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Mr. Archibald Hurd writes in the Daily Telegraph

We are surely heading for the rocks, and it is deplorable that the only people who appear to be entirely unconscious of the move ment are the manual workers-in the shipyards, in the engineering shops, and in the mines. Ships fare to us a necessity, not only a necessity for our own use, but they constitute a great foreign trade, for we have always built largely for other nations. and that has represented a great volume of employ ment of skilled men. What is happening at this moment is that the cost of shipbuilding is rising in this country; it is falling in the United States; and in Japan it represents "bed-rock prices That statement was made to me the other day by one of the most experienced and well-informed observers of the conditions exist- ing in this country, in the United States, and in Japan. He has visited during the last few months all the leading yards in the three countries, and his tour has left him nervous as to the outlook so far as this country is concerned.

It was stated the other day in the House of Commons that our output of new ships during the current year will probably fall below 1,000,000 tons, being about half the amount which we turned out in the year preceding the outbreak of war. The workers in the shipbuilding yards, ander the inspiration of some trade union leaders, are doing their best to hinder

the

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There have been many deaths. the prisons. Thousands have died from atarvation, disease, ånd the effects of forced labour.

Heavy mortality from spotted fever, small paix, Influenza, and pneumonia continues.

The food situation is desperata. A hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants are in need. Butter costs £5 per lb., bread £1 105, potatoes 9s., meat £148., and sugar $13-108. No fats or rege- tables are to be had... A shortage of drugs prevails.

The surrounding country is antirely denuded of food. The Bolsheviks eonfiscated fortunes | of £1,000 and funds în the banks, and issued thousands of worthless notes.

Helsingfors, June 3-The last days of Petrograd under the Bolsheviks are being marked by almost complete strikes in the munition factories. The Putiloff and other large works 878 surrounded by strongdetachments of Red Guards, including Chinese, who on Friday and Saturday turned machine guns on rebellious workers.

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savagery is greatly feared by THE SIAM INDUSTRIES SYNDICATE

the people.]

in dealing with the ore, which is close at hand, has been introduced in order to reduce the" cost of manufacture. Now the munition movement has suddenly come to an end, and contracts for steel have been cancelled right and left. The result is that

In many works, especially America's scale of steel producthose connected with the electri tion is far in excess of hernormal

use of labour-saving appliances, while at the same time agitation is in progress in favour of higher wages and a further reduction of the hours of labour, both of the lätter commendable movements if the conditions justify improve ment. The miners are pursuing much the same course, and that is reacting on the cost of steel, and also on the overhead charges in engineering works and ship yards. The cumulative effect of all these movements is represent ed in the increased cost of ship-limited: building. That means that the price of new shipping is being stabilised at a high level.

WHAT THE "AMERICANS ARE DOING.

the

Many of the Bolshevist public departments have lost their staffs through the flight of Com- munists, fearing punishment.

The Military Governor of the city, a mining engineer student named Sharoff, who is 23 years of ago, has threatened with shooting any civilians who appear in the streets after 9 p.m.

requirements, and prices are al-city, water, and tramway service, the workmen have organised ready falling. For & time; guards to prevent the smashing owing to the

postponement of machinery by Bolshevist agents of constructional and other

when it becomes necessary for works during the war,

the Reds to abandon Petrograd. American people will be able to absorb a great deal of this steel. and in the meantime tonnage is the but eventually United States will be making an enormous quantity at a cheap rate, and the surplus will be exported at prices with which British steelmakers will be un able to compete. But even then American shipbuilders will obtain a considerably their steel at lower price than that at which it will be available for shipbuilders in this country.

ver.

When the Swedish steamship Eskilstuna, on the way from Petrograd to Stockholm, was stopped by the Finns west of Cronstadt, a letter was found from Maxim Gorky, the author, asking for information from Stockholm friends about the possible publication of Bolshevist writings in different languages. These writings include a work by Gorky on the origins of the war. for which he blames Britam and

France.

