[JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE MATTERS]

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Tufted Textile Manufacturers Association
represents 80 percent of the production of
tufted carpets and rugs, schedule 9, para-
graph 921; 90 percent of the production of
tufted bedspreads, schedule 9, paragraph 911
(a); and 98 percent of the production of
tufted robes, schedule 9, paragraph 919, in
the United States.
Tufted textiles originated in the iforth
Georgia area. Tufted textile products have
been made by machine for about 20 years.
There now are approximately 250 factories,
large and small, some integrated in part.
There are factories established now in 18
States of the Union and in 11 foreign coun-
tries, to our knowledge. Hundreds of re-
quests are coming in from foreign countries
for more and more information on tufting
machines for making tufted products in for-
eign countries.
Modern ideas and ingenuity of the north
Georgia machinists developed these tufting
machines, which have a marked advantage
over weaving. The machines are only partly
patented (or only certain parts of the tufted
machines are patented); and there is no pro-
tection of these patents in foreign markets.
Some foreign countries are building these
machines today.
The last year's complete statistics on the
tufted textile industry as reported by the
Bureau of the Census revealed the industry
used 135,060,000 pounds of cotton yarns and
gray goods in 1952, and other types of fiber
in the amount of 4,734,000 pounds. Accu-
rate figures for the first half of 1953, quoted
by the Bureau of the Census, plus prelimi-
nary figures given by the Bureau of the Cen-
sus for the last half of 1953, reveal the in-
dustry used approximately 152,942,000
pounds of cotton yarns and gray goods last
year. This is 319,963 (478-pound net
weight) bales of cotton. To produce the
lint, estimated by the National Cotton Coun-
cil of America at 275 pounds per acre,
556,153 acres were required.
There has been a large increase in the use
of synthetic fibers and jute backing for car-
pets and rugs in this industry; however, we
do not have these figures at this time. The
Bureau of the Census is now securing these
statistics for the period July 1, 1953, through
June 30, 1954, and has been authorized to
secure the figures for the last 6 months of
1954, which figures are not available at this
time.
Tufting machines are capable of tufting
certain types of bedspreads at the ratio of
10 to 1 over weaving, or tufting lineal yard-
age 40 to 54 inches wide for robes at a ratio
of 25 yards to 1 over weaving, and tufted
carpeting 12 to 15 feet wide at a ratio of
from 10 to 15 to 1 over weaving, depending
on grade of product.
There are 25,000 production employees
working in the tufting factories and tufted
finishing plants in the United States. It
takes aproximately 25,000 more production
employees to supply the industry with yarn,
gray goods, machinery, chemicals, and other
vital materials necessary for manufacturing
tufted products.
The average hourly wage earnings in the
textile industry is $1.30. In the carpet and
rug industry, Government figures for average
hourly earnings are $1.73. We compare these
wage earnings in the United States to for-
eign countries' wage earnings in the textile
world: Japan, 13.6 cents; India, 9.5 cents;
England, 40 cents; Germany, 31.7 cents per
hour.
Tufting machines made in America are
being exported to foreign countries in in-
creasing numbers. The production potential
of these machines, plus that of tufting ma-
chines manufactured in foreign countries,
pose a serious threat to American industries
if the products of these machines turned out
by low-paid foreign workers are allowed to
enter into our domestic market and compete
with products produced in the United States.
We would emphasize that the tufting ma-
chine was invented and perfected in the
United States; that its value in producing
certain consumer textile goods is recognized
throughout the world; and that the sharing
of American production knowledge and ex-
port of American tufting machines have been
of great value to foreign countries.
The tufted-textile industry is principally
that a converter. Cotton is the principal
fiber used in the industry-cotton raised in
the United States and spun by cotton mills
in the United States. When you disturb, by
low tariffs the economic condition of this
industry, you affect the cotton mills and the
cotton growers, as well as all others in this
country who supply the industry.
The net profits on sales in the industry
have already reached a peril point. To quote
Dun & Bradstreet's publication, Behind the
Scenes of Business, 1952 edition, "The 5-year
average, 1947-51: Net profits on net sales for
cotton goods converters, nonfactored, was
2.37 percent."
