BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.
SERIOUSLY MENACED. Great Britain's shipbuilding industry is seriously menaced as the result of shipyard industrial troubles,'according to the Hon. E. W. Alison, M.L.C., who returned yesterday from a visit to Great Britain. Mr. Alison said "that both the shipbuilding industry and shipping were in a very bad way. Great injury to the shipyards had resulted from the recent joiners' strike, which lasted many ' months. When going down the Clyde he' saw over 100 ships, ranging l from about 500 tons to 18,000 tons, in course construction. All the shipyards were idle, and the unfinished hulls were coated with rust. ' i Work which the British workmen had refused to do had gone to Cherbourg, Hamburg, Antwerp, and other.Continental ports, the wages thus tost to Great Britain amounting to many millions. While her industry is threatened, Great Britain can still claim to* be the largest shipbuilding nation, added Mr. Alison. In 1894; the output of British yards represented 81 per cent, of the world's new ships, but in 1920 the proportion was only 35 per cent. • "' • ■ /
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 8
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