Corresp. telegrams, news releases, news clippings, etc, concerning tuna industry and competition with Japanese fishing industry. Examples are: Appeals of tuna fishermen wives to Wilson for federal assistance; press release of U.S. State Dept. & industry representatives re/ U.S.- Japan Tuna Conference (9/30/59); telephone conver. record re/ tuna conference (9/24/59); corresp. of Dept. of State & Dept. of Interior re/ Tuna Conference (8/31/59); City of S.D. Resolution # 156590 (9/2/59) supporting Senator Engle’s Bill #2338 & Westgate-Calif. Corp. support for S. 2342 & S. 2338; packet of corresp. re/ to Small Business Adm. & American Tuna Canning Co.’s application for loan (July, 1959); corresp. Fisherman’s Union Local 33 on excessive Japanese imports & replies from White House & Dept. of State; news clippings re/ U.S. Navy’s concern for U.S. tuna fleet deterioration; Memorandum for the President, “Problems of Tuna Fisherman of U.S.” (7/8/59); Dept. of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service, press release on tuna industry; Dept. of Interior corresp. with Van Camp Seafood’s Samoa Cannery (7/13/59); Congressmen Utt & Wilson meet with President Eisenhower re/ tuna fleet; League of Women Voters (Pickering) corresp. with Wilson regarding local tuna industry and concept of home rule; Telegram - Calif. Canners Assoc. (6/18/59); Monterey Purse Seiner Assoc. (7/3/59); press release (6/19/59), Sen. Engle, re/tuna industry crisis; news clippings (June, 1959) re/tuna crisis & “aid to injured industries;” packet of corresp. (6/19/59), American Tunaboat Assoc. to President Eisenhower, Adm. Burke, Sec. of Interior Seaton, Assist. Sec. of State Macomber & telegram to Congressman Wilson (5/29/59); telegrams to Wilson (May & June, 1959) from Van Camp Seafood Co.,Tuna Fishermen’s Wives Emergency Committee & Local Union 20 ILWU; Dept. of Interior, Report on the Bristol Bay Red Salmon (4/59); American Tunaboat Assoc., “Mixup of Policies Confusing the Tuna Industry,” (4/17/59); news clipping & U.S. National Bank corresp on tuna subsidies (4/59); corresp. (1/23/59) ,Dept. of Interior, on proposed joint meeting of tuna fishing & processing industry; news clipping (1/8/59) “Wilson, Utt Reopen Tuna Tariff Fight;” Wilson’s personal letter to Dr. Chapman on politics (1/8/59); copies of Congressman Utt, “Decline in Our Tuna Industry” (5/26/59) & Congressman Wilson, “The Tunafishing Industry” (3/13/59), Congressional Record; copy of “Providing a Program of Assistance for the Construction of Fishing Vessals...Report [H.R.5421], 86th Cong., 1st Sess.” (8/5/59); copy of “To Protect Rights United States Vessels on High Seas, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries . . . Committee on Merchant Marine . . . . House of Representatives . . . . ,” 85th Cong., 1st Sess., H.R. 5526 (4/17/59) & “Amendments to the Antidumping Act of 1921, As Amended, Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives . . . . ,” 85th Cong., 1st Sess., H.R. 6006, 6007, 5120 (7/29-31/59).