SHIPBUILDING TRADE.
UNFAIR COMPETITION. LONDON, March 27. Tho recent placing of contracts with Germany was discussed at a conference of shipbuilders and unionists. Mr Barr, a director of Vickers. Ltd., who presided, pointed out that Germany’s lower wages and longer hours largely explained things. Personally, ho suspected that tho Government subsidy was also a factor. Britain, who hud made sacrifices to place Germany on her feet, was really sullering unfair competition. It was not a matter of seeking reduced wages or longer lioure, but ol 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 for capital for two years. Tbe present need was a round-the-table effort to dissipate antagonism and suspicion and restore Britain’s shipbuilding supremacy. The proceedings were adjourned. It is believed the unions will accept a special tribunal. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 101, 30 March 1925, Page 5
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