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Alaska Steam Says
State Charges Are
Utterly Unfounded
SEATTLE. UPI — The Alaska
Steamship Co. Thursday accused
the State of Alaska of “violent
and utterly unfounded charges"
against the carrier in a petition
filed with the Federal Maritime
Board.
D. E. Skinner, president of the
company, called the petition “in
sulting in its implications” and
said it constituted “abuse and har
rassment for political purposes.”
The petition, filed in Washing
ton, Sept. 29 by the special coun
sel for Alaska, charged that Al
aska Steam had “flouted” a board
order to set up a special account
for all money received under a
recent rate increase.
The state asked the board to
order an immediate refund to
shippers or to comply with the
order pending a final decision on
the rate increase.
Skinner said Alaska Steam “has
not only complied with all orders
of the board, but has done so in
in greater detail than any other
carrier subject to the same orders,
or operators subject, to identical
orders in similar cases now before
the board.” He added:
“The purely political nature of
the petition should be evident, for
the special counsel seeks only to
‘protect’ the customers of Alaska
Steamship Co., diregarding entire
ly any thought of ‘protecting’ the
customers of competing carriers
in Alaska trade.”
Skinner said the Maritime
Board order did not specify put
ting the rate increase money into
a “special account.” He said it
only required the carriers to
“keep an account of all freight
moneys received by reason of the
increased rates” and to be pre
pared to refund the extra reve
nues if the rate increases are re
scinded.
“In its 65 years serving Alaska
our company has earned an en
viable reputation among water
carriers for prompt payment of its
debts,” Skinner said.
“Any suggestion that Alaska
Steam’s customers need ‘protec
tion’ against the possibility that
the company might be unable or
unwilling to meet any proper ob
ligations is on its face ridiculous.”
Skinner accused the State of
Alaska and its special counsel,
Martin Friedman of Washington,
D.C., of an “irresponsible atti
tude” toward Alaska Steam. He
asked why no other carrier in the
Alaska trade had been singled out
in the protest to the Maritime
Board.
The Board’s order for an ac
counting of rate-increase revenues
applies to Alaska Steam, Alaska
Freight Lines, Puget Sound-Alas
ka Van Lines, and Garrison Fast
Freight.
The company said further in
its reply to the Maritime Board,
that it “has kept detailed account
of all freight moneys received by
reason of the increased rates, and
is, and will always be able to
make any refund to the persons
entitled to such moneys.”
It also said “the political char
acter of this proceeding” is em
phasized by the fact that not one
of Alaska Steam's many thou
sands of commercial customers
and shippers has filed a protest
against or contested the rate in
crease.
Skiner concluded his statement
with this appeal:
“If steamship service to Alaska
and to its citizens is to remain
healthy and progressive instead of
abuse and harrassment for politi
cal purposes, the need for en
couragement is indicated.”
NOTARY PUBLIC
at
NUGGET OFFICE