Appendix — Federal Maritime Comm'n v. Aktiebolaget Svenska Amerika Linien
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Docket Before the Commission o ile ia
_ Commission Order ‘of: Investigation ....... _— la
Excerpt From Commission Prehearing Conference “i 3a
Excerpts From Testimony .... 7 tices
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Donald I. Knowles Se pig eae
Direet i 48-51 5a
Cross _— os hia 260-62 8a
ET ea ee eae 26 |
Redirect | 321-29 9a
Recross * 353-54 15a
Direct | ' 1850-53 56a
- Cross: :. | 2012 65a
Cross .... ) ) 2498-2500 137a
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Manuel J. Gibbs eS
Direct §70-74 * 1a.
Cross ........ . 595-96 = 18a
Recross ......... | 607-08. 1929 —
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John Stark Garby e pe ea waa eat
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Emanuel E. Erber 4 yank a4
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Joseph Neufeld | = ae cae a :
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Louis Schenker _ aah Se | , 7 .
Direct ibieidaads 1378-82 43a »
. Cross SOSSRY En amen 1884-85 - 47a 2 *
Thomas J. Donovan Nid 7 ee
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Redirect Fi : eceee '1489-91 54a
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‘Robert W. Hemphill | 7
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Initial Decision of E. Robert Seaver, Hearing Ex- 3 ae
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Commigsion’s Opinion and Order Served February ie
| ‘19, 1964 ......: ei scion | 451la
_. Petition-for Review .:.... . .. 504a
| Prehearing Conference Stipulation 512a..
Prehearing Order ..:.......: oes §16a »
Opinion of Court of Appeals for the District. of *.
Columbia Circuit, 351 F. 2d 756 (1965) — «517a |
‘Commission N otice of Reopening of Proceeding
Served August 18, 1965 | \.... 5298
Commission Report’ and Order on Remand Served
‘July 20, 1966 | 531a .
Additional Excerpts From Testimony 3 .. 588a
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Transcript - a.
Donald I. Knowles‘ ”
CORD pecicee . . , 26465: 588a
PEs Redirect | . 329-30 589a
IN . Recross e. 7 | 372-73 590a
qe Manuel J. Gibbs | = ee |
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Joseph Neufeld.
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_ Max B. Allen
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Ralph Edell
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‘ Louis Schenker
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Thomas J. Donovan
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Robert W. Hemphill han
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William H. McConnell
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Tarleton Winchester |
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ADDITIONAL ExuHIsIts
Exhibit 53
Exhibit 67
Excerpts From Exhibit 96
Exhibit 99 for Identification
Petition ie Review Served on September 16, 1966 : )
Order Providing for Use of J oint Appendix in a
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Opinion and Judgment of Court of.Appeals for the.
District of Columbia Circuit, 372 F. 2d 932 (1967) ..
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. DOCKET BEFORE THE COMMISSION |
; Docket No. 873
Investigation of Passenger Steamship Conferences
ssi Travel Agents ~
Pleadings, Orders ‘and Related Matters .
1. Order of the ‘Federal ‘Maritimé-Board’ (hereinafter
the Board) dated November 2, 1959, entitled “In-
vestigation of Passenger Steamship Conferences -
Regarding Travel Agents,” consisting of two pages. .
_ 2. Order of the Board dated N ovember 10, 1959, en-
titled “Notice of ae and at Hearing,”
| consisting of two pa i
3. “Petition for Leave to Intervene and Two (2) Mo-
tions”; filed by James. F. McManus, dated Novem-
ber 23, 1959, consisting of five pages.
4. “Petition to Intervene” filed by Travelers Club, Ine., ?:
dated November 29, 1959, consisting of four pages.
ciety of Travel-Agents, Inc., dated February 24,
1960, consisting of six pages.
| 6. “Petition for Leave to Intervene” filed by Mary R.
es McManus, dated May 10, 1961;: — of two
pages.
7. “Reply of Western Tiabichese inane Confer-
ence to Petition of James F. MeManus for Leave
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+. Docket Beforé the Commission
- Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
to Intervene and Expand the Proceeding to Include
an Investigation of ‘Western Hemispliere Passen- .
ger Conference” dated December 7, 1959, consisting.
of four pages and “Affidavit in Support of Reply of. . ~
"Western Hemisphere Passenger Conference” dated
December 4, 1959, consisting of four pages.
_ «Motion of: Conferences to Dismiss or Deny Re-
quest of James F. McManus” filed by Trans-~
Atlantic Passenger*Steamship. Conference and At-
lantic Passenger Steamship Conference, dated De-.
cember 11, 1959, consisting of eight pages. .
_ “Answer of James F. McManus to Motion of Con-
ferences, to Dismiss or Deny” dated December 14,
1959, consisting of two pages. | i
. Order of the Board dated J anuary 21, 1960, grant-
ing petition to intervene and denying two motions
of James F. McManus, consisting of one page.
. Ruling of the Presiding Examiner granting peti-
tions to intervene of American Society of Travel
Agents, Inc., and Travelers Club, Inc., dated March
15, 1960, consisting of one page. vt
. Presiding Examiner’s “Notice .of Prehearing Con-
ference,” dated April 26, 1960, consisting of one
page. Reet
. Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Postponement of
Prehearing Conference,” dated May 4, 1960, con-
sisting of one page. |
14.
15.
16.
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. Docket Before, the Commission
Pleadings; Orders.and Related Matters
Transcript of prehearing conference, dated Jurie ”
14, 1960, consisting of forty-eight pages.
“Motion of American Society of Travel Agents for
Production of Documents by the Respondent Lines
and Conferences,” dated June 21, 1960, consisting
of nineteen pages, and letter dated June 24, 1960,
containing additional arguments in support of mo- -
.tion consisting of two pages. :
“Reply on Behalf: of Respondents to Motion of
American Society of Travel Agents for Production
_ of Documents,” filed by Trans-Atlantic Passenger
17.
, 18..
19,
‘20.
Steamship Conference and Atlantic Passenger
Steamship Conference, dated July 5, 1960, con-
sisting of fourteen pages. |
Presiding Examiner’s “Ruling on Motion for Pro-
duction of Documents,” dated July 7; 1960, con-
sisting of three pages. |
“Motions & Demands” filed by James F. McManus,
dated August 18, 1960, consisting of two pages, amd
attached “Exhibit ‘A,” consisting of one page.
“Reply. of Respondent Steamship Eines to. the Mo-
tions and Demands of ‘James F. McManus,” dated
August ‘29, 1960, consisting of seven pages.
“Motion” filed by J ames F. McManus, dated Au-
gust 31, 1960, consisting of three pages.
; Presiding Examiner's “Ruling on Motions of James © .
F.. MeManus, Intervener,” dated September 14,
1960, consisting of two pages.
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Docket Before thg Commission - — | acre
Pleadings, Orders an#\Related Matters
92. Board’s order denying motion of intervener James
F. McManus to the extent not ruled upon by Pre-
_ siding. Examiner, dated September 28, 1960, con-
: sisting of one page. y
| 28. Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Further Prehear-
ing Conference,” dated November 14, 1960, consist-
ing of one page. .
24. Presiding Examiner’ s “Notice of fnlargenient of
- Time to File Replies,” dated January 4, 1961, con-
sisting of one page. ©
25. “Motion of American Society of Travel Agents de
. Depositions Based on Written Interrogatories and
for Further Production of Documents by: the Re-
spondent Lines and Conferences,” dated December ~
— 28, 1960, consisting of twenty-five “pages.
26. “Reply on Behalf of Respondents to Motion of
"American Society of Travel Agents for Deposi-
tions and for Further Production of Documents,”
filed by Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
. ference, and Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
8 ference, dated January -11, 1961, consisting of :
twenty-one pages. © h
27. “Reply of Public Counsel to Motion of American’
| Society of Travel Agents for Depositions and Fur-
_ ther. Production of Documents by Respondents,”
dated January 5, 1961, consisting of four pages.
28. Subpena—served May 15, 1961, ont, Craig Cooper,
President of Century Travel Service, Ine., con-
"sisting of one page.’
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- Docket Before the Commission
Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
29. Subpena—served May 12, 1961, on iF oseph C. New-
feld, President, Ambassador Travel Agencies, Ine.,
consisting of one page.
. 80. Subpena—served May 16, 1961, on Eugene Ham-
. mer, Manager, Roberts, Reilly and Sons, consisting
of one page. :
«BT. Subpena—served May 15, 1961, on Jean J. New- _
man, President, ‘Travel and Study, Inc. » consisting
of one page. ‘
32. Subpena—served May 15, 1961, on aie E. Erber,
“ Coronet Travel Agency, consisting of one page: -
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33. Subpena—served May 12, 1961, on John Stark
. Gorby, Stark Travel, eonsisting of one page.
34. Subpena—served May 24, 1961, on Max Allen, Ask
Mr. Foster, consisting of one page.
35. Subperia—served May 25, 1961, on Ralph Edell,
Brighton Travel Bureau, consisting of one page.
36. Subpena—served May 24, 1961, on Rabbi Hersch
Kohn, consisting of one page.
37. Subpena—served May 24, 1961, on Louis Schenker,
Internattanal Travel Bureau Inc. , consisting of one
page.
38. Subpend—served May 25, 1961, on T. J. Donovan, -
_Cartan Travel Bureau, consisting of one page.
‘39, Transcript of further prehearing conference, dated
January 12, “1961, consisting of pages 49 dae
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41.
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— -. Docket Before the Commission
«Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Hearing;” dated |
January 17, 1961, consisting of one page. —
Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Enlargement of
Time to Furnish Information,” dated February 24,
1961, consisting of one page.
42.
46.
47.
Presiding Examiner’s “N otice of Further Siideees.
ment of Time to Furnish Information and Exten-
sion of Date for Exchange of Exhibits,”. dated
_* March 27, 1961, consisting of one page.
- 43.
Public Counsel’s “Motion for Issuance of Order to
Take Deposition,” dated March 31, 1961, consisting
of four pages...
Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Reduction of Time
for Filing Replies to Motion for Deposition Order,”
dated April 3, 1961, consisting of one page.
Presiding Examiner’s “Authorization to Take Dep-
sition,” dated April 7, 1961, consisting of one page.
Subpena—seryed May 15, 1961, on Gabriel Villa,
‘Executive-Vice President, Blue Cars, Inc, consist-
ing of one page. ?
‘Subpena—served May 15, 1961, on Manuel J: Gibbs,
’ President, Gibbs Travel Bureau, consisting of one
49.
._page.
Public ibinaits “Motion to File Enlarged Briefs,” .
dated June 21,1961, consisting of two pages.
| Presiding Examiner’s “Authorization for Increased
Length of Briefs,” dated June 28, 1961, consisting
of one page.
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50.
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Presiding Examiner’s “Notice of Enlargement’ of
Time to File Briefs,” dated August 25, _ con-
sisting of one page.
Presiding Examiner’ s “Notice of Farther Enlarge-
ment of Time to File Briefs,” dated October 26,
1961, consisting of one page. -
Opening Brief of. Public Counsel, dated December 1,
1961, consisting of eighty-nine pages..
Opening Brief of American Society of Travel
Agents, dated November 14, 1961, consisting of
seventy-thyee pages.
Opening Brief. to Examiner Arnold J. Roth on
Behalf of Respondents ‘Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Steamship Conference and .Atlantic Passenger
Steamship: Conference, dated N ovember 16, 1961, *
consisting of 50 pages.
Reply Brief of Public Counsel, dated December 8,
1961, consisting of five pages.
Reply Brief of Respondents Trans-Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference and Atlantic Passen-
ger Steamship Conference, dated December 8, 1961,
consisting of fifty-one pages. -
. Reply Brief of American Society of Travel Agents, ©
dated December 8, 1961, consisting of rik “ala
pages.
Federal Maritime Cheisisaaitahias (hereinafter the
Commission) order ordering record to be certified
to the Commission for initial decision, etc., dated
January 15, 1962, consisting of one page.
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61.
62.
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Docket ‘Before the Commission
: Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
Commission order vacating and setting aside order
‘of January 15, 1962,. dated February 7, 1962, con-
sisting | of one page.
. Chief Examiner’s “Notice of install” dated
October 16, 1962, consisting of one page.
. Initial Decision of the Hearing Examiner, dated
January 24, 1963, consisting of seventy-one pages
and transmittal letter dated January 28, 1963, con-
sisting of one page. .
“Motion to Enlarge Time for Filing Exceptions,”
of American Society of Travel Agents, dated Feb-
ruary: 1, 1963, consisting ‘of two pages.
Commission order “Notice of Enlargement of Time
to File Exceptions,” dated February 5, 1963, con-
sisting of one page.
67.
.
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. Commission order “Notice of Enlargement of Time .
“to File Exceptions,” dated March 1, 1963, consist-
ing of one page. . ; eae
Commission order “Notice of Enlargement_of Time
to File Exceptions,” dated March 27, 1963, con-
‘sisting of oné page.
“Exceptions of Hearing Counsel, " dated April 5;
. 1963, consisting of ten pages.
‘66: Commission order “Notice of Enlargement of Time -
.. to File Exceptions,” dated April 15, 1963, consisting -
of one page.
Memorandum oc and Brief of American |
Society of Travel Agents dated April 5, 1963, con-
— of forty-eight-pages.
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Docket Before the Commission
Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
68. Exceptions on Behalf of Respondents to the Initial
69.
Decision of Examiner E. Robert Seaver and Brief
in Support of Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship ~
Conference and Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
ference, dated’ a 5, 1963. os of forty .
pages.
Commission order “Notice of Enlargement of Time
to File Replies to Exceptions,” dated May 3, 1963,
consisting of one page.
70MRReply of Hearing Counsel to Exceptions,” dated
71.
72.
73.
74.
one page.
May 13, 1963, and consisting of nine. pages.
“Reply Brief of Respondents to Exceptions and
Briefs of American Society of Travel Agents and
Hearing | Counsel” of Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Steamship Conference and Atlantic Passenger
Steamship Conference, dated anes A 13, 1963, con- :
sisting of twenty-nine pages.
“Reply to Respondents’ Exceptions” of American if
Society of Travel Agents, dated May 10, 1963, con--
sisting of fifteen pages.
Commission order “Notice of Oral Argument, vi
dated June 5, 1963, consisting of one, page.’
Commission order “Notice of Allotment of Time for
Oral Argument,” dated June 24, 1963, womewet a. of
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Transcript of Oral ares. dated Tune 28, 1963,
mages 1 se 108.
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Docket Before the Commision
Pleadings, Orders and Re ped Matters
76. Report of the Commission, gated January 30, 1964, °
consisting of forty-five pages, with order attaibed
(one page).
77. Commission ‘order’ transmitting page 13 for inser-
tion in Commission Report, dated February 24,
1964, consisting of one page.
78. Motion of Respondents Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Steamship Conference and Atlantic Passenger
- Steamship Conference for Extension of Time to
* ° File Modifications of Agreements No. 120 and No.
7840 and Rules Thereunder, dated April 14, 1964,
consisting of seven pages. ’
> 79. Commission order “Extension of Time to Comply,”
_. dated April 30, 1964, consisting of two pages. _
80. Opinion of Court of Appeals for the District of.
Columbia Circuit, 122 U. S. App. D. C. 59, 351 F. 2d
756 (1965). |
81. First. Supplemental Order of the Commission Fol--
lowing Its Consideration of Modifications Filed by
_ the Parties to This Proceeding in Accordance With
the Commission’s Order of January 30, 1964; April
2, 1965, consisting of six Peers.
82. Petition of Respondents for ‘Reconsideration of.
~/“ Certain Parts of First Supplemental Order of the
. Commission Served April 2, 1965; April 30, 1965,
. 10 pages. :
83. Reply of American Society of Travel abit Ince.,
to Respondents’ Petition for Reconsideration of the
‘Commission’s Order of April 2, 1965; nine pages.
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86.
91.
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‘Motion by Respondents for a Stay of the Commis-
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| Docket Before the Commission as
Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters”
Second Supplemental Order of the Commigsion Fol- —
lowing Its Consideration of Petition. Fildd by the
Parties to This‘Proceeding for Reconsideration of
Certain Parts of First Supplemental Order Served
April 2, 1965; July 2, 1965, four pages.
Motion of Respondents for Extension of. Time to
File Certain Modifications of Agreements No: 120°
and No. 7840; July 28, 1965, 13 pages.
Denial .of Motion - ‘of Respondents for Extension of .
Time to File Cer | Modifications to Agreements
No. 120 and No, 7840 and Third Supplemental Or-
der; August 2, 1965, three pages.
. Notice of Reopening of Proceeding; — 18,
1965, two pages.
Enlargement of Time for Compliance; September 1,
1965, one page.
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. Motion to Enlarge Time for Filing Briefs and for
Waiver of the Requirement of Printing ; cuptemal
1, 1965, two pages.
Enlargement of Time for Filing Briefs ; eared
38, 1965, one page.
Motion by. Respondents for Suspension of Order
Pending Judicial ‘Determination of Respondents’
Petition for Stay; September 10, 1965, three pages.
Reply of American Society of Travel Agents to
sion’s Order; September 17, 1966, eight pages, to-
xiia
Docket Before the Commission -
Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
gether with Motion to Dismiss the Petition for
Review of a Final Order of the Federal Maritime
Commission; September 17, 1965, 19 pages, and .
