Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-09 | Page 1 | Makes Vigorous Attack on Yankee Ship Policy

uo MAKES VIGOROUS ATTACK ON YANKEE SHIP POLICY GENOA, July 7 A vigorous attack agallist the American marine policy 1 wa made by Emlle Deckers, Belgian Miip owners' delegate at todays' ple-! ple-! nary session of the International Sea-; Sea-; men's conference. He charged unfair ; methods on the part oi America j which, he declared, would "paralyze J the work of the conference." M Deckers read a letter salrl to have been sent to seamen of many j countries by Silas Blake Axtell, of Now I York. nttorne for the Seamen's Union jof North America. This letter pur-( pur-( ported to be an appeal to seamen to join the American merchant marine, j offering both moral and pecuniary in- , flucempnte Tho speaker declared America de- sired to appear capable ot Kiving a imillenlum to the world and added: "isn't it b pre conceived plan to destroy de-stroy tho European merchant marine, especially' that of small countries like mine? Shouleln't we do something to protect ourselves against these attempts at-tempts from America?"