46 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

To date we have made use of, or have plans to use, a total of $13. 7
million in Federal funds for highways, vocational education facilities,
a regional health center, hospital additions and sewer projects, and a
library.

We are also embarking on a longtime dream of an inter-regional
highway which will again connect the great Valley of the Ohio with
the ports and industries of the Middle Atlantic coast, including our
Port of Baltimore.

All of these projects give new hope to the citizens of Western Mary-
land and to our entire State. We feel that this Congress has an obliga-
tion to see that these hopes are sustained and carried to fruition.

We urge your earnest consideration of the requests now before you
from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

STATEMENT ON BALTIMORE TUGBOAT STRIKE
January 31, 1967

Several days ago Mayor McKeldin, Mr. Joseph Alien, the City
Solicitor, and Mr. Leon Sachs, the Mayor's personal representative in
the tugboat dispute, visited my office to brief me on the status of the
controversy. At that time they expressed serious concern over the eco-
nomic impact of the lengthy strike on the Port of Baltimore and re-
quested that I use whatever means I could find to assist the parties in
reaching settlement.

Subsequently, I met separately with representatives of the Union
and of the companies involved for the purpose of becoming ac-
quainted accurately with the unresolved issues.

Today the Union and Management have accepted my suggestion
that, beginning Monday, February 7, they will reconvene at the Gov-
ernor's office in Baltimore, under the auspices of the Federal Media-
tion and Conciliation Service to make an intensive effort to solve the
impasse. Mr. William Simkin, Director of the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service, has advised me that Mr. Walter Maggiolo,
Disputes Director of that Service, will act as mediator. Sessions are
scheduled Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 7, 8 and 9
from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.