DIRE STRAITS
SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRV | MEN AND MASTERS MEET London, May 7The .shipbuilding employers met representatives of the shipyard trade j unions ai a preliminary conference j to discuss the dire straits of the j shipbuilding industry. The chairman, Mr A L. A; m, j pointed uut that orders obinnied L>' j British yards for the Inst quarter » i | the year were lower than m an\ j quarter since the advent of steel j ships. Fit iy - two per cent, of shipyard; workers woe unemployed. 'l\\cn‘\-; five yards had dosed down and others were expected to follow shortly. | Warship work given to private j yards were one—tenth of the pro war liq-ure. Thr United States, Eranee, and ! Italy were assisting national yard? to construct tonnage formerly ob-1 tained in Britain. f I
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 7
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