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economic justice and I suspect that the history of that is going to
accelerate if labor does not continue the same kind and management
doesn't continue the same kind of joint effort toward arriving at a
more intelligent method of settling these disputes without the enor-
mous hardship and terrible destruction that this kind of strike has on
the Nation as a whole.
Mr. Kuykendall pointed out that you have in Hawaii what is very
clearly a very special problem, one which is not present, I think, any-
where else in the country, at least no place else that I have become
aware of is affected so directly, so forcefully and immediately as the
problem you present to us today.
The Cnair is not prepared to speak for the committee because I
am not prepared to mdicate what the committee is going to do. The
members of this committee have a way of speaking for themselves.
The Chair does think that perhaps the message that you have given
us this morning should be borne very carefully in mind by all per-
sons involved, management and labor, all unions and all the man-
agement people who are involved, and that we should recognize—
I think everyone in this room and many who are not here present
with us—that absent some statesmanship by all parties of a very
high order, there almost certainly w^ill not be the kind of resolution
to which you are speaking today, Mr. Matsunaga and Mrs. Mink and
the very able witnesses you have had here appearing on behalf of
the bill are sincerely seeBng a fair solution.
But I suspect perhaps maybe it is the kind of high economic states-
manship in this labor-management field that is required of both
parties, labor and management, that we may look to at a time in
the future on this bill as being perhaps the most intelligent and
moderate kind of approach that could have been achieved to protect
the legitimate concerns of the people of Hawaii from the kind of
awful consequences that flow from one of these strikes in which
people on the mainland are not emotionally or economically involved.
You have given this committee a great deal to think about this
morning. The committee will certainly bear very carefully in mind
your comments and thoughts as we go forward with consideration
of this legislation.
The committee does hope that other persons involved in this, both
from labor and management, will bear very carefully in mind the
testimony here and the economic concerns and disasters that strike
the people of Hawaii.
I suspect that if they do, they will rather gratefully look on this
legislation as a way perhaps of heading off something considerably
more repressive in future times. So. the Chair wants to express the
commendations of the subcommittee to you, Mr. Matsunaga and Mrs.
Mink.
You certainly are outstanding Representatives of the people you
serve so ably in every particular. The Chair does look forward to
working with you on problems of this kind. We will try to bear very
carefully in mind your comments and those of the witnesses who
appeared here today.
We want to express our thanks and commendations to you, Sparkle,
and to Patsy, and to all of you, very able people who have come a
great distance to assist us.