TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND FABRICS

Amendments

Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act: enact (S. 538), 18563 [1JY]

Analyses

Textile and Apparel Trade Act (S. 549), 3686 [19FE]

Articles and editorials

Great Textile Robbery, 31455 [9NO], 36235 [18DE], 37904 [21DE]

How Not To Save Jobs, 10665 [30AP]

Job-Destruction Bill, 7657 [1AP]

Labor Lending—How a Union Survives in Banking by Pushing Services Over Profits, 36015 [17DE], 38275 [22DE]

Metzenbaum's Metzen-bomb, 7657 [1AP]

Misguided Notion About Plant Closings, 10666 [30AP]

New Employment Promotion Act, 14377 [2JN]

Plant Closings—Warnings, Not Laws, 7657 [1AP]

Sun Finally Setting on Garment Industry, 36236 [18DE], 37905 [21DE]

Textile Shipment From U.S.S.R. Halted, 16345 [17JN]

Why Unemployment Stays so High in Germany, 14376 [2JN]

Bills and resolutions

Australia: prohibit importation of certain products (see S. 980)

Cotton: measures to defray costs of research and promotion program (see H.R. 1622)

Foreign trade: ban import of Soviet-made textiles or textile products (see H.R. 3416)

———remedy injury caused by imports (H.R. 1154), consideration (see H. Res. 256)

———revenues from tariff on imports (see H.R. 1624)

Labor: exempt from overtime requirements certain employees in cleaning of carpets or fabrics (see H.R. 3280)

New Zealand: prohibit importation of certain products (see S. 980)

Silk yarn: 3-year suspension of duty (see S. 1221)

Small business: include in set-aside programs (see H.R. 2703)

Tariff: coarse wools (see H.R. 36), 106 [6JA]

———hosiery knitting machines (see H.R. 991)

———knitting machines (see H.R. 2386)

———power-driven weaving machines (see S. 1224)

———silk yarn (see H.R. 1077)

———textile machines (see S. 1222; H.R. 1460)

———wools (see S. 203)

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: enact (see S. 549; H.R. 1154)

Letters

Customs fraud: Frances Shaine, SPM Manufacturing Corp., 31560 [10NO]

Impact of Soviet and Iranian textile imports on U.S. industry: Senator Thurmond, 23551 [9SE]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: Bob Gilbert, Montana Wool Growers, 24085 [16SE]

———several national associations, 24086 [16SE]

Textile trade: Allan Gotlieb, 24264 [16SE]

Remarks in House

China, People's Republic: trade agreement, 13983 [28MY]

Epstein, Selwyn: Apparel Manufacturer of the Year, 12393 [13MY]

Foreign trade: remedy injury caused by imports (H.R. 1154), 4945 [5MR], 14512 [3JN], 15496 [11JN], 19674 [14JY], 22692 [5AU], 23895 [15SE], 24053 [15SE], 24058, 24061 [16SE], 24092 [22SE], 24106 [23SE]-24113 [16SE], 24264, 24269 [16SE], 31971 [16NO]

———U.S. competitiveness, 8468 [8AP]

Plant shutdowns and unemployment, 3497 [19FE]

Soviet Union: textile exports, 13983 [28MY]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: enact (H.R. 1154), 3492, 3497 [19FE], 3892 [19FE]

Remarks in Senate

Australia: prohibit importation of certain products (S. 980), 8775 [9AP]

Business: profitability, 36235 [18DE]

China, People's Republic of: Bilateral Textile and Apparel Agreement negotiations, 36521 [19DE]

Customs Service: fraud, 31560 [10NO], 34559 [9DE], 33537 [1DE]

Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act: enact (S. 538), 6502 [20MR], 7657 [1AP], 10665 [30AP], 14376 [2JN], 16133 [16JN], 16363 [17JN], 19139 [9JY], 19149 [10JY]

Foreign trade: competition in world market, 10100 [28AP]

———effects of deficit, 1133 [12JA]

———impact of Soviet and Iranian imports, 23551 [9SE]

———remedy injury caused by increased imports (S. 549), 6987 [26MR], 21935 [31JY]

———strengthen enforcement of U.S. laws (S. 583), 4267 [26FE]

National Hosiery Week: observance, 21229 [28JY]

New Zealand: prohibit importation of certain products (S. 980), 8775 [9AP]

Soviet Union: textile exports to U.S., 16345 [17JN], 35284 [11DE]

Tariff: power-driven weaving machines (S. 1224), 12961 [19MY]

———textile machines (S. 1222), 12957 [19MY]

———results of protectionist measures, 37904 [21DE]

———silk yarn (S. 1221), 12956 [19MY]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: enact (S. 549), 3681, 3682, 3687-3693 [19FE]

Reports filed

Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 538), 12956 [19MY]

———Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 538) (S. Rept. 100-62), 14328 [2JN]

Producers Participation in Measures To Defray Costs of Cotton Research and Promotion Program: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1622) (H. Rept. 100-339), 26400 [5OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1622) (H. Rept. 100-339), 34287 [7DE]

Remedying Injury to Textile Industry and Fabrics Caused by Imports: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1154) (H. Rept. 100-276), 22795 [6AU]

Statements

Effects of Trade Deficit: Robert Ortner, 1133 [12JA]

———Thomas Jefferson, 1133 [12JA]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: Representative Frenzel, 24066 [16SE]

Testimonies

Restoring U.S. Competitive Edge: Donald R. Hughes, 8468 [8AP]

Textile and Apparel Industries: Arnold Delin, 19675 [14JY]

Texts of

S. 549, Textile and Apparel Trade Act, 3684 [19FE]

S. 583, strengthen enforcement of U.S. trade laws, 4267 [26FE]

S. 980, prohibit importation of certain products from Australia and New Zealand, 8775 [9AP]

S. 1221, duty on silk yarn, 12957 [19MY]

S. 1222, duty on certain textile machines, 12957 [19MY]

S. 1224, duty on certain power-driven weaving machines, 12961 [19MY]