Committee Serial No. 3. Considers legislation to establish the U.S.-Puerto Rico Compact Commission to draft a proposed compact of permanent union between the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

"Since its first publication over forty years ago Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis has established itself, and even today, remains the definitive book on that Caribbean island. Lewis treats the subject historically and descriptively; on the one hand, it is an account of Puerto Rico as a colony, first under Spain and after 1898, under the United States. On the other hand, it is a systematic analysis of contemporary Puerto Rican life, including its politics, economic organisation and socio-political make-up, which is as relevant for this new edition as it was forty years ago. The book is also an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study of US Federalism or as a so-called 'showcase of democracy'."--BOOK JACKET.

Chronicles the birth pangs of a typically anarcho-syndicalist movement of the early Latin American genre and its subsequent metamorphosis into a domesticated West Indian version of North American-style business unionism.

Examines small business role in Puerto Rican economic development programs and use of Puerto Rican affiliates by U.S. concerns for tax purposes. Hearing was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.