Show WILL WE DRIFT BACK in ili reviewing the testimony for and ag against a list the bills now before congress to aid american snipping il 11 is interesting to botu mal inai 1 radical labor leaders such as andrew fain getil president ot of the international seamans union and bucu organizations eions as the non partisan league abc the ones which offer the most strenuous objections to the measure on I 1 mr Furuset Furu setha hs shoulders may be placed the principal responsibility re lor for our present snipping aar la AS which make necessary measures tj I 1 and encourage an american merchant marine the nonpartisan non partisan league represents the radical socialistic element which would in one breath lemand subsidies sub sidles for or its own organization and program and in the next breath fight any meas measure ure which was aimed to help some line of 0 activity in which it was not interested aside from the radical elements in ili our own country and the foreign element which largely thel the international seamans Sea maira union sentiment appears to be growing in favor of measures to extend american shipping on oil record favorable to the passage of proposed legislation are endorsements of commercial organizations from virtually every state scale farm organizations merchants associations banks flouring floering flou ring mills boards of trade and last but not least unions of marine workers numbering more than men hundreds of pages ot of testimony have been taken by congressional committees on the ohp subsidy question after this Is all in however ao no wever tile the fact still remain that previous to the world war american ships had practically disappeared from the sea we are rapidly drifting back to that position we cannot meet foreign competition anile maintaining american wage scales and american standards of living on american ships without some protection from our government our present laws net at asa as a subsidy to the fc reign foreign ship owner will we refuse to pass legislation which puts the american ship operator on a basis of 0 equality with his foreign competitor |