April 29, 1969
10744 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 29, 1969 The main purposes of the bill are as Title IV extends the provisions of the ington for the term of 4 years vice Smith follows: Voting Rights Act of 1965 for an addi more P. Myers, resigned. Title I extends to litigants in State tional 5 years. If no action is taken, R. Jackson B. Smith, Jr., of Georgia, to States will ba able to remove themselves be U .S. attorney for the southern district courts the same protection against dis of Georgia for the term of 4 years vice Don crimination in selection of juries as pro from the provisions of the act and will ald H. Fraser, resigning. vided in Federal courts in the Federal be free again to use discriminatory voter Jury Selection Act of 1968. The bill au registration laws. thorizes the Attorney General to file cor CONFIRMATIONS rective suits only after due notice and Executive nominations confirmed by opportunity for the State to take correc ADJOURNMENT UNTll.. THURSDAY, the Senate, April 29, 1969: tive action. States with nondiscrimina MAY 1,1969 tory jury selection systems would not be POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT affected. Mr. GRAVEL. Mr. President, in ac Henry Lehne, of Massachusetts, to be an Title II gives the Equal Employment cordance with the order previously en Assistant Postmaster General. tered, I move that the Senate stand in Ronald B. Lee, of Maryland, to be an As~ Opportunity Commission authority to sistant Postmaster General. issue cease-and-desist orders which adjournment until 12 o'clock noon on could be judicially enforced. This au Thursday, May 1, 1969. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RoADS thority would greatly increase the com The motion was agreed to; and (at 6 Ralph R. Bartelsmeyer, of illinois, to be mission's effectiveness in its negotiations o'clock and 2 minutes p.m.) the Senate Director of Public Roads. with those breaking the law. adjourned until Thursday, May 1, 1969, CiviL SERVICE COMMISSION Title m repeals the provision ap at 12 o'clock noon. L. J. Andolsek, of Minnesota, to be a Civil proved by the last Congress in limiting Service Commissioner for the term of 6 years future appropriations for the Commis expiring March 1, 1975. sion on Civil Rights to the 1968 level. NOMINATIONS NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL COMMISSION This provision precludes annual con Stewart Lamprey, of New Hampshire, to be gressional consideration of Commission Executive nominations received by the Federal cochairman of the New England Re needs and, in effect, forces the Commis Senate April29, 1969: gional Commission. sion to curtail its activities with each U.S. ATTORNEYS POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Government-wide pay increase or in Dean C. Smith, of Washington, to be U.S. Frank J. Nunlist, of New Jersey, to be an crease in the cost of living. attorney for the eastern district of Wash- Assistant Postmaster General.
HOUSE OF REPRE I SENTATIVE ~ S-Tuesday, April 29, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. municated to the House by Mr. Leonard, a hearing on the model cities program Rev. William R. Barnhart, D.D., min one of his secretaries, who also informed on Monday, May 12, to discuss with top ister emeritus, Circular Congregational the House that on April 25, 1969, the HUD officials the status of the program Church, Charleston, S.C., offered the fol President approved and signed a bill of and the various recommendations made lowing prayer: the House of the following title: in connection with it. Other hearings al 0 God, our help in ages past and hope H.R. 10158. An act to provide mail service ready planned for the balance of that for Mamie Doud Eisenhower, widow of for week will limit us to one day at this for years to come, help us to learn and do mer President Dwight David Eisenhower. Thy holy will. time, but it is our intention to follow up Lift up our minds above the problems with additional hearings on model cities that perplex us. Lift up our hearts above at a later date. the burdens that weight us down. Lift up HEARINGS ON THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM our souls above the sorrows that grieve REPRESENTATIVE FOREMAN IN us. (Mr. BARRETT asked and was given TRODUCES BILL AIMED AT THE May we have less pressure and more permission to address the House for 1 ARMED REVOLTS OF STUDENTS prayer, less work and more worship, less minute, to revise and extend his remarks ON AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CAM talking and more thinking. and include extraneous matter.) PUSES Help us to realize the sanctity of pol Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Speaker, the itics and to put principles above parties model cities legislation enacted in 1966 Dartmouth College has been a leader administration in the past will continue, [Roll No. 50] in many innovative educational pro and that with informed management of Adair Diggs Ottinger grams. Indeed, under the leadership of its the current crisis of our Alma Mater will Anderson, Ill. Edwards, La. Pike Annunzio Fish Powell president, John Sloan Dickey, it has risen in the future move forward. to even Arends Fisher Pryor to a position of preeminence among the greater contribution toward the mainte Bates Ford, Rarick institutions of higher learning in the ance of a free and just America. Blanton William D. Reid, Ill. Blatnik Gallagher Reifel Nation. Mr. SCHNEEBELI. Mr. Speaker, it is a Bolllng Green, Oreg. Rivers The plans for Dartmouth's third cen source of great satisfaction to Dartmouth Broyhill, Va. Gubser Ronan tury are already set forth in an ambitious men to realize that the Congress of the Cabell Hagan Rum.sfeld Cahill Hebert Scheuer program estimated to cost $51 million, United States, through the medium of Carey Kirwan Shipley most of which will be contributed by her House Concurrent Resolution 114, has Celler Landrum Stafford alumni. We can expect that a display of recognized the 200th anniversary of the Clark Lowenstein Stephens Clay Mailliard Symington the proverbial "Dartmouth spirit" will founding of Dartmouth College. As a Conte Mink Teague, Tex. result in the attainment of the college's graduate in the class of 1930, I was CUnningham Murphy, N.Y. Ullman new goals. honored in being asked to cosponsor this Daddario Nix Whalley Mr. Speaker, in terms of most State resolution with the other Dartmouth Davis, Ga. O'Neal, Ga. universities, Dartmouth is small, and it is alumni here in Congress. The SPEAKER. On this rollcall 377 my hope that it will remain so. But, while The Dartmouth family is prDperly Members have answered to their names, remaining small in the size of its student proud of the long tradition and fine a quorum. body, I suggest that it will continue to heritage which the school has enjoyed By unanimous consent, further pro have a great influence on the minds of and which has placed the college in the ceedings under the call were dispensed those who have the privilege of attending front ranks of the American higher edu with. Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on cation system. The continued advance the Nation, and in the world. being made by the independent college OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD TO Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I am oganizations in this country is a healthy MISS BARBARA GOLEMAN, OF happy to state my support of House Con sign of progress toward the achievement FLORIDA current Resolution 114 which expresses of the American ideal. The loyal sons of the congratulations of the Congress of Dartmouth constitute a close-knit group (Mr. PEPPER asked and was given the United States on the 200th anniver who continue to show the influence which permission to address the House for 1 sary of the founding of Dartmouth Col this institution has left upon them. minute.) lege. As an alumnus of this institution of It is recognized that much of the suc Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, we of the the class of 1933, I was happy to cospon cess of Dartmouth in the 20th century Florida delegation were very much sor this resolution with the other Dart may be attributed to its three great thrilled yesterday that a lovely lady, who mouth alumni whose names appear with president&-Tucker, Hopkins, and Dic happens to be, I am proud to say, from mine. key. my congressional district, Miss Barbara Dartmouth College, created by royal I was fortunate in knowing the latter Goleman, was the recipient, in the beauti charter and organized by Eleazar Wheel two gentlemen personally and have bene ful rose garden at the White House, from ock, is one of the historic institutions of fited from their sage counsel. It is en the President of the United States, of the higher learning in our Nation. Over the couraging to know that the people of this National Teacher of the Year Award. last two centuries, our college has been a country, through the voice of the Mem Miss Goleman was accompanied by her source of learning and inspiration and bers of Congress, salute and recognize mother and father. She was also accom the men who have been sent forth from the fine enduring influence which this panied by our distinguished State Hanover have left their imprint upon the college has brought to bear. superintendent of public instruction, the life of the Nation. Honorable Floyd Christian; the super AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. ROGERS OF intendent of public instruction for Dade Dartmouth alumni have served with COLORADO County, the Honorable E. L. Whigham; distinction in public life, in education, in Mr. ROGERS of Colorado. Mr. the ministry, and in the Nation's business and the chairman of the Dade County Speaker, I offer an amendment. Board of Public Instruction, the Honor enterprises. They have been character The Clerk read as follows: ized with a ruggedness of thought and an able G. Holmes Braddock. independence of opinion that have had Amendment offered by Mr. RoGERS of Colo Miss Goleman was also accompanied rado: On page 1, strike out all "Whereas" to the White House ceremony, attended their origin in their education in the clauses. hills of New Hampshire. by the members of our delegation, by The success of Dartmouth's modern The amendment was agreed to. three outstanding students: Kenneth era can be attributed to three great The concurrent resolution was agreed Mayland, who has won a scholarship to presidents-President Tucker, President to. the Massachusetts Institute of Technol Hopkins, and President Dickey. I have A motion to reconsider was laid on the ogy; Jose Mateo, a Cuban refugee, the been privileged to know the last two table. president of the Jackson student body, whose service has covered a period of 53 who has a scholarship to Princeton; and years. An alumnus would be ungrateful GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND another young lady, Velma Rolle, a native and negligent indeed who did not empha Mr. ROGERS of Colorado. Mr. of Bimini, an outstanding student at the size clearly the debt which the Dart Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Miami Jackson High School. mouth we know owes to Ernest Hopkins all Members may have 5 legislative days Miss Goleman and these students and and John Dickey, not only for expanding to extend their remarks on the resolu our officials represent the finest in edu the physical and intellectual resources of tion just passed. cational leadership in our country. We the college, but, also, for maintaining its The SPEAKER. Without objection, it are very proud that for the first time not balance and direction in a world of con is so ordered. only for Florida but also for the South flicting and changing ideologies. There was no objection. this distinguished award by our Presi Dartmouth today shares the turmoil dent, in the presence of our delegation, that besets the acedamic world. The has been bestowed upon Miss Barbara challenge of the revolutionaries threat CALL OF THE HOUSE Goleman, an outstanding teacher in ens the stability and continuity of tradi Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I make Miami Jackson High School. tional liberal arts institutions such as the point of order that a quorum is not ours. In many ways, their very receptiv present. ity to challenge and differences of opin The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum is SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ion has made them prey to the dedicated not present. ADMINISTRATION OF THE HIGH and destructive dissidents. Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move a WAY SAFETY ACT OF 1966-MES As we near the celebration of Dart call of the House. SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF mouth's 200th birthday, it is my fond A call of the House was ordered. THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. hope that Dartmouth will survive this The Clerk called the roll, and the fol 91-109) challenge, that the firmness and deter lowing Members failed to answer to their The SPEAKER laid before the House mination which have characterized her names: the following message from the President April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10747 of the United States; which was read and eighty-five" and insert in lieu thereof shall be printed one million eighty-four and, together with the accompanying "three hundred and fifteen". thousand additional copies of such docu papers, referred to the Committee on After line 11, add the following new sec ment, of which two hundred and six thou tion: sand copies shall be for the use of the Public Works and ordered to be printed "SEc. 2. Copies of such document shall be Senate, and eight hundred and seventy-eight with illustrations: prorated to Members of the House Of Rep thousand copies shall be for the use of the resentatives and Senate for a period of sixty House of Representatives. To the Congress of the United States: days, after which the unused balance shall SEc. 2. Copies of such document shall be Pursuant to the provisions of section revert to the respective House and Senate prorated to Members of the Senate and 202 of the Highway Safety Act of 1966, document rooms". House of Representatives for a period of I am transmitting herewith for the in sixty days, after which the unused balance formation of the Congress the Second The committee amendments were shall revert to the respective Senate and Annual Report on the administration of agreed to. House document rooms. the Act. The concurrent resolution was agreed to. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from The report covers the period January Pennsylvania TABLE !.-Comparison of sizes of samples, by units outside places of 50,000 or more gressman John M. Ashbrook (It-Ohio) is item, for the 1960 and 1970 censuses ot inhabitants. similar to the Betts bill but would also limit popuZati~Continued '20 percent in places of 50,000 or more the sample for the voluntary questions to 2 Sample inhabitants, 5 percent elsewhere. percent, thereby reducing or eliminating the percentage & Collected only in places of 50,000 or more value of census data applying to small areas. 