PEICE SUPPOET THROUGH USE OF PRODUCTION 

 PAYMENTS 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1949 



House of Represextatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee ox Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace (chairman) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Pace. Om- first witness this morning is Mr. J. M. Jones, 

 secretary, National Wool Growers Association. 



We are always delighted to have you here, Mr. Jones, and will be 

 glad to hear from you at this time. 



STATEMENT OF J. M. JONES, SECRETARY, NATIONAL WOOL 

 GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Joxes. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my 

 name is J. M. Jones; I am secretary of the National Wool Growers 

 Association with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. 



The National Wool Growers Association appreciates the invitation 

 to appear before this committee on the subject of the method of price 

 support for wool. 



The matter of Government support, whatever its nature, is not 

 new to the wool industry. Since wool has always been produced 

 cheaper in other parts of the world, since production has recently 

 greatly decreased here, and since most authorities agree that a con- 

 siderable wool-producing industry is necessary here for our domestic 

 economy and for our national safety, it follows that we must continue 

 some sort of Government support. 



Asearly as 2 years ago, the National Wool Growers Association dis- 

 cussed in its meetings the idea of production payments as a substitute 

 for the purchase program now in operation, and as late as May 2 last 

 we suggested to this committee that our industry would be a good one 

 on which to try the operation of production payments, because we will 

 probably be in deficiency production for a considerable time. 



Chairman Pace's telegram of June 1 stated in part: 



The committee desires to obtain the views of the wool growers with respect to 

 the use of the production payment method of providing price support as distin- 

 guished from other methods of providing support such as through loans, purchases, 

 or other operations. 



We shall attempt to confine our remarks to the purpose of this hearing 

 as outlined by the chairman. 



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