_ Motion for Leave to Intervene; September 17, 1965,
93.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
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_ six pages.
Enlargement of Time for 7 Briefs ; ena
17, 1965, one page.
Respondents’ Brief Dinieint to Notice of Reopen-
ing ; edie: 17, 1965, eight pages.
» ‘Brief of Hearing Counsel on Reopening of Pro-
ceeding ; September 21, 1965, 24 pages.
Opening Brief of American Society of Travel —
_ Agents in Reopened Proceedings; September 21,
1965, 47 pages; Appendix A, ASTA’s Opening Brief —
to Hearing Examiner, 74 pages;. Appendix B,
ASTA’s Memorandum of Exceptions, 49 pages; Ap-
"pendix C, ASTA’s Reply to earn Excep- .
tions, 16 pages.
Denial of Motion of Diiapenttnts for Sonpension © of
Order Pending Judicial Determination of Respon-
dents’ Petition for Stay; September 28, 1965, two
pages.
Respondents’ Reply Brief on Deonening of Pro-
ceedings ; October 8, 1965, 11 pages.
Reply Brief of Hearing Counsel; October 8, 1965, |
12 pages.
Notice of Oral eee October: 27, 1965, one
101.
102.
103.
104.
105.
106.
~ 107.
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Docket Before the Commission
Pleadings, Orders and Related Matters
Allotment of Time at Oral ‘A sineenin N ovember
10, 1965,-one page.
Transcript of Oral Argument; N ovember 15, 1965,
Volume I, pages 1 thru 130. . )
Report on Remand; July 20, 1966, 45 pages.
Order; July .20, 1966, one page.
Motion of Respondents for Stay and Extension of
Time to File Modifications of Agreement No. 7840
and Agreement No. 120 and _ Rules Thereunder; —
. August 23, 1966, four pages.
Reply of Hearing Counsel to ‘Motion of Respon-
dents for Stay; August 29, 1966, three pages.
Reply .of American Society of Travel Agents to
Motion by Respondents for a Stay and Extension
of Time to File Modifications of Agreement No.
_ 7840 and Agreement No. 120. and Rules There-
108.
under ;: August’ 30, 1966, four pages. :
Denial of Motion for Stay and Extension of Time;
September 12, 1966, two pages.
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Vol. 1, pages 1.158.
Vol. II, pages 200-400. -
. Vol. ITI, pages 401-562.
Vol. IV, pages 563-711.
Vol. "V, pages 712-915.
Vol. VI, pages 916.1077. |
Vol. VII, pages 1078-1226.
Vol. Vill, pages 1227 -1399.
Vol. IX, pages 1400-1556.
. Vol. X, pages 1557-1706. :
. Vol. XI, pages 1707-1865.
Vol. XII, pages 1866-2028,
. Vol. XITI,-pages 2029-2121.
Vol. XIV, pages 2122-2317.
Vol. XV, pages 2318-2468.
Vol: XVI, pages 2469-2618.
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Docket Before the Commission .-
‘Exhibits
1. Federal Maritime Board Agreement No. 120-76, dated
December 21, 1960, consisting of one page front and
back, Agreement No. 120-75, dated January 19, 1960,
' consisting of one page front and back and.Agreement
No. 120, approved _February_ 12, 1929, as amended
to December 22, 1958, consisting of thirty pages.
2. Board Agreement No. 7840-40, dated May 27, 1960,
consisting of three pages front and back; Agreement
No. 7840-39, dated Mayago, 1960, consisting. of three
pages front and back; Agreement No. 7840-38, dated
May 18, 1960, consisting of one page; Agreement —
No. 7840-37, dated May 5, 1960, consisting of two
pages front and b k; Agreement No. 7840-36, dated
March 14, 1960, cénsisting of one page; Agreement
‘No. 7840-35, dated March 1, 1960, consisting of two
pages front and back; Agreement No. 7840-34, dated
September 3, 1959, consisting of two pages front and
back; Agreement No. 7840, dated approved August
29, 1946, as amended to Dereiehed 22, 1958, consisting
_ of. two pages front and back; Atlantic Passenger .
_ Steamship Conference Agreement, dated February 12,
1946, consisting of sixteen pages front and back; and
Annex 1 to Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference,
consisting of four pages front and back. '
3. Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference Rules, dated
: March 26, 1953, consisting of fifty-one pages.
4. Trans-Atlantic . Passenger Steamship Conferenee
Memo to the Lines, dated January 9, 1961, consist-
ing of one page, and attaching Sub-Agency Memo No. ©
1436, consisting of seven pages. ,
LOPE TEGO DS NERS APTN PRTG HEY ‘ * ° fC eR MEMES soa -
> ,
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
é xvia |
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‘" Exhibits
Letters and conference minutes relating to appoint-
ment of sub-agents, consisting of twenty ‘pages.
Conference subagency file on Carmen A, Orechio, con-
sisting of nineteen pages.
Conference. subagency file relating to Gibbs Travel
Bureau, consisting: of sixteen pages.
Conference subagency file relating to United Travel
Agency, -Inc., consisting of ‘twenty-four pages.
Conference subagency file relating to Expoftair, Inc.,
consisting of thirty-three pages, —
Document concerning application for subagency by
Blue Cars, Inc., consisting of four pages.
Conference subagency file relating to Travel & Study,
Inc., consisting of twenty-three pages.
Conference subagency file relating to Coronet Travel
_ Agency, consisting of twenty-six pages.
Conference subagency file relating to Roberts Reilly
& Sons, consisting of eleven‘pages. . ‘
Conference subagency file relating to- Ambassador
Travel Agencies, Inc., consisting of sixteen pages..
Conference subagepcy file relating to Ernst Esch,
Ernst Esch Company, consisting of eleven pages.
Conference snbagency file relating to Pertess Travel |
' Agency, Inc., consisting of fifteen pages.
17.
Conference subagency ‘file relating’ to Stark Trans-
port, Inc., consisting of eleven pages.
18.
" » area committees on subagency appointments, consist-
*. 90,
21,
_ 25.
26.
re
19.
7
- 1
ne ee
o
xvilia
- Docket Béfore the Commission
‘Exhibits —
it relating to deliberations of metropolitan
ing of fifty-five pages.
Memo to the’ Committee on Control of: Subagencies, -
dated May 15, 1961, of the Trans-Atlantic Passenger _
Steamship Conference, consisting of two pages.
Trans-Atlantic. Passenger Conference. Confidential
Memo to the Passenger Traffie Managers, dated Oc-
tober 22, 1958, consisting of one page.
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference
~Memo to Special Committee, dated J anuary 19, 1959,
consisting of one page.
Letter from D. I. Knowles, Secretary, Trans-Atlantic
Passenger Steamship Conference, to’Richard M. L.
Duffy, Secretary, Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
- ference, dated February 26, 1959, consisting of two
pages, plus enclosure, consisting of fout pages.
. Confidential letter from W. H. Roper, Secretary, At-
lantic Conference, dated October. 15, 1958, consisting
of one page. ae. | oe
A group of ‘documents relating to cancellation and
reinstatement -of subagency of Japan American
Travel Agency, consisting of fifty-five pages.
Minutes of Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
ference meeting on June 16, 1960, consisting of one
page. ‘eget i uy
Letter from D. I. Knowles, Secretary, Trans-Atlantic
Passenger Steamship Conference, to R. M. L. Duffy,
¢
Seow
ae
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Docket Before the Commission
manne
fi Secretary, Atlantic biialianiaes: dated February 04,
27.
28.
1959, consisting of one page.
Letter from H. G. Craddock, Assistant General Pas- —
senger Manager; American Export Lines, Inc., to
Don I. Knowles, Secretary, Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Steamship. Conference, dated apa 30, 1959, consist-
ing of one page.
A group of documents relating to deliberations of
conferences with respect to the problem: of airline
competition, consisting of eighteen pages.
A group of Asediaate relating to deliberations of con-
_ ferences with respect to the problem of airline com- |
30.
31.
32,
'-petition, consisting of fifteen pages. —
Trans-Atlantic -Passenger Steamship‘ Cesiebense
memo.to the Committee on Control of Sub-agencies,
dated January 20, 1959, consisting of one page.
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference memo to the.
Committee on Control of Sub-agencies, dated Sep-
tember 13, 1956, plus a group of documents relating to —
Popularis Tours, consisting of forty-six pages.
Letter to Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Con-
ference from Levittown Travel Center, dated April .
27, 1961, consisting of two pages.
‘Application for Sub-Agency, The Cunard Steam-Ship
Company Limited, Donaldson Atlantic Line, one page
front and back.
Application for a eer Greek “Line, one page
‘front and back.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39,
41.
— 42,
"43,
- . ad
. § cen ee. eo
xixa .
Docket Before the Commission
_ Echibits
2
American Export Lines, Inc., sie Survey, two
pages front and back.
Minutes of Meeting of the Atlantic Passenger Steam-
ship Conference, dated March 10, 1960, oir: of
_ two pages.
Trans-Atlantic Palatal Steamship Conference Cir-
cular No. 276 to sub-agents entitled, “Sub-Agencies
Prohibited from Booking Passengers for Steamship ©
Lines Not Members of the Conference,” dated May
12, 1961, consisting of one page. : | :
Letter from Gabriel Reiner, Cosmos Travel Bureau,
_ Ine., to Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Confer-
ence, dated May 13, 1961, consisting of one page.
American Society of Travel Agents, Inc., Bulletin
#164, dated May 2, 1961, consisting of one page.
.. Federal Maritime Board, Tabulation of Responses to
Questionnaire Regarding Travel pages, consisting
of eleven pages. : Rare
Letter from Clifford S. Morgan, ae Agency
and Sales Department, United States Lines, dated
September 30, 1960, consisting of one page.
Office Meniorandum of Meeting of Committee on Con- |
trol of Sub-Agéncies, dated February 10, 1954, con-
sisting of one page. ~ :
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference file relating to
proposed change of ‘ownership of Advisory Travel.
Service, Inc., consisting of fifteen pages.
”
=
searce RR a ee a ak iter Dich aay ph ails
.
46.
47.
xx a =
Docket Before the Commission .
Exhibits
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference file ‘relating to
the Long Island Travel Service Corp., <nmnasy:: of
twenty-six pages. ‘9
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference file relice to
-the Journal Square Travel Bureau, consisting of nine-
teen pages.
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference file seloding to
Moritz Goldstein Travel ali ANT a of ected
pages. ~~ a ‘
Trans: AtlaptiosPaggenger Conference file relating to
cancellation of Century Travel Service of New York,
consisting of twelve pages.
. Letter. from Joseph Mayper, Uhajrman and cata 0
; Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference, to. Harold -
49;
Clark, Chairman, Holland America Line, dated March |
. 24,.1954, consisting of two pages.
Trans-Atlantic .Passenger Conferehce file relating to
: levying fine ypon Hershy Travel Agency, consisting
of twenty-three pages. Gs
.. Deliberations of Atlantic Passenger Steamship Gon-
ference on levels of agents’ commissions, consisting of
} “ninety-five pages.
51.
Trans-Atlantic’ Passenger Conference Lines Meet-
ing No. 32; Office Memorandum—Special Committee; ©
and Minutes of Regular Meeting of Coinmittee of
Philadelphia Representatives of Trans-Atlantic Pas-
.. Menger. Steamship Conference Lines, consisting of
eight pages.
.*
. d>°
52.
53.
89.
56.
57.
59.
-Xxia.
Docket Before the Commission | I
—..
Extracts from masetiige of the Atlantic Conference;
consisting of nine pages.
Page of a document entitled “Additional iia ay
Sea Relations (continued), dated October 9, 1950,
consisting of one page.
Documents relating to Atlantic Passenger Steamship
Conference's. deliberations on the level of agetits’
commisstons, dated January 9, 1951 to-March 5, 1951,
consisting of twenty-one pages. -
Documents relating -to Atlantic Passenger Steamihip ats
Conference’ s deliberations on the level of agents’ cam-
missions, dated. March 6-15, 1951, consisting of ten
pages. int
-Agent’s Commission, dated March 17, 1951; and letter
from H. B. Beaumont to Joseph Mayper, Trans-
‘Atlantic Passenger Conference, dated March 17,1951, .
consisting of two pages.
Documents relating to deliberations of Atlantic Pas-
-senger Steamship ‘Conference on the level of agents’
commissions, dated March 3-J une 17, 1951, consist-
ing of twenty pages.
‘ Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conférence Draft Rules of
Procedure, ‘dated September 17, 1951, consisting of.
two pages, and office memorandum dated September
25, 1951, consisting of one page.
Documents relating to deliberations of ‘Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on the level of agents’.
. commissions, dated February. 13, 1952, to October 31,
, ee, and consisting of aiton pages.
60.
62.
63.
” 65.
xii a
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Exhibits -
Documents rditiog to deliberations of Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on the leyel of - agents’
commissions, dated February 16; 1953, to June 24, |
1953, consisting of fourteen pages. -
Letter from K. F. Gautier, Assistant Vice President,
United States Lines Company, to Joseph Mayper,
Chairman and Secretary, Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Conference, dated June 9, 1953 , consisting of one page..
Documents relating to deliberations of Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on the level of agents’ —
commissions, dated August 3, 1953, to. November 2,
1953, consisting of seventeen pages.
Office Memorandum, Control Committee dated May
26, 1954, consisting of two pages; handwritten notes
dated June 2, 1954, consisting of one page; Minutes
of Trans-Atlantic Passénger Conference Meeting 404,
datéd June 3, 1954, ~~ of one page; memo
“Payment by Airlines ... ” dated June 3, 1954, ,con-
sisting of one page; are a letter from.V. Armold to
J oseph aie dated July. 2, 1954, consisting of one: .
page.
Documents relating to deliberations of Atlantic Pas-
‘senger Steamship Conference on commission where
part payment collected by different agents, dated
June 29, 1954 to May 10, 1955, ———- - twenty-
two pages.
Documents relating to deliherations of Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on meeting with Inter-
national Consultative Council of Travel Agents, con-
sisting of nine pages.
66.
- 67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72,
73.
75.
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Docket Before’ the Commission
Echibits
Documents relating to i lideuisien of Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on the level of agents’
commissions, dated January 26, 1956, to December 6,
1956, consisting of. twenty-seven pages.
Correspondence relating to meeting between Atlantic
Conference Committee and International Consultative
Council of Travel Agents in Paris on September 20,
1957, consisting of sixteen pages.
Documents relating. to deliberations of Atlantic Pas-
senger Steamship Conference on the level of agents’
commissions, dated. February 22, 1958, to November
7, 1958, consisting of nine pages.
File relating to proposed . change of owilerahip of
Allied Travel ren, Ine. —e of twenty-three
pages.
File relating to change of ownership of Atlas Travel
Bureau, consisting of twenty-seven pages.
File relating to cancellation of subagency_ of R. F.
Barr, consisting of ten pages:
File relating to change of ownership of Bankers
Travel Service, consisting of twenty-three pages.
File relating to cancellation of’ subagency Bartlett
. Tours Company, consisting of twenty-three pages.
74,
File relating ta cancellation of subagency Belair
Tours, Ine. , consisting of eight pages.
File relating to change of ownership of Biltmore
Travel Agency, a of eight pages.
87.
XxXiva
| Docket Before the Commission
7 Exhibits
File relating to change of ownership of Central SS & .
Exchange Agency, consisting of forty-four pages.
. File rélating to cancellation of subagency of Walter
C, Fell, _ consisting of eight pages.
File relating to change of ownership of Harney Travel
Bureau, consisting of twelve pages.
File relating to change of ownership of Knickerbocker
Travel Service, consisting of seven pages.
File. relating to Marin Travel Service, consisting of
twelve pages.
. File relating to.fine levied. against Morrison Travel
Bureau, Inc., consisting of five pages.
. File relating to cancellation of subagency of W. G.
and Dorothy K. Shaw, consisting of two pages.
File relating to transfer of subagency Troy’ s or
Agency, Ine. , consisting of seven pages. —
Document dated December 21; 1953, of the i
Atlantic Passenger Conference relating to’ Hershy
Travel Agency, consisting of five pages.
Letter from Joseph Mayper to W.°H. Roper, dated |
July 16, 1953, consisting of two pages.
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference memo to ‘the
‘Passenger Traffic Managers, dated December 4, 1953,
consisting of five pages, and Supplementary Agenda,
dated December 7, 1953, consisting of three pages. .
Office Memorandum, Control Committee, dated Janu-
ary 9, 1952, consisting of two pages,
xxva
Docket Before the Commission
Exhibits
88. Letter from Joseph Mayper to Wm. Franklin Crum,
dated August 22, 1949, consisting of one page; letter
from -Wm. Franklin Crum to Joseph Mayper, dated
August 17, 1949, consisting of one page.
89. Memo re Committee : ‘on Control of Sub-Agencies,
- dated June 9, 1954, consisting of one pagé.
90. Deposition of Joseph A. Hollander, taken at 45 Brosd-
- way, New York, New York, on Apr 20, — consist- eo.
ing of 157 pages.
91. Letter from Carel Stahl to D. I. Knowles, dated we!
17, 1961, consisting of one page.
92. Letier from Frank J. Réiser to Donald I. Knowles,
dated May 18, 1961, consisting of one page.