1960 1970 inhabitants. · Certainly the elimination of any question on Weeks worked last year------ 25 25 Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, race would greatly hamper efforts to provide Last year in which worked------ 25 25 Bureau of the Census, 1970 Census User useful background information on this ex Occupation, industry, class of Guide (Washington, 1968). plosive problem. worker ------25 25 Senator John G. Tower (&-Texas) intro Income last year: Questions that provide descriptions of the duced a bill in the Senate (S. 494) which Wage and salary income______25 25 8/ttl'ibu.tes of people as distinct from count would require the Secretary of Commerce to Self-employment income______25 1 25 ing them are asked of only a sample of all review all the questions proposed by the Bu Other income------25 '25 respondents. This not only reduces collection reau of the Census and allow only those he Country of birth of parents______25 20 costs but assists in preserving anonymity. deemed essential to accomplishing the pur )~other tongue______25 20 The samples are to be of three sizes: one poses of the census. Year moved into this house______25 20 in four (25 percent) ; one in five (20 per llr. Mosher writes in the previously men Place of residence 5 years ago_____ 25 •20 cent); or one in twenty (5 percent). Sample tioned article that llr. Betts' assistant wrote School or college enrollment results are weighted by multiplying them by a letter in December, 1967, to all congressmen (public or private)------25 20 four, five, or twen.ty to produce estlm&tes for urging that they publicly support his stand. Veteran status______25 20 all people in the area, and the individuaJ.s The letter began with a reminder that "Jan to be included in the sample are chosen at Place of work------25 '20 uary may be a slow month for finding news Means of transportation to work___ 25 20 random. This is an added protection against worthy subjects for possible releases and occupation-industry 5 years ago___ 5 disclosure of individual cbaraoteristics. In newsletters." formation tba.t serves for apportionment pur Citizenship ------5 Opposition to censuses is not a new phe Year of inUnigration______5 poses and that needed for city blocks are nomenon. According to I Chronicles, as long collected from all individuals on what is Marital tUstorY------25 '5 ago as 1000 B.C., King David experienced d111l Vocational training completed----- 5 called the "short form." Those data which culties when, "incited by Satan,'' he ordered Presence and duration of disa.bllity_ 5 will be tabulated by areas as small as census Joab to "Go, number Israel, from Beersheba tracts and most counties will be obtained to Dan, and bring me a report that I may 1 one item in 1960; separated in 1970 by from 20 or 25 percent of the people, while know their number." Joab came back andre farm and nonfarm income. meaningful breakdowns of the totals from ported that there were 1,100,000 men in Israel 2 One item in 1960; separated in 1970 by the 5-percent sample will be made only for and 470,000 in Judah. The Biblical account social security, public welfare, and all other large oities, SMABs, large counties, and states. goes on to state that God was so displeased receipts. Because of the greater need for block with David that He sent a pestilence on Israel a Also in 5-percent sample as state of resi statistics on housing, there are a greater which killed 70,000 men. He also threatened dence 5 years ago. number of questions to be asked on a 100- to destroy Jerusalem until the frightened 'Will include street address if appropria percen.t basis as can be seen from referring king built an altar and presented peace offer tions permit. to Table 2. The greater need results from ings. The Encyclopedia Americana reports a In 1960, whether married more than once the current interest by private and public that, in 1723, the governor of New Jersey re and date of first marriage; in 1970, also builders, city planners, highway departments, fused to take a census demanded by the includes whether first marriage ended by transit systems, and urban renewal agencies British Board of Trade because "the people death of spouse. in the situations existing block-by-block in would take it as a repetition of David's sin." Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, our cities. For the 1970 Census oj Housing, About the same time, the people of Con Bureau of the Census, 1970 Census User the items concerning access to unit, cooking necticut and Massachusetts opposed a census Guide (Washington, 1968). fac11Lt1es, rooms, water supply, fiush toilet, because of fear that the data collected would batbtub or shower, tenure. and vacancy be used to their disadvantage by the British. TABLE 2.-Comparison of sizes of samples, by status will be collected for the total count Undoubtedly much of the ancient opposi speci fied item, for 1960 and 1970 censuses in 1970 as they were collected in 1960. tion to censuses resulted from the fact that of housing Topics included in the 25-percent sample the information was usually used as a basis Sample of population relate generally to education, for conscription or tax assessment. Congres percentage employment, and income. Languages spoken, sional opponents have not cited such fears 1960 1970 movement of residence, place of work, and or even expressed concern about Satanic in Number of units at this address__ 100 transportation used will be added for the spiration. Congressman Betts lists three rea Telephone ------26 100 20-percent sample. The one-in-twenty per Complete kitchen facillties ______sons for restricting the census: 100 son who answers all the questions provides 1. Itestoration of the right of privacy by Condition of housing unit______100 additional sociological information. The in abolishing the "harassing penalty." Basement ------20 100 clusion of the address of one's place of work 2. Reduction in the size and scope of the Heating equipment______25 100 for the 20-percent sample was a da.tum re 1 census in favor of alternative sources of data, Commercial establ. on property ___ 100 100 quested by more census users than any i.e., small sample surveys. 1 100 other, so great have become the problems ValueContract ------rent______1 100 3. Prevention of an under count which, ac 100 of traffic movements in our cities. In par cording to llr. Betts, "may result if the pres llonths vacant______26 100 ticular, transportation specialists and cioty ent exceedingly long and complex question Components of gross rent______25 25 planners need this information to do a better naire is used." Year structure built______25 25 job of predicting the needs for more thor In regard to the first point, llr. Betts does Number of units in structure_____ 20 25 oughfares and transit facilities. not question the confidentiality of the infor Whether a trailer______25 25 THE ATTACK ON THE CENSUS mation collected and stored by the census Farm residence (acreage and sales 2 Despite the long tradition of usefulness but rather emphasizes that the mere "com of farm products)------25 25 pulsion to divulge personal data" is a viola Land used for farming______11 25 represented by the census, it bas its detrac tors. According to the Newsletter of January tion of the right of privacy. He cites market Source of water______1 20 20 research surveys as examples of the effective 1 20 30, 1969, of the Federal Statistics Users Con Sewage disposaL------20 ference, 27 bills were introduced by 98 con use of voluntary questionnaires. In so doing, Bathrooms ------20 20 he overlooks the fact that without the basic Air conditioning ______.;. 5 20 gressmen during the first three weeks of the 91st Congress to limit the mandatory ques census data upon which to base reliable Automobiles ------'20 20 probabillty samples, the validity of private stories, elevator in structure_____ 1 20 5 tions in the decennial censuses. Most of the bills are identical with H.It. 20 introduced on surveys would be greatly reduced, if not elim Fuel-heating, cooking, water the first day of the session by Congressman inated. Furthermore, if the mere releasing heating ------ 6 5 of information about oneself to a census 5 5 Jackson E. Betts, Itepublican, of the 8th Dis SecondBedrooms home ------______trict of Ohio. llr. Betts would limit the man taker, when the information will never be 5 stored or released in any way identified with Clothes washing machine ______5 datory questions to six and would remove the 6 60-day jail sentence for refusing to answer or the name of the individual who gave the in Clothes dryer------ 6 5 falsely answering census questions (a maxi formation, is an invasion of privacy then so Dishwasher ------5 are income tax returns, birth registrations, Home food freezer ______mum fine of $100 would remain). The siX 5 5 questions to be allowed, according to this and applications for passports and licenses. 5 5 Television ------recommendation, are those in the categories: The American Civil Liberties Union has re Itadio ------6 6 (1) name and address; (2) relationship to viewed the questions proposed for the 1970 1 100 percent in places of 50,000 or more head of household; (3) sex; (4) date of birth; census and endorsed the principle of com inhabitants, 25 percent elsewhere. (5) marital status; and (6) visitors in the pulsory questions, except for those on race 2 Omitted in places of 50,000 or more home at the time of the census. and ethnic group. llr. Betts did not include inhabitants. All other questions would be voluntary. race among his allowable mandatory queS s For renter-occupied and vacant-for-rent Another bill, H.R 937 introduced by Con- tions in 1969, although he did in an earlier April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10757 b111. Ebony m.agazi:ae in an editorial in Janu nize his personal responsibility to safe Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, the reor ary, 1969, called for an "accurate black count guard the integrity of his agency. There ganization of the model cities program, in the 1970 census." It urged "black organi is only one way that he can show the as announced by George Romney, Sec zations, black neighborhoods, and black peo Congress and the public his concern, and retary of Housing and Urban Develop ple (to] cooperate in full with the Bureau of ment, indicates that the Nixon admin the Census. It is time we know just how that is to suspend Albert Fuentes right many black people there are and how they now. istration wants to expand the program are faring in relation to the white majority. I include the following exchange of at the same time that it reduces fund ... collection of complete and accurate data correspondence at this point: ing. will inure to the benefit of the black com SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, The result can only be to dissipate munity, particularly with regard to the many Washington, D.O., April 29, 1969. money earmarked for model cities activi new programs initiated in recent years con Hon. HENRY B. GONZALEZ, ties and to jeopardize the essential pur~ cerned with housing, health, education, wel HCJ!USe of Representatives, pose of the program which was to find fare, employment, and so forth." Washington, D.O. In regard to his second point, Mr. Betts has new and innovative means of attacking DEAR MR. GoNZALEZ: I have received your the root problems of our deteriorating exaggerated the number and nature of ques telegram advising me there is reason to be tions to be asked. As already mentioned lieve that Special Assistant to the Admin central cities. above, three out of four people w111 be asked istrator, Albert Fuentes, of the Small Busi In his widely reported statement yes only five population questions. Thirteen ness Administration, has engaged in, or at terday, Secretary Romney focused at housing questions only will be asked for each tempted to engage in, shakedowns of SBA tention on what he described as "critical household. Of those in the 25-percent sample, loan recipients. deficiencies" in the administration of 23 additional population questions are to be Because of the seriousness of these charges, the model cities program which call for answered, if the questions apply. Eleven of I have asked the Federal Bureau of Inves immediate correction. It is noteworthy these would be answered only if the person tigation to investigate them as soon as pos that failure to al>propriate sufficient is over 14. There are 10 additional housing sible. If such charges are true, harm could, questions. Mr. John H. Aiken, executive di of course, come to the Small Business Ad money to properly fund the program was rector of the Federal Statistics Users Confer ministration. And, if untrue, the harm that not included among Mr. Romney's list ence, estimates that on the average a person could come to Mr. Fuentes is irreparable. For of "critical deficiencies." would answer about 30 questions. these reasons, as well as the possib1lity that According to Mr. Romney, the pro This third argument is based on an ad- criminal violations may be involved, it is gram has run into trouble because Fed . mitted shortcoming of the 18th census which particularly important to have a disinter eral guidelines have forced cities to set under counted the population by almost six ested and experienced organization like the model neighborhood boundaries that million persons. But how a shorter question FBI look into the matter. naire might help is not made clear. The prob In the meantime, I would appreciate hav have been arbitrary; because State gov lem of locating individuals would appear to ing the opportunity to discuss the case with emments have not been sufficiently in be due more to the high mob1lity of many you personally. Or, if you prefer, I could have volved; because local authorities have persons or the inaccessab111ty of others who representatives of my staff discuss the case been uncertain as to funds available live in the crowded slums or in isolated rural with members of your staff. from Federal departments; and because areas. Actually, plans to utilize the mall in I would also be gra.teful if you would bring Federal agencies have not been suffi 1970 to reach the vast majority of Americans to my immediate attention any other infor ciently responsive to local proposals re should release more census-takers to track mation you may now have, or may obtain flecting specific local conditions. down the hard-to-locate individuals. in the future, concerning the charges against Interdependence in a thousand forms is a Mr. Fuentes or concerning any other matter Nowhere in Mr. Romney's statement fact of life today. That one must be required which could bring discredit upon SBA. do we find reference to the fact that less to release a few facts about himself, his fam Sincerely, than half of the funds authorized in Ily, and his household (which can never HILARY SANDOVAL, Jr., the fiscal 1968 budget for model cities thereafter be traced back to him) is a small Administrator. were appropriated, that only $624 mil price to pay for the better functioning of our lion was al>propriated out of $850 mil institutions. