TRADE EXPANSION ACT OF 1962

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• Publication Date: June 25, 1964
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ment in plant exparision because the
prospects were not inviting.
Before long they found that they had
to improve their cost position if they
were not to /be driven out of business.
They, therefore, began investing more in
modernization programs than anything
else. The means by which the industries
sought to save themselves?not always
successfully, for many companies went
out of business in the textile industry?
was often at the expense of employment.
The pressure to reduce costs simply
meant that more laborsaving machinery
must be installed.
This is something that those who try
to assess the effect of imports on employ-
ment often completely overlook. They
ask how many workers are displaced by
imports, forgetting that many such dis-
placements are indirect, as just indi-
cated, that is, by bringing on labor-
displacing installation. In yet other
Instances imports add to unemployment
by discouraging business expansion be-
cause of the gloomy prospects brought on
by rising imports. The new hands
coming on the labor market are not
employed as they would be in the absence
of the import menace.
Mr. Speaker, bringing what I have said,
to bear on the present legislation, I wish
to say that I am strongly in favor of it.
It will not help against past damage; but
It will save many of our industries from
unnecessary and in fact unwise future
damage.
If the articles that fall under the cri-
teria of the bill are spared further tariff
cuts a great benefit will have been
achieved even if it is of a preventive
character. We should not under the
momentum of a past frenzy to reduce
tariffs throw off the degree of caution
that was exercised in the past. There is
no magic at the end of this tariff-cutting
rainbow. I assure you that there is not
only no magic but quite the contrary;
namely, grim unemployment, sagging
profits and gloom. It is too often
thought that industry and employment
can quickly shift into something' else,
something new. This is an unfortunate
and damaging illusion. Let us not be
led by such illusions into tariff-cutting
action that we would soon have reason
deeply to regret.
I join my colleagues gladly in intro-
ducing the bill to amend the Trade Ex-
pansion Act with the purpose of moder-
ating the damage of further tariff reduc-
tion. I also join in asking for expedi-
tious action on the bill.
VETERANS' PENSION ACT OF 1964
(Mr. LONG of Louisiana (at the re-
quest of Mr. GONZALEZ) was granted per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker,
I am today introducing a bill which seeks
a compromise solution to the problems
of needed pensions for our veterans.
This bill, the Veterans' Pension Act of
1964, provides increased pension benefits
for veterans of all wars, but it is also de-
signed to recognize the special problems
of World War I veterans.
In 1960, Congress passed Public Law
86-211, which modified pension pro-
grams existing at that time. We have
now had 4 years' experience with this
new pension law, and there are several
corrections which should be made. My
bill provides for the following basic
changes in existing law:
First. The present law does not require
the accounting of veterans' life insur-
ance in computing income. This deduc-
tion is now extended to cover private or
commercial life insurance in the case of
death claims by a widow.
Second. Under present law, the widow
is not required to count expenses of last
illness and burial of the veteran in com-
puting her income. This provision is ex-
tended to the veteran by my bill. Under
this bill the veteran would be allowed to
deduct the expenses of last illness and
burial for his wife or children when
figuring his income.
Third. This bill would provide for a
deduction from income of unusual medi-
cal expenses by either the veteran or the
widow, for themselves or their children.
Fourth. The proceeds from a fire in-
surance policy would not be counted as
income and income derived from the sale
of a personal residence would not be
counted.
Fifth. Under my bill, income received
as payment for the discharge of a civic
duty, such as jury service, would be ex-
empt.
At the present time, a veteran must
have a 10-percent permanent disability
at age 65 to qualify for a pension, and
this is resulting in expensive medical
examinations which are disqualifying
very few veterans. My bill would con-
sider a 65-year-old veteran to be perma-
nently and totally disabled, and he would
not be required to take an examination.
My bill would also permit pension bene-
fits to be paid to a person suffering from
active TB and hospitalized from the di-
sease, even though the disability may not
be permanent.
The aid and attendance allowance
would be raised from $70 to $85 a month.
There are 50,000 aid and attendance
cases, and these veterans are badly in
need of additional help because of their
serious health problems.
This bill would also create a new cate-
gory described as "permanently house-
bound," and this group would receive $35
a month in addition to the regular pen-
sion. This concept is presently used in
the service-connected compensation
program and should be extended to the
pension program.
One of the principal purposes of this
bill is an adjustment of income limitation
rates, commensurate with the rising cost
of living. Overall income limitations are
not raised, but the first and intermediate
steps are increased and the first and in-
termediate pension rates are increased.
For instance, under this bill, a single vet-
eran in the low income category would
receive $90, a married veteran $100, and
a widow $70. Under the proposed in-
crease in the income limitation in the
first and second step, veterans and wid-
ows could have more income and still
qualify for the highest rate payable un-
der the bill.
