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Good luck. Sorry, no insurance company with 24 55. This is given to the boys in World War Been. We present at this time an informal discussion with Senator George Smathers from the nation's capital. Now here is the first question so that this matters. I'd like to get into this first by asking you something about this life insurance bill, what you introduced and it's passed the Senate.

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Now just what does that do and what are its prospects of passing the house? What it does is to provide for the members of the armed services who are in a combat zone, the right to buy some $10 worth of GI insurance, so to speak, actually today, for example, the first Calvary, which originated mostly in the southern part of the United States, which is now sent into combat.

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None of those fellas can buy insurance for their wives or their Children or whatever it is, because they're going to a very hazardous zone and no private insurance company. We'll write that kind of a policy, and we ran a test to see how many of them would do it, and we found only one that would do it and that one company, the metropolitans, that they would only write it if a few applicants came in.

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So we have to do something to give these boys the same in their families the same protection which we did, too. Members of the armed services in World War number two, as well as the members of the armed services in the Korean conflict. Senator Talmadge and I sponsored this particular amendment of this particular bill.

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It has passed through the Senate. It's now before the House Veterans Affairs Committee and Congressman Teague, who is the chairman. The committee tells us he favors the bill, and we're hopeful that that it will become law very short, controversial one yet to come up in the Senate will be the repeal of 14 b of the Taft Hartley bill, which deprives the states of the right to decide where they want to, Right to work on.

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I believe you're along with many other senators who are against this repeal. I'm opposed to the repeal. I've voted four Section 14 beers, a member of the House of Representatives in 1947 as did Lyndon Baines Johnson and various other people. I see no reason at this stage of the proceedings to change it, certainly not any longer in Florida, where it is now, a part of right to work Amendment is now part of our Florida Constitution, and the people, by a majority vote voted for it.

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It would seem to me in a democratic society that the only way this could be and should be declared null and void in our state is to have the people repeal it, and I don't think that just because a couple of congressman or a couple of senators over a majority want repeal that they should deprive the people of the specific state who wanted it of that right to have it.

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However, I must say in all candor that it looks like they will have enough strength to repeal it. It'll be a filibuster whether or not there will be a filibuster. No one knows at this particular time there may it may develop into a filibuster. I believe in unions.

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I like unions. I think they've done a great deal of good and it has not been my observation that the union movement has suffered in any respect by having 14 beyond the books. I know certain labor leaders that would like to get it repealed. But the fact that matter is they've got more people in unions drawing higher wages and better conditions, and they've ever had previously.

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And this has all happened since the passage of the Taft Hartley built. So I don't believe that the that the dire things which the Labour said it was going to result by the passage of the Taft Hartley Act and 14 B is justified by the facts.

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I expect to oppose the repeal of 14 b. The president, almost daily, is pressing for the passage of a much liberalized immigration bill. How do you feel about that do you think it should go through? Well, the bill is before the Judiciary Committee, of which now remember Uhh! We're expecting to bring out some kind of a bill within a week.

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I am one of those who believes that the immigration bill should be amended. I think that the national origins provision has long since outlived its usefulness. It's now, in some measure, this unfair and discriminatory. And the composition of the United States has changed greatly since it was first adopted since the immigration bill where the National origin provisions was first adopted.

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So I think that we could do good for ourselves and good for the country by modernizing a new immigration law. And I think it will pass before we adjourn this session. Thank you very much. Senators matters. I return you now to your station announcer Miss Lincoln told me on Listen to radio.

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Right. Nine. Yeah. What does that run back to you, alright. Runs back to shut it off until we shut it off. We're gonna run back to fourth it here. What's making a new face for that? You'll see. It will be he's going to get, but he's been busy C maximum.

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Max broke his foot wife fix something, the closet of booby trap for him with a felony foot. And he had a rupture from being down on the farm, which was bigger than it looked on the outside. Unfortunately, when so he's home now you'll be out for another 10 days.

