JAPANESE TUNA FOR U.S.
Fishermen To Protest In San Francisco (Rec. 9 p^> N raANCISCOi Aug. 27. President Truman will be picketed by the tuna fishing fleet when he arrives in San Francisco for the Japan? ese Peace Treaty conference next W Hundreds of fishermen from Alaska to the Mexican border are coming to San Francisco to demand a tariff or embargo against cheap Japanese tuna. Mr Fred Wolleson, one of the protest leaders, to-day said that at. least 500 tuna boats are expected to confront President Truman with a mile-long maritime picket line. - ~ Mr Wolleson said Japan s fishing industry had been rebuilt with United States subsidies. “Our own Government’s policy is starving our American fishermen. We cannot compete with cheap Japanese labour. There is no import duty on frozen Japanese tuna,
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 7
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