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one, and naturally they resented that and then went out for 16 daye- 

 and lost another one. I sug^gested to them what should be done, but 

 nobody would do it. 



Then my chief suggested that I go in for a job as equipment 

 specialist. Naturally, my knowledge is limited. I couldn't sit down 

 and write the Avay this man here is writing, but I do have equipment 

 qualifications, and I figure you need one or two men around the dock 

 to take care of it, replace it, and you will save in the end. They need 

 somebody to look after the equipment, fix it up, and take care of it, in- 

 stead of buying it new. I could show you some stutt' laying on the 

 docks that they bought from Pascagoula rumiing into thousands of 

 dollare, but nobody is there to look after it. 



So I went ahead and applied for this position and got a classifica- 

 tion GS-7 on my education. Well, the job came up to be fille<:l, but I 

 understand they did not want fishermen in the station, nobody who 

 has been commercial fishing who could give them a suggestion to 

 take care of the equipment. So, when the job came open, I thought 

 it was a pushover, but I didn't get it. They took in somebody else, 

 and tlie one they took in I had to show him how to tie a bowline. 

 He couldn't tie his shoelaces. 



Naturally, I got a little sore, and I talked to Mr. Linehan. From 

 then on, the ball got rolling, and I was a troublemaker. 1 was called 

 in and asked why I was going to private industry and told not to go to 

 private industry about anything going on in this outfit. I said, if I 

 can't go to private industiy but have to keep quiet about what M^e do 

 here, not looking at in a commercial way, I don't belong here. Nat- 

 urally, since then I have been in hot water ever since. And I am sure 

 I was one of them that could have been in trouble with it once 

 but, when you have to w'oi'k under those conditions, you can't do any- 

 thing about it, there is nothing you can do about it. Even if you 

 have a radical man on the boat, maybe two or three fellows mi^ht 

 well join the rest of them because they are working against somethmg 

 you can't lick. 



As far as the boat's seaworthiness goes, and the way the boat is 

 rigged out for the crew and the scientists, I don't see any good rea- 

 son why it should be tied up. 



So far as putting a scientific crew on the Delatcare to either make 

 up for lost work on the Alhatross by being tied up or do other work, 

 they are all cramped up so they can't do it. We have had people from 

 the Institute come out and try to live on the boat, and they couldn't 

 do their work. One of them told me when he went asliore he could 

 do a lot of things out there that would be good for his work, but he 

 couldn't do it. I will make it a little quicker, but I think the fa- 

 cilities we have on the boat are certaiidy usable until it can be re- 

 placed. I thiidi they need both boats, and I think they need men 

 ashore. 



Tliat is just about what I have to say. 



(.Miaii'inan IMillkk. Thank you very nuich for your contribution. 



Mr. DoNAinJK. May I make a sliort statement to wrap this up? 



Chairnum IVIillkk. Yes, sir ; I Avant you to. 



