EXHIBIT No. 2

CHILE AND KATANGA WAGE DETAILS

[From pp. 47-49, S. Doc. No. 153, 69th Cong., 1st sess.]

CHILEAN LABOR WAGES

The following Chilean labor cost data was secured from Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D. C., June, 1926:

The following table showing the average daily wages paid in the more important industries in Chile for the year 1924 is taken from the official bulletin issued by the Chilean labor office (Boletin de la Oficina del Trabajo), No. 22, Year XIV, Santiago, 1924, page 166. Although the above-mentioned publication did not specify as to whether these wages were paid in gold or paper pesos, it is assumed that the paper pesos were used, the average exchange rate of which in United States currency was $0.1054 for the year 1924. The conversions have been made on this rate.

Average daily wages in Chile for the year 1924, by occupation

The foregoing Chilean labor wages are approximately one-fifth the wage scale prevailing within our domestic copper areas.

This Chilean wage scale visualizes most effectively the foreignlabor competition besetting our domestic copper mines. The only way that such oppressed and low-wage labor competition can be eliminated within our domestic areas is through the medium of an adequate protective tariff.

KATANGA LABOR WAGES

The following extracts taken from a digest of an article in the January 2, 1926, issue of Engineering and Mining Journal Press, entitled "South Africa Copper Region":

The two principal centers of activity are Elisabethville, the seat of administration, and Panda, 88 miles northwest, where a concentrator has been erected. The Lubumbashi smelter is near Elisabethville. Smelter employees number 3,300-300 whites and 3,000 natives. Each furnace is operated by 16 natives under a white foreman.

The Union Miniere has opened up 10 mines, of which the Star of the Congo was the first. The pit is 120 feet deep and 450 feet long and wide.

At Fungurume, 90 miles from Panda, a literal "mountain of ore" exists. Steam shovels are used for digging, but their efficiency is much impaired by the ignorance of the natives that control their operation. White men are placed on locomotives, but natives operate stationary hoists. As much as possible the work of the natives is done on piece system. Of the total of mining cost only 20 per cent is for native labor. The natives are paid from 80 centimes to 1.75 francs (par 15.4 cents to 33.8 cents, present value 2.4 cents to 5.2 cents) per day, plus food, clothing, and housing. The average cost of these items is 8 francs (par $1.54, present value, 23.7 cents). The food ration per week consists of 15 pounds of mealie, 4 pounds of meat, 2 pounds of rice, 2 pounds of beans, 1 pound of peanuts, or 1 pound of palm oil, a roll of tobacco, and pinch of salt. The same ration if given to each wife and a half to each child. The Union Miniere employs 14,000 natives. The white employees are engaged for a period of three years, after which a holiday of six months is granted. Most of them are Belgians. The Union Miniere does not maintain the color bar; it encourages the native to learn how to become a skilled worker. In the Transvaal it is illegal to allow the native to do the work of an artisan.

At Luishia 180 young natives were being taught to do the work of carpenters and smiths. They make office furniture and window frames; they repair cars and boiler tubes. These "boys" are under contract for 3 years and start with a pay of 2.25 francs (par 43.4 cents, present value 6.7 cents) per day, plus food and hut. "In their third year they receive 3.3 francs (par 63.7, present value 9.8 cents).

The Union Miniere by reason of its deposits of pitcheblende and other uranium ores containing radium controls the world's market of this precious metal. It has killed American production and has made two of the American companies its selling agents. This company also produces cobalt and has tin deposits.

The Katanga as a mineral region ranks with the richest and most diversified ever exploited by man.

Excavation with native labor costs 25 cents per cubic yard.

Said digest was prepared by Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, June, 1926.

ANALYSIS OF KATANGA LABOR COSTS

The foregoing cost data denote that the Katanga miner receives about 5.2 cents per day plus food, clothing, and housing. His total emolument equals about 23.7 cents per day.

The apprentice carpenters and smiths receive a total of 1.5 cents more per day than the miners for the first year and 4.6 more per day during their third year.