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, lion authorized in 1969 and that the Neither the University of Florida nor the Washington, D.O., April 29, 1969. Bureau of Economic and Business Research Mr. HILARY SANDOVAL, Jr., Nixon administration only recently cut take stands on public issues. The writer as an Administrator, Small Business Administra the 1970 budget request for model cities individual does, however, and he urges any tion, Washington, D.O.: from the $750 million established by readers who wish to have a comprehensive Your letter was just handed to me. President Johnson to $675 million. census made in 1970 to write their congress I do in fact have reason to believe that Small wonder that Secretary Romney man and tell him so. your special assistant, Albert Fuentes, has was quoted in an April 7 news confer Next month, we shall publish another ar engaged in or attempted to engage in shake ence as saying "there has been too much ticle dealing with the procedures that will be downs of SBA loan Bipplicants. emphasis on the money aspect." followed in taking the census next year. The Your action to ask for an FBI examination article will describe in more detail the type of of this matter is commendable, but su In my view, Mr. Speaker, the Nixon information that will be made available and perfious. Mr. Emmanuel Salaiz filed a com administration is hedging on the model the forms in which you will be able to obtain plaint with the FBI in San Antonio on cities program for the sake of political it to meet your informational needs. April 22, and the FBI informed me on April advantage. It is known that most mayors 25 that it was investigating the matter. believe that already insufficient funds The fact that Mr. Salaiz repeated his story will only be dissipated if applied over SCANDAL AT SBA-II to several reliable persons, the fact that he broader areas but that some others, feel was willlng to repeat his story twice under (Mr. GONZALEZ asked and was gtven oath, the fact that Mr. Eddie Montez admits ing pressures from citizens outside the permission to address the House for 1 Salaiz was asked to give 49% of a corpora model neighborhoods for equal treat minute, to revise and extend his remarks tion to himself and others, (Fuentes being ent, are insisting that the program be and include extraneous matter.) present), the fact that Montez ami Fuentes expanded. Mr. GONZALEZ. Last Friday I re then travelled together Sunday before last, The Nixon response has been to scrap vealed information which seems very and any number of other factors lend cred1- uniformity in favor of a local option plan clear and reliable that the assistant to b111ty to this complaint. whereby the cities can either expand I believe that it is imperative that you their program or leave it with the orig the Administrator of the Small Business immediately suspend Mr. Fuentes from fur Administration has engaged in or at ther duties until this matter is thoroughly inal neighborhoods. tempted to engage in shakedowns of loan investigated. His appointment is your re This presents an interesting situation. applicants. I immediately requested the sponsibillty, and any damage that accrues to Since the program was enacted late in Administrator to suspend his assistant, SBA as a result of his actions is your 1966, 150 cities have won Federal ap Mr. Albert Fuentes, pending a full in responsib111ty. proval to proceed with model city plan vestigation of the charges. Sincerely yours, ning. In fact, approximately 40 cities Today the Administrator said that he HENRY B . GoNZALEZ. have completed their initial planning and was asking the FBI to investigate. Mr. submitted applications for implementing Speaker, the FBI is already investigating, their model cities programs. and has been for some days; no request MODEL CITIES PROGRAM Scores of others are reported to be in from the Administrator was needed. ing the number of so-called "fascist" Union- children out of the area and I asked the po ON THE FUTURE 1st votes and the "liberal" Unionist votes to liceman who was in charge. He said, "I don't I should like in conclusion to take a brief gether, adding them up and saying, "Look know who is running this lot." how many people voted Unionist." look at the future. This is where the question I well understand this kind of situation at of British troops arises. We, the people of Ulster, are no longer to individual level, but when a police force are be fooled, because there are always those of The question before this House, in view of acting under orders-presumably from the the apathy, neglect and lack of understand us who can see no difference between the top, and the top invariably is the Unionist Paisley1te faction and the O'Neill faction, ing which this House has shown to these Party-and form themselves into m111tary people in Ulster which it claims to represent, except that the unfortunate Paisleyite fac formation with the deliberate intention of tion do not have hyphenated surnames. is how in the shortest space it can make up terrorizing the inhabitants of an area, I can for 50 years of neglect, apathy and lack of So we are faced with the situation that have no sympathy for them as a body. So I Capt. O'Neill may, in the morning, say, "You understanding. Short of producing miracles organized the civilians in that area to make such as factories overnight in Derry and now have one man, one vote." What will it sure that they wasted not one solitary stone mean to the people? Why do the people ask homes overnight in practically every area in in anger. (Laughter.) the North Of Ireland, what can we do? !or one man, one vote, with each vote of Honorable members may find this amusing, equal value? If British troops are sent in, I should not and in the comfortable surroundings of this like to be either the mother or sister of an VOTES AND HOUSING honorable House it may seem amusing, but unfortunate soldier stationed there. The The Unionist policy has always been to at 2 o'clock in the morning on the Bogside honorable member of Antrim, North (Mr. divide the people who are dependent upon there was something horrifying about the Henry Clark), may talk till Doomsday about them. The question of voting is tied up fact that someone such as I, who believes in "our boys in khaki," but it has to be recog mainly with the question of housing, and nonviolence, had to settle for the least violent nized that the one point in common among this 1s something which the House has failed method, which was to build barricades and to Ulstermen is that they are not very fond of to understand. say to the police, "We can threaten you." Englishmen who tell them what to do. The people of Northern Ireland want votes The honorable member for Londonderry Possibly the most extreme solution-since not for the sake of voting but for the sake said that the situation has got out of hand there can be no justice while there is a of being able to exercise their democratic under the "so-called civil rights people." The Unionist Party, because while there is a rights over the controlling powers of their one thing which saved Derry from possibly Unionist Party they will by their gerry own areas. going up in flames was the fact that they had mandering control Northern Ireland, be the The present system operates in such a way John Hume, member of Parliament for Foyle, government of Northern Ireland-is to con that Unionist-controlled councils and even Eamonn McCann, and Ivan Cooper, member sider the possibility of abolishing Stormont Nationalist-controlled councils discriminate of Parliament for mid-Derry, there. and ruling from Westminster. Then we against those in their areas who are in the They went to the Bogside and said, "Fair should have the ironical situation in which minority. The policy of segregated housing enough; the pollee have occupied your area, the people who once shouted, "Home rule is is to be clearly seen in the smallest villages not in the interests of law and order but for Rome rule" were screaming their heads off of Ulster. revenge, not by the police themselves but be for home rule, so dare anyone take Stormont The people of Ulster want the right to cause the Unionist Party have lost a few away? They would have to ship every govern vote and for each vote to be of equal value square yards of Derry and people have put up ment member out of the country for his own so that, when it comes to the question of a sign on the wall saying 'Free Derry.'" safety-because only the "rank" defends, building more houses, we do not have the The Unionist Party was wounded because such as the Prime Minister and the Minister situation which we already have in Derry nothing can be morally or spiritually free of Agriculture. and in Dungannon. under a Unionist government. They were Another solution which the government In Dungannon, the Catholic ward already determined that there should be no second may decide to adopt is to do nothing but has too many houses in it. There is no room Free Derry. That is why the police invaded serve notice on the Unionist government that to build any more in that ward. It would that area. they wlll impose economic sanctions on them appear logical that houses should be built, The people had the confidence of those if true reforms are not carried out. The in therefore, in what is traditionally known as living in that area to cause a mass evacua teresting point is that the Unionist govern the Protestant ward or, euphemistically, the tion and to leave it to the police alone, and ment cannot carry out reforms. "Nationalist" or "Unionist" ward, where then to say, "We are marching back in and If they introduce the human rights bill there is space. But this would give rise to you have two hours to get out.'• The police and outlaw sectarianism and discrimination, the nasty situation of building new houses got out. what will the party which is based on, and in the Unionist or Protestant ward and thus The situation with which we are faced in survives on, discrimination do? By introduc letting in a lot of Fenians who might out Northern Ireland is one in which I feel I can ing the human rights bill, it signs its own vote the others. no longer say to the people, "Don't worry death warrant. Therefore, the government I wish to make it clear that in an area about it. Westminster 1s looking after you." can impose economic sanctions but the Un such as Ornagh, the same corruption 1s car Westminster cannot condone the existence otf ionist Party will not yield. I assure you, Mr. ried on because Protestants need houses and this situation. It has on its benches members Speaker, that one cannot impose economic the only place for them 1s in a Catholic of that party who by deliberate policy keep sanctions on the dead. area. The one point that these two forms of down the ordinary people. The fact that I sit activity have in common is that whether on the Labor benches and am likely to make they are green or orange, both are Tory. The myself unpopular with everyone on these HOUSE RESOLUTION IN OPPOSI people of Northern Ireland have been forced benches (honorable members: "No.")--any TION TO CLOSING JOB CORPS into this situation. socialist government worth its guts would CENTERS I was in the Bogside on the same evening have got rid of them long ago. as the honorable member for Londonderry. (Mr. RYAN asked and was given per I assure you, Mr. Speaker-and I make no A HORRIFYING PROSPECT mission to address the House for 1 min apology for the fact-that I was not strut There 1s no denying that the problem and ute, to revise and extend his remarks and ting around with my hands behind my back the reason for this situation in Northern examining the area and saying "tut-tut" Ireland is social and economic, because the include extraneous matter.) every time a policeman had his head people Of Northern Ireland are being op Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, today 45 scratched. I was going around building bar pressed not only by a Tory government, a Members of the House have introduced ricades because I knew that it was not safe misruling Tory government, and an abso a resolution expressing the sense of the for the police to come in. lutely corrupt, bigoted and self-interested House in opposition to the administra I saw with my own eyes 1000 policemen Tory government, but by a Tory government tion's announced intention to shut down come in military formation into an oppressed of whom even the Tories in this House ought to be ashamed. 59 Job Corps centers and camps. and socially and economically depressed to area-in formation of lx abreast, joining up Therefore I ask that in the interests of the A similar resolution in opposition to form 12 abreast like Wild Indians, scream ordinary people there should be no tinkering shutting down Job Corps centers has ing their heads off to terrorize the inhabit with the kind of capitalist methods used by been introduced in the other body by ants of that area so that they could beat both the Northern Ireland Unionist Party 24 Senators. them off the streets and into their houses. and Mr. Jack Lynch's Flanna Fa.U Party [in I would like to stress the broad geo I also accept that policemen are human the Irish Republic]. It was with no amuse graphical distribution of the Representa and that if someone throws a stone at a man ment but with a great deal of horror that I tives supporting the sense embodied in and injures him, whether he be in uniform or heard the somewhat peculiar statement by the resolution that no Job Corps center out of uniform, if he is human he is likely to the right honorable member for Belper (Mr. lift another stone and, either in self-defense George Brown) about an O'Neill-Lynch or camp should be shut down until Con or in sheer anger, to hurl it back. Therefore, United Party. This brings home to me that gress has had an opportunity to review when people on either side lose control, this honorable members Of this House do not the Job Corps program and to chart the kind of fighting breaks out. understand what is going on. Of all the pos future of the centers and camps through An unfortunate policeman with whom I sible solutions of our problem, the least pop the normal authorization and appropria came into contact did not know who was in ular would be an agreement between the two tion process. charge in a particular area. I wanted to get arch-Tortes of Ireland. In a speech delivered on the floor of April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10763 the House April 16, I pointed out the JOB CORPS RESOLUTION SPONSORS, APRIL 29, a president. Yes he was of the military, disastrous effect the closing of four Job 1969 but should this preclude good govern Corp centers would have on the city of William F. Ryan (New York). ment? Of course not. There was honesty New York. Other Representatives have Joseph P. Addabbo (New York). and integrity in this man, for none of his Thomas L. Ashley (Ohio). also spelled out the implications these WalterS. Baring (Nevada). actions would indicate otherwise. I there shutdowns will have on their own area Jonathan B. Bingham (New York). fore very respectfully ask you, Mr. Speak of the country. The broad geographical John A. Blatnik (Minnesota). er, and my colleagues to join me 1n ex distribution of the opposition to the pre George Brown (California). tending our most sincere sympathy and cipitous decision by the Nixon admin James A. Byrne (Pennsylvania). condolences to the Government and peo istration to cut back on these vital pro Phillip Burton (California). ple of Bolivia on their loss, and in asking grams should 1n itself convey an urgent Shirley Chisholm (New York). the very able and distinguished Ambas message to the President; namely, that John Conyers, Jr. (Michigan). sador from Bolivia to our country, His John C. Culver (Iowa). he should reconsider this decision. The John H. Dent (Pennsylvania). Excellency Julio Sanjines Goytia to make oourse upon which the President has em Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (Michigan). our actions herewith know to his Gov barked-if continued-is bound to aggre John D. Dingell (Michigan). ernment and the people of Bolivia and vate existing tensions among hard -core Harold D. Donohue (Massachusetts). saying to them that one man stood in unemployed youth and especially among Don Edwards (California). the chamber of the House of Representa those trainees now involved 1n Job Corps Kenneth J. Gray (Dlinois). tives of the United States of America programs who will be unable to complete Seymour Halpern (New York). and said very humbly, but very sincerely, Julia Butler Hansen (Washington). the training which has such significance William D. Hathaway (Maine). we mourn the passing of Rene Barrientos for their future. Augustus F. Hawkins (California). Ortufio because he was the president of Secretary of Labor George Shultz has Harold T. Johnson (California). a sister republic because he was a friend, said that every enrollee whose training Robert W. Kastenmeier (Wisconsin). but most of all because he was a man center is closed will have an opportunity Edward I. Koch (New York). who saw his duty and he did it; whether to transfer to another training program, Robert L. Leggett (California). he was successful is for history to decide, and that new centers will be built in Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii). for us it shall suffice to say, he was a urban areas. The plain fact, however, is Lloyd Meeds (Washington). Abner J. Mlkva (Illinois). man and he tried; of these there should that such centers do not exist. It is dim Patsy Mink (Hawaii). be more. cult to imagine how the Department of WilliamS. Moorhead (Pennsylvania). Labor intends to accommodate the train Robert N.C. Nix (Pennsylvania). A TRffiUTE TO A. PHILIP RANDOLPH ees who wish to transfer with less than Dave Obey (Wisconsin). half the present 113 Job Corp centers no James G. O'Hara (Michigan). The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. longer in operation, and $100 million less Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts). BRASCO) . Under previous order of the in the Job Corps budget. It is obvious Richard L. Ottinger (New York). House, the gentleman from Michigan Claude Pepper (Florida). (Mr. DIGGS) is recognized for 60 