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Show I II Says Ships I ...Is Country's I ill ?. Urgent (feed IBBS , . t H jg Dullcllng Up of American Merchant B r Marine Advocated Before B ' A Trade Body B I f ' Seattle, Wnsh., Aug. 9. Ilulldlng H i " ( up of tho American merchant mnrlno H s nn Imperatlvo need, Judgo Thomas H i Hurke, president of the Seattle chain- B hi!- of cominerco told tli9 feilerul H I trndo commission nt tho opening of B a two days' sitting of thnt body hero H j TfcJ today. Other witnesses supported H B '' Judgo lliirko'H argument. H H I w "If this commission," said J ml go B r ' Ilurke, "can Btiggost to Congress log- H 'II i islntlon which will placo American H I ;"&" Bhlpplng on an equal basis with its B I ( ff competitors It will ba rcnilcrlng a B 1 Borvlco of Incalculable benefit to tho B ') t '" citizens of tho United States. B Hut ono ship Hying tho American B ,'s'" ling soils from Seattle, said Judgo B tfc- . H'lrko mid soon this will bo hauled B '' down. Ho continued: B i ss "Wo aro ready for business but aro B ' powerless to go further without any B ships. The markets of tho world aro B open to us a8 novcr before, but wo B cannot tuko ndvantngo of theso op- B portunltles becauso wc havo no ves- B bcls '" which to Rond our goods. B C. J. Smith qoal mine owner tcs- B ' IIIIpiI in iip icosully for romhlna- B ', lions of capital ,Jo handle the wauto H products In, tho luniber, fruit and fish B Industries B '-,. Morltz Thomson, flour miller, do- B ' clarcd there would hnvo to bo bet- B tcr banking facilities In pnn-Amorl- B tn ,uI better shipping facilities be.'om H Americans could do a largo business B B J. C. Ford, president of tho Pa- H c'Mc Coast Stoamslilp company r.l- B ' tacked tho La Folletto scamon's law, B j and said that whllo not In favor of H ship subsidy, ho advocated chnnglng B .- ''I0 'awa so ns, lo P'aco Amorlcan B ' ships on the sntno competitive piano B n" foreign Ehlps. B ,: J. S. .Mc.Mlllln, president of u l(mo B ' manufacturing company declared that B Canadian llmo manufacturers were B . belling their products In tho United B States at a rato much lower than B ' "lnt c,ltrged In Canada, tho purposo H he said, being to destroy the Amerl- H can lime Industry" by such unfair com- B petition. There woro originally thlr- B ty llmo kilns In tho l'uget Sound ba- H eon, but only ono now In operation. B T'10 conunlsslon took a keen Interest H In McMlllln's complaint and requested H him to file a written statement glv- B ' ',1(? details of tho alleged price cut- B |
