SUPPLIES FOR NAVY
INABILITY TO SECURE MINISTER CRITICISED (Received March o, 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 4 The chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Mr. F. M. Vinson, in the course of a debate in the House on the 526,000,000 dollars Naval Supply Bill, asserted that the Minister of Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, was responsible for the Navy's inability to obtain copper and steel. Mr. Vinson said that Miss Perkins had refused the request of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. A. Swanson, to grant an exemption which was discretionary under the Walsh-Healy Act. He said sho lacked the technical knowledge to decide Navy questions. The total appropriation is 35,000,000 dollars less than the Budget estimates for construction. This is due to the Navy's failure to maintain the construction programme.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 15
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