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...Frank J. Taylor, chief spokesman for the owners, maintain that cutting hours of ship's crews meant more men and more living quarters at the expense of revenue-bearing cargo? Bridges recalled-his Australian voice dripping with wide-eyed vowels-that merchant ships carried 30-man gun crews during the war and facilities for them were still in the ships...
...conciliator, Edgar Warren, and his aides. On the sidelines sat two other Government men: War Shipping Administrator Captain Granville Conway and John Carmody of the Maritime Commission. They represented the U.S. Government, still the actual owner, because of its wartime operations, of 80% of the 6,000-ship U.S. merchant marine...
...time & again had stated its intention to maintain a strong merchant marine as "an arm of international policy." The U.S. had also stated its intention of getting the ships back in private hands. Said Vice Admiral William Ward Smith, recently appointed head of the Maritime Commission: "We will give the operators every help and encouragement." How much help would that...
Unmoved, round-faced Frank J. Taylor, chief negotiator for the 39 lines using some 2,400 War Shipping Administration bottoms,* declared flatly that the operators could not pay. The demands, said he, would raise costs to such an exaggerated point that the U.S. Merchant Marine could not compete with foreign shipping -particularly that of Britain and the Scandinavian countries...
...Only 700 U.S. merchant ships are now privately owned...