A large collection of telegrams, letters, memorandum, reports, news clippings, congressional material and other items. The main focus of the contents of this folder deal with H. R. 8093 which "would repeal Sect. 502(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, which grants Pacific Coast ship builders a 6% construction cost differential in bidding for contracts to build only vessels to be used on essential foreign trade routes serving the Pacific Coast by steamship lines headquartered on the Pacific Coast." An additional topic in the folder deals with the Sect. 541 of the Dept. of Defense Appropriation Act, 1963 -- "the 65/35 split which favors private shipyards for repairs to Naval ships." Extensive corresp. is attached to this proposal. For example see "Statement Submitted by the Honorable Robert L. Leggett (DD. Calif.) Before the Defense Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations. May 17, 1963" (16 pp.) for a strong rebuttal of those who desired to privatize ship building and eliminate Naval shipyards. For an example of those supporting privatization see "Remarks by Mr. Edwin M. Hood, President, Shipbuilding Council of America before the Western Shipbuilding Association, September, 1961: The Case for the Private Shipyards" (10 pp.)