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Saturday, April 18, 1925

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Issue date: Saturday, April 18, 1925
Pages available: 62
Previous edition: Friday, April 17, 1925
Next edition: Monday, April 20, 1925

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba , Weme Peg. Saturday april 18, 1925 of we of Muir from Pace 1. Out of vol the shippers miss it prot table fairly red question with if no control without monopoly i. I might re mind avg a that the Canadian Millers did approach North Atlantic con Ference Many times but rot no where. Would not that suggest the need of some Public control of the shipping or. Cannot have control without or. Is your objection to Jar. Have never seer business better done by a govern ment than by private Enterprise. T Havo seen a. Government interfere and do harm and in this particular matter government interfere acc do great harm. Of the do minion government were to subsidize a line of fighting ships Yould have no stability of or. A new line such As the government proposes were to reduce Ocean freight rates by ten per what would to the effect on the Canadian conference would steer Clear of Canada to. would have to meet the lower rates. Another effect would be that anyone in great Britain who had Money to invest in shipping would naturally steer Clear of Canada and Tor that the Canadian steamship con Cerns would be crippled through the stoppage of the Supply of capital. If the reduced rates became per manent the Cunard Luj conference lines would to unable to build tip a Reserve lean All the interests concerned in the proposed agreement Between the Federal government and sir Petersen for the control of Certa freight rates were represent a before the special committee when it got Down to business this morning finder the chairmanship of Andrew r. My master in addition to or. Symington for the sour rement. There were sir Pii Torsen and his counsel h. H. Donald of Toronto w. T. R. Preston and three counsel for the steamship companies. George h. Montgomery inc a. T. Atwater. K.c., and e. P. Flintoft All of Montreal also Thomas Robb. Of the shipping federation of Montreal. And col. William i. Gear vice presi Dent of the Robert Reford company of Montreal which acts As agents for four or five conference lines. Shipping business unprofitable or. Csc Manson summed up Tho position of the British shipping in Teresin by stating in his evidence this afternoon that it was for the i Ommittee to determine whether or not the North Atlantic conference ;