CRITICISM REFUTED
NO SLACKENING IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION Rugby. March 13. “A libel on the vast majority of ; men in the yards” is the description r given in informed circles to a recent. ’ statement to the effect that production in British shipbuilding yards was being held up in various ways, including slacking among workers. The criticism, it is stated, failed to appreciate four major considerations. First, the reduction in the number of shipyards or ship berths available at the commencement of the present war as compared with the last war. Second, the smaller number of skilled or semi-skilled workers now available. Third, the inevitable dislocation of the ship-building industry everywhere. Fourth, the fact that recent progress in the output of merchant shipping compares most favourably with that of the corresponding period in the last war. Finally, it is stated categorically that the results dispose in themseLes of any charge c l general slacKing.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 5
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