Evening star., 1941-07-08

dustry Of the United States. We
must not forget that these tramp
steamers, coming into the Great
Lakes Region with cargoes of
foreign coal, will create a greater
import market for subsidized and
tariff preferred coal of Great
Britain. Nova Scotia and Russia.
This foreign coal, produced by sweat
labor and transported at distress
rates, will displace American coal
produced at American mines under
American working conditions. This
would be in addition to the COM
petition of crude and fuel oil pro-
duced from foreign sources under
the same conditions.
The power part of the st. Lawrence
project will produce hydro-electric
power which will displace both in
Canada and the United States the
use of American mined coal And
let up keep in mind that while this
hydro-electriC power may appear
cheap. it, too. is subsidized by the
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Cites Lincoln's Adage.
Taking the importation of foreign
mined coal. and crude and fuel oil.
together with the coal displaced by
the power part of the ST. Lawrence
project, you will have destroyed a
35,000,000 ton American coal market.
For every million tons of coal dis
placed We must keep in mind one
million man-days are lost TO good
American citizens in the mining and
transportation industries.
The st. Lawrence project is MOTH
ing new. For the past 40 years it has
been talked OF at different intervals,
only to be shunted aside as imprac-
tical and unsound. Now when We
are engaged in gigantic effort to
build an adequate national defense,
advocates of this economic mon
strosity have garbed it in the armor
of national defense and present it
to the American people, hopeful that
patriotic fervor will cause the nation
to accept it lock, stock and barrel" "
In foisting this project on the
American people. advocates of the
st Lawrence project have forgotten
that the timely admonition attrlb-
uted to Abraham Lincoln was never
more justified-that you can fool
some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the
time, but you cannot fool all of the
people all of the time
Surely you good people in the
State of Minnesota are not going to
accept a project that will permit
Finnish iron ore to be dumped on
the American market at cheaper
price and in competition with the
ore from the great Minnesota iron
range. you good people in Michigan
and Wisconsin are not content to see
your great agricultural market de-
stroyed by foreign competition and
the wages of labor seriously menaced;
you good people in the great Missis-
sippi Valley should not be expected
by your Government TO see your
great import and export market de-
stroyed by foreign vessels plying our
inland waters: you good people llv-
ing along the Great Lakes who have
been asked to visualize the construc-
ton of huge shipyards cannot help
but realize that should the st.
Lawrence project be completed,
when the war is over such shipyards
would be in deadly competition with
shipyards on the Atlantic, Pacific
and Gulf Coasts who would then be
free to engage in construction of
trans Atlantic as well as Great Lake
vessels.
AS Adrimal Land. chairman of the
United State Maritime Commission,
so aptly said when commenting on
such ituation-"it would be the
survival of the fttest."
We who live in the industrial
States and on the seaboard are not
being fooled by parading an old
political PETITE st. Lawrence Sea-
way-in the parade of national de-
fense. Nor are We fooled by the
efforts of the grealt State of New
York through political affiliations to
secure power project benefiting
New York State alone-yet being
paid for by the already overburdened
American taxpayers. Nor are we
going to play the sucker game" with
real estate agents in the Great
Lake region who are licking their
lips and rubbing their hands in glee
awaiting the golden opportunity to
profit from specula ton in their land
In joining us in defeating this
political and economic monstrosity-
the st. Lawrence project-you are
enlisting in a cause that will repeal
an invasion of the rights of the
American workingman and contrib
ute to the general welfare of every
American citizen. Yes-you will be
giving voice to the sentiments that
should be inscribed on every heart
Let us preserve the home and the
job of every American workingman