93. Letter from N. H. Hacohen to D. I. Knowles, Gated
| May 19, 1961, consisting of one page.
~~ 94, Letter from T. K. Hebert to D. I. Knowles, dated
_ May 23, 1961, consisting of one page.
95. Letter from J. P. Muldoon to Donald I. Knowles,
dated May 24, 1961, consisting of one page.
- 96. Responses of Respondent Lines to Motions of Ameri- —
can Society of Travel Agents and Public Counsel for:
Depositions, etc., dated April 3, 1961, consisting of
eighty-five pages.
‘97. Supplemental Responses on Behalf of Certain Re-
_. pondent Lines to.Motions of American Society of
i Travel Agents and Public Counsel for Depositions,
_- etc., dated — 24, 1961, consisting of eight pages.
- seetreemnres per eremegenrs a at a,
oe rere —— — ee EO et Tee ee ee = : .
prs = SPR is: . . .
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.
104.
105.
XXxvVi a&
Docket Before the Commission
| Exhibits
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Voyages sold
in the United States (1)-1955-1960 incl., consisting
of one page. _ ‘
Confidential letter from F. E. . Mead to The Secretary,
Atlantic Conference, dated Detember 9, 1953, consist-
ing of one page.
Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference, Paris’
Agency Control, dated April 27, 1959, consisting of
one page; Sub-Committee Meeting, Cannes, dated
January 27, 1961, consisting of one page; Memoran-
dum to the Lines, dated February 14, 1961, consist- —
ing of two-pages; Minutes of Sub-Committee Meet-
ings held February 20, March 7 and March 8, 1961,
consisting of eleven pages; Minutes of Meeting of the -
Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference on March
9/10, 1961, consisting of six pages. |
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Bookings, Re-
lationship of Total Bookings to Bookings through
Subagents, 1955 to 1960, consisting of one page.
Trend.of Bookings by Class, = consisting of
‘one page.
“103.
American Society of Travel Agents, Comparison af
Time Spent to Income Earned, consisting of one page.
American Society of Travel Agents, Comparison of
Earnings per Unit of Time Spent, consisting of one -
Ratio of IATA & TAPC to Total Commissions, 1955-
1959, consisting of one page.
xxvii a
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Exhibits
106. American Society of Travel Agents, Transatlantic
Steamship Share of Gross Bookings- vs. Share of
Gross Commissions, 1955-1959, consisting of one page.
107. American Society of Travel Agents Tours 1955-1959, :
_ Share of Gross Bookings vs. Share of Gross Commis-
sions, 1955-1959, consisting: of one page.
108. American Society of Travel Agents, Cruises 1955-
* 1959, Share of Gross Bookings vs. Share of Gross
Commissions, consisting of one page.
- 109. Definition of Metropolitan Territories, consisting of -
three pages.
110. File relating to Hettel Travel Service, consisting of
‘twenty pages.
111. Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference,
_ “Summer Season Periods for 1961, dated a ee 7
1960, consisting of seven pages.
112. Form letter of acknowledgment to an applicant for
appointment as a sub-agent together with memoran-
dum dated April 18, 1961, consisting of two pages.
113. Sub-Agency Appointment Agreement, consisting of
' four pages front and back.
114. TAPSC Sub-Agents in Metropolitan Territories Have
- Increased by 36% since 1950, consisting of one page.
115. Sub-Agents on Eligible Lists in All Metropolitan Ter-
.ritories, consisting of one page.
‘116. In Metropolitan Territories Total Requests Approved
: ‘for/Changes in Owner ship/Officers, Tradename or
agen of Sub-Agents, consisting of one page.
. i = - _ mee = OR eS RE a TTT A SE ee re ERE OT TE ale 2a
~4 44 a
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Exhibits
117. ‘Assessment of. Liquidated Damages Against Sub-
Agents. in United States and Canada, consisting of
one page. ; :
118.- File relating to hk Mr. Foster Travel Service, Inc. te
‘ consisting of eleven pages.
119. North Atlantic Steam ‘Traffic Gaatarvnceitineni of
Rules and Regulations, etc., consisting of two pages.
120. Atlantic Conference memoranda relating to. Agency
Commission, dated September 4, September 3, and
October 15, 1958, consisting of three pages.
121. Hemphill Travel Service Inc., Revised Analysis of
: Steamship Department Losses in Last Ten Years,
dated May 22, 1961, consisting of one page.
122. Letter from Price Waterhouse & Cd. to American
‘Society of Travel Agents, Inc., dated January 14,
1957, consisting of five pages, hi exhibits consisting
of fourteen pages.
123; Chart relating to five categories - agents and ex-
hibits, consisting of ten pages.
124, Statistical Data on Participation of Active‘Members
in the Study, Classified by Category of Volume of
Business, and by Geographical Areas, ete. , consisting
of eight pages. an
125. Statistical ‘Data on Participation of Active Me |
‘ in the Study, Classified by Category of Vol _ |
Business, and by Geographical Areas, etc.; / consisting.
of five pages. a, | | /
é
ME NAG. bo ade Ae
' xxixa i
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Exhibits
126. Correspondence between Trans-Atlantic Passenger
Conference relating to prohibition of sub-agencies
from booking passengers on nonconference lines, con-
sisting of nine pages.
127. Letter from A. M. Piscatella, Director of Trade Re-
‘ "lations, American Society of Travel Agents, Inc., to
Board of” Directors; dated December, 3988, consist-
ing of one page, -
128, Letter from Edward Aplaker: Assistant ica ,
; Counsel, Division of Regulations, Federal Maritime _
Board, dated March 30, 1961, consisting of one page,
enclosing questionnaire, consisting” of three pages.
129. Advisory Travel Service, Inc., Information Not In-
_ eluded in Exhibit 43, coniidtion of one page.
130. Allied Travel Service, Inc., Information not —
| in Exhibit 69, consisting of one page.
131. Belair Tours, Inc., Information not Included in Ex- :
. hibit 74, consisting of two pages: :
132. Atlas Travel Bureau, Information not Included in Ex-
hibit No. 70, consisting of one page.
133. Knickerbocker Travel Service, Inc., Tnfthrmetion not
Included in Exhibit 79, consisting of one page.
= 134. United Travel Agency, Inc., Information not Included
in Exhibit 8, consisting of one page.
135. Letter from W. F. McGrath, Executive Vice Presi- ° |
; dent, American Society of Travel Agents, Inc., to
Active, Active Associate, N-: RA. and N RA Silbeiads .
. 4 > .
. i,
= ’ r c
7 - — ee —
4 SE y 2% Pan pe ANP eer ~ LP OEY LITE POLO, PAOLO IOLA RLS PEALE HELIN: . : Pe SOT OF oO
MRA NAS) Oo ecaelere ne Sale .
136.
- 187.
138.
. 1389.
140.
141.
seeeehad
Docket Bufove the Commission
Exhibits
Members of ASTA, dated May 23, 1956, sscaiaitiait of
three pages. ths \
Cancellation by Joint Action, dated January 12, 1959,
consisting of two pages. \ .
Inadequate Number of Passengers ‘Booked’ in Metro-.
politan Eligible List Territories, consisting of one
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference, ~
Total Passenger Carryings—Eastbound from the
United States, consisting of one page; Trans-Atlantic
_ Passenger Steamship Conference, Total Passenger
Carryings—Westbound to the United States, consist-
ing of one page.
Deliberations of Trans-Atlantic Medecine Conference
relating to control over —e consisting of
eighteen pages.
Trans-Atlantic Passenger Steamship Cosiiereine
‘memo tothe Standing Committee on Control of Sub- ©
Agencies, dated March 9, 1961, _ consisting of two
pages. «|
Letter from D. I. Ridin to Blue ies: aay dated
April 7, 1961, consisting of one page; and letter from
Gabriel Villa to D. I. Knowles, dated March 24, 1961,
consisting of one page. ~-
3 Commnission Order of Investigation
At a Session of the Fapenat, Mansones Boarp held “at its
Office in Washington, D. C. this 2nd ws of November
ie. ;
Docker No. 873
INVESTIGATION OF PassENGER STEAMSHIP
Conrzrences Recarpinc TraveL AGENTS
Wueneas,. The American Society of Travel Agents has
petitioned the Board to institute a proceeding to investigate
the relations between travel agents and the Trans-Atlantic
Passenger Steamship Conference (Agreement No. 120) and:
- the Atlantic Passenger Steamship Conference (Agreement |
No. 7840); and ee a ad
WuHereas, Questions have beef raised regarding the pro-
‘priety of the activities of said Conferences insofar ‘as they *
relate to travel agents; and
WHEREAS, It appears to be in the public interest: to sei |
to all interested persons an Kaew A to be heard in this
regard;
Now THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that an investigation is
hereby instituted to deternfine whether aforementioned *
Agreements. 120 and 7840 should be disapproved, cancelled,
or modified, insofar as they relate to travel agents, in ac-
cordance with Section 15 of the Shipping Act, 1916 (46
Bae 814); and
It 1s FURTHER ORDERED, That all parties to Agreements
120 and 7840 are hereby made respondents herein; and
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3 Commission Order of Investigation .
Ir 18 FURTHER ORDERED, That a copy of this order be
published in the Federal Register with invitation toallin- ©
terested persons to intervene and. participate herein, and
a copy served on each of the respondents herein; and
' Ir ts FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding be set for
e hearing before an Examiner from the. Hearing Examiners’
Office at a time and place to be announced. a a
By the Board.
- (Bea) Ja ames L. Pimper
ie Secretary 3
(Szau] ied
USCOMM-MA-DC -
(Prehear. Conf. 63)
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| Excerpt From Commission Prehearing Conference
. Mr. Rowe: May I jest ask a question on that?
Will that require the production or the answering of
' the names of the individual lines, or will it be suffi-
cient if we say the vote was 10 to'2 or -something
like that? Do we have to furnish to ASTA the names
of the particular lines that were involved? .
Examiner Roth: The names of the particular lines
that are involved are named as respondents in this
_ proceeding.’ |
_ -Mr..Rowe: Yes. -
. Examiner Roth: What are you concerned about?
Mr. Rowe: I am asking whether we have to dis
close ‘to ASTA, assuming this information is avail-
able—I don’t know whether it is—whether we have
to disclose to ASTA the names of the lines that voted
against the commissions and the names of the lines
- that voted in favor of the commissions. ° This —
bea competitive matter.
» Examiner Roth: I am sure that it could be, but I
_ don’t see how we can get the information—and I.
deem it: relevant—without making the disclosure. I
_ contemplate that each of. the lines will search its
- files with regard to each of these meetings and fur-
nish.a statement, with. accompanying documents if
there are any in their files, showing what action was
_ taken with regard to each of the questions: involved
in these meetings. Otherwise we are operating in
the dark. We have to determine whether or not the
particular rules under investigation here operate to
+Q
| (Prehear. Conf. 64)
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7 ety 64
the détriment of the commerce of the United States
or are otherwise in violation of the Shipping. Act,
and the‘ only way we can do it is to find out pre- —
cisely what happened. I am not too much concerned
about any claims of eoqiqentiomty, to be very frank
with you.
Mr. Rowe: Mr. Examiner, does: this ¢ cover docu- .
ments only in the United States?
Examiner Roth: I would not confine it to deen- |
ments within the United States if that will be an
excuse for failing to disclose the position taken.
Mr. Rowe: Well, to the extent that it does cover,
- documents outside the United States, we of course
- would have to preserve the rights of the lines which
have been asserted in other proceedings that they
are not required to produce documents outside the
United States.
Examiner Roth: If they don’t prodose them they
lay themselves open to unfavorable inferences then.
_I will have to take that position.
Mr. Rowe: You understand that the lines will
have to take that position, whether they want to in
this case or not, because they have in other proceed-
ings. So I don’t think there should be any unfavor- -
able inference on that. They have asserted that posi-
tion in other proceedings, and in some cases they
have been directed by the governments not to pro- |
duce documents abroad. Naturally they will have to
take the same position here. :
EIEN RE I NMR yy Ty AM NOEL TRIN ie SO
ie | wuleaeerenn Papas LP TIS CR AS CEILS Pt tn Di
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| i. . * * e *
[Mr. Blackwell, Hearing Counsel]
At pages 4 and 5 of the first prehearing conference in
this matter, Public Counsel then advised ‘the parties that +
the Board’s investigation constituted a general inquiry into
‘. every facet of the relationship between travel agents and
the two subconferences or the member lines of those con-
ferences and that it was Public Counsel’s intention to con-
duct a pervasive examination of every aspect of that re-
lationship which directly or indirectly flows from the ap-
. proval of these agreements by the Federal Maritime Board.
* * * e *
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Donatp I. Knowters—TAPSC Secretary—Direct
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Mr. Mayper left the Conference on February 1, 1959,
and the Board investigation in this case was instituted on
November 2, 1959. Have there been any changes of sub-
stance in Agreement 120 since that date, Mr. Knowles? |
A. There have been no changes’in the agreement—yes;
there has been one, I believe, in connection with the with-
drawal of a member line. I think the text of that par-
ticular clause in the agreement was revised. And it was
filed and approved by the Maritime Board. There may
have been others, I don’t recall offhand. I would have to
check the actual dates we filed them.
_Q. How about changes in: the rules themselves? A.-
. Well, we are changing rules right along. I think we have
made several changes in the rules since that time..
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(Tr. 48-49)
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Donald. I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Direct
Q. Could you enumerate them, please? A. Not offhand.
I could name two we have changed. We changed, or we in- _
cluded a rule which provides for the payment of retroactive
commission to applicants subsequent to, their appointment.
We have'also abolished a rule which prohibited to a great
extent the furnishing of literature to applicants for sub- _
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agencies. I think it was an F rule. aa
Examiner Roth: . Would you relate that to exhibits,
and will you clarify —— what -Tules you are
_.. talking about?
+ * Mr. Blackwell: That i is just what I intended to do,-
| Mr. Examiner.
Where could we find these documents if we can
find it at all?
The Witness: In the agreement and the rules that
is printed. , we
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. I show you Exhibits 1, 2, and 3. Can we find in either
Exhibits 1, 2, and 3 marked for identification the rule relat-
_ ing to retroactive commissions? A. Exhibit 3, I think we -
have it there.
Q. Or 4? ‘A. There has been a change i in that one, too;
_a slight change recently. D-9 has been revised since Feb-
ruary 1, 1959. That’s in Exhibit 3. |
Q. And that’s page designated D8-91 A. It is actually
D-9. There are two rules on the page.
Q. Of Exhibit 3 marked for. identification? A. That's
correct. D-9 has been revised.
(Tr. 49-51).
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Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Direct
Q. Prior to that revision, there was no allowance for
retroactive commissions? A. N 0, not what you call retro-
active commissions. _ it. ’ a we
Q. Let’s get this point cleared up, Mr. Knowles. When
the conference uses the term “retroactive commissions,”
to what relationship do they attach? In other words, when
would retroactive commissions be payable now when they
were not payable prior to the. promulgation of this rule?
_ A. Well, prior to the rule, an agent was required to hold
the contract or the appointment agreement of-the line at
which time he could receive commissions on business he did
for the line or on business that sailed subsequent to his ap-
pointment. Under the present rule, if an applicant in the
metropolitan territory files an application through the Con-
ference, we note that date of application. He subsequently -
_ is appointed within six months. When he is placed on the
eligible list, that is, and then appointed by any one line,
that line may then pay him the retroactive commissions |
from the date of his application to become a member.
-, There is a maximum time period of one year. - :
Q. So, prior to the promulgation of this rule Or, as you
describe it, the revision of this rule, an agent who sold
transportation on Conference lines prior to appointment
could not under any circumstances receive commission, is -
that correct? A. Prior to the date of his appointment,
that is correct, . o
Q. Now, since the revision, under some circumstances, he
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can receive commissions? A. Correct. |
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Donatp I. Knowies—Cross
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The Witness: That’s right.
It is in the agreement No. 120, Exhibit 1, page
12, the rule being article (e), subparagraph (e). —
By Mr. McManus [Travel Agent Pro se]: ‘
Q. Can you let me know what the purpose of that particu-
lar provision is? A. Yes, sir. Subagencies cost the lines
molley. ‘We bond all our subagencies. The individual car-
. Yiers furnish agencies material. I think—I don’t know—I .
have heard varying estimates of the cost of an agent to
each line. We feel that we offer adequate services in the
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North Atlantic and in the Scdbiiienmiini areas. We feel.
_ that if another line wishes to utilize the services of our ap-
pointed agents in those routes that they could at least
conform with the regulations that are laid down by the
Trans-Atlantic Conference with respect to rates, condi-
- tions, free reduced rates and so forth. ;
Actually,:in practice, the number of vessels which are .
employed in such routes are freighters. I think there is
rarely an occasion where there isa passenger vessel in
. the trade. The amount of business done by the agent for
such vessels would be relatively small from a practical
standpoint. : |
But we do feel that the agents, perhaps, can be also pro- .
tected in connection with the activities of lines who come —
in for one trip.. We have an example now where I believe an
** outfit in Canada is advertising future sailings of vessels,
‘requesting deposits of $250 from agents, requesting pas-
sengers for $25 deposits on a’ship to be built some time in .
been future.
