Influencing the Legislators
How the U.S. Shipping Companies Did It
CAMPAIGN TO BETTER MAIL
SUBSIDIES
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Oct. 3, 10.45 p.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.
The shipping subsidies hearings today revealed that the Steamship Owners’ Association raised 202,000 dollars between 1929 and 1931 to finance an extensive publicity programme calculated to inlluenco Congress in increasing its mail subsidies. The money was spent in various ways, including salaries. Publicity men, who often wrote speeches for prominent men regarding tho need for an adequate mercantile marine, disclosed that tho association exerted its influence to have sympathetic senators appointed to various committees handling shipping matters, including the one now conducting tho hearings. Replying to a chargo that tho association attempted to influonco tho selection of the American delegates to the London Economic Conference, an association official declared: “We wero interested in the selection of delegates familiar with merchant marine.. Ho added that British lines were issuing propaganda detrimental to tho maintenance of American shipping.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7278, 4 October 1933, Page 7
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165Influencing the Legislators Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7278, 4 October 1933, Page 7
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