1928 SHIPPING YEAR
BETTER LABOUR RELATIONS STATE OWNERSHIP FAILS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Wednesday. In his presidential address to the Chamber of Shipping Sir William Currie said the most important and gratifying sign of the year had been the marked improvement in the relations between capital and labour and the absence of domestic strife. Two most illuminating happenings in 1928 had been the withdrawal from the shipping business by the Australian Government and the gradual diminution by the United States Shipping Board of its interests in shipping. It was a matter for very complete satisfaction that two such outstanding examples of State ownership had collapsed. Regarding statements in Parliament denouncing the shipping conferences for strangling trade Sir William said no monopoly could be obtained while there was freedom to enter ports for all shipping. It was impossible to maintain any exorbitant rate for freight, for there were many thousands of tons of shipping outside the conferences which'would soon be attracted by specially remunerative rates.
Sir William concluded by referring to the hopeful outlook as the result of’British merchants and manufacturers organising themselves into conferences to work in co-operation with the shipping conferences in extending the organisation of trade.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 9
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2021928 SHIPPING YEAR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 9
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