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...Unander are as different as two men can be. Morse is a blazing liberal; Unander is a rock-solid economic conservative. Morse is a maverick-he was a Republican, then a self-styled Independent before turning Democrat in 1954. Unander is a party regular-the scion of a wealthy lumber family, he is a former state treasurer and G.O.P. state chairman, served on the Federal Maritime Board during the Eisenhower Administration. Morse got off to a late campaign start, is now running like the wind. Unander has been campaigning steadily for two years. Morse is an emotional, highly effective stump...
Often when Congress tries to help one industry by passing a law in its favor, it only hurts another. Latest case in point is that of the Pacific Northwest's softwood lumber industry, which has been losing its traditional East Coast markets at a spectacular rate to Canadian lumbermen in British Columbia. In the past ten years Western Canadian lumber shipments to the East have jumped from 7% to 57% of the market...
...protect the uneconomic U.S. merchant marine from low-wage foreign competition. Among other things, the Jones Act requires that all shipping between U.S. ports must move in high-cost U.S. vessels. This means that Pacific Northwest lumbermen must pay $36 per 1,000 board feet to ship green lumber to East Coast ports in U.S. vessels, while Canadian lumbermen pay as little as $26 on foreign-flag freighters. Canadian lumber, which is often of better quality than Pacific Northwest lumber, thus consistently undersells it. And to compound the injury, the regulations have hurt rather than helped the U.S. merchant fleet...
Desperate for relief, Northwest lumbermen have been pressuring Washington to exclude lumber shipments from the Jones Act, to put quotas on imports of Canadian lumber, and to raise lumber tariffs to the legal maximum of 8%. With the issue pressed by Democratic Congressmen from Washington and Oregon, President Kennedy has pushed through Congress a bill appropriating $165 million for construction of roads into the Pacific North west woods to cut the cost of hauling out logs. But when he tried to amend the Jones Act, the President ran head-on into opposition from maritime interests and from Southern Congressmen...
...Tariff Commission is currently studying the arguments for lumber quotas and tariff increases. And last week U.S. negotiators sat down with Canadian officials in Ottawa to try to persuade them to put voluntary quotas on lumber exports. But the Canadians-who already run a $1.2 billion trade deficit with the U.S.-see no reason to increase...