SHIPPING RING
GABLE NEWS
United Press Association---By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
AND THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. A DARING PROPOSAL. ' Received This Morning, 12.40 o'clock NEW YORK, January 5. Suits, seeking the dissolution of the 'Atlantic Conference, under the terms of tiie Sherman -Anti-Trust Law, will begin in the -United States Circuit Court. . ; - . The New York Ctirhpanies forming I the; Atlantic Conference are the Allan Steamship, rnternational Mercantile Marine, International Navigation, Cunard, British ; and Hapiburg - American," North/,- Germanj Lloyds, Red Star, White- and Russiqii r East Asiatic :; ' " The Government charges the com-; paries with having; entered rinto :ari; ( illegal contract in February, .1908, in [.London, arrogating to inemselves the p9wer to, apportion all trans-' Atlantic traffic';'pro rata, imposing heavy/fines "on members of the con- ' fereMe jif they violated the - agreement. -• ; • - - '" •It is t alleged that a' Russian volunteer fleet in: the New . York-Libau service was' driven out of business, the RussianrAmerican - company :forced to enter tlie conference.' i i : / Tjhe, penalty, ,■ if, the ~conference, is not dissolved, - will; be a refusal 4 >of, the.,-United Spates Government; to allow' tine.-, Companies' vessels "to clear any ports. ■ y'' ■
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110106.2.18.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
182SHIPPING RING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in