_ (Tr. 261-62, 276, 321)
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Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Redirect
‘We have just recently issued a bulletin, Mr. McManus, |
calling the agents’ attention to this rule. We feel it is not
only for the protection of the agents, it is for the protection
- of the public from companies that might come in as a fly-
. by-night operator and fleece, not only the agents, but the
public. And we think it is a good rule. : ee
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Q. Well, when did the lines make a provision for the pay-'
ment of a retroactive commission? A. I think it was
March 8, 1960. ;
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~ Donarp I. Krowres—Redirect
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Redirect Examination by Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Mr. Knowles, I’d like to clear up a few questions
that have been brought up on cross examination.
Now, as to the carriers’ eligibility for conference mem:
bership, all that is required, is it not, is—for membership
either as a full-fledged member or an associate member-
ship—that that carrier be a common carrier of passengers
in the trading area served by the conference? Is that cor- .
rect? A. The passenger carrier would be eligible for mem- _
bership as we call it. A freight carrier only for associate
membership. ix
Q. That’s right, but they would have to be-a common
carrier of passengers within the confines of the trading
area? <A. That’s correct. |
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‘Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Redirect nore.
Q. Now, you mentioned a Canadian company that has
been soliciting various people about a potential service.
Do you view that company as a serious threat to the stand-
ing of the conference and its member lines? A. Not at
the present, no, sir.
_ Q. Why did you mention it? A. It’s one of the reasons
for the rule, Mr. mien :
—322—.
Q. What rule? A. The cde that was discussed in con-
nection with passengers being booked by ae on com-
petitive carriers.
Examiner Roth: N on-eontarence competitive car- .
riers?
The leder sant Non-conference, yes.
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. And the rule is designed to protect whom! A I think
in this instance it will protect both the agencies and the
public.
Q. And how about the eaarsere A. a re not too con-
cerned about it.
_ Q. You’re not concerned about it? F Well, I meana
ship that’s not on the drawing boards yet, that will not be .
built in. 1962 or 1963, we’re not particularly’ concerned at
the moment, sir. _
Q. All right. Let’s take a ship in being. oa in. opera-
tion and sailing non-conference. If the rule is invoked in °
this instance, who is protected by the rule? A. In the
instance we’re speaking of?
.Q. No, in the instance I just gave you. A carrier in
being and operating in the trans-Atlantic trade for the car-
riage of passengers, it being a non-member of your con-
ference. A. Who would be protected?
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"Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Redirect
- Q Yo, How is, the public protected by: the invocation 3
—393—
of this rule and what do you mean by the public? A. I
mean ‘the traveling public i in connection with what we have:
discussed. Now, with respect to what you bring up now,
‘if a vessel, an actual operating .vessel,- is brought into the
trade and is going to make a couple of voyages. and then
go out of the trade and while in they’d want to use all our
facilities and our agents, I suppose you could indicate that
the rule would protect our lines from that ‘so-called com-
_ petitive voyage..
Q. Getting back to the so-called seattle of the pub-
lic, is that the protection of individual passengers that ?
you’re concerned about? A. In the instance of the so-called y
Canadian company I think it would be, yes, sir. —
Q. How about the instance of an operator in aes
A. That could protect the public too, Mr. Blackwell. I
think we had a case, Mr. Mayper can probably tell you.
more about it, some years ago of a ship coming into the
port and soliciting bookings, collected about $600,000, went:
bankrupt, and the. public suffered.
As a matter of fact, I think he can tell you more sioet |
it than I could.
' Q. Do you view the authority that the Federal Maritime
’ Board has given you pursuant to Section 15 to enter this
conference —— as an authority to protect the
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public interest? That i is, the passengers traveling on ships?
A. I don’t think it gives us that authority, no, sir. |
‘Q. All right. Now, let’s seas’ Does it protect the agent?
And if so, how does it protect the agent? A. Well, again,
in the present instance are you talking about the Canadian.
company, prospective company? ce |
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Q. I’m talking about a non-conference line that theoreti- :
cally would be in eompetition, if we can use that term. A. .
Oh, a line in competition, I don’t think it would necessarily
protect the agent except in the case ‘that Ihave. just cited.
Q.-It wouldn’t necessarily . ‘protect the agent? A.
“Wouldn't necessarily protect the agent.
Q. As a matter of fact, isn’t it possible the agency would
be stronger. by being’ able to get commissions from non- ©
conference carriers? A. Well, at the moment I don’t think °
so, no, sir. There ig not any “such thing except an occa-
sional ship .coming in for some: cream.
-Q. How are the lines protected? A. Well, the lines are
protected in the matter of an agent who would represent
-by-night steamship ek coming in on a quick
operation.
ell, I can cite you an example of the Arosa tins which
eonference member. a
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Q. That was a conference member?’ A. And the agents
was
I believe suffered considerable financial loss in connection ~
with that line. I think that could be a worse situation where
a line came. in and did the same sort of thing. It has hap-
pened.
Q. In the case of the Arosa: Line’ that you mentioned,
the fact that they were conference members didn’t particu-
larly protect anybody, did it? A. We were obligated to
accept them as conference members on the agreement.
.Q. But the fact was they were conference members and .
no one was protected? Is that correct? A. eee got
stuck,
Q. And that does oteur in’ business, does it not, Mr.
Knowles?” A. Including the conference. Yes, I guess so.
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Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Redirect :
er Q. Do you have any idea of the degree of participation
~ that the trans-Atlantic conference carriers have in the car-.
riage of passengers aeross the ‘Atlantic compared to any
other surface transportation? That is; water? .A. Well,
by degree ‘of participation you mean how many other lines
might be involved? | isc, : :
Q. Would I be very wrong if I said that approximately |
99 per cent of the carryings by water across the Atlantic
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are carried by member lines of the trans-Atlantic passen-
ger conference? A. That might be a pretty good estimate,
yes, sir. | , :
Q. It wouldn’t be very far off? A. No, the freight carry-
ings— They’re very, very minimum. | .
Q. In fact, it eduld be higher than 99 per cent? (A.
Well, that’s—I’d take that I guess. “
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Q. Now, from your general experience in ocean trans-
portation and particularly in regard to your travel duties
with the Trans-Atlantic: Passenger Conference, is it fair to
say too that the travel agents as distinguished from the
lines’ own offices book the predominant or overwhelming
amount of passenger carryings? A. It is fair to say that,
yes, sir. ‘ oe
‘¢, 9. Do you know whether it’s the consensus in the ship-
ping industry that the travel agents do perform a fairly
efficient, economical job of selling transportation for ocean
carriers? A. Oh, I think that would be the consensus, yes.
_ Q. Is there any reason that you know of that the same
would not be applicable to travel agents performing: duties
for non-conference carriers? In other words, that non-
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conference carriers too, mare they not, have to depend for
bookings toa — we on travel agents to remain in
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business successfully ?. A. I would assume that they would. —
Now, you mentioned in the question that Mr. McManus
to you that one of the reasons you thought the rule was.
reasonable was that if a non-conference line utilized the
- conference travel agents it’s only reasonable to assume and
fair to expect that they would conform to the practices and -
established procedures that the conference has laid down? .
A. That’s correct:
Q. Is that a correct framing? A, That's correct.
Q. So would I be correct:in stating that as far as the ;
non-conference rule is conéerned it is an indirect device to
get potential competitors to join the conference? : A. I’d
go further than that, Mr. Blackwell. I think it’s an attempt
to get the lines that would enter the trades to quote.compati-
ble rates, for example. If a line comes in and starts cutting
a rates, it would be harmful to the trade generally. -
Q. In other words, you would: want them to follow the
practices, procedures, rates and other matters appertain-
ing. to passenger travel that~the conference lines have
agreed upon? A. Yes, sir.
.Q. And ™ would: want them to do that? A. Yes, sir.
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Q. And the rule is bolo for that purpose,.is it not?
_ A. It may have been. ° I don’t know. . It was designed a .
long time. ago before I was in the conference.
Q. Would you disagree that it has that effect? A. I
just don’t know.
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Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Recross si
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: “72 * * #* .@ . .
Q. So to that extent that line is protected, is it not?
‘If,they see something in an agent’s character or his ability
to do business he does not -have to do business with him,
does he? A. Oh, the actual appointments are for each line
certainly. Any line can-refuse to appoint.. Beara}
Q. So regardless of what the conference does, if it ap-
proves an agent for the eligible list,.it is not mandatory
for any member line to appoint that agent? Is that cor-
rect? A. That’s correct. yar
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Donato I. Knowies— Recross 7 ’
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. By Mr. Sisk, ASTA Counsel:
_Q. Mr. Knowles, just so the record will be straight, ther
arecfreighter lines which carry, passengers across the A
lantic today in operation,-are there not? A. ‘Yes, sir.”
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” Q. You indicated in answer to a question earlier today~
that Caribbean cruises are not included within the scope of
the TAPSC agreement. Is that correct? A. That’s correct. °
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. Manvex J. Grsss—Direct :
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By Mr. Blackwell: :
. - Q. Now, if you look at the third paragraph and the last :
three lines, you state that: “... but in all ‘fairness:to our
travel agency wé must of -neéessity to survive, push air
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_+ Manuel J. Gibbs—Travel Agent—Direct
transportation for which we are duly accredited ‘and re- ° -
ceive proper commission.” What did you mean by that
statement? A. Well, that’s common sense‘in any business.
If we are an accredited agent in any line ‘of endeavor, be it
travel or selling pencils, if we receive a commission for the
work we’re doing and I have a salary to pay for: ‘people,
we'll naturally use our endeavor in order to receive a com-
mission and pay our rent ms be able to pay our employees.
f —571—
We couldn’t afford to take care of ship transportation com-
plete line if we weren’t getting paid for it.
Q. You're in business to make money, are you not? a
We hope to.
Q. How would one push air transportation, Mr. Gibbs,
as contrasted to pushing sea transportation? A. It’s sales-.
manship which would be similar. to salesmanship in any
other line of endeavor. It’s a known fact that in the clothing
~ business, for instance, if something is advertised the sales-
- man will try to push a better suit of clothes, or whatever it
happens tobe.
The personnel, my associate and the girls in the office,
__ wherever possible on international bookings, we would point
out the speed and facility: by the use of air and we: to switch
them over to air when we could.
Q. Is there a pool of travelers that can be switched, and
if so under what circumstances? A. Well, we’re a small
agency so that my experience here would be limited. How-_
ever, to the extent of our experience I would say that there |
are always a small segment of travelers who come in without
having a preconceived notion of their means of ‘travel who
with proper swaying can be switched.
And some people, ‘of course, where they have a limited _
- amount of time, as a good travel agent you’re in a position
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it to point. out to them that the time saved with air travel will
round out their itinerary to the extent so‘that they can
‘further the trip that they’re trying to make.
'Q. So that with a persuasive and an effective solicitation .
‘some amount of passengers could either be diverted from: '
air to sea or some péople who had not made up their minds
could be persuaded to go by seat A. To a limited extent.
Q. To an extent? A. Yes.
_. Q. You consider that lack of commissions was. ‘a handieap a
' for you as a non-appointed agent? Is that correct? A. Well,
it would necessarily have to be.
Q. Did you have any other handicaps as a ounpaneiities
agent? A. We had a certain amount of difficulty with lit-
erature. As was pointed out to us by the lines,-they could
\ only forward: most of the literature and schedules and sail-
. ing information to regularly appointed" agents. They .
pointed out to us that there is a tremendous cost in keeping
sub-agents on the books and that it was impossible for them
pe — us on an active list until we were duly accredited.
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4. Q. As a non-appointed agent located generally in the.
; suburbs of the New York metropolitan area; did this cause °
you any handicap? A. It would to the extent that people
: could go to the line directly. We were fairly glose in Jersey;
' : —. or they could go to one of the surrounding communities.
/ *+ We do have agents within 6 or 7 miles who are appointed
and who would have the right of writing tickets. So, cer-
- tainly, without accreditation, you can’t possibly have the
' standing of someone who i 1s, 1 in any line of business, not uta
in‘travel.
Q. Does your agency : now hold. tickets? A. ‘Yes, to cer- i
_ tain of the lines.
_ Q. When you sold tickets for certain-of the lines that you
now hold tickets for before your appointment, did this re-
.
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. Manuel J. Gibbs—Travel ‘Agent—Cross Ly
quire either you or some employee of your agency. to make ©
a trip to New York to pick the tickets up? A.:If it was
short-term, we would have to go in.- If it wasn’t, we would
_write and forward. our check and receive.the tickets-and try
to handle it in the same way as if we were properly accred- .
ited. It wasn’t something you would tell your passenger if
._ you wanted to keep him. :
Q. This was not a problem that’ you have now, is that cor--~
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Q. ea did the fact that you had occasionally either to
make a personal visit to New York or write for tickets entail
some additional expense? A. N ecessarily additional phone _
calls, actual trips into the city, forwarding money. It does
take time and effort. ear ——
Q. Now, do you know approximately -your gross TAP
gales for the year prior to your appointment? A. Not off
hand. I don’t know whether it is in the file here. -
Q. Did you make a comparison between your sales the -
year before your appointment and the results. immediately .
_ thereatftert A. ce 4 have eeeey Nici
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By Mr. Neaher, Counsel for Petitioners:
- Q. Now, since your appointment would you say that this
prior practice or area—I won’t call it a practice—of per-
‘suading passengers one way or another has changed to any “4
extent? Now that you do get a commission on trans-Atlantic ;
bookings, has it. changed? A. Yes, in that we now do
actual counseling. In other words, the situation of the —
. passenger is definitely and completely foremost. .
~~ Q. ‘Well, when you say you now do actual counseling, do
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Manuel J, Gibbs—Travel Agent—Recross
. you mean that you are becoming a more professional travel
- agent? A. With more tools to offer.
Q. Better informed about the advantages of shianbig |
travel? A. That would be true. And also with experience |
we are better informed generally.
Q. But does tle commission incentive play any large part
in this. change?’ A. It helps.
Q. Well, it helps. I think I’d agree. A. It becomes on
an even par with our other forms of transportation. And
then we do our best to satisfy the traveler’s needs, be it ship, .
be it air, or whatever other form it may take...
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By Mr. Sisk:
Q. Has it Sie! your experience dint an employee needs.
more experience to handle sea bookings hana air rn
A. Yes.
Q: Now, you’ve been a TAPSC-approved sana for just.
a little bit more than one year. . Is that correct? A. That’s
—60s—
Q. During that past y year have you found that, space has
been readily available on-the trans-Atlantic steamship. lines? ~*'
A. Well, it’s. a question of the meaning of “readily avail-
able.” I don’t think space is readily available at any time _
except completely off-season.
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Q. Now, does the obtaining of space take a great deal of
time? A. Well, it entails the necessity of making a written 22
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Manuel J, Gibbs—Travel Agent—Recross
application and either asking, for a general guarantee
within. the particular type of service you want or asking for
a specific location and then reanswering to that if it’s avail-
able so that it would take more time than just making a
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iiast phone call for trip ihre ‘sorry; for air space.
_ Q. And when the customer has asked you far one kind of —
' space and you find that kind of space is not. available, do
iN
-you then have to sit down with the customer or the client
‘and discuss the other kinds of space which are available?
. A. Definitely. I mean if he wants tourist and there is only
| _ first class available, you can’t spend his money maa his
permission. .
-Q. Do you find the same problem arises with respect to
booking international air flights? A. Oh, I would say it’s
. definitely simpler. You have two kinds of space available.
There either is space or there isn’t space. __
Q. Do you consider in your business, Mr. canines that time
is money? A. Very definitely.
~ Q. Did you have that in mind when you stated, as you did
earlier in an answer given to Mr. Neaher, that booking of
‘trans-Atlantic’ ‘steamship space was now on-an even par
» with booking of other space? A. That would be one of the
things I had in mind, yes. x,
—Q. You did have that in mind? A. Yes, ¥-
. Q Well, does it take longer to book a'‘ trans-Atlantic
| —612—
steamship passage than it does. to book a trans-Atiantic air
passage? A. Yes, because normally we can | book trans-
- @{tlantic air by a simple phone call.
Q. So that it really isn’t.on an even par with booking i in-
ternational air, is it? A. You mean with the amount of
time that we have to spend i in the office?
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Gabriel Villa—Wholesale Travel. Agent—Direct
Q. Y A. It would take more time for the ship, in that
normally the procedure would be that we would have to
follow it, up either with a deposit form or a letter of appli. 7.)
Q. So that it really isn’t on an even par with interna- |
tional air? A. Timewise it would take more time. .
Q. With respect to-steamship lines for which you do not
hold ticket stock, who does the actual making out of the “-
tickets? A. The line..
-Q. That saves you a little time, doesn't it? A. Yes. a
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» GasrieL Vitta—Direct sn fat :
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By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. And inthe middle of the last paragraph, when you
say, “In ny fon as approved sales agent for IATA we have:
done a great deal to promote sales; it has been of benefit to
us to promote air sales because we have always been as-
sured of our commission,”— A. Right. ~~ : “8,
Q. —what did you mean by that? A. Well, being an
IAT A-appointed agency and receiving a commission, of
course, we try to push our clientele e airlines, :
Q. Because you receive no commission? _A. No, because
-we do receive commission.
