HEARINGS BEFORE THE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS 4.S. Congras. Senate. OF THE →COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PURSUANT TO SENATE RESOLUTION 69, 87TH CONGRESS 09829 PART 1 APRIL 25, 26, 27, AND 28, 1961 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1961 EXHIBITS Intro- 1. Article by Dickson Preston appearing in the Washington News, April 21, 1961, regarding strikes at missile plants.. 2A. Message of September 7, 1960, from Patrick Air Force Base, 3. Letter dated September 9, 1960, to all commanders, SATAF and CMR from Maj. Gen. T. P. Gettity, USAF, Los Angeles, Calif., re overtime.. 4. Letter dated September 26, 1960, to Chief, AMC Test Site Office, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., from James G. Weber, manager, Atlantis test section, Boeing Airplane Co., Aero Space Division, re work stoppage.. 5A. TWX dated March 7, 1961, from Headquarters USAF to 5B. TWX dated March 29, 1961, from Patrick AFB, Fla., to 5C. Letter dated April 7, 1961, from Headquarters USAF, to 6. Worksheet listing the electricians of local 756, Daytona 9. Bylaws and agreement of Local Union No. 756 of Interna- 10. Worksheet on personal expenses of Robert Palmer, 1959-60.. WORK STOPPAGE AT MISSILE BASES TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961 U.S. SENATE, PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m. in room 3302, Senate Office Building, pursuant to Senate Resolution 69, agreed to February 13, 1961, Senator John L. McClellan (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator John L. McClellan, Democrat, Arkansas; Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat, Maine; Senator Karl E. Mundt, Republican, South Dakota. Also present: Jerome S. Adlerman, general counsel; Paul J. Tierney, assistant counsel; Robert Emmet Dunne, assistant counsel; Philip Morgan, chief counsel to the minority; J. J. Bevis, accountant; Ruth Y. Watt, chief clerk. The CHAIRMAN. The subcommittee will come to order. (Members of the subcommittee present at the convening of the session were Senators McClellan, Muskie, and Mundt.) The CHAIRMAN. The Chair wishes to make a brief statement, an opening statement for the record. Further progress and success in the missile and space exploration programs are imperative to our national defense and survival. It is admittedly of vital importance that these programs be expedited with all possible speed. No hampering, hindrance, or interruption from any avoidable causes should be permitted to occur, nor should any be tolerated where they may now exist. President Kennedy, in his state of the Union message, once again, most impressively accentuated the dimensions and gravity of the world crisis now confronting us, when he said: I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity. Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew, whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain; the answers are by no means clear. All of us together-this administration, the Congress, this Nation-must forge those answers. In this mighty conflict with the forces of totalitarianism; in this desperate struggle with world powers of aggression and conquest; in this keen and unrelenting competition for technological and scientific supremacy to all of which we are now irrevocably committed-we should now know that nothing less than the most and the best is required of us. 1 |