San Diego - Tuna, 1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Corresp., memos, speeches, reports, telegrams & news clippings concerning tuna industry’s need for assistance. American Tunaboat Assoc. & Congress Wilson corresp. regarding potential violations of Buy American Act (Oct.-Nov., 1960); copy of H.R. 1925 & “ Declaration of Estimated Income Tax By Fisherman,” 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (6/28/60); State of Calif. Marine Research Committee Resolution supporting Senator Magnuson Bill (S. 2692) (4/28/60); American Tunaboat Assoc. memorandums & corresp. on conversion of bait boats to purse seiners (2/5 & 6/27/60); corresp. re/converting ATR type Navy ships to purse seiners (5/61); Congressman Wilson, “Tuna Oceanography in the Eastern Pacific” (May, 1960); notes from Armed Services Subcommittee meeting on territorial limits (4/20-22/60); telegram (5/5/60) Five Star Fish & Cold Storage, Inc. to Senator Kuchel, “Urge you to continue pushing Ship’s Differential Construction Subsidy Bill;” telegram to Wilson from Campbell Machine Co., American Tunaboat Assoc., Fishermen’s Cooperative Assoc. of Calif., Calif. Fish Canners Assoc., Inc. & ILWU Fisherman’s Union (4/60) regarding risk to U.S. fisheries in terms of actions taken at Sea Conference in Geneva; copies of U.S. State Dept., “Resume of the Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, Geneva, Development to Date: April 21-27, 1960;” Calif. Fish Canners Assoc., Inc., request retention of $400,000 Congressional appropriation for tuna research (4/1/60); synopsis of H.R. 5421, Federal Fisheries Assist. Act of 1959 (3/31/60); corresp.(2/5/60) of American Tunaboat Assoc. re/ increased production of purse seiners over bait boats & comparison chart between bait boats & purse seiners for 1959; news clipping (2/27/60) “Bigger Tuna Import Protests Planned;” lobbying efforts against import restrictions by Wilburn-Ellis Co. & Crest Importing Co., Inc. (3/4/60); U.S. Tariff Commission, Congressman Wilson & American Tunaboat Assoc. comment on “Proposals to fix importation of tuna to the highest bidder” (10/59-2/60); news clippings (2/21/60) re/ conversion of Normandine from bait fishing to purse seiner; statement of Senator Clair Engle (2/10/60), “Fiscal 1961 Appropriation for Domestic Tuna Program;” Statement of W.M. Chapman Before the Senate Committee on Appropriations” (2/18/60); corresp. of Cannery Workers & Fisherman Union re/ Japanese imports (1/22/60).
Dates
- created: 1960-1961
Creator
- From the Collection: Wilson, Robert (Wilson, Robert Carlton) (1916-) (Person)
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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