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> I fee. A. ‘Well, I mean “it’s not the ae reason. Also
‘isdiiib we can get the space. It’s just there are two im- .
portant factors. .One, we can get the space. And second, .
_ We can get the commission. “And I eas these two factors
actually go side by: side.
| customers didn’t know we had—and of course we did not —
s ,. ~ (Tr. 715-16, 745)
22a. 3 ne
ae ohy Stark Gotig~Bieual Agent—Direct
| Emanuel E. Erber—Travel | Agent—Direct-
peal ° 7 1 5
. Jo OHN r Stark Gorpy—Direct ‘
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Did the Stark Agency consummate any “naterial
amount: of bookings by water transport to i A. I
would say not at that particular time. : ‘e
‘Q. Why. not? A. In the first. ‘place we -were not *p-
pointed. |
Q. Well, how did that inhibit you from atte bookings, _
+8 . —716—
sir? A. Well, wickility the principal reason was that our
have—steamship appointments.
Q. Did lack of commissions play a part in this? A. N atu-
rally. 2 bh
: transportation? A. I don’t know of any others.
Q. Now, at what point between January 25, 1957 and
your ultimate appointment or your ultimately being placed
on the eligible list of the Trans-Atlantic Passenger Confer-
ence did the Stark Agency begin selling a material amount
of ocean transportation? A. I would.say in 1959.
Q. And. what caused you to change your policy in that
regard a ‘and: ‘why did you begin selling ocean transportation
in that year? A. Well, in order to get the business and the
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EMANUEL E. Exser-—Direct ged
A. Before. we become members of the conference, ifatravel -
agent—-and I presume most travel agents did as I did—had
a client came up and said, “We’d like to ‘go by ship to
Q. What other factors ala ted you from jeittien' ocean -.
.
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Sesion E. Erber—Pravel Agenit—Dirgct mS |
: Barope,” -we were interested in making a living and so we
_. talked these people out of going by ship or we tried to
' ‘talk these people out of going by ship and we. sent them
over by air because it meant money to us.
. ’ Naturally,.when we became members of the steamship
conferenck, we. didn’t exert that type of pressure on our .
clients any more because we were making our commission
both from the steamship and from the a air.
i
A. Well, this j is the discussion that we had just a shsctalieli
ago, sir, that where we had people who came to us and
decided that they wanted to-go to Europe, invariably we
~ tried to tell them to go by air, because we knew it was com-" |
; missionable, whereby if they went by ship it was not commis- .
sionable. © ;
er
Q. Regardless of the time period involved § in this produe-
tion of $101;000 worth of business for the airlines, is it
possible for you to estimate, Mr. Erber, how much of this
business could have been diverted to sea carriage if you had
been appointed? A. It would be very difficult, sir. I would
‘ venture a guess if you wanted me to but with the under- —
standing, sir, that it was a guess. °
Q. A calculated guess based on experience? a, I would
say easily between 25 to.35 per cent of it.
-
: 24a
Emanuel B. Erber—Travel Ageuh--Oress .
EMANUEL E. aaa
By Mr. Sisk: |
‘ Q.. Do you find that it takes more time to book a rebuadeahip
passenger than it does to book an international air traveler? >
‘A. Yes, it does.
, Q. Can you give us any approximate estimate of how
‘much more time it takes in terms of a comparison? Is it
half again as much time, twice as much time, that sort of a
comparison? A. I would say from three to four times as
much time.
Q. In your business do you consider. time is no Mr.
Erber? A. That’s all I have to sell, sir.
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__ Q. Mr. Erber, do you find there are passengers or poten-
tial passengers, clients who come into your travel agency,
who are not set and do not have predetermined ideas as to
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the. way they want to aot to Europe? A. Oh, yes,-indeed. -
a Q. And do you find these travelers cai be influenced to
go by one method of transportation rather: than another? .
‘A. I believe so. \
Q. Do you know whether your employees have in the two.
_ years in which you have been approved by the TAPC ever.
influenced any passenger who gor poe well set in his method
of getting to Europe to go by a
No, sir.
Q. You just dgn’t know? A. I would say, to the. con-
trary, we have tried to inflnence them to go by sea rather
than by air.
(Tr. "758, 768-69),
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ve
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rather than by sea? A. |
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punpemenrerthgngenictete Ren EERIE ne ETT RIE TENG OTITIS NT NAOT EY POEUN Sie Lathe ie EATER OIE
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id Emanuel E, Erber—Travel Agent—Cross_
Q.. Why is that? A. Because 1 we feel that— Well we
feel that people going to Europe for a vacation, that the use
-of a steamship going either direct or in one direction would
greatly enhance the vacation.
Q. And you do this despite the fact that it takes much
more time to do a steamship booking? A.- Unfortunately,
yes..
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Q. In. the past year, Mr. Erber, have you found spaces
- more available on transatlantic steamers than in the year
preceding that? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Does this mean that hens is somewhat?less work in-
” volved for you when there is more space available? A. Oh,
no. Oh, no. In-selling a steamship space, sir, we find that
there are certain procedures that we must follow. This is
where our time is consumed. We must first make the reser-
vation. We must submit that reservation to our client for
approval. If it i is approved, then we must prepare a deposi-
—TT1—
tory receipt after we get the deposit from our client. We
submit this depository receipt to our client. He holds it
until such time as we are in a position where we must ask
him for balance of the payment. We then contact our client |
and ask him for balance of the payment. Sometimes he
sends back the depository receipt; Sometimes he doesn’t.
If he doesn’t we must ask him for it. We submit this deposi- |
tory receipt with the balance ‘of payment to our steamship
‘company. This i is ‘time. This is effort. This you cannot-cur-
tail under the present circumstances. This is the way the
books say it must be done. This is the way we do it. I pre-
sume all agents operate in the same manner.
Q. Does it also take more : time i in talking with the passen-
oe about where the space is? A. Unquestionably, be-
(Tr. 771-72, 774)
26a ak 7 :
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Emanuel E..Erber—Travel Agent—Cross
_ cause every client wants to be on top deck in the middle of
the ship.
Q. I gather from that remark, Mr. Erber,-that probably
a great percentage of your business is first class, your
steamship business? A. I would say that certainly 80 per- |
cent of my business is either first class or top cabin class.
- * Q. You just don’t have much tourist business? A. Oh,
yes, we do deal with poor people, too.
Q. But it is a much smaller percentage of the business?
= Yes, sir.
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Q. One. last question, Mr. Erber. In dealing with your
clients or your potential passengers, what is your present
policy with respect to their wishes? A. vos: in so far
as what is concerned, sir? ©
Q. Well, with respect to their interests. Are you a looking
out for their interests, toot A. That is why, sir, I go
through all of this work in selling more steamship space
even though I feel it takes so much more of my time, because
I do look after the interests of our cttenta.
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By Mr. McManus:
Q. In other words, you say that i in addition to ihe time the
experience that you afford is of value? A. Mr. McManus,
in discussing that all I have to sell is time it is taking out
of context what we were discussing at the time. When |
I sell ‘my time, I sell my experience, sir. I am not sélling
myself by the hour, but I am selling an individual client
_ something that I already possess, the experience that I
have gone through through all these years in making a-
successful agency. Now, when I say I sell my time I am
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(Tr. 774-75, 796)
27a |
Jean _— Newman—Travel A gent—Direct
giving this man in that period of time of my experience and
my background. /
: —T75—
Q. In sonneotion with the various time that you give, do
you feel that because you have to discuss the particular ship,
‘decks, and the aceommodations in the particular cabins is ©
the main factor in the time that is involved ‘in your client,
as opposed to just an ordinary seat upon an airplane? A.
Oh, yes, this would have a great deal to do with it, sir.
* * .- . : > *
Ley ) —796—
Jean Jacgues Newman—Direct
By Mr. Blackwell:
. Q. Would you turn to the nines: document 129? In
the latter portion of the second paragraph you refer to |
an attachment to your letter which gives, as you put it,
a graphic illustration of your agency’s progress, and you
state:
“If that illustration shows.a mach larger portion via air
carriers this-is due to the fact that since early 1949 we have
- been approved agents of the International Air Transport
Association.” :
Now, how did that, fact influence your eneryingst ra
Influenced my carryings in that: sense that while from the
type of business that I particularly engage in my interest:
would always normally be to favor trans-Atlantic passages
by steamship, I nevertheless had to forego that and he
direct my tours by air.
Q. Why, sir? A. In the operation of sendy tours: with
an academic background or eligible for academic credit ‘I
would normally need to have a few days on a ship for a
' seminar session with the students, However, this i is impos-
sible by air. And it therefore will also ” the same token
:
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~ Jean Jacques Newman—Travel Agent—Direct -
diminish the potentiality of selling certain tours where
academic credits are involved because-I cannot give suffi- _
cient time to the professor who would be the academic direc-. —
tor of the tour for his lectures and for-the particular pro-
; ; =
gram that will introduce them to the program that is coming
afterwards in Europe-within the various countries.
Q. So at least on March 25, 1954 it was of direct benefit to
"you as a travel agent as well as to your patrons as students-
‘to have them routed by water carriers? Is that correct?
A.. Definitely, sir. : ; '
Q. Was that done? A. It couldn’t be done always, though
to’a certain degree it’was done when at a certain specific
period a student ship became available. ,
Q. Why wasn’t it done on other occasions? A. On other
- occasions it couldn’t be done because I could not spend more
money in advertising in yarious media which are not only
the press in which I advertise regularly but also the aca-
* demic publications, college newspapers, which are lesser -
known by the operators of steamships, and pay for it and
not get paid for it: I did not get any-money out of it.
Q. In other words, you did not receive commissions for .—
trans-Atlantic’ passages? A. I did not receive commis-
sions, ~ , 7 |
-Q. Are there any other reasons, Mr. Newman, why you
did not use water carriers more extensively beside commis-
PRET eR eee CEN Th POL Le en ete Ma
CR RO ace
sions? A. I don’t think that there were any other reasons
except that one. he ;
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Q. And during this period you sold tickets on air carriers
to Europe even though it was not to your best interests or
your clients’ best interests necessarily ? Is that correct? A.
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(Tr. 802, 827-28, 860-61) —
29a . ;
Eugene William Hammer—Travel Agent—Direct.
Joseph Neufeld—Travel Agent—Direct
I’ would say from the point of view. aside from the money
there’s. the,term of interest where as an agent I feel I can
give the best service. I felt that I’m able to give the best
service to a specific category of clients by routing them via
steamship. Not being able to earn any money by it, —-
_ . diverted this by air, - SE eae”
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—-—- ~
EvuGENE WILLIAM HamMEen—Ditect
. ' « * e -@¢ -@
_. Q. Now, if you look at the next to the last paragraph of
that letter ‘in the second sentence you indicate that you’re
- _. °° —828—
giving steamer bookings away but in the future you'll pre-
sent the public with a different picture. What did you mean
by that, Mr. Hammer? , A. Well,.a number. of people that
come in are more or less on the fence. They would like
a trip. They’re open to suggestion. And instead of offer-
ing a two-sided picture for their fravel, if we couldn’t ever
hope to get the steamship commission or the appointment
‘and thereby get the commission, we’d be ridiculous in sell-
ing eee at We would dé our darndest to sell air.
* * * *
J OSEPH NrEvuFELD—Direct
: * * . * *
_ A. Well, we in the travel business all feel that we are
salesmen, and if a client comes in ‘and discusses a vacation
or a proposed trip we can either discuss steamship to
' ‘an advantage or we can discuss air to.an advantage. In
our — sinte 1954, until we received recognition we were
; = | ven
not promoting steamship travel beckiase 1 we oat work
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~ 30a,
* Joseph Neufeld—Travel Agent—Direct
_Q. And it is your belief that if ‘you had promoted it it
-could have been substantially increased, is that correct? —
A.- Well, I feel that a certain percentage of our ‘prospective.
clients might have been induced to take steamship one way
or both ways. ha. ‘e
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Josern Nevretp—Cross|
7: * e @ * . *
By Mr. Sisk:
Q. Now, Mr. ‘Neufeld, with respect to your testimony
regarding the statement in your letter about $350,000 worth
-of transatlantic business and the fact that you could have
diverted some of that to steamship travel, what percent
of the people who come into your agency are open minded
--. or not set on the way they want to travel? A. Well, I have
to break it down into two categories before I answer that.
You have a commercial traveler and the pleasure traveler.
(Tr. 861, 864, 866)
<
Commercial travelers, most of them are set. ‘Of the pleas-—
ure travelers, I would say perhaps 15 or 20 percent of those
are open minded. . 7
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_-865—
By Mr. Neaher:
—866—
- @. Mr. Neufeld, when one of these—I think you charac-
- terized them as open minded—clients comes in, what is the
primary principle of policy you follow in attempting to
influence them one way or the other in their transportation
arrangements? A. You mean now? |
~ °Q. Yes.. A. Something that is best suited for the client.
.Q. That is the paramount thing? A. Paramount:
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J oseph N eufeld—Travel A gent—Redirect
' Q. And would I be correct to say that in some cases you
think it is better for them to go by a than by air?
A. In some cases. >
Q. And perhaps vice versa, but it operates both ways?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you find from your own experience that there are
- More cancellations of reservations occurring in the air
transportation arrangements you make than i in steamship? —
A. a ant
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JosePH NevFreLp—Redirect © :
ByMr. Blackwell:
Q. Now, one -of the first questions Mr. Neaher asked
you on cross examination was what was your primary |
motive in selling transportation today in view of the trav-
eler’s needs, and you said, “Now?” And he said, “Yes.”
And when you said “Now” I presume you are speaking of
the period after appointment? A. Yes, sir.
Q. What was your primary motive before appointment?
‘A. To sell as many air tickets as we could so we could earn -
a living. .
Q. Because you weren’t ene steamship commission?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Would you consider it was a matter of survival to sell
air? A. Yes.
—879—
The Witress: Well, point No. 1 it is more easy to.
memorize flights to London, Paris or Rome. If a cli-
ent comes in and discusses flights we can say there is
a daily flight to London or daily flight to Paris or
daily si to Rome. . On a steamship we can’t do.
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ny tin (Tr. 879-80)
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Joseph Neufeld—Travel ‘djeni~-Militanle
a
| that. We have to dig out the sailing schedule, a ref-—
_ erence book, and find out what ships are sailing at
- what time to what ports. Then you have deck plans.
There are no deck plans to contend with by air, but ©
there are deck plans in first.class, cabin class and
' tourist.class on ships, and I feel that it takes a great
deal more time to explain classes on steamship than ~
it does classes by air. Then you have to arrange for
deck chairs on a steamship. You have to arrange for —
dining reservations. This is is all done by lettgrwriting, ie
=880—
In most cases the clients are going to have some kind
of a bon voyage party, and that necessitates writing |
to tlie line and asking for setups and hors d’oeuvres. |
And then you have such a vast difference in the loca-
tions of space aboard ships that it takes some time as
to telling a client where they should be at what rate,
and so on and so forth. Then you have the deposit
receipt, which you don’t have on air. And then you
have the frequency of paying the lines compared to
the frequency of paying the airlines, steamship over
air. In canceling with air, I have explained before if”
. is comparatively simple, whereas with a steamship
company you have to write an additional letter and —
‘@ ask for your deposit to come back and when you get
_the deposit run it through your accounting and return
= it to the client. I feel that making up the tickets on a
steamship require more time, and I feel that the ex-
perience acquired by a person selling steamship over q
selling air is—requires much more’experience to sell
a steamship ticket to a client successfully, intelli-
gently, than it does on an air ticket. I think. that’s
_ abont it. ;
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MissiScncees Wie ius’ RL Nee ete PRL OREE Te Ok Pa ee Set i _e
és
Q. Do you have berthing problems with your ships | be-
tween upper and lower berths? A. Yes.
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(Tr. 880-81, 1085, 1104)
eC Ce? :
Joseph ae Chairman & Sec'y—Cross
Q. Neieihee of rooms in a particular berth? -A. Yes.
ed Do you have that on- a the air? <A. No.
—881—.
Q. ‘How about toilet facilities’ A. You have that, too.
‘There are rooms aboard a ship without facilities, and there
are rooms aboard a ship with facilities. ‘Phat. comes under
" discussion, too. A client says, “Is it worth the extra hun-
dred dollars to have facilities?” It — time and con-
versation.
‘Q. Does the potential ocean traveler i inquire Shout meais
and social activities on a ship? A. Yes. That’s another
good point which I have gverlooked. “They ask you how to
dress and how often you should wear a tux, what is the cap-.
tain’s table like, and how do you get seated at it, and the like.
Q. Do you find that one of the more normal’and frequent
questions ‘is how much should I tip? A. Yes.
®. Do you get this with airline — A. -_
JOSEPH Mayrer—Cross |
—1085—
, A. It is not the identical agreement because with the. com-
menceinent of World War II the Atlantic Conference Agree-
_’ ment I think was formally terminated, and it was only
_ after peace was declared that the Atlantic Conference,
Agreement was reconstituted: I had nothing to do with
, any redrafts in the reconstituted agreement.
