STATE SHIPPING SALE
THE COMMONWEALTH FAILURE. -
■TRIUMPH FOR LORD IXCHCAPE.”
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSN.) LONDON. Feb. 24.
The Daily Herald, commenting on Australia selling the steamers, says: "It is a triumph for Lord In cheapo and the slipping combine and a blow to Australian producers and wageearners. The line has been rendering incalculable service to the people of Australia. From the outset it met with Utter opposition from Inchcape’s Conference line, while paying far better wages and giving the crews better .conditions than privately-owned lines. With the Cominonwea’th line sold' at knock-out prices to rivals, the combine will be better able to keep down wages, and better able to squeeze Australian producers- and Home consumers.” Most of the newspapers give prominence to the decision to soli the Commonwealth line of steamers. The tenor of the comments is that it n> another evidence of the fut lity of State control of shipping, which constitutes an invitation to unions to make extreme demands, to soy nothing of the risk of political muddling.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9947, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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