A special commission has been formed by the North Russian Corps headquarters staff to ex- amine the numerous Bolshevist suspects under arrest in order to avoid punishment of the inno- cent. The first results of the commission show that the num ber of Bolsheviks, Communists, ór their sympathisers in the Red regiments amounts to hardly 5 per cent.

CHEAP STEEL FROM JAPAN. But it may be said that Japan will absorb & great deal of this surplus steel. That is a complete misapprehension. Japan is at present dependent to a large ex- tent upon imported steel, but that condition will not continue to exist. The Japanese are Low exploiting on a large scale the ores which they have discovered in Korea, and month by month they are extending their foundries for dealing with it. They have obtained valuable ore concessions in China, and this raw material is to be utilised also in Japan Side by side with this develop- ment, old shipyards are being further extended, and new ship-cost of running them, and the be latter question cannot yards are being created.

dissociated from the price of coal And after this period of strain,

which

thedeplated during merchant navies of the world (weakened by war) will be re-established, will come another phase of the competition when there will be too many ships, with a consequent slump in ship- bajlding and in freights. Probab ly this last phase will devlop ́in two or three years' time.

What is happening on the other side of the Atlantic? There the shipbuilding industry, "and all the associated industries, have under- an enormous expansion, gone The number of slipways in the United States far exceeds the number in this country. Gradu- ally the shipbuilding "hustle is being adapted to peace conditions; and, let us make no mistake, with every month that passes, the new workers, introduced into the shipyards of the United, States under war conditions, are becoming more and more expert When they were first taken on they were rather clumsy and their work was not first class, but that phase is passing. The other day my friend was walking through an American shipyard when his attention was directed to a man who was riveting under to a ship, of course using a pneu- matic rivetter. That man had been an agricutural labourer; he had then undergone .2 three Within a short time Japan will weeks training in the use be independent of outside sources of- the pneumatic, rivetter, of supply of material, as she has and at this time, after a fort- already ceased to import our night in the yard, was putting in anchor chain, and other maritime 600 rivets of 7/8in diameter io a equipment. Within ten years day. His assistant, the holder- Japan will be exporting cheap been a watchmaker. steel to meet the requirements of up, had These are not isolated instances. the Pacific, and will also invade Thousands of other cases as re- more distant markets, and I markable could be quoted to should not be surprised if British illustrate the adaptability of the firms do not eventally... use. Americans to what is virtually a! steel manufactured in Japan, for new industry." The men are

ocean transport is cheap. The working hard and for long hours, wages paid in steel manufacture as compared with their British in Japan, as well as in shipbuild contemporaries, and they are ing, are ridiculously low, and making the fullest possible use every labour-saving device is of labour-saving appliances, as being introduced. Consequently we are not doing in this the Japanese will gain a double country. The workmen in the advantage arising from the use United States are not fighting of labour-saving machinery and LONDON DIRECTORY against mechanical equipment the employment of the cheapest but welcoming it, because they realise that the cheaper they can build the greater will be the de- mand, both in the United States and abroad, for the ships they build, and the higher

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What will be the position of the British workers" then, with wages high, shortened hours of labour, reduced production për working-hour, and an inadequate supply of those labour-saving appliances, on which the Ameri cans and Japanese are relying There is no greater folly than the suggestion that it is to the advan tage of the British working-man

ta fight against "cheap pros? skled labour to be found in any country in the world." That fur-duction; cheap production means ther statement by my friend surely plenty of work at high wages

enable is, of some interest to British because it will workers in these industries, and yet it might be imagined that

and steadier their wages. Nor we were living in an economic

there any opposition

vacuum, from the statements of a

to bold our own in foreign markete. If we in this country are going to fight against progress, with the result that our output

to dilution of labour, as there is number of labour leaders. per working hour is reduced, we

rith ns. Consequently, the army The position of the shipbuild

must be prepared to sacrifice the

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