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find a way to put these tuna boats back to sea do do what they are 

 supposed to do and to keep our people working. 



I want to thank you, Mr. Anderson, for your interest in this. I 

 know that you will "do everything you can to help us in this matter. 

 Hut time is of the essence. We need immediate help. We need help 

 now. "We need a long range solution, but we cannot wait until the last 

 fish has gone through the cannery and the people are out on the 

 streets. We cannot do this. I am asking you people to help us, and it 

 should not be necessary to come up here and be<y for relief to keep a 

 job. We do not want to go on relief. We do not intend to go on relief. 

 We want some action to save the jobs we have got, and you will save 

 millions, perhaps billions, because if this is carried forward, what 

 you are doing to us today is what industry will do to us tomorrow. 

 And where do we go? How many more thousands of people will be 

 put out of work ? I hope that all' of us will recognize that we ought 

 to get together, environmentalists, Congress and all, and let us get 

 this problem settled and keep these people working. 



Thank you very much for your courtesy which you have shown 

 here, and if there are any questions I will be glad to try to answer 

 them. 



Mr. Leggett. Very good. 



Mr. Anderson? 



Mr. Anderson. I just want to thank Mr. Edney for coming here, 

 for his excellent remarks, and I want to say that the remarks he 

 made are the remarks we hear in our district. 



He is from our area, and we have his concern right in front of us. 

 And everything he says is just what the people in my district feel, 

 and I want to commend you for it. 



Mr. Leooett. Mr. Edney always does a high job of excellent in 

 representing the workers in this industrv. You express yourself very 

 well. 



Mr. Edney. Thank you, and I would like to compliment you gen- 

 tlemen too. 



Thank you. 



Mr. Leggett. Now, we have Mr. Butler. 



Oh. we have a rollcall going. 



Why don't we tend to the House business, suspend for a few 

 minutes, and then we will hear from Mr. Butler. 



[A brief recess was taken.] 



Mr. Leggett. The subcommittee will please come to order. 



As I indicated, the witness at this point will be Mr. Bill Butler, 

 Washington counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. 



Mr. Butler, we have your statement of 11 pages which will be in- 

 cluded in the record at this point. You can proceed to read it until 

 other members of the committee come in, and then you can expand 

 upon it. 



Mr. Butler. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



I wonder whether Col. Milton M. Kauffman, president of Monitor, 

 Inc., can join me? We may combine our testimony. 



Mr. Leggett. Certainly, Colonel Kaurl'man can join you at the 

 table. 



Would you want Christine Stevens to join you at the table? 



Mr. Butler. Certainly. 