1104—
By Mr. Sisk:
Q. Mr. Mayper, when the Atlantic et me has docu-
ments ‘which it wishes to be filed with the Federal Maritime
Board, does it send those documents through the office of
the secretary of the TAPC for filing! A. It sends the pre-
: ; . a I OBELECLES APL OS EL PIN ITO
ptm pea oF ecco mne SI EROOIG Sis Z a iia till
(Tr. 1104-05, 1129) -
34a
Joseph Mayper—TAPSC Chairman & Sec’y—Cross ©
cise modification addressed to the Federal Maritime Board
' but sends the letter which accompanies the modification
signed by the secretary of the conference abroad to the New
_ York office for transmission to the Federal Maritime Board
in Washington.
Q. And then the New York office sees that that modifica-_
tion or change or whatever it is is actually filed with the
Federal Maritime Board? A. We simply transmit it with
a covering letter.
Q. And it’s your responsibility to see that it “~ filed?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And do you keep a copy of these changes or lb.
tions in your office? A. We usually get a carbon copy of
what is being filed with the Board.
Q. Now, is there any other part of this agreement that
"you know of which may be said to relate to the control of
agents outside the North American continent? A. Idon’t .
| —1105—
see it without going through very carefully.
Q. Now, do you know whether the Atlantic cieniniiitn
has ever filed with the Federal Maritime Board any rules
. relating to the control of sub-agents outside. the continental _
—well, outside of the North American continent? A. As
far as filing for approval I believe this contains everything
that had been filed as of the date of this agreement. |
Any minutes that were adopted ‘from time to time which
* may have related to agency matters were filed as part of the -
minutes of the meeting for information of the Byard.
=
* «@ ° * e ”
A. The subcommittee usually met immediately before the
date of the principals’ meeting. They discussed the agenda
o
(Tr. 1129-31)
a. ?
Joseph Mayper—TAPSC Chairinan-& Sec’y—Cross
of the principals and submitted their recommendations, if
they had any, on the various topics that: were on the prin-
- . cipals’ agenda. Now, apparently their comments or recom-
_ mendations were not mimeographed for distribution at the
. meeting of the principals. It may have. been issued in some
typed form, because the -principals’ meeting followed im-
mediately the following day of the subcommittee meeting;
and ‘subsequently as’ indicated here also for- record pur-
poses the Secretary issued this in mimeographed form, 80
that all of the lines abroad would know what it was.
—1130—
Q. Probably there was a‘ typed copy of thist’ A. I am
certain there must be something of that nature. It wasn’t
anoralreport. .
: Q.. And that typed copy was available at the principals’
_ meeting on March 2? A. There is no doubt about that.
Q. What was ‘the procedure in those days for getting
matters on to the agenda of the principals? A. In between
the meetings of the principals, a line that wanted something
to be discussed at the principals’ meeting would write to
the Secretary, asking him -to add to the agenda or to be
placed on the agenda of the next principals’ meeting this '
particular item. The Secretary would issue a temporary
agenda based on these requests that he may have received
during the in-between period between the Meetings, and —
‘under their procedure all lines were given a certain period
_: -Of time— I am not, sure of the exact number of days—to
advise the Secretary whether they had any other. items other
‘ than those that had accumulated to be added to the agenda. ~
—1131—
The final agenda: was then made up based on the original -
temporary one plus any requests from the lines during that: :
intervening period. I think the*final ia ctseacol was — 20
days before the date of, the meeting.
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‘ 2 ooee Se |
Joseph Mayper—TAPSC Chairman ¢ Sec’y—Cross
Q. Could any one line get a matter onto the agenda? A.
Yes, sir. | : ria 3 re |
Q. It didn’t need approval from the other lines? A. No,
sir. Sore
Q. To raise the matter?. A. No,sir. «= sy
Q. Well, then, were the agendas reviewed by the’ sub
committee? A. Yes. - DaAT ERS
Q. And did they. have to pass by the subcommittee in.
_ order to be considered. at the principals’ meeting? A. No,
sit. The subcommittee— I recall occasionally an item on
the principals’ agenda and the subcommittee met. just imme-
diately before that meeting and to a certain item they’d say
“no comment.” It was something that they weren’t equipped
‘ to handle or didn’t care to. handle. “They left it to the prin-
cipals entirely.
_ Q. But the subcommittee did not have the power to knock
something out of the agenda of the principals’ meeting? A.
No, sir. pers es
Q. The subcommittee functioned in a manner so as to’
ee . . —1132—~
provide recommendations to the principals? A. Recom-
mendations, data, points of view, things of that sort.
eo : e oi *. ‘
Q. Now, do you know what the voting rule was within
the subcommittee in order for a recommendation.to go to the
as Cao ae 1183
principals’ meeting? A. They usually: indicated—not by
voting rule as such—but they indicated what the views
were. In one item they may say, “All lines agree that it
is well to do so and so.” Or they may say there was a feel-
ing—that the views of the different lines were expressed,
some wanted this, some thought this, some thought that.
4
(Tr. 1133, 1256, 1262)
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Maz B. Allen—Travel Agent—Direct .
But there was no definite voting rule on these items for |
the agenda. |
Q. Well, when there was ~ be a. positive scunnnaiiilitn
from the subcommittee, was it fiecessary that all of the
-members of the subcommittee agree to that recommenda-
~ tion? A. Well, may I turn to page 3 of this particular
exhibit to show you? © |
ae Yes. A. In one case they say here under Item 1:
animity was not obtainable.”
ow, take the next item, Item 2, reduced roundtrips. “It
is recommended that this question be referred to the sub- °
committee for consideration” and so forth. Well, that was a
unanimous recommendation. _ 5
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Max B. Atten—Direct ‘ |
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Furthermore, if you don’t have the appointment and
cannot secure compensation, you’re very apt to sell the |
type of. transportation that you can-sectire compensation
for. | |
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Q. What is the commission that Ask Mr. Foster gets for
_ a passengef on a point-to-point booking on a TAPC
nember line to Europe? A. Seven percent.
Q. And what do you get from IATA for a transatlantic a
“ticket? A. Seven parent.
(Tr. 1264-65)
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Maz B. Allen—Travel Agent—Direct
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_ ByMr. Blackwell:
Q. Mr. Allen, throughout the various tirebehes of Ask -
Mr. Foster is more time and money generally spent in ser-
vicing a passenger who intends to take a trip to Burope by
‘sea than by air? A. Qh, yes, yes.
Q. In what ways? A. Well, there is considerably more
time spent in deciding upon a‘stateroom, and your deposit
' receipts,-and your general ticketing procedurgg. If we had
the business I think we could sell three air tickets when we
sell one steamship ticket.
+ Q. Now, has this difference in service in these different
- modes of transportation had any effect on your production
-of bookings by seat A. Well, from-a company standpoint
we do not encourage one form.of travel over the other, but
where the creeps into the individual sales person that is ‘
’ something that is very difficult tocontrol ~° .
Q. From your experience generally are there travelers
going to wane who could be swayed by either .effective
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persuasion or promotion to travel either by sea or by air?
A. Oh, yes, verysimple. =, ;
Q. What are the factors that go into that type of persua-
‘sion or promotion? A. Well, in favor of steamship I think |
that-some of our steamship friends have come up with.some 4
excellent slogans, such as “Getting there i is half the battle,” 5
‘ and this can be sold to the public very simply by judicious ~
presentation of the printed matter, and the way of life going
over.on a steamer, contacts that can be made. I’ don’t think
there is any question put what the sales people in the travel
industry have a great opportunity to sway people , one way
or the other. -- |
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- Maa B. Allen—Pravel suit wa
Mix B. Auuex—Cross eee ae
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A. The position was that we felt that there was a real need
for the trans-Atlantic steamship companies to review their
commission policy, that the time had long passed when met 2?
commission rate should have been increased.
We pointed out that the work involved, the various other
- factors going into the sale of steamship travel needed in- :
creased compensation iit what was being paid. -
By Mr. Sisk:
Q. And what was “their response to that? A. The re- .
sponse -was in many instances: “This will have to be re-
ferred to.our presidents, our people overseas.” And I’m -
sure that on occasions such information was referred, be- -
-eause on occasions the steamship people have indicated the
* question was discussed and that they were sorry that the
commission had not—that they had not been able to arrive
at a satisfactory conclusion to increase commissions but
‘there was only one or two steamship companies that had
held out and, of course, the unanimity rule made it neces-
— sary for all steamship companies to agree on the increased
commission.
Q. In any of those instances did representatives of the
TAPC lines indicate that they were in favor of raising the
commission level? A. Yes. |
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The Witness: Well, I was— Unfortunately, T can’t
tell you the exact date of this, but I was on a Cunard
ship eight or ten years ago when either the passen-
ger traffic manager or the assistant traffic manager
said that he had been to a meeting and he said—
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(Tr. 1332-33, 1341)
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Maz B. Allen—Travel A pint —Oreis
this 1 was a waite: a cocktail party for the agents,
and he said, “Look, I was out there. I advocated the
10 percent commission for you people.” I can’t tell ” |
you— Unfortunately, I can’t tell you the date.. I
_ have a vague recollection of who made the statement,
~ but I wouldn’t even tell you that because I can’t tell
you that I’d be by seeusasiaes sure. But it happened.
—1333—
There must be many; people, eaialis and others, that
were present and heard this speech.
Q. Mr. Allen, we can do no more than ask you for the ©
best-of your recollection, and if your recollection is such
that ‘you really cannot remember at all the name of the -
person, well then I think you should say so, but if you
have a recollection of a name -I think the record should
_ show the name. A. Well, to the best of my recollection
~ at the moment it was Vince Demo, Passenger Traffic Man-
ager of Cunard, who made the statement.
A. But that brings me back to the lead point, you see, that
here is the sales force of the steamship industry and the
steamship companies have done nothing about encouraging
those agents to help them produce followers, to help them
train sales people, to help them advertise, to increase the —
potential or increase business: for the steamship lines.
By Mr. Neaher:
Q. Well, tliese are things you say they might do es way
of training? A. These are things I think they should do
if they are going to remain competitive in the industry.
Q. I am sure you: have ‘many good ideas, Mr. Allen.
With reference to the expression by I think you said a |
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(Tr, 1341-42, 1344)
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Ralph Edell—Travel A gent—Direct
Mr. Demo of Cunard going back some eight years ago,
wasn’t tlie commission paid. to travel agents increased .
thereafter
Mr. Sisk: I think there is a problem here, and
that is that we haven’t a very specific time period.
Mr. Neaher: L a he fixed it in 1954 ¢ or 1953. —
By Mr. Neaher:
-Q. That is your best reeollection of the time of this con-
versation, isn’t it? A. That is correct, but the commission
indicated in the speech, as I recall it, was 10 percent.
Q. But.was there an increase after the speech? A. That
‘depends entirely upon how you wish to evaluate the adjust-
ment in thé commission rate.
Q.’There was a change in the commission rate? A.
travel industry or not is still questionable, because there
was a 714 percent which was melded into a 6 percent and
- came up with a 4, you see.
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By Mr. Biackwell:
There was a change. As to whether that benefitted the |
Q. Would you say you service a good many customers _
who. enter your premises without fixed convictions as to
the mode of transportation. they would like to use say to
Europe? A. Yes.
Q. You have a choice of sities iiaa by air or r by ship, |
dg you not? A. Yes.
Q. When you encounter a customer who does not ‘iat
fest a strong desire to go by either air or ship, do you ever ©
5 nye eecrarcy
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(Tr. 1345-46, 1348)
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- Ralph Edell—Travel A gent—Cross
—1345—
try to promote that customer to go by ship? A. Are you
speaking about me personally or the office?
Q. You personally and your staff. A. Well, there is a
tendency on the part of the staff who have let’s say one
or two or three years’ experience to ‘try to sell air, since
it is easier. They haven’t been on ships. They have been
. om planes, and it is less complicated, and so on.: If anyone
asks for steamship, then naturally we tell them all they ©
want to know about it.
Q. Do you personally engage in sales watialbisins in your .
. company? Do you encounter passengers and service them?
A. Yes.
Q. You are the manager there, are you not? A. Yes.
Q. Do you also handle the ticketing? A. Yes.
-Q. What is your personal policy regarding potential
clients who do not: manifest .a particular desire to go to
Europe either by plane or ship? A. There is no policy
involved, but:if it is easier to sell someone an air line ticket
and if it is a tour where you make more money, there is
a definite.tendency to sell ‘air travel.
Q. Is it in fact more difficult and does it take more time
- —1346—
to sell a denuaihie ticket. than.an air ticket? A. We would
estimate generally speaking three times as long over-all.
Q. Why is that? A. Well, when you sell steamship you
have the class to sell, the ship, the decks, the berths, the
inside rdoms, outside rooms, facilities, length. of crossing,
“and.so on. - i
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By Mr. Sisk: |
Q. In your experience, how much experience is needed
to be a good steamship salesman? A. I would say at
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(Tr. 1348-49, 1378)
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Louis Schenker—Travel Agent—Direct
least five years, simply because they are not only doing
steamship, they are doing everything. From our view-
point in our office, we feel five years at least. |
Q. How does that compare with somebody who sells
international air tickets? A. Well, as the previous wit-
ness mentioned you can always get those people from. the oe
air lines, but some who work for us, in a few months they
are selling air line ticke a
Q. A lot easier to leart® A. Yes. | |
Q. As the manager of the operation, do you find that
you get consulted more frequently with respect to one
kind of transportation rather than another? A. Yes. Gen-—
ae | : 4 —1349—
erally speaking, if the sale turns more definite or bigger
sale or if it is complicated, it is referred tome. = __
Q. And what kind .of transportation is the most’ com.
plicated and most likely to be referred to you? A. Steam-
ship. a :
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Louis ScoenKer—Direct . oa vee
. —1378— .
* ° « * .
By Mr. Smith, Hearing Counsel:
Q. Does a steamship booking take more time to com.
plete than a comparable air booking? A. If it’s done
right it definitely does. . eo
Q. Why is that so? A. Well, I can only speak for my-
self, or rather our type of business. We have a clientele
which I suppose you would call in the upper bracket, and
that’s not necessarily moneywise, but they are the kind ¢
who when they travel by ship they ‘want, a great deal of
Service. dpe ake ;
The first thing they might come in and sit with me for
~ an hour or longer or any: one of our staff and just discuss
what class they should go in. Sometimes they have the
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Louis Schenker—Travel Agent—Direct
idea that although they have traveled in first class, maybe
they Gould save some money if they ‘travel in cabin class, —
-shall we say. Pee |
We then have to explain to them what they can expect
in. cabin class by comparison to first class.
. “We then conie to the point where they want to decide
that they’ would like to go on X date. Well, then we open —
up our official steamship guide and we see what steamship
lines are going at that particular time. | ics
| rae ae
‘When we have decided on steamship .X, we then have
to open a plan and show them the rooms, the types of
rooms and, as ‘is normal with ‘a person, they would like
to get the most for their money and still not spend over .
necessarily, and therefore we must point out to them:
“Well, this room bears such a rate, and that room bears
such a rate,” et cetera. And that takes a. considerable
amount of time. | ayes
Assuming that we’d finally convinced them of what they
want, we then have to call the steamship line and find out
whether such space is available. a
Now, if it is something that, shall we say, this is January
and they’re talking about the end of June or July, we nat-
urally have less trouble in picking out the kind of a room
or close to’ it. But if you get into the months of shall we 7
‘say April and you’re asking for July, it becomes a little
difficult. And sometimes we have to accept what’ is known
as a guarantee—which means that they'll carry them on
the ship. . eee
Sometimes it. will be no rate specified, which means that
they guarantee but they don’t know whether it will be a
‘minimum, a middle range, or a maximum one. There are
a great, many things.
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Louis Schenker—Travel Agent—Direct —
Assuming that we’ve gone over that hurdle, we then
have to make out a deposit receipt, assuming that the
passenger has given us a deposit, and we send it to the —
’ —1380—
line, . .
By that 1 mean we also have to put it-into a trust
account, because we cannot mix that money with any of
. our other monies. ; ts | Ray.
We then give the original receipt to the client, because
we are not allowed to keep any of those receipts, |
_ It happens occasionally that the client losses the receipt
when it comes to the point of payment, which means that
we then have to—or the clieht—or soméhow—I’m not quite
sure whether there’s a bond has to. be put up—because .
‘until the receipt is found, at least.for the life of a year dr ¢
something like that. ‘ | -
‘Subsequently we issue the ticket, and again we have to -
go through the routine of depositing in this particular ac-
_ count, sending the net amount to the line, and so on down
_ the line. per 7 "sige
And I think’I have spoken for at least five minutes just-
on that subject,.so that gives you an idea of how long it
_ takes to actually do it. .- Saree :
Q. Are your clients as a general rule experienced ty ;
erg? A. In most‘cases. ;
__Q. Do you have customers who are open-minded as to the
choice between sea and air for a trans-Atlantic passage?
| 7 ini Sap ? —1381—
A.* Yes. @. 5 ,
-Q. Do you influence them to go:one way or another as
a matter of eourse? A. That depends on the circum- . ~
stances, because, first of all, we must serve the client’s
best interest, and when we're satisfied: that we're doing
?
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Louis Schenker—Travel Agent—Direct
that, then we think of ourselves. That’s the most important —
thing. Are we going to make seven per cent or are we going
to make ten per cent? | i
And since in many of our eases we have F. I. T.’s for
them and when we sell them an air ticket we are entitled
to get the extra three per cent which gives us ten per cent—
that-is, with certain rules and regulations which we live up
to and they’re gasy enough to live: up to—naturally. we
like to make ten per cent instead of seven per cent.
