MONOPOLISTIC CONTROL FIGHT UNDER WAY

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1937, Page 7

MONOPOLISTIC CONTROL FIGHT UNDER WAY

(Received 11 a.m.) NEW YORK. December 7. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Daily News” says a fight, which will determine whether Pan-American Airways is to continue to exert monopolistic control over America's trans-oceanic aviation, is being fought. « The Maritime Commission will ask a committee of Congress, which will open its sittings to-morrow, to be empowered to subsidise the development of competing air lines, thus breaking up the Pan-American monopoly. It is understood that Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Pan-Ameri-can’s technical adviser, will throw in the weight of his great influence on behalf of the company. The army and navy are said to be j behind the anti-Pan-American move- | ment, since they believe that compe- j tition and rivalry between American j lines in ocean flying will more greatly ! advance American aviation, ' ' The military, furthermore, object to j the granting of American port rights j to foreign lines under negotiations j which are carried out, not by the j United States Government, but by the 1 Pan-American company’s private j agents, in order to secure reciprocal I rights for the company in foreign j ports. j Pan-American Airways already has j 'received 60.000,000 dollars in subsidies [ in the past nine years. j