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Only The Alaska Line
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has provided complete
service to ALL Alaska
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. . . WAS THAT "CONSPIRACY"?
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Tin charges of the Antitrust suit against the Alaska Steamship Company are predicated on
the apparent belief that because we have provided complete service to all parts of the Territory
of Alaska we have been guilty of a conspiracy to monopolize!
For many years The Alaska Line has carried the slogan “Serving All Alaska” because
that has been considered to be a foremost recommendation of our service.
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We have striven to provide complete facilities for handling passengers, freight, refrigera
tion and the variety of other requirements of our customers throughout the Territory of Alaska.
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The efforts we have put forth now return to condemn us in the language of the Antitrust
lawyers:
“None of the water carriers with which defendants
(Alaska Steamship Company) have competed in the Alaska
trade during this period have been able to offer all of the
services desired or required by shippers. Shippers patronising
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defendants* competitors in the Alaska trade have been re
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quired also to patronize the defendants in order to obtain ^
all of the services which they desired or required."
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Why have others been unable to render this necessary full-scale service?
The answer is that complete water transportation service to all parts of Alaska is made
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possible only through adequate financial investment, through providing neoessary ships and / }
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facilities and through the determination to do the job. In the past twenty years no other oom*
pany has been willing to commit itself to these requirements. .$[*1 * .
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The Alaska Steamship Company has provided die finances, die sUpe and facilities and
has devoted itself to serving all Alaska. That is why ONLY tht jUggkg SltamMp fTtMinmy bin
offeeed “all of the senrioes desired or required by shippers.** ,
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Serving AIL Alaska