By the same token, we. prefer to sell eruises on the
'. same trans-Atlantic lines because we get ten per cent
through just selling them a steamship ticket.
Q. Do you sell more international air than trans-Atlantic
steamship? A. Oh, yes, @ good deal more. — : _
_Q. Could your agency survive if all the trans-Atlantic
_ bookings were by steamship rather than by air? A. Well,
if we went into a hole instead of a nice-looking office and
if we employed slave labor or something like that, perhaps
fs | - —1382—
we could survive. |
- Q. Do you do any business with non-conference lines?
"A. Never did, because I was told not to, and I live up
strictly to the rules of all the conferences. |
Q. Do you have customers ‘that request passage on 4&
non-conference line? A. Occasionally. »
Q. What’do you do in that case? A. We just tell them
we're sorry, we don’t sell them, or if we. want to protect
ourselves in a sense we telf them why they shouldn’t travel
‘on a freighter, because actually the cost of passage on a
freighter is sometimes somewhat higher than what the
tourist class is trans-Atlantic. They-do not carry a doctor.
We find many good reasons why we should try to sell them
on the trans-Atlantic. Clan env .
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, | (Tr. 1382, 1384-85)
‘
47a
Louis Schenker—Travel Agent—Cross
But, on the other hand, we do lose some Sinan that’s
what they want. )
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Lovis ScoenkeER—Cross. |
Pst | ' —1384— |
By Mr. Sisk:
Q. In the course of your contacts with steamship repre- —
sentatives do you come into contact with the PTM’s, the:
passenger traffic managers? A. Pepending on Se circum-
_ stances. —
QQ. You have on occasion met with Messrs. ial Pen-
nington, Austin, Gautier? A. Yes, I know them quite well.
Q. Have you ever discussed the subject of commissions
with these gentlemen? .A. I personally never have on that
- point other than in personal conversation without making
-it official, because that subject was taken up by National
ASTA and it was their function to do it in béhalf of all:
the members rather than the chapter themselves.
Q. Now, on these personal talks with these scsetaasan .
did the subject ever arise? A. Oh, yes. c
_Q. And what‘did you say and what did— A. Well, -
generally: speaking, it’s become almost a joke, because it’s
been going on,‘shall I say, for the last 20 years or longer.
And so I’d say, “Well, when are we going to get that
—1385—
famous ia: per cent, commission?”
And laughingly whoever it may be would probably turn
around and say, “Well, we're getting there. We're getting
there.”
Or else they'd say, “Well, so far as I’m concerned I'd
' be very glad to be’ for it. In fact, most of the members
are. But then there is a unanimity clause and there’s
somebody who says no, and that means that ‘we can’t
do it.”
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| . (Tr. 1385, 1416-18)
48a ae
Thomas J. Donevan—Travel Agent—Direct
: : - . i
‘I would then: say,°“Who’s the nigger in the woodpile?”
\ But they’d hever tell me.
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‘\. Tuomas J. Donovan—Direct
By Mr. Sisk: |
%
—1416— .
Q. Now, what has been your experience, with the people
. who want tq travel to Europe? Havé-you found in the
course of your. business that you “are able to influence
potential travelers<to go by one means of transportation
rather than another? A..Oh, I think every travel agent does:
oe. oS Pe, le Es
aes * And of the potential travelers that come to you seek-
» > ing-to arrange for transportation to~Europe, about what
per cent would you say are subject to being influenced to:
go by one means of transportation rather than another? |
- A, L:would’say currently it probably runs 50 to 60 per cent
- of all the people you talk to that are persuadable.
e 8 © © & ge — —1417—
Q. What has been the experience of your agency: with
respect to the amount of time involved in handling steam- ©
. ship, bookings as compared to the amount of time involved
in handling international air bookings? A. I. would. say
that my estimation is it probably takes ten times as much.
ae 7 Shel ah Be. —1418—
time to process a steamship booking from inception to
completion over the issuance. of an airline ticket, and that’s
. Ronsidering the selling and_ everything else.
A Now, that doesn’t pertain in every case.. Some cases are
worse. But generally I would say it takes about ten times :
as much man hours to complete the booking.”
‘Q. In your business do you consider that time is money?
A. Oh, it’s the only thing we've got to sell, plus knowledge.
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(Tr, 1430, 1444-45)
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Thomas J. Donovan—Travel Agent—Direct- ees | :
. * : . . —1430—
Q. One last question, Mr. Donovan, with respect to your
promotional activities.” Does the amount of .commission
which you receive on TAPC bookings havé an effect: on
~ the amount of promotion which you do? .A. Very definitely.
. Q. What is that fact? A. We don’t do as niuch. We
can’t afford it. )
; —
3." * e e .* :
Q. What’ was .the responset A. Weil,. the abies of
the meeting as far as the carriers was concerned said that:
they again couldn’t have any minutes, that they wanted
| Selo ea cke el “a. \:
to keep this on the same informal basis that it had been
- run in the past, and we told them that because .we had done
a terrific amount of research work and surveys with all
the agents in this country that we definitely wanted to have
- minutes taken, because we felt that the change in com-
- missions that had taken place that previous spring were
nowhere satisfactory as far as we were concerned, and
that we were still insisting on a differential commission
‘paid to Canadian and American agents. We were told we.
~ could not-have any minutes or the meeting would have to
disband, and the statement was further made that we can
“never have any minutes as long as you have those anti-
trust laws in the United States..
Q. Who made that statement? °A. Mr. Whitehead,
Cunard Line. He was the chairman of the carriers.
~, +-- Q. And he made that statement in the presence of the
, other people who wer® there from ASTA and ICCTAt
A. Yes, sir. ,
''Q. ‘Well, what was the result of the 1957 ICCTA meet-
_ ing in so far as your ‘request for higher commissions was
\ concerned? A. Nothing to this date.
.
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(Tr. 1445-46, 1449)
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| Thomas J. Donovan—_Lyavel Agent—Cross
Q. Now, you ‘cate a sabuaineis earlier today to the fact.
that you refused to go to another ICCTA oe When «
was that? A. a
—1446—
Q. Why did you refuse to got A. I just felt we were .
beating our head ‘against the. wall. We had gone three
years. We had used everything, that the power of speech .
has to impress upon these folks the necessity of what we
were asking. -Mr. Piscatella had in his presentation in ’57
written to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington,
and we had. come up with a report on 98 cities throughout
the United States showing what the wage scale and salary
brackets were in the 28 cities. And I had asked many, many
people in not only the steamship business but the air line
business, hotel and agency business throughout Europe,
and I had yet even as late‘as my last trip, which was last
year, to have anybody. tell me that they, pay a secretary _
more ‘than $150 a month. And I felt that our, destinies
were being controlled by people who were paying “that kind
of salary and couldn’t comprehend that” we had to pay the
salaries we do in this Ny
Tuomas J. Donovan—Cross
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. During any of these meetings’ with the Atlantic Con-
—1449—
ference were you ever told by any of the representative |
lines or the ‘Conference officials that the Atlantic Con-
ference in fact had achieved a majority vote on the ques- |
tion of commissions but were not able to achieve unanimous ©
agreement? A. Ihave heard a statement—
Mr. Neaher: I think we are getting into an area
here where we ought. to be a little more ina
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~ Thomas J. Donovan—Travel Agent—Cross
First of all, I think we ought to have a yes or no —
answer. Perhaps the answer will be “yes” in view
of the witness’ preliminary remarks, but let’s:estab- ~
' lish that.
Mr. Blackwell: | want to know how we can estab-
lish it unless the witness answers the question, Mr.
‘Neaher.
Examiner Roth: I will overrule the objection.
Mr. Blackwell: Will you read the question back,
Mr. Reporter?
(The reporter read the pending question.)
Mr. Neaher: May I have a yes or no answer with.
—_ —1450— .
respect to that first?
The Witness: Yes.
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Would you ‘explain your answert |
Mr. Neaher: I don’t think it needs any explana-
tion.»
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Who told you, ‘Mr. Donovant A. Well, I can’t re-
amember. I have heard several steamship men make the
statement that we have to convert two, or three members of ;
the Conference.
Q. ‘Where were the statements made to yout A. In
London and in Paris.
Q. During meetings of the Atlantic Conference? . A. Not
during meetings. It would be either at a lunch before or.
cocktails after.
Q. Do you know the lines that these gentlemen repre-
sented? A. I am almost certain that the United States
Fal
(Tr. 1450, 1453-54, 1465- -"
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Thomas J. Donovan—Travel Agent—Cross
‘Lines was involved in leaving that connotation, and also
Cunard Line. ~
SP eee et ee. =" oa
Q. Let the record show the correction. Breaking into
the third paragraph, it states that ICCTA proposed that
all agency appointments in the United States and Canada
should be subject ‘to Conference control. What was the
foundation for that proposal, Mr. Donovan? A. Well, I
think it is the position of ASTA, and it is my personal
: — —1454—
opinion, that the Conference is the only modus operandi
to run a respectable business. The carriers and the prin-
cipals must have .some control over their salesmen and.
their agents, and you just can’t have anybody - who owns a
banana stand and a ball point pen selling steamship tickets
or air tickets or any other kind of travel.
* 2 * e * oa aera
—1465—
‘A. All right. Now, just a moment. "For example, if I run
a tour to Europe and I sell you a ticket for you and your
wife, unless I have you on a prearranged tour which has
a. code number, my income is. seven per-cent from the car:
rier.
By Mr. N. eaher:
Q. From the steamship carriers? A. No, from the air-
line carrier.
Q. From the airlines as well? A. But the mimate a
\ / —1466—
put out a tour folder and wer, a number on it, they auto-
matically pay me ten per cent on that ticket.
|
| : i. 1466, 1474-75)
53a
, Thomas J. Donovan—Travel Agent—Cross
Q. EY see. A. So that is why I’m in the tour Sidianeb >
because I can increase my income 30 per cent off the trans-
portation. -
Q. I think that’s a very wise decision on your part. Tm
. not quarreling with ‘it in the slightest.
—1474—
Q. So what I’m getting at is you gave a relative estimate
that it took ten times'as much time to process a sea book-
ing as against an airline ticket-and I wondered just what
you included in the time. A. The time is putting your
3 —1475—
request in for space and normally haat + to’ wait until ©
_ such. time as they tell you what you'r ’re ‘going to have for
the passenger.
Q. Yes, but during that waiting time you’ re not just
waiting to— You're not doing nothing waiting to hear |
from them. What I’m concerned about is: Does the actual |
mechanical process of effecting a booking through to com-
_ pletion take ten times as much time as it does to put an
airline reservation through? A.. I’ would say an. absolute-
minimum of five per cent on the paper work. An absolute —
‘minimum of five times as much work on the paper work
to get a steamship booking, get your deposit receipt issued,
your actual ticketing, and explaining the type of accom-
- modations on the ship, and the-price range, and so on.
It is very, very rare that anybody ever goes in to | a
travel agency office and says that, “I want to pay”—or
that they want to go first class and you can get ‘gepeeety
what they want right off the bat. ,
Q. But the actual ticketing procedure you would now
say might take five times as much as af airline? A. The
-ticketing,-but there’s also many phone calls and letters
_— >.
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(Tr. 1475, 1489-90)
54a ee,
Thomas J. Donovan—Travel Agent—Redirect
that have to be written, which you have nothing to do like
that with an airline.
é * * * * *
Tuomas J. Donovan—Redirect | ,
Pre —1489—
* ° *& * * &
By Mr. isk:
Q. But this part of. Four discussititie with these poten-
tial travelers which involves only the way of getting to
Europe is more time spent with one kind of transportation
than with the other? A. I would say definitely, because
your explanation of.air.travel across the Atlantic is that
you have curreritly a DC-8, you have gota Botania, and
you have got a 707, and right now you have a problem of
explaining what a turbo fan is. When you get down to
ship, you are always explaining the positioning of the
‘ stateroom on the ship, whether it is inside or outside,
whether you are buying a port side going over or star-
board side going over and port side coming back. In
other words, this is all part of your deal of selling, and
. this is what complicates the situation. You may get a very
—1490—
satisfactory room in one direction and a very poor“one in
the other direction, and then you have to explain to them .
why. And then the other thing that our people are- getting
killed with are guarantees, which is very good as far as
the passenger is concerned, and. it is good as far as the
steamship line is concerned, but it is like trying to explain.
a lease to a customer, to explain that they are not getting
tlie business when they take guaranteed space. |
Q. Perhaps you can explain that to me. I don’t know
about that. A. Well, the shipping line—I don’t know what
the ratio of turnover on reservations is, but I wouldn’t be a
bit surprised that on cruise ships, for example, it may run. ¢
as high as 70 percent, where a person especially on the sea-
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(Tr. 1490-91)
55a
Thomas J. Donovan—Travel nat Pranacsice
board on the East and the West Coast who are more
cognizant of ship travel and the requirements and nec-
essity of making earlier reservations will make a reserva-
tion today for a trip going maybe to the South Pacific a
year from next spring. I just had a case in the office the
other day of a very wealthy woman trying to get on a
North Cape cruise on the Gripsholm in June this year.
‘ We are trying to get her on a Greek island trip on the
same-ship next March, and trying to get her on the South
Pacific cruise in 63, and also on the North Cape in ’62.
’ They want two single rooms. Now, we will list it with the
.steamship line, and they will do everything possible to try -
—1491— .
to get it, but they have to observe a priority. But they
are liable to come along and say, “Well, we are going to
have so- many cancellations, so we will guarantee at’ a
certain rate.” And then the steamship lines always pro- -
vide that kind of accomniodations or better. But this is
like selling a pig in a poke to somebody, asking will you —
buy-a suit and pay $300 for it and you are afraid you are’
going to end up. with one of these jobs for $39.50. But
the steamship lines. are always going to give you the $300
suit.. Figuratively you may get one for $350 or $375. So-
that gives them an opportunity to run a higher load fac-
tor. But the explanation of this takes along time, and
everybody is always apprehensive about it.
Q. So that with respect to the explanations relating to.
the portion of the trip across the Atlantic and back, and ~
*- .only that portion ‘of the trip, does it take more time, of
aon h time personally, to do one kind of travel than. the
40% A. Yes, definitely.
Q. Which travel takes the more time? A. The ship
Aravel )
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(Tr. 1501, 1824-25, 1850)
56a
RB. le Siien—Holl -Am. L. Pass. Traffic. iin Seldie
| Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC See 'y—Direct
—1501—
® . @ 4%. 8% *
Mr. Sisk: .. . “If'additional travel agent witnesses _
were to be called by counsel for ASTA, their testi-
mony with respect to the operations of travel agen-
cies and the sale of steamship and international air- -
line tickets would be substantially similar to the
testimony of the travel, agent witnesses now of
record.”
Is that agreeable to you, Mr. Blackwell?
Mr. Blackwell: I will so stipulate.
Mr. Neaher: I will so stipulate.
- Mr. Sisk:” Thank you. .
Examiner eae The oem is accepted.
* * *
E. I. Liman—Cross | a |) oo
* a > - * r
i By Mr. Neaher:
Q. Mr. Liman, when you were agian about that | 100
cost for agents, keeping them on the list, is ‘that an annual
expense, $100 a year? A. That’s my rough estimate of
what it costs us to provide him with literature, posters,
general promotional material, postage, et cetera. |
g-vettly.
_ But that's a yearly expense? A. That’s
—1825—
expense, yes. We
Q.. And that’s exclusive of othian indirect expense of an
overhead nature? A. Oh, yes, of course’ That’s purely out
of pocket expense.
Ss ©& "O's: .
Downaxp I. Knowtes—Direct eS —1850—
- * & ® * * j
Q. Now, in that letter I notice there is. a reference’ to
| conference circulars, and would you explain what those ..
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.
(Tr. 1850-52)
3 57a
Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Secretary—Direct
are? A. Well, the new appointee or the new addition to
the list will receive from the lines probably very shortly
the sub-agency appointment agreement, but he will not
have the most, recent: conference circulars that we issue in
behalf of all lines.
In order that: he may be up to date on the latest material,
we enclose mis current conference circulars.
e
@ cue speaking, what purpose is served by ci?-
ser ais
cularization of information in this form? A. Well,
serves in my opinion a good purpose. No. 1, it’s one cir-
cular covering material which each line ‘would otherwise
be obliged to send out themselves. In other words, . the -
agent would receive 24 or 25 circulars worded differently
with respect to these items. And doing this we can give
the agent the material he needs, the information he ll
quires, for one central file.
It helps I think the agent greatly i in Mit « a standard-
ized circular which of course the text of which has been
approved by all lines. a | *
* * = * 7 .
4
—1852—
* & * * *
Q. Now, we have heard throughout the testimony here
references to the role of the conference auditor, and I think
a man named Stark has had his name taken in vain on
many occasions. Where does the conference fit in with
regard to auditing sub-agents? A. Well,.in the appoint-
ment agreement, on the back page of Exhibit No. 113, in ©
Item 19, it provides that the books of the sub-agency shall ~
« be open to inspection by a line-auditor or a duly authorized
representative of the conference. |
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(Tr. 1853, 1876-77)
58a\ )
5 Robert W. HemphilTroe Agent—Direct
\ —1853—
And the auditor serves actually two purposes. One is to |
inventory the ticket stock, to check \on the agency records, ©
and I think that Mr. Stark has been-most helpful to many
- agents in assisting them in revising ‘their auditing, their
bookkeeping systems, which is beneficial not only to’ the
lines but to the agent. That’s really his only main | function.