minutes. that many of the trainees, discouraged Bertram L. Podell (New York). at this setback in their training, will Thomas M. Rees (California). Mr. DIGGS. Mr. Speaker, April 15 was simply drop out of the Job Corps and re HenryS. Reuss (Wisconsin). a day that I believe ought to receive turn to the streets. To say many of them Benjamin S. Rosenthal ( New York). special recognition, the 80th birthday of will be bitter toward the Federal Gov James H. Scheuer (New York). a man who has done so much in this Na ernment for ending their only chance Robert 0. Tiernan (Rhode Island). tion to break down the encrusted barriers to escape the despair and lack of oppor John V. Tunney (California). of racial prejudice, Asa Philip Randolph. tunity of the ghetto is to understate the Not one of the inspiring achievements reaction if the administration proceeds of A. Philip Randolph has come easily or with its plans to shut down 59 centers. THE LATE PRESIDENT RENE BAR quickly. To five decades of leadership in Hearings have been held in both RIENTOS ORTuNO OF BOLIVIA the civil rights movement he has brought Houses of Congress on the Job Corps, (Mr. DE LA GARZA asked and was unshakeable dignity and a commitment and legislation concerning the future given permission to address the House to nonviolence and self-reliance for shape of the Job Corps program is pend for 1 minute, to revise and extend his Negroes which he has both preached and ing in both Houses. The resolution we remarks and include extraneous matter.) practiced. The son of an impoverished are introducing today asks only that the Mr. DE LA GARZA. Mr. Speaker, I beg minister, he overcame poverty and many administration suspend action on its your indulgence for these few moments of the handicaps of race. He is a product plans to cut back on the Job Corps until to comment on the untimely and unfor of a deep faith in man's ability to mas Congress has had an opportunity to re tunate death of President Rene Barri ter rus environment through his own view the Job Corps in depth and to pro entos Ortufio, of Bolivia. I had the honor efforts. vide for the program through the nor and pleasure of meeting President Barri As a young man Mr. Randolph jour mal authorization and appropriation entos upon the occasion of his visit to neyed alone from his home in Florida to process. In view of the pervasive impact HemisFair at San Antonio last year. He work his way through City College in New the administration's cutbacks will have, and his country had close links to Texas York. Deeply moveu by the plight of the this does not seem unreasonable. and Texans. They had a wonderful and unskilled worker in our society, particu If the Federal budget needs to be econ picturesque paviii on at HemisFair, a:1d larly Negro workers, he was far ahead omized, badly undernourished domestic he had taken pilot training in San An of his time in recognizing the necessity programs surely ought not to be the first tonio as a young officer from his country. for Negro union organization in the bat victims. Let the brunt of budget reduc We know that Bolivia is not a rich coun tle for civil rights. In the hierarchy of tions fall upon those Federal programs try and like most small countries, it has labor his voice was soon heard insistently most responsible for inflation in the first many problems, but it is in the :fighting demanding justice for the Negro worker. place; namely, the inflated military and in trying to solve these problems that Mr. Randolph undertook one of the budget. The kind of "economizing" pro the lives of many individuals are forged. toughest organizing jobs in union posed by the administration with respect Rene Barrientos Ortuiio was oP.e of annals: the 12-year :fight to form the to the Job Corps, in the short run, will these. He was a man of the people, he Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In produce justifiable bitterness and hos went to and walked among the people; constant fear of idleness and hunger, the tility toward the Federal Government by porters were afraid to organize. Mr. Ran how unfortunate that he should die this dolph began by visiting them secretly in those millions of Americans who ur way, but perhaps this might after all be theiJ: homes and holding meetings in gently require job training and increased the way he might have wished it. He railroad yards. In 3 years he painfully employment opportunities. In the long went among the poor, the peasants. the put together locals with a total of 5,000 run, the effect will also be counterpro Indians of his country; he brought the members. After 9 years of organizing, the ductive. For the contribution these Job government to them; he ate, he drank, he Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1n Corps trainees could make to the econ danced with them, and spoke their lan the depression year of 1934 still had no omies of their communities and the Na guage; he laughed and cried with them, contract, no improved working condi tion far exceed the cost of their training. suffered their ills, and shared their joys. tions, and an empty treasury. Finally, in The list of cosponsors follows: Is this not after all the sacred duty of 1937, the long-awaited victory occurred. 10764 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 29, 1969 Mr. Randolph won a National Labor Re in his attempts to gain recognition for this expression of gratitude for his in lations Board employee election and with his union throughout the 1920's and valuable contribution to the cause of it a contract from Pullman. It called for 1930's. He was recognized as an articulate human rights and justice. a 40-hour week, a base $100 monthly sal and dedicated advocate of upgrading the I include at this point in the RECORD ary, and machinery for settling economic condition of the workingman. editorials in honor of his 80th birthday grievances. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia tried to en which appeared in the New York Amster The history of A. Philip Randolph's list him as a high official in the New dam News and the .AF!r-CIO News. I also immensely fruitful career since that first York City government, but Mr. Ran include an article by Rudy Johnson on great victory has been the history of dolph, who felt he must direct all his the occasion of Mr. Randolph's birthday some of the most important gains in the energy to the struggle to secure improve which appeared in the New York Times struggle for equal opportunity for ments in wages and job conditions, de onApril15: Negroes. It was his leadership which led clined the mayor's offer in order to con [From the Amsterdam (N.Y.) News, to Franklin D. Roosevelt's writing of the tinue his fight on behalf of Pullman Apr. 19, 1969] Executive order establishing the war porters. HAPPY BmTHDAY time Fair Employment Practices Com In 1937, with the emergence of the Na We're wishing Happy Birthday to a Happy mission. It became the predecessor of tional Labor Relations Board, the long Warrior this week. today's State and Federal antidiscrimi struggle of the Pullman porters finally We are speaking of A. Philip Randolph, the nation laws. achieved the changes so long sought. Mr. labor leader, civil rights activist, militant edi In 194:8, it was Mr. Randolph who con Randolph was able to negotiate a con tor and trailblazer who celebrated his 80th vinced President Truman that Jim Crow tract with the company providing for a birthday on April 15. and segregation in the Armed Forces had 40-hour week, a base pay of $100 monthly Mr. Randolph is truly one of this country's to be eliminated. It was he who con salary, and the establishment of an ar great men, a remarkable man who has worked unceasingly to build a better way of life for ceived the momentous march on Wash bitration system for settling grievances. black Americans, which in turn would insure ington in 1963 which had such a One need only contrast this settlement a better life for white Americans. He truly profound effect in arousing the Nation with the pitiful wages paid before the was one of the first black power advocates. to the cause of civil rights. union was able to achieve recognition as The founder of the Brotherhood of Sleep In the pursuit of justice and the a bargaining entity to appreciate the sig ing Car Porters, the m.llttant editor of The American dream of freedom and oppor nificance of this success, which can be Messenger, who was lashing out at Jim Crow tunity for all, the contributions of attributed to the tireless efforts of as far back as the Wilson Administration, and the man who originated the March on Wash A. Philip Randolph to the welfare of our A. Philip Randolph. ington Movement in the early years of World Nation and all our people have been World War II provided thousands of War IT-these are some of the more notable immeasurable. They stand as a great new defense jobs, yet many of these jobs accomplishments of A. Phntp Randolph. monument to the faith and well-earned were barred to nonwhites. Recognizing Governor Rockefeller proclaimed April 15 pride of a man who has spent his whole the significance of these jobs for the eco as A. Philip Randolph Day. We can think of life to help his brothers, his fellow men. nomic improvement of the Negro, Mr. no better man to be so honored at this time. To him I extend my most profound Randolph organized a march on Wash On Sunday, April 20, Mr. Randolph will be honored in Harlem at festivities to be held gratitude and admiration. ington in protest against racial discrimi at Salem Methodist Church in the afternoon. Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, will the gen nation in American industry. A hundred On May 6, he will be further honored at a tleman yield? thousand Negroes volunteered to engage celebration to be held at the Waldorf Astoria. Mr. DIGGS. I yield to the gentleman in the march. The march was called off, He deserves all this and more. from New York. at the last minute, in exchange for a Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, I should like Presidential promise of reform, the guar [From the ~IO News, Apr. 19, 1969) to commend the gentleman in the well, antee of equal working rights, and the RANDOLPH AT 80 the distinguished gentleman from Mich creation of the wartime Fair Employ On Apr. 15, A. Philip Randolph marked his igan, for having taken this time to pay ment Practices Committee. 80th birthday, a day of tributes and celebra tribute to a great and outstanding Amer Mr. Randolph was also instrumental in tion for one of the greatest Negro leaders of ican leader, A. Philip Randolph, on the creating the pressures for reform which the 20th Century. occasion of his 80th birthday. led to President Truman's order to The very essence of the man and what he As we look back through the years at stands for is perhaps best grasped by his co abolish racial segregation in all branches worker, Bayard Rustin, in an article in The the career of this distinguished labor and of the armed services. As was the case New Leader. Rustin writes in part: civil rights leader, as the gentleman in with the order forbidding discrimination I think it is part of the greatness of A. the well has pointed out, under the ad in defense industry, this decision opened Philip Randolph that throughout his 60 years ministrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, up new opportunities for nonwhite serv as a leader of Negro Americans, he has main Harry S. Truman, John Fitzgerald Ken icemen to advance on an equal basis with tained a total vision of the goal of freedom nedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, A. Philip their white counterparts. Although the for his people and of the means for achiev Randolph was always in the forefront of ing it. From his earliest beginnings as a fol struggle to achieve true desegregation in lower of Eugene V. Debs and a colleague of the struggle to insure equal opportunity the armed services--particularly with re Norman Thomas, he has understood that for all Americans. His leadership during gard to off-base housing-continued for social and political freedom must be rooted those four administrations led the way, many more years, the breakthrough in economic freedom, and all his subsequent first through Executive orders and then achieved with President Truman's order actions have sprung from this basic premise. through civil rights legislation, in estab to desegregate the various branches of He has identified with the spiritual long lishing a governmental policy of non the service was again largely due to the ings of black people, but has insisted that economic security is the precondition for discrimination. efforts of A. Philip Randolph. pride and dignity. While he has felt that Mr. Speaker, America owes a great In 1963, Mr. Randolph took on his last Negro salvation is an internal process of debt to A. Philip Randolph. great effort, the organization and imple struggle and self-a.flirmation, he has recog A. Philip Randolph began his long ca mentation of the massive march on nized the political necessity of forming al reer in the labor movement in 1925 when Washington in support of the enactment liances with men of other races and the he initiated a 12-year struggle to orga of substantive civil rights legislation. I moral necessity of comprehending the black movement as part of a general effort to ex nize the Pullman porters of America into was privileged to take part in that march pand human freedom. Finally, as a result of a strong and effective union. During a and recall the spirit of brotherhood and his deep faith in democracy, he has realized period in which the Pullman Co. was unity that pervaded the entire effort. The that social change does not depend upon the reaping high corporate profits, the aver Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a result of decisions of the few, but on direct political age Pullman porter was working about the march on Washington and the tire action through the mobilization of masses of 70 hours a week for an average wage of less dedication of civil rights leaders such individuals to gain economic and social jus as A. Philip Randolph. tice. 25 cents an hour. Annual incomes for Randolph thus stands out among Negro porters during this period averaged only The long oareer of A. Philip Randolph leaders of the 2oth Century as a man of both about $910. is ample proof of the energy and dedica principled idealism and practical accom Despite the fact that the Pullman Co. tion which he has brought to public life plishment. He has stood firm against racial was disinclined to even discuss the union for over 40 years. I am pleased on the separatism-whether advocated in the 1920s ization of porters, Mr. Randolph persisted occasion of his 80th birthday to join in by Marcus Garvey or in the 1960s by black April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10765 nationalists-because of his belief in inte cept of effective liberation of the Negro whom he had been married 50 years, died only gration and his knowledge that separatism through the liberation of the working people. months before the memorable event. would mean the continued exploitation and We never separated the liberation of the degraduation of black people. white working man from the liberation of Mr. DIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Again, he has rejected elitism-be it in the the black working man ... the unity of these gentleman from New York It was Randolph's perception of the eco racial problem to the point of neglecting its Although Mr. Randolph's life work has nomic basis of Negro freedom that enabled economic dimensions. During the early years been full and varied, he said yesterday that him to grasp the unique significance of the of the civil rights movement these liberals, throughout all the years he has had one pri 1963 March on Washington. He conceived of unlike Randolph, favored integration pri mary aim-to unite all the scattered seg it as marking the termination of the mass marily as a means of fostering better rela ments of the working classes, the Negro protest period-during which Negroes had tions between blacks and whites. Now that among them. destroyed the Jim crow institutions in the