In my opinion, these unresolved labor disputes have resulted in an actual or threatened strike affecting a substantial part of the maritime industry of the United States, an industry engaged in trade, commerce, transportation, transmission or communication among the several States and with foreign nations, which strike, if permitted to continue, will imperil the national health and safety.

Therefore, in order to remove a peril to the national health and safety and to secure a resumption of trade, commerce, transportation, transmission or communication among the several States and with foreign nations, I direct you, pursuant to the provisions of Section 208 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, to petition in the name of the United States any District Court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties to enjoin the continuance of such strike and for such other relief as may in your judgment be necessary or appropriate.

There shall be at the head of the said Office the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations provided for in Section 241 of the Act.

To assure orderly consideration of trade problems arising between nations is vital to our own interests as a great trading nation and to the interests of those joined with us in the cause of freedom.

We would demonstrate our desire to deal with matters of trade in the same cooperative way we do with military matters in such regional pacts as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and with financial matters in the International Monetary Fund and in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

As a member of this Organization we could work more effectively for the removal of discriminatory restrictions against our exports.

I do hereby impose and proclaim a fee of 10 cents per pound but not more than 50 per centum ad valorem on any shelled almonds.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of the Union of South Africa and the produce, manufacturers, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from the Union of South Africa or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from April 19, 1949, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer.

The Charter establishes an international organization, which is essential to continuous and effective international cooperation in the field of trade.

It is ordered that the ports of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and Jobos, Puerto Rico, be, and they are hereby, designated as customs ports of entry in Customs Collection District No. 49 (Puerto Rico).

In saving the collapse of Germany by the year's postponement the American people have done something greater than the dollars and cents gained from the maintenance of our agricultural markets, the prevention of panic and unlimited losses.

International exchange of large dimensions becomes one of the strongest guaranties of peace.

While America is not the chief market for breadstuffs and animal products of these countries, it is and must be the chief market for industrial raw material, tropical and semitropical foods, copper, hides, wool, oil, cane sugar, and coffee.

Under our standard we do not expect the Government to support trade; we expect trade to support the Government.

It is my belief that more and more the trade of our country is conforming to these principles.

Advertising is the life of trade.

To the Senate and House of Representatives..I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanying the annual reports of the consuls of the United States on the trade and industries of foreign countries.

there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed the vessels of any foreign country