COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island

JOHN W. BRICKER, Ohio A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma

ANDREW F. SCHOEPPEL, Kansas GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida

JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland PRICE DANIEL, Texas

CHARLES E. POTTER, Michigan SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina

JAMES H. DUFF, Pennsylvania ALAN BIBLE, Nevada

WILLIAM A. PURTELL, Connecticut
STROM THURMOND, South Carolina FREDERICK G. PAYNE, Maine

EDWARD JARRETT, Clerk
HAROLD I. BAYNTON, Chief Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island

JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland
PRICE DANIEL, Texas

JAMES H. DUFF, Pennsylvania
AUGUST J. BOURBON, Professional Staff Member
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CONTENTS

Statement of —

Pago

Clague, Ewan, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of

Labor, Washington, D. C---

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Collins, J. W. D., president, United States Citizens' Association,

Canal Zone (read by Lavern R. Dilweg) -

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Dilweg, Lavern R., counsel for United States Citizens' Association,

815 15th Street NW., Washington, D. C.

121

Eckert, Charles E., legislative attorney, Office of the Comptroller

General, Washington, D. C. (accompanied by F. H. Barclay, attor-

ney, Office of the General Counsel, and W. A. Newman, Associate

Director of Audits) -

126, 141

Freeman, Gordon M., international president, International Brother-

hood of Electrical Workers, 1200 15th Street NW., Washington,

D. C. (read by Orrin A. Burrows, legislative representative) -

119

Harmon, C. M., Jr., secretary-treasurer, Weyerhauser Steamship Co.,

441 Battery Street, San Francisco, Calif..

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Harrison, Lt. Gen. William K., commander in chief, Caribbean area,

Department of the Army, Washington, D. C.-

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Mayer, Robert E., president, Pacific American Steamship Association,

16 California Street, San Francisco, Calif.--

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Moloney, William M., general attorney, Association of American

Railroads, Transportation Building, Washington, .D C..

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Munro, Howard E., legislative representative, the Central Labor

Union and Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO, of the Panama Canal

Zone at Balboa, (Washington address: 901 Massachusetts Avenue

NW., Washington, D. C.) -

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Riley, George D., legislative representative, American Federation of

Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, 901 Massachusetts

Avenue NW., Washington, D. C.--.

117

Seal, Charles R., chairman, Committee on Panama Canal Tolls, North

Atlantic Ports Association, Inc., 254 Granby Street, Norfolk, Va.. 101

Seybold, Hon. J. S., Governor of the Canal Zone and President,

Panama Canal Company, Canal Zone (accompanied by William

Whitman, secretary, Panama Canal Company).

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Sinclair, James, president and general manager, Luckenbach Steamship

Co., Inc., 129 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. (accompanied by Robert

E. Mayer, president, Pacific American Steamship Association)---- 15

Walters, Thomas G., operations director, Government Employees'

Council, AFL-CIO, 100 Indiana Avenue NW., Washington, D. C.. 118

Statement submitted by-

Brummer, W. H., P. O. Box 1082, Curundu, Canal Zone -

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Hedden, Walter P., port consultant, in behalf of the American Asso-

ciation of Port Authorities, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y.- 105

Lovelady, R. M., national vice president, American Federation of

Government Employees, 900 F Street NW., Washington, D. C.--- 173

Pacific Coast Committee on Panama Canal Tolls, 95 Market Street,

Oakland, Calif...

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Tyson, William S., Bowen Building, Washington, D. C.------

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Reports from

Administrative Office of the United States Courts, dated March 16,
1956..

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Canal Zone Government, dated March 8, 1956.

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Department of the Army, dated February 15, 1956-

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Department of Commerce, dated March 16, 1956..

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Department of Labor, dated August 8, 1956-

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Department of the Treasury, dated March 8, 1956.

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General Accounting Office, dated August 1, 1955--

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United States Civil Service Commission, dated March 16, 1956--- 10

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Letters from

Brundage, Percival, Director, Bureau of the Budget, Washington,

D. C., dated April 9, 1956..
Campbell, James A., ' national president, American Federation of

Government Employees, 900 F. Street, NW., Washington, D. C.,
dated April 13, 1956.
Chandler, Henry P., Director, Administrative Offices, United States

Courts, Washington, D. C., dated April 27, 1956, and May 28,

1956.
Committee on Panama Canal Tolls, 11 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y.,

dated April 3, 1956.-

American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc., 11 Broadway, New York

4, N. Y., dated April 9, 1956....

Magnuson, Senator Warren G., Senate Office Building, Washington

D. C., dated March 28, 1956..-

Mayer, Robert E., president, Pacific American Steamship Association,

16 California Street, San Francisco, Calif., dated March 30, 1956..
Seybold, J. S., Governor of the Canal Zone; president, Panama Canal

Company, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, dated May 18, 1956---

Virginia State Ports Authority, dated March 13, 1956.

Excerpts from

Bureau of the Budget Study of Panama Canal Operations, submitted

to Congress January 31, 1950...

General Accounting Office Audit Report on Panama Canal Operations

for 1953.-

Staff memorandum of Senate Committee on Government Operations

on Panama Canal, dated December 31, 1954.

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