NO SLACKENING IN SHIPYARDS
REPLY TO CRITICISM IN BRITAIN (BOW) RUGBY. March 13. “A libel on the vast majority of the men in the yards" is the description given in informed circles to a recent statement to the effect that production in British shipbuilding yards was being held up in various ways, including slacking among the workers. The criticism, it is stated, failed to appreciate four major considerations. (1) The reduction in the number of shipyards or ship berths available at the commencement jf the present war as compared with last war. (2) The smaller number of skilled or semi-skilled workers now available. (3) The inevitable dislocation of the shipbuilding industry everywhere. (4) The fact that recent progress in the output of merchant shipping compares most, favourably with that of the corresponding period in the last war. Finally, it is staled categorically that the results dispose, in themselves, of any charge of general slacking.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23588, 16 March 1942, Page 3
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