PACIFIC FREIGHT RATES'
AGREEMENT OR "WAR TO THE KNIEE." A Reuter message from Seattle, dated November 20, states that the question of peace or war ovor the Pacific west-bound freight. rates would bo decided at a meeting that week of the representatives of leading shipowners. , ■
' The 'American lines are alarmed at the action of the British and Japanese in cutting the Oriental rates for flour and lumber, The Americans also declare that the Canadian lines plan to reduce "flour rates for tho. purpose of underselling. . . • Mr. Haines, vice-president of the Pacific Steamship Co., declares that tho conference must end in an agreement or it will Tie war to the knife. "Are we to tie up' our vessels or allow foreigners to carry our freight," he says, and asserts: that the British have already fanturod the grain-carrying trade from the Columbia River.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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141PACIFIC FREIGHT RATES' Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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