SHIPBUILDING.
BRITISH POSITION DISCUSSED
(BT CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION— COPTBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND Ji.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION)
LONDON, March '27. The recent placing of contracts with Germany was discussed at a conference of shipbuilders. Mr Barr, ft director of Vickers, Ltd., presided. Ho pointed out that Germany's lower wages and longer hours largely explained things. Personally he suspected that a Government subsidy was also a factor. Britain, who made sacrifices to place Germany on her feet, was really suffering from unfair competition. It was not a matter of ■ seeking • reduced wages or longer hours but more elasticity and the removal of discrepancies, notably in industries really parasitic which were keeping up the cost of living. There had not been a return on capital for two years. The present need was for a round-table effort to ditsipate antagonism and suspicion, and restore Britain's shipbuilding supremacy. The proceedings -were adjourned. It is believed tlwt the unions will accept a special tribunal.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18344, 30 March 1925, Page 7
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