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Date Days
Strlka commenced duration Involving
Longshore May 23,1966 3 ILWU, Hawaii.
Airline July 7,1966 43 lAM, United and Northwest.
Meritime , July 19,1966 5 MEBA, Pacific.
Loflishore .„ Feb. 14,1967 4 ILWU, HawaiL . .
Do Mar. 20,1967 3 Do.
Do June 1,1967 3 Do.
Maritime June 15,1967 7 MMP, east coast and gulf.
Lonfshora , Get 20,1967 19 SSU, ILA, NewYork.
Airline Feb. 20,1968 3 BRAC, Pan American.
Lonnhore , Mar. 18,1968 11 ILA, east coast.
Maritime June 29,1968 3 NIVIU, Atlantic.
Longshore , Nov. 18,1968 5 ILWU, San Pedro, Calif.
Do Dec. 20,1968 125 ILA, east coast and gulf.
Do Mar. 17,1969 20 ILWU, San Francisco and Los Angelas.
Maritimo Nov. 17,1969 47 MFOW.SUP, MCS, Pacific.
May 11,1970 25 ILWU, Oregon.
Alrlme July 8,1970 43 BRAC, Northwest Airlines.
Lonribore Dec. 7,1970 3 ILA, New Yorli and New Jersey.
June 9,1971 10 ILWU, San Francisco.
Do , July 1.1971 100 ILWU, west coast.
Do Oct. 1,1971 57 1 LA, east coast and gulf.
Do Jan. 17,1972 34 ILWU, west coast
Airline June 30,1972 95 Pilots, Northwest Airlines.
Oct. 25,1972 41 1*1 MP, Pacific.
Note: This list is far from complete. Excluded are hundreds of short striices of less than 2 days, strikes involving only
1 ship, or strikes holding up shipping that is not essential to Hawaii. Whatever the cumulative toll of these brief strikes
in terms of delays, uncertainties, and costs may tie, we omit them here because this appendix would be about 30 pages
long if they were all listed.
Mr. HITCH. I would only like to add that I have been asked by the
Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii to submit a 2-page statement,
which I have given to the staff of your committee which represents
the views of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii which is a State-
wide chamber and the 11 associated Chambers of Commerce to the
Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, namely, the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce, Filipino Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii Island Chamber
of Commerce, Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Japanese
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii. Kailua Chamber of
Commerce, Kauai Chamber of Commerce, Kona Chamber of Com-
merce, Korean Chamber of Commerce, Maui Chamber of Commerce
and Molokai Chamber of Commerce.
This has been given to your staff, sir.
[The letter referred to follows:]
CHAMBER OF COMMEBCE OF HAW AH,
June 1973.
Be: H.R. 7189.
Representative JOHN JABMAN,
Chairman, Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautioa, Bouse Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Washington, D.O.
GENTLEMEN : The serious and often tragic impact of shipping interruptions on
the entire State of Hawaii has been well documented. It has again been placed in
focus in the most Informative brochure, "Hawaii: The Most Vulnerable State
in the Nation", copies of which have been made available to you by our representative.
Dr. Thomas K. Hitch, Director of Research, First Hawaiian Bank.
Our total economy suffers, not only during a strike but also during the frantic
stockpiling when a strike is threatened and during many months of recovery
afterwards. Many businesses do not recover. Markets are jiermanently lost when
Hawaii Is fojved to find foreign suppliers and when Hawaii is unable to deliver
promised supplies to foreign purchasers. There is a permanent economic burden
due to the cost of continually maintaining large inventories as a hedge against
the ever present threat of yet another strike by any one of the many unions that
can tie up west coast shipping—the source of most of Hawaii's in-shlpments and
the destination of most of Hawaii's out-shipments.