A collection of letters, memos, news clippings, telegrams and other materials. Examples are: A copy of a letter (7/7/55) from Wm. C. Morehead (Sec./Treasurer, Pan-Pacific Fisheries, Inc.) to Under-Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr. re/ a possible “restrictive quoto on imports of frozen tuna from Japan . . . . we wish to protest vigorously against such action; a carbon copy of a 3 page letter (7/7/55) from Jos. M. Mardesich, Jr. (Pres., Franco-Italian Packing Co.) to Harold F. Cary (Gen. Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ previous corresp. to Senator Knowland, the issue of a potential “embargo” on frozen tuna imports, the issue of quotas, & other industry problems; 1 letter (7/14/55) from Harold F. Cary to the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, Dept. of State re/ the enclosed charts demonstrating the crisis facing the tuna industry from Japanese imports -- charts showing  “Employment Bait Boat Fleet . . . Dec. 1948 to June 1955” & “1949-1955,” “Covered Employment Fishing San Diego County 1949-1955,” “Imports of Frozen Tuna January-June 1948-1954; 1 letter (n.d.) from Father Daniel O’Donoghue (Church of St. Mary Magdalena) & Congressman Wilson’s reply (7/19/55) re/ plight of San Diego tuna fishermen and fleet; 2 letters (7/18 & 7/25/55) from H.F. Cary (General Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ extensive information, charts, etc. on tuna problem; 1 letter (7/11/55) from CA Assemblyman Frank Luckel & Wilson’s reply (7/19/55) re/ suggestions to the Congressman, as a “‘go-getter,’” to get things active in the State Department to help the tuna industry in California; 2 letters (7/19/55) from Mrs. Mary Correia (Tuna Fishermens’ Wives Emergency Committee) & Charles J. Heinzelman (Pres., Hubbell Corp.) & Wilson’s replies (7/19 & 7/20/55) re/ the effect of the tuna crisis on families & businesses; a 3 page letter (7/28/55) from I. Jack Martin (Admin. Asst. to the President) in response to Congressman Wilson’s letter “to the President about the situation in the tuna fishing industry in Southern California; 1 copy of the Pan American Fisherman (Aug. 1955); 1 letter (7/14/55) from constituent Mrs. Mary F. Rogers, Wilson’s reply (8/1/55) & an attached typed copy of “The Right To Live,” an “Editorial appearing in the Southern Cross on June 30, 1955;” 1 Western Union telegram (8/2/55) from H.F. Cary (Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ critique of U.S. trade policy sacrificing domestic tuna industry; 1 letter (7/21/55) from Mrs. Andrew Xitco (Chairman, Save Our Fishermen Committee) & Wilson’s reply (8/3/55) re/ support for a “quote imposed on imports of Japanese and other foreign fish;” 1 letter (8/1/55) from William R.Hamlin (Secretary, Allied Tuna Industry), Admin. Asst. E.F. Terrar, Jr.’s reply (8/5/55), & enclosed copy of Mr. Hamlin’s letter to the Under-Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr. protesting Senatorial “opposition to a quota on imported tuna;” letters (85/55) from A.J. Sutherland (Pres., Security Trust & Savings Bank) & John M. Marton, Jr. (E.F. Hutton Co.) -- will concessions of tuna fishermen “to take $40 a ton less” resolve the industry’s problems?; 1 letter (8/1/55) from CA Assemblyman Frank Luckel, enclosed news clipping “U.S. Rejects Proposal For Japan Tuna Quota,” The San Diego Union (7/30/55, p. a-13), & E.F. Terrar, Jr.’s reply (8/8/55); 1 “Memorandum” (8/10/55), a Govt. Printing Office delivery receipt for 2000 copies of Wilson’s speech “Problems of the American Tuna Industry,” & 1 telegram (8/9/55) re/ Wilson office response to a Dept. of the Army issuing “an invitation to bid for 90,000 cases of tuna . . . [with] no provision . . .[to] require that the tuna be American produced,” & the use of “Franked envelopes [for] one thousand reprints and send together with unfolded ones to” Tunaboat Assn.; 2 letters (8/11/55) from H.F. Cary (Gen. Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) & attached typed copy of 81st Cong., 1st Sess., S.1902, May 20, 1949, “A Bill Providing for loans for fishery cooperative Associations” using a section in the Farm Credit Act of 1933 re/ Mr. Cary’s interest in having Congress initiate a new loan procedure for fishery associations; 1 letter (8/15/55) from the Under Secretary of the Treasury to Wilson rejecting the accusation that “Japanese canned tuna has been sold at a dumping price within the meaning of the Antidumping Act, 1921; 2 copies of the American Tunaboat Assn. Newsletter -- issue #47, Aug. 2, 1955 (1 page) & issue #48, Aug. 18, 1955 (4 pp.); 1 letter (8/19/55) from O.R. Strackbein (Chairman, The Nation-Wide Committte of Industry, Agriculture and Labor On Import-Export Policy) to Congressman Wilson & enclosed copy of Mr. Strackbein’s 6 page letter (4/27/55) to Senator Harry F. Byrd (Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance) re/ “OTC, GATT and Presidential Powers” & criticism of turning over too much commerce control to the Organization for Trade Cooperation (OTC); 1 letter (8/22/55) from William R. Hamlin (Sec., Allied Tuna Industries) & en-closed copies of Mr. Hamlin’s letter (8/16/55) to President Dwight Eisenhower & “a copy of an editorial from the Southern Cross (8/7/55) re/ “obtaining relief from the present jeopardy which our industry faces, due to rising imports of foreign tuna;” Western Union telegram (8/24/55) & a letter (8/23/55) from H.F. Cary (Gen. Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ Japanese tuna industry reps. to meet with American reps. as scheduled by State Dept. in Point Loma in late August; 2 constituent letters (7/30 & 9/1/55) from George Holmes & E.S. Valles & Wilson’s replies (8/24 & 9/6/55) re/ urging the Congressman to help find “a solution to the tuna problem;” 1 Western Union telegram (9/2/55) from Helen S. McClain to Congressman Wilson informing him of meetings to be held in Los Angeles on Japanese tuna problem; 3 letters (9/8, 9/12, & 9/21/55) from Paul T. Mannen (Pres., Del Mar Chamber of Commerce), Mrs. Barbara Gozzi (Sec., CA Chiropactic Aux.), Marian Cornwell (Corresp. Secretary, Pacific Beach Junior Women’s Club) & Wilson’s replies (9/13, 9/16, & 9/26/55) re/ Del Mar Chamber votes to favor quota on Japanese imported tuna, Chiropactic Assn. urges action “to insure the survival and prosperity of the tuna industry,” & the P.B. Women’s Club requests that the Congressional Bill on tuna fishing “be settled in favor of our local fishing industries and not that of a foreign country;” 1 letter (9/8/55) from Mason Case (Mgr., Fisherman’s Cooperative Assn.) & Wilson’s reply (9/16/55) re/ Mr. Case’s report that “The meeting with the Japanese delegation went very well, I believe;” copies of 2 letters (10/27 & 11/17/55) from Joseph E. Penacho (Pres., American Tunaboat Assn.) to President Dwight Eisenhower in response to a letter from “I. Jack Martin, your administrative assistant, to Congressman Bob Wilson (R-Cal), under date of July 28, 1955 . . . . The letter ruled out . . . any limitations on imports,” but indicated “ certain other positive steps can be taken by the Government to aid the industry’s efforts to better its position.” Mr. Penacho indicated that “the big immediate need of the tuna producers is credit;” 2 letters (10/24/55) from fisherman Earl R. Odegard & from Harold Starkey (Pres., First Federal Savings and Loan Assn.) & 3 letters (10/7 & 10/31/55) from E.F. Terrar, Jr. (Wilson’s admin. asst.) re/ the plight of local tuna fisher-men & how “Little by little [we are] drawing our savings we thought were for old age;” 1 letter (11/16/55) from David H. Carsten (Pres., Allied Tuna Industries) & a telegram reply (11/21/55) from Wilson re/ breakfast meeting with Senator Kuchel that Wilson was unable to attend; 2 letters (10/31 & 11/23/55) from John F. Goodwin (National Marine Terminal, Inc.) & Wilson’s reply (11/29/55) re/ status of federal building for San Diego, constructing quarters for the Navy Commandant by private citizens, & the enclosure of eight copies of a San Diego Union article on the tuna industry’s efforts to better the situation; a large packet containing corresp. (Nov.-Dec. 1955) from Cliff B. Weitz (Business Mgr., Tuna Clipper Engineers, Lodge No. 389-E), M.R. Stephens (Assoc. Commissioner of Foods & Drugs, HEW), “Enclosure No. 47l73, Bureau of Customs, Treas. Dept. . . . Extract From Tariff Act of 1930, . . . Section 304. Marking of Imported Articles and Containers [3 pp.] . . . . Bureau of Customs . . . Excerpt From Customs Regulation Marking . . . CR-258 [5 pp.],” Congressman Wilson, & Ralph Kelly (Commissioner of Customs, Bureau of Customs, Treas. Dept. re/ complaints about “the importation of frozen tuna fish which is canned in the United States;” 1 letter (11/23/55) from Milton H. Ivens (M.D.), his enclosure of  “A New Idea To Use In Our Attempt To Get The Tuna Fleet Sailing Again,” & Wilson’s reply (11/29/55); a small collection of letters (Nov.-Dec. 1955) from Congressman Wilson, H.F. Cary (Gen. Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.), E.F. Terrar, Jr., & Major General K.L. Hastings (the Quartermaster General, Dept. of the Army) re/ recent Army procurement of canned tuna and whether these were domestically produced; 1 letter (9/16/55) from Congressman Wilson & a reply (10/4/55) from the Secretary of the Interior, Douglas McKay re/ trying “to find a suitable substitute in lieu of live bait” in catching tuna; a small packet containing letters (12/1 & 12/20/55) from W.M. Chapman (Dir., of Research, Am. Tunaboat Assn.), E. F. Terrar, Jr. & enclosures – Chapman’s analysis of Saltonstall-Kennedy money . . . allocated by fisheries” (3 pp.), two copies of a Fish and Wildlife Service (Dept. of the Interior) “Proposal Project Under Saltonstall-Kennedy Act (P.L. 466, 83rd Cong., 2nd  Sess.) For consider-ation by the Industry Advisory Committee, 21 March 1955,” & a copy of “the latest report [10/3/55] of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee with respect to the Saltonstall-Kennedy funds” for “Fiscal 1955 and 1956” (23 pp.); a small packet of corresp. (Dec. 1955) from E.F. Terrar, Jr., Charles R. Carry (Ex. Dir., CA Fish Canners Assn., Inc.), John L. Farley (Dir., Fish & Wildlife Service), & W.M. Chapman (Dir., of Research, Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ further discussions on the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act funds & extensive comments from Fish & Wildlife Director Farley.