It will-take a year at least to expand basic capacity by building new furnaces and finishing plants, experts emphasize. Unless expansion is hastened now, diversion of steel to defence and export needs would mean terrible dislocation for the civilian industries depending on steel; of these, the automobile industry would be the hardest hit, not only new models would have to be left out of next year's plans, but probably there would have to be a large reduction in the number of cars made available to the public.
This summarizes the views of the report.
The ' Congress of Industrial Organizations, it is understood, whose automobile workers have a vital interest in the problem, are preparing their own analysis of the situation, with proposed remedies, as they did in the "Reuther plan" for the aeroplane industry.
The symposium of experts writing for the National Planning Asscrist.on hals recent moves to expand steel production as indicating a change from a previous complacent attitude. However, any expansion undertaken now will not be felt in less than a year, they emphasize.
In the steel industry as a whole there is still much idle and ill-used labour and equipment, they charge. Each company is now individually the unit of production. They urge that the industry as a whole should be operated as a unit thereby intelligently integrating the resources of all companies.
The study winds up, not to incapacity. now because of fear that it will be idle after the war is over seems to be the wrong way of looking at-the problem. wegian two boats, the Norcross and Norlys, to the Panamanian flag and subse: quently they were chartered by the Japanese. Another vessel the Clifford. also was transferred from a foreign flag to Panama registry. This boat originally was under the United States flag. Subsequently it was converted into a whaler end registered under a foreign flag, but when it was transferred recently it had been reconverted into an oil tanker,
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