LABOUR IN SHIPYARDS.
THE DILUTION PROBLEM. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS MADE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 22. It is officially announced by the Clyde and Tyne Commission for the dilution of labour (composed of officers of (lie Ministry of Munitions and the Admiralty) that dilution has already been established in 150 of the largest of the 300 controlled engineering and shipyard establishments on the Clyde. Fourteen thousand women were introduced by the Commission, and the majority of them are engaged in general engineering work, excluding work on shells. N Agreements for the dilution of labour in the ship-building, and shiprepairing yards of the Clyde and Tyne have been arranged with the representatives of all the principal shipyard trades. The inlerchangability of members in the different shipyard trades, and the’ introduction of unskilled men and women was proceeding satisfactorily.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 792, 24 August 1916, Page 8
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