INVESTIGATION OF THE PRODUCTION, HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND UNITED STATES SENATE SECOND SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 160 AND S. Res. 278 RESOLUTIONS PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF PART 3 JULY 3, 7, AND 8, 1942 Printed for the use of the Special Committee to SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MARKETING OF WOOL H. H. SCHWARTZ, Wyoming, Chairman CARL A. HATCH, New Mexico II CHAN GURNEY, South Dakota 48 LDR DEPOSITED BY THE AUG 4 '42 CONTENTS F. Eugene Ackerman, textile marketing consultant and executive director of the American Wool Council, New York, N. Y.--. Vestal Askew, secretary, Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers' Association, Harding F. Bancroft, chief counsel of the Leather, Wool and Miscel- laneous Fiber Products Unit of the Legal Division, Price Section, Office of Price Administration, Washington, D. C.--. Fred T. Earwood, president, Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers' Associa Grover B. Hill, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.. Kenneth W. Marriner, Chief of the Wool Section, Textile, Clothing, and Leather Branch, War Production Board, Washington, D. C___ Frank Walton, Deputy Chief of the Textile, Clothing, and Leather C. S. Wardlaw, president, National Wool Growers' Association, Del J. Byron Wilson, chairman, legislative committee of the National Wool Growers Association, and secretary of the Wyoming Wool Growers' Association, McKinley, Wyo 762 629 Clement Wood, Winthrop, Mass., representing Pacific Wool Growers__ III PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MARKETING OF WOOL FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1942 UNITED STATES SENATE, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE PRODUCTION, Washington, D. C. The special committee met, pursuant to call, in room 224, Senate Office Building, at 10 a. m., Senator H. H. Schwartz (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Schwartz (chairman), Murray, and Gurney. The CHAIRMAN. The special committee will come to order. Several of our members are out of the city, but others I think will be in later. In view of the fact that we have present witnesses who come from a long distance, we will proceed at this time. I wish to make a preliminary statement. Prior to the untimely decease of our former chairman, the late Senator Alva B. Adams, this committee held extensive hearings covering the production, transportation, and marketing of wool. For some time prior to his death Senator Adams had given serious study to the sum of information collected by the committee with a view to proposing needed legislation. That subject will be pursued further. However, the present sessions of the committee will consider more particularly, in view of the war, what wool producers and the general wool industry can do to best promote a speedy and victorious end of the struggle. To that end the committee, among other matters, will consider: First, shall the Government purchase and take over our own wool clips for the duration of this war and 1 year thereafter, as was done for the war period in the first World War, and as the British Government is doing for the duration and 1 year thereafter, as to wool under their control; Second, would the suggested Government loan on American wool be of aid of equal service in our war effort; Third, shall there be a mandatory blending of wool with other fibers during this emergency, what shall be its scope, and how best administered; and Fourth, what relief may be secured for the producers of short wool and mohair, and can we secure a greater use of these products in the manufacture of our civilian needs during the war. In the absence of Mr. Haskell, attorney for the committee, we have Mr. Roger Gillis, Assistant Wool Consultant for the War Production Board, to act for Mr. Haskell. 717 |