Tufted products produced in foreign coun-'
tries up to the present time are inferior in
quality to American products. If introduced
into the American market, they would tend
to establish a low price base, which would
have an insidious effect upon the industry's
entire price structure and would seriously
affect our domestic tufted industry.
When the basic price structure of retail
merchandising of given products in the coun-
try is undermined, or there are depressed
prices, it is then felt in the wage structure
of an industry. There is then a lowering of
basic standards in the industry to the point
where the affected products in many cases
are discontinued in the retail merchants'
stores:
The tufted-textile industry is now a large
link in the economic structure of this coun-
try and a most vital segment in the overall
textile industry. Tufted-textile products
rank fourth in the use of cotton. In addi-
tion, it has played a major role in lifting the
living standard in the American homes of all
means.
Tufted-textile products, principal market
is the United States. The small amount of
export which is done is principally to Canada.
At one time the industry enjoyed a fair
amount of export business. However, with
foreign countries now establishing tufting
machinery in their factories and their pa-
tronizing of their home factories, and be-
cause of import. restrictions by most foreign
countries, there is practically no exporting
of tufted products from this country, even
though our standards for tufted products
are far superior to those found in foreign
tufting plants.
7JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLI1
GENCE MATTERS
(Mr. ZABLOCKI asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, in the
83d Congress, together with my colleague
the gentlewoman from New York [Mrs.
KELLY] and several other of my col-
leagues, I sponsored a resolution pro-
viding for the creation of a Joint Com-
mittee on Intelligence Matters. The
number of that measure was House
Concurrent Resolution 169. It provided
that the committee be composed of 9
Members of the Senate and 9 Members
of the House, the Members to be selected
by the presiding officers of the two
.houses, and to be representative of both
political parties. That measure was in-
tended to bring the various intelligence
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activities of the executive branch under
coordinated congressional scrutiny.
Today I am reintroducing that resolu.
tion together with several distinguished
Members of this House. It is our hope
that other Members will shortly join us
in Qosponsoring this measure.
Mr. Speaker, the activities of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency and of related
intelligence services have been handled
from a congressional standpoint in a
piece-meal fashion. The importance of
these activities to the national security
demands at this time the creation of a
joint committee, which will keep the
Congress informed and bring these activ-
ities under coordinated, responsible con-
gressional scrutiny. The proposed com-
mittee would operate in a manner which
has been successfully adopted by the
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Intelligence has developed as an
activity of utmost importance since
World War II. The agencies in this field
are entitled to a continuous, consistent
and stable relationship with the Con-
gress. The membership of the Joint
Committee on Intelligence Matters,
which would be presumably drawn from
those charged with responsibility for
military and foreign policy matters,
would supply this important link in this
crucial area.
In recent years it has become apparent
that the intelligence agencies activities
of'the executive branch have been and
may in the future be subjected to undue
interference by free-wheeling, congres-
sional investigating committees, which
consider themselves called upon to in-
quire into their operations. The pro-
posed Joint Committee on Intelligence
Matters would obviate the need for such
separate uncoordinated investigations.
It is my sincere hope that the concur-
rent resolution, the text of which I shall
now read into the RECORD, will receive
prompt and favorable consideration from
this House:
Resolved by the House of Representatives
(the Senate concurring), That there is hereby
established a Joint Committee on Intelli-
gence-Matters to be composed of 9 Members
of the Senate to be appointed by the Presi-
dent of the Senate, and 9 Members of the
House of Representatives to be appointed by
the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In each instance not more than 5 Members
shall be members of the same political party.