the cry of black nationalism has arisen from Sitting in his four-room apartment in the South-and the inauguration of an era of some Negroes, they have transferred their cooperatives owned by the International massive action at the ballot box designed to concern for brotherhood to the need for Ladies Garment Workers Union, 26th Street bring about new economic programs. Aware blacks to achieve pride and identity and for and Ninth Avenue, he commented: that the central problem Negroes faced was whites to purge themselves of guilt and "My philosophy was the result of our con no longer simply one of civil rights but of racism. In both the earlier and the current cept of effective liberation of the Negro economic rights-for the one would lack so cases there is a failure to confront the over through the liberation of the working people. cial substance without the other-he called riding fact of poverty. Most mistakenly, We never separated ·the liberation of the for a March on Washington which brought a many have now abandoned the objective of white working man from the liberation of quarter of a million Americans to the na building an integrated movement to achieve the black working man . . . the unity of tion's capital to demand "Jobs and Freedom." economic equality. these forces would bring about the power to At the same time President Kennedy intro We are still very much in need of the really achieve basic social change." duced what was to become the 1964 Civil guidance of A. Philip Randolph. As he But the recent emphasis has been on "race Rights Act, and in the minds of some people reaches his 80th birthday, this April 15, the itself,'' he said. Referring to today's black this became the main focus of the March. freshness and the comprehensiveness of his nationalist movement, he asserted: Randolph, however, refused to be misled by vision remaining evident. And by his pres "There must be a continuous quest for transient emotion and persisted in his de ence, he poses a challenge to his followers: to identification by the Negro, (but] I believe mand for an economic program. At the 1966 build through means that are democratic and that can be overdone. And I believe the cult White House conference, "To Fulfill These nonviolent, a just society in which all men of blackness has been overdone. I wouldn't Rig.hts," he proposed the Freedom Budget, need not fear poverty, and in which men of say it has been successful in putting these calling for an annual Federal expenditure of all races, graced with the dignity, that comes forces together." $18.5 billion for 10 years to wipe out poverty. from a full life, need not fear each other. EDITORSHIP IS RECALLED Randolph was not speaking here of tax In no other way can we at last become a nation that is at peace with itself. He went on to describe the days when his incentives for industry, voluntary assistance editorship of The Messenger, a magazine he by private individuals or community action Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. Speak and one of his closest associates, the late programs. He was speaking of full employ er, on April 15, A. Philip Randolph Chandler Owen, founded in 1917. At that ment and a guaranteed income, the rebuild time, his radical writings and soapbox ing of our cities, the provision of superior marked his 80th birthday, a day of trib utes and celebration for one of the great speeches had prompted the Justice Depart schools for all of our children, and free ment to call him "the most dangerous Negro medical care for all of our citizens. He was est Negro leaders of the 20th century. in America!' speaking, very simply and without rhetoric, Throughout his years as a leader of Negro He lashed out at Jim Crowism during the of achieving equality in America. Americans, he has maintained a total Wilson Administration in his articulate writ And he was not being unrealistic. He pro vision of the goal of freedom for his peo ings and rousing speeches. But he also took posed, along with the Freedom Budget, a ple and of the means for achieving it. We issue with other Negroes when, in his esti political strategy for achieving it that calls are still very much in need of the guid mation, they sought to veer from a path for building a coalition of Negroes, labor, ance of A. Philip Randolph. The fresh of black alllance with trade unionism. This liberals, religious organizations, and students. included the late Marcus Garvey's "Back to If these groups could unite, they would form ness and the comprehensiveness of his Africa" movement, started in 1915. a majority capable of democratlzlng the eco vision remains evident. Under leave to Mr. Randolph said that throughout his nomic, social and political power of this extend my remarks in the RECORD, I in career he and his associates, had always Nation. clude the following article by Rudy striven to develop the "principle of coalition," Today there are many Negroes and liberals Johnson in the New York Times and the after which the united workers would begin who reject the idea of this coalition. The special AFL-CIO resolution honoring this to make changes in the capitalistic structure reason for this, I think, is that they have of society. An avowed socialist, he said: failed to view the problem of inequality in truly great American on his 80th birth "A larger part of our economy ought to be its totality. Unlike Randolph, their vision day: subject to socialization. Take railroads, air is fractured and constricted. There are some [From the New York Times, Apr.15, 1969] planes, the buses, medical care. These are Negroes, for example, who are advocating RANDOLPH, 80 YEARS OLD TODAY, REFLECTS ON areas that should not be subject to exploita racial separatism and black nationalism be HIS FIGHT FOR LABOR tion for profit because the people will suffer cause they are engaged in a very significant as a result of that. Great corporate powers are psychological quest for identity. (By Rudy Johnson) becoming almost unmanageable. A. Philip Randolph leaned forward on the I am in sympathy with this search to a VOICE REMAINS STRONG degree, as was Randolph in 1940 when he sofa to stress his point and, with a trace of wrote: " ... the Negro and the other darker fire in his eyes, declared: As Mr. Randolph talked, he looked much races must look to themselves for freedom. "You've got to fight for what you get. I've leaner than he had been before he was strick Salvation for a race, nation, or class must been on one side of many a conference table en with a heart ailment several years ago. come from within. Freedom is never granted; negotiating agreements, and I don't know Most of his ldfe, he had weighed 200 pounds it is won. Justice is never given, it is exacted. of a single instance where anything was given and had been 6 feet tall. But his powerful, Freedom and justice must be struggled for by without exacting it from the other side." resonant voice was still strong. the oppressed of all lands and races, and the The statement, made in an interview yes He recalled some of the highlights of his struggle must be continuous, for freedom is terday, was typical of the man whose long career, which included origination of a never a final fact, but a continuing evolving and fruitful career as a labor leader, civil March on Washington Movement in the early process to higher and higher levels of hu rights activist, m111tant editor and gadfly years of World War II. man, social, economic, poll tical and religious to Presidents, was marked with the struggles The plan was to assemble thousands of that presaged recent gains by Negroes and Negroes who would converge on Washington relationships." in a demonstration that would protest dis Randolph did not believe that blacks other members of minority groups. Mr. Randolph retired last year as president crimination in government and defense should isolate themselves, though, so he plants. added: "But Negroes must not fight for their of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, of which he was the chief founder in 1925. It Mr. Randolph, and the late Walter White, liberation alone. They must join sound, then director of the National Association for broad, liberal social movements that seek to had been a long, arduous fight that lasted almost three decades from the first inkling the Advancement of Colored People, had met preserve American democracy and advance with President Roosevelt to try to urge him the cause of social and religious freedom." of organizing such a Negro union to signing the first contract with the nation's railroads to correct the problem. Randolph's position is not only morally But the President resisted the urgings and correct but strategically necessary, for Ne in 1937. Today Mr. Randolph is 80 years old, and even sent Mrs. Roosevelt to persuade Mr. groes today are in danger of letting an emo Randolph to call the march off. But he was tional imperative destroy the possibility for Governor Rockefeller has proclaimed the day unyielding, and less than two weeks before social and economic liberation. They are em in his name in New York. On May 6 hundreds of prominent Ameri the scheduled march, on June 20, 1941, the phasizing blackness to the point of isolat President issued Executive Order 8802 ban ing themselves from broad political move cans, many of them his associates in the long civil rights fight, will pay him tribute ning discrimination in the war industries ments for social justice-forgetting that as and setting up the Fair Employment Prac one-tenth of the population, they cannot at the Waldorf-Astoria. tices Committee. by themselves bring about necessary social GOAL OF THE TRIBUTE About seven years later, Mr. Randolph's changes such as those embodied in the Free The goal of the birthday tribute will be to Committee Against Jim Crow in Military dom Budget. raise $250,000 to carry on the Negro leader's Service and Training convinced President Indeed, many liberals have become ob life work through the A. Phllip Randolph Truman to issue an executive order banning sessed with the psychological aspects of ·the Institute. discrimination in the armed forces. April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10777 But one of Mr. Randolph's most glorious only for union members but for all Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and moments came in 1963 when he conceived a Negroes. through his wise counsel and inspiration March on Washington that was carried out by more than a quarter-million people, black In 1941, Randolph sought to dramatize as a member of the executive leadership and white, and where the late Rev. Dr. Mar the fact that "in this arsenal of democ of the American Federation of Labor tin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A rary there is no democracy for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He Dream" speech. Negro citizen" by organizing a march on has struggled as mightily and as suc Mr. Randolph regretted however, that his Washington. It was not until Roosevelt cessfully for the unshackling of the spirit late wife, the former Lucille E. Green, to established the Fair Employment Prac of millions of his fellow citizens through whom he had been married 50 years, died only tices Commission, and issued an Execu his support of the cause of civil rights months before the memorable event. tive order commanding war contractors and the cause of racial equality and to drop color barriers that the march was freedom in our land. STATEMENT BY THE AFL-010 ExEcuTivE COUN called off. It is a great privilege to honor a man CIL ON A. PHU.IP RANDOLPH, BAL HARBOUR, FLA., FEBRUARY 18, 1969 In 1944, he took a suit against the all of the high character and ability Df A. Whereas, A. Ph111p Randolph has, through white Locomotive Engineers and Fire Philip Randolph. Our country is in his out his long career, made a tremendous con men, who had forced the railroads into a debt and it is our wish that the Ruler of tribution to the American trade union move Jim Crow agreement, to the Supreme the Universe may give him many more ment, and Court. The Court ruled the agreement fruitful years in the service of the ideals Whereas, Brother Randolph has dedicated illegal. that have made this Nation the beacon his life to the building of a Negro-Labor al In 1948, Randolph suggested to Presi of freedom and opportuni-ty for the dis liance and to the integration of the Negro dent Truman that there would be whole inherited of the earth. people into the economic, social, and political Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I would life of America, and sale refusal of Negroes to register for the Whereas, Brother Randolph will be cele draft unless segregation in the Armed like to pay tribute to A. Philip Randolph brating his 80th birthday on April 15, 1969; Forces ended. Truman issued an Execu who is 80 years old today. Born at the therefore, be it tive order ending segregation of units time of the gas lamp, he is still a source Resolved: That the ~CIO Executive almost immediately. of inspiration and an example of ex Council salutes Brother Randolph on the In 1955, he forced the newly merged traordinary moral dignity to men today. occasion of his 80th birthday; and that it AFL-CIO to outlaw discrimination in Born in Crescent, Fla., the son of a calls on trade unionists throughout the coun a:tnliated unions. Although enforcement preacher, he was only 9 years old when try to support the birthday celebration which a life-lasting lesson was thrust upon will be held on May 6, 1969 at the Waldorf has been slow, there are now more than Astoria Hotel in New York City, and also con 1,750,000 Negro union members, and less him. It was the story of a lynching which tribute to the Fund to be established in Mr. than 150 of the 60,000 a:tnliated locals are never took place. As he told it: Randolph's name which will be used to fi segregated. This is not dramatic, not The men (all Negroes) of the town had nance voter education and registration pro showy progress, but it is a far cry from gone to the county jall, stood all night like jects in the black communities of our cities, the days when Mr. Randolph was a lone sentries in the street and kept the lynch with the objective of strengthening the polit voice at the conventions. mob from coming. ical coalition of labor unions, Negroes, and liberals which can achieve those economic In 1963, Randolph conceived and led For the little boy, it meant that and social reforms that will bring greater the great March on Washington, which strength stemmed from unity and that democracy and enduring peace to this nation. served notice to an America that con his brothers had shown strength. tinued to ignore the black man that there His philosophy in his own words has Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I am were unredeemed promises and unful been: delighted to have the opportunity to say filled hopes. a few words about A. Philip Randolph, We never separated the liberation of the There have been few tougher fighters White working man from the liberation of for there have been few Americans in for any cause. Not many other men the Black working man . . . the unity of this century more worthy of respect. His would have dared to risk the wrath of these forces would bring about the power battle for equal opportunity for black Roosevelt, of Truman, and all of orga to really achieve basic social change. men began when most people ignored the nized labor. Yet he did, with great power Negro entirely. In the land of liberty, he believed that and dignity, and made them his ad all men were to be free and all his life In 1917, for speaking and writing mirers. against Jim Crowism during the Wilson he worked toward that end. He is still, A. Philip Randolph has spent his life in his own nonviolent, but infiexible way, administration, the Justice Department creating a better life for millions of called him "the most dangerous Negro pursuing this goal. Americans. The black men who have good From President Roosevelt, he helped in America." He was off to a good start. jobs and who have a sense of the free From then on, he has not swerved from obtain the promise of fair employment dom that ought to be the birthright of practices-now