Show I D DeLaMare Airs His Views of Acts of Selfish South American Miners I I I I J I I I I Mr Robert P. P Koenig President President Pres ident de Pasco Corp t Park ar c Avenue A New V r rk Ne' Ne Net Nev York Dear bear Mr Koenig This Is a personal letter statIng stating stat stat- stating ing my views concerning your recent statement about tho tha Am American rican Lead Zinc Lead Zine Industry I am General Mine Superintendent Superintendent of the United Park City CIt Mines Company which Is a small zinc lead-zinc producer and at present present pre pre- sent we are ore fighting to stay undo under depressed lend zinc lead zine prices As you know these depressed pr prices ces were caused mainly by byI your orp and other American Coronations Corl flooding tit tha American market with cheap for foreign ores and cons Your recent statement to the I Irl press to the UI heel that tha t you ou trope hope that thit e ue the American Industry In III the not lIot too distant lI future will trill lip hI permitted per t h cov o our mines and andI I u s some alter nUrr that go on the doll dole s r about n as u asinine u II statement ai nJ I him 1 titer er en n en- countered lour Your company and I a assume sume companies compani's In your position have bare been flooding the press with I misleading stat statements ments The following fol fol- lowing are arc two examples 1 1 I I The story that was as given gi to the pre s that miners would be bo put out of work vork In Peru it the US U.S. Government adopted the recommendations of the US U.S. Traffic Traffic Commission Your company com- com pany Jan is the only major zinc lead-zinc producer in Peru Your t tot total o t a l I payroll is between to employees of which I I would estimate only half were wert on zinc lead-zinc production 2 The recent Nixon Anti demonstrations were due to the anticipated tarIff tariff tariff tar tar- iff policies polities of the United States In III m my opinion the policies of your jour OUr company In Peru have ha been extremely detrimental to the till American zinc load industry and to the Government OO Got eminent ot of the United States I worked as a shift boss fo for your company In 1939 and at that time the company was paying a miner 1 per day and a r was receiving 50 cents per day The mn men m n and their families s lived In err owned company-owned adobe e houses with dirt floors and each h adobe h house use consisted of only tw two e or three small rooms with n plumbing plumbing attached attached to the house Th The miners minors that I had working g un under del me were industrious an and d Intelligent pe people and with train- train TI n TI fled edi as ag much as our presa pres pres- av a marl act lil miner 4 The he treason reason easo for fol the above In Information In I formation is I there are as you u know only ony two classes of people I I n namely namey namely the v very e r y and the very ery poor Ji T I pokey loKey 1101 of your jour our I c In his 1115 b h been en tn to work with ith the She wealthy ruling class s to keep tilt the poor In u II st lot 1 rte ite tl of bondage I no attempt ha has har been made madet t ti I r riis their living ing standards The cry in Peru against Ames Amei Ican lean Imperialism is in m my t I I I I Ion Justified and no nole le k propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda excuse excuse that tariffs are cau causing Antl Anti Americanism In Peru leru will cover up the baste f fact c that your company which Inmany Inmany in inmany many ways represents In the minds of the Peruvians leru the American people and the American Amerlean Amer ican lean Government Go has hM exploit exploit- exploited ed the Peruvians leru In direct contradiction contradiction con con- to the American concept concept concept con con- of freedom and justice Your company and the United States Government are definitely headed for trouble double In Peru leru s your company c changes anges Its feudalIstic feudal- feudal policy toward Its employees Your company compan Is not dealing an ln Ignorant people and In the near future you ou n ate are e going to be bo faced with these alternatives 1 Treat your our employees as equals and pay them a decent wage rate or 2 have ha your our company company company com com- pany expropriated by the Peruvian Peruvian Peru Peru- vian Government Go Government In th the meantime if your jour our company does not change It Its present policies the United States Stater Is III going to reap a bitter rr harvest hinest t of Anti Americanism m in III Peru It is a tragic thing that with alt all the ho political and economic power we I II that your jour our company has pos possessed essed In Peru that your company have ha been a leading m In making Peru a showplace show oi oi democracy rac The ingredients w era all nil there such ns as an Industrious ous and Intelligent people and a wealth of natural resources Instead of doing dC that and creating creating creat ing a strong ally for the United Unite J States you ou have IM do done dohe just th the e opposite Your company by following a policy of starvation wages has ha s eliminated any chance for creatIng creatIng creating creat creat- ing a strong middle class in Peru By doing this your company has eliminated one of the strongest bulwarks of a democracy The situation in Peru today Is li practically the same as when your company started operating 30 or 40 years ago The remain remain remain re re- re- re main wealthy and the poor re remain re- re main poor The only change that has taken place and it is a big one is that the poor are determined not to remain poor n By fly your our company compan policies your jour our company compan has har made the majority of the people of Peru ripe for communism as the they feel 1111 that all aU other avenues have been closed to them hy by b which the they can achieve their just means Furthermore your company and other American owned American foreign foreign foreign for for- eign zinc lead-zinc producers are imperiling im im- periling the future of the United States by your atte attempt Pt to destroy stroy the zinc lead industry Our GuY memory memory memory mem mem- ory and that of dither ther presidents of American ow ned foreign producers producers pro pro- must be ver very short I would like to refresh it with witha a fact that is vital to the security of the United States States' In a n recent article by Robert Dorang staff reporter of the Wall Street Journal he describes the Governments Government's attempt to coup re-coup a part of oC a gigantic loss the richly laden cargo ships that w m to the bottom of the seas during I World orld War Var II n. Mr Ir Dorang has an accompanying accompany accompany- I ing Illustration which pinpoints the location of ships which were sunk by submarine or other enemy action along the Atlantic seaboard during a six-months six period period pe pe- in 1942 19 Many of these ships were bearing minerals metals and other raw materials which were vital to the war effort It was during this period of ship sinking if I remember correctly correct correct- Iy ly that the Government Go correct I of the United d States thought we were wen going to lose World War II II Mr Charles F F. F Willis state secretary sec see rotary of the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association has made the statement In connection with the above article that it was these during Work World War II that convinced the Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment and Congress that it was Inthe Inthe in inthe the Interest of national security to make our country less dependent depend depend- ent upon foreign sources for s strategic stra stra- strategic ra- ra metals minerals and other materials Hy ISy your attempts to destroy the American I Zinc Lead Industry Indus Indu try you ou are tampering with the security of the United States In conclusion there are a coupie couple cou cou- pIe of ot other things that I would like to get off art my chest They are 1 In all your statements to Congress and to the press you have never once revealed the basic fact that the major j V. V peat ri t tat of at the American Zinc Lead-Zinc Industry In Industry Industry In- In could compete with your company on fairly equal terms would pay anywhere near neara a decent American wage to your employees 2 I would suggest to the Senate group lag the recent reent anU Nixon anti demon demon- stratton In Peru to investigate I Ithe the policies of your company and the bearing that these policies have on on antt anti Americanism In Peru t I am sending this letter to Interested Interested in interested In- In I people whom t I hope will have ha the power to fight you ant ani an 11 your our kind and to those whom I t hope will publish It I Yours trul truly I G. G W. W DeLaMare I |