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The recognition of the special problems
of World War I veterans in the bill is the
provision that, upon attainment of age
72, income limitations would be raised to
$2,400 for the single veteran and $3,600
for the married veteran. The bill would
pay these World War I veterans a pen-
sion of $100 a month. Very few veterans
are capable of working at that age, and
medical expenses usually rise, either for
the veteran or his wife. In view of these
rising costs it is appropriate that income
limitations be liberalized, for these World
War I veterans who have reached the age
of 72.
In addition, this bill provides recogni-
tion for the veteran who served in active
military, naval or air service outside the
United States during World War I, World
War II or the Korean conflict. Provision
is made for a 10 percent increase in the
pension in these cases.
I have introduced this bill because I be-
lieve that there is a need for continually
updating our veterans' benefit programs;
because, as our country continues to pay
billions every year in foreign aid, and
other billions in welfare payments it is
only right that we should be equally gen-
erous to those who have sacrified for
their country in a time of need.
I firmly believe that veterans of this
century of world conflict have a right to
expect a grateful country's help in their
declining years.
This is not charity we are extending;
it is part payment to men who left home
and loved ones to fight wars that they
did not start, on ground that was not
theirs.
Our national veterans' organizations
have all favored differing approaches to
the problems of various groups of veter-
ans. In drafting this bill, I have tried to
find the best way to combine those differ-
ing viewpoints into a consensus which
expresses the desire which all share:
That, for those who have sacrificed to
save our country, we should be willing to
grant relief at the tim of their greatest
need. 4!
TRADE EXPANSIO ACT OF 1962
(Mr. MONTOYA (at the request of
Mr. GONZALEZ) was granted permission
to extend his remarks at this point in
the RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. MONTOYA. Mr. Speaker, over
the past several months, I have been
quite concerned over? the adverse effect
the increased importation of beef and
beef products has had upon our domestic
cattle industry. Of equal concern has
been the closure of lead and zinc mines
in New Mexico as a result of excessive
imports of these commodities combined
with a decline in metal prices.
I have appeared before the U.S. Tariff
Commission on numerous occasions to
request that tighter tariff restrictions
be placed on these products so important
to the economy of my State.
The beef industry has been and is
faced with a critical situation and their
problem, in turn, translates into an eco-
nomic dilemma for the State of New
Mexico. For example, beef cattle sales
are responsible for about 50 percent of
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1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? HOUSE
our total agricultural cash receipts.
Those receipts amount to about $114
million per annum. Such receipts ac-
count for the fact that agriculture ranks
second, in terms of dollar sales, among
our basic State industries.
It is my carefully considered conclu-
sion, based on the record, that the
primary cause for our depressed market
is the rise in imports as a percentage of
our domestic production of beef, veal,
beef cattle, and calves, which in 1962
was 10.6 percent as compared with 3.9
percent in 1957.
With respect to the lead and zinc in-
dustry, at one time New Mexico depended
upon its lead and zinc mines for sub-
stantial employment of its citizens and
for a large share of the State's financial,
income. From 1948 to 1952, the average
aggregate production of both industries
approximated $12 million annually. In
1952, there were about 1,200 men em-
ployed in the lead-zinc industry, while
today only about 300 are employed. Be-
cause of the rapid decline in metal prices
from 1952 to 1962 and due to increased
imports, our lead-zinc production
dropped over 55 percent. The State has
suffered severe unemployment, job in-
security, and a depressed economic con-
dition in the communities completely de-
pendent upon mining.
The enactment of this legislation to
amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962
would bring about some relief to both
the cattle and lead-zinc industries and
immeasurably improve our overall
economy.
TARAS SHEVCHENKO
(Mr. PUCINSKI (at the request of Mr.
GONZALEZ) was granted permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. PUCTNSKI. Mr. Speaker, if the
arts mirror the age in which we live, then
special tribute must be paid to the great
artists in history who labored with pen,
ink, brush and canvas for social justice
and equality.
Today we commemorate the 150th
anniversary of the birth of Taras
Shevchenko, poet of the Ukraine. He
was truly the soul of a tormented age;
his conscience could not let him be silent.
Born a serf, he devoted his life to pub-
licizing the incredible deprivation to
which the peasants were subjected under
the feudal system then in existence in
Rnssia and Eastern Europe.
With his talent for poetry and his skill
as an artist, he graphically depicted the
social conditions of his time.
Liberty was more than a dream to
him?it was a ' goal. Tirelessly he
painted and wrote, always urging others
to join him in his quest for an equality
of human dignity. So pierced with truth
was his poetry that Czar Nicholas
banished him and thought to silence him
by denying Shevchenko pen and paper.