SEC. 2. The joint committee shall make
continuing studies of the intelligence activ-
ities and problems relating to the gathering
of intelligence affecting the national security
and of its coordination and utilization by
the various departments, agencies, and in-
strumentalities of the Government. The
Central Intelligence Agency and related in-
telligence services shall keep the joint com-
mittee fully and currently informed with
respect to their activities. All bills, resolu-
tions, and other matters in the Senate or
the House of Representatives relating pri-
marily to the Central Intelligency Agency
and related intelligence services shall be
referred to the joint committee. The mem-
bers of the joint committee who are Mem-
bers of the Senate shall from time to time
report to the Senate, and the members of
the joint committee who are Members of
the House of Representatives shall from time
to time report to the House, by bill or other-
wise, their recommendations with respect to
matters within the jurisdiction of their re-
spective Houses which are (1) referred to
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the joint committee or (2) otherwise within rlao more than 5 members shall be mem- cerned I have been unable to find any
the jurisdiction of the joint committee. bers of the same political party. The of it.
SEC. 3. Vacancies In the membership of resolution further provides that the I helped support last year, Mr. Speak-
the joint committee shall not affect the committee shall make continuing studies er, a bill which passed this body, H. R.
power of the remaining members to execute of the intelligence activities and prob- 9413, to establish a professional police
of oint shall the fue filled In n the the jsame me manner as committeie in and the lems relating to the gathering of intelli- force, a bill which unfortunately did not
.
case se of of the original selection. The joint gence affecting the national security and pass the other body. I sincerely hope
committee shall select a chairman and a of its coordination and utilization by that legislation such as this, or that
vice chairman from among its members. the various departments and agencies of about which my colleague from Tennes-
SEC. 4. The joint committee, or any duly the Government. see has spoken, will be introduced in this
authorized subcommittee thereof is author- The House and the Senate measures session of Congress and will pass both
ized to hold such hearings, to sit and act differ only in the proposed composition Houses as quickly as possible.
at such places and times, to require, by sub- Of the committee to be established. In The next strange lady who walks down
pens or otherwise, the attendance of such
witnesses and the production of such books, the House resolution the membership of the aisle and asks for recognition from
papers, and documents, to administer such the committee comprises 18 members the Chair may have some other intention
oaths, to take such testimony, to procure while in the Senate resolution only 12 in her mind than simply making a
such printing and binding, and to make would be appointed. The Senate reso- speech.
such expenditures as it deems advisable. lution further specifies that the members Mr. Speaker, we have heard state-
The cost of stenographic services to report be selected from the Appropriations and ments today about the propriety of re-
such hearings shag not he in excess of 25 the Armed Services Committees of the marks made by Members of one body of
cents per hundred words.
SEC. 5. The joint committee is empowered House and the Senate. this Congress relating to Members of the
to appoint such experts, consultants, tech- Mr. Speaker, I feel this resolution other body. While the rules protect
nicians, and clerical and stenographic assist- should receive a high priority for con- against character assassination and
ants as it deems necessary and advisable, sideration in this session. During the character assassins, yet we do not have
The committee 1s authorized to utilize the past year, President Eisenhower found any protection against any other kind of
services, Information, facilities, and person- it necessary to create the Intelligence assassination as far as this House is
net of the departments and establshments Activities Task Force headed by Gen. concerned.
of the Government.
SEC, 6. The expenses of the point commit- Mark Clark and a personal study eon- [From the Washington Evening Star of tee, which shall not exceed 6 per year. ducted by Gen. James Doolittle, to in- JanuarY 15, 19551
shall be paid one-half from the contingent vestigate the activities of the Central CAPITOL INSECURITY
fund of the Senate and one-half from the Intelligence Agency. The findings of The ease with which the woman in red
contingent fund of the House of Represen- both groups are secret. It is highly im- reached the rostrum of the House directs
tatives upon vouchers signed by the chair- portant that the Congress have a Con- attention anew to the inadequacy of the
man. Disbursements to pay such expenses tlriulrig check on this Agency and neces- present guard system at the Capitol. The
shall be made by the Secretary of the Sen- woman told reporters later that only a page
ate out of the contingent fund of the Sen- nary changes in it should be promptly boy questioned her as she sought to enter
ate, such contingent fund to be reimbursed written into legislation. the Chamber. "I don't think they could
from the contingent fund of the House of keep anybody out of there," she commented.
