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Show also interested in the average salary sal-ary paid by the OPS. It is well over $400 per month per employee and this average includes typists, typ-ists, messengers and file clerks. One field of the OPS operations particularly attracted my attention. atten-tion. I noticed several lengthy orders or-ders last fall removing controls on mat-fiber rugs, straw dolls and reed hats woven by natives in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Is-lands. Your congressional Appropriations Appro-priations Committee noticed the orders, too. Sure enough, OPS "investigators" had spent several weeks at government expense in the sunny Carribean finding out that price controls could be removed re-moved from these items "because their marketing does not contribute contri-bute substantially to the cost of living." Anyway, thanks to the Presidents Presi-dents stand, there will be after April 30th an additional $4,300,000 per month left in the treasury to balance the budget, to help support sup-port legitimate federal departments depart-ments and military installations ! and to reduce our taxes. U.S. Congressman Dawson Reports Where are the jobs? Before I left for Washington, an unemployed unem-ployed miner from Park City called call-ed on me. He explained that he was a good workman, that he had lived in Park City and mined all his life and that now the mines were closed and he and his family were having a tough time getting along. I promised him I would try to find out what the trouble was as soon as I got DacK to the nation's na-tion's capitol. What I Found Since return- duced beef costs. Retailers and marketers victims of devastating roll backs and squeeze plays in the past were afraid to cut prices pric-es much below ceiling figures. On the retail level, the effect of the OPS if it had any at all was to keep prices up artificially. And what did all this expensive expen-sive bumbling cost taxpayers? I have the figures in front of me. The OPS last November had 10,-557 10,-557 persons on the payroll, who in that one month alone drew $4, 3,00,000 from the Federal Treasury. The cost of the OPS office in Utah for the 12 months ended last June 30th was $393,200. Utah's State Board of Education can operate one of our junior colleges for nearly near-ly two years with that much money. mon-ey. Yet it comes from the same pocket yours and mine. I was ing to Washington I have spent a good deal of my spare time trying to find out what happened to my friend's job. I found out. It is being be-ing held down by a native of French Morocco who is working for one-tenth of a living American Ameri-can wage. And a lot of other Utah miners are in the same boat. This is how it happened. When it began Shortly after the Korean War began, lead and zinc became scarce. The government govern-ment slapped a ceiling price on our mines, then went out in the foreign for-eign market and bought lead and zinc. There they paid much more i'or the metals than they allowed our domestic producers to charge. The foreign mines charged all the traffic would bear, pocketing huge profits at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer. Then when the shortage ceased, foreign producers took advantage ad-vantage of their lower labor costs and higher grade ore to force the price down. The State Department's Depart-ment's policy of "keeping friends overseas" kept the administration from imposing any realistic tariff. As a result, Utah miners are without with-out jobs. State Department Miners But the federal "desk jockeys" in the State Department didn't stop at this point. While Utah mines and miners were working under ceiling prices and paying heavy taxes, the Department of State was using this tax money to set up foreign competition, -and the Department was proad of it. OPS WSB R.I.P President Presi-dent Eisenhower saved taxpayers a great deal of money and then-representatives then-representatives . in Congress a great deal of time when he rec-commended rec-commended against the re-enactment of laws setting up the Office of Price Stabilization and Wage Stabilization Board. The two a-gencies a-gencies except for small cleanup clean-up crews will go out of existance April 30th. Economists predict that the agencies' death will hit the economy with all the impact of a feather falling on a mountain meadow. Competition already has made a mockery of ceiling prices and if it weren't for the fact that I have had intimate experience with the hardiness of government bureaus I would have thought the OPS should have died of embarrassment long before April 30th. Whatever the reason for the OPS, one thing is clear. It just didn't work. Because of conflicting conflict-ing reports, ill-advised grading regulations, live-stock men have suffered severe losses. But the consumer did not benefit by re- |