in effect in 17 States. the cause of liberation of the Negro every American owe a great deal to him. through freedom of job opportunity. He From President Truman, the integration So, too, do all of us owe him a debt, for of the Armed Forces. From President has said: his persistent persuasion has opened our My philosophy was the result of our con Eisenhower, the implementation of eyes and made possible the commitment school desegregation, and in the 1960's, cept of effective liberation of the Negro that America has now made to end dis through the liberation of the working people. he organized the march on Washington We never separated the liberation of the crimination. and quietly convinced President John white working man from the liberation of the Mr. Speaker, 80 years as well spent as F. Kennedy to propose the Civil Rights black working man .... The unity of these Mr. Randolph has spent his, are too few. Act of 1964. forces would bring about the power to really I hope that all my colleagues will join in A self-educated man, a wonderful ora achieve basic social change. wishing him many more. tor, he never forgot his labor background His emphasis has always been on Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, it gives me and his black identity. He was the found equality of opportunity and on the unity deep personal pleasure to join in the er of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car of all working men. His belief has con tribute to my distinguished friend A. Porters, vice president of the AFL-CIO, sistently been that minority groups can Philip Randolph, on the occasion of his and yet he was never overpowered by make their greatest economic and social 80th birthday. As you know I have long his achievements. His greatest achieve gains working through existing labor been concerned with the improvement ment is perhaps to be a model, not only unions, or by starting their own. Mr. in the living standards of the working to the black man in America, or to the Randolph's achievements in bringing this man in our country and with the struggle white man in America, but to men idea into reality represents, in effect, the to Dvercome the discriminations which everywhere, of all races, religions, and history of the Negro in the American prevent the full realization of our great creeds. It is certainly an honor and a labor movement. In 1925, he founded the American ideals of human brotherhood. privilege to pay tribute to this great Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Few men have contributed more than American today. After 12 more years of organ~ng the A. Philip Randolph to both of these Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am union won a National Labor Relations causes. His long life has been devoted to honored to join my distinguished col Board employee election and a contract lifting up his fellow men. He has league from Detroit in this special order from Pullman. From a position of struggled for the economic elevation of to pay tribute to a great American, Asa strength as president of the union, Ran his fellow men through his dedicated Philip Randolph, who just passed his dolph was able to bargain effectively, not and able leadership of the International 80th birthday. 10778 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 29, 1969 A. Philip Randolph has devoted his life In this time of confusion, violence, and opposing any form of strikebreaking by Ne to improving conditions for black work racial separatism, A. Ph111p Randolph-at 80 groes, advocating instead their full integra years of age-remains a source of wisdom and tion into the American trade union move ers. As the organizer and founder of the courage. By his presence, he poses a chal ment. Today there are two m1111on black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, he lenge to his followers. That challenge is to trade unionists in America who have attained made an unmeasurable contribution to build, through means that are democratic economic dignity, job security and protection the labor movement in America. The and non-violent, a just society in which all against racial discrimination. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters has men need not fear poverty, and in which We are still very much in need of the also long been a living symbol for many men of all races, graced with the dignity that guidance of A. Ph111p Randolph. As he reaches black Americans of what a number of comes from a full life, need not fear each his 80th birthday, the freshness and the individuals could achieve through or other. In no other way can we at last become comprehensiveness of his vision remains a nation that is at peace with itself. evident. ganization. If one had to list Mr. Ran dolph's vast accomplishments in order In further tribute to this outstanding Mr. FRIEDEL. Mr. Speaker, when a of their value to black Americans, or American, I would like to include in the man reaches four score years of age, it is ganization, united action toward a REcORD the text of a fine editorial which cause for a celebration. However, should common goal, would top that list. All appeared in the April 25 edition of the such a person have achieved prominence America learned from Mr. Randolph Los Angeles Citizen, honoring A. Philip by reason of his accomplishments in the what obstacles could be hurdled by Randolph: interest of his people and of his vocation, organization. RANDOLPH AT 80 it is only right that the Nation should Mr. Randolph's skill as a labor orga On April 15, A. Philip Randolph marked commemorate his birthday. nizer is well known to me from personal his 80th birthday, a day of tributes and cele A. Philip Randolph, a truly great experience. When I was general counsel bration for one of the greatest Negro leaders leader, was born 80 years ago. Fortu of the 20th Century. for Trade Union Leadership Council, The very essence of the man and what he nately he is still with us and active for Detroit, A. Philip Randolph was our stands for is perhaps best grasped by his co the just cause of all laboring people and guiding light. He came to speak often worker, Bayard Rustin, in an article in The for civil rights. When he speaks on be before us, as he did to many such groups, New Leader. Rustin writes in part: half of almost 19 million Negroes who and shared generously his experience "I think it is part of the greatness of A. constitute close to 11 percent of the total and advice. Without doubt, he is the most Philip Randolph that throughout his 60 U.S. population, the Nation listens. revered labor spokesman in America. years as a leader of Negro Americans, he has The fact that dramatic changes for a maintained a total vision of the goal of free For nearly 50 years, Mr. Randolph has dom for his people and of the means for better status for this important segment been a progressive force in American achieving it. From his earliest beginnings as of our citizenry have occurred with such development. His is the voice that spoke a follower of Eugene V. Debs and a colleague swiftness is due in a great measure be most often for black America, especially of Norman Thomas, he has understood that cause of the work of the man we honor the workingman. He was the force be social and political freedom must be rooted today. hind the opening of the war industries in economic freedom, and all his subsequent It was back in ,Tanuary 1941, over 28 to black Americans; he was also the actions have sprung from the basic premise." years ago, that Mr. Randolph, president He has identified with the spiritual long force behind desegregation of the Armed ings of black people, but has insisted that of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por Forces; and his was the great mind that economic security is the precondition for ters, advanced the idea of 50,000 to conceived and carried out the monumen pride and dignity. While he has felt that Ne 100,000 Negroes marching on Washing tal march on Washington in 1963. gro salvation is an internal process of strug ton and demanding that their Govern A. Philip Randolph's amazing ability gle and self-affirmation, he has recognized the ment do something to insure the em to organize workingmen, to persuade political necessity of forming alliances with ployment of Negroes in defense indus Presidents, and to inspire thousands of men of other races and the moral necessity tries. black Americans who occupy positions of of comprehending the black movement as Although that march did not actually part of a general effort to expand human leadership, both in and out of the labor freedom. take place, it proved to be the impelling movement, will never be forgotten. The Finally, as a result of his deep faith in reason that President Roosevelt on June changes he has wrought in America are democracy, he has realized that social change 25, 1941, issued his famous Executive a higher tribute than any we could lay does not depend upon the decisions of the Order 8802, stating: before him. With dignity, determination, few, but on direct political action through There shall be no discrimination in the and the marvelous gift of selling goals the mobilization of masses of individuals to employment of workers in defense industries and philosophy to an oppressed people, gain economic and social justice. or Government because of race, creed, color, A. Philip Randolph has quietly moved Randolph thus stands out among Negro or national origin. leaders of the 20th Century as a man of both mountains. Although he has retired now principled idealism and practical accomplish Again it was A. Philip Randolph who from many of his former activities, I ment. He has stod firm against racial sepa conceived the idea of a march on Wash know that he will continue to prod his ratism-whether advocated in the 1920s by ington which did take place on August 28, many admirers when he feels that we Marcus Garvey or in the 1960s by black na 1963. What is significant, however, is the are not moving our share of the moun tionalists-because of his belief in integra fact that prominent clergymen, noted tains that are left. tion and his knowledge that separatism educators, influential labor leaders, and Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed would mean the continued exploitation and other prominent Americans were present a pleasure to have this opportunity to degradation of black people. Again, he has rejected elitism-be it in in large numbers on this occasion. join with my colleagues in the House of the form of W. E. B. DuBois' concept of "a The cause of labor and the advance Representatives in paying tribute to a talented tenth" or of a proposal for black ment of human rights are the twin goals truly great American, Mr. A. Philip capitalism-because of his democratic com of this great man. That he succeeded is Randolph, on the occasion of his 80th mitment and his opposition to programs that becoming a reality. May he long continue birthday. would economically benefit a minority. He his activities for a better society. I con Mr. Randolph has dedicated his life to has adhered to nonviolence as a moral prin gratulate him on his 80th birthday and the securing of dignity, justice, and ciple and as the most effective means of wish him continued good health and equality for all his fellow citizens in political struggle. Pursuing his conviction that the Negro success. America. can never be socially and poll tlcally free He has shown outstanding qualities of until he is economically secure, Randolph GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND leadership in the long struggle on behalf worked to build an alliance between black of this Nation's working men and Americans and the trade union movement. Mr. DIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani women-and in helping improve the His first efforts met with strong opposition mous consent that all Members may economic, social and political life of every from Southern oligarchs and powerful busi have 5 legislative days in which to ex American, regardless of race, color, creed, ness leaders who had traditionally tried to tend their remarks on the subject of use the Negro to subvert the labor movement. my special order, a tribute to A. Philip national origin, or ethnic background. Their tactic was to exploit the Negro's griev This country owes him a debt of grati ous need for employment by inviting him to Randolph, and to include extraneous tude for the example he has set of a life scab on unionized white workers striking for material. time devoted to helping make the United just demands. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. States a better place in which to live. Realizing that the only benefactors of BRAsco). Is there objection to the re I believe we can all agree with Bayard these practices were the exploiters them quest of the gentleman from Michigan? Rustin when he said: selves, Randolph embarked upon a crusade There was no objection. April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10779 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO NON Texas-that is the reverse variety of that are even more startling; unlike PROFIT PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL race hate--is the Mexican American Compean he is paid by tax-free founda BROADCASTING Youth Organization, known as MAYO. tion money. Incidentally, MAYO some I shall show today how three of the four times says that it has no officers, but The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a founders of MAYO are on direct payrolls other times says that it does. Likewise, it previous order of the House, the gentle of the Ford Foundation, and how its sometimes says that most Anglos are all man from New York (Mr. FARBSTEIN) is principal members receive aid direct and right, but sometimes that all or most An recognized for 15 minutes. indirect from Ford Foundation grantees. glos are racists-gringos. Gutierrez said Mr. FARBSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I have The Ford Foundation has given grants in Austin, Tex., on April 19: today reintroduced a resolution directing of $2% million to the Mexican-Amer We must use any means necessary to reach the Federal CommunicS~tions Commis ican legal defense fund and $630,000 to our goal. sion to study the means by which com the Southwest Council of La Raza. As far He also said on that day: mercial broadcasters could be required as I know these grantees are free to to provide financial assistance to non We may have to resort to violence in self spend their money more or less as they defense. profit public educational broSidcasting. please. It is this freedom of action that The resolution would also put Congress has led to an odd interrelationship be On April 11, Gutierrez said that "top on record in favor of commercial televi tween MAYO and Ford Foundation priority" must be given to "identifying sion and radio broSidcasters' providing money. and exposing the gringo," and that substantial financial support to educa The Southwest Council of La Raza MAYO aimed to "eliminate" the gringo, tional broadcasting. made a grant of $110,000 to an organiza by killing if necessary. Gutierrez feels Educational television offers a positive tion calling itself the Mexican American that anyone who disagrees with him or alternative to the sex and violence so Unity Council, of San Antonio. This for some reason or another does not help prevalent on commercial television to group in turn makes other grants to other him is either a "turncoat"-a term he day. Educational television also offers a organizations; it has already handed out applied to a Mexican-American Chamber broader range of programing. The $46,000, although its grant is supposed to of Commerce that failed to give him a cJ:Iildren's workshop, for example, offers last for a whole 5 years. Of the seven pub scholarship he asked for--or has "grin highly creative, imaginative and educa licly known grants, three are to organi go tendencies," which is a term he ap tional programing. Yet, educational zations that are run by MAYO members, plied to me. On the other hand, this television with no source of regular fi zealous young man states that he will nancing