The foregoing native wages are about one-twentieth of the wages prevailing within our domestic copper areas.

It is very evident that Katanga labor can not be termed "competitive labor"; its real designation is "slave labor."

The overwhelming menace of such labor competition as against our domestic copper miner can only be eliminated through the medium of an adequate protective tariff.

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PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION TO PAY THE REMAINDER OF THE AMOUNT FOUND DUE BY THE PUEBLO LANDS BOARD AS COMPENSATION TO THE PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO

FEBRUARY 17 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 18), 1932.-Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed

The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 18, 1932.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of the Interior, fiscal year 1933, to pay the remainder of the amount found due by the Pueblo Lands Board as compensation to the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations thereon I concur.

Respectfully,

HERBERT HOOVER.

BUREAU OF THE BUDGET,
Washington, February 18, 1932.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1933, amounting to $55,502.02, as follows:

COMPENSATION TO PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO

For carrying out the provisions of the act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636), to quiet title in Pueblo Indian lands, New Mexico, and in settlement for damages for lands and water rights lost to the Indians of the pueblos, as recommended in the respective reports of the Pueblo Lands Board thereon, the sum of $55,502.02, fiscal year 1933, as follows:

Laguna, $33,566.47, which may be expended for the purchase of land, irrigation, drainage and other improvements, and the purchase of equipment for the benefit of the Laguna Pueblo Indians; San Felipe, supplemental, $21,860.88, which, together with the unexpended balance of the original award for this pueblo, may be expended for the purchase of land, irrigation, drainage, and other improvements, and the purchase of equipment for the benefit of the San Felipe Pueblo Indians; Nambe, supplemental, $1.40; San Ildefonso, supplemental, $73.27 (acts June 7, 1924, vol. 43, p. 636; Feb. 14, 1931, vol. 46, p. 1121).

Estimate, 1933, $55,502.02; appropriated, 1932, $131,535.73.

The Interior Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1933, which is now pending before the Senate, provides $112,435.33 for payment of awards of the Pueblo Lands Board created by the act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636), an estimate of appropriation in that amount having been included in the Budget for that fiscal year. Since the transmission to Congress of the 1933 Budget, awards have been rendered by the board amounting to $55,502.02. The purpose of this estimate is to provide an appropriation in that amount for the payment of these additional awards.

With the appropriation of the_amount_here requested, and the amount contained in the pending Interior Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1933, all sums found due the Pueblo Indians will have been provided, and the work of the Pueblo Lands Board completed.

The foregoing estimate of appropriation is required to meet a contingency which has arisen since the transmission of the Budget for the fiscal year 1933, and its approval is recommended.

IMPROVEMENT OF FACILITIES OF THE FEDERAL

RESERVE SYSTEM

Mr. GLASS, from the committee of conference, submitted the following CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE BILL (H. R. 9203) TO IMPROVE THE FACILITIES OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM FOR THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND AGRICULTURE, TO PROVIDE MEANS FOR MEETING THE NEEDS OF MEMBER BANKS IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

FEBRUARY 24 (calendar day, February 25), 1932.—Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 9203) to improve the facilities of the Federal reserve system for the service of commerce, industry, and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the Senate amendment insert:

That the Federal reserve act, as amended, is further amended by inserting, between sections 10 and 11 thereof a new section reading as follows:

"SEC. 10. (a) Upon receiving the consent of not less than five members of the Federal reserve board, any Federal reserve bank may make advances, in such amount as the board of directors of such Federal reserve bank may determine, to groups of five or more member banks within its district, a majority of them independently owned and controlled, upon their time or demand promissory notes, provided the bank or banks which receive the proceeds of such advances as herein provided have no adequate amounts of eligible and acceptable assets available to enable such bank or banks to obtain sufficient credit accommodations from the Federal reserve bank through rediscounts or advances other than as provided in section 10 (b). The liability of the individual banks in each group must be limited to such proportion of the total amount advanced