* * * * *
\
Rosert Ww. Hempuityt—Direct ‘
. . —1876—
* S ae: we ~s
By Mr. Sisk:
Q. In your opinion, what is the amount of experience
which is necessary for someone to become a qualified travel
agent? A. A qualified travel agent? I would say from
_ three to five years.
Q. And in your opigion, how long does it take for some-
‘body to become qualified to handle steamship bookings on
trans-Atlantic trade? A. I would say that in Los Angeles,
there aren’t very many people whom I would consider
weRk highly qualified to handle steamship business. I think it
takes five years, at least, to make a good steamship man.
: : 7 et _—1877—
The man who is in an of our steamship department is
a man in his’40’s; and he loves ships, he likes to sell ships,.
he has been highly trained, and he has had between 20 and
25 years’ experience as a steamship agent. I consider him
one of the most qualified men in Los Angeles. I dori think
- there are more than a half a dozen of them, :
Q. How dees the amount of experience necessary to
handle steamship bookings compare, with the amount of
eae eer necessary to do international air bookings? ©
Examiner Roth: I would remind you that you are
getting into cumulative testimony in the light of the
"stipulation on thé record. |
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59a
’ Robert W.- Hemphill—Travel Agent—Direct
Mr. Sisk: Well, I shall be as brief as possible.
_ This is my last question on this subject.
Beene. weg
The Witness: Would you repeat your question
again, please? “he
Examiner Roth: Would you read it, Miss Craft? .
(The pending question was read by the Reporter.)
The Witness: It takes more experience, to handle
steamship bookings because you deal with different —
lines, with different types of accommodation, With
varying rates, and that experience is difficult to ac-
quire. You 'can-sell an air ticket because the rates -
are all fixed, and there is no variation. You don’t.
have to be familiar with all the different classifica-
tions of accommodation on board ‘the ship. ~
The ship passenger, the surface-minded customer,
we have found, is more leisurely minded and is more
deliberate. He will come to our office with’ his wife
and spend hofrs sitting around a desk discussing”
these things with us. He frequently changes his
mind. We get into discussions regarding. the type
~of accommodation. He is not satisfied with his room.
He wants it changed. It goes back and forth and
takes a lot of trouble. oh
With the air booking, there is only first class or
economy class. - The passenger is only going to be
in the air a matter of hours instead of a matter of |
days. The importance of these things, it is not so
great to him. .We get into more fruitless and un.
profitable discussion when we handle people who |
are traveling- by ship, It takes more time. -
—1878—
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+ (Tr. 1879, 1883).
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Robert W. Hemphill-—Travel, Agent—Direct -
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Boas Q. And in your business, have you found that your sales
people and yourself are able to influence passengers who
travel by one means of transportation rather than another? ‘-
. -Examiner Roth: I would like to repeat my state- |
ment. ‘I don’t think an answer to’that is necessary.
* Mr. Sisk: Well, I’d prefer to have an answer, Mr. »
Examiner. This is not going to take very long, and
' although it may be a bit cumulative, I would like to. :
get an answer from Mr. Hemphill on this question
and move on to something else. end :
‘-““Pyaminer Roth: How much cumulative testimony
| do you éxpect to put ‘into this record, Mr. Sisk?
—. »* * Mr. Sisk: ‘Very little. Very little additional. be
| Examiner Roth: I will allow the answer to this
one question; I will stop any answers which I con-
sider cumulative from here on.
(The pending question was read by the reporter.)
The Witness: Yes, we do. | |
, a
a) . oe +
Q. In any event, Mr. Hemphill, when you were told that
it was not the custom to take minutes, did you do anything . ~
°. further about that subject? A. Yes, I again informed the
‘chairman that ‘as ‘President of ASTA representing - ap-
proximately 13 or 1400 travel agents, I would like to have
minutes taken of the meeting so. that we could prepare a
_ progress report for ASTA; that I had traveled from ‘the ©
_ west coast expressly for this meeting, that Mr. Dono-
_. van, the past President, had traveled from ‘Chicago, Mr.
_' McGrath from Florida and Mr. Piscatella from head-
| ‘quarters. ° cana Ds eae 5
‘The chairman, as I remember the statement, said this:
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(Tr. 1883-84, 1899-1900)
6la pee
Robert W. Hemphill—Travel Agent—Cross
“We do not take minutes at these meetings, but we discuss
among. ourselves afterwards the events that took place.”
: —1884—
And again, I made the request, saying—I said to him,
. “Well, Gentlemen, is there sométhing that you do not wish
~ to have made public at these meetings?” And since I kept “
pressing him, I was finally given an answer by the Cunard
representative, Mr. Jack Whitehead. |
_Q. What was that. answer? A. As I recall: it, anid I
think I remember it quite well, he said, “Well; if you must
know, as long as you have Congressman Celler, the Sher-
. man Anti-Trust Act and other governmental inquiry bodies, ;
we do not intend to have minutes published or circulated.”
: + * * ae Rey pace ae
>
Rosert W. HemPani—Cross
; | —1899—
o S*.:& - + ;
By Mr. Blackwell:
Q. Now, as to your conversation with“Mr. McConnell °
of American Export Lines, where did that. take place? A.
_Ithink I remember two occasions.
- Q. Where? A. One at the home of the American Ex-
port Line agent in Los Angeles at a party, and I think an-
other one at an ASTA convention ‘at the conclusion of the
steamship seminar.
Q. Where? A. It was either Madrid or Koma I
-don’t remember which it was.
Q. And Mr. McConnell was present there a as well? A.
Yes.
Q. has is he? What is his capacity with American Ex-
—1900—
liek Lines? A. I believe— Again Th not familiar with ©
these technical titles. I believe he j is— Whether he is U.S.
‘sales manager or general: manager: or — traffic
A nd I’m not sure. .
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‘By Mr. Sisk:
| (Tr, 1944-45, 1948-49)
i 62a
Robert W. Hemphill—Travel Agent—Redirect
—1944—
~ * e -* 8
-. A. Something I would like to point out in this connection,
I hope it is relevant. Many retail agents are reluctant to
tell you what I have told you because they are afraid it
might reflect upon their standing with a steamship cor
riers.
By Mr. Neaher:
_ Q. Did any of them ever indicate: they had ever been
told anything like that? A. No, but I know a lot of
agents wou be afraid to give testimony Such as I would .
—1945—
give because they are afraid that the steamship companies, .
they might antagonize the steamship companies. I think
agents on the east coast, their steamship business is more
important, to them than it is to us on the west coast.
_Q. If Iwere to tell you that I don’t have an exact count,
but I would say that at least 8 agent witnesses have testi-
fied here, called either by Public Counsel or by counsel for.
ASTA, would that change your opinion any? A. I am not
familiar; I merely stated that as an opinion. |
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~ Rosert W. Hemrani—Redirect
Q. Mr. Neaher asked you questions | relating to your
discussions with potential travelers as to the. advantages
of going by sea compared with the advantages of going
by air. “In your experience, Mr. Hemphill, and in the
experience of your agency, have there been occasions when
you have or your agency has been able to divert traffic from
sea to air? A. Yes. I think retail agents are attracted by
. - —1949—
the me that 0 on one of © our inclusive tours, they are going
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—1948—
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(Tr.- 1949-50)
63a
Robert ‘W. Hemphill—Travel Agent—Redirect
‘to get 10 per cent and have less problem—no problems at
all. We do the work for them. I think that agents do con-
vert people to tour operation. Since we operate air tours,
I think they probably divert some business from the
ship lines. a
Q. Now, with respect to your own employees who are on
this profit sharing plan, when they are considering what: —
is in the best interests of ‘the potential traveler, they are .
eonsidering that factor, and you indicated they are also con-
sidering another factor, your own profit. Is that correct?
A. That’s right. . ie ps
- Q. And their determination. of :what is in- the best in-
_terests of the traveler ‘is a subjective one, is it not? A.
Yes. ° ;
Q. It will vary from individual to individual. A. Yes.
Q. Now, this is also true of the retail agent, small retail
agent, with whom you deal} when he is confronted with a
traveler who wants to go to Europe. He makes a sub-
jective judgment as to what. is in the best interests of that
traveler. <A.-Right. een 7
Q. Now,‘in your experience, having dealt with many:
, —1950—
retail agents, would a difference of three per cent in a pay-
able commission be a factor which would enter into that
_ Subjective determination of those retail agents?
‘‘ .
Mr. Neaher: I will object to that because I think
all the testimony of this witness has been concerned
_ with air tours in which he pays 10 per cent to the
agent in question. So I can’t see what difference
_ it would make to the agent.
Mr. Sisk: You asked the question when went into -
this, Mr. Neaher. sit aa
Examiner Roth: I will sustain the objection.
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i (Tr. 1950-51)
64a |
Robert W. Hemphill—Travel Agent—Redirect -
By Mr. Sisk: | |
Q. Now, you do have some retail business; I believe
you indicated that in connection with the TAPC passage
bookings in the years ’59 to ’60, you had about $50,000. Is ©
that correct? A. I think so. F
Q. Now, in your opinion as the head of the Hemphill
Travel Agency, the employer of these-people who are work-
ing for you, would the fact that a higher commission might
be obtained by diverting a passenger from sea to air where
you can connect up with a tour be one of the factors that
would enter into the subjective decisions of your own em-
ployees?
Mr. Neaher: I think that’s purely hypothetical and
speculative and would require Mr. Hemphill to ~
‘ —1951—
get inside the minds of his eniployees.
Mr. Sisk: I would like to say, Mr. Neaher, that
you asked Mr. Hemphill what are the factors which
are considered when you talk to'a customer.
Mr. Neaher: And he said he considered profit
factors and he considered the customer’s needs.
Mr. Sisk: You have opened the door to what goes
on in Mr. Hemphill’s agency in respect to these.
Mr. Neaher:. But not in. the minds of his em-
ployees. :
Mr. Sisk: I think this queition is proper.
Mr. Neaher: Subjective determinations which, by
their nature; I would say, are not readily exposed. |
Examiner Roth: The witness may answer. }
The Witness: Would you repeat the question,
please? — oe at
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(Tr. 1951, 2012, 2159, 2161-62)
65a | eek
Donald I. Knowles—TAPSC Sec’y—Cross
William H. McConnell—AEL Vice Pres.—Direct
(The pending question was read by the Reporter.)
My answer would be, yes.
a s * * *
Donaxp I. Knowizs—Cross —
Q. Is that typical of the letters which the Conference
. would send out to the agents with respect to the booking on
~ non-Conference carriers?
T'might say with respect to this question, Mr. Examiner,
Mr. Neaher and we have stipulated that these are repre-
sentative letters. — ee ,
Am I correct on that, Mr. Neaher?
Mr. Neaher: Right.
* * - e *
Wim H. MoCornett—Direet ae
«
* e .# a 2
ByMr.N eaher :
Q. In general, what business came before the Atlantic .
Conference meetings that you attended? A. Before ‘the.
Atlantic Conference, they are matters of broad policy,
matters concerning level of rates, commission to agents,
cooperation with IATA is a recent one.
*. * *. * *
—2161— *
. 2 ea 6 Ss
| Q. I think the record may be clear on this, but let me
: —2162—
just put it to you again. A delegation from ICCTA actually
attended a meeting of principals? - A. Of principals, that’s
correct. — | } . |
Q. Were you present at that meeting? A. I was. |
-
—2012—
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POTTS ee an
(Tr. 2162-63)
66a :
«
William H. MoConnell—AEL Vice Pres —Direct
Mr. Sisk: Could you give us the document refer-
- ence that you just indicated you had, Mr. Neaher? .-
Mr. Neaher: It is page 328, et cetera, of Exhibit —
50. The letter is A. C. 267-53, August 5, 1953.
- Let me show you that document, Mr. McConnell,
and ask you if it refreshes your recollection as to
the date when the ICCTA group actually attended a
principals meeting. .
“M The Witness: It is. This is the ‘meeting to which
ae refer.
| By Mr. Neaher: |
Q. I didn’t hear that. A. This is the meeting to which
I refer.
_Q. And that’s in 1953? A. 1953.
Q. And was it subsequent to that time that other meet-
ings were arranged between a delegation, a small delega-
tion, from ICCTA, or committee as I think you call it, and a
committee. representing the Atlantic Conference? A. The
Atlantic Lines. a 3
Mr. Sisk: Excuse ‘me, Mr. Neaher. If you could .
—2163—
give us a din to the minutes which relate to:
the meeting, you are inquiring about, perhaps we
could follow this line of testimony as you go forward.
Mr. Neaher: Well, the‘only reference that we have
at the moment is the fact that according to this page
328, I think it was, of Exhibit 50, a meeting of prin-
cipals with ICCTA—or, put it the other way around,
a meeting of ICCTA with the’ principals occurred
in Paris on October 1, 1953.
I think Mr. McConnell hes testified he was present |,
at that meeting.
(Tr. 2163-64)
‘67a
. William H. McConnell—AEL Vice Pres.—Direct
‘The Witness: That’s right.
Mr. Neaher: And that group was there just—
Mr. Sisk: Just so that the record is clear, the docu-
ment you have referred to just makes reference to a
suggestion there be such a meeting, and the answer
indicates there was a meeting held with the commit-
tee, or a counter-suggestion made that there be a
meeting held with the committee. We haven’t seen
- any minutes of such meeting, and we are hopeful ee
if you have them, we could look at them to follow this
testimony as we go forward. 3
- Mr! Neaher: I thought I might have hada copy
of the full minutes of the October, 1953, meeting, but .
I just have an excerpt which was one of the docu-
ments copied by you at the time of the inspection,
and that just relates to minute 191.
. —3164—
However, your recollection is quite clear on that,
-isn’t it, Mr. MeConnell— 7 )
The Witness: Yes, it is.
By Mr. Neaher:
Q. —that you were there?) A. It is, indeed.
Q. And at that meeting, did the ICCTA delegation pre-
sent its case insofar as increase in agent’s commission was
concerned? A. It did. |
Q. And was their position and their argument considered
by the principals at that meeting? A. It was.
Q. And later on in succeeding years, when the two com-
mittees representing the Conference and ICCTA got to-
gether, did the committee later report back to the principals
as to what had gone on at those meetings? A. I believe
so. I haven’t recollection of the reports, but I believe:so.
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Q. Well— A. Yes, Iam sure they would do that.
_Q. Was there discussion at Principals meetings regard-
ing the further presentations— A. Yes.
. Q. —and topintion the agent’s commission —
‘A. There was.
Q. Now, were you present at a meeting of principals
sometime in 1956 at which there was action taken with
regard to a change in the commission rate? A. I was.
Q. And do you remember what that was, what that
change was? A. The commission had been 6 per cent in
‘ the summer season and 71% per cent off. season.
'Q. And what was— A. And after a lengthy discussion
in Conference, it was set thence for 7 per cent year round.
Q. Year Jound: which meant the high season— A. High
season was raised by 1 per cent.
Q. From 6 to 7.
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Q. Again, in eonnection with your attendance at prin-
cipals meetings of the Atlantic Conference or subcommittee
meetings, lias it ever come to your attention that any so-
called willful minority. of member lines blocked further
action with respect to the commissions to. be paid to sub-
agents? A. I have never seen any sign of a willful mi-_
nority, frankly.
Q: Would you explain in a , general way how the member
lines conduct themselves at these meetings with respect to
‘ problems before them such as agent’s commissions? A.
Yes. For.example, an expression would be given by each of
the lines regarding its views on the subject. And as to
whether there is a minority or a majority of one side ms
frankly, never a particular concern.
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Q. Are any so-called— A. It can be seen in a round-
table discussion whether there is likely to be any meaning
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toward unanimity, and there is an effort, of course, also, for
me to try to sell you my views on this matter. And very
frequently, views have been changed in such meetings.
Q. And as a result of discussion? <A. As a result of pro-
tracted discussion, but as to minorities and majorities,
these matters are not necessarily voted on at all as one
considers a vote. _
Q. No ballots are cast? A. No. The point is very we
very clear after a long discussion, and it requires no voting
-_per’se. :
Q. Now, after these principals and subcommittee meet- -
ings, minutes are prepared, are they not? A. They are.:
. Q. And you have seen these minutes when they have been
issued? A, I have. 3
Q. In fact, under the procedure in effect, each line is’ re-
quired to confirm the minutes— A. That’s right.
Q. —that are issued, is that right? A. Each line is re- ;
quired to confirm: the subcommittee minutes.
Q. The subcommittee minutes? A. But the principals
minutes are agreed at the time. '
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Q. Is that evidenced by any physical act, their agree-
ment? Do they sign— A. When those minutes are pre-
‘pared, they are signed by tHe principals. —
Q. Right then and there at the meeting? A. At the
meeting. :
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-Q. Have you ever.seen an occasion when the minutes pre-—
pared of one of thesé principals meetings did not truly
and accurately reflect the action taken at the meeting? A.
No, they. have reflected the action taken at the meeting, to
the best of my knowledge. wees e,
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