exists on a hand-to-mouth basis or closely related to MAYO, and one is to a voter registration group whose di never violate his loyalty to la raza by primarily by means of voluntary contri rector is an old ally of a local politico publicity criticizing another Mexican butions, and so forth. American. Gutierrez has said: The Congress in 1967 established the who often Siddresses MAYO meetings, Corporation for Public Broadcasting to and who is a member of the board of MAYO will crush any gringo who gets in provide financial assistance for the ex directors of the parent grantee, the our way, squashing him like a beetle. pansion of educational programing. Southwest Council of La Raza. His statements are very similar to the The financing for the corproation's ac The president of MAYO, Jose Angel utterances of MAYO founder Compean, Gutierrez, who has said that most Anglo tivi~ies ~as been limited so far, however, and the resemblance is not accidental. It to mterrm congressional appropriations Americans are "gringos" and that "grin is hard to believe that a young man who which do not begin to meet the need. gos" must be "eliminated," and who preaches hatred and violence can be em There is a need to find a permanent frequently says that violence may be ployed by a legal defense fund, but that long-range financing mechanism to en necessary, even killing, to achieve his is the case. The interesting aspect of the able public broadcasting to grow and at goals, is employed as an investigator by job is that Gutierrez is not a lawYer, but the same time, maintain its indepe~d the Mexican-American legal defense an "investigator" for the Ford Founda ence from government. The recommen fund, a Ford grantee. Gutierrez' appeals tion supported MALDF. His job leaves dation recently made by Prof. Richard to violence make it seem odd that he him ample time to travel and speak in Netzer, of New York University that should be working for a group dedicated behalf of MAYO, so that one wonders commercial broadcasters be taxed for the to legal recourse, but then it is also odd whether he investigates so much as he benefit of public television represents a that the MALDF offices sport pictures of instigates. proposed solution. While I tend to sup Che Guevara, not exactly known for his Mr. Speaker, the principal disburser port the idea of media tax, I would like dedication to free process, let alone law. of Ford Foundation money in San An to see a full-fledged study by the Federal Gutierrez is one of the four founders of tonio is the Mexican-American Unity Communications Commission to deter MAYO. Council, which has $110,000 and which mine if there should be a tax and if so A second founder of MAYO is Willie is run by Willie Velasquez, who is like to what extent. ' ' Velasquez, who happens to be the director Gutierrez a founder of MAYO. Velas of the Mexican-American Unity Council, quez has on his payroll a third MAYO which has $110,000 in Ford money to dis founder, Juan Patlan, who works as an FOUNDA r:r:ION RESPONSIBILITY-II pense, $46,000 of which has already been "economic development specialist." As spent. One of his two acknowledged em far as I can determine the Unity Coun The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a ployees is Juan Patlan, who was a third previo~s order of the House, the Chair cil has mSide no grants aimed at eco founder of MAYO. The other employee is nomic development, although it has made recogniZes the gentleman from Texas Gil Murillo, who was until recently a (Mr. GONZALEZ) for 10 minutes. grants to various politically active VISTA supervisor. The fourth founder of groups, so it is hard for me to tell what Mr.. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, for MAYO was Mario Compean, who so far some trme I have been calling the atten his job really is. Velasquez, through the as I know is not on any grantee's payroll, Unity Council, has made direct grants tion of the House to the emergence of but who has benefited from political ac reverse racists in Texas. I have said that to fellow MAYO founder Guerrero's tion of MAYO related groups. He was MAYO organization, in the amount of these purveyors of hate have received first president of MAYO, and ran for the assistance from the Ford Foundation· $12,400-or one-fourth of the total of office of Councilman of San Antonio. all grants made by the unity council. through its grantees. Today I intend u; Compean's appeal was frankly racist: show the House exactly how that aid has Incidentally, the only paid employee of been dispensed, and again call upon the I shall pursue a course plotted to over the MAYO group is Ignacio Perez, who throw the gringos and their vicious and op was also a founder of the organization. Ford Foundation to take steps to exercise pressive political machine. its responsibility, which is to insure that The Mexican-American Unity Coun its grantees act only in the public inter He also said: cil has further close ties with MAYO est. I believe that the grantees I will Let me say that my campaign will be based members. For example, it has given a speak of have acted in a way that is con on a platform committed one hundred per grant to provide operating money for the trary to the public interest, and contrary cent to la raza and the blacks." Compean Universidad de los Barrios, the premises to any intention that the Ford Founda places the blame for all the ills of Mexican of which seem to be the headquarters Americans and Negroes on what he calls the for drinking bouts, where one murder tion espouses, unless I seriously mis white majority. understand the aims of that great or was committed on the night of January ganization. Jose Angel Gutierrez, the second presi 10, and whose walls are decorated with The principal purveyor of race hate in dent of MAYO, has made statements various posters that could be interpreted 10780 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 29, 1969 as irreverent, by some and obscene by today, many of our citizens are asking will come when somebody else wlll have to others. As it happens, the director of what is happening on our university and step in and make the call for him. college campuses. The Reverend Theo When Notre Dame announced its determi this interesting place is a student who nation to make such a stand against lawless happens to have been one of the prin dore M. Hesburgh, president, Notre force on its campus if the need for it arises, cipal members of MAYO. Dame University, in the April 27 issue the president of an Eastern university voiced The Ford-funded Council also provides of This _Week Magazine, suggests that concern for "our general readiness today to financial assistance to a group known the very survival of the university is at attack the young and blame the young." as Barrios Unidos. Associated with ·Bar stake. Far from blaming the young, I feel that rios Unidos is a group headed by C. H. That survival he suggests is up to the the great majority of our students today need better leadership than we administrators or Alejos, a MAYO member, and candidate university itself. Through purposeful the faculty are giving them in these times of for the city council in the last municipal leadership in tune with the legitimate a fast-changing society. The young people election in San Antonio. This group is needs and demands of the student the are more informed, more widely read, better called the Laredo Street Council. The university can survive. Father Hesburgh educated, more idealistic, more deeply sensi Barrios Unidos provides money to the feels that today's students are better tive to moral issues, more likely to dedicate Lulacs del Barrio, headed by Dario than ever before, more deeply committed themselves to good rather than selfish goals Chapa, MAYO member and candidate to the democratic values of the Nation than any past generations of students that for the city council in the last municipal and more concerned about the very pur I have known. Even the most far-out stu in dents are trying to tell society something election San Antonio. pose of society. that may be worth searching for today, 1f A fourth Ford-funded group in San But the acts of violence and force that they would only lower the volume so we Antonio is the group known as COVER, are perpetrated by a few which deny the could hear the message. In most cases, they headed by a long-time ally of County basic rights of the individual must be have good reason to be bothered by some Commissioner Albert Pena, who opposes dealt with effectively and justly by the aspects of American and world society and by the city government's majority party, university; otherwise, Father Hesburgh current values, or the lack of them. and who also happens to be on the board fears that the academic community But a complicated social mechanism, out of directors of the Southwest Council could lose support of the general public, of joint, cannot be adjusted with sledge ham of La Raza. The Commissioner frequent mers. At Notre Dame we recognize the right that liberty could be suppressed and and validity of protest and dissent regarding ly addresses MAYO rallies around the that the fires of fascism could be re the burning issues of the day-war and peace, State. It is curious to note his rela kindled. especially in Vietnam, civil rights, moral is tionship to the Southwest Council, which sues, and the stance of our university on grants funds to the Mexican American I commend to my colleagues Father those issues. But protest and dissent must be Unity Council, which in turn gives $5600 Hesburgh's balanced and insightful com expressed in a civil and rational discussion to a voter registration group headed by mentary on one of the great issues fac and persuasion, not in a display of force and his long time political supporter. One ing this country, and include his state violence that disrupts the life of the univer has to wonder what the connections may ment at this point in the RECORD: sity. We can have a thousand resolutions as be. The best salvation for the university in to what kind of a society we want, but when Mr. Speaker, the leadership of MAYO the face of any crisis is for the university authority is flouted, we must invoke the law community to save itself, by declaring its or stand back to watch the university die 1s clearly irresponsible. Yet, three of the own ground rules and basic values and then beneath our hopeless gaze. four founders of this organization are enforcing them, first with moral persuasion, In a fast changing society the real crisis is on the payroll of Ford Foundation gran and finally with academic sanctions--sus not one of authority but a crisis of vision tees, including its current president, who pension and expulsion-for participants in that alone can inspire great leadership and works for a legal defense fund, but who any movement against university life and create morale in any society. A rebirth of openly and flagrantly states that the values-especially violence, vandalism and great academic, civic and political leadership, mob action. a sharing of some of these youthful ideals legal process of reform probably will not and dreams (impossible or not) would be work, and who thinks nothing of making When moral persuasion and academic sanc tions fall to deter those who show open con good for our universities and good for Amer threats of violence. Not only does the tempt for the life-style and self-declared ica too. It might also help us all remove some Ford Foundation provide the means of values of the university community, there of the key problems that underline most of livelihood for these provocateurs and should be no hesitation to invoke whatever the unrest. The campus is really reflecting blatherskites, but its grantees provide outside assistance is necessary to preserve America and the world today in hi-fi sound additional direct support to the MAYO the university and it values. However, it and living color. organization and to fellow MAYO mem is the university that best judges its need Part of the vision that I have been speak bers. Of seven grants made in San An for outside assistance and invokes this as ing of must certainly include law and order. tonio to organizations, three have gone sistance, much as it would call for help in a But curiously enough, one cannot really have three-alarm campus fire. Here the concern law and order without another part of the directly to organizations that are headed is survival against forces bent on destruc vision; greater achievement of justice in our by MAYO members, and a third has gone tion. times, more compassion for all, real love be to a political action group whose leader University presidents have constantly tween generations. All elements of the vision ship is closely allied with a member of heard the argument that if they invoke the are interdependent. Moreover, the vision the board of directors of the Southwest law, and call in the police to keep peace on must be whole and real for everyone. Council for La Raza. It appears that all the campus, they wlll lose the respect and I truly believe that unless our American of this is more than coincidental; the the support of their university community. universities take drastic steps now to restore My only answer to that argument is that law and order to their campuses, we may be grantees take care of their friends, and about to see a revulsion on the part of state I suppose that it is assumed that the without the law you may well lose the uni versity-and beyond that, more seriously and Federal legislatures, benefactors, par Ford Foundation is none the wiser. There important, you may lose the support of ents, alumni and the general public for much is no reason to believe that henceforth the larger society outside of the campus that is happening today in higher education. the Foundation will not know to whom which keeps the university alive, and which This may lead to a suppression of the Uberty its money is going and what it is being is most deeply wounded when law is no and autonomy that are the lifeblood of a used for. longer respected, bringing an end to every university community. It may well lead to Mr. Speaker, I have clearly pointed out one's most cherished rights. a rebirth of fascism, unless we ourselves are the relationship of Ford Foundation If someone invades your home, do you ready to take a stand for what is right for money to militant and radical groups dialogue with him or call the law? Without us. We must rule ourselves, or others wlll the law, the university is a sitting duck for rule us, in a way that destroys the university and leaders, groups and leaders who are any small and irresponsible group from the as we have known lt and loved it. at best irresponsible and who present a outside or inside of the campus that wishes real danger to the peace and safety and to destroy it or to terrorize it at whim. The progress of the people of south and law is the university's only guarantee of southwest Texas. civilization versus jungle or mob rule. NATIONALSQUARE:~CAL Somewhere a stand must be made, and the COMPLEX point I have been trying to emphasize to our (Mr. SAYLOR asked and was given CAN THE UNIVERSITY SURVIVE? own university community and to concerned permission to extend his remarks at this government omcials and legislators, is that (Mr. PRICE of Dlinois asked and was the stand must be made here, by ourselves, point in the RECORD and to include ex given permission to extend his remarks on our campus, not by an outside authority. traneous matter.) at this point in the RECORD and to include The university president, as a last and dismal Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, yesterday extraneous matter.) alternative, may have to call the police to the new administration announced its Mr. PRICE of Dlinois. Mr. Speaker, keep law and order; if he doesn't, the day support of the grandiose scheme ad- April 29, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 10781 vanced by the Temporary Commission on be so generous with tax funds as to ap In most cases, these electrical and Pennsylvania Avenue, providing, among prove a scheme that is going to require mechanical devices have made our work other designs, for