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It is our conviction that old autos will move freely (from the auto 

 graveyard, to the scrap processor, to the melting furnace) when 

 the free and open market is restored. Proposals that go beyond 

 screening will tamper with the free market, and will tend to aggra- 

 vate a greater concentration of monopoly in the industry. 



Balanced metallics. The balancing of all metallics within the 

 steel industry, including domestic scrap and iron ore imports, should 

 be studied with the aim of bringing about a larger use of the secondary 

 annual crop. We refuse to be made casualties of technology and 

 statistics, or casualties of monopoly. We deny the right of the steel 

 industry unilaterally to determine upon programs without consulting 

 us about our fate, or without consulting the public interest. We 

 question the wisdom of scrap policy that has placed our industry 

 on a standby basis to be turned on and off to suit the new economic 

 theories of hot metal, while foreign ore sources are being developed 

 in a lifeline that can be cut during a national emergency, or by the 

 whims and caprices of newborn nationalism. 



Just as the President saw fit recently to announce some guide- 

 lines to the steel industry, in the public interest (which indicated a 

 relationship between production and pricing of steel, and a suggested 

 3-percent wage increase factor) we think that an appropriate study of 

 all factors could produce some guidelines for consuming industries, 

 of percentage increases in the use of the secondary annual crop of 

 metallics, pulp, fibers, etc., thus preventing the waste of a natural 

 resource, which will increase in tonnage annually as the population 

 increases. 



Bureau of Secondary Raw Materials. It is urged that the Cabinet 

 Committee give consideration to the establishment of a Bureau of 

 Secondary Raw Materials within the Department of the Interior. 

 At the 1962 White House Conference on Conservation, it was Secre- 

 tary Udall who pointed out the danger of "fragmentation" in han- 

 dling the conservation program, and stated that "the prime lesson of 

 conservation today is that the piecemeal approach of the past to re- 

 source problems will not suffice in the 1960's." 



There is a direct relationship between the secondary raw materials 

 and the primary, most of which are within the structure of the Inte- 

 rior Department, with its adequate research facilities. We are entitled 

 to a comprehensive approach to the industry, in lieu of "bits and 

 pieces" scattered at many levels, stereotyped speeches and economic 

 reports assuring us that "there will always be a scrap business," and 

 other reassuring shibboleths. 



