Mr. I, F, L. Elliott, managing direc-for of the British Iron and Steel Federation and Corporation, said that early this year they were confronted by a situation even more dangerous and alarming than many had realized. The world demand for scrap had reached such @ level and the drain on the scrap-exporting countries bad become so great that embargoes were being imposed in many countries and were threatened in other It looked Is it the supply of scrap, except for domestic markets, would dry up, and it became incumbent on the British steel ind to meet the situation by organ. The agency firms came to their aid and submitted themselves to voluntary restraints. They had given the Federation magnificent service, and the great body of scrap merchants were working admirably to the same end.
Mr. Ashley Ward, of Thomas W. Ward, Limited, one of the agency firms, said that the scheme was workuecessfully, and that w: recommendation.
Hale, president of the National Fed eration of Scrap Iron and Steel Merchants, said that lying about the country were hundreds of old howitz-€rs and tanks which he hoped would find their way to' the scrap-yards, Captain. H. Leighton Davies, chairman of the Raw Materials Committee, suggested that local author Scouts, and Girl Guides might all play their-parts in the campaign, The appeal was reinforced by Mr. Lawxence Levy, chairman of George Cohen, Sons and Ca., and by Mr. V. C. Faulkner, editor of the "Foundry Trade Journal.
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