the destruction of an an investment of over a half-billion dol easier and our leisure time more en entire city block, which is, in the words lars for a highly dubious return. Our joyable. They have indisputably en of Wolf Von Eckardt, staff writer for the people have already been battered around hanced the quality of our lives. Washington Post, "for the sake of a by the eroding winds of inflation caused At the same time, we have become theory." by Federal extravagance, and I feel that increasingly dependent on their proper In a time when the administration is it would be an insidious imposition on functioning. If a device does not work, also asking Congress to establish a fixed, the taxpayer to reduce his buying power the buyer often suffers considerable in annual Federal payment to the District another hitch by approving this kind of convenience and sometimes even eco of Columbia, based on local taxes and unnecessary spending. nomicloss. revenues raised by the city, it seems in I am incorporating as a part of my When a consumer purchases an appli conceivable to reduce that percentage by remarks the article which appeared in ance, or a piece of machinery, he has taking out of taxation one of the most the Washington Post on this issue: the right to assume that modem Amer expensive tax-able properties in the city of NATIONAL SQuARE: "MYTHICAL CoMPLEX" ican technical and engineering know Washington. (By Wolf Von Eckardt) how has produced a reliable and efficient In A.D. 64, the great fire in Rome raged We don't need that National Square. product. Generally, he is not disap for 6 days, then roared on after appar The proposal for a. paved expanse to termi pointed. ently being brought under control. Large nate Pennsylvania Avenue at the White Manufacturers already go to a great sections of the city were destroyed, but House end has always been as much of a deal of trouble and expense to assure by now Nero had been Emperor for a dec theoretical abstraction as the rebuilding of quality control of their products. But the north side of the Avenue is a hard and no matter how good quality control may ade and knew something about raising practical economic, social and symbolic money for government expenses. His re be, there will always be some products necessity. sold which do not work the way they building · program included a great We must rebuild Pennsylvania Avenue if palace-the golden house-for himself downtown Washington is to be revitalized should. and according to some historians Italy and if it is to be linked with and involved If the consumer had any doubts about and the provinces were ransacked in in its reason for being-the Federal Govern the product's reliability at the time he order to defray the enormous costs. ment. bought it, the dealer probably quelled To perform this function, the Avenue his fears by showing him an impressive We have being presented to us again, should, of course, have included the city's by a new administration, the same ly embossed warranty certificate and and Nation's foremost theater, opera and assured the potential buyer that it pro scheme that could lead to the devastation concert hall. of the beauty and historic significance of That would have attracted developers. But vided for any problem that could arise. Pennsylvania Avenue without fire, and it is water over the dam. The Kennedy Cen But despite the high quality of most with funds for rearranging the finery to ter is rising down by the river. products, and the sincere desire of repu come through the simple expediency of But it is not too late to change the design table manufacturers to guarantee what continuing the raid on the earnings of the of the National Square and remove the they produce, I believe that too many threat of destroying a whole viable and ex Americans have discovered through bit American taxpayers. And when the pie is pensive city block for the sake of a theory. ter experience that often their warran opened, Pennsylvania Avenue-devoid of The theory is, of course, that Pennsylvania the landmarks that have made it fa Avenue should llnk the Capitol with the ties do not cover the full cost of neces mous--will have been transformed into White House. Well, it doesn't. The choleric cessary repairs, do not provide prompt little more than a super highway for Andrew Jackson spoiled that notion in 1836 servicing, and do not insure repair work ceremonial parades. when he ordered the Treasury built right of high professional quality. smack in between. A consumer who has been sold a de Such landm-arks as the Willard Hotel So the Pennsylvania Avenue designers de fective product and then not been able and National Theater are designed for cided we should at least see the Treasury as to get it repaired promptly and inex junking under the master scheme to cre we come down the Avenue from the Capitol. pensively, is not impressed when told ate more open space between the Capitol So they propose tearing down all the build that his neighbor did not experience and the White House, but sponsors ings between 15th and 13th Streets. They promise that one of the benefits for the originally wanted to tear down the Press similar difficulty with his machine. He Club, too, for the sake of their symbolic does not care how many thousands of the anticipaJted millions that the project expanse. same product have been produced with would cost would be parking spaces for But they eventually shrunk from that. 10,000 automobiles. Now, what sort of an out defect. Their now shrunken plan for a square, how All he knows is that he has purchased exchange is this? ever, is still to make the Treasury part of To me, the Willard Hotel has a promi a mythical "White House complex" that you something that now is of no use to him. nent place in the history and tradition of enter through some sort of grandiose gate. And he wants it repaired quickly. this Nation. It has housed some of our The architects themselves are not yet When this occurs, there can be no sub Presidents and other famous Americans happy with this gate solution. And nobOdy stitute for a comprehensive and inclu and it is remindful of eras in historY knows for sure just what is supposed to be sive warranty that guarantees, without on that square except for the fountain and qualification, prompt repair or replace when there was a greater value on in the pigeons. tegrity, moral value, and patriotism than This is not the way to design viable, liv ment of the defective product. we find in these parts today. I recognize able cities. Yes, we need grandeur and sym Mr. Speaker, I believe it is the obliga that the actual building which stands at bollsm. tion of the Congress to see to it that the 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue But effective urban design reconciles gran American consumer has that kind of today is not the same Willard whose deur and symbolism with living reality. It warranty protection. Consequently, the guests included celebrities of the past takes into account, as architect Louis Kahn Representative from California (Mr. has put it, "what the city wants to be." Moss) and I are introducing the Con century; still it is over 65 years old and But this is Washington. It is a city of am represents periods far beyond. Visitors ple open space, too much Of it perhaps. And sumer Full Warranty Protection Act of to this city like to look upon it as the it is a city that seems to prefer trees over 1969. hostelry where noted figures lived for a pavements and has had no trouble finding It is a comprehensive proposal, and be century and more, and I for one would a setting for ceremony and confrontation. fore I discuss its provisions, I think it like that tradition to be preserved. would be useful to outline in some detail John Glenn had a word for this intan the nature of the problem which makes CONSUMER FULL WARRANTY this legislation necessary~ gible something when he came up to PROTECTION ACT OF 1969 Capitol Hill a few years ago and described I do not think that Members of Con E.XTENSION.S OF REMARKS ORREN BEATY: A JOB WELL DONE statewide planning programs. One year same pay as long as he lives, except for ago Arizona had no statewide planning periodic cost-of-living adjustments. program and planning efforts in the As a oonsequence, a tremendous gap in re HON. MORRIS K. UDALL other States were generally in the form tired pay has grown over the past ten years OF ARIZONA between retirees of the same grade and years ative stages. The highway depart of service. In short, it has created a marked IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments of the four States, working with inequality among peers-an inequality that Tuesday, April 29, 1969 representatives of the Commission, are wm widen substantially with the upcoming now developing a regional highway plan pay increase and will continue to widen ad Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, now that the for the Four Corners areas. The Commis infinitum unless Congress restores the tradi Senate has confirmed a new Federal Co sion has also undertaken studies of the tional system of computing retired pay on chairman for the Four Corners Regional the basis of current active duty rates (re Commission, I would like to take this op vocational education needs of the area, computation) . portunity to tell you about the outstand rail transportation facilities and re There are three major forms of recompu ing performance of Orren Beaty, Jr., the quirements, and manpower needs. tation bills now pending before Congress: For the past 19 months Orren Beaty The first form would let all retirees re first Federal Cochairman of the Four has devoted his time and his consider compute their retired pay, beginning now Corners Regional Commission. able talents to the difficult task of dis and continuing into the future. This is the The Four Corners Regional Commis covering ways of improving the economic bill introduced by Senator Tower, among sion, established pursuant to the Public others, and specifically supported by Presi Works and Economic Development Act conditions of one of the most underde dent Nixon during his campaign. veloped areas of the Nation. The job is The second form would give the benefit to of 1965, is designed to stimulate economic far from complete, as he himself would growth in a 92-county area within the those who were on active duty before re be the first to say, but, due to his efforts, computation was killed in mid-1958. States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, we have made a good beginning. The third form would apply only to those and Utah. Its members are the Governors We thank him and we wish him well. who retired before mid-1958. of those four StB~tes and the Federal Co While there is merit to each of these three chairman. Orren Beaty was appointed by forms of recomputation (and NAUS objects President Johnson in August of 1967 at to none, since each would benefit some por the time the Commission was being or COMPUTATION OF RETffiED tion of our membership) , nonetheless NAUS ganized. strongly supports the first form listed above; MILITARY PAY that is, the bill sponsored by Senator Tower, The success of this C<>mmission is de and urges each ·NAUS member (and all Serv pendent upon the good will of the people ice friends he can muster) to write to his in the region and the close cooperation of HON. JOHN G. TOWER two senators and the congressman of his Federal, State, and local agencies. From OF TEXAS district to let them know politely but clearly the day he took office and up to the very IN THE. SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES that this is the legislation we want passed last day of his term, Orren Beaty worked because it's the fairest, and because it bene to create and maintain these relation Tuesday, April 29, 1969 fits more than 99% of our membership. ships. Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, earlier We are fully aware of how much recompu this session I introduced S. 364, a bill tation would cost; but we do not believe that He consulted frequently with the Gov all examples and comparisons are complete ernors and their staffs to gain their in which would return the computation of or necessarily valid. For instance, it has been terest in the program and to insure their retired military pay to the basis on stated that recomputation costs would be continued cooperation, and the Gover which it was figured before 1958. My bill more than 17 billion by the year 2000. As a nors are working together with the recog would allow the armed services of the comparison of costs this figure alone is rather nition that there are problems common United States to honor a moral obliga useless. Were these costs also compared with to all these States and that solutions may tion which had become very close to a the expected government income tax reve contractual obligation as the result of nue in the year 2000; or the expected per be more readily obtainable on a regional sonal income rates in the year 2000; or the rather than on an individual State basis. 150 years' use. projected national gross product figures for Through his extensive knowledge of This matter of recomputation is of the same year? When compared to a few of Federal Government agencies and per vital importance and concern to the men these figures, the true story becomes more sonnel, Mr. Beaty was able to enlist the of the Armed Forces of the Nation who realistic, and the cited retirement dollars are support of the Federal agencies for this have fulfilled their service duty and re relatively small. program. tired. Every day these men contact my Additionally, the 17 billion figure indicates Important as all of this is, it tends to office to ask about the progress of S. 364. the dollars that will be paid to retirees. It does not reflect the 20-25 % of these dollars obscure one very significant aspect of the In order that Senators may share in their that will be returned to the government in job he did. In an area which has been expressions of concern, I ask unanimous the form of income tax or other federal reve traditionally hostile to government, espe consent that the editorial, published in nue programs. cially the Federal Government, getting the April issue of the National Associa Everyone seems to have a pet comparison the trust of the people who are to benefit tion for Uniformed Services Newsletter, of his own, such as the one which alleges from the programs is crucial. Orren be printed in the RECORD. that the projected cost of recomputation Beaty traveled all over the region talk There being no objection, the editorial would equal the cost of a new antim.issile ing people-explaining the program to was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, system. Nobody except the retiree himself to seems to be alive to the individual inequities them and asking what they hoped to gain as follows: involved and how they shape up in the through the Commission. He visited the RECOMPUTATION-HOTTEST IsSUE FACING 91ST figures and facts. We suggest that defense Indian tribal leaders, the farmers and CONGRESS FOR SERVICE RETIREES analysts and columnists turn their thoughts ranchers, the small towns, opening up Recomputation or equalization of retired to the foregoing and to these comparisons: channels of communication between peo pay-call it what you will-is the hottest A major or lieutenant commander retired ple and their government which are item before the 91st Congress as far as Uni prior to June 1958 with 22 years service has formed Service retirees are concerned. been deprived of $17,000, plus interest, dur rarely available. Recomputation would reinstate the pre- ing the past eleven years-enough to put a The Commission, under Orren Beaty's 1958 system of basing retired pay on current couple of kids through college on an austere leadership, has already accomplished active duty pay scales. Ever since 1958, when basis and make a healthy down payment on much in its short history. All four states the system was switched peremptorily, a a home. During that same time, a sergeant now are actively pursuing comprehensive serviceman who retires keeps getting the major, master chief petty officer or chief