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ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN PULP AND PAPER WORKERS 



observers. It is also a fact that the affluents discharged 



by other industries are not so visibly seen and not so clearly 



recognizable to the untrained observer. Even though 



emissions by other industries and those emissions necessary 



for pest control and city sanitation are much more injurious 



and much more toxic to the various forms of sea life and 



fishes than pulp mill emissions. 



"I realize, of course, that the pulp mills 



have to continue in their efforts to clean up our streams 



and estuaries and Puget Sound. It must be pointed out 



however, that the Puritanical outcries of the shellfish and 



oyster growers are selfishly motivated far beyond any concern 



for public interests and public welfare. It certainly is 



well-known and clearly understood in the Puget Sound area, 



particularly in the area of Hood's Canal, that if the oyster 



growers and shellfish people had their way, my family and 



I would never be able to walk down a public beach and pick 



oysters and dig clams, etc. This land would be completely 



controlled and regulated by the oyster growers if they were 



able to perpetuate the aims that they seek. Shellfish were 



placed on this earth by divine providence and the will of 



the Lord. It took very little work, very little economic 



investment by the people in the shellfish industry. Certainly 



they have found ways to increase the yield, etc., by scientific 



