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