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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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