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Two weeks, right? Any time you're ready. Edward, I'm thinking about accepting his speech to on September on October 22nd to the North Carolina Bar Association. I would have been out of the country the previous two weeks, so I would come back yesterday before if I thought I could get a real good speech.

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I've been trying to accept it, but I'm a little reluctant to Senator Smathers. The shipping strikes being settled and it looks like the steel strike is going to be averted, at least for a short time. Do you think the president will be able to settle the steel crisis, as he did with the railroads last year?

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Well, we hope so. President greatly concerned about it At the breakfast, which legislative breakfast, which he has every Tuesday morning with Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate, he expressed grave concern over this steel strike. As we all know, we were able to get an eight day extension and where he expects to keep the labor people and the steel companies on hand here in Washington until he can resolve this impasse in which they find themselves.

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It's interesting to observe that the steel companies their profits in the first six months of this year with 36% higher and they were a year ago. They're actually getting to the point where they're reaching the as far as income is concerned, they're reaching the same peak income, which they had in 1957.

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Ah, what I'm not suggesting by that statement or those recitation of those facts that that they should give in. I'm just merely stating that those are facts and that there is room to negotiate the labour. The difficulty about it is that Mr Abel, who is the new president of the Steelworkers union, he is confronted with the fact that his predecessor, Mr McDonald, was able to get a very satisfactory contract with the aluminum companies and with certain other companies, which is almost so generous that it's clear the steel companies couldn't meet it and yet able, if he's to maintain his position, so to speak is the big new leader of the steelworkers union.

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He's almost got to come up with a a contract, which gets a lot for the steel workers. There is a lot of room to negotiate. It's too important, however, uh, to not have our best talent on it. I'm delighted it's over there in the White House because I'm satisfied the president is going to somehow figure out a way for these men to agree.

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We can't afford to have a strike in this country, even though there is plenty of steel supply at the moment. But we cannot start importing steel plans to import steel if the strike starts of some 10 million tons. This would, of course, worsen our balance of payments situation.

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In addition to that, we're engaging in a rather serious war effort in Vietnam. And of course, everyone knows steel is a basic product in that effort, and we cannot afford to have a steel strike while that effort is being made. So it's what something that everybody's got to be concerned about.

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Florida benefit Won't they buy this new man the orbiting laboratory that the president has indicated he wants started right away. I think very much. We think that, of course, that the laboratory will be launched from the Cape. The men in the Assoc Associates Uhh. Well, they ought to be launched from the Cape.

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There's some talk about the Air Force launching from the Vandenberg base, but I don't know whether that actually is going to be the case or not. I think they finally come back and at the Air Force do it at Cape Kennedy. Certainly we hope so, but we will benefit will benefit by any effort made in space.

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We have another little lab project going. Strangely enough, this is on the West Coast in the Pacific, and I think we have someone from Florida involved in that particular ocean laboratory. It's a business where they're spending, I think, 45 days underwater and trying to see about the environment and what can be done Well.

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The aquanauts, of course, are under the water out there off the Pacific. LeRoi, a California We have several Floridians that are taking part in this Navy project, and Barry L. Cannon from Panama City boy named Sarah Tuck field of Panama City. And then we have a Fort Lauderdale, a man by the name of Wilbur Eaton, who is also a part of this particular project.

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I'd like to get a quick comment from you. You knew Larry O'Brien quite well. He was very active up here in the Senate for President Kennedy. Now we see him moving in as Postmaster General and the move of Baranowski. Of course, as an ambassador, how do you feel about that switch?

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Well, I, of course, delighted to see my good friend Larry O'Brien become the postmaster general of the United States. He's a very talented, very efficient, very dedicated young man. Mr. Baranowski is the Polish extraction. He's going to be the ambassador there. The indications are the polls are very happy to get him there as ambassador.

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So I think this is a ball for to us appointment in both cases. Thank you very much, Senator Smathers, I'll return you now to your station announcer. Incidentally, we will have a special guest in our