A collection of letters, memorandums, telegrams, news items and transcript of meeting held on 20, July 1955. Examples are: letters (Feb.-Mar. 1956) from Congressman Wilson, RAdm. R.J. Arnold (Chief of Bureau, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts) & Morris Slayen (Slayen’s Furniture Repair) re/ Camp Elliot’s prison camp rehab/furniture repair shop in “competition with private concerns;” 1 letter (12/30/55) from J.W. Canaan (Public Relations, Fed Mart, Inc.), Wilson’s reply (1/13/56) & attached copy of Fed Mart News (Jan. 1956) re/ Wilson’s position on monopolies, his news story in The San Diego Union (12/22/55) criticizing discount houses selling gasoline “at prices below those which dealers are able to operate” & Mr. Canaan’s critique of Wilson’s newspaper commentary; one copy of a letter (11/16/55) from Congressman Wilson & attached letters (11/10/55 & 11/7/55) from George S. Ames (Exec. Sec., Norfolk-Portsmouth Laundry and Cleaning Assn.) & R.H. Fogler (Asst. Sec. of the Navy) re/ laundry services being done by the Navy Exchange vs. commercial laundries; 3 letters (Sept.-Oct. 1955) from RAdm. R.J. Arnold (Chief of Bureau of Supplies and Accounts), Congressman Wilson, Adm. W.W. Honaker (Commandant, Eleventh Naval Dist.) & attached copies of “(1) Transcript of meeting held 20 July 1955 with owners and operators of laundries and dry cleaning concerns in San Diego” (47 pp.), “(2) Copy of San Diego County Laundry and Dry Cleaners Association ltr to Secretary of the Navy of 15 July 1954” & “(3) Copy of Chief, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts ltr to San Diego County Laundry and Dry Cleaners Association of 27 August 1954” re/ Naval Exchange Laundry at Naval Training Center San Diego “competition for ‘Government-cost’ contract work” with S.D. commercial laundries; 5 letters (Dec. 1954-Sept. 1955) from Congressman Wilson, RAdm. C.C. Hart-man (Commandant, 11th Naval District), Albert J. Swed (Seven Seas Centers, S.D.), Edward Kitaen (Dir., Seven Seas Centers) & Capt. J. West (Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Station, S.D.) re/ the Seven Seas Centers’ objection “to the operation of a photostating service on the U.S. Naval Station, San Diego;” packet containing letters (Dec. 1954-Jan. 1955) from Congressman Wilson, Capt. M.J. West (Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Station, S.D.) & Edward Kitaen (Dir., Seven Seas Centers) re/ additional information on the issue of the U.S. Naval Exchange’s photostat & plastic sealing for military discharges being in competition with private enterprise; copies of letters (Dec. 1954-Jan. 1955) from Congressman Wilson, Jerry Champ, Jr. (Champ-Wilson Solcum-Humphrey Advertising), RAdm. R.J. Arnold (Chief of Bureau, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts), Capt. Marshall E. Dornin (Naval Liaison Officer to Congress) & 1 reprint from The Jeweler’s Outlook (12/1/54) re/ complaints from Baranov’s Jewelers in San Diego as to price cutting by Ships Service stores; 1 letter (7/20/54) from D.W. Sorben (Secretary, S.D. Naval Lodge No. 726, I.A.M.) & Wilson’s reply (8/5/54) re/ the union’s opposition to the “enactment of H.R. 8832, H.R. 9334, H.R. 9835 & H.R. 9890 now under consideration of House Government Operations Committee;” copies of letters (May-June 1954) from Wilson, RAdm. George A. Holderness, Jr. (Chief of Industrial Relations, Dept. of the Navy), Wm. K. Burke (S.D. County, Painters & Decorators Joint Committee, Inc.) & F.N. Tritchkea (Painting Contractor) re/ “painters who are working in Government Civil Service jobs taking work outside of their regular employment & competing with private enterprise; packet containing letters (Dec. 1953) from Congressman Wilson, RAdm. M.L. Royar (Chief of Bureau of Supplies and Accounts), Capt. J.E. Wolowsky (Commanding Officer, Naval Supply Depot, San Diego), E.F. Terrar, Jr. (Wilson’s Admin. Asst.) & Guy M. Barnes (Manager, S.D. Branch, The Union Ice Co.) re/ controversy over potential competition for the Union Ice Co., if “the proposed conversion by the Navy of an old building on the compound of the Naval Supply Depot . . . for a cold storage plant involving some $700,000” takes place.