BRITAIN'S INDUSTRY.
SHIPBUILDER'S PESSIMISM.
(»T CAM*—PMSS AJBOCUTtOJJ— COFtarOHT.) U.VBTBJLUJiB AKD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATJOa.)
(Received September 13th, 11.5 pjn.) LONDON, September 13.
Sir George Hunter, head of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson and Co. Ltd., shipbuilders, "VTaHs-end-on-Tyne, has written to Mr Baldwin suggesting that an enquiry into the coal mining industry is not enough, and that the present situation demands an immediate and comprehensive enquiry into the economic position of the whole country's industries.' The future of the British Empire is at stake. Shipping is becoming more a».d more depressed, and ships are increasingly being tied up. The iron and steel trade is largely idle, and the shipbuilding yards are closed or closing. Ho concludes: "We are net on the road to improvement. We appear to be on the road to.ruin."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18486, 14 September 1925, Page 7
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