Organization representations-Continued Sanitary Institute of America Rosenthals, Baltimore, Md Scottsbluff County Dry Cleaners Association, Mitchell, Nebr.. Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Terminal Island, Calif Western Union Telegraph Co.. Page 673 343 684 689 678 684 337 676 188, 192 689 686 638 386 664 685 675 176 Statements: Algase, Mrs. Julia, legislative counsel, New York Hotel Trades Council. Supplemental material. Beirne, Joseph, president, Communications Workers of America_ -- Christenson, Otto F., for the Minnesota Employers Association...-- Johns, Mrs. C. S., C. S. Johns Jewelry Store, Berea, Ohio. Kennedy, Hon John F., United States Senator from the State of Massa- 276 463 123 248 188 442 309 348 195 236 449 134 270 59 332 456 163 167 17 Kirk, Rowland F., manager-counsel, National Automobile Dealers 351 LeSauvage, George R., National Restaurant Association.. 305 225 Meany, George, president, American Federation of Labor-Congress of 17 Miller, Benjamin R., director, Industrial Relations Department, 321 Miller, Dr. Vera, research associate, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Mitchell, H. L., National Agricultural Workers Union, AFL-CIO.. 284 130 386 Mueller, Russell R., managing director, National Retail Hardware 289 Mulliken, Paul M., executive director, National Retail Farm Equipment Association.. 295 Mundo, Claude, administrative assistant, Theatre Owners of America_ 192 180 Supplemental statement. 185 Statements-Continued Priest, Van H., Chamber of Commerce of the United States.. Roesler, Eldon H., executive secretary, the Central Retail Feed Ruttenberg, Stanley H., director of research, American Federation of Appendices Talbott, Philip M., senior vice president, Woodward & Lothrop, Treacy, Joseph M., National Licensed Beverage Association..... American Samoa, Report of a Special Subcommittee on Territorial and Assumptions underlying the estimate that a $1 minimum wage in retail Average annual earnings of canning and preserving workers, 1953-55 Comparison of hourly earnings in canning and preserving with all manufacturing, 1947-55... Page 149 343 459 24 91, 108 Dollar volumes of sales in supermarkets and all food stores - 240 239 Hourly and weekly earnings, retail trade and all manufacturing... 166, 208 Hourly earnings, dollar value produced per man-hour, and labor cost per dollar of output in the canning and preserving industries.... Indexes of production, man-hours and output per man-hour in the canning and preserving industries, 1947-55... Lease between the Government of American Samoa and the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc....... 243 243 394 Letters and telegrams: Barbash, Jack, research and educational director, industrial Eisenhower, Hon. Dwight, to James A. Suffridge, president, Mitchell, Hon. James P., Secretary of Labor, to Hon. Paul H. Suffridge, James A., president, Retail Clerks International Asso- Logging camps and contractors employing 12 or less, by States.-- National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters newsletter of October 1954. One Hundred Million Dollar Club of Pulp, Paper and Allied Products. 99, 100 Page Additional information-Continued Peak season employment in the canning and preserving industries by age and sex, for the United States, annual average. Pulp, paper and allied products financial data, 1955... Rise in supers' share of grocery sales____ Sales of all food stores compared with sales of 3 and 8 food chainstore 244 268 275 239 237 Statistics on hotels.. 465 Wage rates in selected farm activities, July-November 1955.- 51 269 Work experience during 1954--number of weeks worked by wage and salary earners in manufacturing, full time only....... 269 APPENDIX Appendixes to statement of Mrs. Julia Algase, New York Hotel Trades 463 Statement of Hon. Homer Capehart, United States. Senator from the State of Indiana___. 598 Statement of Hon. J. W. Trimble, a Representative in Congress from the 599 Letter of Wm. S. Mundy, Jr., Lynchburg, Va., to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, 599 Letter of Russell Watson, Manistique, Mich., to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, 600 Letter of George D. Carlisle, Prentiss & Carlisle Co., Inc., Bangor, Maine, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 11, 1956- 600 Letter of Peyton D. Breckenridge, Chattahoochee Timber Sales, Inc., 600 601 Letter of R. D. Wilcox, secretary, Harris-Wilcox Timber Co., Inc., Laurel, 601 Letter of R. W. Dubbell, manager, H. F. Pelphrey & Son, Rogers, Ark., to 601 Letter from Rear Adm. Ira H Nunn, United States Navy, Judge Advocate 602 Letter of J. R. Carnes, Captain, United States Navy, Director, Legislation 603 606 Statement of A. B. Won Pat, for the Guam Legislature_. 607 Statement of David Vipond, chairman, committee on legislation and taxa- Statement on behalf of the National Tire Dealers and Retreaders, Inc.--- Letter of Herbert R. O'Conor, Washington counsel, American Merchant Statement of Norman A. Barth, attorney for the J. R. Watkins Co...---- 611 613 613 615 617 617 619 Statement of John H. Todd, executive vice president and general counsel, 620 624 628 628 630 Letter of Joseph T. King, Washington, D. C., to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, 631 Letter of Lambert H. Miller, general counsel, National Association of Manufacturers, to Stewart E. McClure, May 25, 1956.-- Statement of American Meat Institute. - Letter of Claris Adams, executive vice president and general counsel, American Life Convention, and Eugene M. Thoré, general counsel, Life Insurance Association of America, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 15, Letter of Joseph A. Ellis, president, Retail Merchants Association of Alexandria, Va., to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 9, 1956. Letter of Paul S. Collier, executive vice president, Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 9, 1956---- Statement of Harold R. Hosea, director of research, National Association Statement of Stephen Sheridan, for the Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers Letter of H. R. Northrup, executive vice president, National Retail Lum- ber Dealers Association, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 9, 1956. Statement of J. M. George, general counsel, National Association of Direct Statement of George J. Burger, vice president, National Federation of Statement of David Herman, president, and James Marley, secretary- treasurer, New York City Hotel and Club Employees Union, Local 6, Letter of Don F. Magdanz, secretary-treasurer, Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 14, 1956.. Letter and enclosure of Harry M. Lattimore, manager, Harman County 669 Letter of M. H. Brightman, executive secretary, the Dairy Institute Committee, to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 14, 1956.-- Letter of John J. Lavengood, secretary, Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association, Denver, Colo., to Hon. Paul H. Douglas, May 14, 1956.- Letter of Willard E. Dodd, president, Knott Hotels Corp., New York, N. Y., to Hon. H. Alexander Smith, May 31, 1956.- Letter of Talbott H. Walker, president, Restaurant Association of Mary- Letter of Joseph G. Rowell, counselor, Building Material Merchants of Georgia, to Hon. Richard B. Russell, and Hon. Walter F. George, and Letter of B. W. Fleming, general manager, the De Jarnette Supply Co., Atlanta, Ga., to Hon. Walter F. George, May 14, 1956........... Letters of R. J. Slagle, executive secretary, treasurer, Texas Retail Jewelers Association, Inc., to Hon. Lyndon B. Johnson, May 9, 22, 1956- Letter of C. B. Mikell, director, Building Material Merchants of Georgia, |