SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, Virginia, Chairman ROBERT RAMSPECK, Georgia

RICHARD J. WELCH, California JOSEPH J. MANSFIELD, Texas

FRED BRADLEY, Michigan

ALVIN F. WEICHEL, Ohio FRANK W. BOYKIN, Alabama

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER, Massachusetts JORDI SAHARSON, Florida

RALPH E. CHURCH, Illinois HERBERT C. BONNER, North Carolina ELLSWORTH B. BUCK, New York JAMES DOMENGEAUX, Louisiana

ROBERT HALE, Maine HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington

SAMUEL K. MCCONNELL, JR., Pennsylvania EUGENE J. KEOGH, New York

T. M

HAND, New Jersey
RALPH H. DAUGHTON, Virginia
ELLIS E, PATTERSON, California

E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska

J, R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii
ELSIE N. KEEFER, Clerk
ELIZABETH B. BEDELL, Assistant Clerk

II

CONTENTS

Statements of—

Pago

Kilday, Hon. Paul J., Member of Congress from Texas..

1

Corey, Col. Alexander, Transportation Corps, War Department.

4
McCandless, J. V., attorney, War Shipping Administration.

5
Levine, I. Seth, representative, CIO, maritime committee, Washing-
ton, D. C...

13

Correspondence taken from committee files.

16

Bill, text of

18

Comparative text of H. R. 1519..

2

Public Law No. 17, Seventy-eighth Congress (H. R. 133)

18

House Report No. 107, Seventy-eighth Congress, on H. R. 133.

24

Huse Report 2572, Seventy-seventh Congress, on H. R. 7424.

79

Reports:

War Shipping Administration (Committee Doc. 26).

127

War Department (Committee Doc. 27, Committee Doc. 47).. 128, 129