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Show NAM Urges Government Not to Compete with Private Business The National Association of Manufacturers has urged the Senate Judiciary Committee not to approve legislation which would handicap the Secretary of Defense in his effort to take the government out of competition with private business. Commenting on the Defense Department's appropriations bill the NAM called on the committee to support the action of the House of Representatives in striking out Section 633 which would require the Secretary of Defense to obtain prior approval of both Senate and House appropriations ap-propriations committees before discontinuing commerical - type activities within his department. The NAM said that taxpayers are "increasingly conscious of the unreasonableness and unfairness un-fairness of this kind of tax-exempt tax-exempt publicity-financed competition com-petition with private enterprise, and pointed out that both operating op-erating losses and capital losses of these government operations are, in the last analysis, charged off to the taxpayer.' The Hoover Commission has reported that within the Department Depart-ment of Defense there are more than 2,500 commerical and manufacturing establishments with 'some 600,000 civilian employes |