But Nicholas could not still Shevchenko's
voice, nor the message which he brought
to the Ukraine. Nicholas was unable to
understand the stubborn determination
of the Ukrainian people to be free. That
spirit continues today and it is safe to
predict that the Ukraine will again rise
as a free and independent nation to
reflect again the noble spirit of her
people.
Shevchenko's cry for justice for all
men traveled throughout every corner of
Russia. Men who could not read learned
his poems by hearing them recited and
taught their message of hope to others.
Hope gave the people strength. They
began to speak out, to think aloud and to
press for changes in the feudal system.
No longer would people blindly accept
slavery as an unalterable fact of life.
When Shevchenko was permitted to
return from his sentence of banishment,
after 10 years in prison, a new czar,
Alexander, ruled, Russia. But Shev-
chenko was not content to see Alexander
make a few halfhearted and placating
attempts at reforming the old order.
He spoke out again and again through
his eloquent poetry, -condemning the
old ways and appealing over and over
again to men's reason and their sense
of justice for all.
Men who remain in bondage in our
enlightened 20th century?and I speak
of those who live in the captive nations
of Eastern Europe?cling to their hope
of eventual freedom. These oppressed
people, denied free elections, equal jus-
tice and the basic liberties we so often
take for? granted, know of Taras
Sh-
chenko and the men like him in history
who gave their lives in the cause of hu-
man freedom.
As guardians of this legacy of free-
dom, it is particularly fitting that we
pause in our deliberations to acknowl-
edge, and be grateful for, the noble and
inspiring life of Taras Shevchenko.
The monument being dedicated to his
honor here in Washington this week-
end is an appropriate tribute to Shev-
chenko's dedication to freedom. Amer-
icans of Ukrainian descent who have
made this monument possible deserve
the gratitude of all Americans. It is
fitting that here in the Nation's Capital,
Shevchenko should join -the ranks of
numerous other defenders of human
dignity whose monuments make Wash-
tington the capital of freedom.
Shevchenko's impressive struggle now
becomes a part of our own Nation's mag-
nificent effort to preserve freedom and
human dignity for all. I congratulate
the Ukrainian community in America
for making this tribute to Taras Shev-
chenko possible.
PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO THE LATE
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO
ROOSEVELT
(Mr. ROOSEVELT asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, it is
reported today that the Fine Arts Com-
mission has approved the design of a
memorial proposed to be erected on land
set aside in Washington, D.C., to com-
memorate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I wish to state that it has come to my
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attention that the Chairman of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Com-
mission has stated that no further action
is required by the Congress of the
United States and that the Commission
can now go forward and build accord-
ing to the approved design; this in face
of the fact that, of course, the family of
the late President did unanimously ex-
press their opinion that this is an un-
desirable design. Therefore I hope that
some of my colleagues will join me in ex-
amining the legislation which is con-
trolling, which is a joint resolution of
August 11, 1955, supplemented by a joint
resolution of September 1, 1959, and
Public Law 87-842. And if, as a result
of that examination it appears that the
Congress has lost control in the matter
of the erection of this memorial under
this approved design, I hope that my
colleagues will join with me in consid-
ering some legislation to do something
about it.
Mr. ?SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. ROOSEVELT. I yield to my good
friend from Ohio.
Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, I should
like to join my colleague, the gentleman
from California, in urging that proper
action be taken to hold within the Con-
gress authority to approve or reject any
design proposed in memory of the late
great President Franklin Delano Roose-
velt.
At the time this was considered in the
House it was my understanding that the
Commission was to report back to the
House by June 30, 1963. That report has
not been made. No further report has
been made.
Mr. Speaker, I join with my colleague
from California in requesting that prop-
er legislative action be taken in this
matter.
Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, I
thank my good friend. May I say sim-
ply that I hope that this action will be
taken even though the Commission may
request no public appropriation by the
Congress for the erection of this memo-
rial; because, after all, it is to be erected
on public land and I do not think any
funds should be expended out of the pub-
lic funds until the Congress has approved
the design of the memorial.
Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, may I
say to my friend that I fully concur in
his conclusions.
Mr. ROOSEVELT. I thank the gen-
tleman.
CORRECTION OF 1.11.E RECORD
Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, on be-
half of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
[Mr. Nix], I ask unanimous consent that
the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Of yesterday
be corrected in his remarks shown on
page 14445 wherein it should be stated
that Mr. Roy Wilkins was the 49th re-
cipient of the Spingarn Medal, not the
43d recipient, as was printed in the
RECORD.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Texas?
There was no objection.
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