Tariff suspended subject to automatic reinstatement should price fall below 18 cents.

TABLE 3.-Lead-United States mine production, imports

TABLE 4.-Zinc-United States mine production, imports

Sources: U. S. Bureau of Mines and American Bureau of Metal Statistics.

Sources: E. & M. J. Metal Markets and the American Metal Market.

TABLE 6.-Devaluation of foreign currencies

The following table shows the changes in currency values, brought about by devaluation, of countries that have shipped lead to the United States in recent months, based on information supplied by Federal Reserve and New York City banks:

Compilation showing progress and status of the Defense Minerals Procurement Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, October 10, 1952.

United States Bureau of Mines and American Bureau of Metal Statistics.

Application for investigation of injury to the domestic lead-mining industry resulting from trade-agreement concessions on lead-bearing ores, flue dust, and mattes of all kinds, and lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead dross, reclaimed lead, and scrap lead; and petition for recommendation that "escape clause" relief be granted, May 10, 1950.

Congressional Record, 83d Congress, February 20, 1953, page 1383; January 30, 1953, pages 728-729.

Compilation of Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, Federal Crop Insurance Act, Sugar Act of 1948, Agricultural Act of 1949, Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, related appropriation items, and miscellaneous laws, including amendments--page 156, section 22 (f), January 1, 1953.

Mr. McCULLOCH. Is it not a fact that when we do urgently need foreign metals, we pay through the nose for them?

Mr. SCHWAB. You have taken the words out of my mouth, Mr. McCulloch. I will not, therefore, go into that. The American consumer is gouged for all the market will bear. I appreciated the remark very much, however.

Mr. RIEHLMAN. Mr. Schwab, the members of the committee would like to ask you some questions, but because of a previous arrangement we have one gentleman here who has to leave by plane.

Mr. SCHWAB. I will be available all afternoon.

Mr. RIEHLMAN. Fine. If it is permissible with the committee, we would like to hear this other witness before lunch.

Mr. SCHWAB. I will be available all afternoon.

Mr. RIEHLMAN. At this time we will call Mr. John Clark. Would you give your name and your connection for the record, please? STATEMENT OF JOHN CLARK, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL, AND SMELTER WORKERS

Mr. CLARK. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, my name is John Clark. I am president of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. I am here because our union feels that the very critical situation in the lead-zinc industry and the unemployment it is creating is part of the information your committee is gathering. Two of my fellow officers have presented well-rounded statements of our union's position to your committee in Denver. Our testimony today will not be repetitious, but will fill in with details some of the phases of that program.

Our program not only considers the immediate emergency but also the long-range perspective which we think are necessary to solve the crisis in the industry. We think our program will help our country in a transition period from a fear of war to peacetime pursuits.

My purpose here is to introduce members of our union in the Northwest who will testify today. They are workers in the mines and smelters in this region who have a deep concern about what is happening to the industry in which they work and earn their living. Some of them have gone through previous experiences in times of crisis in this industry. And they remember the mass suffering that resulted. They are determined that it shall not happen again.

I have just returned from our Nation's Capital and I know there is a feeling of concern about the metals situation. Some of the Senators and Congressmen are sponsoring bills to try to remedy the situation, Senator Murray of Montana, Senator Johnson of Colorado, Congresman Metcalf of Montana, Congresswoman Pfost of Idaho, and others.

We believe that out of hearings such as these will come proposals to unite all interested parties-workers, operators, and community leaders. I am sure that all agree that the metals industry is of extreme importance to this great inland empire.

Our testimony today will be given by the following:

William Moore, Paul Maness, and Frank James, of Local 18, Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho.

John Taft, Local 515, Metalline Falls, Wash.

Orville Larson, international vice president, who also testified in Denver. We also have some Montana observers from the Butte Miners' Union.

In addition we have brought staff members to help prepare testimony and to furnish whatever information the committee feels we might have. Our board member for the west coast, Mr. Powers, is here as well. We do not want to take too much time, because we want the committee to have time to hear the viewpoints of every group.

Another reason that we are interested, Mr. Chairman, is that this particular crisis is affecting our organization, particularly on the unemployment question, all over the country. It is affecting us down through the lead district and through the Tri-State district into Utah, and down through Colorado, as you know, and into New Mexico. At the present time we have over 4,000 of our people out of work. That is one of the main interests, of course, that we are following through with this program.

We also know that the particular crisis, sir, has an impact on every community where our mines and smelters are located. We have inaugurated a program and inaugurated activity to see if something can be done in order to offset what the previous speakers have said would be a calamity in the industry. We have no particular following as to different parts of the legislation being proposed, but I think we are in agreement with the employer, agreement with the small mining operator, particularly, that something should be done. We do think that something will be done out of hearings of this kind. We do hope, however, that we can be helpful in finding solutions to this critical situation.

I do not want to go into the details of this, because I would rather give my time up to people who represent our organization, workers from out of the mines.

I have to take a plane quite early this afternoon but I would like to stay. They will follow through, and I am sure they will give you a lot of food for thought out of the testimony they will give to you. Thank you.

Mr. ŘIEHLMAN. You have given us a very clear and concise statement. Your interest in this problem was also given. Do you have any other definite recommendations as a leader yourself? You have mentioned 2 or 3 bills. I am not so sure whether or not any of them that you mentioned carried any of the provisions of the Simpson bill. Do you have a definite objection to that type of legislation?

Mr. CLARK. No, we have no objection to any bill that we think will fit the picture and solve this crisis in the industry. I would like to state, too, for the record here, that we have over 30,000 members in Canada, and this condition is also hitting various parts of Canada. We are taking an active part to try to put some remedy in for that. As a matter of fact, a committee met with the cabinet officers in Parliament last Monday, and the Prime Minister, and they are trying to study out some formula whereby they might have a tendency to offset this crisis which we feel is coming. But we are willing to sup

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