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If during that 80-day cooling-off period the strike is not resolved,
it can resume. So Taft-Hartley alone has not proved to be effective.
This bill, H.R. 7189, asks for an exemption of 160 days from strikes
and lockouts.
Mr. HARVEY. Again, I thank you for that explanation. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. JARMAX. Mr. Kuykendall ?
Mr. KUYKENDALL. To tlie Hawaiian delegation, and Senator Fong
and Mrs. Mink, it is good to have j'ou liere. Let's leave discussion of
the problems of the jurisdictional situation and committee situation
to the lawyers.
Is it not true that you are really asking that Hawaii be treated as
any other State would be treated with only one mode of transporta-
tion?
Mrs. MINK. That is correct.
Mr. MATSUNAGA. That is correct.
Mr. KuYKENPALi.. If there were another State with only one mode
of transportation, that is what you are asking for ?
Mrs. MINK. That is our argument, sir.
Mr. KUYKENDALL. IS it not true that when the Founding Fathers
put together the Constitution and sijoke of interstate commerce, they
knew that a State could be literally strangled by the interruption of
commerce. At that time it was possible to strangle a State as it is pos-
sible to strangle Hawaii today ?
Mr. MATSUNAGA. I believe it was the purpose of the Interstate Com-
merce Act to prevent such strangulation of any one State.
Mr. KuYicENDALL. Wlieu this legislation was introduced, I was
very pleased to see that many facets of the political and philosophical
and business commimity in Hawaii were all supporting it.
There are some members of this committee, of course, who are afraid
that these hearings are nothing but an exercise in futility I hope that
the four of you, including my down-the-street neighbor, Senator
Inouye, are determined that this is not what this Avill be. I know this
committee will give you a full hearing certainly and I fully support
your legislation because I think it is in the purview of the Interstate
Commerce Committee.
I do wonder why you put it at 160 days. I think it ought to be per-
manent because after 10 days you are not going to be any better or in
worse trouble in 100 days or 150 or 300 days.
So the only thing I criticize about your legislation is why put a
limit on it. Do you want to comment on that ?
Mr. MATSUNAGA. NO West Coast strike so far has lasted in excess
of 134 days and we figured that 160 days would, if past experience
means anything, take care of all future strikes.
I wish to thank the gentleman for his comments. The name "Kuy-
kendall", actually pronounced Keye-ken-dall in Hawaii, is a very
famous name and it is my understanding that the gentleman is related
to the Kuykendall of anthropoligical and sociological fame in Hawaii.
Mr. KUYKENDALL. That branch of the family gave up and started
pronouncing it the way it w'as spelled about 200 years ago. Our branch
of the family is stubborn and has pronounced it wrong all of those
years.