Representatives in the amount of one-half PROTECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF It may be that the incident would have
of the disbursement so made. occurred even if the House had been pro-
Mrs. KELLY of New York. Mr. CONGRESS tected by a trained police force. But the
fact is that the lax security system still in
Speaker, on July 20, 1953, with my dis- (Mr. BENTLEY asked and was given effect at the Capitol? despite last year's shoot-
tinguished colleagues tMr. ZABLOCKI, of Permission to address the House for I ing affray, makes it relatively easy for un-
Wisconsin, and Mr. JUDD, of Minnesota] minute, to revise and extend his remarks, authorized persons to violate floor or gallery
I Introduced a House concurrent reso- and M . include EY wspaper articles.) ruler, After the uerto
Mr. Speaker, would House Members last March Rthe a were voc
Co n
ngr establish a joint committee of f both sides of the Capitol
Congress ss' to supervise all intelligence like to associate myself with the remarks feroua demands on
activities. I have reintroduced this already made by my good friend and for a reorganization of the police force, start-
former fellow casualty the gentleman Ing with the elimination of political patron-
measure today and I understand several age. But legislation to effect this urgent
of my colleagues are also submitting it, from Tennessee [Mr. DAvIs] regarding reform died with the past session.
I was interested to note that a resolu- the question of security in this House, In the meantime the new Congress has
tion similar to mine was introduced in or the absolute lack of it so far as I am asked the Metropolitan Police Department
the Senate in 1954, and a slightly modi- concerned, to detail 10 picked detectives daily to assist
fled version of it is receiving extensive As you might know, I normally expect in protecting the Capitol. Chief Murray can
sponsorship in this Congress. Cer- when I go back to my State and district Ill afford to lose the services of these men.
tainly, Mr. Speaker, this points up the to be asked, as I was last year several A similar special assignment cost the depart-
importance of this measure and gives times, what security measures have been went nearly $30,000 last year, for which no
repayment has been made to date. This
rise to the hope that it will be enacted taken since the episode of last March 1st. makeshift arrangement Is unsatisfactory
in this session. I am asked if professional police have from every standpoint. Congress ought to
In 1947, the Central Intelligence been employed at the Capitol or just forget patronage and reorganize the Capitol
Agency was created. It is responsible what has been done to protect the Police Force on an efficient, merit-system
to the National Security Council only membership. basis. Until that is done the legislators will
and is not subject to supervision by the I am forced to Inform them that the have no one but themselves to blame for lax
legislative branch of the Government. only additional protection furnished security.
It is absolutely free from any check by since that time has been temporary the Washington SStar of
the Congress even to the control of its Inclusion in the Capitol Police Force of [Prom January 16, 1 Sunday n
expenditures. The need for secrecy in 10 detectives on loan from the Metro-
our intelligence agencies is obvious, yet politan Police of the District of Colum- CAPITOL FORCE STILL PATRONAGE PLUM
I feel that much of the abuse of the bia, which has cost the District about (By Hector McLean)
Central Intelligence Agency can be $30,000, and which has not been repaid. Of Congress it might be said: "Experience
avoided by the creation of a joint com- I have to tell my constituents back is a great teacher-but not for long."
mittee of Congress to supervise all in- home when I am asked the question as Less than a year ago, on March 1, 1954, a
to what has been done since last March band of Puerto Rican terrorists stood up in
telligence activities along the lines of the the House visitors` gallery and turned it into
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. that about the only changes we can see a shooting gallery.
The resolution I have introduced to- in the House are that some of the bullet 'They sprayed the house Chamber with
day would establish a joint committee holes have been patched up in the ceil- automatic gunfire that cut down 5 Members
composed of 9 Members of the Senate to ing, they have patched up the holes in of Congress and drove others cringing to the
be appointed by the President of the the walls, and repaired some of the fur- floor during a crowded moment of voting.
Senate, and 9 Members of the House of niture that was splintered: they have Then It was over. The memory lingered on,
Representatives to be appointed by the made various changes like that, but So however, at least for those' lawmakers who
Speaker of the House. In each instance, far as improvement of security is eon- literally stood under the guns that day.
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