London, Jan. 27. Work in British dockyards is being seriously held up by the prevailing shortage of steel, says a specia port in to-day's issue of the Herald" which learns that in House of Commons next week, Mr.
David Kirkwood, Labour Member for Dumbarton, will ask Mr. Leslie Hore-
Belisha, Secretary for War, how far it is true that large quantities of British steel are being exported i the form of war material whilst skilled dock workers at home are having to stand down one week in every month owing to the prevailing steel shortage. The Labqur Party will therefore demand a ban on the export of war material.—Trans-Ocean.
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