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ord for that, and we support this. We feel that the present, propose* 

 regulations is not a crisis ns far as we are concerned. It is a disaster 

 A.S BOOl] as the supply of fish now in the canneries and on the boat; 

 that have come in because they could not fish under the propose^ 

 regulations run out, our people will be out of work. We don't thinl 

 it is the purpose of Congress or the executive branch or the judicial 

 branch to put people out of work. We believe that to work, to have 

 a job, is what this country is all about and what built this country 

 and we cannot understand why anyone or any group of people -would 

 be so callous toward human beings. 



T listened this morning, and T hope this is not personal. I don't 

 mean it that way, of how they came to the derision to come, on the 

 side repudiating the administrative law judge's recommendations, and 

 thev said it was close, almost as if someone tossed a coin. And it 

 came down one way. We are playing with 30.000 -jobs. The spinoff 

 is much more than that. We have people who. if thev don't work in 

 a given week, there is no paycheck the following week. These people 

 can't pay their bills, can't, send their children to school without a 

 paycheck. And T have heard a lot that Congress, the Government, 

 that is, the administration — and I do believe the administration will 

 do something about the job situation — wants to spend $4: billion to 

 create 600.000 jobs. 



T wonder if anyone has stopped to calculate how much of the cost 

 to destrov 30.000 iobs, maybe 50.000 jobs? I wonder how much cost 

 is there in monev? There are other factors you ought to consider as 

 to what vou do to these people who have worked 15, 20 or 25 years 

 in nn industrv. This is all that thev know. You are going to train 

 them to do what? They are old, many of the people, women who are 

 old. men who are old. And they have language problems. What are 

 thev going to do? 



It has been a sad day for us, and, you know, in coming here, T am 

 most happy to come before your committee, Mr. Chairman, because 

 I believe that you are a fair man. But, frankly, I would rather be 

 somewhere else, because there are other things we can be doing to 

 help our people. 



T wish some of the people who feel so strongly on the other side, I 

 wish thev could stav in my office and hear what I am getting from 

 the people. I say I am sort of glad to get out of there, because I don't 

 have the answers to tell them why. They ask me why they are doing 

 this, and T don't have the answers. 



T doubt if anyone here has the answers, because most of this is 

 made on misinformation, guessing and hoping it will come out all 

 right. 



Mr. Chairman and committee members, I say to you again, the 

 critical issue here is jobs, and I don't think the unemployed or the 

 poeple who are now being employed are going to sit still and see 

 that their jobs are taken away. 



Just as I left, one extreme group put out a leaflet in the canneries, 

 and they are stirring the waters on the porpoise thing. I don't care 

 to mention the name of the organization, but there are people who 

 traffick in this sort of thing. But I would hope again that you would 

 recognize that it is jobs that w T e must be concerned with. We must 



