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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

PERMANENT

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

4.S. Congras. Senate.

OF THE

→COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
UNITED STATES SENATE

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

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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,
Fla., to AMC Ballistic Missiles Center, Los Angeles, Calif.,
re request for maximum use of overtime...
2B. Directive dated March 30, 1960, from Henry G. MacDonald,
Deputy Director, Production, Headquarters Air Material
Command, USAF, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,
re overtime policy on ballistic missile contracts__

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
AMC, WPAFB, Ohio, ARDC Andrews, AFB MD and
SAC, Offutt AFB, Nebr., Subject: Overtime work on
missile and space program.

5B. TWX dated March 29, 1961, from Patrick AFB, Fla., to
Chief of Staff USAF, transmitting proposed letter to all
contractors on new overtime policy.

5C. Letter dated April 7, 1961, from Headquarters USAF, to
AFLC (MCP) re letter to contractors. Subject: Over-
time policy-

5D. Letter from Patrick AFB, Fla., to all contractors.

Overtime work on missile and space programs...

6. Worksheet listing the electricians of local 756, Daytona
Beach, Fla., for calendar year 1958, the amounts earned
and weeks worked..

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10. Worksheet on personal expenses of Robert Palmer, 1959-60..

Proceedings of-

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WORK STOPPAGE AT MISSILE BASES

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961

U.S. SENATE,

PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS
OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,

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.

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