1937-02-05 — Page 12

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THE CHING

It's time for

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U.S.

INDUSTRY FIGHT

a spot of REFUSES TO

Beehive Brandy

Before the

daily round

After

that

thankless

task

Before

the shoot

After

the

game

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NAVAL PROGRAMME NOW HELD UP

Washington, To-day.

The dispute between the United States Gov- ernment and the industrialists is revealed as de- veloping into an open war which is threatening to hold up the current naval building programme.

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MANUFACTURERS OF STEEL AND COPPER ALLEGED TO BE WITHHOLDING THE NECESSARY SUPPLIES FROM THE NAVY AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE WALSH-HEALEY LAW, WHICH LAYS DOWN A 40-HOUR WEAK AND CERTAIN OTHER LABOUR REQUIREMENTS IN ALL FIRMS TENDER- ING FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

With steel manufacture booming and a 48-hour week being worked, the steel corporations decline to cut the hours to forty! merely to fill Government orders, which are relatively small com- pared to private orders.

DOCKYARD MAY CLOSE In answer to advertised bids for 2,735,000 pounds of copper the Navy

Meanwhile a complete lay-off is Department has received bids for

which threatened at Portsmouth (New only 1,035,000 pounds, of

where sub- dockyard, 385,000 have been accepted, as the Haven) remainder had not complied with marines are being built, whilst at the Washington (Dakota) dock- he Walsh-Healey Law..

Of the 25,000,000 lbs. of steel ad-yard supplies are running low. vertised for the Navy since Decem- The Navy Department has re- ber 4 last year only 7,000,000 lbs.quested the Secretary of Labour, have been bid and the entire Miss Frances Perkins, to exempt amount refused on account of vio-steel bids from the Walsh-Healey ation of the Walsh-Healey Law. provisions temporarily, but Miss Unless steel is soon obtained the Perkins is reported to be unwilling building of the two projected 35,- whilst Mr. John Lewis, the Labour 300-ton new-style heavily armour leader, is entirely opposed to the

demand-Reuter. ed battleships cannot begin.

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