreign exporter is growing by leaps and bounds-up complex than that. The disparity in labor ideas on how the problem may be at to $98.2 million in 1966 (the latest year avail costs, is further complicated by unfavorable tacked. able), exclusive of agricultural items, from tariff structure!s coming out of the "Kennedy Mr. Speaker, I include the article to $63 million just six years earlier. It was in Round" of tariff negotiations-a drastic re duction in the tariffs on about 100,000 prod which I have referred, which appeared 1966 thlllt Arizona finally nosed Colorado out ucts involved in world trade and a move that in the Arizona Republic on Sunday, of the No. 1 spot in exports among the Moun tatn States. was decidely overdue. January 18, in the RECORD at this point: The negotiations were the result of con The key to the crisis, Sen. Fannin said gressional action in 1963 giving the late INDUSTRY AT THE CROSSROADS?-IMPLACABLE this past week in an interview, is the infla PINCERS OF SOARING COSTS, Low TARIFFS President the authority to slash import tionary cycle in the United States and, in duties up to 50 per cent across the board. STRANGLING MANUFACTURERS IN THE MAR particular, the soaring cost of labor-which, KETPLACE The knotty details of the authorization, how since 1965, ha!s risen at twice the rate of out ever, kept all 46 nations involved in the (By Don G. Campbell) put per man hour. matter busy clear up until it was finally With the possible exception of performing As a case in point, Sen. Fannin cites the signed into law on Nov. 13, 1967. brain surgery in the back of a. truck camper disparity between labor costs among the ma "The trouble is," Sen. Fannin said, "that while negotiating the Coronado Trail, few jor auto producing countries. In the United the tariffs worked out were supposed to even States, according to Fannin's figures, labor things come quite so close to sheer impos up the productive capacities of the countries costs in the industry amount to about $5.31 involved. Countries like Mexico, with a. much sibility as that of understanding our tariff an hour as against: laws. lower productive capacity than the United Argentina, $1.19; Australia, $1.92; Brazil, States, were protected from a. flood of imports And yet, ironically, few international ar $0.96; Germany, $2.20; Italy, $1.99; Japan, with relatively high tariffs." rangements strike so decisively at the-man $1.40; Mexico, $2.04; South Africa, $1.05; The trouble is, the Arizona. senator said, in-the-street's pocketbook and arouse so United KingdoM, $1.57. the situation changed quickly and, by the much emotionalism as this complex network Undoubtedly, too, Fannin feels, labor con time the nonstop negotiations on the Ken of duties that each country erects to protect Siderations are also the prime factor in the nedy Round had been completed, the pro- January 21, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 685 ductivity capacity of such countries as Japan J. EDGAR HOOVER, PATRIOT does the nation a disservice when he calls and Germany had drastically changed-they J. Edgar Hoover has reached age 75, an attention to It.

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