The Archive · 1940

A Peace-time Precedent

No attempt has so far been made Geliberately to organize non-war in-mi in the number of men employed in dustry along lines that will raise the civil enterprise plus the introduction productivity per head in this way. of Nor is any attempt likely on the sole quite apart from the re. volition of the trades concerned—not pris Pesce tion. of the unemployed at the} at least at this stage if only because ko of war and the normal ac- of the financial and administrative difmecrual of new entrants through the|(ulties involved. But we have the Srowth of population. There is little peace-time precedent of the National be War effort will be attained without a gest that those difficulties are not to suppose that the maximum Shipbuilders Security, Limited, to sug-comparable redistribution of labour insuperable. This company was form-the present war, ed in 1990 to concentrate shipbuild-Limlting Non-essential Production pacify in relation with the proing, then faced with too large a ca-

"The inadequacy of the man-power e has not been merely a of size; it has also been one "Oft method. To suggest that the con-

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spective demand for tonnage, into a smaller number of yards and to achieve an orderly and considered curtailment of redundant facilities.

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