1937-07-27 — Page 11

STEEL FAMINE HITS BRITAIN Thousands Of Men On Short Time

Or Out Of Work

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return of the Monarchy in an interview gran Monarchist leader

While the cry for steel grows ever louder, the supplies of that essential metal grow ever shorter, of the Nationalist with results that become daily more serious, es- pecially for the British wage-earner. -

In thousands they are being stood off or are working short time. At Wolverhampton, for instance, a pay-roll of 180 has been reduced to 90.

This is typical of what is happen- ing in all the big steel-using cen- tres.

said.

The announcement of the new works comes at the end of a long fight. It is backed by Government money, with a solid man like Lord Portal behind it, so that it will not

At Birmingham and Coventry the many motor-car and other factories are desperately short of steel sheets, sections, and stap. All have that feeling of insecurity that supplies are severely rationed, and manufacturers are at their wits' end to keep up production.

mere charity schemes tend to have! "Jarrow people are now begin ming to plan for the future, a thing that has not been possible for

* CAUSE OF TROUBLE Since Whitsun, one large Birm-years" ingham factory with 3,000 em- ployees has been working short time în certain of

shops. They have no assembly

reserves, and.

any temporary delay in supplies at once stops production.

Recently, several shops were closed altogether for two days.

And the cause of all the trouble is the British Steel In- dustry's agreement with the Continental Steel Cartel, with its complex system of res- traints in itrade.?.

SUPER PURSUIT PLANE Trial Flights In America

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General FraNED. the third son of a

Prince Juan, had repeat pressed the wish to

the Nationalists in the navy but that this des not been granted —Fran

RICHARD TAUBER

SAVES LONDON OPERA

Unknown to his fellow artists ap- pearing with him in Paganini” at the Lyceum Theatre, Mr. Richard Tauber, the singer, has enabled the show to continue despite Mr. C. B. Cochran's cabled order from Ameri- ca that it was to be taken off..

Mrs. Tauber-Miss Diana Napier said that Mr. Tauber has guaran=

Trial flights of the most powerful fighting plane in the world have teed any been started by the American air be on force, the New York Times - an-

proc nounces. Precise details of the

plane are given by the paper, which Nap

reports that it is equipped with two That agreement, won only by the motors and propellors in the rear. Lis British Government's threat of

The plane is fitted with bombing tariff retaliation, may have been apparatus and six machine guns ma good business when it was made in It attains a speed of 300 kilometres is willing 1935, before the Re-armament pro-an hour and is built entirely of guarant gramme altered the position so metal One feature is central heat-least to radically,

mg, by which the pilot's compart wards To-day, it is operating to the de-ment can be warmed if aerial-com- triment of the entire steel-using bats should take him, higher than trade.

10,000 metres

· Like the Corn Laws of the "Hun- gry Forties" this agreement has created an artificial famine. A hun- dred years ago it was bread; to-day it is steel-but steel means bread to tens of thousands of workers

AMERICA COULD HELP

The steel shortage could be re} lieved at once by supplies from America, which is outside the Car tel, but high tariffs, imposed in the f interests of the Cartel, stand in the

Mr. Smedley Crooke. MP for Deritend, Birmingham, asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he was aware that adequate applies of steel were obtainable from America with guarantees of prompt delivery, and whether the duty on American steel could be reduced

Something may be done, was, in ffect, his reply, and the position now being investigated by the port Duties Advisory Commit-

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