SEQUEL TO A SEA LAW
FIVE LARGE STEAMERS' SOLD By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright New York, August 16. Tlio Pacific Mail Steamship Company, lias sold.five largo steamers to tie Atlantic Transport Company. Tho sale is the outcome of the La; Folletto Shipping Bill, which prohibits American vessels employing cheap Orjen-. tal labour. The Pacific, Mail Company, therefore, is nnable to compete with its Japanese rivals, and will discontinue the service in November. President Wilson lias ordered an inquiry into the provisions of the Bill, ivitli a view to revising them if they are found to hamper the American merchant marine.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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98SEQUEL TO A SEA LAW Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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