, 1963-04-08

them lat once). They were demanding that members of
the Legislature appear before them-appear before
thern-in a meeting to discuss these documents and to
discuss this contract. / know Of eleven elected members
of the Legislature | know Of eleven representatives OF
the people. / do not know any member Of the Chamber
of Commerce who has been elected by the people.
konw of none. And certainly at no time did the members
Of the Legislature delegate any of their authority o.anv
of these people. | say that the people who are opposed
to Harvey coming here have an Interior motive. Over the
years their motives have been to keep the local people
in subjugation, to keep the local people out of control.
And don you worry, they are going to show their heads
again, in the. next political campaign, and the people
must be alerted to it and look out for them and be pre-
pared to meet them head on.
You will notice, and want to- say this for the bene-
fit of the record, that Heartily endorsed the remarks
made by our able and distinguished citizen, retired Uni
ted States District Judge, Herman E.. Moore, on Wednes-
day night during the hearing on Harvey Aluminium.
What Judge Moore said in that hearing is the truth. He
has given words galore to the people in the tourist BUSH
ness and naturally, the people who endorse segregation
in st. Croix. We have given tax exemption. The tax
payers money goes to support these hotels in St. Croix
and they are the ones who are objecting to having the
Aluminium Plant come to ST. Croix. Wehave given, and
we. are providing now, in st. Croix a Jet Airport to also
boost the tourist industryin ST, Croix. And as the Judge
ably said you have gotten all of these things, we're not
against you having them, we want you to have them, we
nave helped yousg get thena,noW give the working people
an opportunity to get something--a decent wage" And
I think that this Legislature has that responsibility to
help them to get these things. These people who enjoy
tax exemption-the minute that the United States Gov
eminent ~integrated its armed forces some of their hotels
started to close when the Navy came to town. These same
people, as said on the radio a few nights ago, close their
shops when the Jewish. ship the Jerusalem comes to
town. Many of them close their shops. This could be put
INTO the record, this is a matter OF record
These are the same people who object to us having
IN St. Croix even a radio station. One witness in particu-
ar, the first witness in the hearing, the record would
show, put a letter into the Avis when Radio Station
WIVI was about to be established stating that1t the tower
was going to spoil the beauty of Christiansted, and he
would have to look out of his window and see the radio
tower. Now, he was not concerned about having a radio
tation to give information to the people; he was con-
cerned that it would spoil his scenic view. Wehave had
several cases of this kind. And when they get out and
say that segregation was mixed into the hearing, they
are the ones that are ~clouding the issue. In order to Ero-
greSs on an economic basis, you must have social chan
3es. And if these people are going to fight it, then if we
are not going to have social changes, weare not going to
have economic changes. Theres no question about it